Best Coast

During the mud-splattered Governors Ball, we managed to catch up with our favorite crooner, Bethany Cosentino of the California surf pop group, Best Coast. Like the band's sound, her aesthetic has a relaxed West Coast flair with a garage-edge. With an Urban Outfitters collaboration line and a music video directed by Drew Barrymore, this lead singer is no Cali-slacking beach bum. Read on to hear what she had to say about her unique sound and style.

• By Fashionista
  Jun 11, 2013

Losing Vidal Sassoon: The world of beauty suffered a huge loss Wednesday with the passing of hair genius Vidal Sassoon. Join us in remembering some of his most iconic work. We Love Photoshop: Now that Brad Pitt is the new face of Chanel, we put our photoshop skillz to work and came up with other ad campaigns we'd love to see fronted by dudes. Gosling for Dior? Hey girl, j'adore. Anna and Stephen Colbert Make a Date: Proving that she does indeed have a sense of humor, Anna Wintour appeared on the Colbert Report to criticize his boring fashion and to make plans to eat fried shrimp in zebra pants. Scrunchies and London 2012: Olympic hopeful Alicia Sacramone dishes to us about gymnast beauty and why scrunchies are still happening. Au Revoir Carla, Bienvenue Valérie: There are big changes coming to the Elysée along with the first unmarried First Lady of France Valérie Trierweiler, but we will always have a soft spot for Carla's "bling bling" style.

• By Tyler McCall
  May 13, 2012

Best Coast, aka Bethany Cosentino's incredibly catchy, '60s girl group-esque, dreamy pop song-filled, essentially perfect debut album Crazy For You w

• By Dhani Mau
  May 10, 2012

Katy Perry Makes a Funny at PFW: When asked about the revealing mini dress the Smurfette-tressed pop star donned recently in Paris, she replied, "It’s either Vegas hooker or Balmain." And upon meeting Conde Nast chairman Jonathan Newhouse, Katy blurted out, "Newhouse-- much better than old house!" Maybe the windows weren't cracked quite enough during all those blue hair dying sessions, but we can't say we mind the entertainment. {NY Mag} Mila Kunis Shoots for Dior: Mila's on a boat--or should we say, un bateau. The gorg actress and latest face of Dior was spotted looking tres chic as she shot a new campaign for the Parisian fashion house on La Seine. {Telegraph} Alexa Chung Will Host Scottish Fashion Awards: Great Britain's greatest Brit (fashion wise, anyway) is set to bring her quirky-cool brand of humor to the 7th annual Scottish Fashion Awards, in association with InStyle, this June. The awards celebrate the best of Scotch talent, and past honorees have included Christopher Kane, Holly Fulton, and Jonathan Saunders. Here's hoping the program allows for multiple wardrobe changes for Alexa, a la Anne Hathaway at last year's Oscars. {InStyle}

• By Nora Crotty
  Mar 2, 2012

Music—especially the men and women who make it—has served as inspiration in the fashion world for decades, and this year we felt it more than ever. Everywhere we turned, musical muses were popping up in the front rows of runway shows (in some cases, even on the runway), as well as on magazine covers month after month. The fascination fashion has with music must go both ways, because artists have recently stepped up their style game in their music videos as well, wearing pieces from the world's most prestigious fashion houses and custom couture creations that would make even the most snobbish of editors drool. The 2011 crop of music videos featured everything from '90s supermodels to rampant fashion photography references, and we've picked the 15 videos that we believe really stood out in the style department. Which one did you watch on repeat?

• By Alyssa Vingan Klein
  Dec 14, 2011

With just one night and counting before the madness that is Fashion’s Night Out, we’ve already brought you the breakdowns for celeb spotting and scoring an evening’s worth of free food and booze. So it’s a perfect time to discuss the musical performances of the night. But if singing a karaoke duet with A.J. “The Bad One” McLean to “I Want It That Way” or chiming in to a chorus of high-pitched tweenage screams at a Joe Jonas concert would absolutely ruin your reputation, then this is the list (in alphabetical order) for you. Do you just feel more at home quaffing a PBR while checking out a band at Bowery Ballroom/The Bellhouse/the Cake Shop/[insert teeny, sticky-floored music venue here]? You're going to love Fashion's Night Out. Of course, to keep in the spirit of the evening, be sure to do a little shopping, too.

• By Fawnia Soo Hoo
  Sep 7, 2011