WHAT GIVES THE LOGO ITS LEGS BY NY TIMES

NY Times, Nov 7, 2018

WHAT GIVES THE LOGO ITS LEGS

Logomania is an obsession with no end in sight. Here’s why. By Ruth La Ferla

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Celebrating Fendi Mania at the Fendi store on Madison Avenue.
Penny Karabey- Luxury Next Season Credit Amy Lombard for The New York Times

At a party last month, Gabriela Silvarolli embraced the full Fendi.

Ms. Silvarolli, a stylist and designer, was swathed from her chin to her calves in the company’s signature double FF logo. Her turnout was excessive, she knew.

“As recently as a year ago, you didn’t wear logos,” she said. “You had to be discreet."

But a glance at the crowd at Fendi’s Madison Avenue flagship — matrons, films stars and assorted style-world moguls tricked out in Fendi logo regalia — persuaded her otherwise. “Nowadays everything is allowed,” Ms. Silvarolli said. “Nothing is too much.”

Fendi is among the latest in a raft of luxury labels to advance the proposition that too much is never enough. Emboldened by the success of logo-ridden skate wear brands like Palace and Supreme, high-end labels including Prada, Balenciaga, Valentino and Chanel have joined the stampede, their monograms stamped on everything from hats to hosiery and, with a nod to the 1990s, the elastic bands of men’s skivvies.

Chanel, Spring 2019.Credit Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

It’s the trend that keeps going and going. This fall, fans of the hypebeast culture can choose from logo-embellished Balenciaga pullovers and embroidered Gucci slippers at Barneys New York, Off-White sweatshirts and camouflage jackets at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Vetements parkas at 10 Corso Como, the newly alighted Milanese purveyor of cooler-than-thou luxury wares in Lower Manhattan.

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