| Saturday - March 22, 2014 |
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"Take your pleasure seriously."
- Charles Eames
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rantnrave:// I want to congratulate KANYE and KIM on their VOGUE cover. It's a beautiful photograph. Just shaking my head at anyone upset by it - it's only a magazine cover. KIM's not taking ANNA's job. KANYE's only wearing SAINT LAURENT, not designing their next collection. Not yet, anyway... Some great stuff happening at Tokyo Fashion Week. A couple collections to check out: FACETASM, LAMARCK, and NUR ZAHRA...
Adam Wray (adam.wray@redefgroup.com)
Curator, FashionREDEF
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Fashioning blue-collars: chambray shirts and indigo-dyed workwear
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The more than 5,000-years-old history of indigo-dyed clothing frames a world history of globalisation, labour, fashion, and the best and worst of human nature. Analysing the values, design, and experience of the blue-collar chambray shirt for the working peoples of Australia and America provides a basis for the shifting views of blue-collar workers today.
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First Boi In – Dressing Queer in the Corporate World
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I’ve heard it said that lesbian femme women come out everyday. This is in reference to them having to constantly inform people that they are in fact lesbians. “But you don’t look gay” is a common response. And this is the point at which the woman in question might roll her eyes and say/think “And what the hell does gay look like?”
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Margaret Howell Says Keep as Much Control Over Design as Possible
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BoF sits down with Margaret Howell at her seaside house in Suffolk, England, to discuss how the British designer built a brand known for its simple, practical pieces, evocative of the natural landscape, into a business, now majority-owned by Japanese company Anglobal, that generates £100 million per year.
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Sartorial Meditations: In All Seriousness
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How we understand 'fashion' is a collection of infinite possibilities, projected images and representations. At once enigmatic, desirable, glamorous, festive, authoritarian; dress is a multi-dimensional concept that might be described and observed a countless number of ways, from anthropological costume to the revered fashion image.
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War infects even fashion shows
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This spring's show of Ukrainian fashion designer Oleksiy Zalevskiy wasn't crowded as usual. No guests were allowed in, and even the ever-craved front row seats stayed empty. The models walked the catwalk around gratings and fell "dead" one after another to the sounds of gunshots.
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The Big Business of Fake Hair and Why People Steal It
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Take a look at most celebrities on the red carpet, and you can bet that the hair on their heads isn't all theirs. Well, maybe it's technically theirs (if you buy it, it's yours, right?) but it certainly didn't sprout out of their heads naturally.
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personally styled
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Visual Web makes luxury brands see digital in different light
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For luxury brands, image is everything. For decades, luxury marketers carefully built and cultivated a distinct persona that was held to impeccable standards, especially across the many touch points that the brand leveraged when communicating to its audience through advertising.
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