With Supreme, there were no grand plans—with the name, with the store, with anything. It all just evolved. These days, it’s a lot more difficult to do that. You’ve got to come out with all guns blazing right away or you don’t stand a chance. Whereas when we first started, there weren’t blogs ready to shoot us down the day we opened. We were given time to make mistakes and grow. | | | | Lagerfeld looks out. Interview in window display at Bon Marché. Dec. 15, 2010
(Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “With Supreme, there were no grand plans—with the name, with the store, with anything. It all just evolved. These days, it’s a lot more difficult to do that. You’ve got to come out with all guns blazing right away or you don’t stand a chance. Whereas when we first started, there weren’t blogs ready to shoot us down the day we opened. We were given time to make mistakes and grow.”
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| The LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton luxury empire and the French billionaire Bernard Arnault announced on Tuesday a series of moves to take over Christian Dior in a $13.1 billion deal to consolidate control over the 70-year-old Parisian fashion house. | | |
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| Jared Kushner is only the latest politico to look like a doof. | | |
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| "We are failing you and not showing you the right way. You are not being surrounded by positive role models, so hats off to anybody who wants to do this." | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| Founder Yael Aflalo took us on a tour of the space (now open to the public), sharing all of its unique, sustainability-focused details. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Three Sundays ago, I went to the beautiful memorial for the great writer-impresario-thinker Glenn O’Brien, and a melancholy thought took hold of me. | | |
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 | Complex |
| The A-Cold-Wall founder talks Virgil Abloh, collaborating with Nike, and what's next for his burgeoning brand. | | |
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 | British Vogue |
| The designer has woven memories of her Uruguayan gaucho childhood into elegant, eloquent New York woollens. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| It used to be a tribal signal but as gay style has moved into the mainstream, the look has become harder to pin down. It’s forcing creatives to really push the boundaries if they want to make a statement. | | |
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 | WWD |
| Influencer followings could contain as much as 20 percent fake followers. | | |
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 | Blamo! |
| My guest this week is photographer and visual journalist, Tommy Ton. Tommy and I spoke about photography, street style, his rise from design assistant to shooting campaigns for Louis Vuitton -- and singing karaoke with Kanye West. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Knitting workers were forced to labor 57 hours a week for near-minimum-wage pay. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| Dynamic, ambitious and sometimes chaotic, Shanghai Fashion Week is becoming a global centre of gravity for Asia’s sprawling fashion trade. | | |
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 | Science News |
| Chinese finds offer earliest look at game-changing weaving machine. | | |
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| Racked |
| You might know r/MakeupAddiction, but do you know r/MakeupRehab? | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| Meet Tommy, aka @fysikern, the Swedish adidas Stan Smith fan with over 200 pairs in his collection, probably more than Stan Smith himself. | | |
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| WWD |
| Organic sales at Gucci rose 48.3 percent, their strongest increase in two decades, as luxury clients clamored for Alessandro Michel's distinctive designs. | | |
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 | Vogue |
| The Costume Institute’s head conservator, Sarah Scaturro, talks about preparing for the upcoming Comme des Garçons show. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| After making headlines in November for defrauding a handful of celebrated fashion brands and publications and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of designer garments and accessories, Arnaud Henry Mensan is plaguing the fashion industry again. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Brooklyn may be New York’s hippest borough to live or start a business. It just doesn’t hold that much cachet for the city’s fashion industry. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| Costume designer Mona May, who also designed "Clueless," looks back on the unforgettable style of "Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion." | | |
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