L: Proenza Schouler Fall 2011 dress with pixelated digital print
R: Dress from the 1920s in Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum
New Aesthetic, indeed.
May 23, 2012
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April 6, 2012
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.
March 29, 2012
I interviewed Brian Atwood for Styleite earlier this week. He is the charmingest: Brian Atwood Thinks You Should Match Your Panties To Your Pumps
March 24, 2012
Deconstructed schoolgirl. Or, what I should have done to my kilt in high school.
(Source: hickspanic, via deactivated-catladysouls)
March 15, 2012
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.
March 14, 2012
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 on the issue from a commercial standpoint, if not so much a gender/sociological one. Dowd interviews an Italian hosiery executive, who claims that his specially-designed “mantyhose” have garnered “a cult following” (which is better than your boyfriend stealing your Wolfords, amiright?), as well as Sara Blakely, she of Spanx (and recently Forbes billionaires list) fame, whose shapewear is apparently all the rage among Hollywood’s leading men.
March 12, 2012
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. If anyone were still clinging to romantic notions of the designer as sacrosanct, this season has surely seen these ideas quashed.
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Magda Laguinge photographed by Paolo Roversi for Vogue UK, April 2012
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