“There’s a real documentary dimension to his work. He’s recording the way a certain kind of woman might live, but he makes his pictures by building them artificially. They are a fiction that in a sense represents a fact.” Helmut Newton, Daryl Hannah, Los Angeles, 1984. Photo: © Helmut Newton Foundation Born into a prosperous … Read more
This, however, is only half of the equation. Efforts by the Swedish Fashion Council to support and showcase local talent, and the world-class education provided by the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University, in Finland, have also drawn attention to gifted Scandinavian designers. A look from Tuuli-Tytti Koivula. Photo: Federico Cabrera We … Read more
Three years ago, Singapore-based Canadian designer Brandy Dallas founded emerging contemporary label Sans Faff to address sustainable, well-made basics amid a sea of “fast fashion haunts,” she told WWD. The brand has since gained a cult following in Singapore (where it is stocked at a handful of multi-label boutiques) for its original bamboo foundational layers … Read more
Three years ago, Singapore-based Canadian designer Brandy Dallas founded emerging contemporary label Sans Faff to address sustainable, well-made basics amid a sea of “fast fashion haunts,” she told WWD. The brand has since gained a cult following in Singapore (where it is stocked at a handful of multi-label boutiques) for its original bamboo foundational layers … Read more
According to Chua, people are beginning to embrace the trend on a more widespread level. Christine Chua is a beauty trend forecaster and analyst at trend forecasting firm WGSN. Photo: LinkedIn/Christine Chua This spans everything from so-called feral girl make-up looks – a trend that has racked up over 380 million views since going viral … Read more
Was the Roman emperor Elagabalus transgender? A museum in Hitchin, a town halfway between London and Cambridge in Britain, recently changed the pronouns it used when describing an Elagabalus coin in its collection, referring to the emperor as a trans woman using “she/her” pronouns. According to historical records, Elagabalus, who reigned for four years and … Read more
BUILT FOR ART: For the first time, Creator Labs, the arts incubator that nurtures artists with their personal work, will feature talents who are based outside of the U.S. Among the new participants are Campbell Addy, Gabriel Moses, Justin French and Furmaan Ahmed — all of whom are U.K.-based. Now in its eighth season, the program was … Read more
Newly arrived from Lagos, in the early nineties, Andrew Dosunmu, solitary and broke, sometimes slept in the Paris Metro. He had little in his possession beyond his clothes. And it was his manner of dress that first drew the curiosity, and then the care, of a stranger—the nascent fashion designer Lamine Badian Kouyaté. Lamine took … Read more
Dustin Jones sees the future of direct-to-consumer and it’s unified. At least, that’s the hope behind Unified Commerce Group, which Jones — an expat of Fung Retailing Group and Macy’s — founded with Greg Freihofner in 2019. Unified set out to create a group of brands that could find strength in numbers. And now that the … Read more
MAD ABOUT MANDOPOP: Taiwanese singer and musician Jay Chou — who has been described as the king of Mandopop — has been named a global ambassador for Dior. Chou is also a songwriter, director and actor, and is considered one of the most popular singers in the Chinese-speaking world, having sold more than 30 million … Read more
