The 2021 CFDA Awards are shaping up to be a pretty significant night! Not only will they mark the return to an in-person event after Covid forced the 2020 proceedings to go digital, but they also seem to reflect a response to years of criticism that the organization tends to recognize the same kinds of […]
Ensuring that New York Fashion Week (NYFW) 2021 went out with bang, sexuality educator, activist and breast cancer survivor Ericka Hart made a powerful statement on Sunday, modeling a red one-piece swimsuit on a beach runway and pulling the top down to expose her post-mastectomy scars and reconstructed breasts as she walked. Hart, who modeled […]
FINALLY! This year’s Met Gala — one of the world’s biggest nights in fashion — officially arrived. After missing 2020 due to the pandemic, AND missing it’s annual May 2021 date, this year’s preempted and postponed “fashion prom” was back this month. The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Gala or the Costume Institute Benefit […]
Another newsstand mainstay has entered the print graveyard: Women’s magazine Marie Claire U.S. has shuttered its print edition after 27 years in circulation. Print subscribers found out first. According to the New York Post, they received a letter in the mail with their Summer 2021 issue notifying them that it would be the magazine’s last. […]
While most of the American fashion industry retreated into the digital realm over the past 18 months, Christian Siriano remained loyal to the IRL fashion show format, first carting editors out to his home in Connecticut for a socially-distanced show in September 2020 and then an off-calendar return to the city in March 2021. Surely, that […]
Target isn’t going easy on our wallets this year. Following a popular spring dress collaboration with Christopher John Rogers, Rixo and Alexis, the retailer announced last month that its next designer collaboration would feature four dynamic and highly-regarded names in fashion: Rachel Comey, Victor Glemaud, Sandy Liang and Nili Lotan. On September 8, the retailer released lookbooks for the […]
Harris Reed won Breakthrough Designer of the Year at British GQ‘s Man of the Year Awards on September 1st, held at the Tate Modern Art Museum in London. Actress Emma Corrin, who has recently won acclaim for her portrayal of the late Princess Diana in “The Crown,” presented the award while wearing a custom look by the designer. On […]
As reported by Vogue, fashion shows are returning to Paris later this month in spite of the continuing (COVID-19) pandemic. According to the preliminary schedule released by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode last week, Paris Fashion Week will go ahead and run from September 28 through October 6 with 92 brands on […]
Estée Lauder has added new talent to its roster of beautiful faces: activist, acclaimed writer and the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, Amanda Gorman. The beauty conglomerate that oversees its eponymous brand as well as a slew of other companies, including Clinique, Origins, and MAC, named Gorman its first-ever Global Changemaker in a three-year integrated […]
Vogue reports that FWRD, the “online destination for premier luxury fashion,” is bringing on a new creative director to shape the direction of the site and its brand offering — and that person is none other than 25 year-old model Kendall Jenner. “I grew up loving fashion and have been incredibly fortunate to work with […]