The Casting at Vetements Included Russia’s Coolest Streetwear Designer
A designer walking another designer’s show? That’s what we’d call a very creative casting call, and it happened today on the Vetements runway in Paris. Dressed in a reworked DHL tee, cropped leather...
View ArticleA Brief History of Fashion’s Kinkiest Boot
The thigh-or-higher stocking boot is one of those borrowed-from-the-boys accessories that took on a sexual charge when adapted for women. A sort of hybrid between the medieval courtier’s second-skin...
View ArticleHussein Chalayan Marks a Decade of Swarovski Collaborations With a...
“Everything is about the body,” says Hussein Chalayan over the phone from Paris the day before his Spring 2016 show. “I think that the body is the most important cultural symbol, and I think with the...
View Article#BalmainBeauties: Kendall and Kris Jenner, Bella and Gigi Hadid, and More at...
Of all the designers presenting during Paris Fashion Week, none is as social media savvy as Balmain’s invigoratingly youthful creative director, Olivier Rousteing. The 29-year-old designer showed his...
View Article10 Things to Know About Christian Dior’s Spring 2016 Show
See the Christian Dior Spring 2016 Ready-to-Wear Collection Raf Simons left nothing unconsidered for his Dior Spring 2016 show today, from the stunning venue to the starry front row. As for the...
View ArticleWatch Lady Gaga Bust a Move in Tom Ford’s Spring Collection Video
Don’t be surprised if Tom Ford’s just-released fashion film brings you to your feet. The soundtrack features Nile Rodgers’s ’70s hit for Chic “I Want Your Love” rerecorded with new vocals by Lady...
View ArticleRihanna Makes Dior’s Front Row a Family Affair
At New York Fashion Week, Kanye West filled his front row with his nearest and dearest, including wife Kim, baby North, and a bevy of sisters-in-law. Now another pop star is making the fashion show...
View ArticleBorzois Take Over the Library! The Alfred A. Knopf 100th Anniversary Celebration
Over the years, Russian wolfhounds have figured prominently in books and film—War and Peace, The Beautiful and Damned, Lady and the Tramp, Hunger Games—and for the last century the borzoi has been the...
View ArticleWhy Dior’s Stylish New Ponytail Was Made for Statement Earrings
Here’s what we learned from watching today’s Dior show in Paris: Your ponytail has just become the proverbial linchpin to pulling off the season’s next big statement earring. “It’s subversively sexy,...
View ArticleMeet Jonathan Anderson’s Dream Girl, Model Phillipa Hemphrey
If the rakish beauty opening Jonathan Anderson’s Spring showing for Loewe looks familiar, it could be because she and the innovative young designer have a long history. Back in Fall 2014, Phillipa...
View ArticleFrom Grace Kelly to Jackie O: Unraveling the Allure of the Ladylike Bow
There are few things more coquettish in fashion than the bow, a trimming that has appeared in various forms throughout the Spring collections and which played a starring role at Lanvin yesterday, on...
View ArticleGoga Ashkenazi Celebrates Vionnet’s New Flagship in Paris, and Pierre Bergé...
Last night, a stone’s throw away from Madeleine Vionnet’s former atelier on Avenue Montaigne, social mainstay Goga Ashkenazi celebrated her new era of Vionnet—and principally, the first global...
View ArticleRihanna, Elizabeth Olsen, and More Bring High-Impact Nude Makeup to Dior’s...
If the rosy lids and pastel lips on the Dior runway today had you pining for soft washes of color come spring, the audience at the show had a message: Why wait? The front row featured a diverse range...
View Article10 Things to Know About Balenciaga’s Spring 2016 Show
See the Balenciaga Spring 2016 Ready-to-Wear Collection Alexander Wang’s swan song hit the runway in Paris tonight—and what a song it was. From the all-white outfits to the famous cast of catwalkers,...
View ArticleZoë! Suki! Bella! Alexander Wang Does Real-Girl Beauty—Really!—for His Last...
There’s been much talk at the Spring 2016 shows about the sounding call for individuality, with designers emphasizing personality in their model castings of late, and an increasing number of Instagram...
View ArticleSet Down the Statement Necklace: Facial Jewelry Is Having Another Moment
Facial jewelry has been on the tips of tongues—or rather lips, cheeks, lash lines, nose bridges, and brow bones—for a few seasons now, but it’s reached official trend status for Spring 2016. On the...
View ArticleAlexander Wang’s Final Balenciaga Show Boasted an Epic Cast
Alexander Wang went out with a bang. The casting at Wang’s final Balenciaga show highlighted the designer’s continued influence on the world of modeling, via a lineup of women he helped to launch....
View ArticleJennifer Meyer, Greg Chait, Selby Drummond, and Vogue Host #AmericansInParis...
After a festive start to the week with parties including a dinner for Instagram founder Kevin Systrom, boogying with the #BALMAINARMY, and taking in lavish settings with The Row, tonight’s big event...
View ArticleGetting Smashed for Spring, à la Loewe and Maison Margiela
Could breaking up be your best bet for Spring ’16? Just maybe when it’s the shattered glass styles sent forth by John Galliano at Maison Margiela and Jonathan Anderson at Loewe. This season, we’ve...
View ArticleCould Engagement Nose Rings Take Off? Delfina Delettrez Makes a Winning Case
Delfina Delettrez’s latest offering, dubbed Faceted, spins seemingly disparate references into a fantastical lineup, fairly drenched in the jewelry designer’s familiar brand of Surrealism. “I really...
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