At the center of our project is the goal of making things. Very beautiful things women want to buy. | | | | | Burberry bucket. (litherland) | | | | |  | “At the center of our project is the goal of making things. Very beautiful things women want to buy.”
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| | rantnrave:// Since 2013, BURBERRY's CHRISTOPHER BAILEY has had one of the fullest plates in fashion, serving as both the storied English company's CEO and Creative Director. That experiment ended yesterday as BAILEY turned the CEO role over to MARCO GOBBETTI, a luxury veteran arriving from a successful stints at both CÉLINE and GIVENCHY, among others. Both common sense and the markets agree that a change was overdue -- BAILEY is an impressive man, but it's hard to believe anyone could produce their best design work while also tasked with overseeing a huge international enterprise's finances and operations. Ceding the CEO's seat to GOBBETTI will allow BAILEY to focus on what's most important: designing clothing and accessories that people actually want to buy. BURBERRY remains in something of a transitory period, smack dab in the middle of implementing major, BAILEY-led modifications to their business -- eliminating diffusion lines, combining menswear and womenswear shows, scaling back product offering, and introducing a see now, buy now model. Time will tell whether or not these changes have a positive bottom line impact, but as BAILEY states in an interview with BLOOMBERG, "the strategy remains the same." For now, at least... "I shop on the internet, I don’t go into the store. You motherf*****s think I go to the store? I hit that button." Recently-freed rapper GUCCI MANE reveals himself to be a e-commerce advocate in a HARMONY KORINE-directed SUPREME ad... POKEMON GO has got to be the most unexpected driver of shopping mall foot traffic since, I don't know, ever? Golf clap for RACKED writer REBECCA JENNINGS, who expertly identified the fashion angle on this one. | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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 | The New Yorker |
| About two years ago, I became interested in the garments of Davide Taub, the head cutter for Gieves & Hawkes, a house in London at which Alexander McQueen apprenticed, and which has a reputation for designs that are both elegant and daring. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| A conversation about plastic surgery is also, in a complicated way, a conversation about the literal erasure of our pasts. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| LONDON - Christopher Bailey is to resign as chief executive of Burberry, the company said on Monday, ending an experiment in which the British luxury house became the first publicly listed fashion company to allow one person to hold the roles of chief executive and creative director at once. | | |
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 | Fashion Unfiltered |
| Last week, Duckie Brown, the forward-thinking New York-based menswear label helmed by Daniel Silver and Steven Cox, gave fashion week the finger. In a bold and brilliant move, the duo, who last season pared its runway romp back to only six looks, is skipping the Spring 2017 catwalk altogether. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| A giant question mark looms above the fashion calendar. Fashion designers and labels are increasingly unpicking the seams of tradition and are choosing when, where, and how they show collections to best suit their business needs, as opposed to being confined within the traditional fashion calendar. | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| Physical retailers must stage experiences, embrace omnichannel and harness data to meet the needs and desires of today’s constantly connected, time-poor luxury consumers. | | |
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 | FactorDaily |
| Friday town hall meetings at the Bangalore headquarters of Flipkart have been a ritual in the past few years. The e-commerce giant's top executives assemble in a hall packed with employees in the evening and take questions. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| In our long-running series, "How I'm Making It," we talk to people making a living in the fashion industry about how they broke in and found success. "I don't come from a fashion background," explains bestselling handbag designer Sophie Hulme over the phone from her office in London. | | |
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 | AnOther |
| Muslin disease, the French revolution and "a feeling rooted in authenticity" all played a part in Galliano's Maison Margiela Artisanal A/W16 collection, discovers Alexander Fury. | | |
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 | Lefsetz Letter |
| They screamed every time Tana Mongeau spoke. Do you know who that is? I don’t either. The woman who runs Beautycon is a force of nature. I met Moj Mahdara at the Atom Factory, Troy Carter’s joint, it’s always the same people, investing in the new and different which you’d expect to be run by … | | |
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 | Complex |
| Attention: Adidas is hiring people to work on Kanye West's Yeezy line. The brand posted job listings on its website for a variety of positions, with titles including footwear designer, apparel designer, and more. The people who fill these big shoes will dictate whether the Yeezy line will be a commercial success or failure -- so Adidas had better pick the right people. | | |
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 | Mic |
| Before the Kendall Jenners and Gigi Hadids were even born, Pat Cleveland was fighting to make a name for herself in the modeling industry during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Right across the aisle from a stack of College of William & Mary sweatshirts at the Barnes & Noble campus bookstore in Williamsburg, Virginia, there's a display with over 50 lipsticks and lip glosses. | | |
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 | Thump |
| When Canadian comedian Daniel Woodrow visited Toronto nightclub EFS one Saturday evening in early June, he had an experience that's all too familiar to many people of color. As his white friends were being ushered past the velvet ropes of the King Street West venue, the doorman stopped him and told him that he wasn't getting in. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| How Yasmin Amira Davis's intricate braiding helped define the visual identity of an era. | | |
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