Agent Provocateur Leads The Lingerie Pack
When it comes to high-end lingerie, Agent Provocateur reigns supreme. Founded in 1994 by Vivienne Westwood’s son Joseph Corre and his wife Serena Rees, Agent Provocateur offered a mix of glamour and...
View ArticleJCTV Presents: Calvin Klein Underwear Campaign
Enjoy both eye candy and design inspiration with Calvin Klein’s new underwear campaign. The company is on a multi-country campaign for nine men from nine different nations to compete for a year’s...
View ArticleNew York Fashion Week: American Style Takes A Restrained Turn
New York Fashion Week has seen passing trends in the past few years, but this season’s mostly restrained propositions heralded a return to straightforward American fashion that’s less about making a...
View ArticlePop-Up 2.0: Smithshop + Stor @ Khastoo
When Rei Kawakubo opened the first Comme des Garçons guerilla store in 2004, she paved the way for a nascent retail trend that has since become an all but ubiquitous fashion staple: the pop-up shop....
View ArticleNew York Fashion Week Review: American Sportswear Updates
At New York Fashion Week, designers eagerly sought to define the aesthetic direction of the autumn/winter ’11 season collections. Although we’re bound to see a variety of diverging stylistic directions...
View ArticleGiulietta, An Italian/American Line
As the fashion industry flocks to Europe and the dust settles stateside, it’s an Italian-bred New York transplant who’s basking in the residual New York Fashion Week glow. Veteran accessories designer...
View ArticleTrendsetter: Richard Haines
After finding success as a designer for brands like J Crew, Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis, Sean Combs and Bill Blass, Richard Haines returned to the craft that first brought him to New York: illustration....
View ArticleStreet Art Sells Products, Self
Much has already been made of street art’s elevation from lowbrow vandalism to highbrow artform. In the past year alone, LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art opened its controversial Art in the Streets...
View ArticleNYFW Review: Optimism In Many Forms
Although the recent New York Fashion Week was a decidedly calm affair, the runways were teeming with frenetic colors, active experiments, dramatic fantasies and no-nonsense, American-style sportswear....
View ArticlePatricia Morales Turns Hair On End
For Patricia Morales, hair is as much of a fashion statement as any article of clothing. Throughout her career, the LA and New York-based hair stylist has sculpted natural locks, wigs and extensions...
View ArticleFashion’s Next Big Brands
Among the more than 500 collections that showed in New York, London, Milan and Paris, one question sits at the front of the industry’s mind: which are the next labels worthy and ready to ascend to big...
View ArticleTrendsetter: Chiara Orlandini
About Chiara: Chiara is Italian-born and currently resides in New York City. A shoe designer by trade, she is driven by deep curiosity and is deeply in love with the craft. What’s hot right now?...
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