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AnOther Magazine & Another Man | Fashion & Culture | AnOther

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A thought-provoking blend of high fashion, art and culture brought to you by the creators of AnOther Magazine and Another Man

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''It had nothing to do with being on a mission to say fashion is art,'' Ms. Sischy said of the Artforum cover. ''I don't think fashion is art, but why is that definition for artistic creativity so narrow that it's just a painting in a frame? Especially toward the end of the 20th century, after the Bauhaus and after the movies were invented, it seemed so pathetic that the definition of art was still this little thing about painting and sculpture, since both of those forms had also turned themselves into self-congratulatory, empty, deadened forms.''

In fact, Bauhaus is the historic argument for encouraging an exhibition that brings together, as this one does, architecture, art and fashion. The question is whether such a moment can be manufactured.

''Designers and artists are so multifaceted that you're not likely to have a single strain developing out of the conjunction,'' said James Gardner, art critic for National Review magazine and the author of ''Culture or Trash?,'' which analyzed the state of modern art. ''You don't have the single strain that Bauhaus did that brought fashion and art together, geometric abstraction.'' Instead, he said, ''With the increasing celebrity of the artist and the designer, what they really have going for both of them is their celebrity. They now have this sort of computerized program that allows them to communicate, and the software is their celebrity.''

Which is ultimately what makes the project so perfect for Ms. Sischy, since celebrity is part of the currency that led Andy Warhol to create Interview.

What the A-list of contributors to the biennial makes clear is that it might be a monster cocktail party; instead of the dialogue of the shared strain of Bauhaus, what could result is a lot of monologuists mouthing off at one another.

''In the best of all possible worlds, it will have a residue and open up ideas of thinking, looking and showing,'' Ms. Sischy said.

Since the timing of the exhibition is based on the notion that this is a great moment of cross-pollination between artists and fashion designers, the biennial is forcing a few shotgun marriages to prove that point.

Miuccia Prada will collaborate with Damien Hirst for a work in one of seven pavilions; Helmut Lang with Jenny Holzer in another; Gianni Versace with Roy Lichtenstein in a third. The Holzer-Lang collaboration, Ms. Sischy said, ''involves electronics, language and other elements, which they've chosen to symbolize fashion. The texts involve all the reasons to be naked or clothed -- from sex to humiliation and murder.''

The exhibition, she added, can hardly be accused of forcing a debate. ''Art and fashion is something we'd never address if it weren't so vibrant right now,'' she said.

Not only is this a particularly fertile time for contemporary artists to comment on fashion, criticize it and use it to make statements about gender; it is also a moment when fashion designers are increasingly borrowing movements from art.

''It started in a big way, in a conscious way, with Cindy Sherman,'' Ms. Sischy said. ''In order for her to make her point about women and stereotypes, she was heavily styling herself with fashion imagery. Since then, it's really been heating up.''

Recent work of Ms. Prada, Jil Sander, Rei Kawakubo, Mr. Lang, Mr. Versace and Karl Lagerfeld has been criticized for being ''ugly''; rather, what they've done is appropriate art's questioning of what is beautiful.

''With these fashion designers, there has been the equivalent of the breakthrough visually, as there was when artists broke through the idea of the picturesque,'' Ms. Sischy said. ''The most creative and the most attuned designers are revolutionizing what a palette means, what a line means, a shape. For fashion, it's the equivalent creativity of Cubism.''

Ms. Sischy's enthusiasm, and her intellectual ability to make meaning out of molehills, has seduced a heady group. After all, Ms. Sischy runs a magazine so intimate with its subjects that the other day Julian Schnabel replaced a Ross Bleckner work on her office wall with one of his own. Competitive artists, or designers, would not ignore her call.

IN 19 OF THE MOST IMPORTANT Florence museums, designers like Christian Lacroix, Donna Karan and John Galliano will react to the environments, with installations overseen by the architect Gae Aulenti. ''Most of them have nothing contemporary, and by contemporary I mean something from the last 100 years.'' Ms. Sischy said.

The ''New Persona/New Universe'' exhibition, designed by Denis Santachiara, gives established artists like David Bowie, Cindy Sherman and the Chapman brothers rooms to address issues of gender. Mr. Bowie's work, for example, is an installation involving magic and art, ''an ambitious project that plays with the idea of illusion, which I like since fashion is about so much smoke and mirrors,'' Ms. Sischy said. Designers, meanwhile, like Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Mr. Lagerfeld and Tom Ford of Gucci will make installations illustrating their ''designer universe.''

An exhibit inside Forte Belvedere will commemorate other moments when fashion and art collided: the fabrics of Sonia Delaunay, the fashion prototypes of the Russian Constructivists Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, the Dada and Surrealistic collaborations of Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli, Man Ray and Vogue magazine. There will be clothes or jewelry designed by Lucio Fontana, Giuseppe Capogrossi and Getulio Alviani, and designs by Mr. Warhol, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg and Ellsworth Kelly.

What Ms. Sischy hopes is that designers may be given something artists enjoy: time for an audience to pause and really consider their work.

''What I kept noticing in my years of watching fashion intensely is it didn't really have too many situations -- certainly no system at all -- in which people could step back and really look at it and think about it,'' Ms. Sischy said. ''Usually, the level of discourse about it is very low and sheeplike.''

