Ill-fitting is always stylish. But be more creative - wear your clothes inside out, backward, upside down. Throw bleach in a load of colored laundry. Follow the exact opposite of the dry cleaning instructions inside the clothes that cost the most in your thrift shop. Don’t wear jewelry - stick Band-Aids on your wrists or make a necklace out of them... Best yet, do as Mink Stole used to do: go to the thrift store the day after Halloween, when the children’s trick-or-treat costumes are on sale, buy one, and wear it as your uniform of defiance. | | | | Douglas Auchincloss, Veruschka, and Yamaha. Hair by Kenneth. Vogue 1965.
(Bert Stern/Condé Nast Collection/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Ill-fitting is always stylish. But be more creative - wear your clothes inside out, backward, upside down. Throw bleach in a load of colored laundry. Follow the exact opposite of the dry cleaning instructions inside the clothes that cost the most in your thrift shop. Don’t wear jewelry - stick Band-Aids on your wrists or make a necklace out of them... Best yet, do as Mink Stole used to do: go to the thrift store the day after Halloween, when the children’s trick-or-treat costumes are on sale, buy one, and wear it as your uniform of defiance.”
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| | rantnrave:// It's that day you knew would always come but somehow felt far away, off on some faint and distant horizon. After 16 months and 100,000+ words later, today is my last newsletter for FashionREDEF. I want to extend my heartfelt appreciation to everyone who took the time to read and support REDEF and all the stories we've shared. Thank you to JASON HIRSCHHORN, MATTY KARAS, MIKE VORKUNOV, CARL DAVIS, and the entire team at REDEF, past and present. If you'd like to get in touch for notes, appreciations, complaints, (and rants!) you can reach me at mindy.meissen@gmail.com. I’d love to hear from you. FashionREDEF will be on hiatus beginning today. It’s been fun. What a run. Keep supporting this extraordinary industry—one that offers radical ideas and gives expression to people the world over—and thank you again for reading. And since it's fashion week, here's a final note: the ABASI ROSBOROUGH show was wonderful ;) | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Todd Snyder and Willy Chavarria struck personal themes for their fall men’s wear shows, one of nerd chic, the other of current parlous politics. | | |
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| Glamour is predicated on transgression. | | |
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| In the 1880's Louis Vuitton began covering its luggage with monogram prints, many of which are still in use today. From the outset, Louis Vuitton was targeted by counterfeiters who wanted to profit from the established appeal of the brand. So, the company began exploring ways to legally protect the | | |
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| The Air Jordan 1 is streetwear's definitive sneaker, and you can assert this argument on so many levels. Originally a performance silhouette, the high-top sneaker has transcended basketball to become an icon in fashion, skateboarding, hip-hop, and high fashion. | | |
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| This past week, I felt like I was trapped between a bad episode of Black Mirror and the pages of Guy Debord's "Society of Spectacle." There is a similarity between the dark British anthology series, which explores society and the effects of modern technology on it, and the French book, published in 1967, which depicts a human society that is heavily influenced by, and dependent, on mass media. | | |
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| The 36-year-old Georgian is bored of fashion as fantasy and has eschewed the tropes of Parisian glamour for flea market catwalks, crumpled styling and haute couture hoodies. Where can he go next? | | |
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| For five seasons, the men's week hosted about 65 designers during the months of January and July, including legacy brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Perry Ellis, as well as a crew of emerging designer names. | | |
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| With electric self-warming jackets and new insulated fabrics, Team USA hopes to overcome record-setting chills | | |
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| Original Stitch admits its shirt-cloning software doesn’t work. | | |
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