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...In between we had some of the best menswear shows of the season — Jonathan Anderson’s Loewe, where models were dressed as angels or clad in full-metal jackets, painstakingly crafted; Rick Owens’ swirling...
...A pair of sneakers designed by Virgil Abloh, a glazed ceramic crest salvaged from a 1920s building in Chicago’s Printer’s Row, a red brick from the 1870s, marked by its maker’s handprint — Gates gathers...
...“We’ve acclimated ourselves to this amount of threat,” Owens reasoned. “It was about the id.” Owens’ vision was refreshing and compellingly seductive....
...“We are not anywhere near where we need to be when it comes to regulating the cryptocurrency industry,” says Allison Owen, a research analyst at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies....
...Virgil Abloh is one of my favourite designers,” she says....
...Owens dubbed these “barbaric, contradictory times”, and his clothes reflect this moment perfectly. Which is a credit to them....
...The turquoise ring is from Virgil Abloh’s first season at Louis Vuitton. I have been trying to produce a stone ring for a while and it’s incredibly difficult....
...Collaborations and exclusives are a strong point – from Prada and Maison Margiela capsule collections to quick-strike sneaker drops by Nike x Virgil Abloh....
...Virgil Abloh is thinking about organic progression at Louis Vuitton. “I want to go upwards in trajectory, not flat....
...At the fore of the store’s displays are a series of collaborations and exclusives, from Prada and Maison Margiela capsule collections, to quick-strike sneaker drops by Nike x Virgil Abloh – all of which...
...Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli said he liked the idea of men wearing a suit to a rock concert; Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton said he was interested in business-wear for 2020; Clare Waight Keller incongruous...
...But by the time Virgil was writing the Aeneid, Mars was lauded as the patron god of Rome, father of Romulus and Remus, via rape. Nice....
...If Owens stretched the mind, at Off-White Virgil Abloh was stretching the body....
...In his excellent debut at Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh presented the perfect compromise. His opening white double-breasted suit was sharp yet roomy, and looked just as comfortable as a hoodie....
...To date, designers such as Valentino, Virgil Abloh and Gareth Pugh have participated....
...In menswear, Rick Owens showed nylon parkas with tents attached for SS19, which were less wholesome hiker and more kinky club-goer who can’t get an Uber and needs somewhere to sleep for the night....
...Here, look — Capability Brown doing Claude, who was doing Virgil. Arcadia!”...
...“Bombast is my middle name,” said Rick Owens, after his bravura show about defiance in the face of turbulence....
...From those designers I met with, only one who showed them actually wore wide pants himself: Off-White’s Virgil Abloh. What else?...
...Meanwhile some were in a world of their own, like the super-cropped jackets at Rick Owens, or the exaggerated silhouettes in specially developed fabrics of Ximon Lee....
...Jane Owen Illustrations by Chris Wormell Letter in response to this article: Enchanting Wormell / From Edwin Allingham...
...Few poets have ever stuck the knife in deeper to a fellow poet than Wilfred Owen, writing of the trenches in “Dulce et decorum est”....
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