PARIS — On the penultimate day of the ready-to-wear season the environmental conscience of fashion, which had been poking its head out tentatively over the past few weeks, finally made its full-throated entrance. Well, hello sustainability. Wondering when you’d show up. The industry’s role in climate change was, after all,
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PARIS — When Olivier Rousteing took over the house of Balmain 10 years ago, the fashion bookmakers weren’t giving him great odds for success. First of all, he was only 25. Second, he was pretty much unknown. Third, he was the only Black designer at the top of a heritage
Read moreThere is a mental game one plays every time New York Fashion Week rolls around, with its frenzy of runway shows, its TikTok moments and those bevies of freshly minted influencers for whom Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame seems like a generous allotment. The game is this: What difference would
Read moreWritten by Naomi May As the Swedish city returns to an in-person format, street style is back with a vengeance with all of the colours, prints and textures you could wish for. When it comes to the fashion month marathon, there’s a quartet of cities which typically reign supreme: New
Read moreFashionphile is injecting its luxury resale prowess and curated finds to Neighborhood Goods stores starting this Thursday. Neighborhood Goods — a retailer carving a hyper-localized, rotating assortment of contemporary brands — counts three stores in Austin and Plano, Texas, as well as in New York City. Fashionphile marks the latest
Read moreWhile the Tokyo Summer Olympics have already had several issues among its organizers and with its handling of COVID-19, a few other controversies have sprung up within some athletes’ Olympic uniforms. Several controversies regarding racism, sexism and human rights violations have made headlines in the lead-up to the Tokyo Games,
Read moreSPEAKING THE TRUTH: Less than one year before his first retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Nick Cave, the civic-minded visual artist best known for his fantastical Soundsuits, made his big-screen debut this week with his “Truth Be Told” public art exhibit. Projected on a full-motion digital
Read moreKanye West may not be showing his face, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t stepping out. The 44-year-old rapper attended the Balenciaga 50th Couture Collection show for Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday. The father of four wore an all-black look with his white Adidas Yeezy shoes. Instead of wearing a
Read moreThe “Gossip Girl” reboot is already getting the high-fashion treatment. In celebration of the reboot’s premiere on July 8, fashion brand Monse is presenting a “Gossip Girl”-themed fashion show in New York City where it is debuting 22 styles that take inspiration from the show’s iconic fashion, including its private
Read moreSimone Biles has proven over the last five years that her star power extends far beyond the gymnastics floor. The Olympic gymnast has been a prominent figure in the sports world since her Olympics debut in 2016 at the Rio de Janeiro Games and has since gone on to work
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