Courtesy of Anum Sajjad Those are magician’s hands at work! I feel so lucky to work with artists like Kenneth (on makeup) and Rio (on hair). Courtesy of Anum Sajjad I love the way Prada elegantly mixes fabrics and textures so that the look is never obvious. This luxe fleece and delicate skirt are such…
It’s Saturday night of London Fashion Week and I am sitting by an overflowing trash can, a flyer-plastered wire fence, and a traffic cone. And they said fashion wasn’t glamorous anymore! To clarify: it’s the runway set for Skepta’s latest Mains show, in which the British grime artist will explore (in swaggering style) the origins…
“A lot of the time, I will sit on an idea for years, waiting until I have the means to realize it properly,” says British fashion designer Conner Ives. “This was one of those ideas.” Ives wanted to find new ways to use leather off-cuts from his factory—so he turned them into giant sequins and…
Last night the fashion industry’s great and good descended on the strand to enjoy the ‘H&M & 180: The London Issue’ show, kicking off London Fashion Week with aplomb. Featuring three upcoming and partially-released H&M collections, the show was a feast for both eyes and ears. ELLE UK cover star Lola Young performed hits ‘Messy’…
Heidi Klum Amazon Live Heidi Klum’s love of Halloween is the stuff of legends—and it doesn’t stop at her over-the-top, creative costumes. In 2023, the model hosted an Amazon Live Halloween Hotline, where she shared her Halloween decor essentials. This included faux cobwebs with plastic spiders, which she has put everywhere in and outside of…
Rain, rain, go away. That’s usually our first thought as soon as we see the first hint of inclement weather. This year, however, we’re bracing September showers with new aplomb, inspired by the cool girls of Copenhagen Fashion Week, who didn’t let a little rain stop them from serving looks last month. There were cagoules…
This is proving to be a banner year for Silvia Tcherassi. The Miami-based, Colombia-born talent is this year’s International Guest Designer for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid as the event celebrates its 40th anniversary in September. She also fetes 10 years of her first boutique in the Spanish capital this year—her chosen “gateway to the continent”—and…
The week started with a gathering of all the coolest women in New York at Rachel Comey. After her great show, replete with kooky-glam styling of polos, crinkled silk suit sets, and tanks worn as belts, came Rachel Scott’s soft launch as Proenza Schouler’s new creative director. Scott made a name for herself with the…
Since founding her brand in 2020, Ashlynn Park, founder of the New York-based label Ashlyn, has claimed the peplum as a trademark accoutrement. Her blouses, jackets, and clingy knits all disperse at the waist, some in elegant plumes, others in wave-like ripples. In fact, most of her garments are rounded in some form or fashion:…
© NINA CHANEL ABNEYNina Chanel Abney, Dance 1, 2022 For a little sliver of recent history, fashion seemed to be creative and welcoming, as well as increasingly profitable. In short, fashion was everything that most anyone could want it to be. It wasn’t perfect—far from it. But it seemed to be making real strides toward…