Leaving Home, Part Three
A Conversation with Mohammad Saeed 'Clothes are very important because people always look at what you wear. They don’t think...
Interview
Leaving Home, Part Two
A Conversation with Abdul-Wahed Daaboul 'All my clothes were taken: my jacket, a T-shirt that my best friend gave me...
Leaving Home, Part One
A Conversation with Bushra Al-Fusail 'I only have a few things from home now. One is a cotton scarf, it’s...
Hello, Welcome. I’m John.
Each Maasai has about six outfits. Men wear robes – we call them shuka – in different colours and patterns....
Get your rear in gear, and do something
A Conversation with Curtis Sliwa of Guardian Angels
I came out of the era of the ‘60s and ‘70s. You had the Black Panthers, you had the Young...
A Conversation With Rick Owens
Fashion is popular because it’s a mystery. It’s the ebb and flow of the subtle things we propose as designers,...
A Conversation With J Alexander
I felt like an outsider because I wanted to be a part of that group but I couldn’t afford it....
HOW TO PLEASE A CUSTOMER
'An actress who lives in California brought in a dress that felt like hard paper, a material you couldn’t really...
Ten girls for the price of one
Pat Cleveland talks about the Eighties
In a way, we’re just bags, full of spirit, and then somebody puts a label on and you get out...
The Contemplative Life
On Slowing Down Production By Elongating Wear
When you make your commitment as a monk, after five or six years of probation, you are officially clothed in...
Why am I here?
Antonin Tron talks about Atlein, sustainability, doubt and bullshit
People expect clarity of vision from a designer; a lot of people come to fashion for reassurance. Sometimes people just...
The life of a garment
An interview with Min Liu and Ian Hylton of Ms Min
'I have the feeling that if you talk too much about the meaning of something, some of that meaning slips...