Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts
Friday, April 13, 2018
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Thursday, January 11, 2018
sneaker pimps
America’s athletic shoe market topped $17 billion in 2016.
The secondary market where collectors trade has been growing ever since Nike released the Air Jordan in 1985.
And this year, believe it or not, the secondary market became a one BILLION dollar industry.
That’s about what we gave to Pakistan last year.
Our secondhand sneaker money.
1996
Friday, September 29, 2017
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
be still, my foolish art
The Palazzo Morando is an historic palace on a
fashionable side street in Milan.
Built in the 1500’s, it was home to a series of wealthy and influential Milanese families over the centuries.
When the owner, a countess with no heirs died in 1945, she donated the building and its contents to the city.
As timing would have it,
World War 2 had recently destroyed The Milan Museum.
And since the Palazzo was already filled with spectacular artifacts, fresco paintings and precious antiquities, the city made it into a new museum.
Later, the palace specialized its mission to fashion history,
and it was the Manolo Blahnik shoe show that brought me in.
The opulence and excellence of craft in both the building and the footwear was simply jaw dropping.
Room after room of extraordinary artworks and antiques are more than enough to justify a visit.
But the Manolo exhibit itself was equally remarkable.
It led the viewer through his artistic process, from watercolor concepts and paper patterns...
....then to hand cut leather and fabric to hand assembly.
Every shoe is its own work of art.
The juxtaposition of contemporary art within this exceptional building was a real treat.
I was just overjoyed.
Seriously!
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
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