These are all styles I could come up with. Maybe you canadd more. Fashion is constantly referring to past styles rather then coming up with a leap forward.Everything is a Remix. Originality is mostly rejected and therefore not all to common. I think it shows you know the vocabulary and language then a lack of ideas.
The MoMA exhibition: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World explores references in the arts. Style.com: The current state of painting, which the show sets out to explore, mirrors the current state of fashion. In the show’s catalog, curator Laura Hoptman observes, contemporary art-making is “inspired by, refers to, or avails itself of styles, subjects, motifs, materials, strategies, and ideas” already recognizable to us. Fashion and art (and music, for that matter) have become do-over cultures, with designers and painters alike recycling the past (near, distant, and points in between) at such speeds it’s hard to keep up.
To coincide with the launch of Wang‘s spring collection, an installation was put together in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman in NYC’s Fifth Avenue. The displays depict a bedroom filled with key pieces from the collection, which borrow signature design elements from the sneaker world, like the Stan Smith’s white/fairway green color scheme and unmistakable paneling from Air Jordan retros.
I felt great loss when Helmut Lang left the stage and I felt only mild comfort in Hedi Slimane. I called him Hard Core Helmut, he came across much more heavy and had a much less democratic price tag then Helmut. But he was cool. I never felt the cool again until his latest show.
Style.com puts it like this:” But one could describe the outfits ad nauseam without ever getting to the rub. Hedi’s boys, girls, and inbetweeners are an artfully assembled off-the-rack simulacra of cool. When they’re amplified through Slimane’s unwholesome instinct to shrink—because cool is never wholesome—they come to represent an instantly accessible gateway to a destination otherwise verboten.
Backstage, Slimane said: “I just issued a project called Paris Sessions, which is about a young generation of musicians in Paris, and the show is about them, really. It is an homage.” Thus the pins on those berets reflected the lyrics of a song by Mystere written especially for this evening’s show. And it was surely some of those young musicians—with cool names that include Vickie Chérie, Leo Bear Creek, and Melody Prochet—who sat cross-legged on the floor in front of the front row. But whether he’s referencing his beloved American musical scenes or the contemporary Parisian one, the power of Slimane’s clothes is that, to those who care, they are the coolest clothes on earth”.
I had my “OUI” episode a decade ago as art director in New York. Not to be proud of. It was in the aftermath of the legendary period working with iconic photographers as Helmut Newton and Jean-Paul Goude and Guy Bouding among others. I was hired much later in the smutty period.
Here the “Oui/Non” t-shirt with the original logo worn by Anna Ewers in the 2015 Pirelli Calendar.
Plastic bags come normally not as beautiful as in this photograph. Watching them dancing in a deserted alley in New York even can be very poetic. But they will rather kill us. Read more Salon.com: “Plastic bags are killing us”
Smashbox, infamous Guerilla marketing veterans strike again. Here their Cadillac at a stop in Marfa, Texas on their Bing to Basel Tour from L.A. to Miami. Artwork by Donald Robertson.
Beyoncé speaks to me the first time in this silly low budget video. And I mean not because of the healthy T-Shirt. It’s fun too watch and a good dance track.
This is what the man repeller has to say: Here’s the thing, though: this semi-crude selfie video, when held up against the highly produced and incredibly styled videos that are typically indicative of a Beyonce production, could theoretically make a much larger statement about the way in which we consume digital entertainment.
Maybe in 2014, it’s no longer really about achieving the most beautiful, or rehearsed “shot” so much as it is making sure that your point is conveyed unflinchingly and clearly.
The video in question, which commanded parallel engagement and enthusiasm vis-a-vis it’s fancier siblings, seems like an old-school nod to creative substance (solid dance moves, a human necessity to connect with, or experience celebration) that is being propelled by the proliferation of technology in a way that is nostalgic but fundamentally only available to be tested as a result of progression. This video stands as an interesting case study on the topic of over-saturation and what that concentration leads to.
If it does, in fact, drive the generation of minimalism, does that mean we’re entering the age of modernist digital content?
I don’t get it, the style of the video a response to overly produced videos, a case study made possible only by the progression of technology? MTV anybody? I don’t get it, but I am just a man.
I remember this guy riding along the streets of Munich in his convertible Rolls Royce. We all thought he is quite nutty and lacks taste. Who would have known his legacy still lives on. An interesting story with Korean Sung-Joo Kim, the present owner of MCM in “>”The Business of Fashion”. She shares the MCM story from the days in Munich to a global brand.
How is it possible to carry a brand from owner to owner, to different markets, through 5 decades without a real message and identity?
One of the best known designers in the US. I love the joie de travail she radiates. This is how design should be, healthy fun. Here a tour of her studio in L.A.
My favorite Girl Band. Professional, great looks, super cute, they play there instruments really well, unless you can fake that on video. And they let me think to finally start learning Japanese.
1. Models start young. Really young. Cover model Thairine Garcia was 14 when she appeared in the February 2012 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Brasil. The Council of Fashion Designers of America recommends only using models older than 16, and child models in New York have brand new legal protection, but the industry is mostly self-regulated, and there is no broader oversight. Designers continue to employ models as young as 13.
2. Modeling can take a high emotional toll on young women. A 2012 Model Alliance survey of 85 female fashion models in the United States revealed that almost two-thirds of them were told to lose weight and that almost 70% suffered from anxiety or depression. Georgina Wilkin shared her story to call attention to the prevalence of eating disorders among young models. Many girls recruited by the international fashion industry are leaving home for the first time, often unaccompanied by family, and are emotionally unprepared for the pressures of the industry. Isabelle Caro, Ana Carolina Reston, and Hila Elmalich (below) are just three of a number of fashion models to die of complications related to anorexia.
3. Modeling careers are really, really short. Young women typically model only about three seasons. Every new runway show features about 70% new faces.
4. It may look glamorous but the pay is not. The median salary?
5. The financial picture can be even bleaker for young women recruited from other countries. After paying for visas, flights, accommodations, and tests (expenses they aren’t always notified about in advance), even before their first casting call, these girls can be
6. The more prestigious the client, the less you get paid. The glam jobs, like Vogue, can pay far less than commercial clients, like J.C. Penney.
7. Fashion models are WAY skinner and taller than three decades ago. Marilyn says it all:
8. The fashion industry projects an ideal of beauty that just doesn’t match reality. While over half of Brazil’s population is black or mixed race, only 28 of São Paulo 2008 Fashion Week’s 1,128 models were black (that’s about 2.5%). In The Real Truth About Beauty, a survey commissioned by Unilever, a global study of 3,200 women aged 18 to 64 found that only 2% of them thought of themselves as “beautiful.” In one startling example, 52% of women in Japan describe themselves as overweight while only 23% actually are. Almost 60% felt that female beauty was too “narrowly defined.”
Great Brands are nothing more than streams of connected promises that always deliver!
I highly recommend Marc Ecko’s Book: “Unlabel.” Telling his amazing story from spray painting “Jersey Boy” to founder of “Ecko”, his multi billion dollar street wear label.
Beside the book being a discourse in authenticity, he tells the story of building his empire. Very amusing and mostly out of the box he gives great insight into the fashion industry in New York and beyond. My favorite business book so far. Many anecdotes come as cautionary tales and sound familiar. Like financing your business with your friends and employee’s credit cards! Don’t try this at home! Or better, in your office.
