Model Alliance, an organization working to improve labor issues in the fashion industry, has issued a blistering statement against Karl Lagerfeld for an interview in which he called models “stupid,” “toxic,” and “sordid creatures.”
Karl’s latest haute couture collection—shown today in Paris to the likes of Ibeyi, Sofia Coppola, Isabelle Huppert, and Marion Cotillard—is eye candy for gleeful widows, full of fluffy tulle skirts beneath signature tweed jackets and spritely mourning veils capped with a melange of florals. Some looks were reminiscent…
On the last day of fashion week in Paris, a rocket launched inside the Grand Palais. It was the centerpiece of Chanel’s 2017 show and actually lifted off 10 meters or so from the platform with sparks and fog machines simulating thrust.
A day after issuing a scorching statement about Karl Lagerfeld’s sort-of apology for accusing her of wanting to be paid to wear a Chanel dress at the Oscars, Meryl Streep showed up to the awards show wearing a blue beaded custom Elie Saab gown.
Some days I look at the young, fresh-faced, curmudgeonly child in the photo above and wonder: how is it possible that she is now 367 years old? Then I remember Donald Trump is president and people still don’t know how to use shade correctly. Life is long and it’s even longer when everybody has lost their goddamn mind.
Let me be frank with you for a moment. I was disappointed by the past three days of celebrity gossip. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning’s Dirt Bag columns didn’t excite me because, by and large, famous people have been keeping their cool. But—like they say about the weather in New England—if you don’t like…
I spent about 36 seconds of the Women’s March over the weekend thinking about Karl Lagerfeld’s weak attempt at staging a feminist fashion march on his Spring 2015 runway, and wondered if he was watching, participating, or gave a fuck. And so, despite the dazzling handiwork in his couture show for Spring 2017, which…
Perhaps you’ll recall that Cara Delevingne, a rare true supermodel in a declining landscape of “supermodels,” technically quit modeling last year so she could focus on starring in excellent films such as Suicide Squad, Paper Towns, and Pan. Her “retirement” led to a slew of devastated-sounding eulogies for her career…
The September issues, they do encroach, but Harper’s Bazaar has got an early lead in this race of shifting fashion seasons by deeming the Kardashian Wests the faces of fall fashion 2016 (along with supermodels Lara Stone, Natasha Poly and my fave Lindsay Wixson). Just look at the curl on Kim’s lashes!
It’s Fendi’s 90th year in existence, and so creative director Karl Lagerfeld pulled out all the stops, staging an haute fourrure show in Rome that was not just AT the legendary Trevi Fountain, but atop it, models floating ethereally above on a clear platform built in the pool.
It seems that outsiders love to fantasize Cuba as a romantic place that time forgot, a time capsule to the early ‘60s, and/or a snapshot from a scene from Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, as opposed to the realities of it: a place where 11 million people live off $20 a month and where food is historically scarce; a place…
According to Fashionista, various Spanish language outlets are reporting that Tony Castro, grandson of Fidel, will walk in Chanel’s Cruise collection show in Cuba’s El Paseo Del Prado today at 6:30 p.m. EST. There is so much going on in that sentence!
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.
This Balmain ad with Cindy, Naomi and Claudia inspired a goodly amount of nostalgia for the era when supermodels were actually super models, and slaying was not just a hashtag but a way of life. They were goddesses of runway and print, but they also had some fire behind the eyes—that and perfect timing was their true…
Once and Forever, Karl Lagerfeld’s short film which stars Kristen Stewart, premiered during the debut of Chanel’s pre-fall collection in Rome on Tuesday. Stewart doesn’t actually play the fashion house’s founder, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, but plays an actress who is portraying Coco in a biopic.
Today WWD unleashed a crucial feature that asks the fundamental question, “Is Fashion Heading for a Burnout?” The endless schedule of fashion weeks—and the increasing demand on designers to churn out eight seasons a year to keep up with consumer demand—has been a font for soul-searching for several years now,…
T, the New York Times’s style magazine, interviewed Karl Lagerfeld for a feature set in Paris, the only city in which Karl Lagerfeld truly exists. Given the setting and opportunity, the ever-quotable Karl Lagerfeld spouted the most Karl Lagerfeldian quote that ever did see the light of day, and it might have been his…
Karl Lagerfeld, of late, has been somewhat obsessed with the domain of the proles—this idea of populist spaces, except they’re “elevated” to his standards of Chanel bourgeoisie. Recent runway shows have included a Chanel supermarché and a faux feminist protest, both of which were received with giddy enthusiasm, so his…
Milan Fashion Week is kind of the disapproving grandmother of Fashion Month, a throwback realm in an otherwise obsessively future-oriented industry in which the Italian legacy brands flounce about in a puddle of elderly egos and beautiful tailoring.
With multiple campaigns under her belt, Kristen Stewart is close to becoming a seasoned vet when it comes to Chanel. Now, the actress is taking on the role of Coco Chanel in an upcoming short film from Karl Lagerfeld.
