Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Fashion is a trip. But some fashion is trippier than others. It’s those distinct looks in a collection that make your eyes pop a little wider as they expand your consciousness to accept grander philosophies of the universe. This season was rife with designers experimenting with wild menswear, and we’re glad to see the rougher sex getting freaky with the Avant Garde.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
If you’ve ever been inside of Walter Van Bierendonck‘s Paris studio, you may be more equipped to make sense of his Fall 2012 collection titled “Lust Never Sleeps”. If you haven’t stood witness to his collection of banners with anime versions of himself riding on rainbows, mushrooms and male nether-regions, nor his future final resting grounds of a cartoon sarcophagus and his ode to all the boys, drugs and fashion a.k.a. things he loves, this trompe-l’oeil culture clashing runway journey may blow your mind.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
With a trick of the eye, les parisiens have presented dazzling and dizzying looks thus far this week. See what designers like Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens, Balenciaga, Mugler and others are doing to make you do a double take.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
While she is no longer the editrice of Vogue Paris, Carine Roitfeld is still turning it out, now on her own terms. In her latest project, she styled the Barneys lookbook, gathering a collection of werqing women that move her, and dressed them in that way that made French Vogue so epic. Here, we’ve taken five of our favorite looks and (though we’d love to go to Barneys for them, a. these pieces are not available online, and b. pshh we wish) found their essences for less.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
The world may not have ended, but the skies of Manhattan have sunken down into a rainy stupor leaving our spirits a little dampened. We got a respite on Saturday with sun glorious sun, but we’re back in the gray with impending downpours on the way. Alleviate some of the soak with more than an umbrella. We’re in raincoat territory now.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
Memorial Day is quickly approaching, which means it’s time to break out the white pants and shoes, right? At FashionIndie, we don’t care about those idiotic rules and wear whatever we want all the time. But the coming of summer does mean a lighter closet as we stow away greys and browns to make room for whites and brights. If last season’s pieces are looking a little over-worn, check out the guide below and snag our top 15 favorites for a white hot summer.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Speaking of Blake Lively, what in holy Chanel is she wearing on the cover of Elle? Granted it’s Elle Belgique, but that’s no excuse – Belgium is practically the motherland of avant garde! Hello Margiela, Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, et all. And they’ve got her in Georgia May Jagger for Hudson jeans and a wife beater?? I’m disgusted.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Rei Kawakubo, the brilliant mind behind Comme des Garçons, is typically almost as quiet as Martin Margiela. However, there being nothing typical about her, she’s let WWD into her black-clad world. She talks about her new Beijing store, what new designers are doing wrong, and the growing strain to create something undeniably new.
