As the internet evolves towards convenience, I think my industry is evolving towards ‘inconvenience’ – the joy you receive from a time-consuming experience. | | | | Undercover + Takahiromiyashita TheSoloist. Pitti Uomo, Florence. Jan. 11, 2018.
(Estrop/Getty Images) | | | | | | “As the internet evolves towards convenience, I think my industry is evolving towards ‘inconvenience’ – the joy you receive from a time-consuming experience.”
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| | rantnrave:// If there's anything fashion media needs right now, it's diversity in all forms: unique perspectives across stories, representation, coverage, and style. That takes guts in the current environment, where network effects have taken hold and encourage endless re-upping of re-blogs of re-posts of repeat content. I have perennial high hopes for fashion titles outside the "big four" fashion cities to bring fresh perspective to the game, so it's great to see LATIN AMERICAN publications (some longstanding, some new) offering possibilities. Haute couture has always had an international clientele, and it's fascinating to see global dynamics in the influencer scene, with CHINA's KOLs commanding vast audiences and evolving their platforms. As economies outside the US and EUROPE become increasingly important for the luxury and fashion industries, will local fashion media be uplifted as a result? One minor gripe: some international titles don't offer English language versions of their sites, and GOOGLE translate can't hang with the some of the sites I've come across. These publications don't need to pander to English-language audiences, but as a fan I'd be interested to read perspectives coming from outside homogenous media centers (and great for REDEF too, no?)... PARIS MEN'S FASHION WEEK has begun, and the first designer out of the gates is emerging label PALOMO SPAIN. Designer ALEJANDRO GÓMEZ PALOMO often goes back—way back—to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, incorporating RENAISSANCE elements into opulent, gender-fluid designs for today. Doublets and slashed sleeves for the modern individual—why not? Looking forward to seeing more from the label. ICYMI, MAISON MARGIELA will be presenting men's for the first time under JOHN GALLIANO on Friday... Briefs: YOOX-NET-A-PORTER reports 11.8% growth in revenues with around 38% of total sales coming from its off-price division... How EQUINOX CEO NIKI LEONDAKIS gets it done... NIKE and social responsibility... KIM JONES will exit LOUIS VUITTON. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Latin America boasts a colourful deck of beloved, local magazines that continue to persuade loyal readers to buy fashion and luxury, despite turbulent times for print media. | | |
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| It has been bubbling up to a boil in industry circles for a while now. When will a Weinstein-gate equivalent for the fashion industry burst forward, implicating photography greats Bruce Weber and Mario Testino in allegations of sexual abuse on shoots towards male models. | | |
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| A highly anticipated follow-up to the “The People vs. O.J. Simpson” focuses on life in and out of the closet - not as a shopper, but as a gay man. | | |
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| We convened a group of 'Lo heads-Raekwon included-to reflect on "Snow Beach," which is finally back in stores. | | |
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| How Patrick Matamoros went from the corners of New York City to the hills of Hollywood. | | |
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| The designer finishes his Russian trilogy of shows on a salute to the power of freedom. | | |
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| The A-COLD-WALL* designer shares his advice for the aspiring. | | |
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| "We need to be the ones creating solutions to our problems, be it in beauty or in healthcare." | | |
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| For rising models in one of the largest favelas of Rio de Janeiro, fashion is an opportunity for self-actualization. | | |
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| Much like how Ryan Murphy's " The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" was a exploration of racism, sexism and the 24-hour news cycle, the followup " Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story" series is another timely social commentary deep dive set in the '90s. | | |
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| The best looks we’ve seen so far at Milan Fashion Week. | | |
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| "I don’t think that the fashion industry expects any advice from us, nor do we particularly care to do so." | | |
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| Thailand. London. Paris. Strong is a designer on the move, physically and mentally. | | |
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| 032c founder Joerg Koch talks about the brand's debut menswear show at Pitti Uomo and being inspired by Supreme. | | |
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| The descriptor "game-changer" gets thrown around a lot nowadays, applied to everything from the face masks to so-called superfoods, but there are some things for which there is simply no other term that can apply: new ways of thinking, innovations than inspire a shift in the way we do things, trends that completely overturn tradition and alter an industry forever. | | |
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| The days of slightly off-kilter fakes found on New York's Canal Street are gone. "We are now at the point where the fakes are almost identical to the real ... where they are almost 99 percent identical." | | |
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| Fed up with taking selfies and editing photos of himself to fit in with the trend of looking flawless, Xu is ditching the shallow content that permeates China’s social media fashion channels and adopting a more long-term view. | | |
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| On Instagram, Megan posts selfies while wearing shirts that make reference to something she's incredibly proud of -- her sobriety. The 28-year-old from Texas has been sober for five years, after spending 12 years of her life battling an alcohol addiction. In one photo she is holding up a shirt that says "I'm Never Drinking Again." | | |
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| The Council of Fashion Designers of America, which owns the rights to the New York Fashion Week schedule, has been exploring solutions that would help designers move faster, enact smarter supply chains, and update production cycles in a way that would minimize lag time between runways and collection releases. | | |
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| It can be said that with complicated political times, comes a concurrent stream of subculture and radical behavior. This cultural groundswell is to become the focus for a reimagined Dis. On Sunday, the art collective slash media entity, led by Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro, launched a video platform Dis.Art -- with the wry mission to become, "the PBS for Generation Z." | | |
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