Wednesday, December 18

Tag: Fashion Design

Taylor Swift Sells Out Stadiums, Movie Theaters—and Clothes
4Dec By adminNo Comments
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Taylor Swift Sells Out Stadiums, Movie Theaters—and Clothes

In August, Nell Diamond, who runs the fashion and lifestyle brand Hill House Home, was in Montana on bridesmaid duty, getting ready for her best friend’s wedding reception. Peeking at her phone between hair and makeup, she found over 100 texts from her employees, and messages kept rolling in. “At first, I couldn’t figure out what we were freaking out about,” said Diamond, founder and CEO of the brand best known for its Nap Dress. Then she saw: Taylor Swift had worn a black matching set from Hill House to the rehearsal dinner of her frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff and actress Margaret Qualley, and paparazzi photos were swarming the internet. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The ‘Gorpcore’ Backlash: Why True Adventurers Are Skiing in Jeans and Hiking in Rompers
26Nov By adminNo Comments
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The ‘Gorpcore’ Backlash: Why True Adventurers Are Skiing in Jeans and Hiking in Rompers

FOR YEARS, Navarro Guerro, 25, searched long and hard for his dream cycling kit. You might think finding it would be easy given the rise of the “gorpcore” aesthetic, which saw black Arc’teryx rain shells and Klattermusen hiking pants become as covetable (and fashionable) as sneaker collaborations. Not for Guerro, a product engineer in Salt Lake City who said he finds much of this technical apparel garish, too often covered in shouty logos. He’s purchased a few different pairs of mountain-biking pants, he said, but doesn’t “like the feel or racer look of tech fabrics.”So when Guerro spotted some fellow riders tackling challenging descents in what looked like plain, dark-wash jeans, he was intrigued. Turns out the pants, made from reinforced denim, came from Ripton, an Aspen, Colo., brand f...
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Since When Do Millennials Love to Sew?
12Nov By adminNo Comments
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Since When Do Millennials Love to Sew?

THIS SEPTEMBER, Colin Meredith, a 29-year-old in Vancouver, Canada, went on a six-day camping trip with his brother. Surviving a week in the Canadian wilderness, especially with a sibling, calls for fortitude. More impressive: Meredith, a freelance clothing designer with clients like Rapha, made his tent, sleeping bag and clothes on his home sewing machine. Sewing, as a hobby, evokes grandmas more than campers. Indeed, many learn the basics from an older relative. At some point, though, a lot of would-be tailors discover that old-school models leave room for improvement. When he started sewing this year, Amardeep Singh, 32, got away with using just such a family machine. But when the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based UX designer tried feeding it trendy technical fabrics, it balked. “It was just freaki...
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Secrets to Buying—and Styling—the Best Distressed Leather Jacket
3Nov By adminNo Comments
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Secrets to Buying—and Styling—the Best Distressed Leather Jacket

ON AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON during Paris fashion week, model Gigi Hadid was spotted in a beat-up leather jacket. Did she pull it from the mother lode of vintage clothes in her famous-model mom’s closet? Mais non! The pre-distressed bomber (above) came from reliable chain store Mango and can be yours for $600, according to the brand’s website.“It’s funny. When that happened, people said the leather moto jacket is ‘back,’” mused Elaine Mellis, a San Francisco art advisor and a fan of well-worn hide. Indeed, the jackets never went anywhere—they’ve just re-entered the spotlight thanks to brands such as Saint Laurent and Prada, which showed faded versions on their fall and spring runways, respectively. “People love to make them look ‘vintage.’ But good ones are vintage,” argued Mellis. “Some of mi...
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How Young Is Too Young for a Crop Top?
28Oct By adminNo Comments
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How Young Is Too Young for a Crop Top?

For mini Swifties and Alabama sorority girls-to-be, the Dallas boutique Dear Hannah Prep is a pink-and-green, balloon-filled wonderland. The store, a little sister to adult shop Dear Hannah down the street, is chock-full of everything a tween girl might want to wear for home games, slumber parties, screenings of the “Barbie” movie, or a school dance. Arranged in rainbow-colored stacks are: gear emblazoned with “St. Tropez,” “Montauk” and “Slay,” stackable bracelets, tie-dye sweats, mini shorts. And crop tops. Lots and lots of crop tops. For many tweens—and their parents—crop tops are a cute, innocent way to express their burgeoning interest in fashion, and their body positivity. For others, they are inappropriate. Many schools have explicitly cracked down on them in recent years. Despite,...
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Kim Kardashian’s Skims Launches Men’s Line with Neymar Ad Campaign
23Oct By adminNo Comments
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Kim Kardashian’s Skims Launches Men’s Line with Neymar Ad Campaign

Kim Kardashian’s shapewear empire is stretching toward a new kind of customer.This week Skims is adding men’s boxers, briefs, undershirts, T-shirts, tank tops and leggings to its online store, building on its popular collection of nude-toned bras, bodysuits and underwear for women.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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‘Ann Lowe: American Couturier’ Review: Anonymously Dressing the Daughters of High Society
18Oct By adminNo Comments
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‘Ann Lowe: American Couturier’ Review: Anonymously Dressing the Daughters of High Society

Winterthur, Del.In 1964, the Saturday Evening Post called the couturier Ann Lowe “society’s best-kept secret.” At that point she’d been dressing women of the Social Register for decades—first designing their white debutante gowns, then their white wedding gowns, then their seasonal ballgowns, then their daughters’ debutante gowns, and so on. Just as the Grace Church wedding was de rigueur for the gilded marriages of New York’s 400, the Ann Lowe wedding dress was a midcentury must. How much of a secret was she? Lowe created the most loved wedding dress in American history: the simple in silhouette yet intricately detailed gown that Jacqueline Bouvier wore, in 1953, when she married the young Sen. John F. Kennedy. In all the press describing that day in Newport, R.I., and for years afterwar...
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Were the 1990s Sexy? Designers in Milan Say Yes
23Sep By adminNo Comments
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Were the 1990s Sexy? Designers in Milan Say Yes

Listen to article(2 minutes)“I don’t remember anything!`” joked Donatella Versace, discussing the 1990s at a preview of her spring runway show in Milan. Of course, she does, which is why next season’s collection was built around the year 1995—a time she described as a turning point for both the house of Versace and for fashion at large, when styles became “more minimalist” and “cleaner.” Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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