
Kim Jones (designer)
Kim Jones doesn’t design clothes—he designs permission slips for cultural borrowing.
What was kept, and the power in deciding.




Nylon is a family of synthetic thermoplastics characterised by amide linkages, melt-processed into fibres, films and moulded shapes. Wallace Carothers made the first one at DuPont in 1935, and women's stockings made it famous. Pure nylon's weaknesses in clothing led to blends with cotton, polyester and spandex, and pure nylon is now rarely used.

