Don't dress to kill, dress to survive. | | | | | Former residence of the Beau, 4 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, W1. (Gwynhafyr) | | | | |  | “Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.”
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| | rantnrave:// Paris Day 2. DRIES. MARGIELA. More collabs: FENTY x PUMA. MURAKAMI x GUESS. NAS x PUBLIC SCHOOL announced. My favorite 21st-century NAS quote: at around 28:58… When worlds collide: how does J.G. BALLARD’s CRASH, influential to so many pomo thinkers (and this RCA designer) relate to this superb interview with J.W. ANDERSON? (promise not to say pomo no mo’)…. Couture from car parts… AMAZON revolutionized logistics, enabled innumerable startups to spin up virtual servers with AWS on the cheap (pay-as-you-go), algo-priced a book at, ah, let’s see, twenty-three million, some odd dollars, and change, so—what do y’all think about AMAZON FASHION? Would love to see an AMAZON BASICS line that embodies that same egalitarian, no-brand-brand their tech line serves up. Translate that to apparel. A 2000s-office hacker aesthetic meets SAVE KHAKI quality. Or better yet, 1990s-era JOHN DOERR style. Packaged in that brown cardboard box… A new vision for the phrase, “like watching ice melt”… Is STATES OF UNDRESS getting a season 2? Say yes, VICE… The OG dandy. Brummell, the BEAU. Feared, followed, admired, ridiculed—mostly beloved—in his day, and centuries thereafter. MICHAEL CHABON wrote this incredible piece about his (dandyist) son, ABE… As CHRISTINA MOON points out (got TECH PACKS, anyone?), discussions about flows of capital, global supply chains (chainz), and “transnational circuits of labor” disintegrate when confronted with the daily, lived experience of people working in the fashion industry. That goes for style as a form of individual expression, too. Although dandyism represents many things, IMHO it resonates most for its representation of freedom—an individual’s right to exist according to self-made rules, forging a path using the stuff of contemporary society itself—symbolism, irony, fashion, wit. This giving over to artifice, not as duplicity/deception or as superficial veneer, but from the Latin root facere (facio): “I do, I make”… New LAPHAM’S QUARTERLY out, themed flesh. Thus far not one mention of underboob. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | GQ |
| 13-year-old Abe Chabon went to Paris Fashion Week and dragged along his dad, writer Michael Chabon. | | |
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 | 032c |
| With immense and tireless energy, Jonathan William Anderson rails against every normative value and conventional assumption. | | |
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 | Lapham’s Quarterly |
| All well and good for business, but when I read in the papers the story of a man marrying his smartphone in a Las Vegas wedding chapel, I’m reminded that the technological divorce of the flesh from the body is as futile as the religious divorce of the body from the soul. Both strategies are as foolish as the division of the flesh into prime and subprime cuts of race and class. | | |
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 | Hypebeast |
| While the term may be newly ubiquitous, athleisure is not a new concept. Sports apparel has been a key element of streetwear since its infancy in hip-hop culture, dating back to when track suits were the go-to g-boy garb. | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| Some of Paris Fashion Week's biggest shows take place under the gilded rotunda of the Grand Palais, but they're not all such spectacle-driven affairs. This spring, Antonin Tron of the freshly minted label Atlein held his in ... his apartment. “My mom was there serving coffee. Some of the models were my friends,” the designer recalls. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Jeans, the quintessential American garment, and perhaps the most ubiquitous item of clothing in the world, are evolving under the influence of numerous forces. | | |
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 | Complex |
| LSWOP is a company that rents out luxury goods, including Yeezy Boosts. | | |
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 | Eater NY |
| Some of the food will even be pink. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Should we accept fashion’s experiments in face ink -- which often evoke gang culture and incarceration -- at, well, face value? | | |
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 | The Baffler |
| She could have worn a 'F*** Art Let’s Dance' shirt to the debate. | | |
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 | Advertising Age |
| Not content with conquering the mass market, the internet giant now wants to dominate the more upmarket end of the fashion spectrum, and is rolling out an international ad campaign to boost its style credentials. | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| Collecting "hype" garments, particularly in streetwear, is something that has turned everyday people from all over the globe into profitable merchants and even micro-celebrities, with strong social media followings and sizable clout in the #industry. | | |
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| i-D Magazine |
| Katie Hillier and Luella Bartley are two of fashion's most astute female voices, with their entry onto the fashion scene in the late 90s as Hillier Bartley paving the way for a generation of female designers in a previously male-dominated industry. | | |
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 | WWD |
| Pixability reveals social-media personalities Michelle Phan, Rachel Levin and Bunny Meyer attracted the most YouTube views for beauty videos this year, and Jasmine Brown, Stef Sanjati and Cristine Rotenberg registered the highest subscriber growth rates. | | |
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 | Put This On |
| On a whim, Sayaka and I went hiking and checked out this trunk show by Epaulet in Los Angeles. I used to feel self-conscious about visiting a nice store in super shabby clothes… but now I think that’s silly! I enjoyed talking with these guys, and ended up ordering a custom shirt and a pair of pants, with my wife’s real encouragement. | | |
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