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☆ Musician Rosalía brings the straitjacket back into view
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —On Tuesday, 12-time Latin Grammy winner Rosalía stepped out in New York wearing an outfit that demanded a double-take. (Since the release of her third album, “Motomami,” Rosalía has been spotted in everything from biker-style shield sunglasses to Harley Davidson helmets). In 1994, the New York State’s Office of Mental Health proposed that straitjackets be discontinued after 18 patients died while restrained or in “unsupervised seclusion” between 1988 and 1992. But Rosalía isn’t the first to attempt to recontextualize the garment in the name of fashion. At the Gucci show in 2019, Ayesha Tan-Jones protested the label's straitjacket-inspired clothes by writing "Mental health is not fashion" on their hands.

Persons: Rosalía, Rick Owens, ” Rosalía, Harley Davidson, Gucci, Ayesha Tan, Jones, ”, Alessandro Michele’s, hasn’t, Julia Fox, we’ve, Ye’s, Bianca Censori, John Galliano —, Dior, —, Maison, Dolce, Rosalia Organizations: CNN, York State’s, Mental Health, Fashion, Gucci, Penske Media, Maison Margiela, Dolce, Gabbana Locations: New York, Spanish, York, Gotham, Tan, Florence, Italy, Shanghai, China

☆ An Ivy League sophomore says he found a $105,000 side hustle: selling coveted restaurant reservations
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Brown sophomore Alex Eisler has a lucrative side hustle selling restaurant reservations. He vends them on nascent platform Appointment Trader. AdvertisementEisler told Business Insider the most expensive reservation he's ever sold was $1,358 at an omakase restaurant in Boston. Appointment Trader is just one platform helping to turn reservation-selling into a cottage industry of sorts. "It's bad for business," Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of famed French seafood restaurant Le Bernardin, told The New Yorker.

Persons: Brown, Alex Eisler, Eisler, —, Eisler —, he's, Prime, Carbone, Insider's Linette Lopez, Tock —, Eric Ripert, Bernardin Organizations: Service, Brown University, American Express, Business, Yorker, Bloomberg, New Locations: Boston, New York City

☆ Why is pop culture so obsessed with nuns?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

These vestal get-ups are, in fact, the latest in a long line of subversive pop culture interpretations of the lives (and loves) of nuns. More recently, Bella Hadid walked the Coperni Fall-Winter 2022 runway wearing headgear reminiscent of a nun’s habit. The “Nunsploitation” subgenre saw the transformation of nuns from icons of piety and sacrifice into harbingers of evil and sexual obsession. In lighter fare, “Sister Act 3,” a third movie in the beloved “Sister Act” series of the 1990s starring Whoopi Goldberg is currently in development. “The juxtaposition of the nun’s habit with either blatant sexuality or the cultivation of personal identity and style is shocking and grabs people’s attention,” wrote Dr. Neal.

Persons: Rihanna, Sydney Sweeney, vestal, Dior, John Galliano, Serre, Emilia Wickstead, Bella Hadid, Sydney Sweeney's, Hulton, —, Andy Warhol, Ingrid Bergman, ”, Ken Vrana, Yoshitomo Nara, Lynn S, Neal, Audrey Hepburn, Christ, Lust ”, Saint Valentine ”, Sister Gertrude, Nadia Lee Cohen, Saint Maud ”, “, Whoopi Goldberg, Suzanne Hanover, Sweeney — Organizations: CNN, Couture, Deutsch, Pew Research Center, Cannes Film Locations: Maison, Sydney, Italy, Swedish, America

☆ The best street style we spotted at Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Joi-Marie Mckenzie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Fashion's elite, including Maison Margiela's Stefano Rosso, attended Art Basel in Hong Kong last month. BI was in Hong Kong to admire art, but also the city's innovative fashion sense. This article is part of BI's 2024 Art Basel series, taking you inside the art fair's global scene. Fashion and art are inextricably linked — evident at this year's Art Basel in Hong Kong. The art fair, sponsored by UBS, attracted more than 240 galleries from around the world to descend on the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre last month.

