For a few years now, more and more people are talking about the need to reinvent the fashion system, to rethink the way we look at runway shows and to do things differently. Not many propositions on how to change have been made yet though, as people either don’t have an idea of how fashion […]
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Auguste Racinet was a French illustrator who is known for his colorful books that gave people insight into the visual culture of the world. He is known for works such as “L’Ornament Polychrome” or “La Céramique Japonaise”, but his most popular work is definitely “Le Costume Historique”. This book contains 500 plates, 300 […]
The fashion world is a place of vast diversity, where people with colluding ideas and contradictory points of view can coexist. One way or another. There are those who create stunning evening gowns and those who make oversized t-shirts and one way or another, everyone is “in” the fashion world. The reason for this is […]
Late last month we put up a piece about the fashion of the FIFA World Cup as pertained to athletic wear. This is a big occasion for a lot of different brands every four years, from Nike and Adidas sponsoring team kits to Louis Vuitton putting out bags. A great set of kits or clothes […]
Children’s clothes – namely clothes designed and thought for children – are rather new in the world, on a historic scale at least. Back in the day, before the industrial revolution, children would simply wear the same clothes adults did, just that in a smaller versions. There were no “children’s clothes” per se, as there […]
This editorial was first published in InCompany by Attire Club, July 2016. Being someone interested in aesthetics, you are always faced with deciding whether something has value and is worth experiencing. Because value creation does not have a ready-to-use formula, some people, especially youngsters or those just starting to dazzle in the world of […]
The distressed trend has been quite big in fashion over the last few years. Of course, ripped zombie clothes have always been a thing (for example they were also big in the 1980s and 90s), but today one can see ripped jeans, burnt jackets and cut shirts almost everywhere. Even big brands and globally-spread stores […]
The trend of wearing clothes with cuts in them began to go really strongly around the 1980s and gained much popularity among teenagers and young adults in the 1990s. While it never completely disappeared from the fashion scene, it wasn’t that much around during the 2000s, but it reappeared after 2015 or so, as more […]
The Russian revolution of 1917 brought not only political changes to the cultural scene of the country, but also a cultural shift. Because a new way of thinking and of doing things was now reinforced, a whole new approach to art and creative production was put in place. Everything from furniture to fabrics had to […]
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No More Made in NZ?
Radio New Zealand has recently published a series of articles on the decline of the textile industry in the country. According to the articles, the increase in manufacturing textiles offshore could lead the creating a business production to vanish in two years. Or, at least this is what Davey Hughes, founder of outdoor apparel brand […]
There is no united front within the world of professional poker about the concept of dress code at live tournaments. Usually there is none, although some of the establishments may have few of their own ideas on the subject. Lack of clear rules about the proper attire surely generates a lot of interesting and often […]
Luxury is back in fashion. With an overall growth of 5% of the luxury market in 2017, to an estimated €1.2 trillion global worth and most luxury segments experiencing positive growth, it can be said that luxury goods are definitely at a high request. Shoes, jewelry and handbags ranked as the three fastest-growing product categories, […]