At Tokyo Fashion Week, designer Jotaro Saito showed a new collection of kimonos—his specialty—and lush shawl-collared jackets atop a blanket of fog, a little magic in his work which presents traditional clothing “as fashion that compliments contemporary space.”
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—Tokyo Fashion Week, where lines are driven primarily by creativity as opposed to market forces—and even in its opening days it does not disappoint. Exhibit A: crocheted face masks/topknots by the Vietnamese designer Nguyen Cong Tri, a study in luxury and elegantly concealing…
Over the weekend New York City was host to petitePARADE, a biannual children’s fashion week featuring both established and up-and-coming designers for your child. Many adorable children were featured on the runway, but none were so relatable as this young gentleman, whose entire expression conveys a sense that he’s…
Today at Chanel, Karl looked to the traditional ponchos and hats and slouchy pants of the Argentinian gaucho and gussied it up with silver and pearls and cute little hat brims that make a cowgirl’s work that much daintier.
On Friday, Lanvin showed its first collection in 14 years not designed by the beloved genius Alber Elbaz—the creative director whose talents resurrected a dusty Parisian label and turned it into the global standard-bearer of elegance—who was ousted last year after a dispute with the brand’s primary shareholder. And…
Two nights ago, I attended an issue launch party for an art magazine in a small basement club that had the distinct ambience of a chic ancient Roman holding cell. Part of this very studied atmosphere included a garment rack at its entrance—basically, an unminded, self-serve coat check where anyone could hang their…
An important turning point for Kim Kardashian, and arguably the culture, was the point early on in her courtship with Kanye West when she allowed him to essentially KonMari her closet. Aired on a 2012 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, it depicted West rifling through the assortment of furs and high-end club…
Belgian visionary Dries van Noten always has a strong point of view, one accompanied by perfect tailoring and architectural takes on power dressing. Today at Paris Fashion Week, his collection invoked old money and yachting clubs viewed through a murderous lens—very Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, if its sequel were …
Margiela creative director John Galliano threw down in his typically “wacky” fashion on the Paris runway Wednesday morning, presenting a vision for Fall that is something like: arty types stationed at a dusty military base who pass the time by knitting and starting a DIY discothéque.
Since the rise of Cara Delevingne, brows have been consistently becoming fuller and thicker and more unruly—so consistently that I’ve feared the over-plucked caterpillar might come back into style. But as the beauty on Liselore Frowijn’s Paris Fashion Week runway shows, we’ve still got brow frontiers to explore.
This morning, WWD ran a great piece about how Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele tapped GucciGhost—aka musician and professional snowboarder Trouble Andrew, husband of Santigold—to lend an authentic street feel to his latest collection. Andrew, who’s been masquerading as GucciGhost for several years now, lent…
Ashish Gupta, whose immersive sequin obsession consistently lands him as the favored go-to designer for party girls with a cool streak (Charli XCX sat front row), celebrated iridescence and bright nightlight hues in a surprisingly simple collection at London Fashion Week.
Sarah Burton’s latest fantastical collection for Alexander McQueen invoked, at least in spirit, the legends in Game of Thrones, its gestures towards medieval mythologies gleaming through in silvery unicorn appliqués on delicate lace and romantic, papillon-festooned boudoir jackets. Despite the lilting nature of the…
If Lady Gaga walks a runway and the audience cannot recognize her, does Lady Gaga walk the runway? Such existential questions and more are explored in this AP video of Lady Gaga walking the runway for Marc Jacobs Thursday night in New York, which features Kiernan Shipka effusing about the walk, and Sandra Bernhard…
This is not, in fact, a Norwegian black metal concert, but the runway today in Paris for Rick Owens’s new menswear collection. Fashion! So fickle! So fun! So TERRIFYING AHHH GET THIS MONSTER AWAY FROM ME!
