With Mother Nature in peril, designers are taking different approaches in hopes of saving her. Some, like Christian Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri, seem to be urging us to go and play in the dirt. What else is one to do with a logo-ed, tool-filled gardening tote, after all? Tomorrow Fiskars, the nearly 400-year-old Finnish home and garden tool company, will be staking out a plot of its own at Pitti Uomo with a capsule collection of gardening and “urban exploring” gear designed by Maria Korkeila, a graduate of Aalto University in Espoo, Finland, and the 2017 Hyères Festival prize winner.
https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/fiskars-the-finnish-brand-behind-the-worlds-most-popular-scissors-is-launching-gender-neutral-gardening-clothes?mbid=social_twitter_vr&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_campaign=runway&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=vogue
Category Archives: couture
The hidden meanings behind fashion’s most dramatic colour
Through history, wearing black has signified power, rebellion, death, sex and more. Deborah Nicholls-Lee explores the inky depths of fashion’s most timeless colour – and how Cristóbal Balenciaga made it iconic.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221003-the-hidden-meanings-behind-fashions-most-dramatic-colour?
The colour is also a symbol of subversion. Subcultures such as rockers, punks and goths donned black to rebel against social conventions, playing their “youthful vivacity”, says Harvey, against sombre and sinister clothing choices. But popular culture also sees black associated with protest. When A-listers showed their support for the anti-sexual harassment movement Time’s Up at the Golden Globes in 2018, it was black they elected to wear.
Balenciaga’s next must-have bag? An empty packet of Lays
A couple of months ago, we questioned whether Balenciaga’s next It bag would actually just be… a grab bag of crisps, having spotted Demna sat front row at a graduate fashion show in Antwerp with a packet of Lays perched on his lap or otherwise hooked under his arm as if it were a gorgeous pochette. Cut to the designer’s SS23 show – which took place this morning – and the greasy accessoire was reimagined as a lime-flavoured, calfskin clutch. In Demna’s mind, just about anything can be read as fashion, with the ugliest and most normal of items often engendering the most desire.
https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/57101/1/balenciaga-it-bag-ss23-lays-crisps-kanye-west-mud-ironic-meme-demna-gvasalia
Balmain and Evian rethink manufacturing synergies
Balmain’s Evian gown is itself fully recycled and recyclable: Evian asserts that the dress could be transformed into a new Evian water bottle as part of its circular journey, if so desired.
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/balmain-evian-bottle-dress-recycled-plastic/
Midjourney Experiments: Silk/Auxetic Integrated Manufacture
a robotic machine that weaves silk together with auxetic material
Midjourney Experiments: Robot-assisted Maker Retail
robot-assisted additive manufacturing for clothing integrated within a fashion retail store
Prada Seeks to Fashion Greener Luxury Brand Under Future CEO
Prada has moved to burnish its sustainability credentials in recent years. In November 2021, Prada said it would use more low-impact materials in its products and packaging, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as part of a carbon-neutrality push.
While sustainability scores are “fundamental” for evaluating corporate greenness, they can fail to capture the nuances of individual business models, Bertelli said in an interview Tuesday while attending a conference in Lisbon on sustainability and ocean preservation co-hosted by Prada and UNESCO.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-30/prada-seeks-to-fashion-a-greener-luxury-brand-under-future-ceo
Inside LVMH’s biggest sustainability plan yet
Capelli says LVMH is experimenting with new material innovations and dye technologies, and plans to soon showcase some “first experimentation” with Colorifix, a startup that uses synthetic biology to replace industrial chemical dyes with nature-friendly alternatives. Much of the other work that LVMH is doing is internal, he explains. The company plans to share sustainability details with consumers at the product level eventually; that will be a slow rollout, with a goal to share some level of information for all products by 2026 and for all products to be “regeneratively designed” by 2030.
https://www.voguebusiness.com/sustainability/inside-lvmhs-biggest-sustainability-plan-yet
Analyzing Trends with Tim Stock 