Category: Fashion Week
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Spring/Summer 2023 Trends Become One With Nature
It seems that the fashion set has taken a page from David William Thoreau and become one with nature. In January, Daniel Rosenberry’s latest couture collection for Schiaparelli took literal inspiration from the animal kingdom with embroidered animal heads, hand sculpted in foam, wool and silk faux fur. They were “hand-painted to look as lifelike…
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Making “Indie Sleaze” work for your 2023 wardrobe
If you tend to have a sleeker style, it doesn’t mean you can’t let out your inner “indie sleaze.” This fashion era that followed Y2K, is one that can be borderline cringe for people like me that were in middle school at its peak: heavy smudged under eyeliner, choppy bangs, skinny jeans with combat boots…but…
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Inside Ralph Lauren’s First Runway Show on the West Coast
The Ralph Lauren Spring 2023 show was a love letter to California, written in a different font than you may have imagined for the brand’s first West Coast Show “I have always been inspired by the natural beauty, the heritage, and glamour of the West Coast of America. California has always been a land of…
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Gucci Goes Hollywood: A Look Inside the “Gucci Love Parade”
Hollywood Boulevard, a sidewalk with stars that line a street of dreams. These are the aspirations, realized, cemented into the ground iconizing actors and musicians who have “made it.” The Walk of Fame also represents the hopes of aspiring creatives and legends in the making. As Creative Director of Gucci, Alessandro Michele points out in…
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Bike shorts are here to stay! Here’s a chic way to wear them
Bike shorts, they’re cyclical! The trend came back around (hehe) last Spring, thanks to street style stars like Hailey Bieber channeling Princess Diana (the reigning royalty of the trend) and Emily Ratajkowski. I thought the fad would fade out fast. Summer fashion month has proven that bike shorts are here to stay. I finally caved…
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get ready for fashion week with krischic season 2!
If you know me, you know that I follow fashion like some would football (don’t get me wrong, I love football too and used to be a cheerleader for the sport in high school). I keep up with Vogue Runway every fashion month. This season is no different, even with shows going from in-person to…
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