Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Whether its supermodels posing on the sleeve, renowned photographers behind the lens or just rock stars banging anything that catwalks, music and fashion have long been intimate bedfellows. Here, 30 iconic album covers with a delightfully high fashion twist.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s annual Costume Institute Gala is tirelessly referred to as the Oscars of fashion and it certainly ranks as the industry’s glitziest and most glamorous night. But unlike the Oscars red carpet, where actresses willfully play it safe for fear of a career-defining performance on the worst dressed list, at the Met Gala the balls are to the haute couture wall. This is Fashion with a capital effin’ F. Sometimes the results are truly stunning and other times they’re…how can I put this gently…god-awful. Let’s take a look back at the Met Gala’s greatest hits and misses.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Alice McCall knows what women want to wear right now. Sheer palazzo pants, bold prints over bright stripes, prairie-leaning leather shorts and bell sleeves with eyelets have landed her in over 165 stores in 10 countries. This Aussie got her fashionable start in London working for MTV styling the Stylissimo series, where she got the opportunity to dress Natalie Imbruglia. From there she launched her own styling firm Torn and thus has worked with lady powerhouses like Kelis, Destiny’s Child , Blondie and Marianne Faithful. During this time, she started selling her one-off 50s inspired silk print tops that were snatched up by Kate Moss and influential others. After stints designing for companies like Buddhist Punk, she launched her own label Alice McCALL in 2004. And here we are, Fall 2012.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
Since its 1988 New York inception, Women Management has worked with some of the most familiar faces in the fashion industry. The agency’s philosophy to embrace non-traditional beauty has launched the careers of supers like Kate Moss and Carmen Kass and given us the alluring versatility of women such as Lea T and Jourdan Dunn. And with representation in New York, Paris and Milan, it’s easy to see why Women is a dynamic force in the industry. I got a chance to talk with 5-year agent Ryan Molloy about why she loves the industry and what makes Women one of the best in the business.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
- Kim Kardashian, determined to make us buy into her fauxmance with sometime rapper Kanye West, showed up at LAX wearing earrings bearing his initials. The world then collectively rolled its eyes. [Huff Po]
- Alessandra Ambrosio jumped on the posing naked while pregnant bandwagon that really should’ve buckled under Jessica Simpson weeks ago for this ad by jeweler Vivara. [Styleite]
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Kate Moss has a history with the Ritz as deep and glamorous as her recent ritzy shoot for Vogue. “When I was with Johnny Depp, he always stayed there. I had an apartment in Paris at the time, but he said, ‘No, we’re staying at the Ritz,’ so he came by and swept me up to the Ritz—he didn’t want to slum it in my apartment!” Dressed by handmaidens in Giambattista Valli, Armani Privé, Dior Haute Couture, and custom Balenciaga by Nicholas Ghesquière to tickle your fancy, it’s hard to resist Mrs. Moss, dripping in glamour and Chanel.
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- Pope Benedict now has his own signature cologne, which presumably smells holier than thou. [Telegraph]
- Even when playing field hockey in sneakers and a hoodie, Kate Middleton still manages to look better than most of us on our best day. And if that’s not a quality you want in a future queen, I don’t know what is. [Fashionista]
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- Another Alexander Wang employee has jumped on the legal bandwagon, suing the designer for being subjected to sweatshop labor conditions. And I supposed if everyone jumped out of a burning factory after working a 90-hour week they would do that too. [NY Post]
- Noted…Brit dude Piers Morgan thinks Kate Moss is “a vile little creature,” it seems, because she kicks him every time she sees him. Some people are so sensitive. [Telegraph]
- Jennifer Lopez breaks out her best smolder for the April cover of Vogue for the third popstar– is that what we’re calling her these days? — in a row to be featured this year. [Fashionista]
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Fresh artists are kicking it old school. So old, it spans the end of time. This weekend at the Old School on Mott and Prince, 23 emerging curators fill 20 classrooms with the work of NYC artists under the theme Apocolist for the Spring Break Art Show. The focus on the rising curatorial eyes of the art world makes this exhibition an exception to the types of shows to which we are typically exposed, like exclusive galleries. Winding through one of the oldest schools in NY, you’ll find a video installation of an other-worldly being surviving on a pink planet in an avant gard, a car-wreck show, explosions of color, scene-scapes that can make you feel insignificant and alive, and Kate Moss reminding you that humans do indeed err.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
- New York Fashion Week is still openly racist, but the Asians are making headway on the runway. [Jezebel]
- To complement your Downton Abbey paper dolls, how’s about some Downton Abbey trading cards? I’ll trade you three Ediths for two Dowager Countesses and a Thomas. Okay, four Ediths. Five? [Vanity Fair]
- Reunited! And it feels so…horribly inappropriate. Proving that true love conquers all or that their stupidity knows no bounds, Chris Brown and Rihanna are apparently back together. At least in song…or rather, songs...
