Tag: Fashion
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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…
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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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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.
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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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The Micro-Trends of 2022 that I Loved
I ‘aught’ to tell you: some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. I wear mine all over my body. It’s a canvas of things I love, from people I love, and a time I bittersweetly, have feelings for: the early 2000s. I grew up in the early and late aughts, trying to figure out…
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Inside the Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray Exhibition in Sacramento, CA
Ann Ray (French, born 1969), Flesh and Blood,2008. Archival chromogenic print. Courtesy of Barrett Barrera Projects When friendship and fashion merge, the creative process becomes poetry. The stanzas are steeped in soul. The verses stitch together hearts. The Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendezvous exhibition is a love letter to this kind of collaboration…
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Ganni and Cowboy Boots at Stanford Mansion
Photos by Anaya Salcedo These boots were made for strutting across a runway, and that’s just what they did this past year. From Copenhagen Fashion Week on a boardwalk that became Ganni’s makeshift catwalk, to fall fashion month at the Ralph Lauren runway show. That’s where cowboy boots were showcased at the home of the…
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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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Inside Louis Vuitton’s 200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries Exhibit in Beverly Hills
Fitting two hundred candles on a birthday cake is an ambitious ask. But building a cake for someone’s 200th birthday out of 31,700 Lego bricks, is achievable after 50 hours, with the ingenuity of a luxury house’s French atelier and seven children. The innocence of youth is a protection from envisioning obstacles or barriers. So…
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How to Wear Barbiecore or Valentino Pink | The Chic List
Millennial Pink just got a makeover, and her name is Valentino Pink. Or should I say Piccioli Pink? After all, it was the creative brainchild of the luxury house’s Creative Director, Pierpaolo Piccioli to send models in head-to-toe fuchsia during Valentino’s Fall/Winter 2022-23 runway, the four walls even whispering, or perhaps shouting pink!–if indeed they…
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