Word: designators
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Salvatore Ferragamo began his career working in costume design, where his first task was to craft a pair of riding boots for Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in The Thief of Baghdad. Today his legendary house has teamed up with director Baz Luhrmann and costume designer Catherine Martin to create a wardrobe of shoes for Nicole Kidman's character, a 1940s aristocrat, in the Outback epic Australia. Watch for the ruched red-velvet evening sandals and, yes, riding boots...
Hugo Boss is the most recent big name to make its mark in New York City's Meatpacking District. The newly opened store's concept?to have all Hugo Boss labels displayed under one roof?is a first for the global brand. Distinctive design features include a complex lighting system that reacts to the weather and time of day, and a lattice-like structure that arches above the length of the store...
...YORK CITY Lacoste Musician Michael Stipe teams up with Lacoste to design a limited-edition polo shirt featuring a photo print of a mosh pit (above; $155) for its Holiday Collection series, available only at the Fifth Avenue store...
...asset price bubble that fueled the excesses of the previous decade had just collapsed, and the recession that followed in its wake had an instantaneous and crippling effect on cultural production. In fashion and its allied trades, the contraction in the economy forced an untimely end to the "Designer Boom" that defined the Tokyo high street for much of the 1980s ... [But in Harajuku], a tentative sense of revival was afoot. In its warren of side-streets, ancient storefronts and crumbling housing complexes, a scrappy group of designer/proprietors, many of them looking fresh out of high school, began to open...
...financial missteps well off the page. Still, what it does, it does well: if you're buying it as a coffee table book, you'd better make sure you've got an Isamu Noguchi coffee table to go underneath it. *A Bathing Ape is eye candy for graphic design students - a slickly produced, bling-laden look at a brand that's managed to forge a nexus between hip-hop style, Japanese animation and Warhol-inspired pop art while keeping the kids coming back for more...