"Sexiness" on the runways doesn't reflect the way the world is evolving, and the industry needs to reconsider how it's conceiving and selling perceptions of women back to them.
The new Maison Chloé in Paris is a renovated, private, five-floor mansion of marble fireplaces, stained-glass windows, and herringbone floors. It hosts the label’s showrooms and archives, including a public pocket history of iconic designs from the label’s 65-year legacy. The new space also features rotating temporary exhibitions, a program that debuts with “Femininities — Guy Bourdin.”
The New Yorker behind cult brand Slow and Steady Wins the Race discusses her new production-as-performance project, now on show in a converted Paris metalworks factory.
American critic Robin Givhan is a seasoned fashion insider, but not one who caters to fashion devotees. Nor does she shy away from providing tough love or outright criticism when the fashion industry lacks perspective.
How would a literary icon of the past navigate today's world? The website The Slanted Life of Emily Dickinson explores just that question by teasing out aspects of the poet's life with humor and insight.
Diana Vreeland may be remembered most for her work as the editor-in-chief of Vogue and legendary sense of style, but now her grandson, Alexander Vreeland, is bringing other senses into the equation. He's launched Diana Vreeland Parfums, a five-scent collection that goes on sale at Bergdorf Goodman and Colette this week.
In the year and a half since its opening, The Broken Arm in Paris has become a magnet for the same mix of industry creatives that frequent influential concept stores like Colette thanks to its focused buys aimed at ‘style longevity.’
Simon Porte Jacquemus is a 24-year-old self-taught designer who started his own label at age 19. Born in Salon-de-Provence in southeastern France, he has worked his way forward wholly independently, and now has his own studio just off the Place des Vosges.
This month in Granville, Normandy, marks the opening of the newest exhibition at the The show is a selection of garments and photographs from the 1940s through today, each featuring Dior clothes from across the decades, which coincide with the rise of fashion photography.
The Musée de la Contrefaçon - the Museum of Counterfeiting - sits inside an ornate hôtel particulier in Paris's 16th Arrondissement. In the 1920s, it was the property of a rich American heiress but - after being damaged in World War II - became the property of Gaston-Louis Vuitton (grandson of guess who?).
"In the world of the fashion industry, I feel like a lumberjack or something," Jean Touitou said of his modest Fall/Winter presentation amidst elaborate Paris Fashion Week shows. But as he reminded the audience gathered in his 6 th arrondissement headquarters, "ready-to-wear is something you're supposed to be wearing on the street, and not fancy dresses."
Search for any word in the dictionary and what is the first Google Image that comes up? Two designers have done just that and put the results in a new art book. They speak to Sarah Moroz about the images that define us.