The term ‘streetwear’ for me is a genre of art and design that revolves around principles of irony, DIY, and pop-culture. | | | | | Traveler to Juneau with badge collection, 2006. (gillfoto) | | | | | | “The term ‘streetwear’ for me is a genre of art and design that revolves around principles of irony, DIY, and pop-culture.”
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| | rantnrave:// Loved this interview with VIRGIL ABLOH and JONATHAN CHEUNG, courtesy of HIGHSNOBIETY. Make scrolling fun. A fluid way to view a collection, instead of the heavy click-click, click again, of a slideshow... GR8 read today from THE ATLANTIC on surveillance. JOSEPH TUROW (UPENN) talks surveillance that follows you, not in the traditional sense of in-store video cameras, but in the form of any device you carry on your person, all the time. Read: smartphones (possibly implants). Turow takes issue with the label “privacy policy,” favoring instead “how we use your information.” Lots of lingo out there in privacy policies is pretty standardized—could be a job for AI. Would be interested to know about data analysis on word count, syntax, usage, etc. in privacy policies. Interesting confluence with this W MAGAZINE feature that brings together #GIGI and #KENDALL with the stylings of RYAN TRECARTIN and LIZZIE FITCH. MASSIMILIANO GIONI remarks on the work of Trecartin and Fitch by saying, “Their vision of tomorrow is equally terrifying and liberating, Edenic and apocalyptic.” Same could be said of companies’ ambitions for surveillance as outlined by Turow. There’s so much precedent for tracking our consumer movements in, say, credit card networks (wayyyyy pre-internet). It’s not to watch you, *per se,* it’s to know what you want to buy. Some features we like—for instance seeing "real time" traffic flow—require a certain, integration in the data flow. Alright, is it even possible to discuss this without it sounding creepy or, conversely, utopian? It’s harmless until it’s not. Watch GHOST IN THE SHELL: SAC (subtitled only) for captivating insight into this… The MUSEUM OF ENGLISH RURAL LIFE is filling out a collection of workwear with things like HUNTER BOOTS, a BARBOUR waxed jacket, and a LAND ROVER b/c they are indicative of, well, an English Rural Lifestyle™. Institutions have their own reasons to collect for posterity, what’re ours? For the dumpster? ;) j/k, j/k... Check out ANGELA AHRENDTS talking about her career and plans for APPLE retail—calls them by their location within communities, not *stores*... More fashion exhibitions: NARCISO, CHAGALL x MISSONI, FASHION, FILM, and FAME, at the photography museum with—remarkably and consistently—the best photography shows out there (IMHO). Don’t miss it. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| Levi's Head of Design Jonathan Cheung and OFF-WHITE designer Virgil Abloh break down the story behind their forward-thinking collaboration. | | |
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| Retail is on its way to a future of personalized everything-even prices. | | |
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| Lisa Logan’s salon, The Nail Suite, is located in Harlem. Why are you still reading this and not already in Harlem? | | |
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| Interview with model and activist Rain Dove for "Polyester Magazine." | | |
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| Stylish, affordable clothing has been a hit with shoppers. Now companies are trying to reduce its social and environmental costs. | | |
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| A-list guests, trumpet players, voguing models and 110 looks: here’s what went down at last night’s show (Oct 19). | | |
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| The fashion magazine picked Clinton, no surprise. But why did it decide to weigh in? | | |
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| On why diversity in the fashion world matters. | | |
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| Yoox Net-A-Porter Group’s The Outnet is working to redefine previous season retailing by not skimping on service despite lower price tags. | | |
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| Early last century, Chicago native Mainbocher managed to open a Parisian haute couture house and dress society’s elite, including the Duchess of Windsor and Babe Paley. A new exhibition at the Chicago History Museum explores his work. | | |
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| Oh, and using NSFW nudes to come out to his grandpa. | | |
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| Now that she is 75, a United Nations honorary ambassador and a symbol of female empowerment, the most famous female superhero may deserve a new look. | | |
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| The most enviable status symbol of the early-2000s had noting to do with the size of your house or the make of your car. Instead, it was the brand of your jeans. | | |
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| Riccardo Bestetti, a premier artisan and a legendary shoemaker passed away earlier this week due to a lung related ailment. He leaves behind a wife and a young son. I am deeply saddened by the news and this loss. As a patron of artisanal shoe making, one gets to know the artists and artisans quite well and as a result the sense of loss is felt deeper. | | |
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| Never had a personal coat of arms? Now you can wear a designer one | | |
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| Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's augmented reality. | | |
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| "Garage" has named Thessaly La Force to the role of editor-in-chief. Founder Dasha Zhukova will become the title’s editorial director. | | |
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| Angela Ahrendts, Apple's Senior Vice President of Retail, was the opening speaker for Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women Summit, speaking a little about the next-generation Apple retail stores, her vision for Apple's physical presence and more. | | |
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| Plugged-in to the future, the artists Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin take Kendall and Gigi Hadid to a whole other dimension. | | |
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