- 284 days ago by Jennifer Wright
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Look, obviously Ravenclaw has the smartest ensemble. More
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- 313 days ago by Amanda Chatel
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This gives a whole new meaning to swooning over fashion… More
- 481 days ago by Jamie Peck
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For his Spring 2012 Couture show in Paris, Jean Paul Gaultier decided to devote much of his energy to creating a tribute to the late Amy Winehouse. This inspiration is evident in the show’s hair, makeup, styling, and even many of the clothes; retro 60s beehives and winged eye liner abounded. Gaultier also put his own modern spin on Winehouse’s style with futuristic shapes and some very on-trend bright hair colors. “I think Amy Winehouse was truly a fashion icon,” Gaultier told WWD. He also said he “felt compelled to celebrate her style because magazines have failed to do so.” Click through for some of his most Winehouse-ian looks. More
- 482 days ago by Jessica P. Ogilvie
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Here at The Gloss, we write a lot about child bride Courtney Stodden. More
- 600 days ago by Jamie Peck
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This thing is going to give me weird nightmares, and I’m not even sure why. More
- 666 days ago by Ashley Cardiff
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Fashion designers are often guilty of producing womenswear that looks strikingly beautiful in editorials but is completely unwearable for most of the population (I’d say “all” if maniacs like Daphne Guinness and Anna Dello Russo didn’t exist). Along those lines, we’ve got a pervasive new trend emerging in the glossies: lace masks. They recently flooded the Fall 2011 couture runway at Chanel (above), then obscured Carine Roitfeld’S face in that first shot from Riccardo Tisci’s Visionaire, then hit Claudia Schiffer’s German Vogue cover, and now Katie Holmes’ Spanish Vogue editorial… Here’s those recent twists on the mini-trend and many other previous examples. More
- 777 days ago by Ashley Cardiff
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Anna Dello Russo will be attending the Met Gala this year (and she’s so excited she used ‘extraordinary’ twice) (I would, too, this is the Alexander McQueen exhibit after all). Upon receiving the invitation, she immediately took to her (amazing) blog and wrote up 10 rules for attending. They amount to: the Met Gala organizers may find your watch rude and you will have to give yourself another name to transform into another woman. Get your notebooks out because here we go! More
Purveyors of countless sweaty boots to pair with countless velour sweatsuits, Australian brand Ugg is launching an “upscale” collection, entitled Ugg Collection by Ugg Australia. More
- 845 days ago by Ashley Cardiff
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Yup. Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci was inspired by Japan. Not the more obvious aspects of Japanese culture and style you’d expect to be cited by a designer, but the Japan of robot toys (which you’ll get pretty instantly when you see the models’ helmets), of an extreme performance art called butoh, and of cranes. Tisci also cast Asian models only for the small, astoundingly detailed collection. By astoundingly detailed I mean “2000 hours of cutting and 4000 hours of sewing” on one of the dresses alone. This is couture, after all. For a man who makes some of the best goth uniforms in the industry, it’s a bit of departure, but there is a remarkable a-ha moment at the end when the girls stand together and form a beautiful, delicate screen. More
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- 845 days ago by Ashley Cardiff
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The team behind Valentino–Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri–inspired a whole lot of questions by explaining their Spring 2011 couture collection with a statement like “Elegance is subversive… The real subversion is culture.” Although I’m not entirely convinced that means anything, it rang oddly true when viewing the clothes: a strange and compelling mix of classic femininity (butterflies, flowers, neutrals in romantic pinks and pales) and something more off-putting (cut-outs, sheer panels, those same butterflies as weirdly constricting chokers). The collection–with its admirably coherent narrative–actually did an excellent job of realizing this play on virginal prettiness and something legitimately subversive… while keeping things subtle and wearable all the time. I’m officially excited to see where they’re going with Valentino. More
- 846 days ago by Ashley Cardiff
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I am a Jean Paul Gaultier fangirl. Still, I wasn’t completely sold on the idea of “punk” (mohawks, tartan, fishnets) meets “can-can” (full skirts and ruffles galore!), as was Gaultier’s description of his idea for Spring 2011 couture. At first glance, the collection struck me as a little too much in a few too many places, but if you squint past the crazy couture-spectacle details (that are part of the fun anyway) you can spot Gaultier’s bread and butter: razor sharp lines, immaculate tailoring, and a whole lot of good humor. More
- 846 days ago by Ashley Cardiff
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Elie Saab is perhaps best known as a man who creates safe, winning choices for actresses to wear at red carpet events. This is not to say his dresses aren’t very pretty, it’s just to say that his Spring 2011 couture collection showed today and it is comprised of 41 floaty, flattering, feminine, red carpet-baiting looks. Since there’s never too much to say about columns with lace and flowers in classic silhouettes and swirling trains, let’s just imagine which actresses will show up in what.
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- 847 days ago by Ashley Cardiff
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I’m a fan of Chanel. But with respect to Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel couture collection which showed today, I am not a fan. The looks were dizzying in their incoherence: spider veins coming down jackets transitioned into sequined trousers, which in turn transitioned into 80′s proportions and skirt after skirt worn over pant after pant. It’s quite possible I just missed the point Mr. Lagerfeld was trying to make, but it’s also quite possible he tried to make way too many and lost his focus. More
- 848 days ago by Ashley Cardiff
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It’s day one of the Spring 2011 couture shows and John Galliano mined the house of Dior’s history for ladylike shapes inspired by the illustrations of legendary artist-in-residence René Gruau. The clothes (the gorgeous, gorgeous clothes) were meant to be like “an unfinished symphony,” WWD reports, with vivid reds fading to inky blacks and blush to pale blue, for a remarkable dégradé effect. The shapes were elegant, the colors rich, with all the opulent details we’d expect from Dior, and especially Mr. Galliano. More
