paris fashion week

  • J'Adore! Zendaya Will Debut Her 1st Collab With Tommy Hilfiger During Paris Fashion Week

    She’s already an It girl here in America, and now ingenue and fashion muse Zendaya will attempt to conquer France. According to industry site Fashionista, the actress and singer will debut the first capsule collection in her collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger with a presentation during Paris Fashion Week on Saturday, March 2. Zendaya was announced…

  • Lookbook: The Glow Up's Guide to Fall-Winter Paris Haute Couture Week 2018-2019

    If we could’ve been anywhere this past week to escape the summer heat (and increasingly hypocritical patriotism here in the States), it would’ve been Fall-Winter Haute Couture Week in Paris. From July 1st through the 5th, the City of Lights once again played host to fashion’s greatest connoisseurs (when does it not?) as 34 designers…

  • For the Culture: Celebs Stepped Out to Support Virgil Abloh’s Debut at Louis Vuitton

    In March, Virgil Abloh made headlines when he was announced as the new artistic director of menswear for Louis Vuitton, becoming the first African American to hold the position. (Might I add, we’re still shook and inspired by that.) Today, Thursday, Abloh debuted his first collection for Louis Vuitton Men. As he walked the runway…

  • Virgil Abloh Takes the Reins at Louis Vuitton Menswear 

    Is there such a thing as “Black Man Magic”? If there isn’t, then someone needs to start that hashtag and pin it to Virgil Abloh, the designer of luxury-streetwear label Off-White. The 34-year old-Chicago native has done in five short years what it takes many a lifetime in the fashion business to achieve: create a…

  • Paris Fashion Week: Ooh La La, Louis Vuitton!

    Go, #TeamNatural! Paris Fashion Week ended with natural hair trending strongly on the runways, and Louis Vuitton’s show was no exception. Along with showcasing natural hair, designer Nicholas Ghesquière returned to the house of Louis Vuitton this season after a long absence from the runways and showed his own variation of the primary colors in…

  • Paris Fashion Week: Chanel and McQueen Give Us a Contrast in Modern Classics

    Chanel is the definition of classic. Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel’s longtime designer, has kept the label’s image moving by making modern classics out of tweed jackets, quilted leather bags and patent leather cap-toe boots, and by both adding sparkle to fabric and #BlackGirlMagic to the runways. This season, a full-scale enchanted forest played host to a…

  • Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent Shows Us the Appeal of All-Black Everything

    Seriously sexy suits cut from lush black velvet, sensuous silks, luxurious black leather and the vibrant palette of African wildlife have always been the hallmarks of the famed Parisian house of Yves Saint Laurent—now simply known as Saint Laurent. Saint Laurent’s current designer, Anthony Vaccarello, turned out an almost all-black collection, save for a few…

  • Paris Fashion Week: Balmain Wants You to #JoinMyReality

    Balmain, designed by 32-year-old Olivier Rousteing, the first person of color to head a French heritage brand, literally dazzled the crowd gathered at Paris City Hall for its Fall/Winter 2018/2019 presentation. Olivier R.—as the designer prefers to be called—sent out his #BalmainArmy in futuristic fabrics inspired by fantasies of a soon-to-be-real cyber mashup world. Holographic…

  • Paris Fashion Week: Off-White x Nike Caused a Fashion Riot

    Paris experienced a riot last week. Off-White designer Virgil Abloh knows how to draw a crowd, but his Fall/Winter 2018 runway presentation almost closed down before it opened. An uninvited and impromptu throng of sneakerheads gathered outside the venue in hopes of scoring a pair of Off-White x Nike, which Footwear News reported will be…

  • Paris Fashion Week: I Am Woman, Hear Me Dior

    Dior makes very pretty clothes that are as easy to wear as they are to understand. I say that because, often, clothes can be pretty but puzzling at the same time. Now, under the direction of designer Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior speaks to women loud and clear. What’s Grazia Chiuri got to say? For one,…