June 13, 2010
June 2010 / Issue No. 78
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Has the fashion world indeed “democratized” itself in the past years? Where exclusivity was once the rule, where images of models defined the ideal of beauty, and the power of designers counted as incontestable, it is now—not least in the times of a continuing crisis—the much-read fashion blogs, for example, that, apparently independent of the old authorities of fashion critique, proclaim and circulate the new trends “from the street”, allegedly making stylists and model agencies superfluous and defining looks beyond the dictate of the big fashion houses or corporations. The interviews and essays in this issue seek to critically assess this state of affairs in a historical perspective.
Plus reviews from Berlin, New York, Vienna, Rome, Munich, Paris, Basel, Cologne, Frankfurt/M., Aachen
Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Norbert Bisky, Isa Genzken
ENGLISH CONTENT
FRÉDÉRIC MONNEYRON
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COUTURIERS AND FASHION MAGAZINES
FASHION IS FUN
An interview with Stefano Pilati by Merlin Carpenter
ISABELLE GRAW
FASHION AND VITALITY
A note on “Brigitte” without models
ELEGANT DISCIPLINE
An interview with Rick Owens by Monica Titton
KIM GORDON
FOSSIL COLLECTIONS
On Rodarte
MONICA TITTON
FASHION IN THE CITY
Street Style Blogs and the Limits of Fashion’s Democratization
MAHRET KUPKA
UNIFORM OF THE SLIM
On the Persistence of a Silhouette
REVIEWS
JULI CARSON
GALAXY OF SIGNIFIERS
On Constanze Ruhm’s “Crash Site/My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot” by Juli
LANKA TATTERSALL
TERMS OF USE
On “2010: The Whitney Biennial” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
MICHAEL SANCHEZ
WHAT CAN I DO BUT ENUMERATE OLD THEMES?
On Allen Ruppersberg at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
ADAM KLEINMAN
PRESS(BOXING)
On “Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection” at the New Museum, New York
ARTISTS’ EDITIONS
NORBERT BISKY
“08.23h”, 2010
ISA GENZKEN
“MONA ISA”, 2010
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