Supermodels are having a resurgence. Our faves from the 80s and 90s are still popping up on runways (Alexander Wang), editorials (Naomi Campbell in W) and campaigns (Linda Evangelista for Chanel eyewear). Doing any one job for 20+ years is pretty impressive, but when it’s a job like modeling, it truly is a feat of Read more →
Alice Temperley Wants A Longer LFW: The Pippa fave feels London Fashion Week–which, at five days, is the shortest of the major four–should be extended. Says Ms. Temperley, “London’s better than New York Fashion Week now.” Alright, now tell us how you really feel! {Telegraph}
McCartney’s Collab for NYC Ballet: Stella McCartney has designed the costumes for a new ballet opening Thursday with a score penned by her dear old dad Paul. The designer feels collaborating with your father is “emotional” for anybody, but that “on another side, I know and understand I am working with Paul McCartney.” {WWD}
Fashion and Fantasy Mix in New Shopping Technology: “Augmented Realities” are growing in popularity on online shopping sites, where the obvious lack of trying-before-buying has always been a major problem. New and improved AR apps generally involve live feeds and 3-D imagery, allowing users to “try on” clothes, makeup, glasses… and grow horns?? {NY Times}
Isaac Mizrahi Won’t Show At NYFW: The designer filmed a video blog revealing that he’ll be putting out a lookbook instead of a runway show. He thinks it sounds “more modern… for about one second” and jokes that “next season we’ll be planning our fabulous Lollapalooza fashion show in 3D.” {Isaac Mizrahi}
Charlotte Gainsbourg’s New EP And Music Video: The Balenciaga muse’s third album, Terrible Angels EP, will come out September 6; until then, sate your hunger with this crazy cool video that includes Gainsbourg clones doing a choreographed dance routine. {Pitchfork}
Karl Lagerfeld Announces New Perfume, Karleidescope: I would buy this just for the semi-ridiculous name, but it also sounds intriguing: it’s “ultra feminine” with notes of violet, patchouli, angelica and freesia that supposedly smell different on each woman. { French Vogue}
Few trends have as long a shelf life as mod, though it could be because this ’60s trend is the style that never actually goes out of style.
In 1995, Marc Jacobs told Vogue that the sixties was the most “modern period in fashion,” and that “if I saw those clothes walking down the street today, I would say they looked modern, experimental and classic.” This was, of course, during a time when mod was having yet another resurgence, but the point remains. A shift dress never seems to go the way of the Dodo.
The ’60s youthquake hit fall collections like Prada, Burberry Prorsum, Alberta Ferretti, and Jil Sander, showing clean lines, bright colors and the occasional crazy headgear. Fashion editors are translating them to magazine pages at an alarming rate, and we can’t get enough of it.
Last fall saw a focus on the 50s bombshell, while the present takes inspiration from Twiggy. Is the 70s set for next year? Time will tell on that one, but for now click through to take a look at some of the standout mod editorials for fall.
My look today is Virgin Suicides meets Twiggy! Right now I’m into a long, flowing, flower-power vibe. –Elle Fanning in an August Vogue story (her second Vogue appearance this year) about her and her sister Dakota called “Teen Dreams.”
You know a show’s bad when you can’t wait for it to be over, especially when it’s only seven minutes long. Unfortunately, that’s the way Matthew Williamson went yesterday. It wasn’t all his fault though. The ridiculous heat – sweat poured off front row faces including Olivia Palermo, Cecilia Dean, Twiggy, Yasmin LeBon, Leigh Lezark, Read more →
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We’ve still got about a month to go before London Fashion Week begins, so this is sure to not be the last of this sort of announcement, but Sass & Bide will be yet another of the lines returning to show in London this season. Designers Sarah-Jane Clark and Heidi Middleton, who live in Sydney, Read more →
Now You See It: Photographer Greg Kadel shot an editorial titled Come As You Are for Australian Vogue and released an early shot to models.com. In the actual magazine, they’ve airbrushed out Abbey Lee & Cat McNeil’s nipple rings. So, the title’s kind of funny. {Frockwriter} About That: Those Sex and the City auditions were Read more →
Kate Winslet is known for lashing out against magazines that Photoshop her body, and now another British beauty’s retouchings have people feeling uncomfortable. The images of Twiggy’s smooth face in recent Olay Definity (an anti-aging cream) advertisements have moved members of the Parliament to call for action, which we learned about thanks to our friends Read more →
Tomorrow is the party/auction in London that many have been looking forward to – in large part because we know what great party people the hosts Sass and Bide are. Not to mention charitable. Sass and Bide have asked ten of their favorite people to interpret what the evening’s theme “Shine” means to them by Read more →
Dolled Up: There exist in the world 25 Terry Richardson action figures. Sometimes things are just so right. {Refinery29 via Slamhype} Shine On: What does “shine” mean to Twiggy, Mischa, and Kate? Sass & Bide knows. Now you can too. {Vogue UK} More Puppies! Modelinia continues to fill the void left in my life by Read more →
