Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...industry is to survive, we can't work in a self-feeding, inward-looking circle of the privileged. We must look wider than that. I love floaty gowns on a catwalk, but we need more than that if fashion is to be relevant.' ?Stefano Pilati, creative director, Yves Saint Laurent...
...dance sensation. Chances are you'll see the silhouette of a heavy-browed gorilla, the logo of the graphic designer's company, A BATHING APE - a streetwear icon that grew out of a hole-in-the-wall Harajuku storefront to become a Japanese Gen-Y obsession, an Asian fashion fetish and eventually a global phenomenon. Sold only in limited quantities and only through his A BATHING APE boutiques in Japan, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York and London, Nigo's clothes and footwear helped launch Tokyo's Harajuku district as a global epicenter of urban style and are today collected...
...BATHING APE's beginnings: "Rewind to the Tokyo of the early 1990s. The 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...
...Lowdown: Nobody's going to mistake this book for a serious look at the evolution of global fashion or a monograph on the guerilla-retailing model that Nigo and his associates pioneered; its uneven grammar and haphazard use of the serial comma alone should see to that. *A Bathing Ape is an unabashed love letter from Nigo (or Nigo ?, as he's branded in the book) and his co-authors to himself, and as such it plays up A BATHING APE's many successes while leaving any artistic, aesthetic or financial missteps well off the page. Still, what it does...
Luxuria's participation had already ensured record high ratings for the 10-week-long show. Interest centered not only on how a communist politician would interact with two-bit stars and showgirls, but curiosity about what Luxuria would look like without her makeup. (See pictures of Milan's 2008 fashion week...