Random fashion thoughts - Page 4210

Wow. Just got around to checking prices for Exemplaire... Barneys is stocking them this season, and they're selling single ply cashmere sweaters online for 1.2k-ish. Has anyone had the chance to check these things out in person?

too true... a lot of Dries pieces have been oversized lately, wish he'd make some XS

Very nice, onassis seems like a nice store also, they're working on a website with store (was I the only one who didn't knew you could change the sizes of smilies? )
also, after christmas I will probably be able to proxy Cos to wherever you want

They are much smarter. By having kept their locations very limited, and only in a very sought after, cool, space, they've managed to cultivate an air of exclusivity around what is really a mass market product. Think of Target vs. Walmart. That's really their differentiator.

Sure, the clothes fit a little differently, but honestly, it's not unlike the GAP circa 1995, when GAP was in its heydey, before it lost its focus, and started to do really un-GAP like things like leather jean jackets (honestly, there was one in about 2000 that sold for about $300, and was not that much worse than the similar offerings of say, RRL, though obviously, the notions were not as good) and leather pants (who every greenlighted this was probably dragged through HQ behind a chariot - people simply do not go to the GAP to buy leather pants, and even in the LA stores, you had your pick of sizes even at 70% off).

Right now, you have tourists going to NYC and bring stuff back to De Moines, or Boise, or Lincoln, NE, and they are all apeshit about Uniqlo. I remember that when GAP expanded in the late 80s and early 90s, it was the same thing - but then you have to do things to maintain that image. And in 2012, for a place like Uniqlo, there is a much more crowded market, and a lot more marketing considerations. This just the opinion of someone who works in that space.

I don't disagree. That said, if you don't think that Uniqlo isn't shelling out some sweet sweet moolah to some very smart people to try and figure this out for them, well you're a smart guy so you don't think that. Also, I think it's important to distinguish the difference between Uniqlo trying to figure out whether or not they are going to sell 1,000 or 10,000 polo shirts in the American marketplace vs. the financial sector trying to assess the value of $1T in mortgages. Uniqlo can definitely afford to make concerted yet conservative effort to enter the American online-retail market, have it fail, and still survive. In the other case, not so much.

I agree with the notion that it would be very helpful. That said, I'm not sure if the idea is very practical. The benefit to MC books is that at the end of the day everybody is wearing the same thing (shirt, tie, jacket, pants, and shoes). For the most part everybody in MC is looking to achieve the same look, but individually everybody has to go about it in a slightly different manner because of different body types. Whereas in SW&D there is already a great deal of segmentation by aesthetic. The market for a book on how to properly achieve the Goth Ninja aesthetic would be lucky to sell 10% of the copies of the average Flusser book sold each year. That and the fast pace with which these types of looks come into and out of fashion would also date the books very quickly.


I have never loved misogyny more than when it is coming from the mind of Too $hort.

This is the same as Esemplaire, right? Brigade has some coats from them this season. They are pretty neat, but like you said, very pricey.

I completely agree. All I am saying is that I don't think you shave that much off of your image of exclusivity by expanding into 10 cities as opposed to one. You might be able to count on one hand the number of people that travel from Des Moines to NYC and choose to shop at Uniqlo, but that number probably expands to a few dozen if they have a store in Chicago. You then also have the people that live and work in Chicago, but grew up on Des Moines that now bring home Uniqlo clothing for everybody at X-mas because it is cool and exclusive.

Interesting. That said, I can easily see why that wouldn't work. The model shouldn't be "build outward from the mother ship". It should be establish stores only in large urban markets that have the critical mass needed to support it.

It looks right-side-up in Australia.

My god the writing on Third Look is just terrible. Great photoshoots... but hot damn—someone needs to revisit English 101.

Yeah, not everyone is capable of compelling writing, but it can't be too hard to find a buddy to copy edit that stuff if you know it's going to be seen by thousands of eyes.

"I implicitly trust her taste..."

http://www.thirdlooks.com/2012/08/style-profile-gia/

wow

Anybody know where I can find the Jil Sander Foujita print garments?

This Edun coat had a lot going for it. The funnel neck, the shape of the shoulders, the silhouette all look great. Would have been a solid coat had they kept it simple.

But nooo, in come the extraneous seams, the bizarre vertical strip of contrast fabric, to make sure a perfectly solid coat doesn't stay that way. For shame, Edun. For shame.

ok but there's like a million places to get the coat you just described already

it was really just an illustration of how they took something perfectly fine and mucked it up.