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At a recent press event for Mugler’s new collaboration with H&M, its creative director, Casey Cadwallader, made an unusual boast.
“We used a lot of the same materials [for the H&M collaboration] and we made them just as well as our own,” said the American-born designer, noting that the paneled denim and sheer corsetry... See more
instagram.comWhile thousands of shoppers hunt bargains at cheap clothing events, Australian labels are shutting down as local designers struggle to compete against 'fast fashion' producers.
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“Amazon is designed to commoditize products to the lowest common denominator of what they stand for,” Joey Zwillinger, Allbirds’s co-founder
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“The era of the billion-dollar brand is over; there’s going to be lots and lots of brands that have much more specific focuses,” Davis summarized when we spoke last month.
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Standing for Honest And Simple Trend, Hast is a clever new niche brand that’s developed a simple signature style and an insider following in Paris since being launched by three college graduates back in 2012.
Hast, the latest cool French fashion start-up
(In The Death of Trends, Vox's Terry) Nguyen is examining a more abstract consequence of this rapid acceleration, which is that it saps trends of their subcultural context, reducing them to status symbols that represent status itself, like a trail of breadcrumbs leading to more breadcrumbs. Her piece is focused on fashion trends, or aesthetic... See more