Ever since Off-White founder Virgil Abloh became the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear, every fashion article about streetwear’s infiltration of luxury fashion. The DJ, Kanye collaborator, and general hypewear beast has been credited with much of the shake up, but streetwear’s Trojan Horse was placed much earlier than that. From Marc Jacobs and Dapper Dan ...
For generations, subcultures have been defined through the group’s music and fashion to determine the over-arching philosophy that drives them. They are traditionally at odds with the mainstream and are a symbolic form of resistance, so can streetwear be considered a subculture? Yes, but not anymore. It’s safe to say that luxury’s appropriation of streetwear and ...
As summer begins to ebb over us, it is time for fashion houses to begin displaying their Cruise Collections. Unlike the twice-yearly seasonal collections these brands produce, Cruise Collections are inter-season displays of ready-to-wear clothing—they are what we can expect from these brands in fall as well as what we can wear now in the summer. ...
The Met Gala is one of the biggest events on the fashion calendar, giving designers a place to not only showcase jaw-dropping works of art but also to debut new pieces. Within the flurry of fashion paradise, Virgil Abloh debuted one of his first pieces for Louis Vuitton. Although the founder of the label Off-White ...
Have you ever rooted through the various items of jewellery at a car boot sale or table top sale, and been completely nonplussed by the items on sale? You don’t know what’s valuable or junk, what could be worth tens of thousands and what could barely be worth ten cents. Unless you have a little ...
“Marilyn Vuitton” by Charmaine Olivia On July 6, 2013 the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco held its opening reception for the new show, “I <3 LV,” in which a group of contemporary artists have come together in honor of French fashion house, Louis Vuitton. The artistic history and trademark luxury of Louis Vuitton’s timeless style ...
