Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Sorry Anna Wintour, you’re gonna have to take a back seat. Yves Saint Laurent is only inviting buyers to view its women’s cruise and spring menswear collections by newly-appointed creative director Hedi Slimane, leaving editors and the international fashion press out in the couture cold.
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Estée Lauder has signed supermodel-on-the-rise Arizona Muse as its newest face, joining fellow professional beauties Hilary Rhoda, Liu Wen and Joan Smalls.
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When the air is fresh and the breeze holds a chill, outerwear becomes as important as innerwear, and your look becomes all about the jacket. Yet another day in Paris, we spotted our favorite jackets (shocker the winner was on miss Anna Dello Russo) and brought them back for you. Check them out after the jump.
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From their Prada creepers to their plaid on plaid, the men have stepped up their style game on the streets of Paris. Happy to be in a city where the gents care as much about fashion as the ladies, we picked our 6 favorite looks of the day during Paris Fashion Week. Check them out after the jump
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Karl Lagerfeld showed his Chanel Fall Winter 2012 collection in Paris this morning with models strutting around gigantic, glacial gemstones bursting from a white runway. Structured separates, sheer skirts, and colored tweets sprinkled the collection, making for a very tailored Chanel fall. Check out the full collection after the jump.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
This morning, Hussein Chalayan showed Paris his mastery for Fall 2012. Known for using technological materials in his designs, like a dress that turns into a coffee table, or a dress that moves independently (which inspired one of Lady Gaga‘s Monster Ball gowns) this season he utilized the newest, lightest, strongest metal on the market: Palladium. He partnered with the International Palladium Board as part of their initiative to make the metal not only appealing for industrial, but also that of luxury. Hussein Chalayan muses on the collaboration, “It was very appealing for me to develop an idea inspired by the lightness and strength of palladium. This partnership was a very natural gravitation; I am interested in materials that are not automatically associated with clothing. This is what my work is about.”
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Not just any bird. Our bird. The Bald Eagle. And how regal they look! Fur and feathered arms for wings, expanding at the hand ready for flight. The skullcap heads with hanging layers of fur seals the bald theory, and the tufty strands build like plumes. Gareth Pugh keeps it in his grayscale threshold for Fall 2012, and soars with a strong, if not endangered theme.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
For a while it seemed that every other week there was a new rumor regarding who would take over the reigns at Christian Dior. Recently, however, only one name has been circulating around town: Raf Simons. As reported in December, Dior and LVMH were close to signing the designer since the Marc Jacobs talks famously fell through — but if Simons abandoned his post at Jil Sander, who would take over? Won’t the real Jil Sander please stand up?
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Though wildly hyped and nearly universally panned — but at least his homegirl Anna Dello Russo had his back — Kanye West‘s fashion line, Dw, is still alive and kicking. Not only does it have a Twitter account, a prerequisite for anyone’s official existence, but now rumor has it the Louis Vuitton Don is moving his design studio to London to be closer to the comforting glow of Central Saint Martins.
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Diane von Furstenberg and co. are standing their ground. Last week the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana accepted the Council of Fashion Designers of America‘s attempt at compromise — moving New York’s shows next September in exchange for Milan accepting the second Thursday rule — but only if the CFDA cut the last day of New York Fashion Week. Well, turns out that last day has some big names attached — Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein Collection, specifically – so the CFDA said “no dice” in a letter to the Camera on Tuesday.
