May 2012
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[2012.03] INTERVIEW WITH ME FOR THE LATVIAN ONLINE FASHION MAGAZINE “CONFESS”.
CONFESS: Do Latvian fashion designers have an opportunity to create a systematic, long-term image for the Latvian fashion market? Could you, please, give examples for those who not only want but are also capable of establishing a company? ANNIKA VITOLA: Latvian fashion designers are in an amazingly...
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March 2012
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There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your...
– Austin Kleon
February 2012
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January 2012
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[2011] Visionaries: Tom Ford. Very inspiring. If you have 40 minutes to spare today, this is the material to spend them on.
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I like to think of fashion as a quiet opportunity to participate and...
– Rick Owens
December 2011
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November 2011
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[2012] Hussein Chalayan. S/S Collection ‘Sip’. Once again Cyprus-born Central Saint Martins graduate Chalayan did what he does best - successfully combined the fields of art and fashion by giving a runway show that could have easily been mistaken for performance art presentation. As video is worth a million words, this time I’ll give you two million (plus 79 in this small...
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October 2011
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I don’t feel too excited about fashion today, more fearful that people...
– Rei Kawakubo
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July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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If you have parents who grew up in the ’60s and ’70s, they already...
– Jeremy Langmead, ‘Mr Porter’
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March 2011
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[2011] Fashion Industry. Is the pace too fast?
* Marc Jacobs at rehab a few years back. Alexander McQueen’s suicide. John Galliano in rehab. Christophe Decarnin recovering from nervous exhaustion. This is making fashion veterans wonder if the relentless pace of the industry (a pace demanded by executives to meet profit forecasts) isn’t taking its toll on creative talents. * In the old ...
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February 2011
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The Chinese can manufacture well, but (…) since they have all this cash,...
– Jean Touitou, ‘Atelier de Production et de Création’
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January 2011
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[2011] Liquida Matrice by Ilaria Nistri SS. Body language and space in a mix of fashion and performance. From shape in movement, indistinct and pulsating, a primordial shape that generates and defines life is developed.
December 2010
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