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Since the beginning, BTS have many unforgettable eras, each characterized by a distinct aesthetic the group has developed with. And as their worldwide reach continues to grow, so does the list of fashion brands from around the world who want to work with them. Over the years, BTS has furnished from some of the most prestigious homes, from Prada to Gucci to Berluti to Givenchy, while taking great care to ensure that, even though they all wear the same label, the individual members’ sense of style comes through. through.
The 2020 Grammys took this to a new level: BTS arrived wearing Bottega Veneta – a brand that, at the time, was at its peak, after blockbuster first year with Daniel Lee at the helm. It’s also not a label known for dressing up celebrities on the red carpet, so the fact that it complements all seven BTS members is amazing.
Instead of wearing a suit, BTS opted to show off a range of sleek outerwear (Jimin’s leather trench!) And turtlenecks (except for Jin, who wore a white crewneck under an olive coat) in a neutral color palette. A minimalist and minimal look is Bottega Veneta’s classic menswear.
When it was time to go on stage, the members once again proved to the audience that they had reach, turning to a bold rockstar appearance from Saint Laurent to join Lil Nas X on stage.
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Until we can safely attend BTS’s post-pandemic concerts – and until we can see the Bangtan boys bring their style to the forefront of fashion week IRL – I’ll be shopping for a turtleneck, inspired by a specific moment in their fashion history. Join me, below.
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Fashion on Youtube can be beans are tricky to crack. Historically, the videos featured were grocery items or daily vlogs documenting #OOTD – not the kind of content traditional “fashion guys” put out. And even with Derek Blasbergon the ship, it’s hard for a channel that is completely focused on the original mode to drown out all the noise and actually pop up. (Save for Naomi Campbell, of course, instantly becoming an icon.) That’s why Kate YoungThe approach is very refreshing.
Last month, hairdresser known for his work Selena Gomez, Dakota Johnson, Margot Robbie and many other well-dressed celebrities, made their debut have a YouTube channel with a new series called “Hello, Fashion”, produced and presented by Slow down. (The company founder, Andrew Zuckerman, is a long time friend and has been part of the Covid-19 quarantine pod.)
“Derek Blasberg and I have been friends for twenty years at this point – we are assistants at Mode together – and when she goes to YouTube she’s like, ‘You gotta start a YouTube channel.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t have time for that – I don’t have time to comb my hair. I can’t think of it. ‘”He recalled.” Then Hung [Vanngo, the makeup artist] start it and say, ‘You’ve got to start a YouTube channel. This is the future. ‘And I have more time. ”
Young started thinking about it in earnest around September, but he couldn’t understand the concept of the channel he wanted. She will watch any fashion-focused videos she can find on the platform, but will feel muted by her tone, which she thinks is being put into a stereotype that people in the industry can be evil or bland. Instead, he keeps coming back to his type of content To do like on YouTube: cooking shows.
“I love ‘The Great British Bake Off’ – I don’t bake, I’ve never made a single thing inspired by the show, but I really enjoyed the process,” he explained. “I love seeing someone who is good at something find a problem or explain how they did it. I’m obsessed.” A light bulb exploded in his head: “I was like, ‘That’s what I want to do.”
In fact, she continued, most people wouldn’t be able to see the touch of our haute couture IRL dresses – but she could show them “the beauty and magic in it,” and take them on their way.
Then, while talking to The Slowdown’s Zuckerman about YouTube – in general, not really in the context they were partnered with – something clicked. “A lot of the YouTube content that I really like is taken with the iPhone, but I feel like I can’t do it comfortably and don’t know how to do it in a way that feels as high as the things I did before show,” says Fashionista. “My whole job is that I like beautiful things. I can’t make YouTube shows that are not beautiful. When I asked him to come in – someone I know very well, who knows me really well, who I can talk to and who will make sure it looks good. – I was like, ‘That’s the missing piece.’ “
When it comes to the gist of the show, Young also has a clear idea of what he is not what I want to do: “A lot of what people tell me to do is ‘what to wear every day,’ and that is something I’m very much against. Journalists are always [ask,] ‘What are the five things every woman needs?’ There are no five things. The way I style my clients is, everyone is an individual – if you’re a carpenter in Portland, you don’t need the same thing as an art dealer in Miami. There are no crossovers, and you are both beautiful. “
“I’m more interested in style as a whole,” she says, “giving you the visuals that make you want to wear your red sweater that day.” (That being said: She does want to make an episode about underwear. Look forward to that.)
