Adjust, Comply, Recalculate
The sweater promised 100% cashmere. The receipt said 29.9% APR. Both felt soft at first.
On Failure
FAILED BODIES, FAILED SUBJECTS?
On Ideal Body Shapes and Makeover Culture
The stereotype of the self-loathing cosmetic surgery patient can be found in the annals of psychiatry. Lacking much in the...
The LA Rag Trade
In the L.A. Jobber Market, it is the potential of failure at every fleeting second of the making of clothing...
Band of Insiders
If fashion ‘wants to kill’ its practitioners, that’s because it epitomises capitalist innovation at its bare essence, consisting of the...
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...
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...
Between Words
Filled with mentions of Renzo Rosso’s personal relationships with political and religious figures (the Dalai Lama and Shimon Peres are...
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?...