Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz recently passed away due to COVID-19 at the age of 59. Elbaz was the creative director of Lanvin and founder of the Richemont-backed label AZ Factory. He was responsible for several significant contributions to the fashion industry, including works with Geoffrey Beene, Guy Laroche, and Yves Saint Laurent as Creative…
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CREATIVE EYELINER Eyeliner mistakes can be left alone for next spring. Makeup artists at Paris fashion week free-handed (or so it seems) the eyeliner application: Dries Van Noten did a chunky black stroke along the lids, while Christian Dior applied uneven short blotches of black eyeliner along the models' eye corners. OVERSIZED SUNGLASSES The tiny…
Last in the month-long line of fashion weeks is Paris, arguably the most artistic out of New York, London, and Milan. The city's in-your-face collections will no doubt dominate fashion editorials in the coming months (see: Balenciaga's platform Crocs and Chanel's PVC thigh high boots), but the Paris runways also showed some surprisingly wearable yet…
Paris Men's Fashion Week ended in a sea of colors, embellishments, and concepts. From June 22nd-26th, the city of lights got a little brighter thanks to designers like Dior, Balmain, and Thom Browne. Unlike Milan Fashion Week: Men's where collections centered around a few key concepts, the themes on the Paris Men's runways were wide-ranging. From…
On March 2, 2016, Dries Van Noten debuted his Fall/Winter 2016 collection during Paris Fashion Week. For this season, the designer was inspired by the dark affair between 20th century femme fatale Marchesa Louisa Casati and the poet, Gabriele D'Annunzio. The collection seemed to be a mixture of masculine and feminine chic pieces to reflect the…
The Costume Institute: China: Through the Looking Glass The Metropolitan Museum of Art May 7th, 2015 –August 16th, 2015 Exhibition Locations: Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center The Costume Institute Gala, held on Monday night, April 5, marked the opening of the Costume Institute's new exhibit. This year's theme looked to the East, as the…
New York, London, and Milan had their turn, and now the city of lights is up. Paris Fashion Week Fall / Winter 2015 - 2016 collections will hit the runways March 3 until March 11. With shows from Christian Dior, Chanel, and Alexander McQueen among other greats, check back for coverage to keep up with the season's most important…
Beauty trends for Spring Summer 2014 - beautiful, edgy and a source of inspiration - straight from the runways. Here are our top 10 beauty trends for Spring 2014. #1 GOLDEN TOUCH Seen on the runway at: Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior, Dries Van Noten, Elie Saab, Jason Wu. Get the golden look with these metallic…
Paris Men's Fashion Week June 26 - June 30 Paris Men's Fashion Week will take place June 26 - 30. See below for the schedule: 2013 Designers: Lucien Pellat Finet, Alibellus, Julius, Julien David, Carven, John Lawrence Sullivan, Walter Van Beirendonck, Valentino, Raf Simons, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Wooyoungmi, Issey Miyake Men, Rick Owens, Louis Vuitton,…