For me product is everything; everything starts there and then it’s [about] how you actually build emotion in storytelling... At the end of the day that takes time. It takes consistency. Build a relationship between a brand and a consumer. The short-term stuff will come and go. | | | | Craig Green A/W 2018, LFWM, Jan. 8, 2018.
(Isabel Infantes/PA Images/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “For me product is everything; everything starts there and then it’s [about] how you actually build emotion in storytelling... At the end of the day that takes time. It takes consistency. Build a relationship between a brand and a consumer. The short-term stuff will come and go.”
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| | rantnrave:// If you think there have been some dynamic successes and failures in smartwatches over the past few years, consider the past 40 or 50. JOE THOMPSON's fantastic "Four Revolutions" series for HODINKEE looks back on revolutionary moments in watch technology. To close out the series, Thompson looked at a revolution still in the making: the smartwatch. This history doesn't begin with PEBBLE or the APPLE WATCH, although Thompson appropriately marks out how those devices brought momentum to the market. There's a SEIKO TV watch from 1982, and a pager watch (complete with $8.95 monthly paging fee) from 1994. Charming, and it shows how the notion of "smart" tech on your wrist has changed over time. I still feel that, on aesthetic and functional merits, nothing comes close to the Apple Watch, and yet the thing is so large on me it doesn't look like anything but a bulbous appliance. So no smartwatch for me. Yet. Still think it's great though... I enjoy that LONDON FASHION WEEK MEN'S often appears in runway imagery like a parade—a grand show of pageantry for designers, many at the beginning of their careers, that don't temper or tone down their expression on the runway. It can sometimes feel bombastic or uneven, but what is experimentation for, anyway? CRAIG GREEN, relatively more established than his peers this season, served as an anchor to all the creative experimentation shown by younger labels. Green's collections always seem to radiate tribalism and craft, combining elements of military garments, messages carried through open air—kites, imaginary flying machines, and bold flags. The designer takes craft elements like quilt stitching and makes them feel built for utility on some otherworldly environ. The clothes fulfill the need for escape and protection at once. It's resonating. As SARAH MOWER wrote in her review, "business is flourishing"... The MAN show is always a joy to look up. This season, ART SCHOOL, ROTTINGDEAN BAZAAR, and STEFAN COOKE shared the runway, and together with CHARLES JEFFREY, they're putting their own stamp on the kind of riotous appearances carried through from many a London subculture. Very much appreciated Rottingdean Bazaar's cheekiness in using shibori techniques, graphics gleaned from price tags, and slogans like "personalized cheese board" in the collection... In brief: EBAY sold more than 57,000 fanny packs in 2017... An "E-Skin" shirt used as a video game motion controller at CES... JING DAILY picks CHINA's biggest luxury brand acquisitions of 2017. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | Hodinkee |
| Are we living in the future or just a very strange past? | | |
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 | Racked |
| Amazon's counterfeit problem is well documented, but it's easy to forget the myriad ways in which it can become your problem, too. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| The CEO of the iconic American denim and apparel brand speaks to BoF about managing through a time of unprecedented change and navigating the ongoing challenges in the US wholesale sector, while seizing the opportunities presented by new technologies. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| It's not yet been three months since Coach Inc., the owner and operator of such accessible-luxury brands as Kate Spade New York, Stuart Weitzman and, of course, Coach, renamed itself "Tapestry Inc." But the company has quickly buried Coach Inc. from its signage, business cards and press releases, replacing it with Tapestry's friendly serif font and canary yellow palette. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Collections by Grace Wales Bonner, Charles Jeffrey, Craig Green and others open the fall 2018 season. | | |
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 | BBC News |
| Craig Green speaks to BBC News ahead of debuting his latest collection at London Men's Fashion Week. | | |
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| Racked |
| Hemp clothing has come a long way from the shapeless duds that made the rounds in hippie circles years back. Today, it comes in colors other than oatmeal and in styles from brands like Patagonia, Eileen Fisher, and Good Studios that won't make people think you're on your way to play hacky sack. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Virgil Abloh makes a huge--and necessary--step towards mainstream success. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| Taking inspiration from sailors and Victorian dolls to nature and East Asian architecture, this is the class of 2018. | | |
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 | Garage Magazine |
| E! refused to ask who made the dresses that helped bring the protest to life. | | |
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 | GQ Style |
| Mordechai Rubinstein--a.k.a. Mister Mort--trained his eye on PBR’s fearless bull riders (and their equally fearless style). | | |
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 | Trendstop |
| This January, The Store Studios at 180 The Strand once again played host to London Fashion Week's Designer Showrooms. Alongside the runways, the exhibition space provided an opportunity for Britain's best up-and-coming design talent to showcase their Fall/Winter 2018-19 collections. | | |
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 | The Associated Press |
| With new options and conveniences, there's never been a better time for shoppers. As for workers ... well, not always. The retail industry is being radically reshaped by technology, and nobody feels that disruption more starkly than 16 million American shelf stockers, salespeople, cashiers and others. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Geoffroy van Raemdonck has spent his career at global fashion companies such as Ralph Lauren Corp. and Louis Vuitton. But it will take more than an eye for style to fix the problems at , a quintessentially American luxury department-store chain hoping to relive its former glory. | | |
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 | Quartzy |
| The Mumbai-born journalist didn't wear black--but that doesn't mean she didn't show support for Hollywood's actresses. | | |
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 | Co.Design |
| The UV Sense sticks to your body and runs for up to four weeks, powered by the same entity it’s sensing: sunlight. | | |
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 | Very Good Light |
| At Swagger in Seoul, a barbershop, shaving your eyebrows is a signifier that you give a damn. Have bad eyebrows and your future seems doomed. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| In luxury fashion, speed matters more than ever. Labels like Gucci, Ralph Lauren, Coach, Helmut Lang, Burberry and Rag & Bone -- all brands that could once call the shots around trends and fashion cycles -- are adopting new strategies focused on increased flexibility and faster-paced production windows, in order to adapt to increasing competition and an in-control customer. | | |
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 | Die, Workwear! |
| Barbour holds a special place in my heart, but from their expansive collection, the only pieces I wear are the Bedale and Beaufort. The first is a waxed cotton jacket with ribbed storm cuffs, which is great for layering over sweaters; the second is similar, but a little longer so you can comfortably wear it over sport coats. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| ‘At one point, their hands turned backwards. Then they stopped working after five days.’ | | |
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