Last night, Adidas decided to pull from shelves one of their limited-edition sneakers, after a controversy accusing the company of releasing a product with racial overtones took hold of news cycles yesterday. Read More
The worlds of fashion, sneaker culture, and political correctness have collided head-on today when—for Monday “kicks,” as it were—The Internet has managed to turn out an ostensibly race-lined fashion controversy. Read More
“Who is that guy wearing the American flag as pants?” we asked our seatmate, a Wall Street Journal writer (and former Socialiterank.com founder) Valentine Uhovski. We were sitting in the middle of the room in Milk Studios, waiting for Jeremy Scott‘s legendary fashion show to begin, and we were straining to see the celebs being snapped. We kept getting distracted by this guy’s pants, though.
“That’s Cobrasnake,” Valentine replied. “He’s taking picture of Terry Richardson sitting next to Joe Jonas.” Read More
Jeremy Scott’s show at Milk yesterday had a lot of colors: bubblegum, magenta, tangerine, algae, ruby, soft lime, phoenix orange, neon lemonade.
By the time the designer and his crew had migrated to to Le Bain, however, the colors had drained — the crowd, sandwiched together, wore mostly black and the bar was as dark-lit Read More
Wall Street women stormed the Hermes sample sale to escape their financial woes. [NY Times]
Jeremy Scott will design a collection of apparel and footwear for Adidas; it will go on sale February 1. [WWD]
From Milan: Dolce & Gabbana showed brocade jackets with structured shoulders; Matthew Williamson‘s final collection Read More
Fashion is losing its erection.
Or, to cast it in feminine terms: After a decade of mushrooming hype and pointlessly proliferating shows, during which La Mode actually became-albeit unironically-the shrill and shrieky media-crazed pastiche so accurately depicted in Absolutely Fabulous , she has waddled back down to earth.
The A-list celebs are not front-rowing Read More