Photo: Courtesy of Kate Young / The Slowdown
Much like his initial connections and impulse to join YouTube, the name of the series refers to Young’s childhood Mode. “‘Hello, fashion’ is the way I answer the phone when I work in the fashion department at Mode, “he explained.” It’s been a joke in my office for a long time. My friend who works in beauty, she has to answer the phone, ‘Hello, beautiful.’ Every time I call her, I’m like, ‘Hello, beautiful.’ “
It also alludes to one of the show’s most distinctive and fun parts, which is when the Young FaceTimes folks get directly hooked up to Day View, so to speak. At least born out of necessity, given the precautions needed to shoot movies safely during a pandemic. (“There were three people filming the show, and we were all tested twice. You can see on the show that the windows are open. It’s like twenty degrees in there,” Young said of the setup.) But it doesn’t just add to the charm of the series, emphasizing the relationship. , experiences, and the very personal memories we have with fashion.
“I was like, ‘It makes perfect sense to talk to Selena, but with Covid it’s really hard to talk to anyone … We couldn’t figure out the protocol, so I was like,’ What if I FaceTime them? It’s called ‘Hello Fashion’, we’re just going to FaceTime people, “” Young excuses. “Besides, it’s easier when people aren’t in town. It’s easy to call Giambattista. [Valli] and Harris [Reed]. And to be honest, it’s pretty low [commitment] for people – like, ‘Would you do a five minute FaceTime with me? I’ll turn you black and white. You will look good. ‘It doesn’t require hair and make-up and PR and three Covid tests. ”
“It works in other ways too,” he continued. “There are many people whose fashion is super successful [creators] on Youtube [that] not a fashion person but an authority on YouTube. I need to differentiate myself from them. They have an important voice on YouTube. My voice is not present, but my voice does have relevance to the fashion media. So that’s what I was trying to do there. I’m not talking about celebrities I’ve never met and criticizing their outfits. I’m talking about someone I work with, calling the person who makes the dress. “
The FaceTime portion of the episode has also created for some of the most unexpected funny moments so far, such as when Dakota Johnson jumped in to talk about the mood board in Kate Young’s waist-up cosplay: crew top, plaid blazer, and necklace. For the record, it was all Johnson at the time.
“Actually, we did FaceTime in its entirety and I forgot to record the voice,” Young said with a laugh. “I texted him like, ‘I’m very professional, can we do that again?’ And first of all, he’s like, “What’s the jacket to wear? I have that jacket, it’s a nice jacket. “When I said I needed to do the thing again, she was like, ‘OK, I have somewhere to go, so you need to give me 15 minutes.’ When we did it again, he put on his jacket. “
Young and The Slowdown began filming the series at the start of the year, when the awards season would normally start. “Usually, when I walked into my office on the first day of the year, it was crazy and beautiful – shimmering dresses and couture and the loveliest handbag and prettiest shoes you will ever see in your life,” she explained. “All my old assistants came back and worked for me and we made it like a girls weekend – it didn’t happen this year. I miss people, I miss actresses, I miss PR. I miss everyone. I miss everyone beauty.”
The award season, as we know, has continued. But it’s not the same – and Young feels that other people will feel that way too. So she decided to take a walk down memory lane (red carpet), and summoned some of her favorite dresses from past award shows and film an episode about them.
“Lots of shows where I have reunions with old friends,” he told us. “When we got ready to shoot that episode, I walked into the office and the dress was there, I was like, ‘Oh my God, yeah. Like, this is what I like. This is what my job is all about.'”
One of those old friends is icon Michelle Williams 2006 Oscar Big Outfit. “I’ve never seen that dress … I mean, I don’t know how old it is, older than my kids,” she said of the walnut yellow Vera Wang design. “There were things I didn’t remember. And there was a real-time marker in it – like there was a seam in the center of the front instead of being invisible, the rough edges were visible on both sides, so that Alber Lanvin Elbaz. That era really happened.” The actor (who loaned the dress for the video) jumped into FaceTime for nostalgia, too.
Through creating “Hello, Fashion”, Young has learned a number of things, mostly about himself. One of them was, “I forgot that I couldn’t wear heels all day long. I haven’t worn heels for a year,” he said. “I want to look beautiful, so I exercise the rights to shoot the show, and I want to die at the end of the day.” She’s also stepping into a new position, becoming her own stylist: “I only wear what I like and I don’t worry about how it looks. But I have to pay attention to myself in editing and I’m like, ‘It doesn’t work, it works. . I need to get clothes that look more like that. ‘ I haven’t applied my own techniques in the past, I study on my own like I study clients. [Now that] I have to spend time watching this video, I have a different view for myself. “
Young is also surprised at the many questions and requests he gets his, not his famous client. “A lot of people ask me about my hair, which is funny – it’s long and blonde, and most people’s hair falls out when it’s this color …,” he explained. “I was surprised because it was more about me. To be honest I prefer to talk about dresses.”
However, the feedback she received did inform the theme of her video: A question about how she found a display for a particular client that inspired her moodboard episode featuring Johnson, for example, and she plans to record something about what’s in her kit (another common case of inquiry ) in the near future.
