Tag: runway
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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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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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How the Chanel Cruise 2024 Collection Inspired My Outfit
Photo by Tim Regas Fashion has some serious transportive magic. In one outfit a person can have a designer shoe-clad foot in Paris and the other in Los Angeles. Inside the gates of the iconic Paramount Studios, models walked the makeshift catwalk of the Chanel Cruise 2024 runway show in sneakers and leg warmers. Chanel…
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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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“Back to School” Fashion | Trend Alert
I’m a graduate but a lifelong learner. And I must say, I am so well-schooled in the subject of style, that this test straight from the fall fashion runways, is one I’ll pass with flying colors. It’s all about: back to school. Whether class is about to be in session for you, you’ve already graduated,…
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Dior x ERL & Fendace make fashion-forward mark in LA
The past week was an exercise in keeping up with the [Kim] Jones’–collaborations, that is. From Venice Beach to Beverly Hills the creative director of both Dior Men and Fendi took over the Los Angeles County fashion scene by style storm: A tale of two cities and brand identities: The Dior Men and ERL Resort…
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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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Roots –What I Learned While Dressing Like a Haute Couture Model
Going back to one’s roots is audaciously grounding. As Americans, we prioritize the idea of individuality while other cultures seem to value connection—a connection between people, a connection to nature, a connection to past and present. What we sometimes fail to realize is that by connecting, we are actually doing a service to ourselves as…
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