Long before Brooklyn hipsters modeled LL Bean boots and Angela Adams bags hung from the shoulders of people in Los Angeles, Mainers had a keen sense of fashion. In the 1870s, for example, fashion-conscious Maine residents knew that the voluminous style of women’s skirt known as “polonaise” was giving way to a much slimmer silhouette […]
On average, Americans throw away 81 pounds of clothing each year. That’s according to SMART, or the Association for Recycled Secondary Materials and Textiles. They also say that 95% of the textiles we use can be recycled, but right now only 15% is donated or recycled and the rest goes to landfill. If you’re on […]
Model Carre Sutton was just 17 years old when she says she was repeatedly raped by one of the most powerful men in the industry. Gerald Marie was married to Linda Evangelista, the famous supermodel, but when his wife was out of town, Sutton says the French agent sexually assaulted her “sometimes several times a […]
DiorThe resort’s show began not with a torrent of house music, but with the clatter of steel-soled shoes outside Seville’s Plaza de España, where two stone-faced flamenco dancers held court. As her cocks began to swell on Rosalia’s Say my name, a phalanx of high-waisted bullfighter pants, hats, Manila shawls, and equestrian uniforms made their […]
Chinese fashion giant Shein might be the least expected organization to win plaudits at an international conference on fashion sustainability, but that’s what happened at this week’s world fashion summit in Copenhagen. The industry’s largest forum for sustainable progress saw the ultra-fast fashion brand praised for making a $15m (£12m) donation over three years to […]
PARIS — Botter, Lukhanyo Mdingi and Peter Do are among the seven finalists for the ANDAM Fashion Award 2022 grand prize, reflecting the international reach of the competition, which aims to attract talent from around the world to set up business in the French capital. All three are former finalists for the LVMH Prize for […]
They grow so fast. Ahead of her second birthday, Katy Perry says her daughter Daisy Dove Bloom is already a fashion star back home. “Has my daughter inherited my love for shoes or was she born that way?” Perry teased in a video interview as FN’s June 2022 cover star. “I have a lot of […]
Read today’s dose of elegant intelligence here… Chanel Replicas Show 2021/22 Métiers d’art For the first time since the pandemic, Chanel once again took its handcrafted Métiers d’art show on tour. Upon landing in Florence, the collection was exhibited at the historic Stazione Leopolda train station in front of 1,000 guests. Among those in attendance […]
WILMINGTON, Del.–(COMMERCIAL WIRE)–The LYCRA Company, a world leader in the development of innovative fiber and technology solutions for the textile and apparel industry, will join a panel discussion at the inaugural annual meeting of the Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network of the United Nations that will take place at the United Nations headquarters in New […]
Read today’s dose of elegant intelligence here… Shay Mitchell’s Baby Joy And the baby makes four! Actress and businesswoman Shay Mitchell has welcomed another girl to join her 2-year-old sister Atlas. The Pretty Little Liars star revealed the news to E! during the weekend in a pop-up of her brand, BÉIS. “I just recently had […]