When celebrities start talking about themselves as 'brands'— my eyes glaze over and I just kind of want to run back to Maui and sit in a jungle! Like, Oh my God! F*** it all, let’s make art! | | | | Future is now. Anita Chace in Vogue, 1925.
(Edward Steichen/Condé Nast Collection/Getty Images) | | | | | | “When celebrities start talking about themselves as 'brands'— my eyes glaze over and I just kind of want to run back to Maui and sit in a jungle! Like, Oh my God! F*** it all, let’s make art!”
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| | rantnrave:// Fashion and architecture have produced some of the most synergistic creative/commercial projects in recent memory. Maybe it's the mutual creative respect, maybe it's the focus on concept and materials, maybe it's just really cool people working together to make great things. The two disciplines intersect in theory and practice: architecture firms such as OMA and Wonderwall collaborate regularly with fashion designers on store interiors, runway sets, institutions, and exhibitions. And don't get me started on how charmed I was by seeing PETER MARINO on 60 MINUTES. The creative exchange moves both ways, across clothing and spaces. And there's that all-important concept for both: "artifice." FashionSET: Fashioning Spaces... The mashup between IKEA FRAKTA bags and "clothes" has either spun out of all rational control or is mercilessly calculated, possibly both. Who are you working for, Mr. Ikea-sporting Pitti peacock? I'm kidding. Actually I have to respect the DGAF nature of this man's attire. Courting schadenfreude, living life to the fullest, in quite possibly the least breathable cummerbund ever fashioned by human/robot hands. Read on for MARIA BOBILA's trenchant take on the Ikea phenomenon... Life hack... It's not the subscription box that morphs into a unicorn, but what one does with the subscription box that (hopefully) morphs into one. Here's some analysis on—and I'm quoting the headline here because I love it—the rise, and fall, and rise, of beauty boxes. Notable is this use of AR. And speaking of subscriptions, here's a service wholly other: the HERMÈS tie subscription. Might start wearing ties for this tbh. Scarves next?... HUNTSMAN is going digital... Loving GQ STYLE. Here's the quarterly magazine's photo coverage of PITTI UOMO so far... VENETIA SCOTT is the new fashion director at BRITISH VOGUE... Here's a side-by-side slideshow of the cast and characters in VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY. I still think casting PENÉLOPE CRUZ as DONATELLA is brilliant... Behind the scenes with CHARLES JEFFREY... I have to stan for WE11DONE because I'm a huge fan of RAREMARKET. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| The iconic New York brand tells us about the business and craft--not to mention jitters--of taking their show to Paris Couture Week. | | |
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| Paris-based designer Lutz Huelle reveals what he learned after two decades in the business. | | |
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| A sport with roots in Seattle entrances the men’s wear crowd at the Pitti Uomo trade fair. | | |
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| On the day the extraordinary election in the UK played out, 48 MA students from the Royal College of Art under the tutelage of Zowie Broach made their debut through a combination of performance, choreography and installation, in a stand-out graduate show that utilised both a traditional catwalk show structure as well as that of an art gallery. | | |
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| The Parisian curator with his transporting exhibition at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence is out to change approaches to presenting clothes. | | |
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| HYPEBEAST Magazine visits the prestigious London institution to find out what makes or breaks its graduates. | | |
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| Designers including Craig Green, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy and more were some of the highlights of the shows. | | |
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| "My photos were in the beginning escapist, fantasy, they were aspirational, they would take you to another place.” | | |
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| Gwyneth Paltrow’s company stages a Comic-Con for the wellness set. | | |
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| In the age of Trump, people are wearing their resistance on their sleeves, pushing worker-rights and representation issues to the forefront. | | |
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| Jonathan Anderson is kicking off a new era for his namesake label, centered on scale and new collaborations. | | |
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| The magazine enters a golden age of fashion, photography, and literary genius. | | |
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| Tech-savvy retailer Inditex SA, whose online sales have put it ahead of its European clothing rivals, is trying to widen the gap further. | | |
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| After a downward trend in the category, some brands are getting it right, and things are looking up. | | |
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| When LVMH went live last with its multi-brand e-commerce play 24 Sèvres, one aspect stood out: knockout imagery not usually seen in e-commerce. | | |
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| Calico took the newly industrial world by storm. But battles over bolts of fabric shook Britain during the nineteenth century. | | |
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| Ivanka Trump is allegedly seeking to avoid testifying under oath in the case that Aquazzura filed against her eponymous label. "We are having trouble scheduling Ivanka Trump’s deposition," Aquazzura's lawyer John Margiotta told Judge Katherine Forrest of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York during a telephone hearing this week. | | |
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| After much fanfare, waiting, and pomp and circumstance, Style.com was relaunched...and then promptly shut down this week. We’d be lying if we said this was a shocker. | | |
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| But they don’t really have to just yet. | | |
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| U.S. retail sales in May recorded their biggest drop in 16 months and consumer prices unexpectedly fell, suggesting a softening in domestic demand that could limit the Federal Reserve's ability to continue raising interest rates this year. | | |
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