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  • Browse Features and Editorials Selects Bibhu Mohapatra, The Transparent Man

    Bibhu Mohapatra, The Transparent Man

    New York-based designer Bibhu Mohapatra’s creations are complete visual sentences. They clearly communicate an idea which always feels fully realized. His designs possess the rare quality of transparency in process. It is as if the individual history of each piece is on display within the garment. You can see the idea behind the piece that fascinated Mr. Mohapatra in the first place, whether it was a technique an iconic image or a fabric treatment his work is bravely exposed. This clarity of vision may be a by product of necessity as his road to becoming a fashion designer was neither direct nor easy.

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  • Browse News and Commentary Selects All Keyed Up – The End of Fashion Retail As We Know It

    All Keyed Up – The End of Fashion Retail As We Know It

    Attention, attention, world of fashion commerce, you have 30 minutes to make up your mind about your future. That is all. It’s no secret that a vast number of cultural and economic systems are at worst collapsing or at best mutating. Retail fashion is, of course, just as seemingly chaotic and unsettled as everything else right now, as hundreds of companies, entrepreneurs, and financiers try to “best guess” their way to riches and influence. In the absence of long term data and faced with still developing technological platforms and mechanisms, history shows that most of the billions of dollars that are being doled out will be lost on companies that last a decade or less. In the face of such a sobering rapidly on-rushing future reality, how can the industry tell what to do and which horses to back?

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  • Browse Features and Editorials Selects Agatha Ruiz De La Prada – My God, It’s Full of Rainbows

    Agatha Ruiz De La Prada – My God, It’s Full of Rainbows

    After our recent interview with Agatha Ruiz De La Prada, our photographer Adrianna Favero took some of the renowned Spanish designer’s wildly colorful outfits into the studio.

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  • Browse Selects Shows and Events Tadashi Shoji – Spring 2012 Bridal Review

    Tadashi Shoji – Spring 2012 Bridal Review

    Tadashi Shoji’s Spring 2012 bridal collection once again confirms that the veteran designer’s calling card is his balanced touch with embroidery and other potentially garish or voluminous design elements. In short, the man knows when to stop and precisely what to do to create a compelling gown.

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  • Browse Features and Editorials Selects Ashley Lloyd – Fear, Nostalgia, or Beauty?

    Ashley Lloyd – Fear, Nostalgia, or Beauty?

    The interplay between life and death, decay and rebirth, are common elements in the world of art. It is rare, however, for a fashion designer to be able to illustrate these tensions in their work simply as a matter of practicality. Ashley Lloyd, a young milliner based in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, balances the grotesque and the beautiful on a razor’s edge. She utilizes a variety of remains and relics that includes skulls, horns, insects and deconstructed birds, among other artifacts.

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  • Browse Features and Editorials Selects Agatha Ruiz de la Prada – Dream To Seam – Video Interview

    Agatha Ruiz de la Prada – Dream To Seam – Video Interview

    Agatha Ruiz De La Prada is Spain’s most important living fashion designer. The Spanish people, and in fact the Spanish government, treat her as a national treasure. Her career began in the post-Franco glow of the La Movida cultural moment of the early 1980s and her revolutionary beginnings are fitting for a fashion designer who creates such radical designs. Her clothing is incandescent and filled with whimsy and joy, but to hear her speak is to know that she is a serious artist and a true champion of self-expression.

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  • Browse Features and Editorials Selects The Red Queen – A Photo Editorial

    The Red Queen – A Photo Editorial

    Ned and Aya Rosen recently had the opportunity to work with stylist Vava Marevicheff-Ignatenko. Here is their editorial, featuring garments and accessories by… Ashley Lloyd Millinery, Avant Garde Jewelry, Blank Silk, The Blonds, Circa Sixty Three, CHRISHABANA, Danika, Erik Bergrin, Free Lance, Jac Langheim, Laruicci, L’Autre Chose, Leonid Gurevich, Norman Ambrose, Rynshu, Tarvydas, Triviàl New York, and Victoria’s Secret

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  • Browse News and Commentary Selects All Keyed Up – Some Words For The Garment Buyers

    All Keyed Up – Some Words For The Garment Buyers

    Despite all of the knocks against new talent, boutiques and department stores ignore fresh faces at their peril. It’s important for retailers to remember that everybody who is a superstar now was an emerging designer once. To break a new star designer adds tremendous cache to your store and will increase your destination foot traffic by giving you the status of “a place to go for those who know.” Of equal importance is the fact that after the designer breaks out you will never see wholesale prices that low again if you don’t establish an early relationship of some kind.

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