A fashion must both maintain and surprise. As a garment, it observes certain rules; as a dress, it transgresses [those rules] with insolence. It allows audacity within tradition. | | | | Dior haute couture A/W 2012-13, Paris, July 2, 2012.
(Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “A fashion must both maintain and surprise. As a garment, it observes certain rules; as a dress, it transgresses [those rules] with insolence. It allows audacity within tradition.”
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| After years of dressing for work like she would for a date, political strategist Jess McIntosh found a Washington enclave where she could do something truly radical: Be her (proudly weird, coolly androgynous, punk-leaning) self. | | |
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 | Racked |
| The sparkly stuff is terrible for the environment; this company is working to change that. | | |
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 | Complex |
| We talked to Joe Perez about his new clothing line, Mason, and what he learned from working on Kanye's Yeezus tour merch. | | |
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 | GQ Style |
| Your first look at the S&M, military, and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony-inspired line. Plus: Williams talks about designing for sustainability and soul. | | |
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 | 1 Granary |
| The owners of the Paris-based multi-label store took us through their buying process. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| Less than two months after the Canadian department store group announced a cost-cutting restructuring, rowdy activist investor Jonathan Litt is pushing the board to take more drastic action in confronting its challenges. | | |
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 | Refinery29 UK |
| What does this mean for the future of bricks and mortar stores? | | |
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 | Digiday |
| Many small influencers and businesses are using automation software to generate likes and comments in order to attract advertisers. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Meet the men who seem unable to win the battle against those extra five to 15 pounds. | | |
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 | British Vogue |
| The 25-year-old designer reveals her plans to depart Balenciaga to grow her namesake brand. | | |
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 | PYLOT Magazine |
| FILA discuss their archive project, a celebration of the brand’s 100+ year history of style and sport | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Footwear was going to reinvigorate the brand, but shoe revenue is heading in the wrong direction. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| Amazon Fashion continues to make attempts to get in good with the global fashion industry. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| A new initiative to make Bangladesh's garment industry more transparent is unlike anything that has existed before. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Nike was the poster child for cleaning up a scandal-ridden image, but its sweatshop problem is threatening a comeback. | | |
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 | FashionUnited |
| “I am fighting every day,” says Antonella Arpaia, co-founder of Manto, a luxury men’s outerwear brand made in Italy, into its fourth season. She is in town taking sales appointments for her Spring collection. “I have to be competitive or I’m nobody. It is a very critical moment,” she says, but her face brightens. | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| The irony in Gvasalia’s designs stems from a similar impulse as the pervasive irony of Internet culture. Dive in to find more. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| How the playwright and actor kept his cool, from the days of flower power to the age of social media. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| In late 2006, Brian Lichtenberg launched a line of subverted slogan-wear, including the famous Homies sweatshirt. But how did he get away with it? | | |
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 | Atlas Obscura |
| "In the future, you’ll be able to choose between drinking a glass of milk and wearing one." | | |
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