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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Anyone envying a designer appointed to a luxury post would do well to check their jealousy for a second. The challenge of taking on a legacy brand, with all its airtight codes and intricately spiraling “house DNA,” is not one for
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It’s the most wonderful time of the sartorial year. The time when temperatures fluctuate just enough for us to don layers and style shoes in combinations that are unexpected, chic, and absolutely wearable. So it’s no surprise that this season, the style icon of the moment, Doja Cat, is entering the conversation to help us
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There are plenty of people who would consider Hailey Bieber an icon—she does star in the Victoria’s Secret Icons campaign alongside the likes of Naomi Campbell and Gisele Bündchen, after all. But the 26-year-old model, street style savant, and beauty mogul would say otherwise. In her words, an icon is “someone who stands the test
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To be dripping in diamonds usually means that one has reached the upper echelons of success. The sparkling stones often represent life’s milestones—a diamond ring may signify everlasting love, a diamond pendant can symbolize a significant work anniversary. But that’s changed in a lot of ways, thanks in large part to Pandora’s lab-grown diamond collections.
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When Beth Hutchens of FoundRae set her sights on another store location for her jewelry brand, it wasn’t as easy as snapping her fingers. In fact, settling on a second storefront to house her modern heirlooms, or what I call expressive armor, happened by chance and fate. In the middle of a blizzard this February,
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My purses have always been extraordinarily small. For example, the purse I have now is really just a wallet with a string connected to it that doesn’t even totally fit my phone. I have never been able to close it, so it is insecure and ripe for thievery. And still I pay it an appalling
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The allure of French girl style lies in its effortless ease. Curated and cool, but never try-hard, Parisian panache is what elevates an everyday look into something with a bit more je ne sais quoi. For this, accessories are often key in taking staples to the next level. And investing in a good bag is
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SOFT LAUNCH Twinsets were made to be adorned with brooches. Barely-there hot pants and candy colors make things mod and keep the accessories party above the waist. Miu MiuCourtesy of Designers SKIRT THE ISSUE Midi-length hems lend a ’50s vibe to graphic intarsia knits, placing the focus on the season’s must-have, the kitten heel. Leather
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When you think of Kelela, what image comes to mind? Maybe it’s the cover of her breakout mixtape, Cut 4 Me, with her then-signature undercut, or maybe it’s her in a blonde wig in the now-cult music video for “LMK”? Perhaps it’s her in a luscious strawberry red wig at a Bottega Veneta show, or
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Luxury is often associated with unattainability—high cost, utmost quality, and opulence. What if it didn’t have to be quite so impossible to achieve? Since the onset of the pandemic, the cost of a classic Chanel flap bag has gone up from $6,500 to over $10,000. Other classic luxury labels like Hermès and Dior have also
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Ten years ago at New York Fashion Week, Eden Miller anxiously stood backstage, her spirit stirring with excitement as six curvy women, including Precious Lee, prepared to strut down the runway in her designs. Not only was this Miller’s first time showing at the exclusive, semi-annual event, an accomplishment many designers dream of—she was also
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “Quiet luxury” and the safest of minimalism have had fashion in a chokehold for several seasons now, but it feels like we might finally be breaking free. This New York Fashion Week, all manner of stridently pretty motifs recalled the mid-2000s
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Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez are not new to this, but true to this. Which is why they’re feeling good mere hours after celebrating the spring/summer 2024 collection they just sent down the runway—the kind of stamina that comes from presenting collections at fashion week for the last 20 years. We’re taking a breather in
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While #FashionTok may have taken over our feeds, delivering all the latest microtrends straight to our phones, coffee table books still reign supreme when it comes to preserving fashion history. No hashtags or paid ads, just the thumbing of a few pages to find your favorite designer, runway look, photograph, or editorial. And now, with
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Lopez at work.Kadar R. Small Raul Lopez has always been inspired by “boss bitches.” As a Williamsburg, Brooklyn, native, the founder and designer of the New York brand Luar spent his childhood in awe of the women who were legends in his neighborhood. “They were Gs,” he recalls. “My mom always said that the man
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Not even torrential downpour could stop the fashion set from gathering at Spring Studios last night to see Sergio Hudson’s latest collection. On the heels of his first magazine cover, where the designer poses alongside longtime supporter Keke Palmer for Essence, Hudson is a star in his own right, not just someone who creates clothes
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