Hatred posts comments. Hatred makes videos. Hatred then spreads more hatred. Hatred gets a badge or even an assault weapon. Hatred kills. | | | | | Outkast's Andre 3000, speechless on tour last summer. | | | | |  | “Hatred posts comments. Hatred makes videos. Hatred then spreads more hatred. Hatred gets a badge or even an assault weapon. Hatred kills.”
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| | rantnrave:// I've been curating FashionREDEF for nearly two-and-a-half years now, and I find this work very gratifying. I get paid to read and think and write about a form of cultural production and a global industry that is critically underappreciated. Suffice to say: I think fashion is important. It doesn't feel that way today, though, less than 48 hours after ALTON STERLING and PHILANDO CASTILE were killed at the hands of police. Fashion, needless to say, cannot fix systemic racism. It can, at its best, help us communicate with others, make us feel protected, and put us more deeply in touch with ourselves. It can engage with political issues explicitly. It can, as ROBIN GIVHAN wrote, "move culture towards the light." I'm surely not qualified to tell fashion-focused publications how to respond to these tragedies, but my heart says that there must be some response, that those among us with powerful platforms must at least stand up and say, "This is not okay." If PYER MOSS' KERBY JEAN-RAYMOND can pour his energy and creativity into a collection reckoning with police brutality, then media can at the very least meet him halfway and amplify his voice and others like his. I'll defer to one of JEAN-RAYMOND's tweets from yesterday: "The violence we're all witnessing now, the injustices, the passiveness... will burden us all with long term psychological effects later." We are all now bearing witness. Each of us -- individuals, organizations, brands, publications -- must decide how we'll respond, and what it will mean if we remain passive... "Scientists still have no consistent way of predicting how a molecule will smell based on its structure, much less how a stew of odors will smell. This complexity makes composing a perfume more challenging than mixing colors of paint or layering musical notes." NAUTILUS goes long on the maddeningly complex science -- or is it more of an art? -- of perfume mixing... JON JAY, UNIQLO's Head of Global Creative, thinks INSTAGRAM is "curated bulls**t." Bold statement on a tool that's undoubtedly been a powerful driver of sales for retailers. Wish this thought had been unpacked further. | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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 | Nautilus |
| Our sense of smell may have evolved to detect danger, not beauty. | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| Philomena Kwao's skin glows. That's a cliché people use to describe models' skin, but in her case, it's actually true. The smooth, poreless texture of her skin needs no retouching in photographs, and it's just as flawless in real life. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Some years ago, the food advocate Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, succinctly summed up the best advice he could offer on how a human should eat: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." It's so simple you'd hardly think it need be stated, and yet the global rise of obesity and diabetes,... | | |
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 | Retail Dive |
| Merchandise returns accounted for more than $260 billion in lost sales last year. But new apparel and footwear fit technology, size-shifting robots and data analysis tools are changing the equation. In retailing, buyers aren't necessarily keepers. According to a 2015 study by the Retail Equation and National Retail Federation, total merchandise returns accounted for more than $260.5 billion in lost sales for U.S. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Marquan Harper arrived at the Minneapolis head office of Target dressed as if he were coming to work. The St. Paul 10-year-old had approximated the store uniform-a red shirt and khaki pants-and persuaded his mom to do the same. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| Uniqlo's John Jay thinks the industry is in a state of chaos, and more needs to be done for the customer, not for gimmicks. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Brittany Berghorst, the store manager at Levi’s, talks about working retail long term and how she deals with the worst customers in the country’s largest shopping center. | | |
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| Quartz |
| When Yoox and Net-a-Porter merged last year, they created what Net-a-Porter's founder, Natalie Massenet, described as the "world's biggest luxury fashion store." There's a big balancing act inherent in that title. Luxury goods rely on scarcity, high prices, and prestige. How do you reconcile those demands with an huge online operation selling designer labels that are often on... | | |
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 | Racked |
| In the age of unboxing, the box matters. | | |
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 | EDITED |
| Accessories are the unsung heroes of the mass market. They're the second biggest category globally - representing 18% of everything on the mass market. For retailers, on-trend accessories keep consumers interested, bringing them back into stores and driving new stories that sell out fast. | | |
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 | The Evening Standard |
| He’s got Gwyneth on speed dial, has dressed everyone from Anna Wintour to Oprah, and has built a billion-dollar business empire from scratch. From child model to model American, Laura Craik meets Michael Kors | | |
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 | The Telegraph |
| Can Ynap take advantage of this and further opportunities in the Middle East? Its share price, which is down by 28pc this year, depends on it. What is interesting is the level of investment it takes to make Ynap's luxury online offer work. | | |
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 | Nice Kicks |
| With his offseason officially underway for the past month, Kevin Durant has been everywhere. | | |
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 | Co.Design |
| At the Biodesign Summit, students paired with scientists to develop projects that merged biotech and design. | | |
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 | MEL Magazine |
| It’s not because men have disgusting feet. | | |
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