Fashionista March Madness, Round Three: The Semi-Finals, Plus Cast Your Vote for the Champion!
This is it: The Final Four of our March Madness competition.
It’s New York versus Milan and London versus Paris–who can move on to the championship game?
Thursday April 4th, 2013
Chanel, Saint Laurent Top Style.com’s List of Most-Viewed Collections
The fourth issue of Style.com/Print is out today with a list of the top 10 most-viewed shows on Style.com nestled inside–and it’s pretty fascinating to see who made the cut.
Monday April 1st, 2013
Fashionista March Madness, Round 2: New York and Milan
Fashionista’s March Madness tournament is down to the Elite Eight.
The Issue With T Magazine’s ‘Slut Clothes’
It’s been a tough few weeks for mini skirts and the young women who flaunt them. Between CNN’s blame-the-victim tone in Steubenville to the helicopter parents picketing Victoria’s Secret Pink, you’d think America’s most pressing national security issue is teen girls in glittery panties. (And according to Harmony Korine’s bubblegum grenade Spring Breakers, that’s exactly right.)
And on the fashion front, T Magazine editor Deborah Needleman tweets “Say goodbye to slut clothes”…
Tuesday March 26th, 2013
Fashionista’s March Madness, Round One: New York
We’re kicking off our March Madness tournament where it all started: New York. It’s a strong line-up, with heavy hitters like Marc Jacobs and Proenza Schouler battling it out against the smaller-but-still-luxe collections of Derek Lam and The Row.
The ball is officially in the air–who will get the jump off?
The Biggest Designer Comebacks
It’s been a season of second, third, and even fourth chances. After stints at Perry Ellis, Paco Rabanne, and Gap, designer Patrick Robinson is once again staging a comeback–this time, as creative director of Armani Exchange.
Currently waiting in the wings is former Dior designer John Galliano, who has been assisting in Oscar de la Renta’s atelier and is purportedly in talks to teach at Parsons.
We can’t say for sure whether either of these comebacks will take, but we can tell you about the returns other designers have staged in the past. Here are fashion’s greatest comeback stories:
Monday March 25th, 2013
Announcing Our First Ever Fashionista March Madness Competition!
We here at Fashionista aren’t all that into basketball–but we are really into fashion.
Wednesday March 20th, 2013
Why Is Real Fur Pretending to Be Fake?
Every few months or so, we seem to hear about a new scandal involving real fur masquerading as faux: A raid here, an investigation there–it’s all very dramatic.
So why, exactly, would a label want to substitute (in theory) a much more dear material for a synthetic version? How can it possibly be cost-effective?
Monday March 18th, 2013
Marc Jacobs Fall 2013 vs. Vika Gazinskaya Fall 2013: The Foxy Ladies Edition
Fur was big this season. Like, really big. So much so that some designers didn’t even bother trying to make it into a coat or bag–they just put it on the runway, tail and all. But in a cute, stuffed animal kinda way.
Thursday March 14th, 2013
Fur is Back in Fashion with a Vengeance: Will You Embrace It?
Supporters call it “natural” and “sustainable.” Opposers say it’s cruel and inhumane. But whichever side you fall on, there’s no denying that fur had a major presence on the fall 2013 runways this past month, being hailed as one of the biggest trends for next season.
We scoured through every single photo of every single collection that walked this season and found that a startling 70% of the designers who showed during fashion month used fur in at least one look. Does this mean society is ready to embrace fur? Or is the fashion industry just trying to force it on us. We investigate.
Saks and Marc Jacobs Win Big at Fashion 2.0 Awards
They came, they saw, they hashtagged.
The annual Fashion 2.0 Awards (basically the Oscars of fashion social media) celebrates the most popular brand stars on the Web–all of whom congregated at SVA Theatre last night. Now in its fourth year, the award show presents accolades to fashion brands and their social media channels including Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, among others, voted by the general public.
Click through to see the full list of winner, plus why keynote speaker Simon Doonan thinks dogshit and social media are inextricably intertwined.
Wednesday March 13th, 2013
Marc Jacobs Will Never Act Again
Breaking: Marc Jacobs has retired from acting.
