All you can do is make your art, run it up a flagpole and see who salutes. | | | | | Workers at this garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh unionized in 2015. (Solidarity Center) | | | | | | “All you can do is make your art, run it up a flagpole and see who salutes.”
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| | rantnrave:// In CHICAGO for the week, and LYRIC OPERA’s staging of LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR has me contemplating the way costume and cloth add to narrative, in this case the haunting and bloody tale of an arranged marriage set against the moors of SCOTLAND (s/o to TARTAN). RICHARD MARTIN wrote that tartan’s tribal roots turn out to be a more entrepreneurial brand of nationalism, one rooted in opportunism and imagination—perhaps no less cultural. How many times in our lives do clothes represent a particular moment in time, a memory, a story? In how many stories does clothing serve as a surrogate for a person, a character, for lived experience? Some fantastic stories about clothes from the weekend: a KAEPERNICK jersey, custom fittings with ALAÏA, YEEZY acquisition strategies. CINDERELLA’S glass slipper (how about a glass dress?), HESTER PRYNNE’s scarlet letter, YUKI-ONNA and the woodcutter. All the world’s a stage, indeed… A new report on workers' rights from the UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR will be presented to the UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY on OCT. 20—thanks to SOLIDARY CENTER for sharing... VETEMENTS garage sale happening today in SEOUL to debut the "OFFICIAL FAKE" collection… An abecedarium of SUPREME. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Colin Kaepernick's jersey is bigger than football, whether it's authentic or bootleg. | | |
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| What did those fancy couture clients know about fashion that I didn’t? A great deal, as it turned out, but I wasn’t asking the right questions. | | |
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| As more and more labels add men’s wear to their women’s wear shows, who benefits? Two critics debate the question. | | |
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| Imitate these few successful shoppers. | | |
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| An alphabetical guide to understanding the world’s most coded, collected, and coveted brand. | | |
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| Startups and big brands are increasingly finding ways for customers to create their ideal products, tailored just for them. | | |
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| We take a look at the recent resurgence of airbrushed T-shirts and look back at the history of this more than 60-year-old "trend." | | |
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| The family-run Paron Fabrics has been in business for 76 years, but like two other fabric stores on the block of W. 39th Street, it will be closing due to rising rents and landlords who would rather have their tenants serving up craft beers than bolts of fabric. | | |
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| Suzy on the Barbican's new exhibition, The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined | | |
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| Unpacking the impulses behind oversized styling. | | |
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| Olivier Zahm interviews fashion historian and curator, Olivier Saillard, the director of the Palais Galliera (the Musée de la Mode) in Paris. | | |
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| Edward Meadham is a fashion designer best known for his work as half of foundering duo of Meadham Kirchhoff, one of the most striking collections to come out of London in the past decade. There, Meadham helped to create a riotously romantic and unconventional label intensely favored among industry insiders and fashion devotees, alike. | | |
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| When Larycia Hawkins, the first black woman to receive tenure at Wheaton College, made a symbolic gesture of support for Muslims, the evangelical college became divided over what intellectual freedom on its campus really meant. | | |
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| It’s all going to be okay. | | |
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| As Primark funds its first cotton project in India and Zara unzips its first fully sustainable collection, _shift asks if fast fashion will ever be ethical. | | |
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| A 116-year-old evening gown in the collection of the New Brunswick Museum is a true example of cutting-edge fashion. | | |
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| Thump heads to Moscow and steps into the fascinating and visually stunning world of Skotoboinya. | | |
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| For a decade Schwipe was the city’s loosest, weirdest and most loved offering. We look back on the brand worn by everyone from Kanye West to your first housemates. | | |
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| Workers rights--and the freedom to form unions and freely assemble—are key to achieving human rights, according to a new report by UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Maina Kiai. The Solidarity Center is among organizations contributing to the research. | | |
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| You may know him as the designer behind Stutterheim’s perfect rubber macs, now Alexander Stutterheim is getting in the luxury sweater business. | | |
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