Uniqlo is not a fashion company, it’s a technology company. |
| | | | | Perfect stacks at Uniqlo. (Juan Barahona) | | | | | |  | “Uniqlo is not a fashion company, it’s a technology company.”
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| rantnrave:// UNIQLO's TADASHI YANAI is a man of modest ambitions: he's just trying to build the world's largest apparel company by making "truly authentic good clothes that have never existed before" at an accessible price point, all in accordance with the "soundest ethical values." On product alone, UNIQLO stands out -- they lap their fast fashion competitors on fit and durability (and therefore value), and their commitment to innovation is demonstrated clearly in their HEATTECH and AIRISM lines. The ethics portion is where things get murky. Lots of philanthropy, not much transparency on where and how UNIQLO's clothing is made, or who's making it. It starts with how you treat your employees... LANVIN is rudderless no longer -- BOUCHRA JARRAR has been hired to design their womenswear. JARRAR is a seasoned couturière who spent time at BALENCIAGA, JEAN PAUL GAULTIER, and CHRISTIAN LACROIX before starting her own label. Bit of a surprise appointment, but as MARC BAIN notes, it shouldn't be -- VOGUE's NICOLE PHELP's called it in her review of JARRAR's Spring 2016 couture collection. Read up on JARRAR in the latest REDEF FashionSET: "CLOSE-UP: BOUCHRA JARRAR"... Still catching up on fashion week coverage? We've rounded up designer profiles, reviews, interviews, and features on the NEW YORK, LONDON, MILAN, and PARIS shows... | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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 | The Telegraph |
| As he approaches old age, Tadashi Yanai, the most successful businessman in Japan at an estimated worth of about $15.4 billion, has a few more goals yet to meet. Nothing too taxing: merely to make his clothing-retail company the biggest in the world - it is currently the fourth - with the soundest ethical values, that's all. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Cows have long been farmed to fuel the fast food market. Now, by turning leather into a seasonal fashion, they are becoming part of fast fashion. Soon we will have to kill 430m every year. Lucy Siegle gets to grips with life without leather (well almost) | | |
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 | REDEF |
| Lanvin has found a successor to Alber Elbaz in Bouchra Jarrar. We've collected some profiles on the French designer to bring you up to speed. | | |
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 | StyleZeitgeist Mag |
| So, I finally went to the Paris women's fashion week (and liked it). I arrived fashionably late and missed a few shows that I would have loved to see, but I got to see a bunch. Everyone warned me that the women's fashion week is more hectic than the men's, but I did not find it so. | | |
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 | Racked |
| It doesn't matter if you watch a little TV or a lot of TV, dramas or comedies, network shows or Netflix, you've likely noticed a startling trend. An epidemic, if you will. Everyone (well, every woman) on TV has the same damn hair. The same straight-up-top, loose-curls-on-bottom hair. | | |
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 | Al Jazeera English |
| Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Srey Mao is leaving work. She flips a switch on her sewing machine. It makes an exhausted whirring noise as it powers down. She leaves her isolated workstation. Management moved her there to keep an eye on her. She even has to leave by a separate door. | | |
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| Racked |
| The former is Music, which is cool (bar shows, bands, Fader Fort!), and the latter is Interactive, which is...incredibly square (Austin Convention Center, panels, Facebook's Public Policy happy hour!). Somewhere in the middle is Film, completing the three prongs that make up the festival, which kicks off today, March 11. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| It has not even been a year since the New York-based artist Kelly Beeman typed the "@" that would launch her career. In the spring of 2015, Beeman was supporting herself with odd jobs, including restaurant work and Spanish translation, while painting on the side, as she had done for years. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Midway through "Miles Ahead," the soon-to-be-released movie about Miles Davis, directed by and starring Don Cheadle, the famously irascible musician tells a freelance writer (played by Ewan McGregor) in a dowdy corduroy blazer, "You're not driving me around looking like that no more." It's 1979. | | |
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 | The Globe and Mail |
| Another relentless fashion month winds down this week as Paris fashion week comes to a close. Whew! So glad that's almost over. Except it's not. Fashion never ends or goes away or starts again. Little wonder that the ever-accelerated pace of consumer appetite, copycat brands and self-interest has brought on an industry-wide existential crisis. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| PARIS -- As the fall 2016 collections wrapped up here, designers made clear what they are hoping shoppers will buy next season. But only a few tried to articulate new ways of thinking about beauty, power and status -- which gets to the heart of why we buy anything at all. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| Lane Bryant, of all brands, is making some feel prudish. NBC and ABC have forbidden Lane Bryant's new body-positive commercial from airing because it's too risqué. The spot, titled "This Body," centers around women talk about the parts of their body that makes them proud. | | |
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| Quartz |
| Until a few years ago, Cotton On shied away from publicly revealing its size. The Australian fashion chain, which sells low-cost, casual clothes that reflect its Aussie roots preferred to grow quietly. It was a "defensive mechanism," Ashley Hardwick, who co-owns the brand, told the "Sydney Morning Herald" last year. | | |
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 | Sneaker Freaker |
| Aside from his day job writing for Pagesdigital and Life Without Andy, Christopher Kevin Au has been proudly reppin’ Sydney with his impressive haul of Air Max 95s. In fact, his love for… | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| Fashion and politics have long shared a kinship. In the last year, we've seen a multitude of designers grapple with a variety of political issues in their work: Pyer Moss confronted police brutality and racism, Walter Van Beirendonck responded to terrorism and countless others rallied against social constructions of gender. | | |
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