While not often considered a timeless era of fashion, 1970’s rock and roll subculture will always be the epitome of cool. David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and Alice Cooper are now the paragon of pop culture. With the racks of fast-fashion five-and-dimes lined with the iconic imagery of individuality, these martyrs of individuality have started losing their meaning.
Merch Junkies founder Zara Mirkin is fighting this status quo in true ’70s style.
Ivan Lehec has a long history with fashion. Having worked in high-end retail for years, Lehec noticed many of his male customers were in need of personalized lessons in style, which weren’t easily available. On this principle, he founded Finezza: Au Nom L’Homme. We had a chance to attend the debut of his upcoming Autumn/Winter 2016 collection, and here’s what we saw.
The gauntlet of consecutive fashion weeks is almost over, with only Milan remaining. While we’re sad to see it go, staying on top of what to wear next season can be exhausting. So, after trying to make sense of the hugely varying themes seen on the runways of New York Fashion Week, we were glad to see only two major themes reoccurring in the backstage beauty scene at London Fashion Week.
In hindsight, every decade has a standout style defining it, the sixties had mod culture, the hippie era dominated the seventies, we saw punk in the eighties, and the birth of punk’s more subdued counterpart with grunge in the nineties. But as we get closer to contemporary fashion, it gets harder to define, leaving some critics claiming we are following a “no trend” trend. With global fashion weeks coming to a close, there is no better time to define our current era of fashion.
Fashion was varied on the red carpet of 2016’s Grammy Awards, with the entire colour spectrum and silhouettes from ball gowns to tailored suits making appearances. We saw nominee and performer Lianne La Havas in a yellow-on-yellow floral gown, Selena Gomez in glittered blue Calvin Klein, and both Taylor Swift and Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town in fuchsia and salmon separates. With wardrobe changes and live performances, it certainly was a night of hits (and misses).
With most of us having a closet stuffed full of a rotating stock of bags, wallets, and shoes, not too many coveted items have the honour of being toted along all day, every day, so it is of utmost importance that those that do make the right statement. To help you along the way to making just the right statement with your phone case this season, I rounded up my favourite statement pieces.
Louis Vuitton has had little luck with their legal proceedings as of late, most recently in their lawsuit against Los Angeles-based designer house, My Other Bag. MOB screen prints sketches of iconic bag silhouettes from high end designers like Chanel and Céline to create a stylish reimagining of reusable bags.
Lebanese designer Elie Saab has a reputation for creating indulgent gowns, having previously dressed a Belgian Countess and Princess Claire of Luxembourg (whose gown had 50,000 pearls and a 13 foot train, taking a rumoured 3,900 hours to make) for their royal weddings. While it may seem Elie Saab is at the peak of extravagance, he out did himself with a gown costing more than $404,000.
Jewellery designer Anisha Parmar was born and raised in North West London, where she was tempered by her own familial heritage and the eclectic medley of cultures around her. While drawing inspiration from her own experience as part of a migrant family, Parmar’s designs also explore the themes of immigration and identity.
M.A.C. announces an upcoming collaboration set to feature the signature aesthetic of China’s fashion sweetheart, Chris Chang.
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