Inclusion. Not diversity. Inclusion. | | | | Shirley Temple during her time as a United States ambassador, Los Angeles, 1986.
(Terry O'Neill/Iconic Images/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Inclusion. Not diversity. Inclusion.”
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| | rantnrave:// ICYMI, this dual interview in 032C looks at the state of creativity today. The basic premise is that artists benefit from behaving like corporate managers, and managers benefit from behaving more like artists by breaking out of rational thinking and looking more to intuition. Great read alongside this interview with JEFF KOONS about his brand collab with LOUIS VUITTON. If ever there was a symbol for the rationalized production of creativity, this is it. That's not lost on Koons. Not sure about the collab's press release though... Creative director FABIEN BARON addresses fashion before and after social media and offers some very smart commentary on companies' mediocre digital presence... THE FASHION SPOT issued its latest diversity report and Spring 2017 print ads did not represent a leap forward for inclusivity. If only it were that easy. Statistics help us track conditions over time, but when it comes to the underlying issues that produce those statistics, there's much harder work to be done. No quotas... The SKELTON brothers are definitely on my radar... The first UN resolution on fashion will be drafted at the COPENHAGEN FASHION SUMMIT on MAY 10. H&M and SWAROVSKI are both involved. Sincere question: how does the international fashion community feel about being represented at the UN by a fast fashion company?... BRANDON BABEZIAN discusses the relaunch of APRIX FOOTWEAR and doing things his own way at NOAH. Time is the ultimate luxury... A company like GRAILED is uniquely positioned to capitalize on discontinued brands. Loved their picks of fashion's defunct labels (with product listings to match!). | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | 032c |
| As art and entrepreneurship continue to coagulate into a single INDUSTRY, what exactly is creativity? Writer Joachim Bessing spoke with management consultant Lars Vollmer and art historian Wolfgang Ullrich, who shared business advice for the creative class and creative advice for the business class. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Marine Le Pen used costume to cast herself as the mother of France, and Emmanuel Macron’s sober suit was modified as his poll numbers shifted. | | |
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 | Fashion Unfiltered |
| The creative director explains the importance of high-level imagery versus “foolish Instagram pictures” | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| Brendon Babenzien heads up independent menswear line Noah. Now he's taking his sporty, nautical design sensibility to footwear with Aprix. | | |
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 | Refinery29 |
| Have you noticed that something's happened with retouching? Whereas Photoshop fails used to dominate, now the approach is more, dare we say, feminist. | | |
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 | The Fashion Spot |
| How did the Spring 2017 ad campaigns stack up to seasons past in terms of racial, age, size and gender diversity? Find out in our diversity report. | | |
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 | T Magazine |
| Karl Lagerfeld staged the house’s 2018 cruise show in the Grand Palais, which housed a set resembling ancient Greek ruins. | | |
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 | ELLE |
| At a new pop up shop set to open tomorrow, art phenom Jeff Koons unveils his much-talked about range of bags for Louis Vuitton. | | |
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 | SSENSE |
| Author W. David Marx reflects on a changing Tokyo and the internet’s impact on trends. | | |
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 | Racked |
| The popular retailer’s board is nearly all older, white, and male - and shareholders aren’t happy. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| As a spate of disruptive startups inch toward a decade in business, those being disrupted are increasingly turning to acquisitions to better secure their futures. BoF identifies the top targets. | | |
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 | Drapers |
| Prodigious talent Craig Green has rapidly built a huge following among the fashion cognoscenti. He reveals to Drapers how “being annoying” has led him from Central Saint Martins, to “face fence-gate” and the most respected stockists in the world. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Protests over land reform and political participation have rocked the country since 2015. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| The York-born, London-based Skeltons are brothers in arms - carefully-crafting their own way in the fashion industry. | | |
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| The Business of Fashion |
| BoF has learned that Cathy Beaudoin has exited Amazon Fashion, having led the juggernaut’s foray into fashion after onboarding thousands of brands and overseeing the launch of Amazon’s Williamsburg studio. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| The organizers of Fyre Festival have been hit with two more class action lawsuits in connection with the failed music fest. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| She changed the way you think about clothes. But are you daring enough to wear her? | | |
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 | South China Morning Post |
| New women’s footwear director Paul Andrew is ringing the changes at Ferragamo, with a makeover for the brand’s bestseller -- plus some hi-tech touches such as sneakers with air-injected soles. | | |
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 | Grailed |
| In recent years, we’ve seen a ton of unheralded clothing brands call it quits, voluntarily or otherwise. So, in the interest of reflection, we looked back and picked ten of our favorite labels that are now lost to the sands of time AKA the Internet. | | |
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 | 1 Granary |
| Looking into the pillars of RCA graduate Fengyi Tan’s new brand. | | |
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