Fashion house Lafayette 148 just launched a campaign on March 8 that they’re calling #UnordinaryWomen. It features 16 inspiring, trailblazing women, in recognition of International Women’s Day. The campaign tells the stories of several accomplished women, focusing on their strengths, inspirations and influences, and photographed by Sophie Elgort, one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 […]
In the spirit of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, female-led companies are coming to the forefront of their brands to advocate for female empowerment and the support of young women. One of those leading the charge is fashion designer and legend, Diane von Furstenberg. On March 7, Furstenberg hosted a day of panels […]
The snow of couture week has well and truly thawed, and the mood of Paris Fashion Week street style is positively spring-like, with bare arms and even shorts spotted off the runway. Away from the catwalk, the city is crowded with industry insiders rushing from show to show. From patchwork ensembles to oversized tailoring to […]
Pyer Moss has officially been announced as the winner of the 2018 CFDA Fashion Fund prize, an award that will grant the designer $400,000 in prize money. The Fashion Fund was set up 2003 with the intention of giving emerging American design talent the opportunity for further success in the business of fashion. Former winners […]
Dynamic American designer Carlton Jones has been working in fashion for a while as a stylist to Lenny Kravitz, Michelle Obama, Halle Berry and Aretha Franklin, to mention just a few well known public figures. And Carlton was the first stylist to put Queen Latifah in a dress. It was clear to Jones that receiving a degree […]
Two years since taking the creative reins at Oscar de la Renta, Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia delivered their best collection for the fashion house yet. The duos journey to this high point has been nothing short of meteoric. Garcia studied architecture at the University of Notre Dame; after graduating, he moved to New York […]
Face it, fashion runways have a loooong way to go before they’ll count as truly diverse, but this season there’s been a shift in at least one area of representation. At show after show, we’ve seen stylish women of all ages — not just one or two tokenized women over 25, but models ranging in […]
Neutrals and bright colors had the ultimate showdown in this season’s collections. Designers presented a range of fashion trends for fall, from look-at-me bold colors to a clean, classic, more austere sensibility. More designers than ever filled the runways with color, color, and more color, all the colors of the rainbow, in fact. Bright pinks, […]
Sometimes in fashion, you get to witness something so special that it actually moves you. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, you walk away feeling like you got to be part of A Moment — a genuine one, not one engineered for maximum social media exposure. That’s what happened at February’s New York […]
Famed fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld passed away this month at the reputed age of 83, although his actual date of birth, like many things about Lagerfeld, were up for debate. Here are some things you may have known, or not, about the man, the myth, the fashion legend. Born September, 1935, Karl Lagerfeld passed […]