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By Rain Noe - Feb 11
Made-in-USA Pants Guaranteed to Last for 25 Years
Kickstart an end to pantsed obsolescence with the Quarter Century Pant.
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By Sam Dunne - Jan 21
What, Wood Filler? No no, WOOL Filler...
Having witnessed a few of my nearest and dearest succumb to the mediative delights of knitting, I'm beginning to cultivate an appreciation—for the materiality and intricate skills of the art—that I might...
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By Teshia Treuhaft - Jan 15
No Panties, No Problem: An Interview with Julie Sygiel of Dear Kate
Over the last few months, the hot topic of conversation among myself and my female startup friends (and a number of male friends too) has switched from the usual suspects of Shinola, YikYak, Casper etc to an unlikely...
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By Sam Dunne - Dec 01, 2014
Aplàt: The Tote Bag Designed to Hold Things Flat
I dare say a fair majority of us here share a healthy designerly appreciation for bags and luggage, and, in all likelihood, are partial, on occasion, to the practicalities of a trusty tote. Knowing that, and the...
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By Sam Dunne - Nov 28, 2014
Flying Collection: A Dystopian Vision of Black Friday's to Come
To Brits, the frenzied shop-fest of Black Friday (a phenomenon slowly spreading to our shore) seems like an odd tradition to follow on from a day of giving thanks—a sentiment shared by counter movements such as...
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By Rain Noe - Nov 03, 2014
The Undress Allows Women to Change Clothes in Public, Without Exposing Themselves
A professional photographer whom I know told me he'd never own any car that wasn't a van. When shooting guerilla-style on the streets of NYC, he explained, it's crucial to have a mobile changing room for the models to...
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By Ray Hu - Oct 08, 2014
The Man Behind the Mandelbrot Mandalas: Snow Artist Simon Beck Inaugurates Icebreaker's Art of Nature Series
Created some two generations ago, in the heady pre-hyperlapse days, the Eames' Powers of Ten remains as relevant today as ever before. While the short film makes for an unlikely (or at least hyperbolic) comparison to...
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By Moa Dickmark - Oct 06, 2014
Creative Minds: Athena Maroulis on Cultural Heritage, Social Design and a Never-Ending Love of Knowledge
It's interesting how things sometimes end up in your lap—in this case, it was a bag belonging to a friend of a friend that ended up on my kitchen table, and things developed from there. Those of you who already...
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By Core Jr - Sep 28, 2014
"Wear It Loud" At NYC Meatpacking's R|R Gallery
Artist Hanna Hedman wearing her own work, Loss. Photo: Sanna Lindberg"Wear it Loud," a bold contemporary art jewelry exhibition at beloved Reinstein Ross's new R|R Gallery in New York's Meatpacking District, is...
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By erika - Jul 22, 2014
Gothscreenshots: The Blog That Brought You the Most Depressing Digital Error Screens is Now Dressing You in Them
The fact that Soug Wen uses that adorable little shrugging smiley in her tagline for Gothscreenshots might be my favorite thing of the month—the actual apparel collection coming in as a close second. What's so...
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By Carly Ayres - Jul 16, 2014
Slow Factory: Satellite Images Printed on Silk Scarves
Look up at the sky on even the clearest, most perfect summer night here in New York City and you might realize that something is missing. Sure, the moon hovers brightly above the skyline, but the stars are getting...
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By Moa Dickmark - May 07, 2014
Creative Minds: Fashion Designer Rakel Solvadottir on Icelandic Style, Learning from Older Generations and Obsessing Over Design
Rakel is yet again one of the creative minds whose development I've been following for a while now. What is it with people coming from Iceland? It seems like they all have been sprinkled with fairy-dust, and Rakel is no...
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By Ray Hu - Apr 21, 2014
Milan 2014: Materials Explorations from Studio Formafantasma and Bart Hess at Palazzo Clerici
Along with the nearby ECAL exhibition, Studio Formafantasma's "De Natura Fossilium" at Palazzo Clerici was one of the most buzzed-about projects in the Brera District this year—after all, Andrea Trimarchi and...
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By Rain Noe - Apr 17, 2014
A Modular Jacket Design
Can a single jacket be all things to all people? Of course not, but perhaps a single jacket design could be all things to all fisherman. A Japanese company called Mountain Research has developed this "Phishing Hoody,"...
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By Kat Bauman - Mar 10, 2014
Chanel from Head to Table
Unveiled at their Paris Fashion Week runway show, Chanel's build out turned a lot of heads. Their hottest Fall/Winter looks? Food labels. The show was held at the beautiful and unsupermarketlike Grand Palais and...
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By erika - Feb 10, 2014
Speculative Spotlight: Helping You Save Money and Find 'True Love' (But Not at the Same Time)
We've come quite a long way from the speculative design of decade's pastSpeculative design has long served to illustrate the future and push the frontier of reality, and we're proud to include it as a category in our...
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By Kat Bauman - Jan 22, 2014
Behold, the Badass Beauty of Boro
Since the dawn of time, high fashion has recycled low... and congratulated itself for doing so. Antique Japanese boro fabric, increasingly popular among the edgy styluminati, is simultaneously co-branded couture,...
