OccupyBrandStreet
By Matthew Collins
Polimoda Master Student 2011 Luxury Management
While it seems we’ve seen the peak of the Occupy “Whatever” across the world, the feelings and anger that are directed towards the embattled 1% are still evident across the global proletariat.
An art college and cultural centre in one, Central Saint Martins is internationally renowned for the creative energy of its students, staff and graduates.
Photo: Nick Knight
As stated last July in my Contr[addiction]s, Florence is the new Antwerp [but also the new Lourdes]. Today it was Stephen Jones’ turn to get blessed by Polimoda’s overflowing new home room. A well deserved benediction because, as per words of Anna Piaggi, Mr. Jones has made the most beautiful hats in the [...]
BRANDS AND PRODUCTS: HOW THE OBJECT BE/COME SUBJECTS
By Halszka Kostecka (Fashion Brand Management student, October 2011)
Teacher: Danilo Venturi
On 2007 Zevs, French street artist, created on the wall of Emporio Armani store in Hong Kong a liquidated version of Chanel logo as he did in different cities with other omnipresent trademarks including Coca Cola, Apple, Nike [...]
BEFORE CASTING
October 18th 2011
Interviewing people is exciting, being interviewed is far less interesting. Why? Because as an interviewer you go in the mind of the person in front of you, while being interviewed is like being obligated to give your soul away, and probably not for the right purpose. You feel uncertain, you blush and [...]
http://issuu.com/dimitragennaris/docs/portfolio
Portfolio Trend Forecasting Dimitra Gennaris – student Master Trend Forecasting Polimoda
Perhaps the Next Target Market in Japan
By Rio Kuroyanagi
Despite the nominal prestige earned by Reiko Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto through their notorious take on playful androgynous discourse favored in their collections, the rising popularity of “thinking outside the box” has not only influenced fashion but also the Japanese society…somewhat uniquely.
Many designers have repetitively proposed androgynous [...]
http://www.style.com/stylefile/2011/10/the-future-of-fashion-part-nine-azzedine-alaia/
The Future of Fashion
The Future of Fashion, Part Nine: Azzedine Alaïa
October 31, 2011 9:35 am
In this ongoing series, Style.com’s editor in chief, Dirk Standen, talks to a number of leading industry figures about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the fashion business.
SEE INTERVIEW DANILO VENTURI
http://fashion-salad.com/interview/venturi-luxury-hackers/
Luxury after luxury – by Danilo Venturi
(read in pdf, click here!)
It’s nice to see sometimes how reality can go beyond fantasy and how the future is nothing else than what we are able to fantasize in the present. If not like this, at the question “which mean of transport would you like to experience” people [...]
Marketing the Opera – The Disconnect.
by Matthew Collins
Student Luxury Management Polimoda.
Recently I had the chance to take in a concert of the Philharmonia at La Scala in Milan. I was there to see and hear a performance of Brahms & Bartok, an interesting juxtaposition of composers. But from the vantage point of my box and in [...]