Following in the footsteps of the annual CFDA/Lexus Eco-Fashion Challenge (now in its third year), the CFDA has taken another step towards making fashion more sustainable.
Today, the CFDA has announced the creation of the first-ever sustainability committee.
Picture this: You’re 20. A student at FIT, Pratt, or Parsons. You’re obsessed with fashion. So obsessed, in fact, that you’ve started a Tumblr dedicated to your favorite corner of the fashion world: models, photography, or menswear. You’ve gained a bit of recognition in the Tumblr community. And you’re sitting in Lela Rose’s TriBeCa loft, in her gorgeous wood-paneled dining room, eating a meal she’s cooked herself off of mix-and-match plating she’s picked up here and there over the years.
Sounds like dream come true, right? Well, Monday morning it became a reality for several of Tumblr’s biggest fashion users.
Just moments ago, we stopped by our neighbors’ (our office building is around the corner from the CFDA) to hear Diane von Furstenberg and Nadja Swarovski announce this year’s nominees for the coveted CFDA Awards. Read on to find out who they are!
As part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, NEDA and the Model Alliance co-hosted a panel at Pace University last night, called “Inside the Modeling Industry: A Conversation About Health and Beauty in Fashion.”
It was a complex and personal discussion for the models present.
We’re approaching the home stretch of New York Fashion Week, which means many of our attitudes have shifted from excited and energetic to when-will-this-be-over? So, we asked some of fashion’s busiest bees to tell us what they do to stay sane (and no we don’t mean pharmaceuticals–though those certainly aren’t off-limits). From Jenna Lyons’ many coats, to BryanBoy’s cathartic Instagramming, click through for their (and our) tips and tricks!
Yay, more fashion weeks!
Here’s everything you need to know about the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund x Nordstrom collab and why it’s a good idea.
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.
The Fashionista 50 slideshow. Click through for a bio of each of our picks.
Not one but two ‘fashion hackathons’–one hosted by the CFDA and IMG and the other by Hearst–will take place during this coming New York fashion week. This news is pretty surprising when you consider that most fashion people probably don’t even know what a hackathon is.
To explain what a hackathon is, why it’s happening during New York fashion week, and what this means for the industry, we spoke with Liz Bacelar, founder of Decoded Fashion, an organization that creates events dedicated to bringing fashion and tech together. Bacelar, along with former Lincoln Center fashion director (and, before that, director of special events at Vogue) Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, made the CFDA/IMG fashion hackathon (an official part of NYFW) happen.
Israel’s new law banning too-skinny models from appearing in advertisements went into effect yesterday. Even before Israel’s law passed, both Madrid and Milan banned models with a BMI under 18.5 from their fashion weeks. In New York, however, no such strict restrictions have been issued; and according to CFDA CEO Steven Kolb, none will.
The Jolie-Pitt clan is apparently spending the holidays at Donna Karan’s private resort compound in Turks & Caicos with a small mid-sized army of nannies. {NY Post}
Turns out that very few female Mac users wear skirts (and other fascinating figures you’ve been dying to know). {HuffPo}
Get some celebrity style inspo from Gwyneth and Nicole for that upcoming New Year’s Eve shindig! {UsWeekly}
