I feel like when people start getting money, they start dressing weird. | | | | | Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus. (Peter Paul Rubens) | | | | | | “I feel like when people start getting money, they start dressing weird.”
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| | rantnrave:// Print is far from dead, but there's no question that we don't anticipate our favorite publications' releases the way we once did. It's a sign of progress and a consequence of abundance. With an unbroken stream of words and images arriving through our timelines and feeds rather than in distinct print volumes, it can be tough to tell sources apart, never mind keep track of when they publish. For me, ESPN's Body Issue is an important exception. Since it debuted in 2009, the Body Issue has celebrated, through striking photography, bodies of all different shapes, sizes, and colors. The 2016 edition will be unveiled today, and VINCE WILFORK, 325-pound tackle for the HOUSTON TEXANS, is one of its cover stars. Though it's a once-yearly edition, it has an outsized impact -- I still see baseball player PRINCE FIELDER's 2014 shoot shared regularly across social channels. These images of healthy, athletic bodies that don't conform to traditional beauty standards resonate with readers. It frustrates me that similar representation is so hard to find in fashion, both in media and on runways. Why couldn't VOGUE produce a similar issue? Why is it so difficult for plus-size models to book beauty ads? When can we expect to see fashion shows populated by models who aren't exclusively rail-thin?... Millennials aren't buying diamonds, and, frankly, they're offended that you had to ask why. If they did have the disposable income to buy diamonds, though, would they? Or would they rather spend on other sorts of luxury, express romantic commitment in different ways?... At HAZLITT, SORAYA ROBERTS uses costuming to unpack the often-regressive gender politics of JOHN HUGHES' teen films... Please, for your own good, do not pee on CHRISTIE BRINKLEY's rocks. | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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| Technologies that presume to innovate - or worse yet, "disrupt" - are often met with some hesitancy or weariness. They remove power from human hands, and ask us to trust machinery or algorithms. For couture, a trade founded on the belief that humans know best, this is an existential threat. | | |
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| As the once-disruptive business model of bypassing wholesale and going direct-to-consumer via e-commerce becomes commonplace, brands must do more to differentiate themselves. | | |
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| Fashion companies may garner publicity and good will when they feature curvy models. Ostensibly, beauty companies would not get that same bottom-line boost, because bodies aren't involved in their advertising imagery. "Also, people just don't think to go to plus agencies or boards," Ms. Runk said. | | |
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| Spider silk's qualities are nearly mythical. Its tensile strength is comparable to steel's. Yet it is lighter, and can be as stretchy as a rubber band. Those traits in combination make it tougher than Kevlar. | | |
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| Physical beauty is subjective and often difficult to define. But for the robot jury of Beauty.AI, an online competition billed as "the first international beauty contest judged by artificial intelligence," beauty is calculated by a set of complex algorithms that measure parameters like participants' facial symmetry and skin quality. | | |
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| As humans we often rely on external signals to assess overall well-being. The common perception that a thin person is more healthy than an overweight person remains a modern opinion that is difficult to change. The reality of the twenty-first century is that more people are overweight or obese than ever before in human history. | | |
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| My childhood fantasy went like this: Standing in a church doorway in a "Miss Pretty Princess" bridesmaid dress with a floral wreath in my hair, and bangs, which in retrospect have too much hairspray, I look up. "If You Were Here" shimmers in and a man who is criminally older than me appears, leaning against the door of a cherry red Porsche. | | |
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| PARIS -- Walls, metaphorical and literal, may be the political buzzwords of the moment as a tide of xenophobia sweeps Europe and the United States, but in Paris, as the couture shows began, inclusion was the message. It's ironic, given that couture is a fashion subsector roped off in velvet. | | |
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| The Christian Science Monitor |
| As Bangladesh reels from terrorist attacks, some question how it could effect foreign investment in the booming garment industry and impact workers' rights. In 2013, as Bangladesh mourned the over 1,100 people killed after the collapse of Rana Plaza, a complex where factories produced clothes for export, the nation's government and foreign companies signed agreements and formed coalitions to eradicate the kind of dangerous working conditions that led to the tragedy. | | |
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| Is it all just a big waste of space, time and money? I'm talking about all types of advertising here: internet, native, TV, video, mobile, print, branded content, matchbooks, stunts, product placement, sandwich boards. All of it. | | |
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| After growing bored with their school routine, a group of Parisian teens decided they'd put their time and energy into something they were truly passionate about. In 2014, five high-schoolers launched NASASEASONS, a project that initially focused on underground parties, but eventually included embroidered headwear. | | |
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| A few weeks ago I covered the Converse All Star Modern launch for 032c and we had to leave out a fair chunk of historical talk regarding the Converse All Star. Seeing as it's such an important design (whether you care much for shoes or not), here's the part of the rough draft that was excised. | | |
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| LONDON -- The up-and-coming designer Dilara Findikoglu first made industry heads turn last year, when she staged a guerrilla fashion show outside Central Saint Martins, where she studied for her fashion BA, in response to not being selected to participate in the college's annual graduate show. | | |
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| Caroline Mills is an art collector, one $7 pin at a time. | | |
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| William Kim has a golden nugget of advice on how to become a success in business. It won't work for everyone, because it's this: "Have Asian parents." It's clearly stood him in good stead. From a childhood in working-class Colorado Springs - the real-life setting for South Park - Kim now runs the All Saints fashion empire, overseeing 3000 staff in 20 countries. | | |
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