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8 Jan

Bella Hadid Wears 2024’s First Trends: The “Office Siren” and “Bayonetta Glasses” (W Magazine)

Bella Hadid hasn’t lost her penchant for trendsetting. After spending most of 2023 under the radar, the supermodel has only been back in the public eye for a few weeks now, but she’s already setting the 2024 fashion trends the rest of us are bound to follow. You won’t need glasses to spot them, either—but you might want some afterward. When Hadid first started appearing back on the streets of New York City in early December, ‘It’ girl watchers detected a subtle shift in her style. Her looks seemed a little less playful, the color palettes a bit more muted. “Coquettish” wasn’t in the vocabulary, but she wasn’t exactly going the “Quiet Luxury 101” route, either. Her outfits weren’t so much “trophy wife/socialite”...
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29 Nov

9 FASHION TRENDS TO KNOW FROM THE SPRING 2024 SHOWS (NYLON)

Every fashion month, we look forward to a couple of things, the most anticipated one is seeing what our must-watch brands are coming out with ahead of the upcoming season. The past few weeks took style enthusiasts to showcases in four major cities – New York, London, Milan, and Paris – and for Spring 2024, there are a handful of trends we can expect to trickle down from the catwalk to our wardrobes. Designers are looking to reinforce aesthetics we already love into overdrive. The nostalgia wave is still at its peak, but some brands are now opting out of Y2K to channel an era that feels not-so-distant to many. There is also bound to be a bevy of unconventional materials,...
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21 Aug

Has JW Anderson Made 2023’s Ugliest Shoe Already?

In Jonathan Anderson’s creative directorship roles at his eponymous label and Loewe, the designer has given us stilettos bulging with balloons, sandals with curves like car bumpers, sneakers sprouting cress and boots resembling slouchy shoulder bags. The designer has long flirted with the absurd and the surreal, creating shoes that fall into a category that has captivated this Vogue editor: “ugly”. The ugly shoe upped its ante in 2022, thanks to fashion’s newfound affection for Rihanna-approved Vibram FiveFinger shoes, the Birkenstock Boston mule, the comeback of the hood-toed Nike Air Rift, and an everlasting interest in Crocs. But thanks to Anderson, a new orthopaedic animal is in town. The reptilian “croc” is in for a shock and taking on some tough competition in 2023, thanks to a...
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24 Jul

DIOR DISPLAYS AN ODE TO POWERFUL FEMININITY IN AUTUMN-WINTER 2023-24 CAMPAIGN (V Magazine)

Serving both as a tribute to the rich history of the brand and a hopeful celebration of what is to come, Dior’s Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri centers the house’s latest campaign around three iconic figures who embody the elegant, non-conformist, and free-spirited essence of Parisian style: Catherine Dior, the World War II resistance fighter who inspired the Miss Dior fragrance, legendary singer Édith Piaf, and renowned singer and actress Juliette Gréco. Courtesy of DiorCourtesy of DiorCourtesy of DiorCourtesy of DiorCourtesy of DiorThe collection, captured in a captivating campaign shot by photographer Brigitte Niedermair, shows a seamless blending of revised 1950s silhouettes from the Dior archives with the spirit of innovation that defines the brand. Grounded in stark shades of black...
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19 Dec

The Year in Review: Fashion’s Biggest Moments of 2022 (VOGUE)

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Exciting debuts! Supermodel comebacks! Blowout runway shows! If we weren’t quite back to business as usual in 2022, fashion was bigger, louder, and brighter than it’s been since the Before Times. It started on a high note, with Glenn Martens’s astonishing haute couture collection for Jean Paul Gaultier and Matthieu Blazy’s stellar debut at Bottega Veneta. We couldn’t get enough of the star-is-born red carpet style of Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet. And who can forget Rihanna’s baby bump reveal? But the designer exits and advertising controversies of the last few weeks suggest that the pandemic isn’t quite done with us yet. We continue to see its after-effects on independent labels, and consumers, too, have changed, demanding more from the brands they follow and buy, which in turn is inspiring reflection and reevaluation on...
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16 Dec

