Pitti Guest Designers Revealed
The guest designers for June’s Pitti Uomo and Pitti W in Florence have been officially announced.
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Tuesday April 16th, 2013
Tuesday February 26th, 2013
Kim Kardashian Covers Cosmo, Another Controversial ‘Blackface’ Fashion Spread, and Madewell’s Spring Denim Look Book
Model Ondria Hardin can’t seem to stay away from controversy: Her “African Queen” spread for Numéro has many accusing the mag of using blackface. {HuffPo}
Can baring your lady parts make you more confident? The Large Labia Project thinks it will (yea, that’s a thing). {The Cut}
Shailene Woodley dyed her locks red for The Amazing Spiderman 2–guess who she’s playing? {US Weekly}
Kim Kardashian covers April’s Cosmopolitan and tells the glossy about her growing empire. {Cosmo}
Wednesday January 16th, 2013
The Top 5 Street Style Trends from the Men’s Shows and How To Steal Them
The traveling menswear circus kicked off last week in London for the city’s inaugural men’s fashion week, moved to Florence for prestigious menswear tradeshow Pitti Uomo, then on to Milan, and is currently wrapping up in Paris. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from covering Pitti Uomo and perusing Tommy Ton’s street style shots for GQ during the men’s shows, it’s that the boys love to preen and peacock outside the show venues just as much as the girls.
But what we like about taking in men’s street style is that there seems to be more of an emphasis on styling rather than the “it-items” we see proudly paraded around during the womenswear shows. It’s a cuff rolled just-so with crazy colored socks showing underneath. Or a double-breasted blazer tailored to perfection with gloves hanging out of the breast pocket. Or sneakers and a Supreme hat worn with a more tailored look. More often than not, we get styling tips for ourselves.
Friday January 11th, 2013
Maison Kitsuné Puts On Its First Ever Fashion Show at Pitti W
FLORENCE–Despite having a cult following of cool kids, being stocked at Colette and Opening Ceremony, and just this year opening a store to much buzz in New York’s NoMad hotel, 10-year-old French/Japanese record label/fashion brand Maison Kitsuné had never put on a fashion show until last night.
Kenzo Mixes Food and Fashion at Pitti Uomo
FLORENCE–Food might be just as important as fashion for Carol Lim and Humberto Leon.
The hit-makers behind Opening Ceremony and, since fall 2012, Parisian house Kenzo, always find a way to incorporate food into their presentations. (For their very first Kenzo womenswear show they flew Magnolia bakers from New York to Paris to make sure every guest had a cupcake on his/her seat.) So when Pitti Uomo came calling to ask Kenzo to be the featured menswear designer at the prestigious trade show, Lim and Leon went with their guts.
Thursday January 10th, 2013
Andrea Pompilio Finally Launches Womenswear
FLORENCE–Menswear aficionados will know the name Andrea Pompilio. He’s been “one to watch” since he won Pitti Uomo’s prestigious Who’s On Next design competition in 2011, and has been showing his menswear collections to critical acclaim during Pitti Uomo in Florence ever since.
Readers of this site might not be familiar with Pompilio’s work but now he’s given us ladies reason to take notice. Yesterday he presented his first ever womenswear collection.
Finally.
Wednesday December 26th, 2012
Suzy Menkes to Be Honored at Pitti Uomo With Prestigious Italian Award
After all that hate Cathy Horyn received earlier this year, it’s nice to hear news of a fashion critic actually getting some appreciation: Suzy Menkes, renowned fashion critic for the International Herald Tribune, will receive the Fiorino d’Oro during the upcoming Pitti Uomo, WWD is reporting.
Thursday October 25th, 2012
Heidi Klum’s Halloween Costume Revealed, Dame Judi Dench’s Neck Tattoo, and Lady Gaga’s ‘Mouthy’ New Editorial
Kenzo and Maison Kitsune will be the next guest designers at Pitti Uomo and Pitti W, respectively. {WWD, subscription required}
Taylor Swift and boyfriend Conor Kennedy have reportedly split, which is a bummer for them, but it can only mean another awesome breakup anthem for us to jam out to. {Us Weekly}
Oh look: Lady Gaga is crawling out of a giant mouth in this editorial for Harper’s Bazaar Spain, shot by Steven Klein. {ONTD}
Every year Heidi Klum goes all out for Halloween, and this year she’s giving us a look at how it gets done. Take a peek at this video of her not-quite-finished Cleopatra costume. {AOL}
Tuesday June 26th, 2012
Street Style Special Edition: The Men (and Women!) of Pitti Uomo by Mister Mort
For the second season in a row, we’ve dispatched men’s street style photographer Mordechai Rubinstein of Mister Mort to capture the spectacular men’s style on display at Florence menswear trade show Pitti Immagine Uomo. We’ve already told you about the dominant trends we saw there last week (and how to wear them yourself). The reason Read more →
Thursday June 21st, 2012
Peter Pilotto Tricks Out a Florentine Palazzo in Digital Prints for Pitti Uomo
FLORENCE–For their presentation as the guest womenswear designers at Pitti W, Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos geeked out. In the very best way. The London-based designers are known for their prints and this season (their second ever resort collection) they went in a decidedly more high-tech direction, creating patterns using a specially-designed computer program. Read more →
Tuesday January 17th, 2012
Street Style: The Boys (and Girls) of Pitti, Captured by Mister Mort
If you thought fashion girls were the only ones who liked to peacock and pose in their on-season finest on their way into shows, think again. The boys of Pitti give them a run for their money and then some. I thought nothing could top the scene outside the Tuileries at Paris Fashion Week–the hoards Read more →
Friday January 13th, 2012
Valentino Mens Fall 2012: The Label Returns to Florence at Pitti Uomo
FLORENCE–”We’ve had a long love affair with Valentino,” Raffaello Napoleone, CEO of Pitti Immagine told me following Valentino’s menswear show in Florence this week (Valentino made his international debut in Florence in 1962). “Of course we already had a relationship in the past with Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti and we have done things with them in the past but that has totally changed…We started following the work of the new designers and waited for the moment when they were ready to launch a menswear line. Now we have seen their two menswear presentations and we decided the moment was right to launch the line.”
And what a launch it was.
