‘Karim Rashid. Industrial Designer. White half the time, pink half the time.’
NY Magazine, One Is the Loveliest Color:
“I was shopping in Europe with a couple friends, and they talked me into trying on a black shirt and black jeans. If you look good in white, you look really good in black.”
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Sascha Kooienga and Artem Emelianov
NY Times, The Vanishing Point:
“Credit Hedi Slimane or blame him. The type of men Mr. Slimane promoted when he first came aboard at Dior Homme some years back (he has since left) were thin to the point of resembling stick figures; the clothes he designed were correspondingly lean. The effects of his designs on the men’s wear industry were radical and surprisingly persuasive. Within a couple of seasons, the sleekness of Dior Homme suits made everyone else’s designs look boxy and passé, and so designers everywhere started reducing their silhouettes.
Then a funny thing happened. The models were also downsized. Where the masculine ideal of as recently as 2000 was a buff 6-footer with six-pack abs, the man of the moment is an urchin, a wraith or an underfed runt.”
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IHT, In Japan, it’s the men who want to be skinny and cute:
“Both Shirakawa and his girlfriend like the fact that she weighs more than he does, and is the leader of the couple. “She’s a lot stronger than I am, can lift heavy things and go drinking until dawn. I admire that about her, and feel protected when I’m around her,” he said. Older than he by five years, it was Shirakawa’s girlfriend who made the approach, started the dating process and decided what course their relationship would take.
“Frankly, I think women should be in the driver’s seat. Society and relationships work better that way,” he said. Shirakawa likes to wear his girlfriend’s clothes and often shows up for work wearing her blouse and jeans, to the general approval of his co-workers.
Hirayama said: “For young men, wearing women’s clothes has almost become a status symbol - a confirmation of being slim and pretty and, therefore, desirable. Young women, on the other hand, are less interested now in looking beautiful for the benefit of young men. They dress up for themselves, for their own satisfaction.”"
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African Loxo: Photographies de Coiffures (Tressages) Années 50-60
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“Prostitutes are known for their skimpy attire, but Kenya’s coastal port of Mombasa is witnessing a controversial fashion makeover.
The twilight ladies, as the city’s residents refer to the sex workers, have traded their revealing outfits for the more austere buibui - a loose, floor-length gown and head covering favoured by Muslim women.”
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Some female residents say it is a big disgrace.“I feel so embarrassed that sometimes I contemplate removing my buibui and throwing it away. The buibui has lost its respect,” Mariam Salma says.
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Catalogus van eindexamenklas 2007 van de befaamde Modeafdeling van de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten te Antwerpen: Catalogue Class of 2007.
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Designboom: “top 100 trends 2007 - sunglasses”
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Times: “Britain’s high-street shops have been flattering the vanity of their customers by understating the true sizes of their trousers on the label by an average of 3in.”
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Int. Herald Tribune: “In all the discussion of size-0 models, the skinny male has been left out of the equation. Yet the transformation of the ideal masculine physique, at least in the fashion world, has been as radical as for the female.”
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Nature: “Of all the ingredients that make up the ideal female form, it isn’t the most obvious winner. But researchers claim that, for enduring popularity down the ages, nothing beats a narrow waistline.”
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