Off-White was once the most visible symbol of a fashion fed by streetwear, art, and luxury. Today, the brand feels less like a pace-setter and more like a relic of an already completed cycle. Its...
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After the Hype
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The Brief Reign of Creative Directors
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The major fashion houses are changing their creative directors at ever shorter intervals. What appears to be instability follows a clear logic. Design today is less a matter of authorship than a...
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From the Brand to Exploitation
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Great names do not disappear with their creators. As brands and companies, they endure and often reach their most profitable phase only afterward. Yet it is in this phase that the loss of what once...
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The emptiness after the glamour
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He was the orphan who invented himself. For fourteen years, Olivier Rousteing turned the house of Balmain into a pop spectacle – a time between genius, hubris, and digital self-worship. Now an era...
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30 Years of Dsquared² – Excess Celebrates Its Anniversary
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The sweat looks sprayed on, the glitter drawn from the archive: Dsquared² celebrates its 30th anniversary – and the former rush has lost its heat. The fire of the past has hardened into a pose.