3D Printed Wigs,Joyce Mansour’s Impeccable Style and Martin Margiela’s Rare Runway Cameo
And the Obligatory John Galliano Appreciation Post
They say that life is what happens when, well, you make other plans. Allow me to explain. Last week’s newsletter was all about the relevance- or irrelevance- of couture today. It took only a Galliano show for all that skepticism to come crashing down. The designer went back to his roots and offered a walk through the underbelly of Paris filled with whimsical silhouettes and over-the-top drama, enough to reinvigorate everyone’s love for fashion.
This last evening couture week was all we ever needed to hope. As Rishard Tobaccowala notes in his recent 'The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past' Substack newsletter:
"People are analog: As much as the world is going digital, people remain analog"
Beauty is analog as much as it is ethereal. Fuck the algorithm, the world still belongs to poets.
Or, as Hölderlin wrote:
"Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter" / "But poets establish what remains”
This week’s fashion gems:
Anni Salonen’s Rose jacket, part of her MA collection at @aalto_fashion 2023
This @sctn8 all-over Jesus print puffer jacket
@marierohanaa’s 3D printed wigs
Joyce Mansour’s impeccable style.
Martin Margiela spotted walking Jean Paul Gaultier’s 1986 Russian Constructivist show-in anonymity.
Raf Simons’s A/W 1998 ‘Radioactivity’ collection, inspired by Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, and Vanessa Beecroft.
Last one:
Reading list:
How is Your Relationship With Shopping? by Virginia Sole-Smith and Sara Petersen on Substack.
Art to Break: The Stakes of Pervasive Digital Smoothness by David Rollinson for Clot Magazine.
Zola Understood Our Lust for Shopping by Agnes Callard for Unherd.
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