In a way, what I’m fighting against today is the judgment of people about me. When people say, “Oh, you’re the social media star of fashion,” and stuff like that, they want to see me in a certain way, and sometimes I feel in my own jail. | | | | Hackers, 1995.
(United Artists) | | | | |  | “In a way, what I’m fighting against today is the judgment of people about me. When people say, “Oh, you’re the social media star of fashion,” and stuff like that, they want to see me in a certain way, and sometimes I feel in my own jail.”
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| | rantnrave:// I am all for the cyberspace-inspired '90s moment we're having in fashion. CR FASHION BOOK's 1999 covers. Dressing like THE MATRIX. Here for it. It runs along with the current vogue for '90s web design, posts from the GEOCITIES archive, and the like. I find the popular imagination of technology in any era to be fascinating. Fears of automation were expressed widely in WWD going back to the mid-twentieth century. VR was looked at as the next frontier in computing in the '90s. We have similar sentiments about the development of AI and machine learning. Parsing what is reasonable and what is outsized exuberance based on people's investments in the space are two separate things. Sure, widespread investment in an area can be self-fulfilling (that's what investors hope). It can also make people overly optimistic about what technology can reasonably achieve in the near future. There are some exciting things brewing, for sure. I'm all for pushing forward with R&D. But I'm not convinced we're getting bot KARL LAGERFELD in the next few years. Or bot petites mains. According to the MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, AMAZON is working on AI specifically for apparel and fashion, for tracking trends and giving product recommendations. The article mentions an algorithm developed at LAB126 that can create crude designs based on image recognition. Would love more detail on this. Specific to fashion, I've found that many of these projects have to jump over the (large) assumption that fashionable taste runs according to a rational set of rules that can be replicated in data. If AI is developed to the point of meaningful creativity, fashion design will be just one of many issues to deal with. Time to go read GHOST IN THE SHELL again... Never thought I'd see a single ZARA dress so many times. There's a genre of "every sighting of" a certain garment—I've seen a few on INSTAGRAM. This one is on TUMBLR, and it's a feed of every sighting of this blue off-the-shoulder dress from ZARA since 2016. Now if there's visual AI behind this I'll be really impressed... MAC x AALIYAH is coming in 2018... MICKEY DREXLER joins OUTDOOR VOICES as chairman... COCO is so pro! | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | Highsnobiety |
| Counterfeit Culture: Korea is Highsnobiety's first-ever documentary, and it explores the country's thriving market for fake fashion and streetwear. | | |
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 | Racked |
| You might be selling leggings to a catfish. | | |
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 | MIT Technology Review |
| The retail giant is taking a characteristically algorithmic approach to fashion. | | |
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 | GQ Style |
| Rousteing also makes the case for himself as the most rebellious designer in fashion. | | |
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 | WWD |
| Osaka’s dilapidated buildings are home to a flock of experimental vintage boutiques that approach visual merchandising as a hobbyist pursuit. | | |
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 | McKinsey & Company |
| Top-quintile companies are the engines of value creation. Digitization and better in-store experiences will drive future gains. | | |
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 | AnotherMan |
| We preview a new book about the revolutionary brand and explore its influence on fashion, and why it was so ahead of its time. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| After five years in the business, the Upper East Side specialty shop is undergoing some major changes. | | |
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 | MR PORTER |
| Meet Mr David de Rothschild, the eco-adventurer and entrepreneur proving sustainable style can work. | | |
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 | South China Morning Post |
| The creative director of Coach talks about how American brands have redefined ‘luxury’ as we know it and how the humble T-shirt and sneakers went high-end. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Producing collections and staging ever more glamorous shows tends to wipe out profit for pricey clothing but can create an aura around the brand that helps sell more-profitable items. | | |
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| Racked |
| He’s part of Axe’s new branding initiative. | | |
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 | Town & Country |
| Yves Saint Laurent's longtime partner is a force in French culture and media--and helped put Emmanuel Macron in office. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| The right blend of technology, education and entertainment is key to a successful retail strategy, argues Grant Lacy. | | |
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 | AnOther |
| Laura Newton is the CSM graduate at the helm of a fledgling knitwear brand that’s here to stay. | | |
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 | The New York Observer |
| What started as a side project customizing leather jackets in between classes at fashion school grew into a thriving business, with a cult following, for two friends. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Imagine that you head online in search of a pair of vintage-looking Levi’s, which have swiftly emerged as the latest must-have jeans, thanks to the resurge of retro styles on the runway and redone denim a la Vetements. | | |
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 | New Territories |
| Shot during the Yosakoi Festival in Kochi. | | |
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 | The Evening Standard |
| Curled up on a comfy striped linen sofa in the window of her Notting Hill mews house, wearing a moss green silk blouse designed by herself and a pair of silk Ganni trousers, Hannah Weiland, founder of Shrimps, is recalling the moment she discovered the teddy-bear-soft faux fur that is now her signature. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| Affirm is trying to convince millennials that taking out loans for things you don't need is cool. | | |
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