Changing your look every season to please a fickle customer isn’t how I work. I aim to create heirlooms that a woman can pass down. |
| | | | | >From Jeremy Scott's ongoing adidas collaboration. (Sam Deng) | | | | | | | “Changing your look every season to please a fickle customer isn’t how I work. I aim to create heirlooms that a woman can pass down.”
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| rantnrave:// One day, two NEW YORKER profiles of two very different designers: JEREMY SCOTT, the clown prince of bombastic, microwaved kitsch, and the virtuosic GUO PEI, CHINA's first homegrown couturière. While SCOTT is a divisive but familiar figure, PEI is a relative unknown in the west, notable mainly for designing the showstopper RIHANNA wore to last year's MET BALL. Her ascent has been slow and steady, and now that she's arrived, she's struggling with scale. In order to broaden her client base, she'll need to expand into ready-to-wear, and necessarily sacrifice some of her superior craftsmanship. Says PEI: "I want to make clothes that sell in order to finance clothes that don’t sell but which speak to my soul.” She won't be the first designer to play that game. One who doesn't have to, though? JEREMY SCOTT. Say what you will about SCOTT's work -- tacky, tasteless, vulgar -- it sells, and it all speaks to, or emanates from, SCOTT's soul... All of it except for the bits SCOTT has ripped off, that is, which LIZZIE WIDDICOMBE's profile fails to mention. SCOTT has a history of plagiarism, detailed by ELLIE SHECHET at JEZEBEL... Horse in a suit? Horse in a suit... Note to editors: a third of today's stories have titles beginning with 'how.' New verb, please! | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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| Do knockoffs harm the fashion business? Or does copying keep the wheels of the industry turning? | | |
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| Three 30-somethings lip-sync their hearts out. Then we cut to them in a studio joking playfully with each other. A voiceover informs us that we're about to see outfits everyone will be rocking this spring. Another cut. | | |
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| Early last year, the fashion crowd latched onto the teachings of a young woman named Marie Kondo. Her best-selling book, " The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing," caused an epidemic of manic closet cleaning and wardrobe simplifying, as the author instructs her readers to rid themselves of anything that doesn't "spark joy." | | |
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| There are few designers who have captured the attention of the fashion world in recent years quite like Gosha Rubchinskiy. Buyers, journalists, consumers and casual onlookers have all been swept along by the Russian designer's post-Soviet streetwear vision, and each of his collections is met with anticipation and adoration from many corners of the fashion world. | | |
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| The three most cultish trophies of the moment sound ludicrous, possibly because, even by the most lenient criteria, they are. However cults have become an important component in fashion. Never mind trends, which waft around on a permanent wash cycle. | | |
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| The Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, in her 2010 collection "Crystallization," was the first person to send a 3-D-printed haute couture garment down the runway. A top assembled from nine scalloped, shell-like sections cantilevered over the model's shoulders and chest like a futuristic shield. | | |
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| The most sought-after sets are beautiful, hugely expensive, and sound pretty good too, says Alexander Fury. | | |
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| Brand exec Cynthia Erland lays out the strategy. | | |
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| A lesson in antihero fashion, the film’s multiple styles are more resonant today than ever before. | | |
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| If you're planning on seeing " Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History," which opens to the public at the Jewish Museum on March 18 and runs though August 7, there's a few things about the seminal fashion designer you may want to know. | | |
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| Meet the digital influencers launching clothing lines, landing magazine covers and running multimillion-dollar businesses -- all stemming from their personal style blogs. | | |
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| In 2006, the house of Louis Vuitton found itself in the news for the wrong reasons when then creative director Marc Jacobs sent models out on the runway toting a checked shopping bag that resembled the Chinese migrant worker's travel tote. | | |
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