A.F. Vandevorst: The Music Video
There’s luxe and there’s luxe and then there’s Nomenus Quarterly, Erik Madigan Heck’s $6,500 seasonal journal—arguably the most expensive magazine-cum-art piece there is. That more-is-more sensibility...
View ArticleIf Only All Ambassadors Dressed Like This
Browns has been an English institution for four decades now. Mrs. B isn’t one to let an occasion like that go under-celebrated. For the store’s 40th anniversary, the pioneering retailer—who brought...
View ArticleA History Seen In Sequins
After trekking from Hong Kong to Shanghai, Joyce Hong Kong’s celebratory 40th anniversary exhibition has arrived in Paris. And considering the show includes archived looks from over 50 designers on...
View ArticleDeadly Chic—Now In Theaters And On The Runways
“Revenge is beautiful.” It’s more than the tagline for the new Zoe Saldana film Colombiana. It’s the operating principle behind the female badass movie. Recall Angelina Jolie’s Lara Croft in short...
View ArticleWhat The Heck
Giambattista Valli, Dries Van Noten, Haider Ackermann, Ann Demeulemeester—those are just a few of the heavy hitters photographer Erik Madigan Heck has worked with over the past few years. It’s no...
View ArticleAnn Among The Angels
Ann Demeulemeester’s dreaming of a black Christmas. For the holiday season, the designer created a capsule collection of four black pieces, for men and women, in collaboration with the online retailer...
View ArticleWang Watch
It’s rare to see new designers joining the Milan fashion week ranks. Rarer still for that designer to be a Chinese woman. Uma Wang, an alumnus of China Textile University and Central Saint Martins in...
View ArticleA Night At The (Fashion) Pictures
As creative director of her family’s business, Selfridges’ Alannah Weston has turned the massive department store on London’s Oxford Street into her private fiefdom of fun with a series of large-scale...
View ArticleInsanity as Imagery, Courtesy of Erik Madigan Heck
Opposites, insanity, clarity, abstraction, and minimalism all rolled into one—such was the concept behind photographer Erik Madigan Heck‘s electrifying images of Mary Katrantzou’s Spring ’13...
View ArticleHaider Ackermann To Show Menswear
The menswear schedule is heating up, ladies and gents! (Well, mainly gents.) Today, WWD reported that Haider Ackermann, who quite successfully tried his hand at menswear back in 2010 (left), when he...
View ArticleAnn Demeulemeester Leaves The Label She Founded
According to a handwritten letter circulated via e-mail this morning, Ann Demeulemeester is leaving her namesake label. “A new time is coming both for my personal life and the brand ‘Ann...
View ArticleGobble Gobble to You!
If we may say so, the past few months have been quite the sprint, what with the Spring ’14 shows, parties galore, Marc Jacobs leaving Louis Vuitton, Ann Demeulemeester’s sudden retirement, and beyond....
View ArticleAnn Demeulemeester Returns! Sort of
Though the wave of sadness felt after Ann Demeulemeester’s departure from her eponymous label endures, the fashion set should find some consolation come fall. Demeulemeester has announced that she’s...
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