Topic: Fashion

Our 5 Favorite Pieces From Kendall and Kylie Jenner’s Kollection for PacSun

Cancel on your mother this weekend because you have to head to the mall; the collection you’ve been waiting for finally hits shelves on Saturday May 11! She’ll understand. Kendall and Kylie, the younger Kardashian sisters (though they are technically Jenners) have collaborated with each other (as well as some actual fashion designers and seamstresses) to launch their fashion line. More »

I Own 43 Slaves, According To Slavery Footprint, But Not Sure How I Feel About This

This month’s Popular Science features a website, Slavery Footprint, which allows you to calculate just how many “slaves” work for you—slave meaning someone who makes the items you own, usually under horrid circumstances. The site calculates an assortment of variables: clothing owned, food eaten and sourced, gadgets owned, jewelry worn, etc. The website even asks your gender and race, though it specifies that these variables have no effect on your score. It’s actually really enlightening—and scary. More »

The Lazy Kid In Me Thinks Drive-Thru Fashion Sounds Stellar

Ever wish you could just drive by your favorite store, grab some clothes and never have to leave your car? Yeah, I hadn’t really thought about it, either. More »

Vogue‘s Blackface Editorial Commemorates Nothing Besides Racism

By now, you would hope that fashion magazines would have caught up with, oh, the rational thinkers of 2013. But no, mis amigos, this is simply impossible — after all, the seemingly most beloved and sacred tradition (or else it would’ve been eliminated by now, surely) is blackface. More »

Conflicted Feelings I Have About Brooks Brothers’ Great Gatsby Line

Well, Brooks Brothers is launching a line of menswear that will supposedly make you look like Jay Gatsby. Let’s talk about our feelings and then play a really fun game. More »

How Good Are The Costumes In The New Hunger Games Sneak Peek?

If you took anything away from the first Hunger Games (other than, “Fight for what you believe in!” or some nonsense) it’s likely that the costumes were not as good as you might have hoped and they yielded some stupidly overpriced merchandise. How good are the new ones in the new preview? I will try to help you decide. More »

These Storyville Sex Workers From 1912 Had Amazing Style

If you haven’t noticed by our Shelved Dolls and Harlotry series, as well as plenty of our other individual pieces, The Gloss is a big fan of both sex workers and women of the past. We appreciate fashion from the days of yore — whichever “yore” that may be — as well as the personalities that accompanied its wearers. These vintage photographs of prostitutes from Storyville by E. J. Bellocq combine those interests wonderfully. More »

Shenae Grimes Takes Us Backstage At The Jenny Packham Fashion Show

Shenae Grimes is back with TRESemmé Style Setters and this time, she’s taking us backstage for an exclusive look at Jeanie Syfu’s hair prep for the Jenny Packham fashion show. Packham’s collection was inspired by 17th century Paris: all of the dresses are intricately detailed and … More »

Is Opening Ceremony’s Yoko Ono Line Ripping Off This Independent Brooklyn Designer?

Are Yoko Ono and her design team stealing ideas and designs from a smaller, less well-known designer in New York? More »

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Plastic Dreams Video Is Charmingly Weird (Or Just…Weird)

Both Cara Delevingne and Karl Lagerfeld are acceptably strange people. They’re the relative whom everybody kind of loves but, at the same time, wishes would stop trying to stuff candy inside the turkey at Thanksgiving and subsequently slap it with breadsticks as it hangs alongside mistletoe while screaming, “HOW’S THAT FOR FOWL PLAY, YA JERK.” More »