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New York Streetwear Meets 1930s Shanghai at SHAO New York’s Fall/Winter 2025 Show
In a world where algorithm-fueled trend cycles have rendered it impossible to keep up with the latest in fashion, emerging fashion designers are inviting customers to take refuge in the worlds their creativity builds. SHAO New York’s Fall/Winter 2025 runway show took guests back to 1930s Shanghai with a New York twist. Read more
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BruceGlen: Where Faith Meets Fashion
What happens when faith meets fashion? Style Speaks Founder and Host, Kristin Vartan spoke with the co-founders and designers of BruceGlen about how when those two worlds combine, they can create hope. Twin brothers Bruce and Glen Proctors call themselves the “Fashion Preachers,” as they are both designers and church ministers. They have a track… Read more
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Style Speaks with Kristin Vartan: Demobaza brings Dystopian Cool to the LAFW runway
Written by Kristin Vartan Demobaza christens their clothes, the “reconstructed uniform.” One look at their Spring/Summer 2024 collection at LAFW, and you’ll know they favor rebellion over conformity. “It’s fresh it’s new, and they don’t conform to any kind of fashion that’s going on at the moment,” music artist, Goldiie Lux told Style Speak’s Kristin Read more
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LAFW: Claude Kameni Brings Cameroon-inspired Ready-to-Wear to the Runway
Written by Kristin Vartan | Photo by Chase Hanssen Walking into The Gallery at Nya studios was like stepping inside a kaleidoscope: Layers of flowers in orange, baby blue, and white bloomed on the walls in an otherworldly projection. Claude Kameni’s encapsulating world continued to come alive, once models cascaded down the LAFW runway in Read more
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Advisry Goes Back To Its Roots at LAFW
Keith Herron’s roots run deep in Sacramento. The City of Trees after all, is where the designer grew up. It’s also where Herron launched his fashion label, Advisry. Read more
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How I Style My Mom’s Prom Dress
I didn’t quite put on the dress, as much as I wrestled it. After sliding the heirloom garment out of its rosy sleeve, I realized it was seamless, but getting it on, would not be. That is how my grandmother sewed it, so it would fit my mother like a glove when she dawned it Read more
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