“The more you try to be yourself, the more you get punched in your face,” read Balenciaga’s Paris Fashion Week show notes. And who better to illustrate this point than Kanye West? The musician-turned-designer was the opener for Demna’s Spring/Summer 2023 presentation, stomping down the mud-drenched runway (275 meters of black peat, sourced from a […]
From Jean Paul Gaultier to Alexander McQueen, to Thom Brown to Balenciaga to Yohji Yamamoto, the crinoline has appeared in modern high fashion time and time again. It’s been subverted in every which way: exposed bare-bones, cropped at mid-thigh, slashed with cut-outs, rendered translucent. Also known as the hoop skirt, the Victorian mainstay is a […]
Martha Graham’s Lamentation premiered in New York City, at Maxine Elliot’s Theater, back in 1930. The solo performance was carried out almost entirely from a seated position, with its dancer swathed in a tube of violet fabric. It was a visualization of the essence of grief—the tension in the elastic jersey represented a struggle, however […]
This past Saturday, 400 guests sat on the border of a resin-mottled runway, designed by New York-based Italian architect and urban planner Gaetano Pesce, at Matthieu Blazy’s highly-anticipated Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2023 presentation. The show began with an echoing guitar chord, guided by a wandering, whistled melody—a tune reminiscent of an unnamed vagabond meandering into […]
The Celine woman is so cool that if you removed all the cool Celine clothes, she’d still be cool. During his time heading up Dior Homme, Saint Laurent and, since 2018, Celine, creative director Hedi Slimane has proven his ability time and time again to create or recreate subcultures so well they permeate not only […]
The best themed parties tend to be the ones where you really go to town and splash out on the perfect outfit, down to hair, make-up, accessories and witty Instagram posts to match. Not a single dodgy Amazon get-up in sight, thank you very much. This is the same line of thinking that celebrities should […]
Remember that photo of A$AP Rocky and Rihanna kicking back on a New York City fire escape back in July 2021, wearing matching fluffy fits from Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton SS22 collection? Of course you do. Have you recovered yet? Of course you haven’t. But now, at least, you can relive the endorphin high of watching the world’s most stylish couple strut about the […]
Where Philip Plein goes, others will follow. Back in August 2021 the beloved designer officially started accepting cryptocurrency, meaning shoppers could buy leather jackets spray-painted with the scowling face of a tiger for the equivalent of £138,600.00. Off-White soon followed in April and, today, Gucci has become the first blockbuster fashion house to allow its clients to pay with Bitcoin, Ethereum, […]
At the start of the new trailer for Don’t Worry Darling, Florence Pugh and Harry Styles are living in a 50s utopia. They host house parties, they kiss while driving recklessly in the Californian desert, they kiss in their spotless mid-century modern kitchen, they kiss in their cosy bed, and they kiss each other goodbye as Styles leaves for his […]
Last night, Portishead made an appearance at the War Child UK benefit gig for Ukraine at O2 Academy in Bristol, performing live for the first time since 2015. The Bristol trio performed five songs – “Mysterons”, “Wandering Star” and “Roads” from 1997’s Dummy, and “Magic Doors” and “The Rip” from 2008’s Third. The band last played at Benicàssim Festival seven years ago. Elsewhere on […]