I consider runway shows modern rituals where people come together to collectively celebrate beauty. It's just a human instinct that has found different arenas throughout history. The clothes I sell are relics of this ceremony. | | | | A model walks Kenzo S/S 2018 wearing an ancient pattern. Paris Fashion Week Men's, June 25, 2017.
(Kay-Paris Fernandes/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I consider runway shows modern rituals where people come together to collectively celebrate beauty. It's just a human instinct that has found different arenas throughout history. The clothes I sell are relics of this ceremony.”
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| | rantnrave:// How long will the banner of "streetwear" remain distinctive? From what I've witnessed around cities in the USA, there's no doubt that t-shirts, hoodies, windbreakers, mock-neck zip-up pullovers, sneakers, and their ilk are a dominant form of dressing for many people. If the runways of PARIS FASHION WEEK MEN'S are any indication, streetwear has become a template. And it could be that this "street" isn't the storied cultural ferment of hip-hop, skateboarding, or general teenage malaise, but just—the street. Sidewalks and cement, the foot pounding the pavement. In suburbia, in cities, in rural towns and mid-sized hamlets the world over. So indistinguishable it's hard to see. So indistinct it's desirable. A streetwise fashion history student would take up the cause and track the movement—the adoption of the windbreaker, the bomber jacket, the sneaker (and by this I don't mean a listicle or a "brief history of"—do they assign those in schools nowadays?). I respect what LUKE MEIER is designing for OAMC, combining references to street culture with techniques and materials from traditional European craft. It's an evolution of something one may reactively want to call streetwear, but as Meier said himself, "streetwear" is a loaded term right now. Meier spent eight years at SUPREME, so he knows the landscape from the innermost sanctum of skate/street fandom. OAMC was launched in 2013. Watch this space. FashionSET: CLOSE-UP: OAMC's Luke Meier... More PARIS FASHION WEEK MEN's for you: HAIDER ACKERMANN at BERLUTI is brilliant. DRIES VAN NOTEN proves that sometimes, simplicity and a finely honed sense of color—which is just electromagnetic radiation traveling through the light spectrum, after all—is best. COMME DES GARÇONS HOMME PLUS went inside-out and disco. VETEMENTS S/S 2018 went deep-diving into its roughly 4-year-old archives, back to the wee years of 2015, when the DHL t-shirt was so young, so new. Sampler times, my friends, sampler times (haha)... OLIVIER THEYSKENS is slated for an exhibition at MOMU ANTWERP... A kimono-style jacket crafted from wool suiting fabric: T-KIMONO... Right now I only have use for one phone. So unhip, I know. However, this shiny new thing has me seriously considering a second mobile, just so I can tell friends to "call the flip phone"... Stock accuracy should be, ahem, accurate. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
| Demna Gvasalia sent out clothes for fathers, while Rick Owens continued his focus on the human form. | | |
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 | GQ |
| From the October 2007 issue: the era of GQ that forever changed the look of magazines, photography, and advertising. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Who could be more desirous of forgetting what they had on than women such as Jacobs and O’Keeffe, who had so much to do? | | |
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| The New York Times |
| A life-changing night for young basketball players, for whom dressing well has become a condition of stardom. | | |
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 | WWD |
| The designer said he’s created the 17 designs, inspired by Berlin, as a market test. | | |
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| GQ |
| An exclusive first look at the debut collection, plus an interview with Justin O’Shea. | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, the largest e-commerce company in China and the sixth largest retailer in the world. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Isca academy in Devon to ditch policy that boys must wear trousers even in a heatwave after ‘box-pleat rebellion’ caught global attention | | |
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 | British Vogue |
| The gutsy designer talks taking risks, making clothes matter and his ultimate ambition | | |
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 | Sourcing Journal Online |
| Don't let phantom inventory haunt your business, get the right tech tools and insights to manage your stock. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Let’s all wear fanny packs instead. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Andrew Fitzpatrick, online-famous for his humorous beat-boxing videos under the pseudonym 80Fitz, makes money from work for brands as an influencer, incorporating their products into his videos. The problem? There aren’t clear rules for how to say he’s been paid. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| The jig is up on the old saying that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| “If there’s an investor that won’t invest in me because I founded a benefit corporation, that’s not the right investor for us.” | | |
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 | Crain's Detroit Business |
| Some local entrepreneurs see potential for Detroit to become a national center of ethical clothing manufacturing, fashion design - and just plain style. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| It has a Chinese deal, a Condé Nast tie-up and has lured the founder of its biggest rival - but can it really change the luxury market? | | |
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 | Shanghai Daily |
| WHEN a Yang-surnamed resident began to build his farmhouse in Qianqiao Village of Huangyan County, he could never have imagined that the location was just right over an ancient tomb. | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| Get to know Crime x Punishment (CXP), one of Russia’s most exciting new streetwear labels whose debut collection is produced by Russian prisoners. | | |
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 | TechRadar |
| From DIY DNA to smart running shoes | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| We walked the streets of Barcelona with photographer Irene Moray to discover how the younger generation perceives beauty. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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