Persons: Maison Margiela's Stefano Rosso, —, Art Basel Organizations: Art Basel, BI, Service, Art, UBS, Hong Kong Convention, Exhibition, Harbour Locations: Hong Kong, Basel, Art Basel, Hong

☆ Valentino Enters Its Alessandro Michele Era
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The song has stopped in at least one game of fashion musical chairs. Valentino has a new creative director: Alessandro Michele, the former Gucci designer who left that brand in 2022. Mr. Michele, who was known for having transformed Gucci into a $10 billion powerhouse by making it a baroque treasure chest of inclusivity and magpie references, replaces Pierpaolo Piccioli, who parted ways with Valentino last week. The appointment, which was first reported by Vogue Business, brings Mr. Michele, 51, back to the heart of the fashion world. “It is a great honor for me to be welcomed in the Maison Valentino,” Mr. Michele wrote in the caption of an Instagram post shared on Thursday.

Persons: Valentino, Alessandro Michele, Gucci, Michele, Piccioli, Jared Leto, Harry Styles, Dakota Johnson, Maison Valentino, ” Mr, “, ” Organizations: Vogue Business

☆ Valentino's creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli is stepping down after 25 years with the fashion house
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Pierpaolo Piccioli is stepping down from his role as creative director of Valentino. He joined the company in 1999 and became the sole creative director in 2016. After 25 years with the fashion house, Pierpaolo Piccioli is leaving the brand — specifically stepping down from his role as creative director, which he's held for the past eight years. After graduating from the Istituto Europeo di Design school, Piccioli met his creative partner, Maria Grazia Chiuri, in the 1980s, according to BoF. But when Chiuri left for Dior in 2016, Piccioli held the Valentino role on his own.

Persons: Valentino, Piccioli's, —, he's, Piccioli, Maria Grazia Chiuri, Chiuri, Pierpaolo, Maison Valentino, Jacopo Venturini, Giancarlo Giammetti Organizations: Service, Fashion, Istituto, Design, British Vogue, Dior Locations: Fendi, British

☆ The viral 'Twitter menswear guy' just wants an affordable home in a walkable neighborhood
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It belongs to San Francisco-based fashion writer Derek Guy, also known as the "Twitter menswear guy" behind the @dieworkwear account. But, increasingly, he's been sounding off on his other passion: affordable housing. "I'm probably never going to be able to afford a home in San Francisco, that's my guess, or anywhere in the Bay Area, unless I move really, really, really far out," he said. But Guy has written about how diversity in cities — made possible by affordable housing — is essential for creative inspiration. How about you put me in the middle of a ton of affordable housing."

Persons: —, you've, Derek Guy, Guy, he's, I'm, Maison, ragamuffins, KP6dM0W62T, derek, Guy's, YIMBYs, we're, Matthew Yglesias, Kate, Kate her, Princess, Wales, Middleton, He's Organizations: Service, Business, Franciscans Locations: San Francisco, Bay, North America, Vietnam, —, Tokyo

☆ Former 6-figure tech worker earns $22K baking pastries in France—how much her life abroad costs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Valerie Valcourt has lived all around the U.S. in Seattle, New York City and Washington, D.C. But she made her biggest move yet last year when she quit her six-figure Big Tech job to go to pastry school in France. She'd always wanted to live abroad and go to culinary school, so she began researching her options. Valerie Valcourt quit her job as an executive assistant and moved to France for culinary school in her 30s. Valerie Valcourt American who moved to France for pastry schoolTo start, her employer covers her seasonal housing, at least until April when a new intern class starts.

Persons: Valerie Valcourt, She'd, Valcourt, I'm, she's Organizations: Big Tech, CNBC Locations: Seattle , New York City, Washington, France, Seattle, Connecticut, Pont, l'Isere, Europe, Switzerland, Paris, London

NEW YORK (AP) — The new documentary “High & Low — John Galliano” covers all the complexities of the famous British designer, one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in the fashion industry. The Associated Press talked to Macdonald about Galliano’s rise and fall and why many friends and fans stayed loyal to him. How do we really know why someone said something? AP: Do you think Galliano feels remorse about his past comments and behavior? It feels like, “OK, I’ve got that off my chest now, now I can ... do what I’m really, really good at and express myself more personally again.”

