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In Discussion With: Lexi Cross and Huston Conti
It’s nearly impossible to view just one pair of kicks on @shoesof. The footwear discovery platform, after all, is nothing if not addictive: Click on one seemingly benign slip-on and you’ll be transported to three more; one harmless pair of Air Force One’s and you’re greeted by its innumerable cousins. After many feverish minutes (and very possibly several hundred dollars) later, it begins to feel as though you have entered into a shoe vortex studded with marquee designers ranging from high fashion to high street, from Valentino to Vans. And that sort of equal opportunity eye is exactly what makes @shoeof, brainchild of Seattle natives Lexi Cross and Huston Conti, shine in the age of Instagram, where fashion both high and low occupies the same amount of real estate on any given feed.
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We partnered with our friends at Convicts to create episode 1 of a docuseries we're calling Common Thread. This series tells the story of the great American blue jean and begins to explore the future of the most democratic apparel product in the world through the lens of the cultures that have been part of its creation and dispersion over the past 140 years.
Episode 1 follows our Founder Scott Morrison as he travels to Italy to meet with fashion industry icon, Renzo Rosso of Diesel, denim producer Candiani, and finishing company Tonello, to explore the historical and current landscape of the industry, innovations in denim production, and the future of sustainable denim.
With a focus on Italy’s role as the home of artisanal craftsmanship, luxury fashion, and the birthplace of luxu...
In many ways, Amanda Bhalla Wilkes is precisely what you would expect from someone who works in the art world. She's poised, eloquent, sophisticated, soft-spoken, subtly reserved, and for lack of better words: extremely chic. On the other hand, she's not necessarily what you'd expect from an art world persona because she also happens to be remarkably warm, welcoming, and nothing akin to the figures portrayed in pop culture (AKA Velvet Buzzsaw).
We meet up with her on a Monday morning in Chelsea where she is the director at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery. It's closed to the public when we arrive, but the exhibition makes the space feel distinctively open and energetic. The current show is with José Parlá and hung from wall to wall are his large-scale colorful paintings that almost take your br...