Topic: Fashion Week

Global Kids Fashion Week: Are These Shows Adorable, Excessive Or Bizarre?

The first-ever Global Kids Fashion Week closed yesterday in London, prompting both excitement and criticism. The event featured children’s designs from powerhouses like Missoni, Chloe, John Galliano Kids and Little Marc Jacobs, as well as performances, activities for kids and fundraising.

Many have been asking questions about how morally sound the event is and how it could potentially have a negative impact on children. Curious about all the buzz? Judge for yourself here. More »

Newspaper Claims You’re Getting Raped For “Acting Like A Boy.”

So, a newspaper called The Hype Weekly has basically told women that if they get raped, it’s mostly because they’re acting like boys and egging nice normal men on until those men have no choice but to rape them. Huh! They explain: More »

Natalia Vodianova Runs Marathon With No Training The Same Day As Closing Givenchy

As if you needed any more evidence that Natalia Vodianova is a genetically perfect race of dystopian replicant, here it is. More »

6 Shots From Rihanna’s Critically Abhorred Collection Of Wardrobe Malfunctions

If you haven’t heard yet, Rihanna created a collection for River Island for London Fashion Week (though her show was actually unofficial). Oh, and everybody hates it. More »

NYFW Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know For Fall 2013

Searching for some info on Fashion Week but not sure where to look? No need to fret: we’ve got you covered with a whole lot of info from all your favorite sources. More »

Most Women Want Size Zero Models Banned From Fashion Week Catwalks, Survey Finds

A new survey has found that a majority of American women “want to see a ban on size zero models used during NY Fashion Week, with 16% admitting that they would prefer to see fuller figured models featured.” The survey was conducted, in a random turn of events, by a Coupon website but, no matter, feedback’s feedback. More »

Models Ruin ‘Well-Made’ High Heels With Gross, Unsightly Foot Blood

Earlier today, while scanning my reader for amusing stories to pick up, I came across one in The Huffington Post titled “The 7 Grossest Things Seen Backstage At Fashion Week.” There’s nothing I love more than gawking at the ugly side of fashion, so I clicked. Most of the things on the list were legitimately gross—stylists using their own spit on models in lieu of hair spray, people shaking other people’s hands right after they sneeze—but one item on the list stood out to me as potentially wrongheaded. More »

The Absolute Worst Valentine’s Day Looks From Fashion Week

Being inept at fashion in general, I had assumed that Fashion Week might just hold those beautiful, romantic looks I’ve been searching for all this time. Sadly, I was mistaken. The runways are cray. They’re amazing and interesting and gorgeous, no doubt, but totally cray. More »

Ready-To-Click: Beauty Keeps It Together

How to get a Floral Manicure inspired by the tights at Thom Browne. -The Cut

7 DIY ways to get glowing skin. -ChickRX

Get crimped hair, Zac Posen style. -Refinery29

BB Cream has finally gone to your head (or hair, at least). -YouBeauty

How makeup artists keep it together during Fashion Week. -HuffPost Style

The most, uh, daring Grammys fashion of all time. -StyleList

Apparently fashion people like astrology…? -The Cut

Carrie Underwood: country glow worm. -Styleite

Chloe Sevigny models her own collection for Opening Ceremony. -Fashionista

5 small, cheap, and reliably effective style pick-me-ups. -College Fashion

Anne Hathaway looking stylish in… Aldo pumps? -Budget Babe

Things a man learned from lingerie shopping for V Day. -HuffPost Style

Foil manicures: now a thing. -Birchbox

21 signs Fashion Week may have jumped the shark. -Racked

The Grammys… have a clothing line? -The High Low

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Why We Can’t Forget About The Need For Body Diversity At Fashion Week

Each year around Fashion Week, people discuss how far we have come with regarding to racial diversity, as well as how incredibly far we still need to go. Indeed, the runways certainly still lack women of color; last year, Jezebel … More »

5 Reasons To Love Fashion Week

Fashion Week begins today! And I know we can all come up with good reasons to hate it. The lines are too long. The people are all on their cell phones trying to be really important and talking loudly in those long lines. Now that NYFW happens at Lincoln Center rather than Bryant Park it feels like you are waiting in an airport for a plane that never takes off. And yet… and yet there are still a few reasons to love fashion week. These are those reasons. More »

Video: Seoul Fashion Week Is Weirder, Cooler, Than New York Fashion Week

Have you ever wondered what fashion week is like in other countries? I’m not talking about the obvious (Paris, London, Milan) but places that are less well-known to people in the west. Vice‘s “Fashion Week Internationale” series looks at fashion weeks (and fashions) all over the world, and their new three-parter on Seoul is especially interesting. More »

Paul Frank Handles Native American Appropriation Scandal In Surprisingly Sensitive Manner

NOTE TO EVERYONE: This is how you do it. More »

Ryan Lochte Touched Anna Wintour’s Leg And Lived To Tell The Tale

Handsomeness soothes the savage vampyre. More »

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