Leuty Parker

Tag: #clothes

  • Value

    From my previous role as a fashion developer, I’m accustomed to evaluating garments and their properties through a cost-focused lens.

    With whole industries focusing on how to price the end product is a very important issue. What I had to do was build tech packs for manufacturers with the Mr fabrics or findings being called “tech packs”.

    However, the true value of a product can extend far beyond the item itself. In the industry I worked in, and within my role, the focus was firmly on the end product—yet my recent purchase of @ChristianLouboutin shoes, which I’ve written about time and time again, really clarified for me how value can be perceived in a completely different way.

    They paired effortlessly with my wardrobe and were incredibly easy to wear, everything you’d expect from a luxury trainer. However, considering they’re from @ChristianLouboutin, the quality has been a real disappointment.

    After less than a year, they’re already falling apart, a clear sign of poor craftsmanship. For a brand positioned at such a high level, and with a price tag that felt almost painful to justify, the reality simply hasn’t lived up to the expectation.

    However, a new, less superficial sense of value emerges here. Beyond simply being expensive, the pleasure and satisfaction of owning a pair of those iconic red soled trainers was incomparable far outweighing the initial pain of the purchase.

    Taking both perspectives into account, I’d say the overall value ultimately balances out….

    I’m Leuty has a pair of (highly damaged and scuffed) red sold trainers

  • Georges Doriot

    confronted the design challenge of taking a white jacket that first emerged during World War I and adapting it for a university context, ensuring it functioned reliably across all environments and at all times.

    By taking on this task, rather than reinventing what had already been done elsewhere, Doriot approached the problem from first principles. He brought together insights from multiple industries, grounding the entire project in scientific testing. His design process was methodical and empirical: he consulted climatologists, physiologists, and geographers to determine the most effective approach for outfitting what would become a fighting force of 12 million people.

    Through this extensive collaboration, significant advancements emerged across the clothing industry—every sector of industry was, in some way, redirected toward supporting the war effort.

  • Size 10

    For all those women ( most men won’t understand) in clothes I used to be a 6 or 8 (very skinny).

    I was in a coma for 10 months & pretty sedentary for a long time after that. So I gained a fair bit of weight.

    So now like pretty much every woman, I want to loose some weight.

    But there’s good news! The fashion industry seems to be following this trend in gaining weight. The models used to be paper thin, unhealthily so.

    But now plus size models are getting more work. Setting the way for the place size models, Levis has a “plan prize” range, where they use plus size models for their campaign.

    So fatter models seem to be en vogue. I, like most humans, have a strange relationship with my clothes. I have a lot of clothes I had when I was a size 6/8, & now I don’t fit.

    I found one pair of jeans which are pretty irreplaceable. They have my name embroidered up the side seam, but they’re too small for me. I do really love this garment.

    So I’ve partnered with someone who’s a tailor, who I knew in my past life. He’s letting them out, so they’ll fit me.

    I haven’t received them yet, but when I do, the pictures will follow.

    Just to justify the title, I went from an 6/8 to now a 10/12.

  • Black Milk

    I call them my “galactic leggings” (theyre called “GALAXY AMETHYST HW LEGGINGS”)but I really do love this brand, & you can check them out too. Their website is;

    Leggings

    Amongst my galactic leggings, I have mainly what I call my Mucha leggings, my mermaid leggings & my a couple of galactic leggings.

  • 27/4 – Party Planning

    The fashion industry has taken a huge blow by this pandemic, but there’ll be a big serge when we’re all are allowed to see others.

    I believe there will be huge serge, particularly in party clothes, soon. There’s no need to party recently right now.

    After all parties aren’t allowed anyway, with small exception. No one has any reason to celebrate anyway.

    When lockdown restrictions have got even more relaxed, there will be a lot to celebrate. There’ll probably be a lot of parties, & there will be more demand for celebration wear.

  • 19/3 – Online Shopping

    In current times almost all of us have been driven online to shop. For most things, you can get them online, but what I’m getting at is clothing (because it’s my trade).

    They design around that perfect body, & they call that the “sample”. They make the sample usually very little & trickle down from that, to the bigger sizes.

    Each brand evolves in a different way. They may have started out from a different point.

    For each brand, each has a “model” body, which most people can’t fit.

    Each brand has its own DNA, some grow in different ways, some have a different starting point.

    Just remember that their is no fitting rooms so you’re stuck with what you’ve bought.

  • Clothes

    Today I’m wearing some of my old clothes. It makes me think how much clothes really effect a person. It can effect their body image & psychologically how they treat themselves & other people. The saying goes “you can’t love anyone else if you don’t love yourself”. This is why I love fashion; because clothes have a lot of influence. Clothes can make you look how you want to look, & feel how you want to feel.

    So now I’m wearing my old clothes, I guess it’s my costume. I’m getting my old self back! Through fashion!