In Paris, American designer Thom Browne presented a cirque du freak that was breathtakingly beautiful and utterly melancholy. While Browne always toys with proportions and notions of outsiderism, this collection celebrated the beauty and alienation of sticking out; “Part of Your World” from The Little fucking Mermaid,…
Here is some proof that women needn’t necessarily pack themselves with mothballs after the age of 35: Dame Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda, 72 and 79 respectively, totally murdered Paris Fashion Week walking for L’Oréal Paris on Sunday.
For me, there has always been something uniquely calming about a beautiful, expertly constructed piece of clothing. Most of the garments I put on my own body are admittedly boring, but my childlike enthusiasm for pretty things has never quite waned; when you look at the very best clothes, for a moment, everything else…
In a welcome break from the fashion month norm, Kenzo, which was founded by Japanese designer Kenzo Takada and is now helmed by Opening Ceremony founders Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, presented its Paris runway show as an intermission within a traditional Japanese Kagura dance performance.
The extremely cool French designer Simon Porte Jacquemus toned down the wacky design elements of his namesake label to create a faintingly chic collection inspired by, and devoted to, his mother, who died when he was young.
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.
The shaggy purple staircases and columns at Miu Miu’s runway appropriately set the tone for Tuesday’s Fall/Winter 2017 show at Paris Fashion Week, because Miuccia Prada’s lineup had plenty of hats, stoles, and coats that all looked like they’d feel absurdly soft if you rubbed them against your face. Hell, it’d…
Monday in Paris, Rihanna’s Fenty x Puma line paraded under the moniker “F.U.”—Fenty University—and its attitude was purely that: rugby separates in ragamuffin cuts that were meant to recall the grunge-era kids who got sent to the “alternative” high school for being teen pregnant or smoking too much weed. (Maybe that…
You ever like, “Frick this” when you’re at your antisocial best, opting out of whatever party your friends are attending and choosing instead the safety of the couch? Yeah, there’s an outfit for that. At CDG in Paris this weekend, designer Rei Kawakubo designed the ultimate hibernation fashion.
A fashion designer based in Dakar, Senegal thinks YSL may have copied her bag design for its Fall/Winter 2017 collection, which debuted on Tuesday at Paris Fashion Week.
The skewed headgear presented at Ann Demeulemeester in Paris today were more than the sum of their parts, which evoked birds in a flurry, ghosts in mid-haunt, brides interrupted, the dark underbelly of paintings by Vermeer. Paired with loose, bold separates in silk and leather, emphasized with above-the-elbow gloves,…
“We are in a period of fashion overdose right now. There’s too much pressure,” designer Dries Van Noten told the New York Times in an interview marking his 100th show milestone. That may be the case, but as always, his collection—this time featuring models who had walked in previous Dries shows, including many over…
On Monday, casting director James Scully posted some scathing commentary on Instagram addressing the alleged mistreatment of models by casting agents Maida Gregori Boina and Rami Fernandes, who were working for Balenciaga. Scully’s Instagram called them “serial abusers” for allegedly making models wait in a darkened…
Red carpet fave Elie Saab showed his latest couture line in Paris Wednesday and I guarantee you will see these looks on every red carpet for the next year (I will be surprised if none of these are at the Oscars, too).
Today at Men’s Fashion Week in Paris, Balenciaga showed a melange of gear emblazoned with Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign logo except with his name replaced with the Balenciaga logo. Because nothing says Bernie Sanders like $2,700 sport coats and $445 short pants!
Oh my god, the Balenciaga show on Sunday was so perfect, a delightful soup of 1980s whimsy in an uncharacteristically dull Paris lineup. One item in particular really got me going: this hooded latex coat that looks like a very large condom!
When news that Kim Kardashian had been robbed at gunpoint broke on Sunday night, some Twitter users characteristically went to the darkest and snarkiest places they could imagine: rude jokes, dismissals, condescending admonishments. But for all the stupid quips on the Tweet feed, none were as rude or pointed as the…
In July, 8 months after Raf Simons’ exit, Christian Dior chief executive Sidney Toledano told the New York Times, “I had it in mind that a woman designer might be interesting for a while now.” Maria Grazia Chiuri, formerly the longtime co-creative director of Valentino, is “very practical,” he said. “Very…
Ladies and gentlemen, Olivier Rousteing has moved on from 1984 into friendlier climes... like 1988, or ‘82, or ‘79, years when minimalism was coming into play and/or the Halston aesthetic sheared everyone down into chic, voluminous glamazons. I never thought I’d say this, but new Balmain has nary an epaulette or…
Manish Arora, master of psychedelic streetwear, apparently discovered bronyism for Spring 2017, because the entire collection he showed in Paris Thursday was centered on the ever-beloved My Little Pony, appended with the hashtag #manisaroralovesmylittlepony. And it must have been official, too, because his kooky doll…
