When I see a dress for $16, I think, ‘who’s being pilloried for this?’ The more we can do to educate people about how important these values are, the better off we will be. We need to join forces and voices. | | | | Azzedine Alaïa S/S 1986, Paris, Oct. 30, 1985.
(Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Getty Images) | | | | | | “When I see a dress for $16, I think, ‘who’s being pilloried for this?’ The more we can do to educate people about how important these values are, the better off we will be. We need to join forces and voices.”
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| | rantnrave:// ABASI ROSBOROUGH has continually been on my radar. I like the intention behind the duo's clothing. The two use design as a means of identity and expression, yes, but they're also intent on reworking and reconstructing centuries-old elements of the suit. I appreciate that kind of idealism. They have a future-leaning yet historical view of clothing, incorporating a long view of the past in order to depart from it. The label’s recently dropped lookbook for F/W 2017 is extremely good, as is this “Digital Nomad” collaboration with O.N.S. Love seeing this idealism. Would love to see more features on them. Then again, remaining under the radar can have its advantages amid rapid clickbait circulation. It's great looking at Abasi Rosborough's work alongside RED BULL TV's episode on "The Suit," which has host KYLE NG moving between traditional craft on SAVILE ROW, American black dandyism, and NUDIE COHN's rhinestone cowboy creations. The show is irreverent while at the same time revealing clothing's cultural dimensions... 1GRANARY was founded as a student-run publication at CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS. It's become a strong voice for creativity in fashion, publishing features that rival, if not do better than, traditional industry publications. Now it's founding an initiative called VOID (evocative name, no?) to bring design students and industry veterans together. It's a fascinating experiment. Would love to see more fashion schools become this ambitious with student-run projects... Love the commitment to artistry BERGDORF GOODMAN's visual team has in crafting the store's baroque environments. Seeing how the team works with artists, antique dealers, and artisans to plan the display of the year—the holiday windows—was one of my favorite parts of the documentary SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF'S. The doc is largely a commercial homage to the store (it's a monumental temple of commerce, after all), but there are some wonderful moments following the visual team and the store's preeminent personal shopper, BETTY HALBREICH... Twelve fashion photographs from the APERTURE FOUNDATION... Remember the subreddit r/streetwear magazine? It leveled up from conceptual PDF to paper magazine. Copies are for sale online... VANESSA FRIEDMAN’s remembrance of AZZEDINE ALAÏA is a poignant, beautiful reflection on the late designer. Enjoy. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Almost alone in today’s fashion industry, he understood the value of time to the creative mind and the struggle it took to follow his own direction. | | |
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| VOID is a new initiative linking young talents with industry veterans. | | |
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| Born on Savile Row, London, England the suit is probably the most famous piece of menswear in history. Kyle Ng goes hunting for the perfect bespoke suit, gets some flair with the Dandies and goes wild with the western Nudie suit. | | |
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| The designer gives an exclusive preview of his vision for Eidos. | | |
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| Meet the 23 year-old who dresses the teams. | | |
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| "Everything you wear is a costume of some kind. Everything speaks to what you're thinking about, what you're feeling, what you represent, and where you're from - so it's very personal." Greg Rosborough is the co-founder and design director of Abasi Rosbo | | |
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| The department store’s resident window dresser, David Hoey, takes us behind the scenes. | | |
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| The designer, whose passing was announced on Saturday morning, is remembered for his independence, compassion and creative genius. | | |
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| All these dead spaces hurt, and neighborhoods have a right to protect themselves. | | |
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| There are few things designers dislike more than being blatantly knocked-off. While Coco Chanel was quite blasé about being copied (everyone knows her notoriously over-used quote, "If you want to be original, be ready to be copied."), most designers are simply not. | | |
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| Fashion's top curator walks us through LV's history and, literally, into the hottest exhibit in New York City. | | |
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| The social-first platform is both a resource and a place for teens to express themselves. | | |
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| Known for his collaboration with David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust era, basara creator Kansai Yamamoto talks returning to fashion after 20 years. | | |
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| The legendary ‘70s muse, one of the first African-American stars of the modelling world to reach super status, has a glamorous backlog of stories to share. For forty three minutes I’m invited into her illustrious world of fashion, poetry, peacocks (she has 22, watching her keenly in the backyard throughout our interview) and everything in-between. | | |
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| "Guess how old this is?" asks Kerry Taylor, pupils dilating, fingers pointing to a floor length full black taffeta skirt and wasp-waisted jacket in magenta sackcloth, festooned with black frogging and passementerie. The style is high Victoriana, but the finish is not. "Erm, early Fifties?" "1946," she fires back. | | |
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| This 1973 essay was originally published in COWRIE, a New York-based lesbian feminist magazine, as the first in a series of articles by Liza Cowan on fashion histories called “What The Well-Dressed Dyke Will Wear.” | | |
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| The fashion industry' relationship with its trans family has been largely supportive, but oftentimes exploitative. Here's what needs to change. | | |
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| More retailers are offering personalized services in an effort to remind customers why brick-and-mortar stores still matter. | | |
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| In this episode of The Chatroom: Leandra Medine sits down with Cindy Crawford to discuss Instagram, insecurity and her skincare line, Meaningful Beauty. | | |
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| Although the beauty YouTuber space is increasingly crowded, Jenn Im remains a hot commodity. | | |
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