Look Be a Lady

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Lady Gaga winks, hunches and uncovers for an editorial in i-D, styled by none other than Nicola Formichetti and lensed by Mariano Vivanco. The trio continue to generally shut shit down, creating arresting images, buzzworthy collections (Gags is wearing Mugler of course) and colossal dance-pop anthems. Theirs is a partnership that harkens back to the days of Yves Saint Laurent and Iman, or Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick or Keith Haring and Grace Jones: artist and muse becoming inseparable in the public conscious and almost interchangeable in their roles. For Mariano, Nicola and Stephanie Germanotta, the whole is greater than sum of its parts.

The Timeline of Fashion Through 10 Movie Favorites

Edited by Nicole Vardo

It doesn’t really matter where you are or where you’re going, what they say is true you can find fashion anywhere, or at least inspiration. From everyday life to the hours of television we might spend watching, throughout time it’s always a good way to go back a couple years and review all the pop-culture and bizarre fashions of our past style movie favorites. From the wicked 90′s fur to crazy six inch flip-flops let the nostalgia or regrets begin!

Chloë Sevigny Knows She’s Cooler Than You – She’s Just Waiting for You to Catch On

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Chloë Sevigny answered 20 questions by noted American periodical, Playboy, and revealed that a.) the 90s were “the last vestige of cool,” b.) she’s irked when people compliment her style and c.) she’s probably never had to pay for her own drugs. I’m not sure which one of those annoys me most..who am I kiddng, it’s the last one.

COLLAB: Lisa Perry Debuts Limited Edition Photo Op Dresses

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

Lisa Perry combines her love of art and fashion in a collaboration with 1960’s famed photographers Nat Finkelstein and Carl Fischer to create a line of limited-edition dresses and t-shirts for both men and women. More…

SPREAD: Vanessa Paradis for Madame Figaro [12 Photos]

Edited by Annabelle Cheesecake, Parisian Princess

Chanel icon Vanessa Paradis is featured in the French magazine Madame Figaro. Shot by Karl Lagerfeld, the spread is titled ‘Factory Story,’ the theme inspired by the relationship between Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick. More after the jump…

RANDOM COOL: The Pipeline and Joshua Covarrubias Show Socialite History

Edited by Schulyr Morgan, Shop Editor

Socialites, or “socials” as they’re called today, have existed for decades and evolved as style and glamourous social life icons.  From Babe Paley to Olivia Palermo, socials are famous for their money, style, connections, and jobs (that is if they even need one)…hey, sounds a bit like me! This mini-spread is really cool, feels a bit like a newspaper, a bit like a yearbook, and breaks down all of the top socialites through the years, up until 2009.

SOURCE: The Pipeline

Style Icon: Edie Sedgwick

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

Maybe one of Andy Warhol’s most famous muses, Edie Sedgwick inspired the fashion world more than anything else. Her short hair, huge earrings and furs, dark eyebrows and ultra-high heels beneath pin thin legs were avant-garde during her generation. Sedgwick’s time at The Factory would inspire fashion for decades to come.

Can FASHION Imitate ART?

Edited by Saynt

…It can if its in a Spring 2009 collection!

We’ve all heard the cliche defense of the fashion-obsessed saying, “Fashion is a form of art!” The usual response is always soaked thoroughly with sarcasm and followed with a turn of the back. But upon reviewing the latest in trends from top designers, and some from those who have yet to burst out on the runway scene, it seems that today designers may be drawing their inspiration from, well…art!

Take a look at the footage from Martin Margiela’s Spring 2009 collection. The faceless models are reminiscent of Salvador Dali’s Mirage painting, in which the human figures are also, faceless. The extreme and exaggerated silhouettes of the jackets are comparable to the angles found in Dali’s Premonition of Civil War. The Surrealist movement in art no doubt played a role in the development of Margiela’s collection. It was that same avant-garde attitude and intriguing yet aesthetic awkwardess that catapulted artists like Salvador Dali and Max Ernst to the walls of MoMA in New York, and is now walking the runways of the world.

Need more? Okay… Remember the Spring 09 of Gaspard Yurkievich in Paris? The use of color in his line was most memorable to me. It was a perfect blend of greys and whites with splashes of color. The same color scheme is reflected in Charles Demuth’s My Egypt. Even the way the lights and camera flashes hit the prism-like shapes of the shoes was reminiscent in the cubist-influenced Demuth.

Designers need not look farther for ideas to inspire and enlighten them than a Modern Art Museum, or at the very least, a library/internet. Do you want an art-inspired look without having to wait for the sample sale? New and upcoming designer Jon Wye can hook you up with his Andy Warhol (pioneered the pop-art movement and cultivated fashion icons like Edie Sedgwick) tribute, in the form of a silkscreen tee shirt ($36, jonwye.com). Now breathe in that fresh new trend smell….and relax!

WRITTEN BY ARIEL (cultindie member)