“At 78, Norma Kamali isn’t ready to retire. But the celebrated New York designer is starting to think about how the company she built from scratch and has run for more than 50 years will carry on when she eventually steps back. Typically, this kind of succession planning entails preparing the right leadership to take creative oversight of the business […]
“When normal people think of couture garments — the extravagant custom designs using all but extinct techniques, materials, and craftsmanship — they probably dream of pieces made with luxurious silks, supple leathers, crystals, and tulle. Daniel Roseberry thinks of your old flip phone. Roseberry, the creative director of French fashion house Schiaparelli, showed the brand’s 2024 couture show in Paris […]
“But in conversations with designers, several have said the technology’s disregard for considerations like standard clothing construction or basic physics, as well as its vulnerability to “hallucinations,” may be its most powerful asset.” Link to Story [Subscription required]
Collina Strada appears to be the first designer label to use it so heavily in a runway collection, or at least the first to acknowledge it. Taymour called it a “game changer.” Multiple times during the conversation she described it as pushing her brain further creatively. Where she found the AI useful wasn’t in producing flawless, finished looks but in […]