I would love to find commercial people that have a vision, that look to the future — because people who just know what they sold yesterday, they’re not needed. | | | | Prada S/S 2018 at Milan Fashion Week, Sept. 21, 2017.
(Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I would love to find commercial people that have a vision, that look to the future — because people who just know what they sold yesterday, they’re not needed.”
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| | rantnrave:// PRADA showed another standout collection for S/S 2018. Inspiration carried through from the Prada men's show in June: comics and stories told through narrative frames. This time, the show celebrated the work of eight female artists, "women drawn by women." And some of the clothes, brilliantly, looked as if they'd stepped right out of a manga page. A 2D effect, carried through on jackets, skirts, and pants, gave the illusion of depth and a hand-illustrated look. Contours carved by SHARPIE. The woman imagined in this collection might be the heroine of a future-retro detective story, noir mixed with electro. There was a clash of uniform trenches and overcoats with flashes of leopard, zebra, and tiger stripe. Loved how the manga-style frames appeared throughout the collection—repeat prints and illustrations ran over coats, bags, shirts, and shoes. The label is still provocative. Still stands for creativity. That can be tough to filter and spread through a wider universe of merch. The influence of Prada's tessuto nylon handbags and hip-slung fanny packs are back with the wave of '90s trends. Can the company sweep fashion with another cult category of accessories today? LUCA SOLCA has some thoughts on the company's merchandising strategy... More from Milan: FENDI, LUISA BECCARIA, MAX MARA, and JEREMY SCOTT's world of pop at MOSCHINO. The space Scott has carved out, bringing savvy merchandising and brand collabs to the label, is both a logical progression and further commercialization of FRANCO MOSCHINO's vision from the 1980s. This season it's MY LITTLE PONY... Some good stuff coming through in bitstreams: the second episode of former FASHION BROS podcast FAILING UPWARDS and RED BULL TV's second episode of SOCIAL FABRIC, on t-shirts... DIOR's first US retrospective will open in DENVER... LVMH announces environmental efforts... RIP LILIANE BETTENCOURT. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Also creating communities via clothing at Fendi and MaxMara - and some confusion at Alberta Ferretti. | | |
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| From garment workers to designers, immigrants drive the apparel industry. | | |
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| Journalist Tim Blanks and FIT Museum director Valerie Steele tell us what sets the Antwerp-based fashion designer’s presentations apart. | | |
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| As a movement crystalises, the fashion press insists on clichés. | | |
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| Most people think more reviews means a better product, but do they? | | |
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| Five years ago, "The New York Times" boardroom seemed an unlikely place for a tête-à-tête with former Gawker star Choire Sicha. | | |
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| At Beautycon--where Sephora meets Coachella--cosmetics are sold with the self-empowering language of Instagram. | | |
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| Modern Meadow’s factory will crank out leather in yeast-fermentation tanks. | | |
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| Edgardo Osorio built a fashion empire and is quick to defend it. Now he’s fighting a “high ranking government official” who’s had some shoe trouble of her own. | | |
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| The glut of cheap fashion the world produces is destroying the environment. We need to slow down, and practice a different form of materialism. | | |
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| Two opposite American brands discuss how to succeed in fashion, then and now. | | |
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| The higgledy-piggledy medieval villages that perch on top of Tuscany’s rolling hills are famous for their gastronomic bounties. | | |
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| Forever 21 was selling a T-shirt that looked very similar to an indie designer’s. And it’s not the first time the store has come under fire. | | |
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| Every New York runway featured at least two models of color and more good news from theFashionSpot runway diversity report for NYFW Spring 2018. | | |
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| The history of the country is still here in so many ways. If you leave the city, step out of your comfort some, talk to strangers, you will be pleasantly surprised. | | |
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| Marlboro's iconic branding is the hottest thing in streetwear right now. | | |
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| Is it inspiration? Is it imitation? And why -- exactly -- is everyone always knocking-off each other? | | |
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| Earlier today at Disrupt, Kirsten Green, founder of the early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firm Forerunner Ventures, sat down for a quick conversation about her work. | | |
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| But it now has a chance to fix a mistake that costs states billions in sales taxes. | | |
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| “Those roots might give you strength, but you have to look forward, you cannot live in the past.” | | |
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