Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The Council of Fashion Designers of America had their bi-annual meeting this week where they elected three new designers to their board: Marc Jacobs and Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Actresses and female filmmakers threw on some Calvin Klein and converged at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Monday night for Elle magazine’s annual “Women in Hollywood” event. Twas a mutual admiration society as Barbra Streisand, Michelle Pfeiffer, Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow, Laura Dern, Viola Davis, Naomi Watts, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston mingled with the new kids on the block, including Evan Rachel Wood, Freida Pinto, Elizabeth Olsen, Amanda Heard and Chloe Moretz.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Welcome to our month of Fashion Education. To start you off in the right direction, let’s examine your choice of design university, or more importantly, the fashion schools of choice. Certain alma maters produce an exceptional level of talent, consistently. Let us see where you stand, and who stands out as your alumni and professors. (Note: we are only looking at schools that speak English. Paris has burned.)
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Looks like the CFDA Awards will be a star-studded affair, featuring celebrity’s on stage, in the audience and, most importantly, drunk and sloppy on the red carpet.
Edited by Samantha Lim
Last night FashionIndie helped celebrate the debut of the Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize, a $40,000 endowment to help young designers establish their brand. The winning designer also gets an expenses paid presentation during Paris Fashion Week at the Plaza Athenee. (Get on it young designers, there are only a few weeks left to apply!)
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
The future blue facial hue created quite a buzz back at during Fashion Week Spring 2010, think Alexander McQueen. And obviously when you think McQueen, you think Gaga. And right now you’re thinking of her new freak-flag-flying jaw-hitting-floor-worthy Born This Way video in which she’s a glorious being from the future whose facial features are highly pronounced, jutting out and glowing. I am perplexed and in love.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Hilary Swank is doing what now, WWD? Starting her own clothing brand? I want to be upset, furious at the world for turning another actress into a fashion designer! I want to shake her and explain that just because she can be an emotionally tampered cross-dressing lesbian, a struggling waitress turned amateur boxer, and an adolescent lady ninja, doesn’t mean she can also be a fashion designer!
Edited by The Fashion Web
Lara Stone and Calvin Klein have made history together. This is the first time the American house chose one model for all three brands: Calvin Klein Collection, Calvin Klein Jeans, and ck Calvin Klein. Go Lara! “I have a long history with the Calvin Klein brand, and so it was wonderful to work with the house again this year. It’s like being part of a family,” said the model. As for creative director Francisco Costa’s feelings? “For me, Lara was the perfect choice for the new campaign because she is a woman who epitomizes confidence and sensuality.” We’ll second that. Below are sneak peeks at Calvin Klein’s three Fall campaigns starring Lara.
