When I spoke to Adrian Joffe about Dover Street Market’s celebration of Nicolas Ghesquière’s first collection for Louis Vuitton, I asked him about whether he and Rei Kawakubo ever disagreed about anything concerning DSM, since the all-seeing she oversees everything, he said “It happens often. But great things often come out of conflict and struggle.” Dover Street Market… Continue reading The Next Ten Years
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Somewhere Nowhere Everywhere
Last week, when the Guardian wrote about vintage selling Facebook site Wavey Garms and talked it up as “the most influential fashion site in the UK”, I had to chortle a little at the hyperbole. I had never heard of Wavey Garms and had a peek to see that it had 972 likes. Describing it as… Continue reading Somewhere Nowhere Everywhere
Louis Vuitton's New Day at Dover Street Market
It’s hard not to draw a poetic parallel between Dover Street Market’s biannual New Beginning process when the store is replenished and redone and Nicolas Ghesquière’s now infamous “Today is a new day. A big day.” statement typed out on a letter, which was given out at his inaugural Louis Vuitton show in Paris. Dover Street Market’s New Beginning and… Continue reading Louis Vuitton's New Day at Dover Street Market
A Thread and a Will
When I wrote about Copenhagen-based designer Wali Mohammed Barrech’s latest SS15 collection shown under terse and rousing circumstances, I wrote about the diminishing strand of fashion that seeks to comment, provoke and perhaps even disturb. That conversation has shifted to editorials (often crossing the boundary from contemplative to crass) and at present only a handful of designers at the top of their… Continue reading A Thread and a Will