January 2011
4 posts
Purple Fashion 3 – Summer 1997
Purple Fashion Number 3 Summer 1997
Purple Fashion Number 3 Summer 1997 “Comme Des Garcons” photos Mark Borthwick style Isabelle Peyrut model Angela Lindvall
Miuccia Prada On China, the Web — and More
by Amanda Kaiser
From WWD Issue 01/25/2011
BEIJING — “There are fashionable people here that you wouldn’t even find in Paris, New York or London,” Miuccia Prada said of the burgeoning Chinese market. “They have already understood everything that they had to understand.” And Prada’s company wants to tap further into that growing understanding. The luxury goods house last weekend staged its...
Is Fashion An Endangered Species?
by Bridget Foley
FROM WWD 12-01-2011.
Fashion with a capital F. The kind produced by the masters of the genre, and that used to be celebrated for its artistry, its provocation, its trickle-down influence, the dreams it inspired — has that kind of Fashion joined the ranks of the bighorn sheep and the West Indian manatee? Which is to say, is it endangered? On one level, fashion has never...
Rei Kawakubo on the Record
Rei Kawakubo always aims to push the limits. The mind behind Comme des Garçons and one of fashion’s most influential and reclusive figures says that with each collection she is out to create something totally new — a goal that is becoming harder and harder the longer she is in fashion. And that is just one of the many provocative admissions Kawakubo made during a rare interview...
