Versace did not, like some of his followers, simply convey the prostitute to the salon and runway. He did what fashion can do when it finds inspiration on the street. He represented her as glamour. | | | | Veruschka in Egypt, Vogue 1967.
(Franco Rubartelli/Condé Nast Collection/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Versace did not, like some of his followers, simply convey the prostitute to the salon and runway. He did what fashion can do when it finds inspiration on the street. He represented her as glamour.”
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| | rantnrave:// What else does fashion know? That’s the question posed by VANESSA FRIEDMAN and ELIZABETH PATON in this NYT piece on the fashion industry’s recent moves to disown TERRY RICHARDSON. The issue with banning Richardson? The industry seems to have made no concerted efforts to ban the photographer until after the HARVEY WEINSTEIN scandal hit; after several whistleblowing activists began speaking publicly about model abuse; and after models themselves began sharing their own chilling stories, making the power dynamics that worked to coerce them all too clear. When is silence on an issue complicity? There have been exceptions regarding the Richardson allegations, with some companies taking action before others (detailed in the NYT piece) but Richardson's work was visible in wider culture years after stories of abuse went public. There's another open secret here: removing all past and future traces of Terry Richardson does not solve the problem. So the timing of the Richardson ban is conspicuous. It risks looking like an ill-timed exercise in corporate self-preservation, or worse, disingenuous. It inevitably leads to further inquiry. It's not a bad thing. There's more to the allegations of sexual abuse than one person, one agency, or one profession. So, indeed, what else does fashion know? Internal e-mail blasts and public statements have symbolic weight, but how can they be joined to effective change? Accountability? There's a lot left to be done... SOGO department store's outdoor LED screen covers a surface area of "more than five full-sized tennis courts"... The MUSÉE YVES SAINT LAURENT put 7,000 pieces of its collection online... RIP JOHN MOLLO, STAR WARS costume designer. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| This week, in an apparently defensive move after a social media outcry, the biggest fashion magazines cut ties with the photographer Terry Richardson over his history of alleged sexual harassment. | | |
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| The most important wristwatch in the world just made history at auction. | | |
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| The prostitute, courtesan, sex worker - all as presented in popular culture - are exerting a strong influence on the looks you may want to wear now. | | |
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| With a ‘streetwear meets erotica dominatrix’ aesthetic, the 25-year-old stylist aims to build his own brand at the intersection of fashion, music and philanthropy. | | |
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| Prabal Gurung urges his colleagues to examine their own tolerance of sexual harassment. | | |
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| Fashion is missing a viable, desirable sustainability strategy. The way clothes are made and marketed is nearly the same as it was 50 years ago. To truly change consumers' behavior, the fashion sustainability conversation needs to inspire consumers to embrace it on the emotional level. | | |
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| Biplanes, desert sands and, of course, hundreds of rare Louis Vuitton bags, NYC's new Volez, Voguez, Voyagez exhibit is a fully immersive museum experience. | | |
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| Talk of inclusion in beauty has rightfully reached a fever pitch. Brands like Rihanna's Fenty have proven that if you make a wide range of shades, people will buy them. Instagram has made beauty a lot more democratic, giving a diverse range of faces exposure they probably never would have received otherwise. | | |
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| Hearst and WSJ join Condé Nast in deciding to cut ties with the photographer. | | |
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| Designer Errolson Hugh was created some of the most-challenging intepretations of classic Nike sneakers, and he didn't hold back on the Air Force 1. | | |
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| “Insert Complicated Title Here." drops details on Abloh's design techniques, IKEA and Nike collaborations. | | |
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| Hip Cuban apparel brand Clandestina is not waiting to see how President Donald Trump’s increased restrictions on travel to the Caribbean island will affect its bottom line. Instead, the company is making its apparel shoppable on an international scale via e-commerce, thereby becoming the first-ever Cuban brand to sell online to the rest of the world. | | |
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| Fresh from a Paris Fashion Week triumph with a signature hard-edged collection inspired by Wong Kar-wai film 2046, Ma has another date in mind, China’s Winter Olympics in 2022, with design role at Kolon Sport China. | | |
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| With Thailand’s year of mourning almost over, political observers - as well as fashion brands and retailers - are starting to look to the future. | | |
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| Juliana Huxtable--the writer, artist, performer, and DJ--speaks with Solomon Chase about music, conspiracy theories, and reclaiming symbols instead of fetishizing them. | | |
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| Christene Barberich is the global editor-in-chief & co-founder of the award-winning digital media company, Refinery29, which has a global audience footprint of more than 400 million across all platforms. She is also the "New York Times" best-selling author of Style Stalking and the host of the podcast, UnStyled. | | |
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| On leaving a job where nobody knew me. | | |
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| Emma McKee, the self-proclaimed "Stitch Gawd," has spread her wings beyond cross-stitching patches for her favorite rappers. | | |
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| Last week, rapper Gucci Mane married Keyisha Ka’oir in a lavish ceremony. As I scrolled through his Instagram, something struck me about the way the couple was dressed. Mr. and Mrs. Gucci Mane, like many rappers and their significant others before them, looked like the villains in a JRPG. | | |
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| Donna Karan on getting fired, and rehired, by her “other mother.” | | |
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