Persons: John Galliano ”, Kevin Macdonald, Galliano, Anna Wintour, Naomi Campbell, Penelope Cruz, Kate Moss, Charlize Theron, Givenchy, Christian Dior, “, Hitler, ”, Dior, Maison Margiela, Macdonald, MACDONALD, “ Alexander McQueen, there’s, —, I’m, Maison, It’s, it’s, I’ve Organizations: Dior, Associated, Maison Margiela Locations: British, France, Paris

☆ A new documentary wrestles with the highlights — and lowlights — of John Galliano’s controversial career
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Trey Taylor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —After a first intervention for the fashion house’s seismic creative director John Galliano failed, Dior’s then-CEO Sidney Toledano staged a second, more serious one. In response, as Toledano recounts in the new documentary “High & Low: John Galliano,” the then-50-year-old gym-obsessive ripped open his shirt to reveal a rippling torso and said, “Does this look like the body of an alcoholic?”And so the designer’s drinking and pill-popping rolled on. At least, “High & Low” director Kevin Macdonald, whose documentary performs a thrilling autopsy of Galliano’s career collapse, thinks so. Nicholas MatthewsUnraveling threadsAs its title suggests, “High & Low” scrutinizes the designer’s extraordinary rise and dramatic flameout. John Galliano, pictured at his home in Beauvais, France.

Persons: John Galliano, Dior’s, Sidney Toledano, Galliano, Dior, Bernard Arnault, Arnault, Toledano, ”, Perle, Hitler, ” John Galliano, France —, Dominique Charriau, decamped, Low, Kevin Macdonald, I’d, ” Macdonald, “, ’, Macdonald, Anna Wintour — Galliano’s, —, Wintour, ’ ” Macdonald, shouldn’t, I’m, John —, Nicholas Matthews Galliano, Nicholas Matthews, ” Johann Brun, John, “ John, ” Galliano, John Galliano’s, Derek Hudson, He’s, you’d, John then, Tim Blanks, Cecil B, DeMille, Kate Moss, Jamie Hince, Oscar de la, Maison, Pat McGrath, Galliano’s, it’s Organizations: CNN, Paris Fashion, Couture, Rodin, Dior, Hulton Locations: Paris, France, Scottish, Couture, Beauvais

☆ 34-year-old quit her 6-figure tech job to go to pastry school in France: 'What would I want to be doing that would bring me joy?'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

She'd always wanted to go to culinary school abroad and, after some online research, submitted her application to a French school on a whim. Tuition ranges from 4,300 euros ($4,666) for two months of just cooking lessons, or up to 18,700 euros ($20,290) for a year-long program with cooking lessons, pastry lessons, French lessons and an internship. She officially moved to France in January 2023 and began her accelerated three-month program of intensive pastry courses and French lessons, followed by a four-month internship. Valcourt says the best things about her pastry job are learning new skills and working with her hands. Looking back, she's grateful her first try at culinary school didn't pan out.

Persons: Valerie Valcourt, it's, Valcourt, She'd, —, France Valcourt, she's Organizations: Big Tech, Seattle, CNBC Locations: South, France, Seattle, New York, Connecticut, Pont, l'Isere

☆ Italy grapples with its patriarchal history as femicide cases shock the nation
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Antonia Mortensen | Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But all the women killed by femicide in Italy have one thing in common: they knew their killers. Italy might have a female prime minister, but she makes a point of not identifying herself as a feminist. The prevalence of domestic violence in Italy is fed by societal failures, says Lorella Zanardo, an activist, educator and documentary filmmaker. While Italy does not have Europe’s highest rate of domestic violence, it is among the lowest ranked in Europe when it comes to gender equality. In Italy, the feminist movement was largely driven by the left, which meant that those who supported right-leaning parties, including current Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, have distanced themselves from feminism entirely.

Persons: femicide, Antonio Gozzini, Cristina Maioli, Lorella Zanardo, Zanardo’s, Donne, it’s, ” Zanardo, “, Muro, Frank Bienewald, Giorgia Meloni, ’, il, Cristina Carelli, Carelli, hasn’t, hadn’t, ”, ” Carelli, Giulia Cecchettin's, Claudia Greco, Giulia Cecchettin’s, Filippo Turetta, Turetta, Cecchettin’s, Remo Casilli, Maria Grazia, ” Maria Grazia, Antigone, Eugenia Roccella, Christina Organizations: CNN, Italy’s Union of Women, Milan, “ Locations: Italy, Europe, Milan, Germany, Rome

☆ Get Ready for a Fashion Vibe Shift
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s a change underway in fashion. Continued in New York, at Willy Chavarria, who set a family-size table of sartorial intention. And in Milan, was picked up by Francesco Risso at Marni, who boiled fashion down to its essence so it could begin again. Papering in white a cavernous warren of rooms under a railway track, so it resembled some sort of petri dish, Mr. Risso birthed a very chic primal scream. These would not be easy garments to wear, but they sure jolt you out of your torpor.