And some of fashion's best moments happen far from the runway. ''At the opening of the Andy Warhol Museum, the most fabulous moment was when these dames emerged in their Halston-designed dresses when Andy had done the fabric,'' Ms. Sischy said.

Still, she stressed: ''We were very careful that this is not an exhibition about what happened. This is about what's happening. And if fashion and contemporary art aren't about what's happening, then I don't know what they're supposed to be about.''

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Amy M Spindler article on sticky links between art and fashion, in light of forthcoming Biennale di Firenze exhibition Time and Fashion; ambitious exhibition in Florence is first of what may be biennial event exploring fashion in depth; photos (L)

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As part of its ongoing restructuring efforts, Marc Jacobs International is said to have laid off the majority of its European staff, based in Paris.

The exact number of job losses could not immediately be learned.

While a spokeswoman for parent company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton declined to comment specifically on layoffs, she said, "Since we began operating under a one-brand model, we have started to see the benefit of our focused strategy. We now need to drive further efficiency across our organization in order to operate in a fully integrated manner out of our global headquarters [New York]. The steps we are taking will position us to best leverage the power of the Marc Jacobs brand and position the company to enhance growth and improve performance."

In 2015, Jacobs made the move to assimilate the contemporary Marc by Marc Jacobs label into the signature Marc Jacobs collection, as part of a plan to grow the company in anticipation of a possible initial public offering. Despite those moves, the business has continued to be a drag on LVMH's performance.

Last month, LVMH's chief financial officer Jean-Jacques Guiony said Jacobs' performance was "probably one of the few negative performances we have in the group."

"The company, in my view, is making a big improvement in its product. What they do, what they have been doing over the last season or two seasons is much better than before, particularly in the handbag business. Obviously, this takes a little bit of time to pay off, but we are extremely confident and in the meantime, we have to reduce the cost base," he said.

While he said it will take time to fix the Jacobs business and called it promising but "quite complicated," Guiony added, "We are great believers in the future of Marc Jacobs." Still, he said, "We're not positive about the outlook. I'm positive about the brand and the teams. That's all. We are very positive we will make it." How long it takes and how much it will cost is another matter, he added.

The repositioning of Jacobs' business and the focus on one women's brand have led to the demise of the men's wear label. As reported, the company concluded its license agreement with Staff International SpA for its small men's wear business following the fall 2017 line. The license covered men's ready-to-wear, bags, accessories and footwear.

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Marc Jacobs Reduces European Staff, Say Sources

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As part of its ongoing restructuring efforts, Marc Jacobs International is said to have laid off the majority of its European staff, based in Paris. The exact number of job losses could not immediately be learned.

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Abercrombie & Fitch's journey has been a fascinating one to follow in recent years. Like many teen retailers that were mall favorites in the mid-aughts, A&F has been hit hard by the current retail climate. But a rebrand that began with former Karl Lagerfeld designer Kristina Szasz's Fall 2015 debut has seen the label making a serious aesthetic pivot.

Today, A&F released Part Two of its "Made for You" campaign. It builds upon the new direction seen in Part One by featuring street- and Instagram-cast teens and 20-somethings rather than the beefy, half-clothed models for which it used to be known. This time, the models were cast in Asheville, North Carolina and Boulder, Colorado, where the campaign was shot and styled to reflect their individuality.

This feels like a move in the right direction, and only time will tell if the brand intends to further address the values that are increasingly important to their target demographic of millennials and Gen Z'ers and 20-somethings - like wider ethnic diversity and ethical production. For now, the aesthetic redirection and savvy casting concept bode well for the label.

Check out the second part of Abercrombie & Fitch's "Made for You" campaign in the gallery below.

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Street-Cast Cool Kids Replace Hunky Models in Abercrombie & Fitch's Spring 2017 Lookbook

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Abercrombie & Fitch's journey has been a fascinating one to follow in recent years. Like many teen retailers that were mall favorites in the mid-aughts, A&F has been hit hard by the current retail climate. But a rebrand that began with former Karl Lagerfeld designer Kristina Szasz's Fall 2015 debut has seen the label making a serious aesthetic pivot.

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Dazed & Confused Magazine | Fashion, Art, Music, Film, Ideas | Dazed

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Youth and pop culture provocateurs since 1991. Fearless fashion, music, art, film, politics and ideas from today's bleeding edge. Declare Independence.

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The Fashion Law is a Leading Source for Fashion Law and the Business of Fashion News and Analysis, and Objective Commentary.

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The largest fashion collection in the world, the V&A's collection spans five centuries - couture to accessories, and footwear to hats.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum

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The Met collection represents more than 5,000 years of art from across the globe-from the first cities of the ancient world to works being created today.

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i-D - A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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Everything with the topic 'Fashion' on VICE

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Fashion is a polysemic category. When it comes to thinking about it critically, there's one aspect I particularly like: the way in which fashion is also connected to a more philosophical dimension - referring to a form of temporality; to the search for newness, the 'irrational' appetite for novelty; the idolatry of commodities; a speedy pursuit of replacement and therefore, an assimilated rationale based on transitoriness and ephemerality.

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Fashion Shows: Fashion Week, Runway, Designer Collections

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Get up-to-the-minute fashion show coverage at New York, London, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks. See photos, videos, reviews, and more.

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QUT Library Fashion Pages - your portal to scholarly academic sources - you need 5 of these. 

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QUT Library Fashion Pages - your portal to scholarly academic sources - you need 5 of these. 