I guess I want them to understand that I never made a formula that designers are supposed to create. I only did things that were interesting to me, and I hope they will notice the humanity in that. It was very loving, as opposed to merely designing. |
| | | | | Sketches by Isaac Mizrahi. (David Lytle) | | | | | |  | “I guess I want them to understand that I never made a formula that designers are supposed to create. I only did things that were interesting to me, and I hope they will notice the humanity in that. It was very loving, as opposed to merely designing.”
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| rantnrave:// Few designers have covered as much ground as ISAAC MIZRAHI has over the past 30-odd years. From his ascent to NEW YORK CITY fashion elite, to the loss of his company, to his wildly successful collaboration with TARGET, to his current role as mass-market designer and pitchman for QVC, the man has seen some things. Through it all, he's remained generous and unpretentious, devoted to his work not for its own sake but for its potential to make women's lives a little bit simper. A story that deserved to be told, handled with care by RACKED's CHAVIE LIEBER and, beginning next week, NYC's JEWISH MUSEUM... TEEN VOGUE's POLLY MOSENDZ unpacks the divide between NANCY REAGAN the style icon and NANCY REAGAN the first lady whose inaction on the AIDS epidemic could be counted among the worst public health failures of the 20th century. A complex topic, but essential to consider alongside recaps of her greatest looks... Last few PARIS FASHION WEEK thoughts: THOMAS TAIT impresses again. He switched from show to presentation this season, which I think suits him. Confidence and clarity beyond his years -- his work never feels reactive. Truly in his own lane... Want to like OFF-WHITE, but it still feels so forced. The references are too obvious. Still, some great individual pieces. I want more of VIRGIL ABLOH, less of VIRGIL ABLOH's inspirations... What to say about YOHJI at this point? Ever-elegant, ever-dependable. Bravo... Today in Luxury Sneakers Are Undignified And Sad: TOM FORD's $690 VANS ripoffs... I stand in furry-faced solidarity with OSAKA's subway drivers, who are getting litigious for their right maintain their beards. | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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 | Racked |
| After the fashion world turned its back, the designer found success selling to the masses. | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| A handful of tech-powered personal shopping apps are trying to make yet another white-glove service more scalable. | | |
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 | AnOther |
| The advertising luminary behind some of the world's most controversial campaigns discusses the industry as its very own form of reportage, and the terminology of fashion. | | |
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 | Collectors Weekly |
| Consider the sweet, intoxicating smell of a rose: While it might seem superficial, the bloom's lovely odor is actually an evolutionary tactic meant to ensure the plant's survival by attracting pollinators from miles away. | | |
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| 26 years after the Berlin Wall fell, the ex-USSR is having a fashion resurgence. On the catwalks of Paris, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Demna Gvasalia, and Lotta Volkova are setting fashion's new aesthetic. | | |
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 | Teen Vogue |
| Her legacy isn't as glamorous as it seems. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| "See now, buy now" and Instagram-baiting had no place at the fashion capital's most illustrious houses. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Mansur Gavriel has filed a lawsuit this week in federal court, alleging that a number of Italian brands have copied its "most well-known and popular handbag, its distinctive bucket bag." | | |
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| On a quiet, tree-lined street in Quebec City is a modest red-brick bungalow with a patchy lawn, the address of which I still type into Google Street View late at night. My parents bought it around my 12th birthday, when they, too, got tired of leaving. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Apple has shown an interest in liberating the Watch from the iPhone. Will it go so far as to add an LTE radio to do that? | | |
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| i-D Magazine |
| Following the mixed reaction to Zara’s 'Ungendered' range, we talk to trans and drag communities to ask how mass-market fashion can truly move into a gender-neutral future. | | |
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 | WWD |
| We are heading toward a future where Instagram and Facebook could be amongst the largest retailers online. Their new focus on enabling transactions is likely to solve one of retail's biggest problems: the extremely low conversion rate of shoppers on mobile phones. | | |
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 | WhoWhatWear |
| When was the last time you bought monogrammed shoes customized exactly to your liking by a highly trained Italian artisan-oh, and also had face time with the designer who created them? Despite what you might think from glancing at the dressing room lines at fast-fashion retailers, that kind of artistry isn't going extinct. | | |
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| Teen Vogue |
| It definitely belongs on the runway. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| Stella McCartney is dipping a toe into men's fashion, but needs to up her social game Stella McCartney is looking at you, boys. The high-end designer announced a couple of weeks ago that she plans to move into the mens' space with a new collection slated to launch in spring of next year. | | |
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