10 Influential Fashion Designers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
It’s curious to wonder why some designer’s legacies are preserved and others fall to the wayside. Is it the lack of PR, no heir to the design house or were they just bad designers?
Fashion History
Tuesday May 14th, 2013
Monday May 6th, 2013
Punk-Era Photographer Dishes on Shooting Sid and Nancy
Photographer Steve Emberton on shooting this famous photo of Sid and Nacy: “We knocked on the door but nobody answered. I knocked a bit louder and still nobody answered and I was beginning to wonder if it was going to happen at all, and I knocked really loud and eventually the door opened and it was Sid and he didn’t have a shirt on or anything. He was just dressed in his leather trousers and he was standing at the door and he let us in and I thought, ‘Oh this isn’t going to be much fun.’”
Only it was.
Friday March 29th, 2013
How the New Ebony Fashion Fair Exhibit Came Together
We chatted with curator Joy Bivins about how new exhibit Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair all came together, from the Ebony Fashion Fair’s cultural significance, to the importance of the exhibition’s “risky” dark-skinned mannequins.
Tuesday March 19th, 2013
Inside FIT’s New Shoe Porn Exhibit
The latest exhibition to take up residency at NYC’s The Museum at FIT is Shoe Obsession, featuring over 150 pieces of contemporary footwear, which also made their way into an accompanying book due out in April. Designers featured include icons like Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutins and relative newcomers like Charlotte Olympia.
Wednesday December 26th, 2012
15 Stories That Changed the Fashion Industry in 2012
From Raf Simons’ appointment at Dior, to Nicolas Ghesquiere’s departure from Balenciaga, and the arrival of several new ‘It’ girls (or ‘It’ felines, anyway), 2012 brought a lot of big changes in the fashion industry. And, of course, we were on hand to report every single one of them.
Tuesday November 27th, 2012
Tits and Tires: The Pirelli Calendar from 1964 to Today
The famed Pirelli calendar, a tradition dating back to 1964, was unveiled today in Brazil–the setting for this year’s calendar shot by photojournalist Steve McCurry. For a calendar that’s become famous for its steamy nudes and titillating full-frontals, McCurry’s work is definitely a departure. In an effort to make this year’s “a ‘calendar of the Read more →
Tuesday August 28th, 2012
Here are the 10 Models Who Have Covered Vogue the Most
This year marks the 120th anniversary of Vogue‘s first-ever issue. Crazy, right? It doesn’t look a day over 15! (Kidding, 16. Hello, health initiative!) So in honor of this massive achievement, the heralded fashion glossy has released a list of the 10 most prominently featured faces on its cover over the past 12 decades. We Read more →
Tuesday August 21st, 2012
Linda Johnson Rice on Mom Eunice Johnson’s Fashion Legacy and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Let’s start with this deliciously descriptive–and dishy–sentence in Cathy Horyn’s recent column in the New York Times about the selection process for Eleanor Lambert’s legendary Best Dressed List. “I sensed that…names were dropped into the ring basically so they could be swatted away.” Horyn was referring to a meeting between Lambert, founder of the International Read more →
Sunday August 5th, 2012
On the 50th Anniversary of Her Death, Here are 10 Celebs Who Have Rocked the ‘Marilyn Monroe’ on the Red Carpet
Since her premature death exactly fifty years ago today, Marilyn Monroe has been like the Bob Dylan of Hollywood: Every new starlet possessing either the curves, candor, or white-blonde locks is considered a contender to fill the void her untimely exit left behind. Few women have come close to filling Marilyn’s impossibly high heels–which were Read more →
Wednesday June 20th, 2012
Supermodel Signatures: What Makes a Model Stand Out From the Crowd
Supermodels are having a resurgence. Our faves from the 80s and 90s are still popping up on runways (Alexander Wang), editorials (Naomi Campbell in W) and campaigns (Linda Evangelista for Chanel eyewear). Doing any one job for 20+ years is pretty impressive, but when it’s a job like modeling, it truly is a feat of Read more →
Thursday June 14th, 2012
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About the Bejeweled Codpiece Tom Cruise Wears in Rock of Ages
Tom Cruise’s latest turn as ’80s musician Stacee Jaxx in the just released Rock of Ages really required the actor to play outside of his usual good guy/hero schtick. Jaxx is a tattooed, womanizing, drug-addled rock god who–are you ready for the best part?–wears a codpiece.
And not just any old codpiece either. Rock stars can’t just purchase their codpieces in Provincetown like everyone else, now can they? No. They can’t. This codpiece was custom made by ‘script-specific prop’-maker Doug Wright. The actual ‘piece,’ which sounds more like a Damien Hirst piece than codpiece, is a devil’s skull, bedazzled with rhinestones, metal studs, silver leaf, and a ruby-rhinestone encrusted tongue. All mounted on a leather jockstrap. Sexy.
Friday June 1st, 2012
In Celebration of Her Birthday, Here’s Marilyn Monroe Posing with Lots and Lots of Cake
For a woman who sadly didn’t live a very long life, Marilyn Monroe sure seemed to eat a lot of cake (as illustrated above). She also managed to become one of the most recognizable and imitated style icons of the last century. Last year’s My Week with Marilyn biopic, with Michelle Williams in the lead Read more →
