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Lady Gaga Gives Us Our First Look at Hedi Slimane’s Céline
The news that Hedi Slimane would be taking over from Phoebe Philo at Céline was met with everything from disbelief and disappointment to curiosity and excited anticipation. Would he supplant Céline’s thoughtful, feminine, understated aesthetic with his own very particular brand of rock ‘n’ roll? His debut collection, which he’ll show in Paris in just […]
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5 and ‘a Half’ Things We’re Looking Forward to at Paris Fashion Week
When I think of my last trip to Paris, I think of hunger. Literally. Between jet lag, a mild bug I’d picked up in transit, and too many baguettes, I was never with the right plate of food at the right time. What saved me was stumbling upon a weigh-it-yourself Chinese buffet where I ordered a […]
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Fashion Critics Don’t Know What to Make of Hedi Slimane’s Appointment at Céline
When I found out that Hedi Slimane was appointed the Artistic, Creative and Image Director and overall Grand Poobah of Céline on Sunday morning, I was still in the precise fog that combines jet lag with staying up too late watching early 2000s viral videos. But the news immediately cut through the fog. Hedi Slimane […]
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How Not to Butcher 23 Difficult-to-Pronounce Designer Names
It’s safe to assume that at some point in our lives we will butcher the pronunciation of a name to the point of no return (I’ve done it before, and often have my own name mispronounced, which results in major LOLs and sometimes SMHs). Now that fashion month has wrapped up, we’ve put together a primer […]
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Why Saint Laurent is more important and culturally relevant than Yeezy
Ok, sure, Kanye’s 1,000-bodied, Madison Square Garden-staged Yeezy season 3 presentation may have broken the internet (you guys, Kim was there, but isn’t she everywhere?). But it was definitely not the most important event this fashion month so far. If you weren’t invited to Saint Laurent’s Wednesday night spectacle at the Hollywood Palladium (or desperately […]
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Paris Fashion Week: 4 wardrobe updates to take you right into Spring 2015
See the wardrobe updates for Spring 2015 » If there was ever an industry known for creating seismic shifts and motivating change at breakneck speed, it’s fashion. Marc Jacobs is renowned as the master of reinvention and Cara Delevigne‘s eyebrows get the play by play on the front page. (In case you missed it, bleached […]
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Endless Summer: Why so many designers are inspired by the California dream
Right: Rodarte Spring 2014 shot by Peter Stigter See the California inspiration on the runway »
At the end of part 1 of On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel about freedom, self-discovery and the American experience, Sal Paradise—a desperately bored and mildly depressed writer who sets off from New York City in search of adventure and inspiration out West—arrives in Hollywood by bus on a dusty autumn morning. Having abandoned the East of his youth along with a sorry half-written manuscript, he arrives, after weeks of dreamy anticipation, in the West of his future: the glittering California coast. “I looked greedily out the window: stucco houses and palms and drive-ins, the whole mad thing, the ragged promised land, the fantastic end of America.” For Paradise, Calif., is the ultimate American mecca—endlessly inspiring, always changing, forever new.
It’s a sentiment that still rings true 50-plus years later. In fashion, Hedi Slimane is the industry’s Pied Piper of California dreaming. The French designer has made Los Angeles his home, his muse and the subject of much of his work, from his 2011 photography exhibition, California Song, which explores Americana via L.A., to his recent collections for Saint Laurent, which have channelled everything from California grunge to 1980s Sunset Strip. “I secretly love that the common perception of L.A. is shallowness,” Slimane told Style.com in 2010. “From the counterculture’s heritage of the ’60s and ’70s to the rise of Silicon Valley in the ’80s, from the Hollywood dream machine to the music industry majors, from Californian art to architecture, healthy lifestyle and food, California does rule the village.”
