The New Breed
August 19, 2013
White means innocence, but it also means heat, as the industry’s newest, hottest faces wear the whitest whites of the season. A lightness of being and a gentleness of spirit belies the power of the girls.
The Observers
July 18, 2013
Like fashion itself, the landscape of fashion journalism has transformed in some radical ways over the last decade—and also like fashion, it’s arguably busier, crazier, more democratic, more anarchic, and more interesting than it has ever been. Cathy Horyn, Robin Givhan, Suzy Menkes, Bridget Foley, Tim Blanks, and Virginie Mouzat discuss the singular (and delicate) art of reporting on fashion—and writing about it critically—in an age when everyone (and anyone) has an opinion.
Virginie Mouzat
July 15, 2013
VIRGINIE MOUZAT: Editor in Chief, Luxury/Fashion, Le Figaro. HOME BASE: Paris. PROVENANCE: The Paris suburbs. PAST: Began her career as a model before becoming a freelance writer; joined Le Figaro as beauty editor and later moved over to cover fashion.
Robin Givhan
July 15, 2013
ROBIN GIVHAN: Special Correspondent, Style and Culture, Newsweek and The Daily Beast. HOME BASE: Washington, D.C. PROVENANCE: Detroit, Michigan. PAST: Fashion editor at The Washington Post from 1995 to 2010, with a brief sojourn as an editor at Vogue; in 2006, became the first fashion writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
Suzy Menkes
July 15, 2013
SUZY MENKES: Fashion Editor, International Herald Tribune HOME BASE: Paris. PROVENANCE: London and Brighton, England. PAST: After leaving Cambridge in 1966, joined The Times of London as a junior reporter; headhunted by Charles Wintour (father of Anna) who was then editor of the London Evening Standard; joined the Daily Express before returning to The Times; left The Times and joined The Independent in 1987; poached by the International Herald Tribune in 1988.
Tim Blanks
July 15, 2013
TIM BLANKS: Editor at Large, style.com HOME BASE: London. PROVENANCE: Auckland, New Zealand. PAST: Host of the internationally syndicated Canadian TV show Fashion File from 1989 to 2006; editor at Toronto Life Fashion magazine.
Cathy Horyn
July 15, 2013
CATHY HORYN: Fashion Critic, The New York Times HOME BASE: New York City. PROVENANCE: Coshocton, Ohio. PAST: Fashion critic at The Detroit News and The Washington Post; contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
Bridget Foley
July 15, 2013
BRIDGET FOLEY: Executive Editor, Women’s Wear Daily. HOME BASE: New York City. PROVENANCE: Albany and Troy, New York. PAST: “I’ve had a number of different jobs at WWD over the years, but when I was hired here, it was really only my second job.”
Shailene Woodley
June 28, 2013
With her performance in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, Shailene Woodley, star of the television teen pregnancy-palooza The Secret Life of the American Teenager, broke loose of the golden handcuffs of teen celebrity. Now, with a slew of new films, she’s ready to embrace her freedom.
Andra Ursuta
June 24, 2013
For this summer’s Venice Biennale, New York-based artist Andra Ursuta conjures dark memories and hostile forces to make a new form of personal work.
François Nars
March 26, 2013
The inimitable makeup master on the ever-tricky business of beauty, the changing face(s) of fashion, and the untamable passion of women who love, love, love their Orgasm.
The Curators
March 6, 2013
Mixing fashion with culture and high with low, Independent concept stores like 10 Corso Como, Colette, The Webster, and Opening Ceremony-and the people who run them-have amassed slavishly devoted followings by offering an obsessively assembled, tightly edited, and ever-evolving antidote to all of the instant style and on-demand consumption that has come to dominate fashion today. a conversation about finding and choosing, seeking and rummaging, discovering and unearthing, selecting and discarding—and, of course, buying and shopping—with fashion’s cult curators of cool.
Humberto Leon and Carol Lim
February 20, 2013
California transplants Leon and Lim, who first met two decades ago as undergrads at UC Berkeley before both moving to New York in the mid-1990s, conceived of Opening Ceremony in 2001, and opened the shop—which is conceptually built around the idea of spotlighting one country each year (hence the Olympian-sounding name)—in SoHo in 2002.
Laure Heriard Dubreuil
February 20, 2013
Laure Heriard Dubreuil, whose family runs the Rémy Martin cognac house, studied at FIT in New York and worked for Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent in Paris. She decamped for South Beach in 2007 to co-found the Webster with friends Milan Vukmirovic and Frederic Dechnik in a renovated Art Deco building, and the store’s razor-sharp edit of fashion and accessories has almost singlehandedly helped style-ify bikini-centric Miami.
Sarah Andelman
February 20, 2013
Sarah Andelman, once an intern at Purple magazine, founded Colette in 1997 with her mother (also the shop’s namesake, Colette Roussaux) in the building in which they once lived; the store has since become a bona fide fashion-world destination, not only for its tightly edited mix of high and street fashion, products, gadgets, collaborations, art shows, and performances, but for the endearingly quirky individuality that suffuses it all (including a bar devoted to mineral water).
Carla Sozzani
February 20, 2013
A longtime fashion editor for magazines such as Italian Elle and Vogue (where her sister, Franca, still serves as editor in chief), Sozzani founded the exhibition space Galleria Carla Sozzani in 1990 in a vacant garage at 10 Corso Como in Milan, eventually expanding to include the café, roof garden, bookstore, fashion and design shop, and hotel that comprises the art-fashion-lifestyle retail concept experience that is 10 Corso Como today; Sozzani has also collaborated with Azzedine Alaïa and Rei Kawakubo, and her gallery has published numerous books and photography catalogs.
Simple
November 29, 2012
The big look-at-me fashion statement makes way for an edgy new postmodern take on classic clothes as all eyes are, once again, on the wearer. A refreshed graphic simplicity reinvigorates subconsciously familiar silhouettes worn with bare legs, unadorned faces, and youthful embellishments—and less of the fashion drama. It’s what feels right for right now
Diane Von Furstenberg
August 24, 2012
Diane von Furstenberg—designer, businesswoman, CFDA president, rising phoenix, fairy godmother, and eternal icon of independent chic—is once again the life of the fashion party (and the after-party)
Delicacy
May 31, 2012
Embrace the season with a graceful femininity and a lightness of being. Longer lengths, sheer layers in gentle skin tones, and a demure ease are all part of a softly spoken fashion vocabulary of sensual romanticism and ethereal beauty. Welcome to the new age of innocence.
Julianne Hough
May 30, 2012
Having quickstepped, mamboed, and jived with the stars, the very lithe and limber 23-year-old Hough—who co-stars with Tom Cruise in the new ’80s hair-metal musical Rock of Ages—is now vying to become one of them herself.