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A Godly Parka (opens the original)
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As a first, today’s Present Forever newsletter looks at a single item: the ‘Waxed Reversed Corduroy Parka’ from Indian label toward(s)’s FW26 collection. I spoke with designer Divyam Jain about why on earth he made it the way he did. And there’s a little gift for paid subscribers at the end, too. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d62z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fima
“Okay, It’s a Brand. That’s What We’re Doing” (opens the original)
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It has taken Onea Engel-Bradley about five years to admit she’s running a fashion brand. Silphium began during the pandemic almost by accident. Engel-Bradley had lost her job designing womenswear for Totokaelo when the legendary New York store closed, and started sewing from her apartment: first face masks, then a shirt and shorts made from old flour sacks. She posted them on Instagram. Friends wanted their own. Friends of friends followed. Eventually, what had started as a way of occupying her
Horses: The Debut Interview (opens the original)
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"Tell Me, Where in India Can I Buy a Good Shirt?" (opens the original)
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New Delhi-based ITOH was one of the labels that stood out to me when I wrote about how India became an artisanal menswear powerhouse. Speaking with its founder and designer, Amit Babbar, earlier this summer, I quickly understood why. Everything ITOH does seems to begin and end with Babbar’s own experience. Its combination of Indian handwoven textiles with Japanese silhouettes comes from years he spent working between India and Japan. And it’s Babbar himself who somehow makes ITOH’s bridge betwee
No Dead Space, Please (opens the original)
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John Ro and I both got into this nook of fashion around the same time. We first met at Toki in Amsterdam, where we officially sat down to discuss the project he had recently launched, called De Dam Foundation, and whether I could help him out in some way. What we ended up talking about was every possible aspect of that age-old human conundrum: how on earth do you build something from nothing? <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jZIV!,f_auto,
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