18 October, 2025

Quote of the day: Raf Simons

Raf Simons Self Service

“The way I dressed at that time was extreme for the environment I came from. My friend Elke would walk through the village and there was not one person who was not going into shock. A very beautiful, very tall woman, she would save up for all the really extreme Margiela stuff, like a knit in five parts bound around the body with ribbons, or a floor-length skirt and Tabi boots. We’re talking 91, 92, and people were shocked.”
Raf Simons, Self Service (via BOF)

Love this nostalgic nugget from Raf Simons in a conversation with Pieter Mulier and Tim Blanks, talking about fashion beginnings, influences and the quiet ‘perverse’ power of Belgian creatives.

WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGE: Pieter Mulier and Raf Simons/Self Service
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16 February, 2022

Bridging the 90s gap at Khaite AW22

Khaite AW22

“I aspire to look like a ‘90s-era Gap model,” Khaite’s Catherine Holstein told Business of Fashion at her AW22 New York Fashion Week show. It’s a handy descriptor, because 90s Gap was pretty special and there’s definitely a big 90s normcore mood pervading the air at the mo.

The AW22 Khaite show had a bit of that classic Gap energy mixed with 1990s Self Service magazine – all big leather jackets, small skirts, dark tights and light shoes. (more…)

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17 July, 2019

Time well spent

Elizabeth Peyton

Observation: When you buy a book or a magazine, what you’re really buying is time. Time to get away from fast information, time to get lost in stories, ideas, theories or just idle page-turning.

I find it harder to get into books these days – the lure of the phone is too strong! But I realise that’s because the apps are designed to be as addictive as Las Vegas slot machines (it’s the apps, not the phones*). So I’m trying to ween myself off screens and spend more time with print. (more…)

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15 July, 2019

Shop the post: Suzanne Koller x A.P.C

APC X Suzanne Koller

“She wanted the parka to be the colour of her shampoo bottle. So she came in with the shampoo and said: ‘This is the khaki.’”
A.P.C’s Judith Touitou, F.T (paywall)

This week sees the release of Suzanne Koller x A.P.C, a capsule collection of the kind of specificity that’s sure to fly with hardcore A.P.C loyalists. Think a tan wool-cashmere poncho, chunky grey sweater, navy wool-flannel evening djellaba. (more…)