“To be honest, I was surprised people liked him,” he said. “I am very grateful for every kind comment and everyone who followed.”
TThese are the stories that hit the fashion world headlines on Fridays.
The fitness business and spirituality are in fashion Sydney Gore explores the fashion movement “towards using merchandise as a tool to promote a broader message about the way we live,” in a new article for The Popular Times. In response to what the authors refer to as “a newfound interest in getting into being profitable,” the fashion and luxury retail markets have started looking for new ways to capitalize on health and spirituality. Gore also highlighted some of “many more who are dismantling the complex of the fitness industry while also exploring the concept of modern spirituality in their own unique way.” {The Popular Times}
The new front line of fashion criticism is on Black Twitter When speaking of the current state of fashion criticism, “online commentators – and their controversial opinions – are increasingly changing the landscape of fashion criticism,” wrote Bianca Betancourt to Harper’s Bazaar, in a new story about the importance of Black Twitter as a source of fashion reviews. “They include fashion archivist Kim Daniels, stylist and founder of Black Fashion Fair Antoine Gregory, and writer and archivist Rashida Renée Ward has become a bona fide Internet force thanks to their seamless approach to fashion in the digital age,” notes Betancourt. {Harper’s Bazaar}
Just how barely there Botox is becoming the norm Botox has become “a regular activity of the normie class on spare money,” Jessica Schiffer wrote for The New York Times, especially regarding the tendency of millennials to inject. But the result they were after was a “gentler approach, called ‘baby Botox’ by some and ‘Botox prevention‘by someone else. {The New York Times}
The 15 Percent Pledge mentions Target After Target pledged $ 2 billion to spend on a business owned by Black, the 15 Percent Pledge posted responses on Instagram: “Even though their branding looks like part of the Pledge, it really isn’t. Their commitment is $ 2 billion over four years. @Target has $ 94 billion a year in revenue, which means their commitment is around half a percent. Less than 1%. We shouldn’t. praise this. We deserve more than this. ”The 15 Percent Pledge was also posted a video highlighted that this commitment accounts for less than 1% of company revenue and asked Target to formally join the 15 Percent Pledge. {@ 15PercentPledge / Instagram}
How high can the price of fashion go up? “How high can the prices of luxury goods last without the online reaction of consumers causing real-life boycotts?” asked Lauren Sherman Fashion Business. The prices of luxury bags, clothes and shoes have skyrocketed over the past decade, and have continued to increase during the pandemic. And there seems to be no end in sight, as consumers pay: “When consumers buy luxury goods, they pay for high-quality design, materials, and construction, but most importantly they pay for a social stamp. It’s worth it because the ‘right’ people – be it influencers or their peers – say it’s worth it. “{Fashion Business}
Subscription service is Become the norm for various forms of entertainment. Streaming content (movies, TV shows, comic books, and games) to your device is a great choice for buying and storing files, especially in the Covid-19 era.When there is Multiple subscriptions can be expensive, It provides unique benefits for those who cannot leave their homes. For the disabled, subscriptions to gaming services in particular provide a relatively unknown way to enjoy the latest games.
On June 1, 2017, Microsoft launched Xbox Game Pass On Xbox One. Now that the service is available for Xbox Series X/S, PC and Android devices, the service distributes a rotating catalog of the following: New and old games Players can try until replaced by other titles.Similarly, Sony provides a program called PlayStation now. After its release on September 6, 2017, PS Now allows subscribers to download approximately 800 games from the PS4, PS3 and PS2 library. This service can be accessed on PS5, PS4 and PC.
From a sound perspective, Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Now provide a convenient way to play fans’ favorite games. For players with disabilities, these services create a sense of physical and financial independence when trying to enjoy the fruits of the industry. People with disabilities can immediately try to use games for which they have a valid subscription.
Sue Johansen tends to spend most of his gaming time on PC, and Steam is their main storefront. They said that as a relatively new participant in the subscription service, the recent trial of Xbox Game Pass proved to be beneficial to their needs.
“For example, I always wanted to try Ori and the will of the elves, But my experience with the original is frustrating. I’m not sure when or if I have the ability to overcome repeated failures in platform games,” they said. “Now, I can install, try and uninstall it without having to buy it first. It doesn’t have to be intimidating to ask for a refund. It gives me the opportunity to try a bunch of games that would have been delayed without feeling “I bought this game, I must play this game.”
In addition to the ability to try anything, the game subscription service also allows individuals to spend an indefinite amount of time playing games without worrying about losing money.according to Official Steam refund page, Players can only request a refund within two weeks of purchasing a specific game or when the accumulated game time is less than two hours. Some games may not show that they are inaccessible within the first two hours, so the decision to buy the game is a gamble for people with disabilities. With the help of a subscription service, you can install or delete games at any time without paying extra. For Ruth Cassidy (Ruth Cassidy), this feature is particularly useful.
