63 posts tagged "Kanye West"
Style At Your Fingertips
Aside from maybe a tiara, nothing heightens the glamour of a full-on evening look quite like a pair of gloves. Eye-catching gauntlets turned up on the Lanvin, Gucci, and Oscar de la Renta Fall runways. And at last week’s high-wattage Met Gala, divas from Madonna to Beyoncé to Paloma Faith covered up their digits with statement-making pairs of varying lengths. Kim Kardashian’s custom Givenchy number was the talk of the town, but what really piqued our interest was the gown’s built-in gloves, which prompted speculation that Kim was concealing an engagement ring (you know Kanye would go all out with a rock for his baby mama).
We predict we’ll be seeing more gloves at Cannes. Here, a show of hands.
Shayne Oliver’s Catching Some Air
With his cult clothing line, Hood by Air, Shayne Oliver is redefining and elevating streetwear. And thanks to a recent flurry of celebrity endorsements from the likes of Kanye West, Drake, and A$AP Rocky (a friend of Oliver’s who wore custom HBA pieces as the opening act of Rihanna’s Diamonds tour and also closed the label’s buzzy runway show during New York fashion week), the brand is having a bona fide “fashion moment.”
Last night at the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle, Oliver sat down with Garmento magazine founder Jeremy Lewis to discuss HBA’s rising star, his approach to design, and his future plans. Oliver explained that he draws inspiration “from the energy of the city itself and looking around at the younger guys who have a sense of urgency in the way they dress. What you see on them is what’s happening right now.” On the topic of his aesthetic, he offered, “There’s a huge sense of luxury in feeling comfortable. It’s breezy. It’s coy. It’s about having on a full cashmere look and feeling like you’re going to the gym. It’s the modern man who can be like, ‘I’m so relaxed and you’re not.’” Continue Reading “Shayne Oliver’s Catching Some Air” »
Tic Toc with Margiela and G-Shock
Is Maison Martin Margiela everywhere these days? Not really, but thanks to last year’s H&M capsule and Kanye West’s frequent sartorial and lyrical endorsements, the notoriously covert house has definitely experienced a spike in visibility. Today, Margiela makes news again with the announcement that it will be helping watchmaker G-Shock celebrate its thirtieth anniversary with a limited-edition collaborative timepiece. Titled the GA-300, the watch—only 3,000 models of which have been produced—marks Margiela’s first venture into the world of horlogerie. Staying true to MMM’s cerebral, deconstructed, think again! aesthetic, the watch sits atop a detachable silver leather strap that can be worn solo as a cuff. Priced at $300 (we’re sensing a theme) the wares will hit Margiela stores this Saturday.
Ending Paris Fashion Week On A Dropped Beat
Over the past 25 years, A.P.C. chief Jean Touitou has built an empire on what he calls “boring” fashion: “It’s only clothes,” he says, “but that’s what it’s about.” Every Parisienne worth her A.P.C. trench would agree, starting with Vanessa Seward: In the designer’s first season at the company, she asked not for a paycheck but for clothes. “Working with Jean is like being at home; I always try on the whole collection. It’s totally utilitarian Rive Gauche,” said Seward as her husband, musician/composer/producer Bertrand Burgalat, took command of the turntables. “My dream is to be dressed in A.P.C. and Valentino, but as I can’t afford Valentino I buy their shoes and the rest is A.P.C. or vintage.” Her success in her current gig has been such that Touitou is considering expanding her purview from her capsule collection to the regular line in seasons ahead.
The crowd at the freshly redone, Laurent Deroo-designed label HQ in the sixth arrondissement to toast the anniversary was a cultural mash-up of photographers (von Unwerth), publishers, artists (Sophie Calle), fashion folk (two Le-Tans, André Saraiva, Victoire de Castellane, Inès de la Fressange, Caroline de Maigret, Lanvin’s Elie Top), and music-world tastemakers. A noted music lover, Touitou (pictured above, with revelers) got on board with rap early on; the A.P.C. site features 26 self-produced music compilations and the in-house recording studio is open to staff and friends. Hence the presence of Metronomy band members, Jarvis Cocker, and Kanye West. As he scanned the remarkably laid-back, hysteria-free crowd, Touitou remarked, “Nowhere else in Paris do you find this. This is A.P.C.”
Fashion Week Countdown: After-Hours With Kanye West
There’s never a shortage of wild parties during fashion week, but one NYFW bash in particular is still being talked about—the VMan 21 party at the Mondrian Soho two Februarys ago where Kanye West made it rain money. Yes, real money, and lots of it. (OK, admittedly, Alexander Wang’s frat party and Valentino’s epic karaoke performance at Westway, both last September, were also standouts.) As we study our invites for next week, we’re wondering which shindig, if any, will measure up. Stay tuned.