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Grandma’s couch: The unexpected inspo for this season’s textile trend
Tap, swipe, select—touchscreens have become the touchstone of our tech-obsessed world. During New York Fashion Week this past September, Ralph Lauren debuted a sci-fi-like window display at his Fifth Avenue Polo Ralph Lauren flagship, featuring an interactive holographic experience that looked like a scene from Star Trek. But several doors down, Gucci’s new window-design concept—a […]
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Top Spring 2016 Trends: 143 runway and street style photos of fashion month’s 10 biggest moments
We’ve still got a winter to power through before we can even start thinking about the warmer weather, but with what we saw at the recent Spring 2016 presentations, we promise it will be well worth the wait. So to help you figure out what went down this Fashion Month, we compiled 134 runway and […]
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Top Fall Fashion 2015: Our complete guide to the top 10 trends of the season
While you’re out and about eating ice cream, running through splash pads and enjoying balmy nights on a patio, we’re in the office (iced coffee on deck) compiling the best Fall 2015 trends our editors saw in Paris, London, Milan and New York. Whether wispy swathes of fabric, heavy-duty layers or pretty much an elevated […]
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Fashion victims: 10 of the deadliest shoes and accessories of the 19th Century
Photography by Ron Wood for the Bata Shoe Museum 10 of the deadliest fashions of the 19th Century »
Oh, the things we do for fashion. While the connection between pain and beauty seems as strong as ever today, the truth is that women have been suffering for style since well before the corset days. Today, Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum opens Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century, an exhibit that looks back at some of the most dangerous dresses, shoes and accessories of the Victorian era.
Much like the advances that came a century later with the advent of American sportswear in the 1920s, the Industrial Revolution saw a number of drastic changes to they way women dressed, including flats, high-waisted skirts and loose dresses. Not all of these changes came easy though; “The problem with flats is that they were incredibly narrow and they were made as straights, which means that pairs of shoes did not have distinct lefts or rights,” says Bata’s senior curator Elizabeth Semmelhack. What’s more, many were dyed with hyper-poisonous arsenic, a chemical that while responsible for some of the most vibrant hues of the day, could kill.
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TFW diary: A spellbinding neo-Victorian spring at Chloé Comme Parris
Photography by Jenna Marie Wakani View the runway photo gallery »
View our studio invasion »I shouldn’t pick favourites, but I’ll do it anyways. Maybe it’s because we share a fondness for all things Victorian, or maybe it’s just because the clothes were that good, but halfway through LG Fashion Week, I was already utterly spellbound by Chloé Comme Parris Spring 2012. After a similarly stellar LG debut last season, sister duo of Chloé and Parris Gordon took us back to the late 1800s, minus the wasp waists and lack of gender equality. “We were really looking at raised necklines and detailing and interesting ways of cinching in a waist or pleating and draping, but looking at how to reduce these silhouettes that can’t really be worn today because they are so voluminous and so ornate,” said sister Chloé when we visited the studio last week. The sisters’ look at the era was apparent, from delicate woven lace-like trousers and jumpers, to the William Morris-like print appearing on several dresses (the finale dress was a dead ringer for a neo-sack dress à la Pre-Raphaelite muse Jane Morris). Updated with interesting cropping (a jean jacket cut just below the collar comes to mind), sexy slits, and cross-body pearl necklaces, it’s without any sort of hometown inhibition that I can honestly say—if there was such a thing as a thousand star rating, this collection would have it. In my books, at least.