Persons: John Galliano’s Maison, Willy Chavarria, Francesco Risso, Risso, Outerwear Locations: New York, Milan, Marni

☆ Paris Fashion Week: What to expect from the runways
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Fashion months’ finale — otherwise known as Paris Fashion Week — kicks off on Monday February 26th with over 70 shows and 38 presentations scheduled. From Miu Miu to Mugler, the nine-day calendar is filled to the brim with storied luxury houses, which will no doubt draw a slew of stars into the city. On Thursday, Virgil Abloh’s brand Off—White will return to the runway for the first time since 2022. McGirr, who follows the houses’ tradition of being a Central Saint Martins alumni, previously oversaw ready-to-wear at landmark British brand JW Anderson. From staging runways everywhere from the Louvre to Rio de Janiro’s Niteròi Contemporary Art Museum, there’s no doubt Ghesquière’s tenure will be commemorated with a bang.

Persons: Miu Miu, Mugler, Virgil Abloh’s, Ibrahim Kamara, Kamara, Chemena, Kamali, Gabriela Hearst, Phoebe Philo, “, ”, McGirr, Alexander McQueen, McQueen, Sarah Burton, JW Anderson, Louis Vuitton, Nicolas Ghesquière’s Organizations: CNN, Business of Fashion, Chloé, Central Saint Martins, British, JW, Art Museum Locations: Paris, British, Central, Rio

☆ Meet Cyrille Vigneron, the CEO of luxury jeweler Cartier who personally approves all of its designs
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

As president and CEO of Cartier, he helped reinvigorate the brand with new strategies. Cyrille Vigneron speaks onstage during at a press conference in Milan, Italy, in 2020. The strategic move helped bring the vintage watches back in style — Cartier sold 15,000 of them that year. A ranking of the top Swiss watch companies published in April 2023 by Morgan Stanley named Cartier the second-largest watchmaker behind Rolex, overtaking Omega for the No. With 60 new pieces released in 2023, Cartier's watch business continues to boom, occupying an estimated 7% of the retail market share, according to the Morgan Stanley report.

Persons: Cartier, Cyrille Vigneron, Vittorio Zunino Celotto, Vigneron, — Cartier, Morgan Stanley, it's Organizations: Cartier, Australian Financial, Forbes, Rolex, Omega Locations: Milan, Italy, Swiss, watchmaking

☆ 36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Seth Sherwood | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Leave Jemaa el Fna — the huge, chaotic, carnivalesque marketplace seen on every postcard — to the cobra charmers, hustlers and package-tour throngs. In the early 20th century, Thami el Glaoui, the onetime ruler of Marrakesh — known as the bacha in local Arabic — was a legend. The Islamic decorative arts find dazzling expression inside the Medersa Ben Youssef, a centuries-old religious school adorned with some of the finest craftsmanship in Morocco. Follow the buttery scent of leather to a passage called Derb el Hammam in Souk Smata, the leatherworking area of the medina. Sunlight filters through the overhead slats of the stalls, illuminating belts, bags, jackets, ottomans and slippers known as babouches — a favorite Morocco souvenir (prepare to haggle).

Persons: Fna, You’ll, Bab Doukkala, Malak Nafy, It’s niched, Hassan Hajjaj, Andy Warhol, Thami el, —, Rue Fatima Zahra, Maison Reine, Naelle, Ben Youssef, el Fna Organizations: Bab, Rue Dar el, of Confluences, Rue Fatima, Franco Locations: Medina, Bab, Rue, Moroccan, Marrakesh, el Bacha, medina, ”, Algerian, artfully, Morocco, Hammam, Souk Smata

The Fall-Winter 2024 edition of Seoul Fashion Week, which wrapped up earlier this week, saw runway shows from more than 20 established and emerging brands. Jean Chung/Getty ImagesA Fashion Week attendee in all-black, complete with hoodie, bomber jacket and chunky futuristic footwear. Jean Chung/Getty ImagesJeong Yoon-gyeong, left, and Lee Yosep, right, wear gray bags from South Korean label Nos Couleurs. Jean Chung/Getty ImagesModels (from left) Yun Mi-young, 58, Choi Soon-hea, 80, and Kang Seun-hee, 64, on the first day of Seoul Fashion Week. Jean Chung/Getty ImagesWearing a black dress and adorned with lipstick kisses, model Shlee Nau was excited to see South Korean brand Ulkin's show.

