Not a proper home page, but I do what I want. My name Ryan Yip, I am a Fashion Critic and Founder of the magazine Fashion Review. I focus on the criticism...
I think we have come to the realization as a whole, slowly but steadily, that attention itself has become extremely vacuous. What does a million views mean? It used to mean something. It used to, to our naive minds, mean that a percentage would definitely convert to something else, something of your choice, whether it be sales or praise or whatever. Don't get me wrong, going viral still has its…
Long before I started this irreversible dive into the fashion industry, fashion was not written with a capital 'F', and it wasn't referred to as Fashion in my head; it was style or 'do I look good?' That was before 2019. Fast-forward to 2024: I picked up a book called [Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?] A collection of essays from Jenny Diski, a writer unknown to me, but I quickly fell in…
A comment on TikTok inspired this article, actually, and it's quite a bold statement. The commenter (I fail to quote them verbatim) said something along the lines of "it seems that nowadays being ugly is worse than committing the most heinous crime." How many times have we seen in the past few years, if we disregard moral judgment and the severity of crime for a second, that people online are…
In between fashion weeks, there is this lull. A deafening silence from the big players and fashion influencers. They hibernate until January comes. I’ve been hibernating as well, I’ve tried to take some well-needed rest and have been mostly trying to finish up the second issue of Fashion Review so it can be printed in time (still time to get your copy by the way!). And then this part of my brain…
There comes a time in your life, before reading the Taschen book, before the designer obituary, where thousands of people flock to pay their very untimely and, most of the time, bandwagoning, homage, you have to cast judgment whether the collection(s) you’re looking at will be indicative of a legendary career the designer may have in the future. It is not an easy feat; we are so used to having the…
Sara Skillen wrote in 2019 a brilliant study on the legacy of Dior titled ‘Dior Without Dior.’ As the name suggests, Skillen, in the 204-page manual, details her analysis of how Dior built an evergreen name even after the departure of Christian Dior: keeping the ‘Dior Myth’ alive. Said myth is not one that is easy to maintain; it is something that requires consistent and persistent thoughtful…
I don’t have a lot of experience with fashion PR outside of show invitations, and they are most of the time very impersonal. My first interaction with Versace’s was pleasant, very courteous, and it’s not about show invitations but they reached out and told me about ‘Versace Embodied’ and what they wish to achieve ahead of Dario Vitale’s debut. More than the usual business courtesy, I would say,…
View Oscar Ouyang's SS26 collection here I was inclined to call Oscar Ouyang's collection a Loewe dupe at first, as I don't think this statement is far-fetched after all. A sweater made from the roughest tweed, paired with an explosion of hays on the bag, comically structured t-shirts resembling Jonathan Anderson's Pixelated work, but more importantly, a subtle piss-take at fashion, as nothing is…
View Campillo SS26 collection here It is a rare joy these days to genuinely find any brands that catch not only your eyes, but your heart, one that makes you look forward to their next collection. I've spoken enthusiastically about qualities that I see in designers I choose to follow. Not just to critique or give my flowers, but to wholeheartedly follow their work with the intention to see their…
After seeing Chavarria’s latest collection, I’m in two minds. On one hand, Willy Chavarria has carved a truly special and unrepeatable path for himself. Like Colm Dillane’s consistency and unwavering attitude to his creative ideas, Chavarria stuck to his core of Chicano inspirations, consistently innovating fashion with culturally and emotionally rich elements. On the other, slightly uglier hand,…