Reader: November 14, 2015

– Designing Snoop Dogg’s weed line.- An exhaustive report of the American Apparel factory workers in LA.

– When in doubt, ACT!

– Korea’s love affair with Spam.

Reader September 29, 2015

– Project Jacquard headed by Google and Levi’s is working to not slap a smart watch or an LCD screen on you, but rather to integrate fibers into fabric to create endless opportunity in manufacturing wearable technology in garment form.

– Profile of Dakota Johnson and mention of sex and sexuality during NYFW both mention Lolita and the bad girl good girl dichotomy. I think AnOther is my new favorite intellectual fashion go-to.

– Asian pop-stars redefining cool.

– Rent the Runway is launching an accelerator program for women entrepreneurs. I’m signing up.

– I want all the books in the fashion and art section.

 

Reader: July 13, 2015

– I need to travel. “Exploring also just serves to remind you of what’s important in your life; you don’t need a million outfits, you don’t need gourmet dinners or TV or Facebook. Excess is whittled away. Everything is simplified. There’s some kind of special bond you develop towards the small amount that you bring with you on a trip—because those are the quality people and things that you realize you really need. You’re all experiencing this adventure together, everything else is secondary. And you’re perfectly happy.“- Ellen Degeneres launched a lifestyle brand. I’ll take this Dachshund pin, thanks.

– Nicola Tesla on women: “This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end in a new sex order, with the female as superior. The modern woman, who anticipates in merely superficial phenomena the advancement of her sex, is but a surface symptom of something deeper and more potent fermenting in the bosom of the race.”

– Buy less clothes, buy Made in America.

– Interview with Steve Kolb of CFDA.

– Subscription based organic cotton tampons anyone?

– Wonder if American Apparel will survive with new branding and a new CEO.

Reader: July 10, 2015

– If you’re in Korea, don’t miss Henrik Vibskov’s exhibition of hanging flamingo necks, shiny boobies, and disturbing baby puppets.

– The story of Stance, an $86 million dollar sock company.

– Then, the story of Lola, the subscription based all-natural tampon brand.

– For the first time in the two whole years I’ve been in the fashion industry I am truly inspired by the respected streetwear brand Pigalle. Mr. Ashpool successfully brings his humble roots to high fashion without bland imitation, phony or glitzy performance, or cocky yet bland design jargon.

– Cool lookbook video for Bekpro SS16.

– The story of Peter, the Meme Whisperer: “Agencies breathlessly begged him to take fantastic sums of money for even the most oblique #spon for their clients. Influencer networks emailed blindly, pleading for the opportunity to represent him. Everyone had budget for @lauer_pauer. They hardly had a choice. His microcontent was impeccable, original and utterly unrivaled.”

– The Man Repeller interviews Rosie Assoulin, very relaxedly.

– Joan Didion on self-respect: “In brief, people with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues.”

– I envy this man traveling for a living.

– Nude female athletes on their body: “I don’t look in the mirror and think “slim”; I look in the mirror and I’m like, “Whoa, beast!” It’s just crazy how much the body changes. Looking in the mirror I get surprised like every other week. It’s like I’m Wonder Woman.”

– Is Men’s Fashion Week really necessary? Is it backwards and anti-disrupting a fashion calendar that needs much disrupting? “NYFW: Men’s directly follows the much more prestigious men’s fashion weeks, adding considerable work for designers during a time that has traditionally been reserved for tanning in Mallorca or eating lobster rolls in Amagansett.”

Reader: Week of June 15, 2015

– 90s fest is coming. I love their website.- LINE launched an emoji keyboard. Less typing, more cute faces!

– Didn’t think Miley could actually be inspiring. #instapride.

– “Nothing on the internet disappears, but there’s no shame in hiding or getting rid of whatever is in your power to rid of, so long as you no longer agree with the way it represents you.”

– Alfred is like Task Rabbit but much smarter.

– Pussy Riot gets photographed by Terry Richardson, upsets people.

– I guess at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter that your clothes were made by a 7 year old Indian girl forced into child labor in Bangladesh because it costs $25.

– “Research firm IHS Health projects that the telemedicine industry will grow to $4.5 billion by 2018.”

Reader: Week of January 19, 2015

– I’m in love with these collage works by artist Charles Wilkins. Opening Feb 5 in Brooklyn.
– Interview with Band of Outsiders’ Scott Sternberg: “I wanted to create a super fresh, clean environment that didn’t draw upon retail cliches but created sort of a blank slate for the collections and other projects we plan to display and launch in the shop.

– I want to go to Tokyo!

Reader: Week of December 30, 2014

– The mum-covering-boobs-on-tv-meme.
– Now that I have the new iphone with a gazillion gigs I can download as many games as I want, including these 12 indie iOS games.

– A very inspiring story of the self-funded non-conforming fashion brand, Outlier.

– Normcore was never really thing, you guys. Duh.

 

Reader: Week of Nov 24, 2014

– 63 things a mom found in her baby’s mouth.
– Corrupt Chinese general had 12 trucks worth of bribe money stashed in his home.

– The fashion diary of a homeless man.

– Super affordable online courses thru Black Friday.

– Redefining wearable tech at Decoded Fashion.

– Moleskine teams up with Adobe so you can edit your hand drawn art in Photoshop and Illustrator. Boom.

– A lovely interview with one of my favorite artists Wangechi Mutu.

– Interview with Gillian Flynn and Cheryl Strayed.

– Murakami’s memory of the Berlin Wall.

– Richard Prince is a troll.

– What texting does to your spine.

– The Pirelli calendar.

– Tilda Swinton turns fashion into art.

– The best cycling gear of 2014.

Reader: Week of Nov 17, 2014

– Loving the Thom Browne exclusive for Mr. Porter.
– How to read corpses.

– Rauschenberg’s best friend Ray Johnson was not only a great artist but a power networker.

– Cycling is like being a woman… …

– The Chinese enter Italy, work illegally and under dangerous environments, and smuggle euros out. Made in Italy don’t mean shit til you know how your favorite brands treat their manufacturers and in turn how those manufacturers treat their employees.

– Vince, the billion dollar brand’s six point strategy for growth.

– Maybe I should set up a gallery inside my sweat shop.

– Didn’t know Egon Schiele died at 28.

 

Reader: April 12, 2014