NICOLA FORMICHETTI KNOWS
nicola formichetti is brilliant. he calls himself an art director. i call him a curator. he’s an outstanding translator of street style into compelling images. he was born in japan to an italian pilot father and a japanese stewardess mother. brought up between rome and tokyo, he moved to london to study but soon gave that...
2 STYLISTS – 2 INTERVIEWS
industrie magazine is a grown up, fashion industry effort that is (among others) the current umbrella over ellin kling, bryan boy and fashion toast. they recently posted a great interview with amazing stylist panos yiapanis (you must remember him from here) and w magazine has a good, straight-forward interview with nicola formichetti. click here for his thoughts on gaga, getting...
MODERN INDIAN MILLINER – LITTLE SHILPA
shilpa chavan aka little shilpa is the former apprentice of phillip treacy as well as the future of indian millinery. apart from designing amazingly intricate accessories for her own brand, she also did a few collaborations (most notably with co-national manish aurora) and took commissions for lady gaga from fan nicola formichetti (who also used her stuff...
UNIQLO – THE QUIET WIN
i love a business with good common sense and this is exactly what uniqlo, the japanese mass production clothes manufacturer/retailer, is. tadashi yanai, the chairman, president and ceo, decided to manufacture and sell the brand’s products exclusively in their stores. he also decided that the products will not follow fashion or trends so much as...
50 MOST INFLUENTIAL CREATIVE FORCES IN FASHION TODAY
A very interesting article. nicola formichetti – 7 (confirming the huge influence he has as gaga’s stylist and also as creative director at thierry mugler and through the various other jobs he’s doing), rick owens – 19, panos yiapanis -39 (the amazing stylist working mainly with givenchy), terry richardson -43, kate lanphear -47 . can...
