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The Brooklyn Museum honours the trailblazing world of Virgil Abloh
The Brooklyn Museum’s latest exhibition is an ode to fashion ground breaker Virgil Abloh. In its first Survey Exhibition, the iconic venue celebrates a man who changed global perceptions of race and class in the creative world. The fashion industry and the creative world at large have been in a state of perpetual mourning since designer Virgil Abloh passed away in November. At the time of his death, Abloh was creative...
Opinion – Bottega Veneta campaign is empty culture commercialisation
Italian fashion brand Bottega Veneta marked Lunar New Year with a digital installation on the Great Wall of China. Adorned in the brand’s famous ‘Bottega green’, the marketing stunt has divided opinion about how far we should go in blurring the lines between culture and consumerism. ‘Bottega Veneta Already Won Chinese New Year’ is one headline you’ll see when searching for the Italian fashion house online. Images of its digital...
6 sustainable fashion accounts to follow in 2022
Between Covid variants, a disquietingly sharp rise in the cost of living, and a carousel of Downing Street parties, 2022 may seem like the year of unwanted change. But it’s also an opportunity to implement positive new habits. Perhaps you intend to read more, learn a new language, or strive for a professional goal this year. But besides personal growth, there are also new practices that can change our world...
Opinion – Fashion’s relationship with ‘difference’ is still a toxic one
A video of French brand Sézane exploiting an elderly Indigenous woman for their summer campaign has emerged as the fashion community fervidly mourn the late André Leon Talley. These distinct responses to Otherness prove that the industry’s approach to difference is still a strenuous affair. A video of an elderly Mexican woman dancing to music on an impromptu set for French fashion brand Sézane sparked widespread outrage on...
What Novak Djokovic’s visa battle can teach us about the refugee crisis
Tennis star Novak Djokovic became the target of public scrutiny and international support after the Australian government decided to cancel his visa. But now that a judge has overturned the decision, the player’s dispensation shines a light on our deeply flawed attitudes toward refugees and displaced people.
Serbian Tennis star Novak Djokovic had dreams of playing the Australian Open this week. But these hopes were prematurely dashed when the
The once-cult mobile brand ‘BlackBerry’ finally shuts down
It was once the most sought-after phone of the moment. But now, BlackBerry is just another sign of the times; a window into our relentless wanting for something new. In the 2010s, high flying businessmen, celebrities, and status-hungry teenagers were all bound by one thing: the BlackBerry’s QWERTY keyboard. For better or worse, it offered BBM messaging (pause for nostalgic flashback) and the full breadth of the internet in one...
Chanel’s new global CEO a welcome change to fashion’s old-hat traditions
Leena Nair has been chosen to head Chanel as global CEO, the first woman and youngest person ever to do so. One small step for a fashion house, one huge step for an exclusionary – and often archaic – industry. Luxury fashion house Chanel named Leena Nair, a former Human Resource Officer at Unilever, as their global CEO last week. She will replace Alain Wertheimer to take the...
Fast fashion brand SHEIN appears to be greenwashing
Fast fashion giant ‘SHEIN’ creates cheap clothes in thousands of new styles - daily. Pressure from consumers has encouraged the brand to hire a head of sustainability this week. But for these kinds of unethical and profoundly exploitative business models, appealing to the ‘green’ market means little for its workers and the planet. If you’ve ever browsed SHEIN its likely you’ve been reeled in by their staggeringly cheap prices and...
Thred’s ultimate guide to conscious gift giving this Christmas
To navigate the winter period of overconsumption, here are a few gift ideas that will be sure to please your loved ones whilst being kinder to the planet. Nowadays, December is filled with flash-sale emails and expansive wish lists. So much time and money is spent on annual Christmas adverts and glitzy marketing campaigns that it’s hard to know where to look. 9 times out of 10, the rush of winter...
Tate’s new exhibition points to its own sordid past
‘Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s - Now’ is the latest Tate exhibition to explore the works of renowned British artists such as Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson, and Steve McQueen. But housed in a bastion of colonial history, will these displays of Black artistic excellence ever force Britain’s cultural institutions to face up to their pasts? David A Bailey, curator, artist, and member of the British Black Arts Movement...