Persons: Sooy Park’s, Maison, Jean Chung, Kahyun Lee, CNN Parnika, ” Kahyun Lee, CNN Ha, Choi, Jeong Yoon, Lee Yosep, Yun Mi, Kang Seun, Kang, Soeun Kim, CNN Wu Qin Qin, Shlee Nau, Kang Hyun, Jeong Organizations: South Korea CNN, Seoul Fashion, Maison Nica, CNN Locations: Seoul, South Korea, York, London, Milan, Paris, South, South Korea’s

☆ Opinion: Stuck in traffic, I wonder if this European city’s car-free vision is working
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( David A. Andelman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The fact is that gas cars aren’t being weaponized on most of the continent the way they are in America. I’m all in favor of the commendable end to gas cars that Europe has now embraced – a decade or more hence. Of course, that’s only one corner of what’s happened to Paris traffic under the Hidalgo regime. The same toxic, planet-warming emissions are being generated, especially with all that idling in place in endless traffic jams. Perhaps a couple of decades from now when all those gas guzzling cars will be gone entirely?

Persons: David A, That’s, “, Giuseppe Sala, hasn’t, van, Laurent Nunez, ”, King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Anne Hidalgo, Hidalgo, Joe Biden, Eric Adams Organizations: CNN, French Legion of, The New York Times, CBS News, European Union, Sunday, ”, Concorde, Olympic, Seine, Maison de Radio, Notre Dame, US Locations: Europe, Asia, Paris, America, Milan, Italy’s, Swedish, Stockholm, Vienna, Pontevedra, Spain, –, dribs, Hidalgo, ”, Seine, Taxis, New York

☆ Can AI carry on this fashion designer’s legacy?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Marc Bain | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

A few years back, she began thinking about AI after working on a fashion game tied to a line she designed for Walmart. The tagged imagery is fed into the AI model to train it. “It took us about a month to get it to the right point,” said Cyril Foiret, founder and creative director of Maison Meta. Foiret said they essentially had to develop a mini AI model just for that. Last year, she contacted Maison Meta, which was creating a name for itself through projects like organizing the first AI Fashion Week with Revolve.

Persons: Norma Kamali isn’t, Norma Kamali, Lynn Karlin, ”, “, hasn’t, ” Kamali isn’t, She’s, Hillary Taymour, Julius Juul, Heliot Emil, Laverne Cox, Jennifer Lopez, Kamali, Jamie McCarthy, Helmut Lang, Ann Demeulemeester, Alice Bouleau, Bouleau, Maison Meta, Cyril Foiret, Maison, Iman, Nick Elgar, Corbis, Foiret, they’ve, it’s, ” Kamali, “ I’m, Nima Abbasi, Vivienne Westwood, Francesco Da Vinci, ” Abbasi Organizations: The, Fashion, CNN CNN —, New, Maison Meta, Penske Media, Northwest Airlines, Walmart, NBC, Sterling International, Kamali’s, Maison, Getty, Meta, Designers, CNN Locations: New York

☆ Miley Cyrus won her first Grammys and was the best-dressed star of the show in 5 different outfits
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementThe 2024 Grammy Awards was a huge night for Miley Cyrus. Miley Cyrus attends the 2024 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California. Miley Cyrus attends the 2024 Grammy Awards. Miley Cyrus attends the 2024 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California.

Persons: Miley Cyrus, —, Maison Margiela, Kevin Mazur, Cyrus didn't, Ford, Mariah Carey, Kevin Winter, Cyrus, Bob Mackie, De Beers, John Shearer, Stringer, Gucci, it's Organizations: Service, CBS Locations: Los Angeles , California

☆ Miley Cyrus wows Grammy’s red carpet in gold safety-pin dress
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Pop star Miley Cyrus stunned the Grammys red carpet on Sunday by wearing a gown that appeared to be almost entirely made of gold safety pins. The metallic, net-like dress channeled both a 1920s flapper and an Egyptian goddess, its pins intricately arranged to resemble a collar and undergarments. Miley Cyrus poses on the red carpet on her way into the 66th Grammy Awards. Cyrus completed her red carpet look with a pair of yellow tabis, the split-toe shoes that have become a cult favorite among Margiela fans. Kevin Winter/Getty Images“This last year I featured Miley’s wet look for hair,” Recine said, according to a press statement from haircare brand Nexxus.

