Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Call it a fashion foreign exchange program. The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund will launch a new initiative with China this spring when Proenza Schouler‘s Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez trek out to Shanghai and Shanghai-based designer Uma Wang takes a bite out of the Big Apple.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
When it comes to skincare, choosing a routine right for your complexion can be a difficult task with hundreds of products thrown in our faces throughout the year. But when we think of beautiful, radiant skin, none other than talented actress and Australian beauty Cate Blanchett comes to mind. Her crystal clear, flawlessly fair complexion is the most covetable we can think of, and we’ve always wanted to know her deepest beauty secrets. With the launch of a new technology behind SK-II‘s most luxurious line LXP, who better to talk about this beauty evolution than the SK-II global ambassador and Academy Award winner herself. I caught up with Cate during New York Fashion Week, as a select few fashion journalists gathered at the Mandarin Oriental to talk about her role with SK-II, what she keeps in her beauty arsenal and skincare on the go.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
A recently published report by social media marketing agency Attention ranks the most “talked” about designers during New York Fashion Week based on social media interactions and Jason Wu comes strutting in at the top spot.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Last week, Vice Magazine posed this furry question. Free Range Fur: Is it still murder if you trap it, skin it, and sew it yourself? Aside from my belief that it is more humane to raise an animal for slaughter than it is to take a free and happy one out of the forest, this week FashionIndie asks our own fur-centric question: Is it still murder if you earn your fur by bartering the written word that embodies Adrienne Landau‘s collection inspiration for her run-of-show pamphlet? What if the initial meeting were to happen entirely by chance, outside of Lincoln Center, whereupon I would as well wind up interviewing her on the subway en route back to our respective offices in the garment center? Could my conscious cope? I think the answer is pretty clear. And I’m wearing it now.
Edited by McArthur Joseph
Over 100 designers debuted their latest collection this past New York Fashion Week. After attending and reviewing most of these shows we’re able to sift through the bad and average and bring you our favorite looks from NYFW.
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...
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Four words have damn near killed all sexiness on the runway: Downton Abbey. Mad Men. Actually, pattern mashing on hip padding with funny furry hats hasn’t helped. A barrage of wildly cool man-repelling looks sauntered down Fall 2012 runways, but sexy was rather difficult to locate. A straight man, who shall remain nameless, and I went through thousands of photos. Through a sea of “Eww”s and “Ugh”s and “I’d fire that designer”s, we found a handful of looks that qualify as sexy. Keep in mind, we mean sexy, not slutty, so all boob-bearing, thigh rising, skin tightening looks were overlooked. We’ll take curves that these designers presented, thank you. And while this Fall’s sexiest looks might not get your panties wet, they may just get your britches in a twist.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Suck it in, ladies. We’ve seen the cinch waist re-emerge as the silhouette du jour at New York Fashion Week, and it’s hopped the pond to London in a bigger way. Wide belts are striking back at Acne, but this time with a little bit of zip. It functions like a corset, shaping with the stretch at the sides, but lays flat with the woven front. Perfect for tucking that gargantuan sweater into your pants, and making you look super skinny in it.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Whilst daydreaming about the wardrobes of the Fashion Week Elite, we found ourselves wondering whose closets they, in turn, covet. Style icon Iris Apfel, budding designer & Eco Domani winner Titania Inglis, and front row celeb staple Kristin Chenoweth and stunning others let us peek inside their imagination at whose wardrobe they’d go all Winona Ryder on. Who wants in on Tom Ford‘s dressing suite? Who’d take on Daphne Guinness? Take a look.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
Tuesday night at the Park Avenue Armory was a site for sore Fashion Week eyes as instillation-goers looked up into 25-foot tall screens for Sølve Sundsbo‘s “The Ever Changing Face of Beauty,” made possible by W Magazine and P&G Prestige. A-listers in attendance used some of P&G Prestige’s renowned brands to create their looks for the evening, and we have their beauty secrets for you right here.
