'Cozy' is more of a feeling than anything. You can be in a suit, meeting with billionaires, but if you're confident, you feel cozy. You're in a room full of sharks and you're swimming very well. | | Rihanna's 2014 CFDA Awards Adam Selman dress memorialized in sock form as part of the singer's "Iconic Looks" collection for Stance. (Stance) | | | | “'Cozy' is more of a feeling than anything. You can be in a suit, meeting with billionaires, but if you're confident, you feel cozy. You're in a room full of sharks and you're swimming very well.” |
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| rantnrave:// It seems crazy that American fashion magazine covers are still so white. FASHIONISTA points out that only three of the major titles in the category have non-white cover stars for their mighty September issues: TEEN VOGUE with AMANDLA STENBERG, INSTYLE with SELENA GOMEZ, and HARPER'S BAZAAR with THE WEEKND. For all of the progress in representation we have seen across media—social and traditional—it's a shame that a little girl wandering through WALGREENS with her mom will see almost nothing but thin white women staring her down the magazine aisle. Thankfully, this girl can head to YOUTUBE to learn beauty techniques from girls who look like her and open INSTAGRAM to get style ideas from girls with bodies like hers and interact directly with a celebrity—social or traditional—on TWITTER. Strategically publicized actresses promoting new movies and pop singers photographed in brands that just so happen to also be big advertisers is beyond stale... Is "Gen Z yellow" the new millennial pink?... How do you let a million dollars of sneakers get snatched??... I looove the RACKED series How Do You Shop?, which profiles the intimate spending habits of people from ordinary to extraordinary (if you like NEW YORK'S Sex Diaries or New York Diet, you will probably dig this, too). The latest installment: a 38 year old mom with a $52,500 salary who managed to pay off $20k in credit card debt!.. A bad way to spend money is designer duct tape. | | - Nicola Fumo, guest curator |
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| In the Los Angeles 'Jobber Market,' the hub for fast fashion within the U.S., the multitude of failures that arrives and presents itself at every turn is overwhelming. It comes with the disorienting sense that one will never possess enough information. | |
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Where Latino spending power meets tradition. | |
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The garment manufacturing industry is shifting geographically, from China to Southeast Asia and ever-increasingly into South America. | |
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How a financial wizard took over a giant of American retailing, and presided over its epic decline. | |
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Coveralls and painter’s pants are trouncing haute couture. | |
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With Primark having finally set the pronunciation record straight -- it's 'pry-mark', not 'pree-mark' -- words with confusing phonological values are causing conflict all over the UK. Is it 'S-con' or 'Sc-oh-n', 'Ga-rij' or 'Ga-raaj'? 'Ee-thur' or 'Eye-thur', 'Sked-jool' or 'Shed-jool'? | |
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What happens when big brands partner up with innovative startups. | |
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None besides Merck CEO will resign. | |
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Guys: What's going on here? | |
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Fleet Bigwood, pathway tutor for the MA Textiles for Fashion at Central Saint Martins since 1993, initially agreed to meet me outside the campus studios for a conversation on his role as an educator. | |
| From fleecy mall staples to Gucci pom-pom ponchos, we explore the unpretentious appeal of snuggly clothes. | |
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Retailers must charge for what consumers value: their time, argues B. Joseph Pine II. | |
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From Love Island to Glastonbury, millennials are driving the trend for reusable bottles far beyond the gym this summer. | |
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The notion of time plays a powerful role in inspiring and guiding fashion. Designers formulate their creative perspectives through the influences of the past, the urgency of the present, and the possibilities ushered in by the future. The result is a very unique reflection of the prevailing Zeitgeist. | |
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From investment in children as the new status symbol to Furla launching a Tmall store, here is what people are buzzing about in China today. | |
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The activist and model speaks to i-D about advocacy and her dream of a Pakistani trans modeling agency. | |
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How did crystals go from a New Age curiosity to ubiquitous accessory in the luxury wellness world? | |
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The reason to select and write this post is to make people aware how the definition of manufacturing (m) has changed along with centuries, mainly with rapid growth of technology, globalization from last couple of decades. | |
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Pop-up stores are a retail trend that shows no sign of slowing down. | |
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Bravado is the merch company putting Kanye West and Justin Bieber merch into high-end stores and the backs of countless youth. Here's how they did it. | |
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