When I stopped doing shows I said that when I feel the crowd again, when I feel the passion in the eyes of the people who I’m showing to or in the industry, I’ll come back. | | | | Bryan Boy, Tina Craig, Irene Kim, Aimee Song, Chriselle Lim at 3.1 Phillip Lim, NYFW, Feb. 13, 2017
(Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “When I stopped doing shows I said that when I feel the crowd again, when I feel the passion in the eyes of the people who I’m showing to or in the industry, I’ll come back.”
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| | rantnrave:// Anyone who loves clothes, fashion, streetwear, merch, has a sixth sense for how consumption and culture are interconnected. We're all familiar with the emotional satisfaction of shopping. Expressing ourselves through what we wear is fundamental. And in the world of commerce, it's not free. There's a currency exchange that comes with fashion, symbolic and of the total bank-account-annihilation kind. It's a story as old as commerce itself. It can turn into full-blown addiction. Collectors and enthusiasts know the pitfalls well. This essay by JOSEN CUMMINGS is one man's 25-year long journey to acquiring a pair of JORDANS, with memory, identity, and belonging all tied up in a pair of sneakers. He knows the emotional attachment that goes along with cult objects, and he doesn't judge. Oh, and of course there's an app for curbing e-commerce trigger finger... I'm a fan of GRAILED's interview series. EDDIE HUANG's interview touches on sneaker culture, streetwear's rise to the mainstream, music, and the power to tell one's story. Always appreciate how real he is... As far as I'm concerned, there have been two categories of smartwatch: APPLE WATCH and aesthetic emergency. Sure, a company can sell millions of unattractive smartwatches, but design is always a set of choices. It's the drive for personal expression that ultimately makes people want to wear something. Slogan t-shirts, nondescript uniforms, rhinestone-encrusted headphones, it's all about communicating through style. So why do so many companies treat features separately from design? Can smartwatches shake the gadget stigma? It's that, or wait 20 years for a comeback à la CASIO watch... LVMH is building a theme park, which I will only visit if it's like this... If you haven't seen UNZIPPED it's required fashion viewing... A new take on halter tops... TY indeed. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | Racked |
| Where do you shop when you want to carry a gun? | | |
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 | GQ |
| As a teenager I was more of a Chuck Taylor guy. Then I got a good job and everything changed. | | |
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 | Grailed |
| Is there anything Eddie Huang can’t do? The TV host and best-selling author—who you probably know from his book, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, or his Viceland show, Huang’s World—is truly a modern day renaissance man with a unique vision of the world we live in. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| On its 10th anniversary, the show's costume designer fills us in on his iconic work for the now-legendary series. | | |
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 | The Fashion Spot |
| After reviewing 187 Fall 2017 fashion print ads comprising 457 model castings, our report found that model diversity is on the rise. | | |
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 | Very Good Light |
| James Charles made history as the first ever CoverBoy. But is the beauty boy movement authentic or just cashing in on gender fluidity? | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| No Sesso’s all-inclusive ethos champions people of color who identify everywhere on (and off) the gender spectrum. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| But while some close competition like Jawbone have gone the way of the dodo, Fitbit is still kicking - and is indeed still synonymous with the wearable.. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Comfort wasn’t the point -- not hers or yours. She later changed into sneakers. It didn't matter. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| The New York Times recently shed light on the budding Los Angeles-based fashion brand, LPA. | | |
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 | Highsnobiety |
| There’s a mountain of evidence to suggest that brands in the sneaker industry can only truly grow by copying. | | |
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 | Out Magazine |
| After 30+ years working behind fashion's biggest names, the industry will finally say Raymond McNeill's name. | | |
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 | Nikkei Asian Review |
| Tadashi Yanai, the chairman and president of Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing, has embarked on a digital renovation of his retail empire. He believes, for instance, that artificial intelligence could help factories, distributors and Uniqlo stores understand with precision what the customer wants, and reduce excessive inventory. | | |
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| Fashionista |
| She uses her platform to encourage her millions of followers to do what she did: work really, really hard to make your creative dream a reality. | | |
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 | The Cut |
| “We’ll take an ‘L’ for weather when we’re having a fashion moment.” | | |
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 | WWD |
| The original denim company now has an original pair of its first jeans for women. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The British clothier, newly arrived in SoHo, is holding the line against athleisure. | | |
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 | The Straits Times |
| The transformation from low-price manufacturer to premium brand is not easy. In addition to increased costs for labour and raw materials, such as rubber and petroleum products, the end of last year saw the exported goods price index for footwear products fall by 10 per cent from 2015. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| "I wanted to explore other ways to get the fashion and style message across, outside of a primarily print brand," Foxman told Glossy this week, calling from his new office at Olivela, a charitable luxury shopping site, where he is the chief brand officer. | | |
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 | British Vogue |
| Edward Meadham reveals the creative process behind Blue Roses, his new label designed exclusively for Dover Street Market and Matchesfashion.com. | | |
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