Machine-made goods are perfect beyond the original goal. In the modern world, goods are flat, flat, flat. And that, to me, is boring. I’m drawn to natural stuff and unevenness, and to the humanity of things made by hand. | | | | | Cult label Visvim's tag. (Ting Him Mak) | | | | | | “Machine-made goods are perfect beyond the original goal. In the modern world, goods are flat, flat, flat. And that, to me, is boring. I’m drawn to natural stuff and unevenness, and to the humanity of things made by hand.”
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| | rantnrave:// Late last week, MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI was officially announced as DIOR's newest Creative Director. CEO SIDNEY TOLEDANO was predictably vague on the matter of what we can expect from the new DIOR. He anticipates an "elegant and modern vision of the DIOR woman" -- shocking, I know. TOLEDANO does suggest that there will be an increased focus on accessories, a category CHIURI's had a ton of success with over the past two decades at both VALENTINO and FENDI. Looking back on CHIURI's time at VALENTINO -- FASHIONISTA has kindly done the heavy lifting for us -- loud prints emerge as a signature, and I think it's fair to expect we'll see this motif continued at DIOR. It bags, statement shoes, patterns that assert themselves even on a mobile screen -- that's luxury in 2016 for you... When we talk about wearable technology, we think fitness trackers and luminescent fabrics and shoes that bangles that pulse when you receive text messages, but we've been wearing technology for a very long time. Just ask HIROKI NAKAMURA, founder of JAPANESE label VISVIM, whose R&D process involves reverse engineering garment dyes derived from cochineal insects as far back as the first millennium... Shoutout to designer JAMILA MARIYAMA and models TORRAINE FUTURUM and HARI NEF for calling out the fashion industry for its silence on the police brutality plaguing AMERICA... Shoutout, as well, to stylist LAW ROACH for putting new client CÉLINE DION in VETEMENTS' infamous TITANTIC hoodie -- the most charmingly self-reflexive piece of personal styling I've seen in a minute. ROACH spoke to ELLE about his exciting new working relationship with CÉLINE, who is, much to my delight, becoming a street style star. As REDEF's Music and Sports curator pointed out to me last week, there is nothing more Canadian than being very protective of Canadian celebrities. | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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| Word of mouth and a celebrity clientelemade Visvim an insider’s favorite.Now it has shaken off its obscurityand is in stores all over the world. | | |
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| Dior Couture chief executive Sidney Toledano speaks to BoF on why Maria Grazia Chiuri was the best choice to align the house with ‘the needs of the women of today and tomorrow -- globally.’ | | |
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| If you've hit up a trendy bar on a recent Saturday night, you've probably noticed: Any place that is teeming with style-conscious women these days is also teeming with off-the-shoulder blouses. The silhouette is seemingly everywhere, and it's taking many different forms. There are Carmen Miranda-esque ruffled styles and '90s-inspired clingy ones. | | |
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| This year, in a stark change of strategy, Adidas released a series of videos that offer a glimpse into the lives of sporty female celebrities. Supermodel Karlie Kloss is shown coding, doing pirouettes, and baking cookies. "Creating is delicious," Kloss says, before winking at the camera. | | |
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| Nineties skate culture. Noughties hip-hop. And luxury fashion. A three-part series on the designers redefining streetwear now | | |
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| American eyeglass retailer Warby Parker's foray into bricks-and-mortar retail began in one of its co-founders' apartments. Warby Parker launched in 2010 as an e-commerce business enabling customers to order a range of affordable glasses to try at home before sending the unsuitable ones back. | | |
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| "Bury Me with the Lo On," a new book by the rapper Thirstin Howl III and the photographer Tom Gould, begins in the mid-nineteen-eighties, as the story of Ralphie's Kids and the United Shoplifters Association, two Brooklyn street crews locally famous for wearing nothing but Polo Ralph Lauren, which they almost never paid for. | | |
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| Breaking down barriers is a tired enough expression, an idiomatic punching bag repeated to the point of meaninglessness-but anyone would be hard-pressed to deny that Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta are doing just that, breaking down walls left and right. | | |
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| As he jets into London to co-host tomorrow night’s Serpentine party, the man who dresses America’s darlings talks all things fashion | | |
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| Manish Chandra began his professional career as an enterprise software executive, but found his greatest successes as a consumer-focused entrepreneur. After going through two IPOs in enterprise software and some small acquisitions, he was intimidated by the prospect of launching a consumer startup. | | |
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| At a casting call in New York City’s Soho neighborhood for New York Fashion Week: Men’s, hopeful male models, many in their late teens or early 20s, filed into the front lobby, filled out a questionnaire covering their basic stats and experience, took off their shirts for the camera, then left. | | |
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| Twelve minutes into the Sweat With Kayla boot camp, after the mandatory hug-the-stranger-next-to-you icebreaker but before the series of 30-second, full-body planks, an exasperated cry comes from somewhere in the sea of 4,000 women doing burpees on yoga mats: "This is soooooo hard!" And it is. | | |
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| As 60s icon and inspiration for the world's most expensive handbag Jane Birkin has been effectively banned from China due to her human rights activism, the legendary Hermès bag named after her has also received some unwanted attention in Chinese media. | | |
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| The ample praise bestowed upon the likes of Young Thug, Jaden Smith, and other Black male entertainers for their often notably gender fluid style is both deserved and occasionally overblown. The latter has very little to do with them, however. | | |
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| Three very significant cultural events haveOften termed as the ‘birthplace’ of international investment in terms of labour and garment production, India offers an indigenous mix of design and culture through its textile industry. | | |
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