Edited by Danika Daly
Despite the random drop in temperature this week, it is technically Spring. Soon it will be time for flowing dresses, cutoff shorts and light, airy hairstyles that won’t have your neck gasping for air. We picked our five favorite spring ‘dos to keep you cool when the temperatures finally rise.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
Spring is on the horizon, and we are thrilled the days are getting longer. Warmer weather means a shift in beauty routines, and we are busy preparing our worn-out winter skin for much greener pastures. Because we love you Indies, we are sharing nine beauty products we swear by. They’ve gotten us through the good hair days and bad, our driest skin months and made us look our best even if we didn’t feel so hot. Try any of them, and we guarantee you’ll become a beauty convert.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Last night at the art show at The Old School, I spied a hat that would get Monsieur Christian Louboutin’s panties in a legal twist. This red under-brimmed baseball cap piqued my interest as I warned its creator, Sean Kinney of Eddie Eddie by Billy Tommy for Real Quick for Fun, of a potentially vicious lawsuit in his future for Louboutin copyright infringement. Aware of the class action against YSL, he shrugs off concerns of ramifications as a good indie artist should, and tells me where I can get mine: the grand opening of American Two Shot.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
“As one of the most important French fashion houses, Yves Saint Laurent today possesses formidable potential, which I am confident will be successfully harnessed and revealed through the vision of Hedi Slimane.” — François-Henri Pinault, chairman and chief executive officer of PPR, Yves Saint Laurent’s parent company.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
- Paper Magazine proves that if more people dressed like Nicki Minaj, the world would be a better place. Or at least a more tranny place. [Paper]
- YSL‘s Stefano Pilati thinks John Galliano pretty much ruined drugs for everyone. [Styleite]
- Well, this happened. Anna Wintour in the subway. Note the look of complete and utter fear on her usually emotionless face. [The Cut]
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
He’s a Fashion Week fixture: The man in the wild printed suit and matching newsboy hat. If you’ve been to The Tents, you’ve seen him and probably wonder, who the heck is he? This mysteriously matching man rocked a John Lennon suit this New York Fashion Week. The deeply rooted Beatles fan in me suddenly had to know more about him and his sartorial choice of Lennon that caused quite a stir. So I asked.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The Christian Louboutin-Yves Saint Laurent red-sole trademark battle is still raging on. Well, perhaps “raging” isn’t the right word…teetering on, if you will. Yesterday Diane von Furstenberg lent her support to the couture cobbler in the Manhattan courtroom where he sat before three Appeals Court judges to determine the fate of his sole.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Yves Saint Laurent is showing their manly side this spring with its first menswear ad campaign in almost five years. The last time YSL ran a menswear campaign was for fall 2007 when Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shot industrial designer Marc Newsom. Reflecting, according to the house of YSL, the continued global growth of its men’s wear line, Stefano Pilati signed on David Sims to capture model Baptiste Radufe for spring 2012.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
If you’re reading this, you probably would shout with glee at the sight of a red sole in your stocking, then over your stocking later that night. So please sing along with us:
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Of his muse, Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci says Lea T has a “unique, rare, natural beauty, a combination of purity, hardness, romanticism, and agressiveness: all components of androgyny that are bound to both sexes.” Combining tranny superpowers with fellow Amazonian androgyne, Andrej Pejic, Lea imhabits this beauty in Candy Magazine‘s “Powerful Soul,” shot by Andreas Larsson. Flanked by male models at every turn, Ms. T takes the lead in a series of gender-blurring portraits as well as in a pas de deux with a YSL-clad Pejic.
