Cannes is the best source for first looks at the upcoming year’s pop culture. Not only premiering some of the most highly anticipated films, the festival also sets the stage for formalwear trends of the coming seasons. With the festival wrapping up, now is the best time to examine some of the best and worst dressed of past years.
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Rock and Old: Merch Junkies’ Zara Mirkin.
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.
Elegance at Finezza.
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.
How To Get Lady Gaga’s Demure ‘Do.
Lady Gaga was nominated for her first Oscar at Sunday’s 88th Annual Academy Awards. The performer, most notable for her out of the box sense of style and her pop anthems, revealed an entirely different side of herself during the ceremony. Nominated Best Original Song for her pop ballad ‘Til it Happens to You, which she also performed to a standing ovation, her music and sense of style were both more “Lady” than “Gaga”.
Equality at home with #ShareTheLoad.
Viral videos come in all forms, but few are as thought provoking as this one. Launched by Indian laundry soap company, Aria, this campaign deals with the subjects of life, family, and prejudice.
She Picks: colour correctors.
Much like contouring and highlighting, colour correction has long been a mystery, mastered only by beauty industry professionals. We help you crack the code and pick out the best products for any colour that needs correcting.
Finding Refuge in Art with Valda Zobens.
Valda Zobens is best known for her paintings dealing with themes of temporary migration. Tempered by her own family’s immigrant experience, she began her Perilous Journey series, which is made up of one collection thus far. On March 2, Perilous Journey was added to, though, with Perilous Journey & Threads and Memories. Composed of a series of the artist’s paintings, some of which are accompanied by media images, Threads and Memories is a direct response to the contemporary refugee crisis.
the Face of an Industry.
It seems the world is in a near constant state of disappointing international communities with a lack of diversity. To examine the narrow boarders of acceptance, Canva compared past spokespeople for brands across different industries to see how Victoria’s Secret models stack up against models in insurance advertisements.
the Beauties of London Fashion Week.
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.
From Ragbags to Riches: NYFW AW2016.
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.
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