To me fashion, and design in general, is a sort of reflection of what’s in the air, what people think is relevant or interesting. The idea, the music, the culture come first and fashion follows, as it’s a way to express ideas or your own personal perspective. | | | | Gunilla floats along the Sigatoka River, wearing Oscar de la Renta. Fiji, Vogue 1971.
(J. P. Zachariasen/Condé Nast Collection/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “To me fashion, and design in general, is a sort of reflection of what’s in the air, what people think is relevant or interesting. The idea, the music, the culture come first and fashion follows, as it’s a way to express ideas or your own personal perspective.”
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 | Wired |
| In the fanatical world of limited-release streetwear, milliseconds matter---and bots rule. | | |
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 | The Cut |
| Declaring oneself as seriously outdoorsy and politically aware. | | |
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 | Loose Threads |
| On the 21st episode of the Loose Threads Podcast, a show about the intersection of fashion, technology and commerce, I talk with Matt Scanlan, the founder of Naadam, a direct to consumer brand that is reinventing the cashmere supply chain. Matt started Naadam on a chance encounter in Mongolia, which led him down a rabbit hole of launching an NGO, then a cashmere yarn company, and finally the digitally-native business that Naadam is known for today. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The young British fashion designer Craig Green has made a name for himself by creating fabular versions of traditional work uniforms. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The designer, beloved for her memorable New York shows, has a full-scale retrospective opening this week at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. | | |
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 | 1 Granary |
| A conference aiming to make the global fashion industry sustainable, it almost sounds too good to be true. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Whether it is latest it-girl or an Oscar-nominated actress, fashion brands love to have famous faces represent their brands. While posing for ad campaigns may be the most obvious iteration of these ambassadorships, a lot more goes into these contracts than meets the eye. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| Fitness and wellness enthusiasts with large social media followings are cashing in on a trillion-dollar market. | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| Demna Gvasalia's popularity has placed Tbilisi, Georgia on the radar for Westerners unlike ever before. Could it become the next global fashion capital? | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| A crop of emerging brands are bucking industry trends by doing more than just selling to customers -- they’re developing fandoms. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| As Park Geun-hye's corruption trial began this week, there was a lot of chatter about her hair, a style that is part of the uniform of female middle age in South Korea. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| How we fell out of love with a company that once showed us how to dress. | | |
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 | Die, Workwear! |
| This isn’t a political blog, but clothes have an inherently political dimension. For decades now, jeans have coasted on their association with egalitarianism and honest, proletarian integrity. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Well-groomed, well-dressed, and murderous. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| Super Yaya is a brand that wants to defy your preconceived ideas of African fashion. "In the first place, I was just trying to communicate the idea that this is Africa," the Lebanese Ivory Coast-based designer behind the label, Rym Beydoun explains. | | |
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 | Grailed |
| 1994 was groundbreaking for urban culture. Most Hip Hop heads will cite it as the year Nas debuted with Illmatic and Biggie dropped Ready to Die. Streetwear fans will mention it as the year Supreme opened on Lafayette Street and NEIGHBORHOOD set up shop in Harajuku, Tokyo... It’s the very same year that Hardy Blechman founded the cult U.K. streetwear brand maharishi. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| “I’m a control freak,” said boutique owner Laura Vinroot Poole, on a recent call from her home in Charlotte. “That’s part of the business, if you’re good at it.” Indeed, the trait has served her well. For the past 20 years, since opening luxury boutique Capitol, Vinroot Poole has successfully charted her own path, rocky retail landscape notwithstanding. | | |
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| Quartz |
| They produce enough electricity to power LED lights or a Fitbit. A phone could be next. | | |
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 | Convicts |
| Tara St. James is a fashionista with a conscience. Founder of the brand Study, Tara is half-businesswoman, half-designer, and all purpose. She’s introducing ethically sourced material, ethical production practices, and consumer transparency into the New York fashion world. | | |
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 | Polyester Magazine |
| Did you catch [insert any late night talk show]? Spoiler: it involved another slim, probably white, cisgender star sharing quirky anecdotes about their “awkward” adolescence. | | |
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