There is something deeply unsettling about The Attico Fall 2020 lookbook – and I love it. The Attico is an Italian luxury brand founded by Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini in 2016, known for their quirky-glam partywear. It hadn’t been much on my radar before now, to be honest, lost among the shadows cast by […]
On July 21st, Pierpaolo Piccioli presented the Valentino fall 2020 couture collection, a deeply apropos finale to an oddly fitful season. Working with photographer Nick Knight at the famed Cinecittà Studios in Rome, Piccioli presented his collection in two acts entitled “Of Grace and Light.” Keep reading – this is a goodie, I promise. Complex […]
Haute Couture Week was different this year, to the surprise of no one. Houses had to reformulate their presentations, opting for film, releasing sketches, and/or in in-studio photography in lieu of the traditional runway show. Olivier Rousteing, artistic director at Balmain, went with a different route: down the Seine. For Balmain’s presentation, Rousteing did not […]
However aberrant, Couture Week Fall 2020 is in the books! I’m calling it a “runway archive” for the sake of continuity with previous posts (like this or this one), but as we know, this year was decidedly different. Each fashion week, I compile runway summaries and publish them in my Instagram Stories as they become […]
It’s couture week, folks – and normally, that would mean the usual bevy of runway spectacles and journalists complaining of traffic in Paris (quel dommage). But as we know, that was in the Before Times. This is couture week during the pandemic. Even though stay-in-place orders have slackened in Europe, getting crowds together remains problematic, […]
Ok, y’all: I have some thoughts, and they are not quite fully formed, so I’ll just come out with it. The Chanel Cruise 2021 collection was just released the other day, and along with it, plans to continue with their rigorous 6-show-a-year schedule. The collection itself is lovely – light, summery, effervescent – and it […]
In so many ways, Hanifa represents the zeitgeist of the millennial generation: innovative, philanthropic, socially-conscious, female-centric, led by a 29 year-old Black woman. Her designs walk that narrow line of genius where ingenuity, architecture, flow, practicality, craft, and artwork all somehow converge into one, distinct voice. A “sextuple-point” of inspiration, I suppose – you’ll see […]
Want to get involved with the Anti-Racism Movement? If #blackouttuesday taught us anything, it’s that now more than ever, we need to amplify Black voices. Everything on this list is a form of protest. Everything that serves to equalize privilege, dismantle white supremacy, and allow for POC to flourish is, in itself, protest. Some actions […]
I’m not one for celebrity gossip, but hear me out: sometimes joy comes from unexpected places, yes? Such as the pop culture/high fashion/ eco-friendly-fetishwear-turned-trend trifecta of Balmain, latex, and the Kardashians, a prime example of when the whole is greater than the some of its parts. Let me back up a smidge. For New Years’ […]
Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2020 is behind us, and a fresh batch of runway summaries is here! As you may know, I create these summaries daily and post them on my Instagram Stories during fashion week. I find them handy because you get a quick visual overview with bullet points of the main concepts from […]
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