An Off-White T-shirt is like 200 bucks, and a hoodie is like $300. Don’t let Zara and Uniqlo educate you on the price of a garment because that’s not fashion. That’s McDonald’s. Your health is tied to that 99-cent nugget. | | | | | Hanbok jump, Seoul, 2012. (leo gonzales/Flickr) | | | | | | “An Off-White T-shirt is like 200 bucks, and a hoodie is like $300. Don’t let Zara and Uniqlo educate you on the price of a garment because that’s not fashion. That’s McDonald’s. Your health is tied to that 99-cent nugget.”
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| | rantnrave:// It’s not often that a conference mixes critical ideas with practical demonstrations. Even less frequent that it’s done well. So there I sat the morning of Nov. 18, in a subterranean conference room at FIT on 28TH ST, marveling at the actively changing history of HANBOK (the traditional dress of KOREA), and watching as master artisan HAEJA KOO dressed models in layer upon layer of hanbok wedding attire (the bride's skirts alone were 7 layers deep). Both CAROLINA HERRERA and KARL LAGERFELD have taken inspiration from Korean traditional dress, and there has been a recent resurgence of it in street style. Its history runs deep. Hanbok has moved from people's everyday dress to aristocratic attire to formal dress seen only at events such as weddings and diplomatic occasions. And now, it's being reimagined by fashion designers and worn by stylish young Koreans and actors (both in K-dramas and tourist attractions) alike. Clothing is one of the strongest traditions people have, and it never ceases to amaze me how these get carried forward through centuries, remixed and altered, yet still constant as a symbol of national identity. Thank you to the HANBOK ADVANCEMENT CENTER for organizing… Check out our latest REDEF FashionSET “Stories From the Mill: Making Textiles” for a collection of views inside the places where textiles are made, with notes on how they transform local economies... Grateful to THE FASHION LAW for following the NAVAJO NATION’s case against URBAN OUTFITTERS to its conclusion. The two parties have settled the case and plan to partner on a “supply and license agreement”…ALEXANDRA JACOBS contrasts two very different perspectives on why the MET and the HENRY J. FORD MUSEUM collect fashion, and I appreciate the critical attention paid to the subject. “Why’s this stuff here?” is always a good question to ask… Collab of the weekend: RUGRATS x KITH. The MEMPHIS-inspired title graphics of that NICKELODEON cartoon emblazoned across brightly-colored sweatshirts somehow feels right. Could it be because, in their time, MEMPHIS designers rejected the past and moved blazingly into the future—through a delirium of color, shape, and pattern—wishing to shock everyone to their senses? | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| An Off-White T-shirt is like 200 bucks, and a hoodie is like $300. Don’t let Zara and Uniqlo educate you on the price of a garment because that’s not fashion. That’s McDonald’s. Your health is tied to that 99-cent nugget. | | |
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