June 2012
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Thou shalt follow thy dreams. Our inability to feel truly satisfied is perhaps...
– Idil Tabanca, excerpt from Editor’s Letter (via scicchitano)
May 2012
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April 2012
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Earlier this month, Rihanna revealed to the world (or, rather, the small sliver of it that happened to catch her appearance on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show) that she is currently “pursuing a fashion line.” Fashion press, ever weary of such pronouncements, responded with a collective eye roll and a handful of well-aimed barbs at the 24-year-old star.
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Celebrity designers are hardly a new...
March 2012
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She understood at the bone the willful transgression implicit in the literary...
– Joan Didion on Elizabeth Hardwick. The New York Review.
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I interviewed Brian Atwood for Styleite earlier this week. He is the charmingest: Brian Atwood Thinks You Should Match Your Panties To Your Pumps
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Review: Givenchy Fall 2012
This season, Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci drew inspiration from the realm of the equestrian. This was not, however, your Ralph Lauren polo prep, nor your polished Hermes thoroughbred, but rather a macabre ode to the sport – more Ichabod than Prince William, a point made even more salient by the cadaverous makeup and silk scarves wrapped like tourniquets around the models’ necks.
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The runway...
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Manalyze this: Manlashes, Manscara, and Mantyhose
Putin! The Office! Russell Brand! Man Spanx!….wait, what??
In this weekend’s New York Times, Op-Ed columnist Maureen Down penned a piece discussing the trend of traditionally female products - mascara, hosiery, eyeliner - being marketed to men. This isn’t exactly news to fashion types (Marc Jacobs’ pink polo dress, anyone?) but the article does present some insider takes...
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Review: Yves Saint Laurent Fall 2012
Paris, it is widely understood, is home to the stalwarts of fashion – those storied design houses and rarefied ateliers that compose the industry’s carefully crafted image of luxury and exclusivity. Beneath this lofty exterior, however, lay the realities of running a business – the changes in ownership, shareholder squabbles, and, yes, layoffs that remind us of fashion’s cold, corporate aspect....
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Review: Proenza Schouler Fall 2012
Backstage at their Wednesday night runway show, Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez, the duo behind New York label Proenza Schouler, cited the idea of protection as a unifying theme for their Fall 2012 collection. The concept took hold during a month-long trip to Bhutan and Nepal, where the designers found inspiration in the former kingdom’s isolationist culture and mandatory national dress code...