Fashion For The Football Lovers + 90's Anti-Fashion Wave

The football fashion chokehold, false fashion narratives and personal style as more than clothing

Jul 21, 2024

Welcome to ICYMI, an ad hoc edition of the Fashion Tingz newsletter that’s part read/watch/listen recommendations, part places you need to visit, part fashion things you may have missed… and 100% a good time.

As an ex-fashion editor and personal stylist, I see a lot of cool fashion shit floating around the digital depths of the Internet.

Now, this stuff may seem kind of out there, kind of obscure, or kind of boring — it all depends on who you ask.

The mood of these curated guides will ebb and flow depending on whatever’s going on in the fashion realm, and whatever I’m vibing with.

Either way, it’s all that good good.

On today's agenda:

Podcast episodes for the fashion haters and everyone in between
Tokyo vintage stores for the fashion footie obsessed
Menswear's dainty shoe summer is up ahead

And a ton more.

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Delve deeper with expert fashion analysis and commentary…

At times, we all need a fashionable escape from reality. Vanessa Friedman writes for The New York Times about how designers' extravagant and avant-garde shows allow them to get their messages across in an unfiltered way.

Anime has become a source of fashion inspiration (more to come on this in a separate newsletter).

Grace Gordon

explores how brands will eventually connect the dots and realise it’s potential for storytelling and brand visuals.

Shameless plug here, but with the chokehold football has on the world of fashion I wrote for SCREENSHOT about how this latest trend takeover is very girl-coded. Think: WAGS, shirred football jerseys and new-age aesthetics.

WATCH

Here’s an excuse for some fashion-induced screen time…

An oldie but goodie, this 2012 fashion documentary explores the anti-fashion movement of the early 90s that took over runways and is a treasure trove of archival and rarely seen before footage.

If you didn’t know, now you know — Fashion Roadman is a journalist who should be on your radar. In this YouTube video, he chats with others about how fashion collaborations work and what goes on behind the scenes.

Daniel-Yaw Miller is a sports correspondent at The Business of Fashion (BoF), in this YouTube video he chats about his experience covering sneakers, streetwear and sports, and connecting the dots between sports and fashion.

LISTEN

Plug in and zone out to these fashion gems…

Threads of Conversation is Substack I'd highly recommend (and founder

Georgia Graham

is total vibes). In this episode of its podcast, award-winning menswear designer Bianca Saunders chats about all sorts of fashion goodness.

Image architect Law Roach was interviewed by Lindsay Peoples for The Cut podcast, and it’s an episode that still sticks in my mind over a year later. The duo chats about celebrity styling, awards season, and false fashion narratives.

After seeing clips of the guys at

Throwing Fits

interviewing Mia Khalifa, I knew I had to check out the full episode — and it did not disappoint. Dedicated to the haters, this episode will have you lol-ing IRL.

You should stop by…

London: NN.07 is doubling down on its international expansion, and my hometown of London is set to get a flagship store this summer. The Copenhagen-based menswear brand is known for its minimalistic aesthetic, something that’ll fit right in with the cobbled streets of Covent Garden.

Tokyo: the Euros may be over and even though England lost in the finals (sobs), fashion’s obsession with the footie hype shows no signs of slowing. If you’re ever in Shibuya, Tokyo, then head on over to Vintage Sports which is a vintage and retro football shirt mecca.

London: running until September 2024, the Saatchi Gallery is putting on a series of ‘Art After Dark’ late exhibitions — and Beyond Fashion showcases the works of Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Viviane Sassen, Paolo Roversi, Miles Aldridge, Ellen von Unwerth and more new-gen photography names.