Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 20 – Part 3
Nothing in fashion is constant, but knowing that Chitose Abe at Sacai will present a great collection comes pretty close.
Feature and Op-Ed articles
Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 20 – Part 2
Wednesday morning I stopped by the Visvim showroom, where Hiroki Nakamura presented his new collection.
Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 20 – Part I
The theme of the first two days in Paris was this – some great designers are sick of what’s going on in menswear these days
At Pitti Uomo Sterling Ruby Proves That Ideas Still Matter
Perhaps it is a sign of the times that it has taken an artist to tell the fashion world that ideas – as opposed to product – in fashion, particularly in menswear, still matter.
Camp: Notes on Fashion at the Met Museum
The new exhibit by the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Camp: Notes on Fashion, is fraught on many levels, starting with a paradoxical nature of its theme. On the surface (no pun intended) Camp is not hard to spot because it’s so image-oriented. In reality the playfulness and irony inherent to Camp makes it elusive and intuitive. Like any sensibility or a matter of taste, Camp requires from its audience organic growth and (self)education. You can’t really stuff all of these things into a museum exhibit that is aimed at the general public – and the job of the Met is to cater to the general public. It’s especially hard to do because Camp is a fairly niche sensibility – there is something subcultural and underground in it. Camp takes pleasure in being stuck into people’s faces without them getting it. Really, it’s kind of the point.
Why Goth Culture Is Condemned to Be a Fashion Inspiration
During this past fashion show season one of the most talked about collections was the runway debut of Bottega Veneta under its new creative director, Daniel Lee.
Fashion Week Ramblings – Women’s F/W 2019
Paris, France – Live, reporting from another mixed season, which is better than reporting from a bad one, and pretty good as far as things go in fashion these days.
Paris Fashion Week Ramblings – Men’s F/W 2019, Part 2
As I am writing this, I’ve gotten a chance to read a couple of reviews by the few critics I respect, and I am finding myself in an unusual position of an optimist.
Paris Fashion Week Ramblings – Men’s F/W 2019, Part 1
And so it was on again, amidst confusion as to what designers should be designing and whom they should be catering to.
How Premium Mediocre Fashion Conquered the World
Last year the blogger Venkatesh Rao coined the term “premium mediocre.” He was referring to a segment of economic activity largely dreamed up by marketers to give the consumerist masses an illusion that they are consuming luxury, when they were doing nothing of the sort.