Designers Bring Africa to Runways, Leave Models Behind
I am now puzzled by the numerous fashion references to African and African-American cultures while the failure to acknowledge models of said backgrounds continues.
I am now puzzled by the numerous fashion references to African and African-American cultures while the failure to acknowledge models of said backgrounds continues.
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 10.10.2009 | Style
The month filled with fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris has come and gone, and with it, thousands of eclectic ensembles ripe for spri...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style
Cityfile points out that amid all the Condé Nast cutbacks, Anna Wintour has made some economical choices of her own. The Vogue editor-in-chief was sp...
Piers Fawkes | Posted 09.29.2009 | Style
French hair artist and wig designer recently presented his second collection at London Fashion Week.
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 11.21.2009 | Style
London mayor Boris Johnson took to the runway to open London Fashion Week on Friday. And after his October British Elle cover and his recent trip to N...
StyleList.com | Bee-Shyuan Chang | Posted 11.21.2009 | Style
Avant-garde wig designer Charlie Le Mindu took wacky hair to a whole new level for his Spring/Summer 2010 collection. Among the outlandish wigs was a...
New York Times | Suzy Menkes | Posted 11.21.2009 | Style
Yet the strength of the city as a fashion capital depends not on the scores of individual designers who often explode onto the scene and then swiftly ...
AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 11.18.2009 | Style
LONDON — Look out London, Anna Wintour is coming. The only fashion editor so famous she's been portrayed in two separate movies (one fictionali...
Johann Hari | Posted 11.15.2009 | Style
Women have replaced the prison of the kitchen with the prison of an unachievable body shape. The more powerful a woman is, the more likely she is to be bulimic.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Style
The global economic crisis has hastened the demise of the already toppling fashion establishment.
AFP | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style
London's famously dishevelled mayor, Boris Johnson, will grace the cover of fashion bible Elle next month in what many will see as a surprising partne...
Guardian UK | Sarah Mower | Posted 10.16.2009 | Style
My induction to London Fashion Week took place sometime in 1986, at the hands of Lynne Franks. I say "hands" colloquially, but it was, more accurately...
AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 03.23.2009 | Style
LONDON — London Fashion Week got off to a gala start Friday morning, with champagne corks popping despite warnings that events would be toned do...
The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 11.10.2008 | Style
Sincere apologies to the fashion industry. It seems that there was a reason all the fashion week shows in Paris, Milan, and New York lacked some serio...
guardian.co.uk | Charlie Porter | Posted 11.08.2008 | Style
It is the inclusion of this word that raises alarm bells. "Manorexia" is a cheapening label, making eating disorders sound like a trend, a depersonali...
Refinery29.com | Pete Miszuk | Posted 10.20.2008 | Style
Right off the plane from London Fashion Week, our very busy photographer friend Pete Miszuk sent us these highlights from his week. Stay tuned for his...
The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 10.18.2008 | Style
The Giles Deacon Spring/Summer 2009 collection hit London fashion week on Tuesday. The designer, whose inspiration sprang from the 1980s game Pac-Man,...
Josa Young | Posted 10.19.2008 | Style
Wartime shapes, but in ethereal fabrics and colours, wandered through the collection, emerging in defined shoulders and waists, neat little skirts and hair worn long and waved in the Veronica Lake style.
The Guardian | Jess Cartner-Morley | Posted 10.17.2008 | Style
Size zero is so last season. Feeling inspired by the Olympics ("Wasn't everybody? It was brilliant!"), Stella McCartney brought the sporting spirit to...
Times of London | Nicola Copping | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
If you thought the catwalk was the focus at Fashion Week, you were wrong. For the real insight into trends and styling tips, all eyes are on the fashi...
The Guardian (U.K.) | Jess Cartner-Morley | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Catwalk models at London fashion week will have to show a doctor's certificate proving they are physically and psychologically well enough to work, un...
Shaena Henry | Posted 10.21.2009 | Style