Style, clothing is a very visual medium. You need to see something being worn well to be inspired. And most tailors are craftsmen, not stylists. Customers are usually inspired by their cutting, not what they are wearing. | | | | | "striped biped," 2013. (Florent Chretien) | | | | | | “Style, clothing is a very visual medium. You need to see something being worn well to be inspired. And most tailors are craftsmen, not stylists. Customers are usually inspired by their cutting, not what they are wearing.”
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| | rantnrave:// Magic. Lacuna. Haunting. Fashion’s talismanic power. Countercultural currents are drawing on mysticism, and it’s manifesting in fashion, art, and music. Connected to AFROFUTURISM, WITCH HOUSE revival, crystal energy, and shamans (of the new-agey and traditional kind), this piece by DEAN KISSICK’s got us rolling in 2016. For sociology buffs, here's PIERRE BOURDIEU & YVETTE DELSAUT on a theory of—you guessed it—the couturier’s magic (year: 1975, language: FRENCH). As we share our love of certain clothes, the ways we present ourselves become associated with certain cultural values. Just think about the values wrapped up in the suit, the hoodie, or high heels. They become a thing like magic, specters of our passions and fears—our sense of identity both collective and private, revealed every time we see each other. I love thinking about I-D’s piece on magic in light of this JSTOR article: A BELIEF IN GHOSTS: POETRY AND THE IMAGINATION… HENRIETTE LAZARIDIS lost a scarf, then regained it, and the feelings imbued in this simple object changed her... Fashion fodder at the 2nd US presidential debate. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON's RALPH LAUREN pantsuit got some love (thanks VV FRIEDMAN). MARC BAIN puts MELANIA TRUMP’s GUCCI, ahem, “pussy-bow blouse” in its proper context. Judging from retweets alone, people want answers. Is it trolling? A tactical distraction? It’s (a literal) shade of SCHIAPARELLI’s SHOCKING. If a blouse could speak... Oh, and there's KEN BONES. And this dude's tie is too long, as in waaaaayyyy too longggg. In brand collabs, today we’ve got SUPREME x AQUASCUTUM and REFORMATION x PATAGONIA. Someone should make a quiz about brand mashups. As in, ID which are real or fake, ghost or no-ghost, dead or alive. Imagine the possibilities. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Paganism is making a comeback in art and fashion, through Los Angeles crystal shops and psychedelic journeys of self-discovery. | | |
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| On the ever-shifting symbolism of lace. | | |
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| Meet Bonnie 34B, the swimwear industry’s most popular fit model. | | |
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| Talking to the award-winning designer about sports, skateboarding, and his new collaboration with Under Armour. | | |
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| The Centre for Fashion Curation |
| Earlier this year Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA) presented "Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015," one of the most ambitious and historically comprehensive menswear exhibitions of recent times. Jeffrey Horsley, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Fashion Curation, visited the exhibition and spoke to the curators. | | |
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| You may not know Salehe Bembury’s name, but you know his work at Yeezy, Pyer Moss, Cole Haan, and Greats. Here, he makes the case that shoes are sculptures, too. | | |
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| The designer and the candidate are forging a public alliance that could be image-changing. | | |
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| Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator |
| Jason Kibbey says the Coalition’s main focus is on building the Higg Index, a standardized supply chain measurement tool for all industry participants to understand the environmental, social, and labor impacts of making and selling their products and services. | | |
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| The loss of a simple item of clothing called up the pain of losses I thought I had already accepted. | | |
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| The show will likely be the last of its kind due to garments’ age and fragility. | | |
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| The designer has large-scale ambitions for Tory Sport, her Royal Tenenbaums-inspired activewear line. | | |
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| The magazine has linked up with HuffPo RYOT for an augmented reality video for its "Women in Hollywood" issue. | | |
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| In networks, new things spread and get adopted more quickly and organically than in vertically integrated industries. | | |
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| On ideal body shapes and makeover culture. | | |
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| Many service providers use queuing theory, or the mathematical study of lines, to manage their customers’ waiting times. | | |
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| Kate Spade is one of the latest designers to lose the right to use her name. | | |
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| As "The Handmaiden" prepares to hit cinemas, we celebrate the themes that make South Korean director Park Chan-wook one of film’s true visionaries. | | |
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| The filmmaker behind "Oldboy" and "The Handmaiden" has a taste for modish violence and sex onscreen, but keeps it classic with his culture diet. | | |
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| An interview with the late Richard Martin, curator. | | |
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