Category: Fashion

Chromat Debuts Sustainable Swimwear at NYC Fashion Week

Each New York Fashion Week marathon gives us a good idea of what the upcoming season’s biggest trends will be. If Chromat has its way, this season’s hottest trend will be sustainability. Last night, designer Becca McCharen-Tran presented her “Climatic” collection, which drew inspiration from the balmy city of Miami, where designer McCharen-Tran lives, and […]

Tomo Koizumi takes New York Fashion Week by Storm

Tomo Koizumi’s New York Fashion Week 2019 debut was the stuff of fashion fairy tales.  At the lower level of Marc Jacobs’s Madison Avenue store, fashion industry insiders lined up against the wall in the standing-room only show to witness Tokyo-based designer Koizumi’s first-ever runway show. Koizumi, who has designed pieces for Lady Gaga and […]

Billy Porter Named Ambassador of New York Fashion Week: Men’s

Women’s Wear Daily reports that the CFDA has selected Pose star Billy Porter as the only ambassador for New York Fashion Week Men’s shows.   Porter’s duties at fashion week, running from Feb. 4 to 6, include attending runway shows and “interacting” with designers he may collaborate with in the future. “I have always used clothes […]

There’s No Business Like Show Business for Gucci Spring 2019

Gucci’s creative director, Alessandro Michele, has a fascination with old Hollywood glamour and he doesn’t care who knows it. Recent collections have included nods to iconic Los Angeles landmarks like the Chateau Marmont and Paramount Studios. Last year the design house even held a party for the new faces of its Guilty fragrances inside the Hollywood […]

Balmain Flashes Back to Miss Jackson

Supermodel Cara Delevingne, 26, channeled a 90s-era Janet Jackson in a new spring 2019 campaign for French fashion company Balmain. The French fashion house dropped three photos from its upcoming campaign Thursday. The “first look” black and white images caused fans’ jaws to drop — as Delevingne posed completely nude, sitting on what appears to be a […]

2019 Couture Bridal Makes you say, “Yes!” to the Dress

Wedding Season is right around the corner, and if you’re a bride-to-be that has, oh, a few thousand to drop on your dream dress, then last week’s Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring 2019 was the place for you. This year, Vogue reports that the designers outdid themselves, displaying a lineup of jaw-dropping creations dreamed […]

Arab Designers take Center Stage at Paris Couture Fashion Week

Arab designers are notoriously well-versed in world of high fashion and at this year’s Paris Couture Week (PCW), they represented the region in droves. Georges Hobeika, Elie Saab, Zuhair Murad, Maison Rabih Kayrouz (the newly-minted couturier to be recognised by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture) and many other designers have been the ones to […]

Viktor and Rolf Make a Fashion Statement

In their latest collection, the duo used couture techniques to work bold, eye-catching phrases such as “No photos please,” “I’m not shy I just don’t like you,” “I’m sorry I’m late I didn’t want to come,” and “Go to Hell” on the fronts of their usual pretty-but-oddball gowns. The gimmick drew a massive amount of […]

Patagonia Puts Its Ethics Where Its Clothes Are

In the past few years, Patagonia, the apparel brand long beloved by climbers, moutain bikers and other outdoorsy folk and now become a favorite or urban fashion insiders, has it’s cemented itself in the public imagination as a whole lot more. At a time when Americans less faith than ever in our public institutions and […]