We thought the holiday season was the perfect time to spread a little love throughout the fashion industry–but since we don’t see Hedi Slimane sending Cathy Horyn a Christmas card anytime soon, we decided to use our imaginations.
Saskia de Brauw on working with Hedi Slimane, not realizing the campaign they were shooting was for menswear, and getting mistaken for a man. Read on.
Saint Laurent Paris has released its first menswar campaign under new creative director Hedi Slimane. It stars Chanel favorite Saskia de Brauw (who is also, der, a woman).
The fashion press has pissed off YSL yet again.
Keeping up this year’s trend of open letters between fashion’s power players, YSL CEO Paul Deneve wrote a not-so-favorable one to WWD, which the trade published today. Oh and he threw in a little dig to Cathy Horyn as well.
The day after PPR announced Balenciaga’s split with the brand’s creative director of 15 years, Nicolas Ghesquière, there are of course already rumors circulating about who might replace him.
News of Nicolas Ghesquiere’s departure from Balenciaga seemed to surprise everyone from Style.com, whose feature about him in their new print magazine offers no real clues, to Cathy Horyn, who just offered up some insight as to why Ghesquière may have decided to leave.
While Ghesquière declined comment, Horyn spoke to “a number of individuals, who requested anonymity because of their dealings with PPR,” who confirmed speculation that Ghesquière has been frustrated with Balenciaga and PPR.
Beyoncé hit the town this weekend wearing a very unique pair of earrings supporting her favorite presidential candidate. Hey, does anyone else get the feeling she’s voting for Obama? {HuffPo}
Mathilde Castello Branco has stepped down from her position as creative director of Azzaro, after only a year at the label. Branco’s next movement is not yet known, and while there’s no word yet on who will replace her, Azzaro released a statement saying they will “shortly be announcing her successor.” Stay tuned.{Vogue UK}
This strikes us as highly unlikely, but apparently supermodel Kate Moss is helping One Direction hottie Harry Styles decorate his new place after he rang up asking her for help. (Harry, I once interned for an interior designer – just throwing that out there.) {Sugarscape}
What is more distracting on the red carpet: the white makeup powder on Jon Hamm’s face or his, erm, visible bulge? {The Cut}
One of the many details about Hedi Slimane’s Saint Laurent debut in Paris that had everyone buzzing was the fact that Slimane had cast several relatively unknown models as exclusives and kept them a secret until the runway show.
Now that Paris Fashion Week and the drama-filled fallout are behind us, one of those models gave an interview to The Cut about how she was plucked from relative obscurity to fly to Paris to hang out and “work with” Hedi Slimane for several weeks leading up to the show. Her name is Louise Parker and she hales from Minnesota. Here’s what else we learned.
Here are some of our (super easy) suggestions for being a Halloween style star, on the street and in the party, with inspiration from some of our favorite fashion icons (yes, you, Choupette):
Or, the perfect Halloween costume if you want to pair up with a fashion obsessed buddy and sluttily represent the fashion “beef” of 2012. Bonus points if you have a friend who looks like Hedi Slimane.
Well that was fast. With the exception of Gwyneth Paltrow’s mysterious Hedi Slimane-designed handbag, it seems Lady Gaga is the first celebrity to don a full look from the spring 2013 Saint Laurent collection which debuted on the runway exactly one week ago (can you believe how much s**t has gone down in a week?).
Could this be a white flag in the on-going dispute between designer Hedi Slimane and critic Cathy Horyn?
Slimane has removed all his tweets about Cathy Horyn, including the original open letter. There is no explanation left in it’s place, so we’re left to wonder what motivated the designer to delete them at all.
