That is the essence of Gucci today: creating objects of desire bundled together as if wearing a mini collection on one back. | | | | "Raid at Dapper Dan's." Dapper Dan's jeep, the day his store was raided on copyright infringement charges. Harlem NYC, Aug. 25, 1988.
(Michael Schwartz/New York Post Archives/Getty Images) | | | | | | “That is the essence of Gucci today: creating objects of desire bundled together as if wearing a mini collection on one back.”
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| | rantnrave:// RICK OWENS is such a delight. He's being honored with the CFDA's lifetime achievement award this year and has plenty to say about the award, his career, and the choices he's made as a creative person, an AMERICAN, and a fashion designer. Refreshing to read. He makes references to the work of PROUST, MARTIN MUNKÁCSI, DONALD JUDD, and CHARLES JAMES—all things he's channeling at the moment. It's classic Owens. Shoutout to STEFF YOTKA for the fantastic interview. "No borders"... DAPPER DAN's influence on fashion has struck once again, this time in side-by-side comparisons of a look from GUCCI Resort 2018 and a Dapper Dan custom creation from 1988. Plenty of commentary. Would love it if someone got MR. DAY and MR. MICHELE in a room together. What would they have to say, together, about mutual inspirations, copying, and the design process? There are clear gulfs in experience between the two, but a lot of similarities too... Just returned from PORTLAND, so this RACKED feature on clothing for survivalists, aka the "prepper" movement, had some moments of recognition for me. Nah, I wasn't hanging out around preppers or their subreddits and forums, but I was enamored seeing the city's outdoor ethos and how that translates into style. Like all vast wilderness, the natural landscape surrounding Portland brings with it a sense of exploration and the unknown. And it's visible in all the hiking and performance gear I saw there... As someone who applies and re-applies sunscreen like I'm on my way up one of the seven summits, I appreciate CHERYL WISCHHOVER's guide to the overlapping, sometimes contradictory information on sunscreen. Get down with acronyms: when the FDA and the AAD don't jibe with the EWG on SPF... HARRY WORE WHAT tracks the sartorial vision that is HARRY STYLES, then blasts outfit IDs out to tens of thousands of fans via TWITTER and INSTAGRAM. Some serious sleuthing going on here. It's a labor of love. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| What’s it like to FaceTime Rick Owens at his Venetian apartment? Find that out, and more, from the winner of the 2017 CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award. | | |
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| It's the end of the world - what are you wearing? | | |
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| “I haven’t seen anything here that I haven’t seen elsewhere. It’s the same everywhere.” | | |
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| The Italian brand took over the Palazzo Pitti in Florence for Alessandro Michele’s over-the-top cruise extravaganza. | | |
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| Harlem tailor Dapper Dan is famous for bridging the gap between fashion and hip-hop. Gucci's new collection looks eerily similar to his work. | | |
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| In recent years, Isabel Marant, Jeremy Scott, Vetements, Off-White, and Chanel have all drawn applause for their collections, only to be called out after the fact for copying. | | |
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| We bought some hilariously fake designer garms in Tbilisi's Bazroba narket. We found fake Gucci, Vetements, adidas and more. | | |
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| The Canadian college students launched Harry Wore What in 2014, and 56,000-odd followers later, the feed is the most trusted source for all the pop prince's outfit credits. | | |
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| Designer Alessandro Michele is inspired by the Renaissance for Cruise 2018. | | |
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| Alessandro Sartori is back in the Zegna camp, and big changes are afoot, as the label revamps its image with a bespoke atelier in Milan, and integrates its three brands into one cohesive unit | | |
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| Precious few fashion businesses are future-proofed for the threat of environmental change. | | |
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| The first daughter aimed her label at wealthy sophisticated women, but it didn’t take. So she moved downmarket. | | |
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| Tom Broecker's job was depicting a period a few years before the Roaring Twenties Flapper fashion that fills history books and the collective imagination, the time when Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald embark on their legendary romance. | | |
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| In the seven years she lived in Beijing, Vega Zaishi Wang started her eponymous label and made her name as one of China’s top young fashion designers. But the capital city’s grueling pace of life -- the media, the parties, the pollution, the cost of living -- was taking its toll. | | |
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| Vogue’s International Editor At Large attends the Margiela retrospective at MOMU Antwerp Museum and the Dalida exhibition at Palais Galliera in Paris. | | |
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| LIFE SPORT is selling the Athenian aesthetic staple in an attempt to fund a new art movement in Greece. | | |
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| What an experiment in a Boston clothing store tells us about the future of retail | | |
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| After a period of slow 1 to 2% growth over the last couple of years, global luxury spending is set to see a bit of a recovery through 2020. | | |
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| Turning videos into a career was never easy, but it's getting more complicated. | | |
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