The shirt I am wearing in this post is an Opening Ceremony anniversary re-issue of a design by Carol Lim and Humberto Leon. Opening Ceremony, a dream that became real, was founded in 2002 by the designers, who quit their jobs in corporate fashion to engage with their love of fashion, art and travel. The vision became a small store on an out of the way street in NYC.
It’s name and mission come from the multicultural extragvanza that opens the Olympics. While including iconic and emerging homegrown designers, the pair each year showcases the talents from a visiting country supporting diverse and international talent. One of my favorite designers, Angel Chen has been featured there.
Opening Ceremony’s lines of activity, rooted in friendship and exploration, currently extend physically to stores in LA and Tokyo and virtually as an e-commerce site and blog. Collaboration with designers, artists, filmmakers and other creatives constantly transforms and privileges different stories about what we might really mean by inclusion.
Follow this link from my weekend bibliography to read about how the two designers created a blueprint (also creative directors st Kenzo) that made Asians feel like they really had a place in fashion.
Do you feel like you have a place in fashion?
Looking fabulous, where are your white trousers from?
That are Paige Denim.
Looking fabulous, where are your white trousers from?
That are Paige Denim.
I feel like everyone can have a place in fashion because of the internet. Fashion has only become more accessible. Love your outfit btw.
http://www.vauntr.com/
Let’s hope that keeps happening as it can be such a pleasure.
I feel like everyone can have a place in fashion because of the internet. Fashion has only become more accessible. Love your outfit btw.
http://www.vauntr.com/
Let’s hope that keeps happening as it can be such a pleasure.
I do feel that I have a place in fashion. Its a funny place, very personal, where I am collaborating on a very small scale with existing shops, the co-op gallery I founded years ago, and other indie designers. Some of us are bringing things back from our travels around the world and sharing them in pop-up shops.
I live in a small village called Fort Langley on Canada’s west coast, not the centre of the fashion universe but the centre of our explorations and energies.
Thanks, Lyn, for this ongoing conversation. It lets me feel plugged in beyond the village.
Whether off the beaten path or not sounds like a marvel!
I do feel that I have a place in fashion. Its a funny place, very personal, where I am collaborating on a very small scale with existing shops, the co-op gallery I founded years ago, and other indie designers. Some of us are bringing things back from our travels around the world and sharing them in pop-up shops.
I live in a small village called Fort Langley on Canada’s west coast, not the centre of the fashion universe but the centre of our explorations and energies.
Thanks, Lyn, for this ongoing conversation. It lets me feel plugged in beyond the village.
Whether off the beaten path or not sounds like a marvel!