One of the great joys of keeping up with fashion weeks is discovering up-and-coming designers and watching as they grow over the years. You start to feel like you’re a part of their story, even if you never bought or wore a single piece of theirs, because you were rooting for them the whole time. […]
I asked, you answered – in a Milan Fashion Week showdown, our sisters over on IG chose the Moschino Spring/Summer 2020 collection as the target for today’s runway critique! Versace came in at a close second; Gucci, a very distant third (although I would have loved to tear into all that terrible straight jacket imagery). […]
If you love fashion and haven’t tapped into how political it is, you are missing out. Like, a lot. There are so many ways to engage with it, whether at the “is-it-cute-or-not” level, the “brand legacy” level, the sustainability level, etc – and none of them are wrong. It’s ART, people! And as such, there […]
Something about Versace has always resonated with me. Maybe because I grew up in the 90s, or because it taps into the Latin part of me, or because a trip to Rome as a preteen primed my fashion brain to love anything loud and baroque. Even so, the Versace Resort 2020 lookbook caught my eye […]
If you’re not in the practice of scanning runways and ads for diversity, I highly suggest that you start now. We know that diversity benefits everyone, not just the groups being represented. If you want some good reads on this, I recommend this 2014 article from The Washington Post and this 2017 article from Forbes. […]
We’ve got a problem. Y’all know that I love a little bit of fast fashion. It’s perhaps my most guilty guilty pleasure, other than occasionally eating cows. I love buying fun, incredulously affordable items and peppering them in my wardrobe. I love the experience of walking into the circus that is Forever 21 and carrying […]
Paris Fashion Week was all about what fashion reviewers call “bourgeoise dressing.” Designers seem to be fascinated by this category and the idea that upper-middle class professionals adhere to a sort of dress code of mostly neutrals, lightweight wools, and buttoned-up style. It reminds me of some of the coping mechanisms designers in New York […]
In light of Brexit, what IS British style today and where is it going? Beats me. All I can say as a bystander (and direct product of British involvement in globalization, thanks King George ) is that the question of British identity was a loaded one this week. The tension between the political, social, and […]
As I wrote Friday’s post on New York Fashion Week, I had planned on including the Marc Jacobs show under the “head on” section. I had gone through the runway photos and thought about the boxy silhouettes and dark lighting and initially was feeling ambivalent about it. The clothes looked like walking walls in some […]
This week, I listened to an interview on the podcast Fashion No Filter with The New York Times’s fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman. And let me tell you, it changed the way I look at fashion. It’s not like I did a complete one-eighty; I was aware that fashion is political, and that different trends can come out of […]
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