Name: Olivia Kim
What do you do? I’m the VP of Creative at Opening Ceremony. [At the time this photo was snapped, Kim was still at OC. She's now the Director of Creative Projects for Nordstrom.]
What are you currently obsessed with?
Yoko Ono’s menswear collection for Opening Ceremony was… a lot of things. Wacky? Sure. Difficult to pull off? Definitely. But, unoriginal? That seemed unlikely.
However, Brooklyn-based designer Haleh Nematzadeh thought Ono’s designs looked a little too familiar. She’s gone so far as to file a lawsuit against Ono this past Friday, claiming the 80-year-old artist conspired with Opening Ceremony to steal her designs.
Wanna learn the secrets to Pinterest fame? Just ask designer Peter Som, who has an insane 3.3 million-person-strong Pinterest following. {The Business of Fashion}
Mario Testino makes Kate Moss “L’Étoile de Lima” for Vogue Paris’s April 2013 Peru special edition. Under-boob ahoy… {Design Scene}
Is Lily Aldridge a street style copycat? The model and Victoria’s Secret Angel steps out in a Givenchy maxi dress styled almost the exact same way Kim Kardashian did it three weeks earlier. {US Weekly}
This seems weird… even for Maison Martin Margiela: The mysterious fashion house’s latest collaboration is with G-Shock watches. {Highsnobiety}
Slap bracelets are back! For real this time, we think.
They should probably just give Yoko Ono her own TV channel.
Here’s everything that is inspiring us this month!
When was the last time you saw Rihanna not looking incredible? Ok, druggy Instagram pics excluded. We can’t remember and that’s all thanks to her current stylist Mel Ottenberg.
Last night, at Opening Ceremony’s launch of Rihanna for River Island and a RIHtrospective of Rihanna’s best looks, we caught up with Ottenberg to chat about how he came to be Rihanna’s stylist, his inspiration for her look, and what he thinks about her detractors.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Silver Linings Playbook sports bra sold at auction for $3,175. Responsible spending at its finest! {HuffPo}
Rih-wind! In addition to carrying Rihanna’s River Island line, Opening Ceremony in New York will host an exhibit of the popstar’s seven most memorable outfits evah. {WWD}
Just try not to turn your head/computer sideways while looking at Vogue Italia’s March cover. {Vogue Italia}
A running start: Nike has pledged $50 million towards Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move! Active Schools” initiative. {WWD}
Day four of NYFW was basically heaven on earth. In the past 12 hours, we saw Chloe Sevigny modeling her own collection for Opening Ceremony, Alexander Wang prove that he’s got the skills for Wanglenciaga Balenciaga, and went backstage at all the shows including Wang, Prabal Gurung, Louise Goldin, and more.
Click through to see everything we saw!
These bags will help us look good and do our job anytime of the year, even when it’s not Fashion Week.
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.
Rihanna’s going phresh out the runway next month at London Fashion Week (and no–we don’t fully understand what that means either)!
River Island’s just announced that it’ll be showing its upcoming design collab with the Barbadian beaut at an “event” on February 16, smack in the middle of LFW.
