Category: Field Note
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The Shoe Returns to Its Namesake Street
Twenty-two years after naming a pump for a Paris street of cabarets, Louboutin gave its anniversary show to a burlesque legend.
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The Crypt McQueen Chose Over Paris
Alexander McQueen came back to London this month by staging its show in a chapel undercroft in Holborn.
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A Trench Coat Returns to a Textile Room
A coat built to survive trench mud and gunfire is about to spend four months behind glass.
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A Runway Set on Borough Hall’s Steps
Five designers who’d never shown in New York had their clothes walked down Brooklyn’s civic steps.
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A Menswear House Tries Women Again
J. Press is returning to the corner of 44th and Madison, the block it occupied for eighty-two years before leaving in 2014.
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A Label Sold, a Hand Kept
Marc Jacobs the company changed hands for the second time in thirty years this week, and the designer stayed put.
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The Quietest Exit Off-White Has Made
Off-White announced its creative director’s departure in one paragraph, with no irony and no quotation marks.
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The Colorist Who Left the Seams Showing
Brad Johns invented a hair-coloring technique named, without any softening, for exactly what it does.
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Miu Miu Funds a Film, Not a Campaign
Claire Denis has directed a short film for Miu Miu, and no one involved has called it a campaign.