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DSquared’s provocational fashion line & #Dsquaw hashtag

LB — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:09:29 +0000

Despite all the backlash to Ralph Lauren’s genocide chic advertising campaign last year, it seems designers have either learned nothing, or conversely they’ve learned that outrage is free and effective PR in the fashion world.

Women in great trousers

LB — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:31:11 +0000

Beat these looks.

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Vivienne Westwood: The whole 20th C was a mistake

LB — Sat, 05 May 2012 08:22:12 +0000

Via The Guardian: “A status symbol is a book… that’s status.” “Punk was just an excuse for people to run around…it was just a fashion that became a marketing opportunity.” “The whole 20th C was a mistake… throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” “Study art and you become a freedom fighter.”

“Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic.”

LB — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:39:23 +0000

Am tired of the Shit_____Says meme, but do look at Shit Vivienne Westwood Says anyway. It’s via the green fashion site Ecouterre. A few samples from it are reproduced here.

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Stumbling upon NY Fashion Week by accident

LB — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:49:20 +0000

I was there by accident. These people were not.

Apparently it’s “anything goes” in fashion right now, but that’s been true for a while. Anyway, it’s never really “anything goes” – there are always those weird, arbitrarily-imposed rules.

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In the nomad style

LB — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:58:08 +0000

Every few years this romance of ethnic plus nomad comes back around. For a previous example, see 2008. This year it seems to have returned as the usual Siberian/Mongolian nomad style, but hybridized with a specific pastiche of ethnic costumes and craft embellishments.

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Hunt & Gather, summer clothing sale at the Ouno studio

LB — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:27:22 +0000

In Vancouver this weekend? Vancouver designer Natalie Purschwitz’s Hunt & Gather clothing line will be showing its late summer/early fall 2010 clothing at the Ouno studio this Saturday, August 7, 3-7 pm at 636 Keefer Street, a few blocks E.

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Test Pattern Dress by Douglas Coupland

LB — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:24:02 +0000

Doug Coupland (author of “Generation X” as well as an artist and designer) has done a line of casual clothes and accessories for the Canadian company Roots. The t-shirt dress is instantly classic.

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Taller Flora, by Carla Fernández

LB — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:50:47 +0000

Carla Fernández is a Mexico City fashion designer working with traditional Mexican styles and textiles in an unconventional way. I saw her studio on May 1 – photos at bottom.

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Basic Black

LB — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:55:06 +0000

Basic Black was a short film on fashion produced by William Claxon, Rudi Gernreich and Peggy Moffitt in 1967. To see more about this triumvirate, go here. To read more about the film, see the always worthwhile Expo Lounge site.

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