There needs to be cross-pollination, joking, playing, interaction — and failure. Command and control is less and less viable today. The creative director of today has to be a symphony conductor. | | | | Calvin and co. Models wearing Calvin Klein, Vogue 1977.
(Oliviero Toscani/Condé Nast Collection/Getty Images) | | | | | | “There needs to be cross-pollination, joking, playing, interaction — and failure. Command and control is less and less viable today. The creative director of today has to be a symphony conductor.”
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| | rantnrave:// Thank the internet: mountains of fashion media are turning up in runway show footage, photographs, lookbooks, and more. There's as much to discover in fashion's past as in the latest season, and seeing it show up in unexpected places is part of the fun. Fashion amateurs, hypebeasts, influencers, et al.—wasn't everyone, even the most OG of fashion editors, simply a fan at first look? Love this story on ILIUS AHMED, who owns a rare collection of runway footage, press packets, lookbooks, and more from the '90s and '00s. His door to the industry didn't come through work: "It started when [I] was eight and I was watching a fashion programme." The designer? YSL. As a teenager, Ahmed wrote letters to fashion houses he admired. That turned into a twenty-year journey that had Ahmed attending the haute couture shows of LACROIX and GIVENCHY. Do fashion houses want access to this kind of material today? There's surely more to be uncovered. Ahmed is sharing his collection via @unforgettable_runway... Made in AMERICA. Surprise, but not really, it doesn't fit into easily repeatable soundbites. Take it from those who know. And more who know... ICYMI: KATIE GRAND joins W... LOUIS VUITTON launches e-commerce in CHINA... TORRID will show at NYFW... Architect NORMAN FOSTER is working on a collection with RAPHA... The VETEMENTS pile, showcased inside windows at the SAKS flagship in MANHATTAN, highlights the fairly mundane practice of dealing with all. Of. The clothes. This pile, while sending a message (just embrace it), will go to RewearABLE. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Costume designer of films such as 'Reservoir Dogs,' 'Pulp Fiction,' 'Almost Famous,' and 'Jerry Macguire.' | | |
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| They're not impressed, to say the least. | | |
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| Bots have changed the sneaker industry forever. | | |
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| Over six decades, Mr. Lane built a global business by making it acceptable and chic for women to wear glittering jewelry of unabashed deception. | | |
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| Unforgettable Runway stands out from the crowd when it comes to archival scrapbooks. We spoke to its creator, Ilius Ahmed, to find out why. | | |
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| Reiner Holzemer talks to Georgina Evans about directing 2017 film 'Dries', capturing exclusive insight into Dries van Noten and his filming approach. | | |
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| "I think LA is a symbol of the American dream." | | |
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| To successfully compete in today's customer-first context, retailers have to start thinking beyond incremental innovation. They must become comfortable with new models that cannibalize their business as it is right now. | | |
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| Nanette Lepore, Billy Reid, Edie Parker's Brett Heyman and Laurel Berman of Black Halo discuss the how and why of crafting their collections in New York, L.A. and points in between. | | |
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| The director of a new documentary on Dries van Noten, we speak to Reiner Holzemer on exploring worlds unknown through the lens of documentary. | | |
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| With no announcement, Louis Vuitton softly launched its official online store in China on Thursday, offering a full range of luxury products. | | |
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| Fashion and sustainability aren’t two words you often see in the same sentence. An adjective that evokes images of industry and ecology, “sustainable” is actually coming into fashion when describing, well, fashion. And as Director of Denim at WGSN, I can tell you this is very good news for our industry. | | |
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| Kirsten Green is the Founding General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures, the only firm to invest in both Dollar Shave Club and Jet.com, two 2 $Bn+ exits. | | |
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| $10,000 watches are a tough sell for Richemont these days, but shoppers are snapping up $2,000 Marcie handbags and ruffled blouses from the company’s fashion and leather label Chloe. | | |
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| Plus, Nanamica might finally be opening a store outside of Japan. | | |
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| The makeup retailer’s large-scale stores are still thriving, but a new intimate location in Boston shows that it’s thinking about its next act. | | |
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| The introductory video on the Tianello website talks about how the Los Angeles clothing maker’s collection of Tencel and silk tops lovingly passes through 100 hands before ending up in someone’s closet. | | |
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| Vietnamese villagers blockading a textile plant that serves global fashion brands are seeking the permanent closure of the factory due to pollution concerns, highlighting a growing readiness in Vietnam to campaign over environmental issues. | | |
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| Ten years after the show first aired, costume designer Janie Bryant looks back. | | |
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| People exposed to editorial content look at twice as many pages, have a better conversion rate and higher basket value, the retailer said. | | |
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