NHU DUONG AW17 Models at Nhu Duong’s Fall/Winter 2017 runway show—presented at Artists Space during New York Fashion Week—wore faces stained with shiny, gelatinous tears, though this detail was understated enough to not be immediately visible. Silently crying for no apparent reason seems in harmony with a sort of drunkenness in the collection’s silhouettes: a crisp white shirt, modeled by artist Timur Si-Qin, is buttoned off-center; hoodies hang over a single shoulder, leaving the other… [read more »]

TELFAR AW17 …And the award for most time-travel-friendly, culturally adaptable, contextually annoyed, unisex specific, panic-onomical, worn equally by both offense and defense — goes to: TELFAR. Fill in the fucking blank. Meaning is in the eye of the beholder; and it’s a responsibility. Fill in the fucking blank. — Ryan Trecartin, TELFAR F/W 2017 TELFAR F/W 2017 continues the designer’s starkly original, trend-agnostic, anti-identitarian, deconstruction of garments and their meanings. This season the body’s meridians… [read more »]