Opening Ceremony Made a $400 Fur Slap Bracelet Set for Fall 2013
Slap bracelets are back! For real this time, we think.
Carol Lim
Friday March 22nd, 2013
Friday March 15th, 2013
Fashion’s Coolest Duo Humberto Leon and Carol Lim Don’t Think They’re Very Cool at All, Actually
Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have spent the last 10 years becoming the fashion industry’s purveyors of cool, whether through their runaway-hit retail venture Opening Ceremony or their work as creative directors of Kenzo. But if you ask Leon and Lim, their success was just one happy circumstance after another, really.
Monday March 4th, 2013
All Eyes on Kenzo for Fall 2013
With every show that Carol Lim and Humberto Leon put on for Kenzo, they set the bar a little higher. Will the retail geniuses behind Opening Ceremony be able to top that time they sent models down escalators and sent shoppers scrambling for logo sweatshirts and baseball caps? Season after season, they do.
Wednesday February 6th, 2013
Fashionista 50: The Most Influential People in New York Fashion Right Now
To survive in this business, you’ve got to have more than talent. You’ve got to be shrewd, savvy, determined—and a crazy-hard worker.
So here’s our list of the 50 most influential people working in New York fashion right now. To compile the list, we used our own knowledge of the industry combined with advice from inside sources.
Let us know what you think: You’ll find the entire Fashionista 50 list below. Click on the person’s name to read a full bio. And if you really want to click through the whole slideshow, you can do so here.
Fashionista 50: The Slideshow
The Fashionista 50 slideshow. Click through for a bio of each of our picks.
Thursday January 31st, 2013
DKNY Teams Up With Opening Ceremony To Reissue Classic ’90s Pieces
If the return of X-Girl or Bon Qui Qui (for Alexander Wang) is any kind of indication, it seems the fashion industry is not done indulging in ’90s nostalgia. And with today’s news that DKNY is teaming up with the cool kids at Opening Ceremony to reissue 15 styles from from the label’s early ’90s archives, we may have reached ’90s-nostalgia-saturation.
Not that we’re complaining.
Thursday November 29th, 2012
The 25 Best New Books For the Fashion-Obsessed
As a follow up to last year’s fashion book gift guide, we rounded up the best fashion books from 2012, jotted down a little description and pointed you in the right direction of where to buy.
Monday October 1st, 2012
Welcome to Kenzo’s Urban Jungle
Your wardrobe for the urban jungle–plus more of those must-have sweatshirts.
Kenzo Flies in Momofuku Milk Bar Bakers to Make 6000 Tiger-Shaped Cookies for their Paris Show
Kenzo knows the fashion pack has a sweet tooth (even if they talk a big game about their pre-fashion month diets/juice cleanses/fasts).
For their fall show last season, Kenzo creative directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon flew Magnolia’s bakers over to Paris and had individually boxed cupcakes placed on every seat. This season, they were back to their sugary-sweet ways and, obviously, we were psyched.
Monday July 23rd, 2012
First Look: Kenzo’s New Campaign Video Makes Hula Hooping Look Cool
Today Kenzo released a new campaign video featuring the label’s pre-fall 2012 collection. Directed by hot young filmmaker Quentin Jones (the 27-year-old former model also did the fantastic video for the launch of Victoria Beckham’s Victoria line), the video maintains Kenzo’s cool factor–something newly appointed creative directors Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have everything to Read more →
Monday April 9th, 2012
Opening Ceremony Fall 2012: Cute Even Without Cats
Opening Ceremony‘s fall 2012 collection picks up where spring left off. There are no cats and things are a little less flirty and sweetly feminine, but still lots of fun, if a bit more sleek and sophisticated than past collections.
Monday March 5th, 2012
Kenzo Flew In Bakers from NYC’s Magnolia Bakery To Make the Cupcakes for Their Paris Show
At last night’s Kenzo show, rain-soaked guests were treated to a little something sweet to eat, in addition to a fantastic show. A Magnolia cupcake rested on each guest’s seat. More were stacked up at the exit. It’s always so nice when fashion shows feed the fashion people. We really do eat and are usually Read more →
