At DragCon we get to see all these 13-year-old kids who are gay, straight, nonbinary, whatever, and they are the hope for the future. They don’t have the baggage that people from our generation—or even the generations right before theirs—had. That’s the revolution right there. | | | | Before the show. Norman Norell with models, Vogue 1963.
(Bert Stern/Condé Nast Collection/Getty Images) | | | | | | “At DragCon we get to see all these 13-year-old kids who are gay, straight, nonbinary, whatever, and they are the hope for the future. They don’t have the baggage that people from our generation—or even the generations right before theirs—had. That’s the revolution right there.”
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| | rantnrave:// Someday, we're going to have "iconic" sneakers frozen stiff in bronze, relics of a bygone era, like Roman coins or arrowheads from the IRON AGE. That's not really a prediction. It's already happening. Whether these items are preserved in time or buried for some archaeological dig to turn up later depends on culture. Sneakers have been central to style long enough that the industry is turning to legacy to market their undeniable power to move money and minds. The AIR JORDAN, CHUCK TAYLOR, VANS OLD SKOOL (and YEEZY BOOST?) have made it into a pantheon of prized objects both classic and part of a never-ending cycle of hype. Like denim, sneakers both follow fashion and ignore it. And how does this affect business? You can always ask the industry's favorite sneaker grump. As fragile objects—and I'm talking decades, here—they're either disposable or prone to decay, depending on one's perspective. It takes a lot of conservation muscle to save sneakers sans coating them with an alloyed metal. We've got a certified sneaker collector here at REDEF. I'll follow one commenter on INSTAGRAM and name him only as IMELDA HIRSCHHORN. Oh, and REEBOK made LISA FRANK sneakers... Scent is an instinctive part of life, tied to memory and personal expression. Creating and selling fragrance is a global, multi-billion dollar industry with deep ties to agriculture and chemistry. Where is the culture of fragrance going, and where has it been? FashionSET: The Art and Science of Scent... FASHIONISTA is dropping some absolute gems this week. Fashion week starter packs. In the site's POP CULTURE week, FAWNIA SOO HOO on THE FRESH PRINCE and STEPHANIE SALTZMAN on SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE and INA GARTEN... Good luck getting to this pop-up shop... After stops in PARIS, TOKYO, and SEOUL, the LV exhibition "Volez, Voguez, Voyagez" takes NYC in October... RIP SIR DAVID TANG. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Punk. Icon. Sage. Survivor. For "Out's" 25th anniversary, RuPaul sashays down memory lane with her cohorts, World of Wonder's Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato. | | |
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| Belonging starts with a T-shirt. | | |
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| Scent is an instinctive part of life, tied to memory and personal expression. Creating fragrance is a global, multi-billion dollar industry with deep ties to agriculture and chemistry. Where is the culture of fragrance going, and where has it been? | | |
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| “He’s the influencer’s influencer’s influencer.” | | |
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| On the tenth anniversary of the CW’s flagship series, "Gossip Girl’s" actors, producers, and crew members reflect on the frenzy, contemplate the series’s lasting impact, and, yes, dish on its on-set dramas. | | |
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| From the feet of skaters to the shoe rack of Julia Roberts and fashion weeks around the world, just why has the fashion world gone Old Skool? | | |
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| Kendrick Lamar has been wearing the Nike Cortez lately, and the sneaker's connection to Los Angeles and its streets is undeniable. Here's how it happened. | | |
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| Many brands are touting their transparency, but does it help shoppers make better choices? | | |
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| Now that "fashion month" (the consecutive New York, London, Milan, and Paris fashion weeks) is swiftly approaching, it is interesting to note how much the fashion show has changed. | | |
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| Blockchain could be used to make every SKU produced by every brand accessible to any retailer, editor or consumer, feeding new digital tools that would be massively democratising for the curation of fashion, argues Charles Beckwith. | | |
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| Grabit, a robotics startup, makes machines that can work at 20 times the pace of humans. | | |
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| And I’d argue it’s worth showing up early for. | | |
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| Samuel Spritzer's company, Splay, runs the web presences for Supreme and Cav Empt, as well as artist and Jordan Brand-collaborator, KAWS. | | |
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| He also owns one of Hedi Slimane's personal Saint Laurent jackets. | | |
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| Why millennials are evading tech and searching for simplicity. | | |
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| This latest installment in our series looking at the impact of digital technologies on the art world focuses on the way digital glitch aesthetics are mixing with traditional textiles to make an entirely new form of fashion for the 21st century. | | |
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