Fashion
Is fashion art? The age-old question returned to the spotlight last week when designer Karl Lagerfeld told the Telegraph, “I am against museums and exhibitions in fashion. One woman said to me — ‘In my world, the world of art’ — so I said: ‘Oh, don’t you make dresses anymore?’ A thin smile and then: ‘If you call yourself an artist, then...
A video artist, photographer, and rogue stylist known for her underground zine “Fashion Fashion,” Whitney Biennial participant K8 Hardy recreated all the smoke and mirrors of a professional runway presentation this Sunday in an immersive performance-cum-fashion show at the Whitney. Hovering ambiguously between avant-garde design and “...
In the four days since Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Facebook page that he tied the knot with Priscilla Chan, his girlfriend of nine years, a lot has changed. He switched his status to married, posting a photograph of himself in a black tie and suit, standing alongside his new bride, who looked angelic in her...
After Hedi Slimane left Dior Homme in 2007, the designer, famed for slimming down the way men dressed, went into hiding.But Slimane went into a very particular type of hiding: the one where you’re in plain view. He became a photographer, something he had sort of always been, and he took his camera everywhere he went. Those interested in...
Did the Facebook stock go out of style in less than a day?After an opening day marked first by a delay and then by a dip, Facebook’s IPO ended up at a price of $38.23 by the time trading closed. And things haven’t improved. It peaked at $45 a share Friday afternoon and by today it was trading at around $35. The downturn has the fashion...
After graduating in 2000 with a BFA in experimental animation from CalArts, Los Angeles-based artist Allison Schulnik thought she would go on to work for the Cartoon Network. Instead, she wound up doing random animation gigs supplemented by income from menial jobs for a few years before deciding to show her book around. Nobody responded...
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, 23 works screen in competition for the 65th Palme d’Or. And while this collection of flicks is sure to include some new classics, there’s just one problem with watching them all: In the dark of the theater, no one can see what you’re wearing. Over the decades, the world’s most famous celebration of...
This morning, in Menlo Park, Calif., Mark Zuckerberg stepped up to a platform surrounded by other Facebook employees, picked up the bell that had been placed at the podium, and rang it. With that, shares of Facebook began trading on the Nasdaq market. It was the third-largest offering in the history of the United States.And what did...
NBC’s “Fashion Star” set a new bar for reality fashion design competitions, with bass-thumping runway shows, an entertaining and inspiring cast of designers, and the opportunity for viewers to buy the winning designs from H&M, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Macy’s, just moments after each episode aired. The season one finale was broadcast on...
Last February, a group of fashion and art insiders met at the Core Club, in midtown Manhattan, stocked up on champagne and truffle oil popcorn, and packed into a theater for the premiere of a short film called “Here.” It was a perfectly pretty flick, even if it was largely an ad for the Luxury Collection brand of hotels, but the big draw...