Photography by Peter Stigter
Photography by Peter Stigter
Photography by Getty Images
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Paris Fashion Week: The Fall 2014 shows bring the antics
Photography by Peter Stigter See the latest from Paris Fashion Week Fall 2014 »
Photography by Peter Stigter
Photography by Peter Stigter
Photography by Peter Stigter
Photography by Peter Stigter
Photography via Instagram/FashionCanada
Over lunch today with the team from Chanel‘s Canadian press office, we couldn’t help rehashing the extravagant spectacle we’d just been lucky enough to witness from the front row. The full grocery store set up included fresh vegetable and cheese stands, along with aisles and aisles of canned goods, cleaning products, cupboard staples and bathroom essentials. More than 400 different products had been assembled and branded with the double Cs and Karl’s witty bon mots (only Chanel can get away with “sacs plus belle” garbage bags and 50% markup posters). This house in particular, has always led the pack with its devotion to creating a lasting impression through a full sensory experience. More and more designers are jumping on the bandwagon, hoping to have editors, buyers and shoppers create emotional attachments to their brands. In a week devoted to clothes, theatrics aren’t necessary, but a fun way to stand out from the pack and further promote your seasonal message. Here are this week’s top shows that pushed the envelope with memorable antics:
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Top 10 Fashion Influencers of 2013: We count down the biggest and best moments
Capping off a year in style always seems so, for lack of a better word, crazy. With just about a meme a minute and the web’s proclivity for hyperbole (we’re guilty), there seem to have been so many “best moments ever.” Many of those moments involved the 10 influencers on this list, which helps. But many of them, like this, this and this will just live in our mind for
all eternityuntil we fixate on something else. Meanwhile, here’s who we think was at the top of their game in 2013.
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Fall 2013’s top fashion week moments: The 20 shows, models, parties and trends we’ll never forget
Photography by James Cochrane See our top 20 Fall 2013 fashion week moments »
Compiled by Bernadette Morra, Sarah Casselman, Patricia Gajo and Nancy Won
The blur that is fashion month can be just that… a blur. While so much incredible newness is dished out day after day, it can pretty difficult to keep the record straight and our favourites on record. From Alexander Wang’s debut collection for Balenciaga to Cara Delevingne’s signature London shinanigans, we’re counting down the top 20 moments of the Fall 2013 show season in New York, London, Milan and Paris.
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Get ’em while they’re hot! Saint Laurent Paris launches sunglasses
See the Saint Laurent Sunglasses collection »
With the rise in popularly of its newly released duffle (it’s been spotted on the arms of Beyoncé, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Moss to name a few), Saint Laurent Paris will add to its range of covetable accessories with its first sunglasses collection under the new branding.
Under the direction of Hedi Slimane, who has helmed the label since March 2012, Saint Laurent has since been striving for a more understated elegance and discreet branding in comparison to former creative Stefano Pilati, whose elaborate designs were credited with bringing the house’s accessories to the forefront of the It bag cult.
The sunglasses collection features a range of styles in Slimane’s signature black, with rosegold, gold and black acetate frame tints. They will no doubt fit into the new creative director’s streamlined aesthetic along with the bags. Simple, sleek and the perfect offset to Slimane’s grunge heavy Fall 2013 collection, the sunglasses will must haves come next season.
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From Rihanna to Daft Punk: How musicians are keeping fashion collaborations interesting
When it comes to collaborations, it seems like we’ve seen it all. The over-saturation of these fast fashion moments hardly allows us enough time to digest one limited-edition collection before our attention is pushed towards another. We’d say we were over the thrill, but that would probably be a lie. Especially with the refreshingly new kind of collaboration starting to emerge: that of the designer/musician collab. Though the musician half of the partnership rarely has experience in the fashion industry, there is something incredibly exciting about these strategic alliances. When the worlds of fashion and music collide, as we’ve seen happen with Beyonce’s latest collection for H&M, the media buzz is unbeatable. Designers and musicians tend to identify each other’s creative values, so why not work together?
Fashion favourite Hedi Slimane of Saint Laurent Paris has traded in models for musicians with the Saint Laurent Music Project, a portrait series inspired by the relationship between music and classic YSL. French duo Daft Punk, who mixed Slimane’s spring womenswear runway soundtrack, is the latest addition to the series. The designer also shot the dapper set’s June 2013 cover for Dazed & Confused. Slimane reaffirmed his ability to mold contemporary music through his recent collaboration with Canadian mixstress of the moment, Claire Boucher aka. Grimes. The two recently produced a collection of illustrated men’s T-shirts, influence by vintage YSL love posters. Grimes, who doubles as a talented illustrator, inked the five T-shirt designs herself (they’re currently available on ssense.com).
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