If I go to a showroom, I’m like. ‘I just want to look at the clothes; I don’t want anyone holding my hand.’ But some people are scared and you get the feeling that someone is leaning on them to control the situation. And for what? Why? They don’t understand that newspaper reporting requires that time and effort. You remove that and you encourage laziness and bad reporting. | | | | | Issey Miyake S/S 1994. (Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Getty Images) | | | | | | “If I go to a showroom, I’m like. ‘I just want to look at the clothes; I don’t want anyone holding my hand.’ But some people are scared and you get the feeling that someone is leaning on them to control the situation. And for what? Why? They don’t understand that newspaper reporting requires that time and effort. You remove that and you encourage laziness and bad reporting.”
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| | rantnrave:// Two things on slowing time: this OFF-WHITE documentary and this 2015 interview with CATHY HORYN in SYSTEM MAGAZINE. Maybe I’m not the only one who looks immediately at the numbers on either side of the “:” when I see a video online. And yeah, if there's an ad I usually just skip to minimize runtime. The OFF-WHITE doc, clocking in at 13:43, gives the viewer a sense of time slowed down. It's a fresh take on immediacy, using slow-motion, background conversation, and sun-drenched Milanese streets to create some serious *vibes*. Watch to see a stitch passing through a woven textile, fingers slipping pins into tailored jackets, flat pattern pieces being traced and cut, clipped strands of hair falling to the wayside. The other factor here is community. Virgil Abloh is shown just walking or talking with collaborators, and it's refreshing to see a sense of community at work behind-the-scenes. Because it's community, work, and slow time that truly run fashion. Why does this feel so rarefied? ICYMI, the interview with Cathy Horyn is a must-read for how fashion, NYC, and journalism have changed in the 30+ years she's covered fashion… Crowd fav FEAR OF GOD released its fall 2017 collection and will be stocking "extra small" and women's shoe sizes for the first time… Fashion week formats are changing. Conversations are ringing out before this season's fashion month has begun. Is NYC over? Is LA over before it even started? This could be looked at as a newfound freedom or chaos depending on where you stand. Someone tell me what RUTH FINLEY thinks of all this… KANYE did reschedule… VETEMENTS' next event will be in LA, and it will be called DRY CLEANING. Scan their INSTA for more... TIM COOK seems to be really enjoying himself in PARIS. He's photographed hanging with couturier JULIEN FOURNIÉ, who used an IPAD PRO in the making of his collection. Wonder if photographers are present when WACOM CEO MASAHIKO YAMADA drops by designers' studios, or if he even does (hope he does!)… Intrigued by AB[SCREENWEAR]. Thanks to A SHADED VIEW ON FASHION for sharing. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| OFF-WHITE has released a new documentary that takes you behind the scenes of its SS17 "BUSINESS WOMAN" collection that was debuted at Paris Fashion Week. | | |
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| The Mexican textile and apparel industry is under threat from Trump’s possible 20 percent tariff, and is eyeing other overseas markets to replace potential lost orders from the U.S. | | |
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| Fashion critic Cathy Horyn on what it takes to be listened to. | | |
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| How writing about menswear made me realize I wasn't one of the guys. | | |
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| As New York Fashion Week swiftly approaches, one thing is certain: The system is changing. | | |
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| Since early December, a number of big-name designers have announced they’re taking their runway shows — traditionally slated for New York Fashion Week — to Los Angeles for the season. | | |
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| Can the "self-purchasing woman" save a brand in turmoil? | | |
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| Japan’s Andy Warhol also talks Kanye, sneaker culture, and new retrospective. | | |
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| More than a few companies went big in Vietnam or invested more in their existing resources there, banking on TPP and the growth that would have come with it, so the question now that President Trump has pulled the U.S. from the agreement is: what’s going to happen with sourcing in Vietnam now that there’s no deal? | | |
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| A new study tests Burberry's website, JD.com, and other e-commerce platforms for how in tempo they are with online purchasing behaviors in China. | | |
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| If you’re basing your judgment only on the hype around Raf’s show, New York Fashion Week seems as essential to the industry as ever. But other designers aren’t as sweet on New York. A handful have opted out, with plans to show in a different city, hold a nontraditional show outside the Fashion Week calendar, or not show a collection at all. | | |
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| Two private donors provided his entrance fee and more donations are coming in for the GoFundMe campaign Lisa Lozano helped set up to get him to New York and cover his expenses while he's there. | | |
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| At age 16, Bumsuk Choi dropped out of high school and went to work making T-shirts and selling fabrics. Now his label, General Idea, is all the rage. | | |
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| The transatlantic pot smoke behind Francesco Ragazzi’s Palm Angels. | | |
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| In light of his reinvention of the Nike Dunk trainer, the designer reveals how the sport has influenced his work -- plus, who would be on his dream team. | | |
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| Children as young as 14 have been employed to make clothes for some of the most popular names on the UK high street, according to a new report. | | |
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| As brands become increasingly transparent in their business practices, employee benefit programs have been put into the limelight, with many groups publicizing initiatives intended for work-life balance. | | |
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| Advancements in technology are taking customized beauty products from novelty to mainstream services. | | |
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| Cosmetics brands are catering to fitness enthusiasts' desire to look good in and out of the gym. | | |
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