Suzy Menkes was a big fan of last week’s Dior couture show, describing it as “stunning, extraordinary, exceptional”.
Not so, the show she saw 10 years ago today. Her archive review is a reminder of how couture at the turn of the century dealt much more explicitly with sexual themes…
“With heavy breathing and cracks of whiplash [...]
The relationship between tattoo culture and luxury fashion has been growing stronger over recent years; helped, in part, by magazines such as Sang Bleu, which have brought a new aesthetic understanding of tattooes into the mainstream.
While the impressively ambitious Sang Bleu goes from strength to strength, tattoo culture is evolving from a tactical relationship with [...]
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A recent TED conference talk from Johanna Blakley of USC on the growing debate over the relationship between intellectual property protection and fashion design.
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Icho is a Japanese fashion brand which builds a meditative quality into the brand. Instead of communicating meaning through the marketing, it transfers the meaning through the product itself.
It’s an approach – and a narrative – which is gathering pace in the post-recessionary environment.
From the Icho website; “In this age of mechanization and automation, people [...]
A TODD COLE FILM : RODARTE SS2010 / A SPACE ODYSSEYpar motwary
New ways to showcase collections are rapidly developing, and speeding up… Towards the end of last year, Adam Kimmel released this movie…
Now Sono create an equally adrenalized showcase for their new collection, albeit one with models that look significantly more nervous…