insert_link Fashion Ken Downing joins Hearst’s fashion magazine e-commerce startup “The Tower” Former longtime Neiman Marcus fashion director Ken Downing is moving onto his next big project. Downing has joined publisher Hearst as its chief brand officer to oversee the vision, creation and marketing strategy for a new fashion magazine e-commerce venture called The Tower. The editor-infused digital shopping platform will begin launching next spring and will have four individual storefronts by the end of 2022, each with the point of view […] todayDecember 23, 2021
insert_link Fashion Kerby Jean-Raymond is taking “Your Friends in New York” to the Next Level Kerby Jean-Raymond has spent the last year and a half working on a secret project to bolster the next generation of Black designers. In early 2020, the founder and designer of Pyer Moss approached the luxury fashion conglomerate Kering with a plan to create a talent incubator which would shape emerging, outside-the-establishment labels into profitable businesses, and thus Your Friends in New York was born. “With Black people, there can only be one of us,” […] todayDecember 22, 2021
insert_link Fashion Valentino is transforming its Instagram into a Platform for Young Designers In comparison to London, New York, or Paris, we don’t hear much about Milan’s emerging designers. The infrastructure of the Italian fashion industry has never been the most accommodating of nesting grounds but it’s also hard to see past the bright lights generated by Versace, Prada, Bottega Veneta, Gucci, and Valentino. Still, there are plenty of burgeoning labels worthy of distinction, including Vitelli, Adriana Hot Couture and Marco Rambaldi. Now, Valentino has decided to use their impressive clout - […] todayDecember 21, 2021
insert_link Fashion Rihanna is bumming everyone out this Holiday Season As temperatures drop and days become shorter, as the leaves on the trees turn golden and fall to the ground, as frost sparkles and the wind whistles, hot girl summer transitions into cold ass winter. Quite literally, if Rihanna has it her way. The newly crowned "national hero of Barbados" has sparked some questions after releasing a pair of assless (you read that right) plaid pajamas as part of a new festive Savage […] todayDecember 20, 2021
insert_link Fashion Edward Enninful has written his Memoir, “A Visible Man” Last week, Edward Enninful announced on his Instagram page that his memoir, "A Visible Man," will be coming in September 2022. Edward Enninful is the European editorial director of Vogue and editor-in-chief of British Vogue, taking the helm of the magazine on August 1, 2017. In just over two years as editor-in-chief of the famed publication, he helped shape a new vision for fashion media — not just in the UK, but globally — […] todayDecember 16, 2021
insert_link Fashion Pantone has released their 2022 Color of the Year – Get ready for “Very Peri” on the Runways Despite Pantone selecting two Colors of the Year for 2021, we didn't see much of either over the last 12 months. The messaging behind the hues — a bright, sunshine yellow meant to symbolize optimism and a classic, grounding gray that hinted at dependability — was in line with our collective need for hope and strength. But it appeared the fashion world decided to express these sentiments in grassy greens and chocolate browns instead. Still, the […] todayDecember 15, 2021
insert_link Fashion The Top Trending Fashion Searches on Google for 2021 are… (Drum Roll, Please) Nothing gets at the breadth of the topics, questions and figures that were on our minds any given year than Google's annual ranking of top trending searches, which covers everything from news to celebrities to the questions big and small we type into our browsers in a quest for answers — how to style, how to pronounce, how to be. The 2021 Year in Search report highlights the words, names and phrases that […] todayDecember 14, 2021
insert_link Fashion Shop Beyonce’s latest Ivy Park Collection, “Halls of Ivy,” before it’s gone Ivy Park fans everywhere are getting in formation to shop the latest installment of Beyoncé’s beloved activewear line. After roping the world in with the brand’s special rodeo-themed collection in August, Beyoncé’s Ivy Park, which is produced with Adidas, is taking shoppers back to school with the collegiate chic Halls of Ivy collection. “Welcome to the HALLS of IVY,” is the tagline that accompanies the co-ed campaign starring Natalia Bryant, […] todayDecember 13, 2021
insert_link Fashion Joseph Altuzarra launches new ready-to-wear label Altu New York designer Joseph Altuzarra is coming for our closets with a relaxed ready-to-wear label called Altu. Altuzarra—known for side-slit pencil skirts and Kamala Harris pantsuits—is the designer behind the new collection of “genderful” clothes with the new relaxed, ready-to-wear label. Genderful, says the designer, because he doesn’t like the “negation of gender expression that comes with the word genderless or gender neutral. For me,” he adds, “genderful is a […] todayDecember 10, 2021