i-D’s playful take on pronunciation teaches you how to speak your international fashion alphabet, from Azzedine Alaïa (AH’ZE’DEEN AH’LAI’AH) in Paris to Zegna (ZEN’YA) in Milan. I am missing Louis Vuitton especially for my friends in the Far East. But you can always say: “el veeh”
For decades, at least since her Paris debut in 1981, Ms. Kawakubo has forged her own path, a durable antagonist of established norms and received wisdoms. Her line Commes des Garcons has gone into and out of favor over the years, but she has been at the forefront of important developments in fashion all along. She arrived early to ideas still potent and percolating within the fashion ecosystem: androgyny, artificiality, the pop-up shop, the luxury group (she has encouraged several former assistants, most notably Junya Watanabe, in the creation of their own separate lines under the aegis of Comme des Garçons).
“Rei Kawakubo is one of the most important and influential designers of the past forty years,” said the Costume Institute’s curator in charge, Andrew Bolton. “By inviting us to rethink fashion as a site of constant creation, recreation, and hybridity, she has defined the aesthetics of our time.”
The show will open May 4th at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Oh, I don’t know! I wear these a lot. They’re Comme des Garçons—they go with everything!
Jack Whitten
Well, these are homemade. I spray painted them.
These are the ones I wear every day!
I can never ever wear them out.
I’m not wearing trainers because I didn’t think it went with what I was wearing!
I grew up in the U.K., and Adidas were our favorite sneakers because of soccer. I’ve always liked Adidas shoes, and we found his and hers matching.
They’re Margiela.
I just wanted to be comfortable.
I think trainers are stupid, so I wore boots … like a lumberjack.
I was thinking ‘Happy Birthday’ because I got them as a birthday gift. My wife picked them out, so I was thinking ‘Thank you,’ I guess.
They were the least beat-up sneakers I had in my closet, and they were a father’s day gift, so they say ‘Best Dad’ in there.
I was looking for sneakers that were futuristic. Future forward.
I was thinking of height when I put on these shoes. I wanted to be tall and towering and Amazon-like.
I chose them because they’re so comfortable. I walk miles and miles because I’m obsessed with this app that counts your steps everyday.
These are really light.
You know, I like these sneakers. They have a blue, kind of patent leather quality to them and black canvas. I just enjoy them.
(Photos: Antwan Duncan)
Tim Walker for i-D magazine on the State of British Youth.
Jeff Koons has teamed up with Louis Vuitton on a 51-piece series of leather goods, handbags, and accessories that reinterpret some of the world’s most famous artworks. the ‘masters’ collection is drawn from Koons’ 2015 ‘gazing ball’ series — where replicas of works by Titian, El Greco, and Manet (among others) were interrupted by a blue glass ball attached to the front of the painting. For this collaboration with the french fashion house, Koons builds on the theme by emblazoning works by da vinci, rubens, and van gogh on signature vuitton pieces.
by Vanessa Friedman.
