It’s the positive feedback from followers—strangers—that has helped me find the confidence I’d been lacking. I've stopped seeing my size as a liability. I feel like a role model, albeit at a very small scale—no pun intended—and with that comes this sense of responsibility not to be ashamed of who I am, what I look like, or what size I’m wearing. | | | | | Times Square Shopping Center in Happy Valley, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, 2010. (Klaus Nahr/Flickr) | | | | |  | “It’s the positive feedback from followers—strangers—that has helped me find the confidence I’d been lacking. I've stopped seeing my size as a liability. I feel like a role model, albeit at a very small scale—no pun intended—and with that comes this sense of responsibility not to be ashamed of who I am, what I look like, or what size I’m wearing.”
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 | GQ |
| An interview with the candid-as-ever designer-turned-director. | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| Casting director James Scully and others lifted the lid on a system that hires girls when they are little more than children and then disposes of them when they hit puberty in a power game where models are pawns. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Part Ralph Nader, part bounty hunter, China’s fakes detectives reap rewards for finding counterfeits - but could go out of business under new rules. | | |
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 | Cakeboy Magazine |
| We visit fashion blogger Ryan Dziadul, "an XXL dude living in a slim fit world," to get the inside scoop on sizeism, sexiness and the kindness of strangers. | | |
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 | Fashion Unfiltered |
| Exploring the merits and perils of photographic retouching, past and present. | | |
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 | Style Bubble |
| "With the support of DSM, Meadham has created a line of affordable tees, hoods, stockings and pretty pieces of frippery such as a Victorian velvet collar and matching sleeves. Glitter encrusted sweatshirts are perhaps the only direct flashbacks to Meadham Kirchhoff’s early past but it’s an idea that still stands solid (literally) today." | | |
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 | Co.Design |
| Rebecca Minkoff picks up one of the most annoying supermarket trendswill it stick? | | |
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| Cakeboy Magazine |
| With a social following of 100,000 and counting, Alok Vaid-Menon & Janani Balasubramanian's collaboration Darkmatter is redefining art and activism in the digital age. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| Fashion brands are among the most prolific advertisers on so-called alt-right site Breitbart, thanks to retargeting, which this sector appears to adore using. | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| Hey, ma, no analog laces. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| Legacy publishers aren't ready to abandon print-digital integration, but they're getting more sophisticated about how they use their staffs. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Even if all goes as planned and we are able to add hundreds of thousands of jobs to the U.S. economy (without replacing them by machines), train enough people to fill these jobs, and employ them in an ethically sound, well-paying manner, what does that actually mean for the fashion market? | | |
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 | Hypebeast |
| VP of Product, Torben Schumacher and VP of Design Nic Galway explain the EQT’s core principles. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| From Singapore to Paris, here's why you can't avoid the Brooklyn look. | | |
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 | Jing Daily |
| Button makers are placing bets on China's relationship with Ecuador to ensure it's easier to source "vegetable ivory" from South America's tagua palm. | | |
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 | Lean Luxe |
| LVMH is in hot pursuit of London-based cycling brand Rapha. We’ve got details on the potential sale price -- and what LVMH plans to do with them once acquired. | | |
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 | 032c |
| An interview with Virgil Abloh in Miami Beach at Art Basel about his design ethos, his friendship with Kanye West, and future projects. | | |
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 | WGSN |
| Gen Z consumers are emerging as the largest target demographic, and this is what you need to know to make your brand a hit with them. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Under Armour Inc. struck another blow in the fight for exposure by inking a sponsorship deal with Major League Baseball that will put its logo on the chest of every jersey. | | |
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 | 1 Granary |
| Central Saint Martins BA Fashion graduate Ruihong Harry Xu has given a whole new meaning to the (fashionable) idea of the prison – not romanticising crime, but unveiling a different kind of sensibility of inmates, through his floral and sheer garment constructions. This is not 'Orange is the New Black.' | | |
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