How Ulla Johnson, Fashion Designer, Spends Her Sundays - The New York Times |
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| How Ulla Johnson, Fashion Designer, Spends Her Sundays - The New York Times Posted: 31 Jan 2020 02:00 AM PST  During the week, the fashion designer Ulla Johnson spends most of her time in her SoHo studio or traveling to countries like Kenya, Peru, or India for materials and inspiration. On weekends, however, she tends to stay within a tight radius of her Fort Greene brownstone. "My vision and the actual logistics of my life are so scattered, with the travel and work and the sourcing and everything, it's nice to be close to home," she said. For Ms. Johnson, 45, a native New Yorker who was raised in a small apartment building in Yorkville, the tree-lined streets of Brooklyn, where she lives with her family (husband Zach Miner, 46, an art consultant, and their children Soren, 13, Asher, 10, and Agnes, 7) have special appeal. "It's very verdant," she said. "I grew up in a much more urban setting, but my children have a different life. It's a much more peaceful existence." Ms. Johnson will show her newest line of clothing and accessories at New York Fashion Week on Feb. 8. Image  LET THEM WATCH We don't sleep much later on the weekend than the week — maybe I sleep until 7:30 versus 6:30. It's not wildly different, even though that feels somewhat luxurious. I am a "coffee the minute I wake up" kind of person. My husband and I will have coffee, and usually the kids will tiptoe by our door and try and sneak down to the TV to watch cartoons. I'm a little bit draconian about restricted access to screen time, but we do let them — that's the time of the week that they really get to do their own thing. RUN One reason that I've always loved Fort Greene is that I love running in Prospect Park. The run from my house, around the loop and back, is about five miles. It's a beautiful run; for me, it's my sort of contemplative practice. I don't listen to music, I'm just present with myself and my thoughts. FAMILY BREAKFAST I'll come back and then my husband will go out after me. By 10, we've both come back. The kids are probably starving and everybody's getting grumpy. My husband is a very avid cook — like, incredible — in all meals and all genres; we usually do some kind of waffles or pancakes. I don't eat it but the kids love it. PLAYGROUND APPRECIATION After that, everyone has to get ready. I'll take my daughter to the playground — she's obsessed with the monkey bars, and she's shockingly good. My husband takes the boys to shoot hoops, maybe block away from where the playground is. We'll do that for an hour. It's funny because I've just come to my playground love with the end of the young part of my third child's childhood. For a long time it was sort of the chaos of, "Oh my God, who's crying? "Where did the kid go?" The hyper awareness, all the different idiosyncrasies of the social dynamic. But now it's not like that: my daughter's just doing the monkey bars. It's so peaceful. DON'T CALL IT BRUNCH After that we'll go to Roman's. I do love an Italian grandma lunch. I'm such a creature of habit: I find my favorite places and then I'm like, "That's where we're going." The other thing about Roman's is that they don't serve brunch — they don't do fancy eggs or a hollandaise. It's lunch, it's delicious, there's pasta, there's meat. It's wonderful and it's quite leisurely. It doesn't have that brunch freneticism and the endless Bloody Marys — that vibe that happens when you go to places that are very brunch-oriented. LOST IN BOOKS The other place I love to go: Greenlight Bookstore. We can all get lost there: everybody looks at their own little sections. It's a great place to hang: it's so welcoming and there's plenty of space around. I'm a literature freak. I read things with heavy subject matter; I read a lot of female authors. It's an exciting time for literature, there's so much good stuff out there. I'm constantly buying more books. GAMES PEOPLE PLAY We often host people on Sundays. It's kind of like an open door — Sunday supper, anybody knows, we're there, we're cooking at home, it's probably going to be chicken, we're listening to Johnny Cash, there's always candlelight. The chicken goes in the oven and we have that hour and half when we can connect in another way. We're really into games — this is another great equalizer between the ages: a 14-year old and a 7-year old both like it. We like Yahtzee, Scrabble or a new obsession, Phase 10. Any opportunity to play a game or do a puzzle — these are things that our family really loves and can come together. NO MORE SUNDAY DREAD After the kids go to bed, Zach and I will have a cup of tea — that's one of my favorite things to do. It's a place where we can just talk about the week ahead. I grew up with that idea of Sunday dread and I don't have it anymore. It's always excitement. The weekends are very full and amazing and family-based and Monday is something totally different that I also love. Sunday Routine readers can follow Ulla Johnson on Instagram @ullajohnson.  |
