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.
Feature and Op-Ed articles
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.
In the Name of What? Interview With The Culture Ltd.
The Culture Ltd. is the new underground clothing label designed by Misaki Van Kampen.
Fashion Week Ramblings S/S 2019 – Women’s
Paris greeted me and the rest of the fashion circus with incredible weather – a rarity in my recent memory, as usually I find myself dying of heat or freezing to death.
Interview with Takeji Hirakawa
Nine years ago the now-defunct website Mekas posted a fascinating interview with the brilliant Japanese fashion critic Takeji Hirakawa, in which he held forth on the state of fashion, Japanese youth culture, Undercover, Number (N)ine, and Comme des Garcons, among other topics.
Paris Fashion Week Rambling – S/S 19 Shows
The fashion calendar is getting weirder and weirder.
Op-Ed: Is Balenciaga Socially Irresponsible?
The recent scandal involving the staff at a Balenciaga corner at Printemps, the Paris department store, in which it allegedly discriminated against a Chinese shopper, is reprehensible in its own right.
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the new fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is marketed as the biggest one its Costume Institute has put on to date.