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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Bibhu Mohapatra, The Transparent Man
story by Seth Friedermann photos by Adrianna Favero stylist Aminah Haddad hair and makeup by Angel...
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Agatha Ruiz De La Prada – My God, It’s Full of Rainbows
photography by Adrianna Favero hair and makeup by Angel Yu styling by Ashley Roberts model is Janneke...
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Ashley Lloyd – Fear, Nostalgia, or Beauty?
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- The Red Queen – A Photo Editorial
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News and Commentary
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All Keyed Up – The End of Fashion Retail As We Know It
story by Seth Friedermann photo by Boris Marberg Attention, attention, world of fashion commerce,...
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All Keyed Up – Some Words For The Garment Buyers
All Keyed Up is a monthly column by managing editor Seth Friedermann There is no degree or certificate...
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Diving For Galanos Off The Coast of Fifth Avenue
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Shows and Events
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Tadashi Shoji – Spring 2012 Bridal Review
story by Seth Friedermann photos by Adrianna Favero Tadashi Shoji’s Spring 2012 bridal collection...
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Ines Di Santo – Spring 2012 Bridal – Traditional On Top
View the full collection in our Photo Gallery. story by Seth Friedermann photos by Ned & Aya...
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Wayne – Spring 2012 Review – Simply Not Simple
View the full collection in our Photo Gallery. story by Seth Friedermann photos by Stephen Bodi Designer...
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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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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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Agatha Ruiz De La Prada – My God, It’s Full of Rainbows
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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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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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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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The Red Queen – A Photo Editorial
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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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