Palestinian-American model Gigi Hadid pays tribute to Anna Wintour’s first Vogue cover with photographer Sean Thomas. The November 1988 cover featured 19 year-old Michaela Bercu photographed by Peter Lindbergh wearing a Christian Lacroix and stonewashed Guess jeans (marking the first time a Vogue cover star was featured wearing jeans on the cover).
Hadid, however, is not wearing the $10,000 Christian Lacroix jacket featured on the November cover 26 years ago, but rather a sweater collaboration by former CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists Dana Lorenz of Fenton/Fallon and Andrea Lieberman of A.L.C.
Fashion as Food, Food as Fashion? Fashion IS Food?
Pre-Fall. Fall/Winter. Spring Couture. Resort. Spring/Summer. Fall Couture. Menswear. The fashion world and the Internet are hungry-- This is old news.
Only a small handful of designers have the luxury of designing two collections a year-- a move far away from the normative fashion calendar. With his established and celebrated career, Azzedine Alaia has the liberty to step out of the fashion race. Of course, most brands, and especially up-and-coming designers have struggle to keep up with the demanding schedule, which has powerhouse brands like Chanel creating between eight to ten collections a year each with over 50 individual looks.
However, the fashion world continues to crave more-- more stimulation, more entertainment. We are starving, and it seems the fashion world has finally responded with the most direct and innovative trend. Ironic for an industry berated for its looks and eating habits, food (and fast food especially- think Moschino + McDonald's!) has gotten the high-fashion spin: Moschino's Jeremy Scott presented bags and sweaters bearing the McDonald's logo and Hershey's candy bar wrappers in the form of dresses in his Fall 2014 collection. Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld recreated an entire shopping mall with Coco-chic food. Coca-Cola got a spin from Ashish Gupta at the London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 presentations. Anya Hindmarch has transformed cereal boxes into token clutches. Accessories designer Charlotte Olympia has presented a series of bags resembling Chinese takeaway boxes while Olympia-Le Tan, steering from her signature book clutches, is now selling purses resembling milk-bar cartons.
While this kitschy trend may seem like an easy one to forgo, fashionistas all over the world are embracing it with open arms like hungry children Never one to shy away from bold fashion, for example, Vogue Japan editor-at-large Anna Dello Russo can be seen running around New York, Japan, Paris and London donning Moschino's highly-popular designs.
Yet, for an idea and a theme that is so highly accessible (are you craving $1 french fries from McDonald's yet?), this trend is an expensive one with clutches costing upwards of one grand... I can't help but think that Marie Antoinette would have been a fan, but thank goodness that this trend wasn't popular during her time- if the French were angry over her careless spending and the causes of their starvation, can you imagine the riots over empty purses resembling food?
Ridiculous or genius, one has to admit, more so than ever before, we now have a feast for the eyes.
Text by: Daise Bedolla
Photography: "Take It To Go," Wenjun Miakoda Liang for Interview magazine
(A big shout-out to bienenkiste who posted the lait de coco Chanel image earlier today. I had yet to see this editorial, and it is a new favorite.)
Kerry @ FM London photographed & styled by Jessie Bush for Vogue Australia
Accessories:
1) Ryan Storer ear cuff and Helmut Lang sweater
2) Eddie Borgo five finger chain ring and Helmut Lang t-shirt
3) Ryan Storer ear cuff and Helmut Lang sweater
It's all about the high-impact accessories-- Ryan Storer ear cuffs are my new favorite. Buy here.
Street Style from the Midsummer Celebrations at New York City's Battery Park, photographed by Malu Alvaraz
On Friday, June 20th, between 3,000 to 5,000 people gathered at New York City's Battery Park to celebrate the summer solstice at the 2014 Swedish Midsummer Festival. Attendees wore traditional flower wreaths, played traditional games, danced to fiddle music and decorated the midsummer pole. While many wore traditional white dresses, others injected their own personal style into the summer celebrations with crochet pieces, converse sneakers, crop tops and skinny jeans.
"Art Socks," Stylist Kate Brien sees fashion from a different perspective. Her blog View on Topp has attracted attention from world-renowned publications like American Vogue and Spanish Vogue for her birds-eye view spin on fashion photography. In one of her latest projects, she has combined famous works of art with fashion using socks and shoes. Featuring pieces from Frida Kahlo, Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh, Paul Gaugin, Edvard Munch, and Picasso, these photographs are sure to rock your socks off.
Nicolas Ghesquière presented his first ever Cruise collection for Louis Vuitton earlier today in Monaco. Marking his second overall collection for the brand since presenting for the Fall/Winter 2014 season, Ghesquière collaborated with Juergen Teller to photograph the line-up once again.
As Karl Lagerfeld created a spectacle for Chanel's unveiling of the Resort 2015 collection in Dubai, celebrity guests ferried to the venue in abras clad in ensembles fit to celebrate the fashion house. Chanel's oasis set took two months to contruct amidst bare sand, palm trees, and cactus and henna plants. Karl Lagerfeld noted, "With the highest building [the Burj Khalifa in Dubai], I thought there was a reason to show the highest fashion." Guests including Frieda Pinto, Tilda Swinton, Haya and Sama Abu Khadra, Dakota Fanning, Princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz and Janelle Monáe (who also performed at the event) followed suit.
Photographs courtesy of Stephane Feugere for WWD and Moez Achour for Style.com.
discoholicmusic
snowghoul
areudirty
turnnoffyourmind
prguitarman
ellievsbear
andulkaphoto
theartofmadeline
origamiaround