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The Avant-Garde Approach: Rei Kawakubo Tackles Business Like Her Designs
When the Internet company I was working for in the mid-’90s switched me from World Cup soccer coverage to fashion, I found there were two things about my new beat that flummoxed me: the zealous reverence for Italian Vogue and the repeated mention of someone named Ray. “Ray who?” I was dying to ask. His […]
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What Fashion Hacking is and How It’s Redefining the Industry
Andrea Crews is the alter ego of French artist and fashion designer Maroussia Rebecq. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that Andrea Crews is Rebecq’s altering ego. It’s a collective whose work encompasses fashion, art and activism, with plenty of messy overlap. Of the three, activism is the most interesting. The Andrea […]
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How Not to Butcher 23 Difficult-to-Pronounce Designer Names
It’s safe to assume that at some point in our lives we will butcher the pronunciation of a name to the point of no return (I’ve done it before, and often have my own name mispronounced, which results in major LOLs and sometimes SMHs). Now that fashion month has wrapped up, we’ve put together a primer […]
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SNP’s word of the day: Vulgarity
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett Word: Vulgarity
Meaning: An act or expression that defies good taste.
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Fashion news: See Marion Cotillard’s unretouched cover, Nicholas Kirkwood web pop-up and Brooke Sheilds still fits into her Calvins
Oh, Brooke Shields and her perfect genes, or jeans. The 45-year-old actress and mother of two told can still fit into the same pair of denims that she wore in her infamous 1980 Calvin Klein ad. [StyleList]Marion Cotillard appears to be unretouched on the cover of Italian Vanity Fair. [The Cut]
Rei Kawakubo is joining forces with iconic ’60s designer Paco Rabanne. Kawakubo will be teaming up with Rabanne to resurrect an iconic 1969 handbag in new materials, to be revealed during Paris Fashion Week. [WWD]