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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The 2019 CFDA Fashion Awards took place on June 3rd, 2019, at the Brooklyn Museum. This year, the biggest prize went to womenswear designer Brandon Maxwell. This was his second CFDA award, taking home the Trova trophy for Womenswear Designer of the Year (his first award for in the Swarovski emerging womenswear category in 2016).…
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…
The Council of Fashion Designers in America (CFDA) Awards brought out the best in the international fashion industry on Sunday, June 5th at The Manhattan Center's Hammerstein Ballroom. Those who were nominated have made outstanding contributions to American fashion in womenswear, menswear, and accessories, as well as journalism, creative vision, personal style, and lifetime achievement.…
At the upcoming CFDA Awards, a major honor for Rick Owens will prove that you can stray off the beaten path and still be embraced by mainstream fashion. At the 2017 ceremony on June 5th, Owens, who is known for his radical runway shows and sculptural collections, will receive the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award. Raf…
From February 27th through March 7th, fashion’s elite flocked to the city of lights to see the biggest names roll out their FW’17 collections at Paris Fashion Week. At recent fashion weeks in New York, London and Milan, designers put politics on the runway but in France, the main focus was on fashion, fashion, and…
Paris Fashion Week is coming up soon! From September 27 - October 5, more than 100 designers will present their Spring/Summer 2017 collections in the city of lights. Saint Laurent, Maison Margiela, Balmain, Rick Owens, Valentino, John Galliano, Givenchy, Miu Miu, and Kenzo will be among the labels showing their latest looks on the runway. Get…
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…
At Paris Fashion Week, on March 3rd, Rick Owens sent a collection down the runway that was the absolute antithesis to the current consumptive habits of fast fashion. By hand draping each of the FW '16 garments, Owens added his own “handwriting” to each of the 42 looks in the collection, therefore making each piece unique and…
What is the true purpose of a fashion show? Is it to portray a message to the exclusive audience in the room or should designers tailor their shows for the positive consumption of the web-surfing public in an effort to actually sell clothing? In our age of endless "likes" and "dislikes" these queries may prove to…
After a fabulously star-studded fashion week in Milan, Paris Men's Fashion week has officially kicked off in Paris for five days from Wednesday June 24th starting with the Lucien Pellet Finnet show. Ending on Sunday June 28th with the Saint Laurent show, this week is sure to attract style-watchers, celebrities, and fashionistas alike, before Paris' Haute Couture which starts…
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…
Paris Men's Fashion Week will run from January 21st until January 25th, 2015. With designers like Valentino, Dior's Raf Simons, Louis Vuitton and Givenchy among many other fashion houses lined up for this year's Men's Fashion Week A/W 2015, see below for the full schedule. And don't forget to check back as Fashion Week gets closer, as…
RICK OWENS - PARIS - SPRING/SUMMER 2015 RUNWAY SHOW
Grammy award-winning musician Pharrell Williams has been announced as the next artist to team up with German sportswear giant Adidas in a new campaign set to debut this summer. The 40-year-old musician and co-founder of the fashion label Billionaire Boys Club will bring an eco-friendly spin to his Adidas line, creating garments from Bionic Yarn,…
RICK OWENS - PARIS - SPRING / SUMMER 2014 FASHION SHOW
DJ Sliink UNTITLED: I hear you do a lot of collaborations with fashion designers like Alexander Wang and Rick Owens? DJ SLIINK: Rick Owens put one of my songs in his fashion shows last year. A month later they wanted me to do a remix for him. It was a project for him and his…
The 2013 amFAR Inspiration Gala took place at The Plaza Hotel in New York City on Thursday, June 13. To date, the black tie event has raised over $6 million dollars for amFAR and this year the gala was presented by M.A.C Viva Glam. Every year, the inspiration series takes place in five major cities across…