Every designer seeks to hit the great fashion moment, to offer the proposition that will have people think, 'This is what I want right now.' Every designer dreams of creating something so fashionable it will last forever. | | | | Issey Miyake RTW A/W '93/94, Paris, March 1993.
(Daniel Simon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Every designer seeks to hit the great fashion moment, to offer the proposition that will have people think, 'This is what I want right now.' Every designer dreams of creating something so fashionable it will last forever.”
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| | rantnrave:// WEALTHSIMPLE stunted on SUPREME with a billboard outside the store in SOHO and unveiled the "Supreme Retirement Plan." The hype cycle seems never-ending for the 'preme. It's funny to think about an investing startup targeted at millennials going after fans of a brand whose logo is based on the work of BARBARA KRUGER, but then again, hey—it doesn't hurt anyone to uh, invest for the future (or just more Supreme mwahaha). Ascension into the awareness of mainstream culture amounts to full circle or full sellout, depending on one's perspective. Just ask the creative form we call hip-hop. Or punk. Or jazz. Staying (mostly) silent, and leaving creative decisions to interpretation drive the Supreme phenomenon. The paths to generating meaning (and thus value) are many. Stay open to opposing perspectives... Related: this amazing interview on researching the "ambivalent internet"... Really enjoyed this one on PHILIPP PLEIN, who indeed, DGAF... A few things that caught my eye as we sail off toward the weekend: STEVEN JONES takes over the SHOWSTUDIO TUMBLR, and it's great... W MAGAZINE has a slideshow of early 2000s style from MTV's BEACH HOUSE. There are legwarmers. Ruching. Denim minis. Camouflage denim minis. And VJs. Beach House (the show) is back, so will we start seeing some extra rhinestones and velour in the near future? With all the denim minis online this season, it's already here... This .PNG of techwear tribes (tweeted by WILLIAM GIBSON) is the greatest commentary on style I've seen in a while. Watch out for "whack colors," "$5000 DSLR," "has a GRAILED score of 400," and best of all, "knows William Gibson." L > O > L | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| Appropriation can be a force for good, creating a cultural exchange and enriching the available vocabulary for creatives of all types. | | |
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 | Racked |
| The psychology behind buying a convincing, expensive knock-off. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| He’s built an empire on ostentatious glitz and celebrity star power. As he debuts his first resort show, we meet the man on his home turf - the OTT Cannes megamansion he calls ‘La Jungle’. | | |
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 | Wealth Simple |
| This morning, like every Thursday, entrepreneurs (and hypebeasts) lined up at the Supreme store to await the latest drop. Today we gave them a message about turning their hustle into wealth. | | |
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 | SSENSE |
| The modern history of sportswear is archived in a restored 1930s farmhouse in Bologna. It houses more than 6,000 garments and 55,000 textile samples, each possessed with the story of a past life. The majority have been meticulously collected, studied, dissected, and resurrected under the hands of Massimo Osti. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Some of the brand’s references go right over its customers’ heads. But the inscrutability is kind of the point. | | |
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 | 1 Granary |
| This year's show stressed the importance of creation in a politically distressed global climate. | | |
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 | Tank Magazine |
| At her label Toga, Yasuko Furuta is both conservative and radical. | | |
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 | HERO magazine |
| There’s definitely something in the water in London. Known for being a hotbed of exciting fashion talent, this city has been the stomping ground of some of the most innovative, industrious and rebellious designers of the past few decades. And in looking to where they got their start (school), we can get excited about the next generation rising up now. | | |
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 | JOOJOO AZAD | جوجو آزاد |
| Especially in this particular political moment in which the hijab has become a hyper-politicized symbol and continued point of conversation and heated debate, it is all the more important to know how such markers of visual representation (this thing we call 'fashion') can also be weaponized, or rendered violent. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Many fast fashion retailers and other mass market chains have built their businesses - or divisions of their businesses - at least in part by co-opting the original designs of others. | | |
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 | AnOther |
| The emerging designer collaborated with creative movement director Stephen Galloway to create an audio-visual expression of his A/W17 collection, | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Who knocks off the knockers-off? Who bootlegs the bootleggers? | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| From clothing to home to beauty, founder Brooke Taylor Corcia hopes to build an all-encompassing e-commerce destination with a specific point of view. | | |
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| The Fashion Law |
| The Financial Times published a “rare interview” with Nicolas Ghesquière this week. While the Louis Vuitton womenswear creative director shed light on the challenges facing the industry, the digitalization of fashion, and his time at Balenciaga, maybe the most interesting element of the interview was not what he said, but the fact that he said anything at all. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Chinese officials are probably trying to protect local jobs, not the president's daughter. | | |
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 | The Japan News |
| NEW YORK - As founder of the Comme des Garcons fashion label, Rei Kawakubo has challenged conventional notions of clothing with her unmatched aesthetic sensibility. This is particularly exemplified in the about 140 examples on display at the current exhibition on the designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | | |
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 | Vogue |
| On the eve of her Founder's award from the CFDA, makeup artist Pat McGrath spoke with Vogue's Sally Singer about the past, present, and future of beauty. | | |
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 | Jing Daily |
| China's e-commerce giant is buying more stakes in offline stores in an effort to merge online shopping with a brick-and-mortar experience. | | |
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 | The Hairpin |
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 | YouTube |
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