Daisy Lowe may have been everywhere this past Fashion Week, but WWD‘s reporting that we’ll probably be seeing her a lot less very soon anyway: They say Cory Kennedy, face of Urban Decay / Sebastian / half of NYLONtv, is set to replace Daisy as the face of Docs. No idea if this has to Read more →
Daisy Lowe may have left IMG, but she’s still consistent on one thing: Her ad campaigns. Today we learned Ms. Lowe was retained by Doc Martens for their Fall ’08 ad campaign – Something that should excite two groups of people more than the rest: 1. The group that loves seeing Daisy in her underpants Read more →
[**Note: We've only got one pair, in one size, so the first correct answer wins! If nobody gets this (which Jazzi is seriously doubting anyone will) we'll give you a new letter every day until you do. Ok, Ready... Go!] Update: OK wow, contest over. Reader Chris will be getting them!
Jerry Kaye, former creative director for Perry Ellis, has just been named head designer for Dr. Martens. That’s probably the most sensible fashion appointment we’ve ever heard. Kaye came on as Men’s fashion director at Ellis in 1993, the same year Marc Jacobs was fired, and stayed up until 2005 when he launched his own Read more →
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The idea of the fashion statement is not exactly new, but sometimes it’s taken more literally. When we were younger, we thought wearing Converse and band tees to school made us fundamentally different from those who wore Lacoste. In college, Ché Guevara t-shirts were as common as pants. And now, it seems like everybody is Read more →
There’s a phrase in today’s Times that we love. It’s about the half-true resurrection of Doc Martens in fashion, and it goes like this: “[Doc Martens] is trying to replicate deliberately what first happened serendipitously.” It’s a gorgeous and air-tight sentence, but oddly The Times passes no judgments on its idea. It lets the forceful Read more →
