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Not the business.Not the glamour. Not the models: just design. Is there anything out there worth checking just for the creative value? Name names!

― francesco, Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sorry. What?

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons is always 'creative', in a sense

― Aaron A., Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

I just wanted to know if there are designers whose work you appreciate for its inventiveness as opposed to designer that produce clothes that could fit your style. In a way I'm asking if ever happened to you to look at fashion in the same way you can look at architecture: liking Frank Lloyd Wright without wanting to live in the Guggenheim Museum.

― francesco, Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

wanting to live in the guggenheim is jsut plain crazy.

you can't divorce the object from it's usage. The guggenheim is a great museum but would make a crap house. However, take one of lloyd wright's houses and judge whether you'd want to live in those. Similarly with fashion you can't divorce the object from the usage.

As you may see I take a very modernist utilitarian approach to things. Coming from this angle will someone buy me an Issey Miyake suit?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago) link

Similarly with fashion you can't divorce the object from the usage.

i wholeheartedly disagree with this.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

verdompt post-modernist

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

Balenciaga is the master, the mac, the best in taste. I'm talking about the designer, not the current line.

― andy, Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

Thuyskens at Rochas? I love it. I would wear it too, if that were possible.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

Hussein Chalayan's stuff is always fucking weird. It was weirder and cooler a few years ago though.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 9 January 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago) link

i agree - his menswear is v good - i wish i could afford it.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 9 January 2004 02:20 (twenty years ago) link

i wish more people would try to operate outside of the fashion system, especially the idea of seasonal collections...
1. BLESS http://www.bless-service.de/index.html
2. jessica ogden

are you now fighetto?

― petite verte (petite verte), Saturday, 10 January 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

wow signor verte glad that my short italian lesson was useful! did you have a good time in italy?

― francesco, Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

http://slate.msn.com/features/010510_fashion-slide-show/01.htm

― Adrian (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

signorina...
yes thanks, italy was great! i bought a martin margiela wallet in milan, a designer you may also want to check out.

― petite verte (petite verte), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

virgil abloh

this is the third post on ilx to feature the name "virgil abloh". the first post refers to his use of "scare quotes", the second is a schedule of youtube streaming times for coachella 2019 in which he's included. is there anything left to say?

― conrad, Friday, 17 January 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link

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