| From accidental slippers to crystal Furbys: this week’s fashion trends - The Guardian Posted: 30 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]From accidental slippers to crystal Furbys: this week's fashion trends The Guardian  |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2020 01:20 PM PST  In 2015, the designer was announced as the winner of the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers. Frequently regarded as a rite of passage for the most-sought-after fashion designers, previous nominees include Simon Porte Jacquemus, Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida, and Masayuki Ino, the brains behind the cultic Japanese streetwear brand, Doublet. Minju earned the award with a playful yet feminine collection full of bold shapes and quirky designs.  |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2020 12:30 PM PST Y'all, tailoring is hard. This is, season after season, always the major gag every time it comes up on a fashion competition show. Designers can knock out wild avant-garde frocks out of gardening tools and couture gowns using nothing but shower curtains and determination, but tasking them with making an off-the-rack-level button-up shirt is straight-up cruelty. To non-designers like myself, it seems like a Met Gala look would be way tougher than a Men's Wearhouse one, but that's rarely the case! Tailoring is tough. That's why the suit challenge in Netflix's new design competition series Next In Fashion was a real nail-biter. The bar was raised so high in the first two episodes. After all, these designers have worked with a lot of A-list names and they're in teams of two and they get two days to create looks. That's twice as many hands with twice as much time to make half as many looks as you usually see on a fashion reality show! With these epic expectations, you just knew their suiting game was going to have to be next level in order to stand out. The designers knew it too, which is why their reaction to hearing the words "suit challenge" was all shock and horror.  This cavalcade of worry serves as a heads up to everyone that doesn't watch design competition shows on a loop (like I do) that making a suit is hard work. Not only that, Next In Fashion's suit challenge is the latest in a long line of tailoring and menswear (and menswear means "make a suit in a day" 99% of the time) challenges that have plagued Project Runway designers for going on 18 seasons. Need I remind you of the infamous, Magic Mike-is-hot-right-now male stripper challenge from Project Runway Season 11?!   Granted, the designers had their work cut out for them given that not only did they have to make clothes for men (which most designers admit they are not used to doing), but they had to make tearaway looks for men that were basically IRL Thor. But still, you look at those suits and shirts and… well, it's clear why this was the only challenge in Project Runway history where no one won. That brings us to Next In Fashion's suit challenge, a mission that left a lot of the teams sweating—except Daniel and Carli. The UK-based duo had an advantage over the rest of the pairs because Daniel is a menswear designer. Let me just point out, it is rare that a menswear designer even competes on any show like this. If I was going to put a number on it, I'd guess that maybe an eighth of the designers that have competed on Project Runway have a focus in menswear, and I think that number holds true on Next In Fashion as well. So Daniel, essentially the challenge's unicorn, had a lot to live up to. And—SPOILER ALERT—he and Carli nailed it.  I love tailoring. Believe me, I find every excuse I can to write about suiting and menswear on this very site, be it Martin Freeman, Alan Arkin, Jared Harris, or the legendary Bob Newhart. I also love fashion competition shows, and let me tell you, it is shocking how seldom these two neighboring loves actually hang out. So this moment, seeing a gorgeously tailored, absolutely classic suit strut down the runway? The moment was major and it was great to see it treated as such.  The judges agreed. It gave Tan France life! He tried to run away with the jacket! It made Jason Bolden happy and he called it "absolutely sensational"! Some more adjectives: boss, yummy, chic, smart. Y'all are right. This is the best suit I've ever seen constructed on a TV reality show (and I mean, it helped that they didn't have to outfit the outfit with velcro for easy removal). Carli and Daniel's suit is the exact perfect example of following a challenge to the letter, and that's apparent when you look at the lineup of suits created for the challenge.  I get that a head-to-toe tan look doesn't stand out when compared to all the others, but the deity is in the details here. The other suits, some of which are outstanding, skirt around the challenge of making tailored clothes by going oversized. It's easy to fit the waist and then let the fabric flow, essentially the same way you'd construct a gown. When the camera gets close on Daniel and Carli's model's bum, you can see that this work is complex.  Sometimes the over-sized style really works (Angel and Minju's angelic interpretation is divine), but it's not exactly the challenge. That's not to say that a suit has to follow specific rules! But the reason Carli and Daniel's look is the winner is because it's the only look that stands up to the giant task of making a traditional suit and slays it. The fact that they knocked out a head-to-toe look in two days that could stand side-by-side with one that took two weeks is remarkable. This is the first challenge in fashion design competition TV history that's ever made a classic suit look easy, and you have to appreciate just how hard that is to do. Stream Next In Fashion "The Suit" on Netflix  |
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