There's nothing wrong with being a thinker. Where I'm from, being smart has a negative connotation—that means you sold out, that means you're a geek. I'm just trying to say, 'F*** all that. This is the plan: You are the future, that other s*** is the past, so let's make a better way.' | | | | Mouth off. A woman samples lipstick shades on a strip of paper. Stephens College, Columbia, MO, 1945.
(Nina Keen/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “There's nothing wrong with being a thinker. Where I'm from, being smart has a negative connotation—that means you sold out, that means you're a geek. I'm just trying to say, 'F*** all that. This is the plan: You are the future, that other s*** is the past, so let's make a better way.'”
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 | The New York Times |
| A New York State assemblywoman and the Model Alliance are working on an amendment to close a loophole in anti-discrimination laws. | | |
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 | GQ Style |
| Plus, Rocky answers questions from Raf Simons, André 3000, Mahershala Ali, and more. | | |
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 | Racked |
| They say the scene isn’t about what you look like, but how you feel. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Outlier makes clothes for the future--whatever that future looks like. | | |
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 | Pi.co |
| A conversation with Outlier co-founder Abe Burmeister about future of fashion and the role of technical clothing. Plus how to bootstrap a fashion business. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| They spread from the big athletic brands to high fashion, and have now trickled through the mass market. | | |
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 | SSENSE |
| Julie Zerbo of The Fashion Law explains the importance of ethics influencer marketing and why fashion is moving towards transparency. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| Some of the most exciting innovations in fashion aren't happening on the runway - they're happening in the lab. | | |
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 | British Vogue |
| Seoul Fashion Week sent winds of change through its emerging fashion industry as young designers added defiant glamour to a city at the cusp of the North Korean conflict. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Generation Z are building business empires from their bedrooms using sites such as Depop and eBay. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D) announced the introduction of legislation on Monday that, if passed, will provide models with protections against sexual and other forms of harassment while on the job. | | |
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 | Marketplace |
| Fenty Beauty isn't just for white women or just for women of color -- it's for everyone. | | |
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 | The Cut |
| The same industries that exploit us turn around and sell our exploitation back to us. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| The approach -- predicated on the notion that a brand is your ‘best friend forever’ -- is the core narrative behind the rise of some of the most successful direct-to-consumer womenswear and beauty brands. | | |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
| It’s why something may cost less on your phone than your laptop. | | |
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 | Parisian Gentleman |
| On Internet Cultures For better and for worse, the internet has given common banners to scattered individuals. Each passion, however popular or exclusive, however virtuous or otherwise, now has a community of enthusiasts and advocates. In almost all cases, the passion long preceded its online existence, and so the internet has both connected people to their shared interest, and changed it. | | |
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| Fashionista |
| Kim Wilcox also drops a hint about Eleven's brand-new outfit. | | |
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 | Highsnobiety |
| Since the dawn of the industry, sneaker releases have been plagued by accusations of unfair dealing. Old 'heads tell stories of their plug at Footlocker. Some collectors even became their own plug and got retail jobs themselves. All the while, anyone out of the loop was forced to wait in line like they were buying Coldplay concert tickets. | | |
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 | 1 Granary |
| Whatever you think Joanna’s graduation collection is about you are probably wrong. | | |
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 | Financial Times |
| Developing countries are at risk of losing cheap manufacturing if leisurewear companies accelerate automation, "Financial Times" reports. | | |
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