It was announced late on Wednesday, June 5 that Virginie Viard will depart Chanel after five years as its artistic director, and thirty years overall with the company. Chanel did not give a reason for her departure, but the brand has recently been criticized for a sharp price increase, with a decrease in quality. Despite…
The details have been announced for the 2023 Met Gala, which means the biggest night in celebrity fashion is drawing nearer. On May 1st, the world's biggest stars will grace the Metropolitan Museum of Art's iconic stairs dressed by fashion's best of the best. This year's theme, "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," is an…
Barnyard Fashionistas, by artists Bree Allen and Josh Reiss, is comprised of over 10,000 individual NFTs (non-fungible tokens). The collection is a playful, tech-forward NFT set featuring fun, vibrantly rendered, hand-drawn chickens dressed in various sartorial looks and styles in fashion and music... It's almost impossible to pick your favorite chicken with the humourous birds…
Belgian designer Pieter Mulier has been appointed as Creative Director of Maison Alaïa. Chief Executive Officer of Alaïa, Myriam Serrano announced the hire on Feb. 5th. The Richemont-owned luxury brand produces both ready-to-wear and haute couture lines. Alaïa began his couture work in 1965, eventually garnering the nickname "King of Cling" for his svelte, body-hugging…
Photographer: Roxana Romańska Wardrobe Stylist: Basia Kawka Makeup Artist: Klaudia Kosińska Model: Natalia Niemczyk
Willow Smith is the newest fresh-faced star of Chanel. After being named a brand ambassador at the house’s AW16 show, she is now the face of the latest eyewear campaign, shot by Karl Lagerfeld. In the past couple of years, the youngest Smith has captured the eyes and ears of pop culture with her unique…
After being the face of Chanel Eyewear last Fall, Lily-Rose Depp has teamed up with Karl Lagerfeld again. Lily is the spitting image of her model mother, Vanessa Paradis, in the latest Chanel fragrance advertisements for “The New N°5.” The 17-year-old gave a sneak peak of the photos a few weeks ago when she Instagrammed…
Updated July 26th - H&M has announced that their next designer collaboration will be with French fashion house, Kenzo. A short teaser video of the collection was released in May and this week, three photographs were debuted that feature colorful looks from the collection shown on Juliana Huxtable, Amy Sall, Ono Embombo, and Isamaya Ffrench. Items are…
The Manus x Machina Exhibit “Fashion in the Age of Technology” opened to the public on May 5th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until August 14, 2016. The collection is the Costume Institute’s spring 2016 exhibit located in the museum’s Robert Lehman Wing. The exhibit has over 170 garments donated from both new and renowned designers…
In celebration of the five year anniversary of the acclaimed traveling exhibition, "Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project", a limited edition release of prints from the show will be offered exclusively on Paddle 8. The auction opened at 12PM on October 29th and will close at 12PM on Friday, November 13. A groundbreaking tarot…
Lily-Rose Depp is blossoming into a career of her own. After walking in the Chanel couture show earlier in the year, the 16-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp has officially been named the face and ambassador of Chanel's Fall/Winter 2015-2016 eyewear campaign on July 15th. Chanel is a french fashion house that specializes in haute couture,…
Fans of fashion coffee table books have something new to add to their collections this October- with the release of Louis Vuttion Fashion Photography. The book will include nearly 200 images from photographers such as Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Henry Clarke, Patrick Demarchelier, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, Craig McDean, and Karl Lagerfeld. The brand is very excited about…
In today's world, the presence of fashion struts far past the narrow runways and finely manicured showrooms. All around us fashion impacts and shapes the realms of culture before our very eyes. Designers are revered as artists, turning silhouettes into their palettes, creating masterpieces with fabric and stitching. Like artwork, their designs are met with…
Fashion lovers are always shocked at the beauty of the lines that Chanel produces four times a year (not including couture!), and the brand's new short film is Karl Lagerfeld's quirky way of showing us just how it's done. In the film, we're introduced to "the fashion machine" - a machine that models dressed in lab…
On October 9th, CHANEL Fine Jewelry presented 80 new High-Jewelry pieces in celebration of the 80th anniversary of the “Bijoux de Diamants” collection originally created by Gabrielle Chanel with an intimate dinner in New York City. Guests including Barbara Cirkva, John Galantic, Michael Avedon, Sean Avery, Giovanna Battaglia*, Fabiola Beracasa, Nate Berkus, Cory Bond & Bekah…
THE UNTITLED MAGAZINE AT LA JOLLA FILM FESTIVAL Join The Untitled Magazine at the La Jolla Film Festival - July 26-28 at Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California The La Jolla Fashion Film Festival is the first international fashion film festival founded in North America, bringing together over a hundred short films. Last year's festival marked…
Karl Lagerfeld created one of his signature high collars for a new exhibition in London entitled Brilliant, which is being held as part of the Masterpiece London Fair in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The exhibition will take place at the Royal Hospital from June 28 until July 27 and is curated by Vogue jewelry editor…
The Queen of England isn't the only one celebrating a diamond jubilee this year! The Parisian fashion house Chloé will also be celebrating its 60th anniversary this fall with a number of events, including a Paris exhibition and party that will coincide with their fall fashion week show on October 1. The October fashion show will mark…
The La Jolla Fashion Film Festival is the first international fashion film festival founded in North America, bringing together around a hundred short films with world class filmmakers and fashion personalities. Last year's festival marked the largest gathering of fashion film professionals in history, and the third incarnation of the festival this year is poised…
CHANEL - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW The Chanel Fall 2012 collection was presented in a room covered in crystals growing from the floor and ceiling, mimicking the crystal adornments that dripped off of every hem, high heel, and even eyebrow, sewn with crystals by famed couture embroidery house Lesage, that came down the runway. …
