Outerwear
Crowning Glory: A Guide to the Baseball Cap
The baseball cap is perhaps the most democratic piece of clothing ever made. From the dugouts of 19th-century Brooklyn to the front rows of Paris Fashion Week, from dusty rural garages to the showrooms of Savile Row, few items have travelled so far while changing so little in form. Like the Oxford shirt or denim jeans, the baseball cap is one of those rare examples of American design that began as purely functional and became, almost incidentally, iconic. But before it was a symbol of casual cool or cultural allegiance, it was just a practical solution to a basic problem: sunlight.
In the Studio with Richard Turley
You could potentially describe Richard Turley as an art director or creative director or graphic designer, and he does all of these things, but it still feels a little reductive for the breadth of forms his work has taken over his twenty-year-long career in publishing. It is a useful shorthand, even if it doesn’t get to the heart of the singular way he arranges ideas into words and images on a page. His Chinatown studio is full of words, images, books, cut outs, print-outs, all collaged across every available space on the walls. His colleague, Echo, is busy putting the final touches to a project.
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