A Deep Dive Into Fashion’s Obsession With Fakes (W Magazine)

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In 2022, fakeness seems to be fashion’s new reality. Take, for instance, Loewe’s spring 2023 collection, for which creative director Jonathan Anderson looked to artificiality as a source of inspiration. Surreal, sci-fi elements were tacked onto dresses, shoes, and bags. The designer put features of nature and everyday ephemera on full display—like fiberglass anthurium flowers magnified and stuck onto frocks; or blown up, pixelated t-shirts. Models at Puppets and Puppets carried bags affixed with bananas, cookies, and other fake foods that looked hyperreal—and straight off a dinner plate. After what feels like a lifetime of Hermès hauls, luxury “It” bag obsessions, and Old Money content on TikTok, trends have recently skewed in the opposite direction: editors, stylists, and influencers have taken to...
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12 Dec

YOSHITOMO NARA X STELLA MCCARTNEY LAUNCHED A UNISEX CAPSULE (V Magazine)

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Renowned Japanese artist, Yoshitomo Nara, has joined forces with British luxury house Stella McCartney for the brand’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection. The two creative powerhouses marry their brand ethos’ and individual identities to debut a lively gender-neutral capsule collection that serves as the second chapter to their first collaborative endeavor in 2021. “In our first collaboration, Stella chose which of my artworks she wanted to use and played around with them freely when integrating them into her designs,” shares Nara. “This time, I selected the artworks I wanted her to use and she once again had the freedom to place them as she wished in her pieces.” Using Nara’s work as the collaboration's point of inception, the collection bridges art, fashion, and street...
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9 Dec

MadeMe Launches Bags With Fruits Magazine (VOGUE)

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MadeMe by Erin Magee is widely known as the saucy downtown streetwear brand, capturing the hearts of girls like Lourdes Leon, Paloma Elsesser, and Princess Nokia. Now she’s launched handbags and partnered with an equally radical magazine on the campaign—an international meeting of the minds. The Trinity, a rounded shoulder bag that recalls ’90s Christian Dior shapes, makes its debut in photos in collaboration with Fruits, a street style magazine created in 1997 by photographer Shoichi Aoki that chronicled the wild and experimental looks of Japanese youth in Tokyo’s Harajuku district. Photo: Courtesy of Shoichi Aoki Photo: Courtesy of Shoichi Aoki While the magazine shuttered in 2017, this campaign makes it feel as if Fruits were back in full swing. The images, made by Aoki and Magee, are truly...
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5 Dec

MOOS KNUCKLES AND TELFAR ARE BACK AGAIN (V Magazine)

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New York-based genderless brand TELFAR has unveiled its second collaboration with Canadian luxury outerwear brand Moose Knuckles. The 24-piece ready-to-wear and accessories collection is a continuation of TELFAR’s first foray into performance-driven outerwear last year. This new collection focuses on creating new weather-resistant silhouettes that embody anonymity: a distinctly New York penchant for getting noticed while minding your own business. Moose Knuckles’ iconic pieces got interpreted through an eye-catching futuristic appeal for all who want to make a statement, stay stealth, and keep warm this season. Creating coats and apparel that allow its wearer to be perceived how they want to was important to the collaboration because “In New York City, coats are basically your car, so if you work for yourself your...
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5 Dec

Meet Javier Des Leon, the Body Behind the Body in Those Y/Project x Jean Paul Gaultier Body Morph Looks (VOGUE)

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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky—arguably the world’s most stylish couple—were spotted in Barbados last weekend. A toned six-pack peeked out of Rocky’s buffalo-plaid flannel, stealing the spotlight. Except the taut torso wasn’t his but a printed long-sleeve top by Y/Project’s Glenn Martens made in collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier, featuring a reimagined version of Gaultier’s famous body-illusion graphics of spring 1996. The body behind the body belongs to Spanish model and content creator Javier Des Leon. Yes, that’s all him, baby. Des Leon began his career as a stylist, though, as he told me over Zoom from his flat in Madrid, he soon outgrew that role as he dedicated more of his time to social media. “I started building this character on Instagram,” he said, realizing his skills for modeling, art...
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