Some people want to travel with me in my whole working and intellectual process to create those collections, and some people just go to the store and say, 'I like this sweater,' and they don't care about the whole thing around it, and that's also fine. But I don't want to just make a nice sweater. I need intellectual guidelines to create that sweater in the first place. | | | | | Hot Toys' replica of Marlon Brando's The Wild One costume. (Shaun Wong) | | | | |  | “Some people want to travel with me in my whole working and intellectual process to create those collections, and some people just go to the store and say, 'I like this sweater,' and they don't care about the whole thing around it, and that's also fine. But I don't want to just make a nice sweater. I need intellectual guidelines to create that sweater in the first place.”
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| | rantnrave:// MARC BAIN's brief history of cool is brim-full of fascinating ideas, but the one that really gets me is the symbiotic relationship between coolness and consumerism. The idea of cool really takes off once it becomes possible to mass-produce and sell -- like a pair of blue jeans -- and requires an element of novelty that's only sustained by assuming new forms. Creators express themselves in their chosen media, stumbling upon cool along the way. Trend forecasters react, trying to recognize cool the moment it's born so it can be commodified. The rest of us chase it until we're exhausted or we realize that there's nothing lamer than trying hard to be cool. When it comes to cool, change is the only constant -- take it from GRANDPA SIMPSON... Two weeks ago, CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS grad TINA GORJANC made headlines with her 'Pure Skin' project -- a range of designs rendered in "leather" lab-grown using ALEXANDER MCQUEEN's DNA. Some have spoken out against the concept, but I've yet to come across an objection that runs deeper than, "It's a bit icky, innit?" GUARDIAN columnist JONATHAN JONES says he's disturbed by the idea of making art out of human bodies, but should lab-grown skin that's never been attached to a consciousness be treated the same way as "real" skin that has? PETA, on the other hand, is a-ok with GORJANC's project. Makes sense, since lab-grown leather means no animals are harmed during production. The production of meat, and therefore leather, has hugely deleterious effects on the natural environment. If lab-grown leather can minimize those impacts, consider me all the way on board... DRIES VAN NOTEN explains the importance of craftsmanship and draws a distinction between "making" and "producing"... At THE WASHINGTON POST, STEVEN OVERLY explores why humans often fear innovation -- reads nicely with GORJANC's project and DRIES' thoughts fresh in mind... French designer ANDRÉ COURRÈGES left his mark on the 20th century by helping to popularize -- and possibly inventing -- the mini-skirt. He passed away earlier this year, and his ideas have had an impact on this century, too -- he worked with MINOLTA to design the first selfie stick in 1984. | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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| In the early 2000s, a major shift happened in the way people dress. Flared and baggy jeans began to give way to a skinny, low-slung version, and by the end of the decade, it seemed everyone-including men-were squeezing into jeans so tight that doctors began issuing health warnings. | | |
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 | Buro 24/7 |
| In conversation with the designer In an exclusive interview with Dries van Noten, just days after his Paris Menswear show, Eugene Rabkin unravels the ideas and inspirations that drive one of fashion's most successful. Buro 24/7 Middle East has the story... | | |
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 | Medium |
| Success has many fathers, but in this case, there is only one. | | |
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 | Racked |
| The lingerie giant is axing the nearly 40-year-old mailbox staple. | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| BoF's Imran Amed talks to Coach CEO Victor Luis about the company's return to growth amidst wider market uncertainty. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Missoula, Mont. - SUDDENLY, decluttering is everywhere. It may have started with Marie Kondo and her mega-best seller, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," but it has exploded into a mass movement, anchored in websites, seminars and - ironically - a small library's worth of books about how to get rid of stuff. | | |
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 | Vogue |
| There's something deeply familiar and yet palatably strange about Vejas, the nascent fashion collection helmed by 19-year-old Canadian designer Vejas Kruszewski. On paper, the items in Kruszewski's collections are quotidian; dark denim jeans, heather gray sweatshirts, shearling aviator jackets, and white shirtdresses are garments that seem simple enough to wrap your head around, until Kruszewski bends, binds, and reworks them into pieces that end up looking like kooky second cousins to the basics they were born from. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| When Patrizia Reggiani married Maurizio Gucci, they became one of Italy's first celebrity power couples. But then he left her - and she had him murdered. Abigail Haworth unpicks an incredible tale of glamour, sex, betrayal, death and prison in the dizzying world of high fashion | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| Employees at a textile factory that made Trump shirts report dangerous, abusive conditions -- harsh even for Honduras. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| Michael Kors' #InstaKors feed is meant to make it easy for customers to shop what they see on the brand's Instagram account. With added benefits for engaged consumers, like special promotions and early access to products, the company believes it's a combined social shopping tool and social loyalty program. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| But not in that order. E-commerce is driving out retailers, and boomers are aging--so here come the doctors. | | |
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 | Jenkem Magazine |
| For whatever reason, the fashion industry is all in on skating right now. | | |
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 | creativepool.com |
| Location-based marketing is at something of a tipping point right now where it could honestly go either way, but the outrageous success of the recently released Pokémon Go AR smartphone game seems to suggest it could be about to really kick off in earnest. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| Fashion's latest chapter of high-low collaborations are all about luxury brands embracing youth culture. | | |
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 | W Magazine |
| The Vetements and Balenciaga creative director won a prize at the fashion festival over a decade ago--now he’s come back as a juror. | | |
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