Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. | | | | | Altuzarra F/W 2017, Spring Studios, NYC. (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.”
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| | rantnrave:// NYT’s video coverage of fashion designers is great. It shows us designers in their own words, in their own environment. Really enjoyed this one on JOSEPH ALTUZARRA, who was inspired by RENAISSANCE portraiture for his F/W 2017 collection. Check out CATHY HORYN and ROBIN GIVHAN's reviews. Also, don’t miss the brief glimpse of Altuzarra’s mother, who’s featured frequently in his press coverage—love her style… More collections to swipe through. The lowkey but revered: VISVIM, VAQUERA, YEOHLEE, and SAMSUNG-owned KUHO. The marquee names: ALTUZARRA, PROENZA SCHOULER, and (a personal favorite) THE ROW… One thing I’m curious about with retailers dropping the IVANKA TRUMP line is how much each retailer represents of the company’s overall business. What’s left after 7+ retailers have dropped the line? Does that represent 1% of wholesale? 10%? Thanks to RACKED for staying on the trail… The NYT called out a dictionary trend (dictionaries, so hot right now), so it's fitting that we check out i-D’s guide to “contemporary fashion terminology”… And don’t miss MARIA BOBILA’s one-two punch over at FASHIONISTA, covering REFORMATION’s SAN FRANCISCO store, and serving this headline, which is all you need to know. Teens! They know what they like, and no you can not pay them $100 to skip to the front of the Kylie pop-up queue, which wrapped around two square blocks in NYC. People camped out on the extremely clean streets of SOHO for it, and braved strangers telling them that they were going to “slap her if she takes a picture of me." Any teen resellers there?… Archive fever is in full swing. KIM K has been posting some beloved wardrobe pieces from her personal collection. Are they in archival storage? As this piece from BOF points out, most archives are not. The kind of diligence and monitoring it takes to have a truly archival setup is often beyond the long-term investment capabilities of many brands. Wonder if that will change... In honor of ST. VALENTINE, celebrate some love today. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| In the latest installment of our series that goes inside the private working worlds of designers, Joseph Altuzarra reveals what was behind his latest collection, why he needs a doo | | |
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| De la Renta’s new collection shows why clothes aren’t costumes. Plus, Altuzarra’s Renaissance. | | |
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| He’s no Serena Williams, but he scored big in footwear. | | |
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| Vogue Runway's director was doing PR for a CD-ROM company before she scored her first industry gig at "WWD." | | |
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| Kiko Kostadinov is part of a new generation of designers intuitively mindful of Barthes’ sentiments toward the fashion industry and its need for transformation. When speaking about his creative process, Kostadinov dryly remarks, “Does it need to exist? That needs to be questioned all the time because there is no need for more sh*t." | | |
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| Vaquera presented a timely and political collection today at New York Fashion Week. | | |
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| When everything is about Trump, what’s a designer to do? Different suggestions, from Ms. Beckham, Jeremy Scott, Alexander Wang and Jason Wu. | | |
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| Suzy Menkes behind the scenes at India's haute couture embroidery house. | | |
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| “When I choose clothing to go on a date, I usually ask my partner what she will wear." | | |
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| Olivier Gillotin, the designer behind Ralph Lauren’s new Polo Red Extreme, has some advice for overspritzers. | | |
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| Bay Area-based artist and zine master Jeffrey Cheung is creating a rainbow coalition of riders. He wants you to join the Unity crew, too. | | |
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| The legendary supermodel on dancing down the runway, fighting racism in the fashion industry, and staying in the '70s. | | |
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| VICE is premiering the spring/summer 2017 lookbook of Kenneth Nicholson, a designer whose clothes blur gender binaries and embrace movement. | | |
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| On the occasion of his women's fall/winter 2017 presentation, the American designer discusses the power of black and how to turn a lifestyle brand into a tech company. | | |
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| In the fashion business, there’s nothing more elusive than longevity, but Tibi’s Amy Smilovic has achieved exactly that. As she celebrates the brand’s 20th anniversary, Smilovic looks back on its salad days as a three-employee enterprise in Hong Kong-and reveals her vision for its future. | | |
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| Designers -- local and non -- explained why they decided to show in LA instead of New York last week. | | |
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| Alexa Chung and a handful of runway models have joined to file suit against luxury re-sale site, The RealReal. | | |
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| For the first time in Diane von Furstenberg’s 45-year history, the brand’s vision comes courtesy of someone other than its founder. | | |
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| For the landmark 'Entangled: Threads and Making' exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Karen Wright played the double-role of curator, and 'international artist matchmaker'. She brought together a diverse group of over 40 female artists, many of whom descended on the seaside resort of Margate for the weeks surrounding the exhibition's opening. | | |
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