To me, luxury means value system. To a younger group of people, you could replace the word 'luxury' with the word 'coveted.' | | | | Twiggy. Sometimes, you just need dual watches. And sequins. Vogue 1967.
(Bert Stern/Condé Nast/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “To me, luxury means value system. To a younger group of people, you could replace the word 'luxury' with the word 'coveted.'”
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| | rantnrave:// I've said it before, but FASHIONISTA's "A Decade in Digital" is great. It looks at key people who made it out of fashion's blogger era with careers, businesses, notoriety, and legions of fans. Like those of us who remember a time before smartphones and social media (remember bloggers stunting front row with laptops?), these individuals form a crucial link to fashion's move online—a bridge to the influencer market and fashion's media spread of today. BRYANBOY, GARANCE DORÉ, LEANDRA MEDINE, SCOTT SCHUMAN, and more. As the media landscape buckles and shifts underfoot, there are questions, too. As their interests have naturally grown and the influencer market becomes increasingly crowded, will they stay the course? Internet frontiers move fast. Here's to the next decade. The series concludes with this interview with TOMMY TON... The GOOGLE JACQUARD x LEVI'S jacket is out Sept. 27, and aside from the APPLE WATCH, it's the only "wearable" (should we dispense with that word?) that has potential to shake off the gadget stigma that plagues the entire suite of products worn on the body, connected to the internet. It's not a transcendent product. But I respect that Google and Levi's have been tactical and kept details pronounced as far as the jacket's purpose, design, and marketing. Lest we forget, this is an actual product launch, delivered at a decent scale to wide-eyed and occasionally freaked out "consumers." IOT apparel doesn't form a rabid market just yet. it's a test. It has the potential to be a crucial step towards apparel integration in IoT. When IoT gets there (whole other convo)... Fashion fans, you'll get the references in NEO YOKIO. If you get the fashion, and the reference to NYC living (the JITNEY), and this reference to RANMA 1/2, congratulations, you're in with the show's #core #audience. I like the series so far. It's a mix of anime, fashion, and internet ambivalence all in one young adult tale. It's not GHOST IN THE SHELL, and it's not supposed to be, either. CAPRESE BOY lives... JACQUEMUS leads the charge into PARIS FASHION WEEK... A webshop that specializes in noragi... AMAZON at TOKYO FASHION WEEK... GIANVITO ROSSI makes fantastic shoes and now they're made in men's sizes. Sneakers too. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | Fashionista |
| "I think once you reach a certain age you realize fashion isn't everything, and you can only own so many clothes." | | |
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 | Red Bull TV |
| As popular as it is divisive, the fedora is a controversial accessory. Kyle Ng explores the Pachuco culture, meets a celebrity hatmaker, and travels to the United Kingdom to run with the Rude Boys, all to find out more about the infamous headwear. | | |
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 | Racked |
| The rise of travel clothing and how we want to be seen. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| As publishers grasp for new revenue streams, a ''try-anything'' approach has taken hold. Time Inc. has a new streaming TV show, "Paws & Claws," that features viral videos of animals. Hearst started a magazine with the online rental service Airbnb. | | |
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 | Wired |
| The jacket, created by Google and Levi's, shows what might happen when we start connecting our clothes to the internet. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| Donatella Versace’s ode to Gianni seemed an apt metaphor for the current state of Italian fashion, torn between the past and the present. | | |
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 | Oi Polloi |
| Peter Saville doesn’t need much of an introduction. Not only was he the man responsible for what might be called the ‘visual language’ of Factory Records, designing record covers for the likes of Joy Division, New Order and A Certain Ratio, but he’s also produced powerful imagery for David Byrne, Suede, Pulp, George Michael and countless other icons of audio. | | |
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 | 032c |
| Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge and Off-White designer Virgil Abloh speak about stamina and innovation in a conversation hosted by 032c at the Berlin Marathon. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The direct-to-consumer clothing brand “disrupted” basics. | | |
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 | Refinery29 |
| As the beauty legend reflects on 25 years in the fashion industry, she revisits why she joined it in the first place. | | |
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 | W Magazine |
| A favorite of Prince William, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Tom Ford, Richard James may be menswear's most underrated force. | | |
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| The Business of Fashion |
| The independent style title - whose covers are more likely to feature authors than fashion models - is growing its club, which meets for sponsored events ranging from architectural tours to cards nights. | | |
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 | Hypebeast |
| The photographer who shot Andy Warhol's last portrait and celebrities like Tupac and Kanye. | | |
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 | GQ Style |
| We sat down with Vampire Weekend’s Koenig and the wunderkind Smith--and shot photos of the cool kids at Netflix’s indie-star-studded premier. | | |
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| Fashionista |
| The designer of Rihanna's Met Gala imperial cape is holding her first U.S. solo exhibition at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta. | | |
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 | New York Post |
| Usually, superhero-fashion collaborations result in bright graphic T-shirts, bondage-like leather catsuits or over the-top cartoon capes. But when comics publisher Marvel asked knitter Josh Bennett to create a collection for its latest film, "Thor: Ragnarok" (out Nov. 3), he had other ideas. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Earlier this month, 15 states filed suit against Donald Trump ("in his official capacity as President of the United States"), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, among others. | | |
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 | Marketplace |
| We all order things online. Here is one person (and a bunch of robots) behind those orders. | | |
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 | Medievalists.net |
| It is well known that there was an increasing concern with clothing as a means of social and cultural distinction in the late medieval and early modern periods. This has been called the birth of fashion. One way in which this importance was expressed was through the development of some well-defined sartorial codes and rules, both tacit and explicit. | | |
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 | London Review of Looks |
| Between Bloomsbury and Holborn on a weekday afternoon. | | |
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