You don’t believe enough in your company, you gotta keep going outside and outside and outside? It’s killing me. You know the deal. I’m waiting, tomorrow Patagonia will be like, 'We collaborated with Off-White' and I’ll kill myself. | | | | Open air. Glamour, 1971.
(Frank Horvat/Condé Nast Collection/Getty Images) | | | | | | “You don’t believe enough in your company, you gotta keep going outside and outside and outside? It’s killing me. You know the deal. I’m waiting, tomorrow Patagonia will be like, 'We collaborated with Off-White' and I’ll kill myself.”
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| | rantnrave:// Must-read of the day is this interview with MISTER MORT. It's deadpan, slightly acerbic, and reveals a whole lot of truth—like all great humor. Mort designed a collection for BEAMS that includes button-downs ("I ripped off the BROOKS BROTHERS label!"), embroidered with mustard stains. Just don't call it a collab... CÉLINE is loved by guys, and (crucially) it's cut so they're able to wear it. MAX BERLINGER explores how a cult womenswear label has taken over the hearts of many men.... OPENING CEREMONY is selling past issues of FRUiTS, and (feels obligatory) t-shirts with the magazine's logo. The NYC store installation looks good next to vintage COMME DES GARÇONS from Australian retailer DOT COMME. FRUiTS itself was selling a hoodie a while back—does getting the printed hoodie/t-shirt treatment mean you've been around for a while (and are possibly/probably about to shut down)? Or is it right in step with the zeitgeist? Or both? I'm kidding. Regardless, the magazine really captured a moment, so pour one out for the street style magazine. Definitely have a bunch of old FRUiTS floating around somewhere, along with issues of EGG and S CAWAII! (two Japanese style magazines that have since folded). Both were reliant on the '90s kyogyaru and ganguro subcultures in JAPAN, so we shouldn't be too sad that they're gone. Those high schoolers are in their 30s and 40s by now. There's still a huge opening left where some of these magazines used to be, and I don't think it's been filled by INSTAGRAM or SNAP or any other algo feed currently available. We'll see... REBEKKA BAY joins UNIQLO... TOMMY HILFIGER remembers a game of hangman in an ad by GEORGE LOIS. It's fun to think about which brands could fill the slots in the same ad if it were made today: TOMMY vs. RALPH vs. CALVIN vs. PERRY... GUCCI's gunning even harder for diversity with its latest campaign. The models? Extra terrestrials. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| At the Centre Street store, the offerings handsome, ethically produced staples, suitable, perhaps, for a specific sort of 21st-century flâneur. | | |
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| “Whenever I wear it, other guys always ask me who made it.” | | |
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| In this interview for Highsnobiety magazine, we spoke with ex-DONDA and Been Trill designer Matthew Williams to hear his thoughts on Alyx Studio. | | |
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| In Manhattan’s prime retail districts, tourist traffic is down, rents are high, Trump is looming large and overstoring is about as bad as it is in Middle America. Something has got to give. | | |
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| How quickly do you really need that Gucci handbag? Sometimes it’s O.K. to have to wait for what you want. | | |
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| How the innovative e-tailer wrangled influencers, celebrities and the desert's best venues for its biggest festival activation yet. | | |
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| Showrooming is the new big thing in brick-and-mortar retail, but are stores - and customers - ready to abandon their shopping bags? | | |
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| "Believe it or not, there was once a time when a tag, some drips and a graffiti character on a deck or tee seemed different and progressive (it’s worth noting that “underground” was genuinely applicable to the scene 24 years ago), and while that look is very much of its era, Chris’s 1993 Underworld Element Champion parody deck was remarkably ahead of its time." | | |
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| No, really -- there’s even a non-electric toothbrush that costs $50. | | |
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| In a new interview for W’s May issue, fashion’s canniest translator of youth culture talks Raf Simons, Kanye West’s legacy, and DJ’ing as a metaphor for his hyperlinked career. | | |
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| Virgil Abloh made the “creative director” title something of a buzzword in the music industry. Andra Day and Wiz Khalifa each have one; The Weeknd works with La Mar Taylor, while Travis Scott has Marc Kalman. Says Mazdack Rassi who is creative director of Milk Studios, a media and events company and agency. | | |
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| From Anne Imhof to Bjarne Melgaard, FKA Twigs to Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, a generation of artists and performers are embracing sportswear's ubiquity to critique and explore the world we live in. | | |
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| Following Alessandro Michele's appointment at Gucci, a new trend concerning hiring practices are finally favoring career designers instead of celebrities. | | |
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| Florentine etailer LUISAVIAROMA seems to have cracked the secret code of dominating the luxury online market. | | |
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| After two years in China, Victoria's Secret is accelerating its expansion in a rush to reach the increasing number of Chinese women willing to spend big on designer bras. | | |
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| While pre-collections are often smaller and generally less extravagant than a house's bi-annual main collections, they have come quite a ways since they were shown in simple presentation-style formats. | | |
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| A new CEO tries to prove brick-and-mortar stores may have a future. | | |
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| Memes are now making mega money. We explain how the internet’s millionaire meme-makers like F***Jerry and Josh "The Fat Jew" Ostrovsky are cashing in. | | |
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| The Fashion Debates asks: What is unpaid work doing to the fashion industry? | | |
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| 20 April 1992: Should journalists with no fashion experience run Britain’s leading style magazines? Louise Chunn on publishing’s new debate. | | |
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