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    • “So, what if there’s no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today”: Calvin Klein Jeans and mytheresa.com Reissue 90s Classics

    Alasdair McLellan photographs the stoicism of CK Jeans in 032c #18, 2009. Styled by Max Pearmain. Jeans ARMANI JEANS, sweatshirt CALVIN KLEIN.

    Alasdair McLellan photographs the stoicism of CK Jeans in 032c #18, 2009. Styled by Max Pearmain.

    Calvin Klein Jeans and luxury e-commerce site mytheresa.com have relaunched the brand’s 1990s classics, including T-shirts, overalls, sweatshirts, and jean jackets. These were more than just standard casual-wear pieces—they characterised the visual universe created by photographer Herb Ritts and starring Kate Moss and Mark Wahlberg. They epitomised both heroine-chic minimalism and sporty nonchalant in formalism, but above all, CK Jeans has dressed the DGAF attitude.

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    1992 Calvin Klein ad featuring Kate Moss & Mark Wahlberg, photographed by Herb Ritts.

    The reissue is loud with generational nepotism: Lottie Moss, Kate’s half sister, is the face of the campaign, which is photographed by Michael Avedon, Richard’s grandson. “The capsule is all about nostalgia for the 90s and that whole look feeling very right again,” said Calvin Klein Jean’s Global Creative Director, Kevin Carrigan. It’s both sexy and apathetic, conjuring a line from the 1990s classic Groundhog’s Day, starring Bill Murray: “Well, what if there’s no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.”

    2014 ad for Calvin Klein Jeans / mytheresa.com, featuring Lottie Moss, photographed by Michael Avedon.

    2014 ad for Calvin Klein Jeans / mytheresa.com, featuring Lottie Moss, photographed by Michael Avedon.

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  • “To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all.”

    We salute HAROLD BLOOM, literary critic and champion of the autonomy of the aesthetic.

    Read Mark Kermode on Bloom, from the LRB archive, HERE.

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  • “Outside of pure dress-up games, very few games have explored fashion as part of gameplay. Games like Hitman 2 are a notable exception, where the clothes you choose to wear (or, uh, steal) allow you to stealthily blend in with crowds. Even when games aren’t necessarily built using fashion mechanics, places to discuss fashionable armour sets have cropped up behind them. Places like r/fashionsouls on Reddit have huge communities based on obtaining and creating the most stylish outfits for more traditionally “hardcore” games like Dark Souls. There’s even one going on for Monster Hunter.”

    Victoria Tran on the growing relevance of fashion in gaming in THE GUARDIAN 🎮

  • Teddy Quinlivan in 032c RTW for Oyster Magazine

    032c's first women's Ready-To-Wear collection, designed by Maria Koch, has just hit stores including GR8 Tokyo, Dover Street Market, KM20 Moscow, SSENSE, Boon, Opening Ceremony, Antonioli, and Browns. For the occasion, Oyster Magazine shot model and activist Teddy Quinlivan in the collection – see the photos below.More

  • “Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it’s stars or Stitch Fix, it’s all about machine learning.”

    Read about the style-quantifying astrophysicists of Silicon Valley in WIRED>>.

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY FAITH RINGGOLD! 🎉

    “You want rhythm? I’ll show you rhythm. I know about rhythm. I just didn’t know I was supposed to put it in everything I do.”

    Born on October 8, 1930, Faith Ringgold turns 89 years old today. This summer, the artist spoke to 032c executive editor Victoria Camblin about Cubism, sexism, and the suburbs – and what inspired her to paint Die (1967), an American masterpiece depicting a violent race riot. READ THE INTERVIEW.

  • Image: Dilara Findikoglu Spring/Summer 2020

    “Cosplay Culture & Fashion Week Share the Same Sartorial Ethos,” says HIGHSNOBIETY:

    “The clothes and the costumes are just an excuse for both communities to convene. … Fashion may be a more glamorous arena, but what are its devotees if not nerds for apparel?”

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  • “At a deep level, the language of climate denialism is tied up with a form of masculine identity predicated on modern industrial capitalism – specifically, the Promethean idea of the conquest of nature by man, in a world especially made for men. By attacking industrial capitalism, and its ethos of politics as usual, Thunberg is not only attacking the core beliefs and world view of certain sorts of men, but also their sense of masculine self-worth. Male rage is their knee-jerk response.” Read more about MISOGYNY, MALE RAGE, AND THE WORDS MEN USE TO DESCRIBE GRETA THUNBERG in The Conversation.

  • As you might have heard, WeWork’s business model didn’t, well, work. Here’s IAN BOGOST on WeWork’s philosophy: “Co-working fused the individualism of tech bootstrapping with the collectivism of social movements. Offices got sharded into realms as small as one desk—every founder his own sovereign, but all contributing to that great collective: entrepreneurship.” Read more in THE ATLANTIC.

  • Then read about WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s “tech-bro mysticism, grueling hours, and Don Julio tequila” in THE BUSINESS INSIDER, ft. quotes from WeWork’s prospectus: “the energy of we — greater than any of us but inside all of us.” 😬

     

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