I see couture as the laboratory of the bigger picture of fashion (the ready-to-wear), and my aim is to show that couture is not about yesterday. [That] it can be the place of innovation and collaboration to help push production, materiality, and sustainability forward. | | | | Eiffel couture. Karl Lagerfeld, after Chanel Haute Couture A/W 2017-18, July 4, 2017.
(Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/French Select/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I see couture as the laboratory of the bigger picture of fashion (the ready-to-wear), and my aim is to show that couture is not about yesterday. [That] it can be the place of innovation and collaboration to help push production, materiality, and sustainability forward.”
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| | rantnrave:// Haute couture has been showing over the weekend in PARIS. Here are some highlights: CHANEL, DIOR, GIAMBATTISTA VALLI. More for you tomorrow... Media was buzzing about this interview with former BRITISH VOGUE fashion director LUCINDA CHAMBERS. Here's some context surrounding the piece. Whether or not you agree with Chambers' views on the industry, it's worth reading as a bold critique of the status quo. Cheers to VESTOJ for running the story... PROENZA SCHOULER and RODARTE showed ready-to-wear in Paris... For those of you still catching up on PARIS FASHION WEEK MEN'S: we've gathered essential coverage from the Paris menswear shows. Designers went elemental, reinventing notions of "everyday" dressing. Some went back to design fundamentals with nuanced shifts in color and silhouette, while others took the concept of "normal" dressing and turned it inside-out. FashionSET, Paris Men's Fashion Week: S/S 2018... LAGERFELD gets a medal... In remembrance of JENNY MEIRENS, here's a wonderful story on her work as co-founder of MARTIN MARGIELA. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| In a time of uncertainty, the tweeds and velvets of the fall couture collections seemed fashioned to provide clients with an armor all their own. | | |
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| Immigrants represent a significant portion of the fashion industry's skilled workforce, and the current political administration’s anti-immigration stance runs counter to any hope of bringing garment manufacturing back to the U.S. | | |
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| A conversation about life after Vogue with Lucinda Chambers. | | |
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| Honouring the late Jenny Meirens, creative and business partner of Martin Margiela, we bring you an exclusive interview from our Issue 4 business series. | | |
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| The upcoming Couture Week is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated fashion events this year, as the schedule has been filled out with buzzy brands from around the globe. One of the highlights of the week is sure to be Iris van Herpen’s show, marking the 10th anniversary of her small but history-making brand. | | |
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| Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the sisters behind the offbeat Americans fashion brand, talk Paris, industry pressure and strawberry ice cream. | | |
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| The film icon embraced bisexuality, glamorous mystique and provocation | | |
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| The stores love her. Many critics don’t. But Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first woman to lead Dior, isn’t worried. | | |
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| The artistic director reflects on the house's heritage, its role-call of former designers, and what luxury means in fashion today | | |
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| In the city of Ciudad Juárez, the streets are rife with industrial growth. Many have moved here from Mexico’s countryside to be close to the automotive and metalworking manufacturing boom. But one group of men and women still grasp at the past, keeping a tradition alive through the bold style of the Pachuco. | | |
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| The irresistible rise of the menswear visionary. | | |
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| As newly added "guest designers" to the show schedule, Proenza Schouler and Rodarte both proved that all they needed was a little bit of Parisian beauty to pull off a great collection. | | |
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| The unmatched prestige of showing during haute couture, combined with its potential business advantages, has compelled several ready-to-wear designers to join this week's calendar. Will it work? | | |
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| The Vetements x Tommy Hilfiger collaboration will be distributed to Vetements’ accounts in February. | | |
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| The reign of couture was challenged on the first day of the fall/winter 17 haute shows in Paris, where Proenza Schouler and Rodarte made their ready-to-wear arrival, backed up by cruise shows from Hermès and Miu Miu. | | |
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| It's time to inject individuality and entreprenurial ingenuity into traditional handicrafts. | | |
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| A boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi garment plant near the city of Dhaka killed 10 people and injured dozens, emergency workers said on Tuesday, the latest industrial tragedy to hit one of the world's biggest garment producers. | | |
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| As Peter Dundas prepares to unveil his own namesake label in Paris on Sunday, he tells BoF about abandoning collections in favour of 'drops' and how that Beyoncé moment came to be. | | |
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| From today, the federation will be know as La Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. | | |
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| Dads with kids, cycling gear and even a Karrimor collab -- the SS18 shows saw designers embracing the banal. | | |
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