“In a two part series, courtesy of our friends at 032c, BoF takes you inside notoriously press shy, New York-based streetwear brand Supreme. Today, in Part I, we examine how Supreme — the Chanel of downtown streetwear —became a global cult brand with its own myths, iconography and belief systems.” (BoF)
“Louis Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs has tapped the legendary Japanese polka-dot painter Yayoi Kusama as the company’s latest artist collaborator, most likely with an eye toward the Japanese market, one of the world’s largest for luxury goods.” (Art Info)
“The crazy, colorful and dynamic world of[Jean-Paul] Mr. Goude, 71, is captured so vividly at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris that phalanxes of visitors wait in line to re-live the experience of the train that ran down the Champs-Élysées at France’s bicentennial celebrations in 1989. (New York Times)
“When Dolce & Gabbana announced in September that its spring/summer 2012 collection for D&G would be its last, it seemed like the death knell for diffusion lines… Yet this season also sees a new generation of what might be called ‘alternative’ lines, created to stand alongside high-end catwalk collections, not exactly as peers but not as second-rate cousins either.” (FT)
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