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By erika - Dec 12, 2013
Commute Culture May Have Just Peaked with this Passive Aggressive Fashion
No one really likes commuting (except maybe those who have readily accepted "Tube Games" into their daily routine). We might temporarily curb our discontent with a few minutes buried in a good book, slowly head-bobbing...
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By Rain Noe - Nov 11, 2013
Levi's 'Wellthread' Process: A Cheaper, More Sustainable Way to Manufacture Clothing
Last week, Levi Strauss & Company announced their Wellthread initiative, "A sustainable design and production process that benefits consumers, apparel workers and the environment." Now we just have to figure out what...
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By erika - Oct 29, 2013
Surviving the Apocalypse has Never Looked So Good Thanks to the Prepper Jacket
Photos by Amélie-Antoinette TegtmeyerTalk of the apocalypse never goes out of style (we're guilty as charged, from timely essays to lighter fare, not to mention our 2011 Gift Guide), and we've just found the...
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By Ray Hu - Sep 05, 2013
Outlier's Patent-Pending Pivot Sleeve, and How It Came to Be
Regular readers of Core are likely aware that we're big fans of local clothiers Outlier. Founded on their mutual interest in designing cycling clothes disguised as regular ones—think slacks and...
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By Core Jr - Sep 05, 2013
New Skins: Computational Design for Fashion Workshop - The Premise and Process behind the Verlan 3D-Printed Dress
Photo: ChristriniCore77 has had the pleasure of chronicling New Skins, a workshop led by designer Francis Bitonti, which took place from July 22 to August 8 at Pratt's Digital Arts and Humanities Research Center in...
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By Core Jr - Jul 30, 2013
New Skins: Computational Design for Fashion Workshop, by Francis Bitonti
Text & photos by Francis Bitonti StudioLast week marked the start of the New Skins: Computational Design for Fashion workshop, led by designer Francis Bitonti of the famed 'Dita Dress' and facilitated by Pratt...
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By Ray Hu - Jul 18, 2013
Below the Fold: Jule Waibel's Mary Poppins-Inspired, Accordion-Like 'Entfaltung' Collection
For her Master's thesis in the Design Products program at the Royal College of Art, Jule Waibel cleverly employed the multiple meanings of her native language, German: Entfaltung may be translated as "unfold," "expand"...
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By Rain Noe - Jul 12, 2013
Thanks to Hacker, Vogue UK's New Fashion Rage: Dinosaurs in Hats
I'm aware there's no real rivalry between the fields of industrial design and fashion design, and with friends in the latter profession it would be rude of me to publicly admit I think ill of that industry; but I can...
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By Teshia Treuhaft - Apr 22, 2013
Computational Couture: Software to Crowdsource your Closet
The hybrid fashion label/experimental design lab, Continuum Fashion, was first on our radar for their 3D printed bikini manufactured with Shapeways in 2011. Since the initial buzz, the design duo Jenna Fizel and Mary...
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By Rain Noe - Apr 04, 2013
An Exercise in Character Design: Mike Lunsford's Reasonably-Dressed Superheroines
For a superheroine, packing must be easy; their outfits are so skimpy there's barely enough fabric to fit into a purse. You could argue that male superheroes also wear costumes that leave little to the imagination, at...
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By Rain Noe - Apr 02, 2013
Wow-- Mugshots Used to Be Shot Like Fashion Editorials
Photo from Australia's Historic Houses Trust and The Sydney Justice & Police MuseumPhoto from Australia's Historic Houses Trust and The Sydney Justice & Police MuseumNowadays we use cameras, of both the cell phone and...
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By Rain Noe - Jan 23, 2013
Digital Fabrication and Fashion Intersect at Paris Fashion Week
Stratasys, whose Objet printers we checked out here, and fellow digital manufacturing company Materialise have teamed up with fashion designer Iris van Herpen to create some unusual clothes for Paris Fashion Week. Van...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 15, 2012
Yohji Yamamoto Closes as Holon Fashion Week Begins
Yohji Yamamoto in the Courtyard of the Design Museum HolonFollowing our trip to Tel Aviv to cover Holon Design Week earlier this year, Design Museum Holon (DMH) mounted Yohji Yamamoto's first solo exhibition in Israel,...
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By Rain Noe - Jun 08, 2012
"Hey Six-Eyes!" 4occhi Eyewear from Giulio Iacchetti
Your jaded correspondent rarely sees a product design that causes an LOL, but this one did it. Giulio Iacchetti's tongue-in-chic take on failing eyesight—he's had horrible vision since the age of ten—yielded...
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By Ray Hu - Dec 12, 2011
The T-Shirt Issue Gets Back to (the Future of) Basics
The T-Shirt Issue is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary design collective that have de- and reconstructed the quintessential article of clothing, that which gives them their name and purpose. While we had a first glimpse...
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By Ray Hu - Dec 08, 2011
Move Over FiveFingers: Biodegradable Footwear by 01M OneMoment
First things first: I've always been a bit put off by Vibram FiveFingers, the form-fitting, toe-splitting footwear that's intended to approximate bare feet. And by "a bit put off," I mean that I find them borderline...
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