The Colour of Oil and Money
A Conversation With Manuel Cuevas Sr, Designer of Western Wear
I’ve dressed kings, queens, beggars, prostitutes, lawyers, bankers. I dressed Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, The Rolling...
Anja Aronowsky Cronberg
What’s Wrong with the Fashion Industry?
Glenn O’Brien: One of the differences between art and fashion is that, though it has relatively little effect, there still...
Lydia Lunch
On the Only Material Possession that Holds Any Importance to Her
My role model when I was six was my aunt Dorothy. She was 5 ft tall with a 1 ft...
What’s wrong with the fashion industry?
'We’ve had few failures that can compare to John Galliano’s recent one. I guess the best way to describe it...
‘The Revolution Will Be Branded Vetements’
The story is an old and familiar one: young, upstart outsiders take on a sedate and conventional system and turn...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE FASHION INDUSTRY?
'Fashion is like a banana. No, don’t laugh. I’ll tell you what I mean. Sometimes designers complain to me that...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE FASHION INDUSTRY?
'The system is what it is and fashion can’t change that. Are you going to change the world with fashion?...
CONVERSATIONS ON SLOWNESS
In a business where designers often become figureheads for large corporations, to be rolled out when a perfume or handbag...
Conversations on Slowness
Hussein Chalayan became known as a ‘conceptual designer’ in the 1990s and it’s been bugging him ever since. Rather than...
CONVERSATIONS ON SLOWNESS
Dries Van Noten on Avoiding Traps, Trickery and Other Shenanigans
Dries Van Noten speaks with care and reserve, like someone well aware of his privileged position in the fashion industry....
Conversations on Slowness
Spending time with Nigel Cabourn is a little like being carried along by a minor tornado. He talks a mile...
Conversations on Power: Jean Touitou
When I first met Jean Touitou he was giving a presentation in the A.P.C. showroom about the latest collection to...