This round of Paris Fashion Week shows has seen a lot of shift changes at the top of the creative ladder with luxury brands like Saint Laurent and Lanvin debuting collections under new creative direction (Anthony Vaccarello and Bouchra Jarrar, respectively). Friday it was Maria Grazia Chiuri’s...
Beyoncé took to her Instagram account to release images and a video of the new campaign for the fall collection of her activewear line Ivy Park. The new line, a joint venture with Sir Philip Green of Topshop, takes a more minimalist, monochromatic approach, with graphic black-and-white hooded sweatshirts,...
On a three-day break from a tour that was about to catapult him in front of thousands of people at back-to-back concerts at The Forum in Southern California, Alex González gave a short lesson last Wednesday on how to dress like a rock star. “I cut the sleeves off,” said the drummer from Maná, pointing...
Though there hasn’t been a single unifying theme to coalesce out of Paris Fashion Week (yet), the third day did serve up a pair of shows that put texture and fabrication center stage: Balmain and Rick Owens. Balmain Balmain’s spring/summer 2017 collection, presented at the Hôtel Potocki in the...
Andreas Kronthaler and Vivienne Westwood are joining the see-now, buy-now gang, with plans to offer a capsule collection of 20 pieces from their unisex collection that will show on Saturday in Paris. It is the first time the Westwood brand is offering a preview capsule collection and it will be...
Jenna Dewan Tatum is leaping onto New York billboards and into women’s fashion and lifestyle magazines for her new Danskin ad campaign. Launching today, the ads show the dancer-turned-actress in edgy activewear styles (read: leatherlike leggings and sports bras with revealing cutouts) as well as...
“Bye,” Elle Fanning said a bit too gleefully to stylist Samantha McMillen during introductions with a reporter. McMillen, who was hosting a dinner party celebrating the Asos fall 2016 collection, said nothing as the actress scampered off. The two were part of an intimate gathering that also included...
In the increasingly crowded field of actresses-turned-entrepreneurs, Reese Witherspoon certainly ranks near the top, having just opened her second Draper James store, at Highland Park Village in Dallas. The Southern-inspired collection debuted as an e-commerce business last May and its first boutique...
Ariana Grande is topping the fragrance charts again with her sophomore release. After making a splashy debut on the scent scene with her fragrance Ari selling more units than any other launch last year, the pop star appears to have another hit on her hands with its follow-up, Sweet Like Candy. ...
Vitalii Sediuk has struck again. The Ukrainian prankster, who attacked Gigi Hadid in Milan last week, on Wednesday went after Kim Kardashian West shortly after she visited Balmain’s headquarters in Paris during the French capital’s fashion week. Sediuk lunged at the reality television star as she...
Kate Hudson certainly has abs of steel — and she’s putting them to good use. The actress, mother, health enthusiast and athleisurewear designer has teamed up with the Council of Fashion Designers of America to become this year’s ambassador for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. And she’s bolstering...
Sarah Jessica Parker makes no bones about the fact that she is all about New York. Carrie Bradshaw references aside, the designer-loving actress has fittingly teamed with another Big Apple institution, Bloomingdale’s, for the launch of the SJP LBD collections. Having debuted her SJP shoe line with...
Star power lit up the Chateau Marmont on Tuesday as an A-list of celebrities gathered to celebrate Revlon’s women’s health mission. Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman welcomed Halle Berry, Jaime King, Rashida Jones and her mom, Peggy Lipton, Courteney Cox, Anjelica Huston, Rachel Zoe, Rachel Roy,...
Rihanna closed out the second day of Paris Fashion Week here on Wednesday night with a pair of back-to-back, live-streamed-to-Tidal shows that marked her Fenty Puma by Rihanna collection’s official debut in the City of Lights. The Spring/Summer 2017 men’s and women’s collection, shown at the Hotel...
Standing under a gala tent set up next to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue, fresh from conducting a program of “Gershwin and the Jazz Age,” Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel again confirmed that Tuesday’s L.A. Phil’s opening night gala was his eighth. “[The gala] is...
The first day of shows here served up some of the same trends we noticed coming out of New York Fashion Week – trousers with high waists and generously cut legs and riffs on the men’s dress shirt to name just two. Jacquemus The spring/summer 2017 Jacquemus collection, shown in a tented space in...
Regardless of which political party they are standing with (or perhaps sprinting from), millions tuned into tonight’s long-awaited debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Early predictions pegged the at-home TV turnout at Super Bowl-worthy levels smashing the 80.6 million who tuned in...
Gucci tapped British actor Tom Hiddleston to appear in the advertising campaign of its cruise 2017 tailoring collection. Photographer Glen Luchford lensed Hiddleston at Tony Duquette’s Dawnridge Estate in Los Angeles, where rooms are filled with antiquities and paintings. Joe McKenna styled the...
What? Didn’t peg Donatella Versace for the athletic type? She’s more invested in the sports world than one might assume. She hits the gym, at least according to Instagram, where she recently posted a few photos of herself midworkout on a Pilates reformer, as well as bikini shots to flaunt the fruits...