They said: “It’s not common for me to be unable to enter the game immediately, because it takes some time to accumulate adverse effects, and usually insurmountable difficulty peaks will appear later.” “Because of most digital retail Merchants have set up an hourly return policy, usually after I buy a game, I will stick to it. I can only think of one instance, in which I returned an inaccessible game, and I had to go through the Steam return process, which involved Write an explanation of why I need to return the item. I don’t like explaining that I can’t interact with the game, not because of errors, but because my memory is not enough to handle the core mechanics of the game.”
Despite the lack of a time-based return policy, it should be noted that the annual subscription fee can be high. According to Xbox, The first month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription costs $1, and then the price increases to $14.99 per month. The annual subscription price of PlayStation Now is much cheaper, Only $59.99 per year, but this only includes backward compatible titles. Although the initial cost is higher, the extended library of subscription services and the ability to switch between devices are more beneficial for people with chronic diseases.
You can tell the most important things about the new product Sonos RoamingIt is priced at $170 and will be shipped next month because it is in a tote bag.Considering that there are endless Bluetooth speakers that can match this description, from the most advanced $80 Wonderboom 2 to the scary best seller The $30 OontZ Angle sounds like a bad thing. It is not.For Sonos, roaming is a huge leap, because this is what the company’s devotees have been waiting for with Even the most enthusiastic Sonos skeptic can use the best portable speakers. With its compact size, excellent audio quality and endless streaming features, Roam becomes the first Sonos product, which will make anyone happy.
The main reason for this is simple: Sonos Roam is the best portable speaker I have tested. It can eat lunch with any speaker of similar size and can compete with larger speakers in its price range. When doing the “love lock” test (yes, This is an thing), Roam’s sound is much fuller than the similar UE Wonderboom 2 speakers of the same size. The UE’s sound is not necessarily bad (you can find the outline of the sliding bass), but Roam’s sound is much clearer. The Nalgene-sized UE Megaboom 3 can provide more powerful bass than Roam. This is obviously for a reason, but it doesn’t sound good. better one. On tracks with heavy bass, such as Saweetie’s “Back to the street“Between Roaming and Megaboom, the low-end sounds are basically the same. In fact, the small roaming makes the artist’s melodic sound and all the flickering details hidden in the work clearer.
But this only regards Roam as a portable speaker, and Roam is also the most sought after member of the Sonos family of home wireless products. Users dedicated to Sonos have been looking for portable audio solutions for many years. In 2019, Sonos tried Move for the first time, which is a battery-powered speaker with Bluetooth functionality that has all the portability of a bowling ball and can be carried to the backyard without any further development. Sonos seems unable to extend its wireless super system to the last area: tote bags.
Two years later, we have Roam, which packs Sonos-level sound with Sonos-level versatility. After setting up roaming through the Sonos app, you will get a simple way to use dirt a lot to actually use the speaker. You can use AirPlay or Bluetooth through any application, or use the Sonos application to use WiFi. You can control it through connected streaming services such as Spotify or AppleMusic. Don’t underestimate the level of this choice-Bluetooth works well when you are away, but at home, even on portable speakers, the stability of AirPlay or WiFi is a blessing. This means you no longer need to hover over the speaker with your phone, and you won’t hear the splash of music.
When using Wi-Fi, you can also use Roam’s built-in microphone to call Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa to play audio for you (and turn off the smart light bulb when in use). However, even if you are not, Roam still has some relatively advanced software. Sonos has the iconic Auto Trueplay, which allows the speaker to adjust its EQ according to the acoustics of the space. And the new “Sound Swap” (Sound Swap), you only need to press the button on the roam, you can send audio to other Sonos speakers or pull music from it.
Even when charging, Roam is still ahead of the carrying case. The USB-C input works much faster than the proprietary charger on Move, but the real magic is that Roam can be charged when placed on any Qi-enabled wireless charging dock. In our tests, we found that when streaming classical music from WQXR, the battery power of the rover lasted the entire working day. These include some Bartok-rovers used during post-exercise showers that are waterproof for 30 minutes in up to one meter of water.
The bottom line is: if you are a skeptic of Sonos, then I will get it, because when you imagine using non-cheap speakers to disturb your living space, the cost will increase, so taking all factors into account, Roam still feels The best portable bluetooth speaker.One you can take you to the beach with In this way, you can avoid the troubles of using Bluetooth at home. One that fits perfectly into your life. If you decide to try Sonos, it suddenly becomes much more useful.
And, what if you have enjoyed the warm embrace of Sonos life? Roam did exactly what you always wanted a Sonos speaker to do: it came in a dilapidated carrying bag.
