PARIS–Look at the cult around Vogue or Purple: Magazines today are institutions, with their own admirers and followers. No wonder they’re also becoming the life and soul of Parisian nightlife. Increasingly, brands are pairing up with hip publications to ensure a successful event.
One day before the end of Paris Fashion Week, we put on our blue suede shoes and went out, wined and dined by various magazines.
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The Tierry Mugler label, revived in 2008, is rumored to be shopping for a new creative director. The status of current artistic director Rosemary Rodriguez is unknown.
WWD reports that Gareth Pugh is the front-runner for the position, which is understandable and probably true. Pugh’s dramatic silhouettes and unconventional designs reject the traditional conception of ready-to-wear and flirt with the idea of fashion as art, much like Mugler did in the late ’70s and ’80s. Pugh is also a responsible choice since he is only 29 years old, the perfect age for a position that Mugler’s owners will expect him to fill for at least ten to fifteen years.
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The printed tote. The logo tee. These are items that many luxury brands create to keep the public going gaga over their pricier goods. Creating trinkets, tees, totes, and more helps keep brands in the public eye; more people can afford a Marc Jacobs key ring than a collection dress.
That said, a lot of luxury brands’ special items still sell at a high price (see Chanel’s bike), and exist to give a greater meaning to the term “lifestyle brand.”
Either way, there are tons of special items created by our favorite designers that we regularly obsess over and attempt to pool our funds to buy. Click through to see the best of what we think constitutes the “fashionable life.”
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LONDON– The most highly anticipated graduate show in fashion, London’s Central St. Martins College of Art served up 40 of its most promising talents to industry recruiters, buyers and press last night. With inflating Helmut Newton inspired pieces and a show-closing collection modeled on stilts, this was undoubtedly one for the books.
Alumni Gareth Pugh and Jean-Pierre Braganza sat shoulder to shoulder with art world heavies including the ever-colorful Grayson Perry and even Met Costume Institute director Harold Koda was caught wide-eyed and grinning.
Judges included designer Marios Schwab, Hilary Alexander from The Telegraph and fashion film maker Kathryn Ferguson. Winners were presented with cash awards up to ₤1,000 from Fashion Fringe, now in its seventh year supporting emerging designers. L’Oreal was also on deck celebrating its 10th year in collaboration with St. Martins.
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Whether it was from exhaustion or elation, a few tears were shed and a tantrum or two thrown inside talent incubator Central St. Martins this past Monday.
Why the brouhaha? The 40 graduates who’ll make it into the final press show next Tuesday–the one that’s covered by everyone from Fashionista to Style.com to Vogue UK–were chosen. And while about 80 students were left behind, most of the creations shown in Monday’s preliminary trial were anything but forgettable.
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A Match Made in Paris: Colette’s Sarah Lerfel loves Tommy Ton—so much so that she decided to display his favorite streetstyle photos from AW10 on an entire wall of her store. Ton says that the best place to capture these moments is in the Tuileries in Paris. {Blasblog} McQ News: Gareth Pugh will not be [...]
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Just weeks after Alexander McQueen’s death, there are already rumors circulating about who will replace him. Gareth Pugh is the first name to pop up, and from an aesthetic standpoint it makes sense. The challenge of taking over an established house is that the new designer must capture the essence of the house, while still [...]
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If you know anything about Gareth Pugh, you know this: he needs to add wearable clothes to his stage-worthy outfits. Last night, he did. In the Palais de Tokyo, he showed leather jackets that even my mom would wear. If they looked a little too Rick, Owens sat front row and didn’t seem to mind. [...]
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Nick Knight is really never at a loss for cool projects, is he? The enterprising photographer, whose ShowStudio is seriously keeping the rest of fashion on its toes, has now teamed up with Mercedes-Benz and Gareth Pugh for a new ad, according to WWD. Knight shot the ads featuring Mercedes latest sports coupe and was [...]
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More news on the ShowStudio front. (Is Nick Knight the busiest man in fashion, or what?) Come Christmas, the ShowStudio Shop will present a rare assortment of accessories and items designed by some of London’s finest. Jewelry and accessory designer Fred Butler will decorate the shop’s Christmas tree with a selection of her unique hairpieces, [...]
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If we’ve been gushing over ShowStudio lately, it’s because we wish we were in London working for Nick Knight or even just bringing his coffee to Somerset House. Almost every week comes word of a new project, a new idea or a new partner. Though Knight shoots for iD all the time, now the magazine’s [...]
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It’s one thing to watch a fashion documentary that peeks inside a designer’s studio – Unzipped, Lagerfeld Confidential – and a very different thing to stand over a designer while he or she builds something from scratch. Gareth Pugh‘s moving into the studio space within ShowStudio’s Bruton Street shop in London on Friday. He’ll be [...]
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