I can’t tell you how many sad diets I’ve been on, trying to take weight off, and then I’d get too skinny and clients wouldn’t want to book me, or I was seen as a traitor to my community...Weight has had such a big impact on my career, and I hate that. I hate that it’s a constant conversation. I hate that it even has to be a conversation. But it is what it is. | | | | | Fun at work. Construction workers at tram in Friedrichshain, Berlin, 2014. (Sascha Kohlmann) | | | | | | “I can’t tell you how many sad diets I’ve been on, trying to take weight off, and then I’d get too skinny and clients wouldn’t want to book me, or I was seen as a traitor to my community...Weight has had such a big impact on my career, and I hate that. I hate that it’s a constant conversation. I hate that it even has to be a conversation. But it is what it is.”
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| | rantnrave:// 1 / an alligator Birkin. 2 / a sneaker (various, Q3 2016 market is $1b strong). 3 / a canvas tote bag that reads “I'm not a plastic bag.” They’re called “cult” for a reason, that is, pure love from all the fanz out there. Respect. These are today’s talismans, a.k.a. #commodities a.k.a high echelon wait-listed products a.k.a. exploding resale markets. Yet we’re also seeing demand for: 1 / turning your phone off. 2 / meal replacements. 3 / meditation retreats. Dizzying for the retail game, but it gives us a wealth of choice. Oh, and ICYMI, consumption happens via posts and pins and tweets too. Sometimes that’s enough… I’d like to see a real time index of these most-sought-after objects of fashion. A job for forecasting agencies? I don’t know if anyone could do it better than fashion forums. Let’s get together on this… Love IDEO’s projects. They worked with TARGET x MIT MEDIA LAB on vertical farms. Speaking of *the vertical*, would love to see a vertically-integrated, small-batch clothing line in a box retailer like Target. As in, they make the stuff right there in an open workshop inside the store. They've got the space for it (hehe). LULULEMON’s NYC LAB store has open workspaces where designers cut patterns and make samples in the same space where the proverbial cash-register rings. Visit the store in NYC and you’ll see patterns hanging in the same space as the brand’s “capsule” collections. ICYMI, IDEO partner DANA CHO spoke on pushing forward with technology and human-centered design at the WWD CEO SUMMIT… VOGUE RUNWAY has shows + street style from SEOUL FASHION WEEK… Crowd-sourcing has provided some lush cash flow for projects like STAR CITIZEN, which is sitting on 129,529,796 USD; is in alpha (not beta)... SMITHSONIAN made out well on a KICKSTARTER campaign to fund conservation costs on this mismatched pair of ruby reds. What can I say, DOROTHY makes rain… Les parisiennes do ETSY. C’est tout. We out. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| As the fashion program the Miami Fashion Institute of Miami Dade College begins, here’s a look at some of the venerable companies still part of the scene. | | |
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| From no-name villages and tiny towns, the designers have made their way to the rarefied heights of the worlds most elegant runways. | | |
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| On the morning of Oct. 18, some of New York City’s savviest investors, a mostly young group of males, lined up outside a store in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood waiting for the hottest product in recent months to make its debut. An IPO? You can call it that. | | |
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| "And they told me I'd never be an editorial girl!" Ashley Graham talks curves, confidence, and body positivity. | | |
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| Red Ants Pants, Gamine and Rosies Workwear are among a few businesses producing work clothes designed for comfort and safety for women who labor in fields that were long dominated by men. | | |
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| The Smithsonian asks visitors to help bring back the sparkle and #KeepThemRuby. | | |
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| One of the biggest frustrations of shopping, for many women, is that they seem to be one size at one store, but a completely different size at another. So we at Yahoo Style set out to ask women about this issue, and to find out what items of clothing are the worst offenders of this sizing discrepancy | | |
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| The nonmodel trend is slowly becoming a movement. | | |
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| Dressing for the presidency is a delicate art. | | |
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| Washington, DC, is the center of the nation’s power; power is the narcotic that Washington’s most ambitious sociopaths crave, beyond fame or money. | | |
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| There's one solution: We need to rethink how we make and sell clothes. | | |
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| One writer sets out to explore the country’s widespread culture of nudity -- and tries it on for herself. | | |
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| In an exclusive interview with BoF, the newly minted editor-in-chief reveals her plans for the celebrity-style bible. | | |
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| Cédric Charbit, executive vice president of product and marketing at YSL, will take the management helm effective Nov. 28. | | |
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| Last December, Project JUST was launched to deliver real-time data on ethical suppliers, so that anyone with a smartphone can trace any item of clothing along its supply chain. | | |
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| Christo Wiese is promising to open 500 of his New Look stores in just three years, catapulting the British brand into the same league in China as the world’s top fashion chains -- Spain’s Inditex and Sweden’s H&M. | | |
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| For some Brooklynites, style abounds, even while grocery shopping. | | |
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| Based on their clothes, of course. | | |
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| Iconic British shoemaker John Lobb has opened a new boutique in the Miami Design District. Artistic Director Paula Gerbase chats about the brand’s legendary craftsmanship and minute attention to detail. | | |
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