Persons: Miley Cyrus, Farrah Fawcett, —, Maison, Frazer Harrison, John Galliano, Cyrus ’, Cyrus, Gwendoline Christie, John Galliano's, Guy Marineau, Condé Nast, Pat McGrath —, James Kaliardos, Kaliardos, tresses, Bob Recine, Dolly Parton, Recine, Kevin Winter, ” Recine, Mariah Carey, Bob Mackie, Tina Turner —, Gucci Organizations: CNN, Getty Locations: Maison Margiela, Paris, France

☆ Pat McGrath: How the legendary makeup artist created these looks at the Maison Margiela show
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Claire Coleman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —It’s been more than a week since the looks created by makeup artist Pat McGrath for last week’s Maison Margiela couture show captured collective imaginations, and the internet is still abuzz. The legendary creative — deemed the most influential makeup artist in the world by Vogue magazine — transformed models into living dolls, complete with porcelain skin, pencil-thin eyebrows and strikingly shaded eyes, lips and cheeks. While “glass skin” was all about leaving the face bare but with a glistening sheen, 2020s “dolphin skin” trend took things to the next level. The last decade has seen a range of trends celebrating skin with a high sheen, from so-called "glass skin" to 2022's "glazed donut" look. Pat McGrath LabsLike “glass skin” before it, “dolphin skin” was a sensation on social media, but not everyone was a fan.

Persons: CNN — It’s, Pat McGrath, —, McGrath, Pat, influencers, Mary Phillips, skincare, Andy Millward, Hailey Bieber, Monika, Gemma Chan, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Megan Fox, ” Pat McGrath, Charles Sykes, you’ve Organizations: CNN, Vogue, Maison, Pat McGrath Labs, Margiela, Clio Locations: Korea

☆ Why So Many People Can’t Get That Galliano Show Out of Their Heads
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There is a certain irony to the fact that of all the shows that took place during couture last week, the one designed to be the most off-line — the one conceived as an in-person experience rather than as a simple catwalk — is the one that ended up going the most viral. The one that no one seems to be able to stop talking about — not the fashion world, nor its millions of followers. I am speaking of the Maison Margiela Artisanal show by John Galliano. It was sumptuous, excessive, rife with roiling emotion communicated in cloth, with models vamping, skittering and otherwise willing to sacrifice themselves on the pyre of unfettered imagination. It was the sort of immersive show that hasn’t been seen in more than a decade.

Persons: —, John Galliano, ”, Pont Alexandre III, candied, hasn’t Organizations: Maison

☆ Street Style Levels Up to Couture
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Simbarashe Cha | More About Simbarashe Cha | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Couture week is by no means an outlier on the fashion calendar. But this season, the shows seemed to really find their stride with a dialogue that was consistent between the runway and the streets. Street style was especially inspiring with an elegance that departed from the more subdued looks we saw last summer. The inspiration was particularly felt at Jean Paul Gaultier, where the guest designer Simone Rocha debuted her first couture collection. As for Schiaparelli, the show — packed with its usual wall-to-wall celebrities including Jennifer Lopez and Zendaya — opened with a model carrying a sparkly robot baby.

Persons: Jean Paul Gaultier, Simone Rocha, Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya —, Viktor, Rolf, Maison, John Locations: Couture

☆ The Costumes of the Very, Very Rich
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The night of the wolf moon — the first full moon of the new year — also happened to be the last night of the couture, when John Galliano recreated a decaying Paris nightclub in the vaulted caverns beneath Paris’s Pont Alexandre III bridge across the Seine. Crepe paper streamers the color of Madeira wine were draped across walls and dangled from the ceiling amid banged-up wooden bistro chairs and scratched-up tables. At the end, the audience members were so overwrought they didn’t just clap, they stamped their feet hard enough to make the floorboards shake. It has been awhile since anyone had experienced a world-building show quite like it. It looked tortured, in a way that is rarely considered acceptable anymore, and extraordinary at the same time.

Persons: John Galliano, Paris’s Pont Alexandre III, Freddie Mercury, Maison Locations: Paris, Paris’s, Madeira

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