Nike’s Chief of Design Doodles All Day
You have a lot of loose bits of paper and sketches in this office. What do you like to draw? Sneakers, quick body sketches, architectural...
Demna Gvasalia on Being a Fashion Disruptor
“If you force an idea, it’s never as strong as when you really love it. We never really planned to disrupt anything; we just sort of...
The New Fashion Model
As part of SHOWstudio’s coverage of INNERSECT, Editor-at-Large Lou Stoppard hosted a Live Panel Discussion focusing on the importance of...
Museums are the New Malls
“I see retail as a dead industry. There are billions and billions of acres of retail square footage across America, across the world, that...
New Values
One UNDERSTANDING BRANDING What is a brand? A brand is a promise It is not only a logo or brand name. Rather they are the visual cues to...
Amy Sherald
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald have been commissioned to paint former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama’s...
STRANGER THINGS
For the last four weeks of the international Fashion Week marathon, we’ve been looking for a defining fashion moment. Was it Raf Simons’s...
Like a Virgil
The NY Times video take on luxury.
LV VS. OFF – WHITE
Juggling The Streets and High Fashion. Kim Jones and Virgil Abloh in a SHOWstudio conversation with Lou Stoppard....
I hope you’re Prada Yourself
We caught up with skater Blondey McCoy in the final days of his debut exhibition Us and Chem, as he chatted with art curator Hans Ulrich...
Get In Line
The Cult of the Line and Weekly Drops. Shoppers standing in line to get into a Supreme store in Tokyo. For many, the lure is as often the...
PEOPLE ––– PRODUCT ––– PROCESS
PEOPLE ––– PROCESS —– PRODUCT The ‘Emotional Side’ of Management x Tom Peters At a recent seminar for a business school's executive...
Is Fashion Modern? Paola Antonelli’s MoMA Checklist:
• 501 Jeans (Levi’s). 1947 example from the company archive • A-POC Queen Textile (Issey Miyake). Example from MoMA’s collection • Adidas...
“I am a Foreigner”
by HAMISH BOWLES It was a Chanel Haute Couture collection that was as finely engineered by Karl Lagerfeld and the skilled petites mains of...
CHANEL X
An X – Ray of a Chanel Bag by Steve Miller.
Golden Baby
Thom Browne’s golden baby shoes sit center stage, encased in a glass vitrine. Each model will stare at the shoes as they walk past, Browne...
The Cross Body and Other Trends
Street Style Trends From the Spring ’18 Men’s Shows.
Aloha! À Bientôt!
Vogue Editors React to Paris’s Spring 2018 Menswear Shows Four down, one to go, with Independence Day in between—New York’s menswear...
Louis Vuitton’s “SIGNS” of the Times
https://youtu.be/L1Fclc2T9vQ It’s interesting to contemplate what a fashion reveal is in these accelerating days of social media. Kim...
The Coming of Robots and the End of the World
According to Prada Men's Wear Spring Summer 2018; the lonely, hollow ring accompanying the virtual noises ceaselessly sent into the ether,...
Heels ‘R’ Us
Revealed: the Romanian site where Louis Vuitton makes its Italian shoes. All but the soles of the luxury brand’s footwear are made in...
Anita Pallenberg, Legendary It Girl and Former Partner of Keith Richards
Keith Richards’ former partner of 12 years, Anita Pallenberg, died at the age of 73 on Tuesday evening, reports The Mirror. The pair was...
The Story of Red, Black and White
The color schemes of Jack White. https://youtu.be/EWQukUW5tQc
Stealing your Ideas
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” —HOWARD AIKEN,...