Fei Fei Sun’s Guide to Shanghai and Designers to Watch

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

About three years ago, Fei Fei Sun was just a gal about China, hangin’ with her boyfriend in Shanghai. Several Paris Fashion Week video viewings later, and she’s got the bug to wear it all; to be there in it. Fortunately her razor sharp jawline and chameleon abilities have allowed just that and she skyrocketed her to the fashion stratosphere.. Her first season out, she walked 30 shows without knowing a lick of English. Which I suppose proves the point that you can get by on just your good looks (and in this case, polite, intuitive silence and a fearsome smize). If you turn the tables and find yourself in Shanghai without knowing a damn word in Chinese, check what Fei Fei Sun advises you eat, see and shop in her city.

Ooh-La-Lara Stone Dominates Fall Magazine Covers

Edited by Samantha Lim

Fresh into her roles as the face of Calvin Klein and Tom Ford Beauty, Lara Stone is the model of the moment.  She is looking fierce on the cover of not one, but 5 fall fashion magazines.  Check out the gallery below for her wildly imaginative, uber seductive looks.  

I’m Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. Testino: The 10 Most Editorial Actresses

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Anna Wintour has been credited/blamed/lauded/criticized for the current proliferation of celebrity-driven magazine covers of the past 15 years or so. Love it or hate it, a model has a better chance winning a Pulitzer than landing a U.S. Vogue cover — with a few notable exceptions. While stars are rightfully and contractually beautiful, however, not all of them can cut the couture mustard. Then there are those ladies who love the camera and the camera is kind of obsessed with them. Here, the 10 actresses who give the best editorial — and give models a run for their money — are given the countdown treatment. 

i-D Magazine Paints the Town

Edited by Megan Turley

Harry Goodwins (Ford), Matthew Hitt (Wilhelmina), and Patrick O’Donnell (Models 1) mug playfully for this fantastically colorful spread for i-D Magazine, shot by Haruki Horikawa.

Hans Feurer back in VOGUE Paris

Edited by Benjamin Kanarek

by: Frédérique Renaut of Benjamin Kanarek Blog

Emmanuelle Alt © Garance Doré

Emmanuelle Alt is writing her own ticket for VOGUE Paris. I was not expecting a fundamental change in the Editorial Direction being that she has been the Fashion Director of the magazine for over ten years and collaborating with Carine Roitfeld. Thus the assumption that there would be little change from the status quo.

What do Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears have to do with Fashion and the Big Celebrity Boom?

Edited by Benjamin Kanarek

From Benjamin Kanarek Blog

Celebrities and Fashion have always been synonymous. However, today more than ever, fashion magazines are featuring more celebrities than immigrants trying to get into the USA for their Green Card. In many cases these highly regarded magazines are using celebrities more often than Super Models for their covers. There are many reasons for this and in my opinion some of those decisions have more to do with the Politics of Fashion than the notoriety of the Celebrity.

Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fierce

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Jourdan Dunn and Karlie Kloss, or Jourlie as they’re apparently known…somewhere,  tag team a sexy photoshoot for i-D‘s “Exhibitionist Issue,” shot by Kayt Jones.

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.