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31 Dec

Remembering Dame Vivienne Westwood: Industry Figures Share Memories of

Remembering Dame Vivienne Westwood: Industry Figures Share Memories of
LONDON — WWD’s legendary late publisher and editorial director John B. Fairchild described Vivienne Westwood as a “designer’s designer” and her peers definitely agree.  Designers and fashion industry figures have been paying tribute to Westwood, who died Thursday at age 81, describing her not only as an iconoclast but as a fantastic teacher and role model. Fairchild considered Westwood one among the world’s six biggest designers, together with the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Emanuel Ungaro and Christian Lacroix. Westwood signed a seven-year licensing agreement with Giorgio Armani in 1984 that gave the Italian designer exclusive rights to her name. But no clothes were ever produced under the agreement and in 1987 Westwood actually sued Armani for failing to pay her....
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31 Dec

Issa Rae: ‘People Have The Power To Tell Me

Issa Rae: ‘People Have The Power To Tell Me
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31 Dec

Sasha Gordon’s self-portraits are designed to make you uncomfortable

Sasha Gordon’s self-portraits are designed to make you uncomfortable
In her latest exhibition at Hands of Others, currently showing at Jeffrey Deitch in Recent York, Sasha Gordon uses absurdist self-portraiture to focus on the conflicting issues in her personal life. Nevertheless, as an alternative of allowing her audience to sympathise with the stark emotions in her paintings, Gordon’s work is supposed to perturb us; there's a way of unnerving voyeurism when viewing these images as if we're seeing something we should always not.  “I’ve all the time felt really uncomfortable [in my body],” the Brooklyn-based artist tells Dazed. “I need the viewer to feel the identical discomfort of being on this body that’s being critiqued and checked out on a regular basis. I used to be all the time very...
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