Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. | | | | Backstage at Issey Miyake A/W 1989, March 1, 1989.
(John van Hasselt/Sygma/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader.”
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| | rantnrave:// CHRIS DANFORTH wrote about about FACEBOOK groups dedicated to streetwear. Bravo. Placing them in historical lineage with forums like SUPERFUTURE, 5TH DIMENSION, and NIKE TALK is not only smart, it's important for streetwear's claim to wider culture. History is power. Still waiting to see when collectors get fully archival with streetwear collections—as in full-on blue boxes, compact storage, pH strips, and obsessive monitoring of temperature and relative humidity. Or better yet, maybe they'll find some groundbreaking way to preserve YEEZYs. You can take a look inside the PUMA corporate archive here... Putting things into perspective on the MISSONI x PIGALLE collaboration, CALUM GORDON spoke to ANGELA MISSONI and STEPHANE ASHPOOL, deciding this one is less about hype and more about harmony... The GUCCI pre-fall campaign looks great, but does it represent a marked shift toward progressive values in fashion? THE FASHION LAW offers some critical thoughts on the matter... This report from REUTERS indicates that the grey market for luxury watches is necessary... Well, that was fast. VOGUE ARABIA's EIC is out after two issues... TIM WALKER talks to ADWOA ABOAH about his long career as a fashion photographer in this video for i-D. Some real gems here. It's the first time he's gone digital for an editorial. I love the texture and quality of film. I'm not saying it's automatically better, just a different medium, different affordances. Filmmakers have gone to extraordinary lengths to preserve 35mm. All but a lost art for most fashion photography. There's a chance to see some of the best in IRVING PENN: CENTENNIAL at the MET... FashionREDEF is taking a long weekend and will return Tuesday. Until then, enjoy more '90s COMME DES GARÇONS from VOGUE RUNWAY, digital by way of—film! | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Facebook is fostering some of the most close-knit communities in sneaker & streetwear culture today. We spoke with the admins behind the biggest groups. | | |
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| A rare trip through the brand's historic vaults. | | |
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| The anonymous brand 69 designs for no one. | | |
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| Kawakubo is undeniably influential, a cult figure in the industry. When she burst on the scene—her first Paris show was in 1981—she shocked the fashion world with her droopy, dark silhouettes, her reliance on plebeian fabrics like black polyester, her radical abandonment of the conventional notions of attractiveness. | | |
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| A new exhibit, "Judith Leiber: Crafting a New York Story," at MAD showcases the designers minaudières and more. | | |
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| "Irving Penn never wanted fame but had the misfortune of being so talented he could not keep it at bay. Now 74, he has in his time staged a one-man revolution in fashion photography, created uncommonly enduring advertising images, aroused controversy with overrefined pictures of headhunters and chieftains' wives, and found graphic splendor in cigarette butts." | | |
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| As we exclusively unveil images of their collaborative collection, Angela Missoni and Stephane Ashpool discuss uniting Paris street style with Italian fashion heritage. | | |
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| For its Pre-Fall 2017 campaign, Gucci opted to cast only models of color. The Italian design house’s advertising campaign comes after a marked increase in the diversity of the Spring/Summer 2017 runways, as highlighted in the Fashion Spot’s bi-annual runway diversity report. | | |
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| Late last year I went on a pilgrimage to Harris, where the legendary tweed is made. It’s woven in small sheds by the local residents in the stark and stunning Scottish landscape, much as it has been for 150 years. | | |
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| Three menswear-obsessed friends road-trip to Scotland's outer Hebrides in search of whisky, wild landscapes, and Harris tweed. | | |
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| Masha Reva, a Central Saint Martins graduate, is renowned as much for her elegant, elaborate collections as for her illustrations adorning both body and cloth, and for her second "One Day Project," she continued this exploration with a collection of pieces informed by her experiments with body painting. | | |
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| For the latest issue of i-D, we joined forces with the boundary-pushing photographer Tim Walker. In over 80 shoots, Tim captured some of the most brilliant, inspiring and resilient young creatives working in London today. Here cover-star, Adwoa Aboah hosts a very special i-Cons to discover the creativity that inspired the issue's mantra, 'Stay Weird, Stay Different'. | | |
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| The Saudi princess has confirmed that she was fired as editor-in-chief of Vogue Arabia after only two issues. It is understood that a new editor has already been appointed. | | |
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| Dia & Co. is doing more than just selling clothes in plus-sizes - it's helping other companies do that, too. | | |
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| The nonprofit recently flew three design students to Cambodia to show them what garment factory conditions are really like. | | |
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| I met Ib Kamara on a hot morning. I was still in my post Saturday jol-haze when I introduced myself to the stylist who I had previously only known from his portraits... From his Instagram page alone one already sees a shared experience, a collective whose quest is to shape how we reconstruct ourselves and how we want to be seen as people from the African continent. | | |
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| The AFDB is making an effort to revive textile manufacturing in all of Africa, but with high labor costs in many places, the plan is doomed to fail. | | |
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| Ethiopia attracted foreign investments of US$1.2bn in the first six months of the 2016/17 fiscal year, with these financial injections dominated by major Chinese companies - half of which are licensed in textile and garment manufacturing. | | |
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| As an influencer, navigating contracts with brands and agencies is inherently challenging, given lack of stringent protocols. However, the process can be even more challenging for minority influencers, who are largely underrepresented in influencer marketing. | | |
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| Google is not taking Pinterest's search ambitions lying down. It’s introducing a new feature called “Style Ideas,” which will surface inspirational lifestyle images and outfits that show off the fashion product images you had been browsing. | | |
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