Tag: fashion
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Tom Ford’s creative director is out. Here is the big lesson in that.
Yet another change at the head of tom Ford. Peter Hawkings, who took the creative Director role after the departure of the brand founder, is now on his way out. This is just yet another major luxury brand this year this position without a creative director. It could easily be seen as there is something…
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Chanel, the long-term, and humans
Writing about Chanel yesterday made me curious, what actually is the vision of the company. Given the long tenure of their previous artistic directors, I had a hunch that this wasn’t a fluke but tied to their mission and vision. I came across their “Report to Society” from 2018. In it, they write that because…
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A fashion blog, and yet highly unfashionable
I went to an event today and felt so out of place. The women at this daytime event were made up, well dressed in heels with their designer bags. I showed up in a wrinkled shirt that I tried to disguise with my coat and the pants that I found and thought, eh they’d fit.…
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Let fashion take you to another time
They say that fashion repeats itself, and Gen Z is certainly bringing back 90s and early 2000s style. Low rise jeans, velour track suits have all made comeback. You could attribute this to a lack originality, people just repeat styles because they can’t think of anything new. But it is deeper than that. It’s more…
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The fitting room
A few years back, I desperately needed some professional clothing. It was time to start networking and attending conferences. I wanted a look that screamed, “You should hire me. I can definitely do whatever job you got.” But at school in what felt like the middle of nowhere, the local Dress Barn was the best…
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There’s more to the history of unisex fashion
Despite what many might lead you to believe, the push for clothing that isn’t gendered isn’t new. There have been multiple trends over the years where people, especially women desired clothing that differed from what they “should” wear based on their assigned gender role. In this article in the Atlantic, Kimberley Chaslain-Campbell writes: “As Paoletti…
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Your fashion is speaking for you
In this week’s research on gender-inclusive/unisex clothes, I came across this article by Kimberly Chaslain-Campbell in the Atlantic. I will get more into the ideas in it tomorrow, but today I want to focus on fashion as expression. Here we are: Fashion is a form of expression. Yes, by this example, you could say, “Duh,…
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Future has been tapped as the first creative director for Lanvin Lab. Yes, that Future.
Future is working with Lanvin on the Lanvin Lab. He is the first creative director on this project. Lanvin x Future is likely to debut for winter 2023 with both mens and womenswear. You can look up more about the recent history of Lanvin and their former creative director, and then why they might be…
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