Yohji Yamamoto at Design Museum Holon | Source: Interview
Yohji Yamamoto’s Museum Style (Interview)
“Yohji Yamamoto, champion of the avant-garde, has built an empire crafting ready-to-wear clothing brilliantly complex in texture, fabric, and tailoring… Opening today, the Japanese designer’s work will be celebrated in Israel for the first time at Design Museum Holon, as part of a series of traveling museum exhibitions.”
Instagram Becomes a Springboard for E-Commerce Success (Business News Daily)
“Instagram, the photo-sharing social media platform, isn’t just for sharing your pretty photos with friends. In fact, for some clever entrepreneurs it’s become a free marketing platform. For others, it’s been the impetus to start a business.”
First reports on Hedi Slimane’s YSL womenswear (FT)
“As you may (or may not) be aware, Hedi Slimane’s first YSL collections – women’s resort and menswear — have hit the showroom, but they are for buyers’ eyes only: they aren’t being shown on the catwalk, and this week in Paris, critics (that would be your truly), were not invited for a look-see.”
Anna Wintour pictured dining with John Galliano (Telegraph)
“While the eyes of the fashion world were firmly fixed upon Raf Simons and his debut Dior couture collection last Monday, it seems the industry’s most powerful figure, Anna Wintour, was rather more preoccupied with his disgraced predecessor, John Galliano.”
Tavi’s Print Project, Rookie Yearbook One, to Be on Sale This September (The Cut)
“At a reading in Brooklyn last month, Tavi told the Observer ’that she’s been hard at work on Rookie’s first print edition, which should come out this fall.’”