I always feel I can never afford to buy cheap clothes. I have shoes and ties and shirts and sports jackets that are more than 20 years old, and they fit and feel marvelous, and look more wonderful than when they were new. | | | | Preen A/W 2017, London, Feb. 19, 2017.
(Isabel Infantes/PA Images/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I always feel I can never afford to buy cheap clothes. I have shoes and ties and shirts and sports jackets that are more than 20 years old, and they fit and feel marvelous, and look more wonderful than when they were new.”
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| | rantnrave:// What happens when price is set according to an online data profile, and that data profile is interpreted as the psychological state in which a person is willing to pay—full price? This piece by JERRY USEEM is a fantastic look at the past, present, and potential future of deciding on price. There's a simple IF statement printed in the article... AMAZON has been granted a patent for an "on-demand manufacturing system" for apparel, and potentially a bunch of other stuff—“including but not limited to paper, plastic, leather, rubber and other materials"—clearly leaving the options wide open for this. Companies often take out patents that go nowhere but a legal filing system. Still, when a company with the inertia and XXXL resources of Amazon see this type of manufacturing as a potential scenario, people notice. At the very least it could make for some great fiction. Will the company algo-price the resources in real time, in a high-frequency bidding system? Imagine whole factories that assemble themselves when a seller places an order for screen-printed slogan jeans or fake or real YEEZY BOOSTS. You can mash these ideas together infinitely... NEIMAN MARCUS issued more bonds to finance its interest payments... I appreciate the critique of sustainability initiatives, but critics often leave out a crucial fact: to be in the market long term, companies will be forced to work with scarce(r) resources, whether or not they plan for it... BRITISH GQ published a nice profile of BOF founder IMRAN AMED... NYFW is now one day shorter... TODD RADOM loves ugly uniforms. So doesn't that make them—beautiful? Eye of the beholder: design, rainbow-dyed synthetics, and 1970s baseball. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer. | | |
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 | British GQ |
| From blogging on a sofa in Notting Hill to setting the agendas for CEOs and the world's leading designers, Imran Amed has built a truly 21st-century media empire that includes the digital bible of a multi-trillion dollar industry. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| In three short years, Charles Jeffrey and his Loverboy cohorts have exploded onto the London fashion scene in a tirade of paint, tailoring, and glorious DIY. | | |
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 | recode |
| The company could wade deeper into developing its own apparel. | | |
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 | WWD |
| The schedule is shorter by a day, with Marc Jacobs still closing the shows. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Selena's style continues to influence Tejano culture. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Nothing brings this sports designer joy and inspiration like the blinding outfits of some 1970s baseball teams. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Armed with a new website, Follain is teaming up with brands that take a science-based approach to natural beauty. The goal? To demystify the industry and bust the long-prevailing myth that beauty products need toxins. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| Hint: It's not all about the money. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Tech Crunch noted that “Amazon is in no way working with the influencers on product selection, vetting products, nor providing free products and brands are not working through Amazon to reach these influencers either.” Nonetheless, there is still a chance that Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) guidelines apply and will be violated en mass in connection with the Amazon Influencer platform. | | |
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 | T Magazine |
| For a new generation of designers, real memories of Soviet Russia shine brighter than the fantasy of peasants and princesses. | | |
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 | The Calvert Journal |
| In the aftermath of the Euromaidan movement, a wave of designers and retailers has come to the fore, ready to meet the needs of patriotic young Ukrainians determined to shop local. Dan Peleschuk asks whether fashion can help drag the country closer to the West. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| With the launch of leather goods brand LONB London, former Labelux chief executive Reinhard Mieck and partner Melissa Morris have begun laying the foundations of For the One, a company they hope will become a modern-day version of the age-old luxury conglomerate. | | |
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 | The Rosenrot |
| "What's unknown to many is that Undercover was not founded by Takahashi alone. He once had a partner, and his name was Hironori Ichinose." | | |
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 | 1 Granary |
| A visit to the Fashion and Textiles Foundation studio. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| In France, luxury goods can be up to 70% cheaper than they are in China. | | |
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 | Metro.co.uk |
| Fashion Revolution Open Studios is coming as part of the #whomademyclothes #imadeyourclothes campaign. | | |
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 | Co.Design |
| The sports brand has prioritized style icons at least as much as athletes-and is getting shoes to market quickly. | | |
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 | CNBC |
| 1 Atelier delivers one-of-a-kind, handmade bags in 21 days. | | |
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 | AP News |
| On April 6, Ivanka Trump's company won provisional approval from the Chinese government for three new trademarks, giving it monopoly rights to sell Ivanka brand jewelry, bags and spa services in the world's second-largest economy. That night, the first daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, sat next to the president of China and his wife for a steak and Dover sole dinner at Mar-a-Lago. | | |
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