A lot of boring celebs dared to attend a Met Gala honoring visionary designer Rei Kawakubo wearing some boring shit, but Tracee Ellis Ross was not one of them. The fashion plate was one of the few attendees (Rihanna, Helen Lasichanh, Caroline Kennedy) who actually wore a creation from Comme des Garçons, and she…
By 10 a.m. Monday, the event tent and red carpet had been erected on the grand steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and brawny men were unloading utility vehicles stacked with police barricades, lining them up to protect the world-famous glitterati who will floss their GlamGlow-glimmering visages and…
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 man (Jacques Hyzagi), deeply angered by the supposed editorial blunders that affected a story (an interview with Rei Kawakubo, the Comme des Garcons designer/artist/genius disdainful of press) he was writing for Elle, has decided to blowtorch the monoliths of the New York media industry, which is to say the outlets…
In the second installment of our Fall/Winter 2015 Fashion Month series entitled "Fuck a ____; Wear a _____," we bid a glad adieu to the tents we were wearing two weeks ago and say major fucking bonjour to these fashionable sleeping bags proffered this week by the god Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons.
If Comme des Garçons' Rei Kawakubo has her way, next spring we will all be praying at the altar of our own ovaries, in her brilliant crimson odes to blood and guts and "roses, but not a pretty rose." It is brilliant, it is sculptural, it is clothing designed to never let the wearer forget that we're literally all the…
One criticism leveled against Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli is that they're too deferential to the aesthetic of the house's ex-designer, and therefore are boring. Well. The good news is they no longer have that problem.
Last Sunday, the Textile Museum in Washington, DC promoted its exhibition on Japanese fashion in a unique way - with a Harajuku Street Fashion presentation and show.
In the summer of 1981, a young British stylist who'd worked at Harper's Bazaar and Savvy landed at New York Magazine. Her job was fashion editor; her name was Anna Wintour. Peep that staff portrait!
