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futuristic romanticism
‘futuristic and romantic’ is achieved in the house installation, inversion, by dan havel & dean ruck at the art league houston in 2005. the tunnel is obviously futurustic, similar to the comme des garcon new york store, yet full of humanity.
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celine
it’s hard to succeed with a borrowed identity and nothing new to say. an example would be ivana omazic being replaced by phoebe philo for the fall 09 season. there is already a nicolas ghesquiere. looking like a balenciaga with curved seams is not going to make anybody happy.
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furniture & fashion
fashion designers are control freaks. their working studio’s interior and the choices of furniture are all part of their regulated world. in time, it becomes the inspiration. hussein chalayan first raised the relationship between furniture and fashion in his fall/winter 2000 ‘afterwords’ collection.
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graphic language
the graphic language of a brand is like the voice of a person – it helps define who you are and it is one of the main things that people remembers about you. yves saint laurent did this early on in 1962 when he set up his business (p.27 in debut, isbn# 0810905612). for us,…
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identity
we are FUTURISTIC lots of others are influenced by nicolas ghesquiére at balenciaga (so were we), but starting in fashion at the turn of the century means more for our interest in the future. less about looking like star trek, we want to create anew. we are ATHLETIC understanding anatomy and a modern way of…
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the luxury market’s decline starts today
from ’99 to ’08, designers’ shoes went up from 200 bucks a pair to us $1000, and that (forget about the real thing) just gets you some fake croc embossed leather. coincidently, the tech bubble of late 90s were replaced by the fault prosperity fueled by the inflated real estate prices and the financial trickeries.…
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cars
cars is the 7th feature films from pixar. it is also their 7th blockbuster. 7 for 7! how do they do it? the computer animation? the gimmicks? steve jobs?
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essay: gucci, a case study of competitiveness
With a long history, US$ 4.31 billion in revenue, 6506 employees, and 233 direct-operated stores in 2007, Gucci is one of the leading luxury