The show notes proclaimed the collection’s name: Charmani. Find an American of a certain age who didn’t think “Mr. Whipple” first and “charm,” second. That idiomatic quirk aside, the handle proved accurate. The collection Giorgio Armani showed on Friday, his first in his new, midweek time slot,...
Talent and beauty don’t skip a generation. Exhibit A is Wet n Wild’s “Generations of Wild” advertising campaign breaking in January starring Jamie Foxx’s daughter, Corinne Foxx; Andy Garcia’s daughter, Alessandra Garcia, and Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger’s daughter Ireland Baldwin. Pictured alone...
If success is the best revenge, then Gwen Stefani is slaying those who’ve done her wrong.One culprit in particular is ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, who allegedly caused the demise of their 13-year marriage with a cheating scandal. Stefani is bouncing back from what she admitted was “the crazy year...
If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all. This seems to be Kendall Jenner’s message to her Instagram followers — only, even her most avid supporters can no longer comment on her page, as she’s disabled all comments following the backlash she received for her Vogue España...
Miuccia Prada isn’t so shy after all. You know all those peek-a-boo show bows she’s famous for, the quick blink-and-you-missed-her half-steps from backstage? It turns out, they have nothing to do with reticence or stage fright. Rather, Prada just may not be into going out there to soak up the applause....
Plain old foundation just won’t cut it anymore. This was La Mer’s thinking, too, and on Oct. 3 the brand will bring its first major makeup collection to market. The 50-year-old company’s signature Creme de la Mer is getting pigmented counterparts in the form of a foundation that’s being introduced...
WEI Beauty unleashed its new Golden Root Multi-Action Anti-Pollution Mist at a luncheon on Wednesday at NeueHouse in Los Angeles. Actresses Jaime King and Jamie Chung helped celebrate the launch, which was also attended by influencer Cara Santana who is recently engaged to actor Jesse Metcalfe....
Furthering its efforts to break stereotypes of plus-size women, Lane Bryant will on Monday launch a fall ad campaign titled “This Body Is Made to Shine.” “With previous campaigns we’ve helped disrupt the dated and ridiculous views and depictions of the ‘perfect’ body displayed in the media. With...
The world of digital advertising might be “mobile first,” but it’s increasingly setting its sights on the physical realm.This week, Facebook introduces a new mobile ad capability that aims to encourage in-store traffic and purchases — while also courting bricks-and-mortar advertisers. The product...
The Webster is thinking pink for the unveiling of its first West Coast boutique. The influential specialty store, which has become a destination for both brands that strive to wholesale to selective retailers and customers who yearn for its curated taste, is marking this week’s opening of its store...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced this week that its fall 2016 Wear LACMA collection will include wearable items inspired by Japanese ceramics, the street-lamp sculpture permanently installed in front of the museum and a 1959 painting by Jay DeFeo. The art-meets-fashion mash-up, launched...
Paula Schneider plans to exit her post as American Apparel chief executive Oct. 3, WWD has learned. She is to be succeeded by the company’s general counsel and chief administrative officer, Chelsea Grayson, who is in the process of transitioning into the role. The change comes on the heels of the...
Hurley is getting in tune with Fender for a men’s capsule collection that syncs surf style with rock music. Launching for holiday on Oct. 3 in Hurley’s bricks-and-mortar and e-commerce stores, the seven pieces in the men’s collaboration include an adaptation of Hurley’s signature Phantom board...
Of all things core to Alberta Ferretti’s brand — ethereal romance, goddess, dresses, the diaphanous, etc. — borrowing from the boys is not on the list. But she played against type to an extent for spring, using tailored men’s wear trousers, blazers and robust cowboy belts to underscore a side of...
Macy’s is offering brides-to-be a new way to prep for their big day. The department store has teamed with BeGlammed to deliver at-home primping to its customers for important occasions or to simply to look stunning for long #netflixandchill sessions. To satisfy those customers in 22 cities, the...
A fashion label sponsoring an artist’s exhibition is kind of ho-hum in the world of marketing, but COS is ditching the status quo by developing a capsule collection inspired by the late artist Agnes Martin. As part of its support of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s upcoming retrospective of the...
The clothes remain manifestations of rich imagination and craft. Yet the awe has faded, parallel to the element of surprise. Alessandro Michele thus stands at a precipice, a position that speaks as much to fashion’s frenetic, unforgiving pace as to his spring output of Gucci. By any standard of...
Carl Spackler wasn’t much of a looker. The greenskeeper played by Bill Murray in the 1980s cult hit “Caddyshack” opted for a dirty T-shirt, combat boots and a camo bucket hat — complete with chin strap — as he waged war on a marauding gopher. But while his fashion choices may have been dubious,...
The only thing standing between a woman and a perfect look is a pothole. This, along with Bobbi Brown and an arsenal of her makeup artists, of course. Tomorrow, 40 of the brand’s makeup artists — 20 in New York City and 20 in Los Angeles — will partake in the Bobbi Brown x Uber Retouch campaign,...