People are looking at what’s next, and then next, and then next, much more quickly, and the life cycle of a product is much shorter. So, while we need to look at data, we need to have a team that works with its instincts, and who we empower to work that way. | | | | Model Anne St. Marie wears Balenciaga, Vogue 1955.
(Henry Clarke/Condé Nast Collection/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “People are looking at what’s next, and then next, and then next, much more quickly, and the life cycle of a product is much shorter. So, while we need to look at data, we need to have a team that works with its instincts, and who we empower to work that way.”
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| | rantnrave:// Happy new year to all. I'm spending time in northern CALIFORNIA. Seeing marine life along the coast has made me even more attuned to companies that publicize efforts to do less harm to the environment. THE BUSINESS OF FASHION and MCKINSEY released a joint report on 10 trends that will define fashion in 2018, and sustainability is among them. NOAH shared a video on the importance of ZOOPLANKTON to the marine ecosystem, and the post is aligned with a broader movement for apparel and fashion companies to spread environmental awareness. There's another movement I see happening here: viewing the world from the micro scale, whether it's in textile development at the fiber level, the milliseconds it takes bots to chase sneakers online, or tracking the minutiae of cryptocurrency. For fashion, this has some fascinating implications for research and development... In terms of vision, storytelling, and execution, EQUINOX has been making interesting moves that cross boundaries between health and wellness, fashion, and philanthropy. Although I often leave their shops empty-handed, the boutiques move the company mythos into fashion, and the selection always feels right for the brand. CARRIE BATTAN wrote a fantastic story about the gym's origin and loyal following. The company unveiled its Commitment Collection, a set of collaborative projects that combine fashion, utility, and philanthropy in 7 different objets d'art. VIRGIL ABLOH, ECKHAUS LATTA, SHAYNE OLIVER, and Y/PROJECT are among the collaborators. The project doesn't categorically identify as charity auction, design capsule, or much-hyped collab, and it benefits from that—a little mystery can be a good thing. More companies should experiment... In brief: JOHN GALLIANO recalls his early years and living in south LONDON... Scrunchie history... A startup that makes returns its business. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| In the new year, new patterns will shape the global fashion industry, from the assertion of Asian players to a globalisation reboot, reveals BoF and McKinsey & Company's in-depth report, The State of Fashion 2018. | | |
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 | Racked |
| After war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed in Syria in 2012, Vanity Fair ran a profile about her life: "Her nails were a perfect scarlet, and her double strand of pearls was a gift from Yasser Arafat... she wore a Prada black nylon quilted coat as camouflage." | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Sneaker Con, a gathering of shoe fanatics founded in 2009, brought 500 vendors and over 19,000 people to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York late last year. The heart and soul of the event is the trading pit, an area in the back of the 840,000-square-foot center where a crowd of mostly teenage boys was talking and holding up their sneakers, looking for buyers. | | |
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 | HERO magazine |
| Matthew Williams, founder and designer of ALYX, is a master of multiple trades; fashion, creative direction and branding. Dropping out of college after the first semester in order to move to New York, Williams went on to work with the likes of Lady Gaga and Kanye West. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Secondhand garments are stifling the country’s fashion industry, officials say, but the ban has dismayed local traders - and reportedly imperils 40,000 US jobs. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Crystal Group, which produces for H&M and Gap, just had a big IPO. Instead of automation, it's investing in low-wage labor. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Fashion loves nothing more than churning out one-off oddities that challenge the imagination and defy logic. The fashion industry also loves nothing more than a collaboration, and there is no greater proponent of the unexpected collaboration than Virgil Abloh, the founder of the street style brand Off-White. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| From Complex to Hypebeast to Footwear News, we found out what goes on behind the scenes of the deliberation process. | | |
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| Racked |
| Forty-four minutes into (1939), the star-studded cast - filmed in black and white - takes their seats to watch a live fashion show. The six-minute segment is the only part of the movie shown in Technicolor. | | |
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 | The Cut |
| The creative minds behind Bubble_T, New York’s queer Asian dance party. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Italian brands have a thing for ACRONYM. Back in June 2013, Gucci, then under the creative direction of Frida Giannini, showed an awfully similar looking jacket, one that was a dead ringer the GT-J5A jacket that Errolson Hugh introduced for Fall 2007 and revived beginning in Fall 2010. | | |
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 | Marketplace |
| The number of retail workers far exceeds the number of coal miners or recent manufacturing employees, points out Columbia University professor Mark Cohen. | | |
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 | Vestoj |
| On the trench coat, the tracksuit and authenticity. | | |
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 | WWD |
| It's the most spendthrift time of the year - a period when materialism is integral to tradition. To celebrate the holidays without shopping would seemingly render someone a philistine Grinch. But the mood surrounding fashion and shopping this holiday season isn't as tried-and-true as television commercials may suggest. | | |
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 | South China Morning Post |
| The world’s fifth biggest textiles and garment exporter, Vietnam is cracking down on polluters, while foreign investors are building new factories to higher standards and using more environmentally friendly manufacturing processes. | | |
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 | Deadline |
| Reading Paul Thomas Anderson's script for Phantom Thread for the first time, Oscar-winning costume designer Mark Bridges was reminded of the filmmaker's seminal Boogie Nights, seeing another world of rich possibilities in front of him. | | |
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| WWD |
| A record-shattering auction, with its pulse-racing drama akin to suspenseful theater, garners worldwide attention far beyond that of the high-net-worth bidders. In 2017, the superstar of the market was without question Christie's sale of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi." | | |
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| The New York Times |
| At Perfumarie, you smell scents on tap. The catch? You aren’t allowed to know what they are. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Comedian Sudi Green makes a case for the co-existence of comedy and style. | | |
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 | Lean Luxe |
| Big players Parachute and Snowe are already several years ahead in the home category at this point, but Year and Day makes a case that they too deserve a place at the table -- and fine place settings to match. | | |
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