As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character. | | | | | Display at Officina Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 2014. (Roving-Aye!/Flickr) | | | | |  | “As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.”
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| | rantnrave:// Speculation. Lots of conversation about price setting recently. Resale sites, grassroots marketplaces, and modern luxury startups are positioned equally in the market alongside All The Names You've Come to Know™. If you want an LV Speedy, you have options from the bag's origins in the 1930s all the way up to the present—all models priced differently based on who wants it, why, and who's selling it. Access to all of these goods from a single screen has made people care less about "when" a product is from, because it's all available now. Price seems increasingly elastic... Enjoyed reading this FAST COMPANY piece on startups who are sourcing from regions in ITALY, bypassing wholesale, and offering Italian-made goods at prices sometimes 50% lower than traditional designer prices. The article rightly points out that there's a huge range of quality available from ITALY. I don't think anyone can dethrone MANOLO BLAHNIK. That's not snobbery, it's just real. These brands do fulfill an important niche in the market... Sustained interest in how stuff gets made is evident in headlines and photo editors' picks. The appearance of manufacturing floors in media may be driven by the dominance of AMAZON, environmental concerns, or anxieties about trade, but regardless, it’s here, and it’s part of the story… More fashion and technology news coming across the feed recently, and the fun thing about watching #fashtech over time is we get to see what sticks. The CEO of AMSILK talks about the company's collaboration with ADIDAS on BIOSTEEL, an engineered natural fiber... WHO WHAT WEAR is putting on a fashion show one day before NEW YORK FASHION WEEK, not as a show for buyers, press, and influencers, but as an extension of the brand. The headwinds continue to move toward fashion shows as media properties unto themselves. One could argue this has been happening ever since runway photos started showing up in magazines and newspapers, but one could also look to APPLE’s M2M as a point of difference. Any more media buys out there to think about?… KERING unveiled its plans for sustainability to the year 2025. Nice bit of long-term thinking to get you through the day. Would be nice to see how the company hedges for adverse possibilities arising from certain, ahem, political developments (cough cough, *reaches for face mask)… Was this a blip? | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | Fast Company |
| New American shoe and bag companies are making classic Italian craftsmanship accessible to the masses via direct-to-consumer business models. | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| Can LA’s manufacturing base transcend denim and t-shirts and become a genuine hub for high-end production in Donald Trump’s protectionist America? | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The spring shows closed with Pierpaolo Piccioli’s invitation into the heart of couture and botanical overload. | | |
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 | SSENSE |
| Designer Luke Meier discusses building the OAMC universe. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Meet Phlur, where you can see and hear your new favorite fragrance. | | |
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 | WGSN |
| The breaking news about Alexandra Shulman leaving Vogue is making waves because it says so much about the state of the current media landscape. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| The French luxury goods group has unveiled ambitious new sustainability targets for 2025, with a focus on carbon emissions and the production of raw materials. | | |
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| Business of Fashion |
| Alexandra Shulman's departure from "British Vogue" comes after new appointments at several international editions of the magazine, presenting a unique opportunity for Condé Nast to reboot the brand for today’s media reality. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| The product-of-the internet fashion designer makes his European debut. | | |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
| They each have their own logic. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| Nordstrom's monthly Pop-In series introduces buzz-worthy brands into the department store on a regular basis, drawing in new customers and giving people a reason to visit. Run by vp of creative projects Olivia Kim, the Pop-Ins most recently returned at the beginning of January with a collaboration with Gentle Monster, a Korean eyewear brand. | | |
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 | Sportswear International.com |
| Recently Adidas and Amsilk presented the result of their cooperation during the Biofabricate conference in New York: a new performance shoe made from Biosteel fibers that are an imitation of natural silk. Here, Amsilk’s CEO Jens Klein reveals more details about the innovation... | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| If fall/winter 17 was defined by anything, it was a season that tackled traditional masculine codes and proposed a more sensuous man for the future. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Fashion model Hanne Gaby Odiele is now the face of intersex advocacy. | | |
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 | Shift London |
| Does anyone else remember fighting yummy mummies at Sainsbury’s for a Anya Hindmarch ‘I’m not a plastic bag’? It was a losing battle, the one that spawned the beginnings of the tote bag graveyard subsisting beneath my bed, on top of my wardrobe, and under the sink. Because being ‘sustainable’ is cool right? | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| This is one full-circle "How I'm Making It." Fashionista catches up with Leah Chernikoff, the site's sixth editor and the current editorial director of Elle.com. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Vestiaire Collective is slowly but steadily morphing into a giant e-commerce platform for luxury garments and accessories, according to industry analysts. | | |
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 | The Economist |
| A trade war would be a catastrophe; but not for everybody. | | |
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 | The Straits Times |
| A popular Chinese fast-fashion label is ready to take on global competitors such as Spanish clothing retailer Zara, British brand Topshop and Swedish label H&M, and it has chosen Singapore as its first stop.. Read more at straitstimes.com. | | |
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 | Refinery29 |
| If there’s one tradition that hasn’t been uprooted in this Trump presidency, it’s the one surrounding the First Lady’s wardrobe. Most first ladies have historically laid low when it came to broadcasting strong political views, opting for subtle cues, instead. | | |
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