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Precedent
A recovered fashion blog, read forward. The old posts, set against the law that finally caught up.
No Better Time Than Nau
A 2008 love letter to a coat company that was disclosing its supply chain a decade before the law required it.
The Copy Was Never the Enemy
A tiny Berlin label released its patterns under Creative Commons. The question it raised is now the center of AI copyright.
The Name on the Door
When a designer’s own name is the brand, the person and the trademark become inseparable. That is now also the law of the face.
One Dress, Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days
One dress, worn a year. A sustainability-claims case study a full decade before the regulators arrived.
The Bodies on the Runway
He cast the people the industry erased, with consent, years before "inclusivity." AI turned representation into a question with no human in it.
Fewer, Better Things
The convictions that bankrupted Nau in 2008 became a business model investors line up to fund. They are also, now, a legal claim.
Camilla Skovgaard Built It Twice
The Danish designer built an acclaimed eponymous shoe line, then walked away to found a sustainable brand, Of Origin. A 2009 love letter, read forward.
Five Ways to Wear It
Convertible knitwear you could wear five ways, a decade before "circularity" had a name.
Illegal Art
One of my first posts ever, about the RIAA suing teenagers. It was the whole future of AI copyright in miniature.
Where They Are Now
I went looking for the people, expecting a graveyard. What I found was the whole argument of the book.