Someone once told me not to worry about people copying. It’s when nobody is trying, that’s when perhaps I should start to worry. |
| | | | | Designer Wil Fry. | | | | | | | “Someone once told me not to worry about people copying. It’s when nobody is trying, that’s when perhaps I should start to worry.”
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| rantnrave:// Pleased to feature WIL FRY in the latest edition of FashionREDEF's Q&A series. FRY talks us through some of the lessons he's learned running an independent label... AVA DUVERNAY has signed on to direct "THE BATTLE OF VERSAILLES," a film adaptation of ROBIN GIVHAN's 2015 book about one of the most significant events in AMERICAN fashion history. I will personally PAYPAL HBO $200 if they can lock down OSCAR ISAAC for the role of OSCAR DE LA RENTA... According to makeup artist KRISS SOTERIN-BLEVINS, DONALD TRUMP does his own make-up. Tweets TRUMP: "Wow, saw TED CRUZ asking for help blending his foundation before last debate. Not presidential! SAD!"... "Everything looks as if it had been pulled from the evidence rack at a murder trial." DAVID SEDARIS describing KAPITAL, a JAPANESE brand known for cranking the wabi-sabi dial past 11. If the thrust of your essay is essentially "hanging in TOKYO while rich and insouciant," it helps to be funny... Via COLIN NAGY, another excellent TOKYO fashion essay at THE NEW YORKER, this one from 2002. Striking how some of the attitudes towards shopping described here have skipped across the PACIFIC... While you're in the neighborhood, check out LIZZIE WIDDICOMBE spotlighting PATRICK KEOHANE's fashion collages. Love KALEN HOLLOMON's collage work, too... Blessed be the ETSY archeologists, digging up and dusting off ever-weirder s***. Yesterday, FASHIONISTA's ELIZA BROOKE uncovered some utterly compelling skirts... If you were invited to the most recent SAINT LAURENT show, you arrived to find your seat adorned with your very owned engraved nameplate. You probably weren't expecting that seat to later show up on your doorstep. No half-measures from HEDI. | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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| Wil Fry on the challenges of wholesale, getting ripped off, and why fashion isn't funnier. | | |
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| I'm not sure how it is in small families, but in large ones relationships tend to shift over time. You might be best friends with one brother or sister, then two years later it might be someone else. Then it's likely to change again, and again after that. | | |
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| Amidst market reports that Everlane is seeking new investment at a valuation ‘north of $250 million,’ BoF’s Vikram Alexei Kansara talks to the company’s founder about how he built a direct-to-consumer fashion brand rooted in ‘radical transparency.’ | | |
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| "He's got his hair down to a science," she said. "He has a signature look he carries with him that is his look, and that's far better than changing it up all the time." The Donald, by modes far more mystifying than his beauty routine, is an anomaly. | | |
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| People want a lot of from fashion models these days. Possibly too much. During the recent fall 2016 shows, critics wanted models that were plus-size, old, transgender, Latina, black, Asian, Body Mass Index-normal, beautiful, eccentric-looking -- and smiling. | | |
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| The brand credits its #AerieReal campaign for its 20% sales jump last year. | | |
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| Back in the day, women with bare heads may as well have been naked. | | |
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| Has fashion media become a redundant avenue for luxury brands to advertise if they can only influence the few? Are fashion editors relevant today when a social media star can reach the combined readership of every fashion magazine in one post? | | |
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| An effervescent industry, predicated on impermanence. Colin McDowell casts a historical eye on the vagaries and caprices of fashion. | | |
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| Earlier this week Instagram updated its news feed algorithm. Posts will no longer appear in chronological order and instead be sorted "based on the likelihood you'll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting, and the timeliness of the post." | | |
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| All illustrations by Amanda Lanzone For six weeks during the summer of 2010, I traded in my high-waisted skirts and oversized T-shirts for a modest cropped black blazer and a pair of slim-fitting slacks. I wore this professional ensemble every day while I interned at a small nonprofit in the stodgy Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC. | | |
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| Learning how to dress like ourselves, from The Supremes to the Spice Girls and beyond. | | |
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| Aeropostale has been floundering. Sales have been down quarter after quarter. For the most recent quarter, comparable sales were down 6.7% compared to this time last year. Net sales were down 16.1%. Aeropostale had a bad year as it stands. | | |
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| New H&M locations have steadily opened across the globe for years, but the company is still staring down the possibility its profits could decline into a tail-spin, say analysts at Morgan Stanley. | | |
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| >From ready-to-wear knits manufactured instantly to customised dresses produced on inkjet printers, Japan's apparel industry is turning to state-of-the-art technology in a bold bid to cut labour costs and secure its future. | | |
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