From glamrock eyeshadow to a glut of guyliner, the eye makeup has been as bold as the clothing at the men’s collections this season. At Junya Watanabe’s runway show in Paris today, makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench buffed smudgy black eyeliner and lightly glossy lips that chimed neatly with a moody collection of reconstructed suiting. Rather than a … Read more
Call it a tale of two Cudis. Last Friday, a 33-ft sculpture of Kid Cudi was erected outside the Place de la Bourse, one of three monumental statues (the other two landed in New York and Long Beach) that depicted the rapper in streetwear with his arms outstretched, his eye sockets and open mouth beaming … Read more
Rag & Bone’s SVP of men’s design, Kyle Sweeney, is determined to make barrel-legged jeans the silhouette of the season. Fortunately for those who have gotten accustomed to the comfort of baggier styles, he’s still keeping the top portion of the jeans loose but tapering the legs for a slimmer look. “This season we were … Read more
With awards season in full swing, it’s Jenny Packham’s time to shine. Quite literally. If you’ve spent the past few weeks scrolling through the red carpet galleries from the Golden Globes and Critic’s Choice Awards (among the many, many other events taking place in Hollywood right now) you’ll have seen plenty of her gowns doing … Read more
Any puffer brand has a baked-in conundrum: Few people, and women least of all, want to look like the Michelin man. Judging by the front-row getups this PFW, ultimately they’d rather freeze. That’s where a brand like Rains has to get creative, which they did this season by staging a presentation in the frigid, hulled-out … Read more
Although France’s Bibliothèque Nationale (National Library) Richelieu site is positioned on the same street as the Kenzo studio, it made a great venue for tonight’s show for more than mere convenience. As Nigo had earlier explained, this Kenzo collection worked to connect multiple cultural references in order to concoct something that hit the eye as … Read more
Colin Jones was a British Royal Ballet dancer who joined the company in 1953, and subsequently became a serious photojournalist, covering 1960s war hotspots, social issues and capturing indelible images of British youthquake stars like The Who and Mick Jagger. Among his body of work was an extraordinary 1966 day-in-the-life story for Time Life on … Read more
Mihara Yasuhiro has bittersweet memories of wearing his brother’s hand-me-downs. He liked the sense of possibility when he wore adult clothes, and he also recalls the first time he tagged along to a disco, when he was about 11-years-old. “When I entered I felt like I had stepped into this glittery, glossy, nocturnal world, and … Read more
There’s a lot below the surface in Y-3’s marriage of fashion and activewear. Simply put, in order for you to play hard and look great while doing so, these garments have a lot of work to do, and they are aided in that task by technology. There’s a constant play between the natural (be that … Read more
SPIRITUAL WORLD. White is symbolic of prayer. The lines above are transcribed directly from the note Rei Kawakubo wrote, and had translated into English to accompany—if not directly to explain—her Comme des Garçons Homme Plus show. Well, you knew what she was saying. Helpless before the state of the world, what can we do but … Read more
