NYFW backstage beauty: The Chinese military meets ’40s Hollywood at Jason Wu
NYFW style snaps: We’re at Peter Som and Jason Wu, and so are Grace Coddington, Kate Lanphear, and Olivia Palermo
NYFW diary: The dispatch from day one including Jason Wu’s updated Mao jacket, Rag & Bone’s granny mishmash, and Suno’s sweet, sweet garden print
They said/We said: Kate Moss battles good and evil (like, really evil!) in a new W photoshoot
NYFW style snaps: We spy many fur coats, lots of studded leather, and is that Waris Ahluwalia?
All posts under ‘New York Magazine’
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | November 22nd, 2011 | 1:00 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Transcendentalism
Meaning: A mid-19th century literary and philosophical movement pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller and so on.
Usage: “Is New England transcendentalism identical with the philosophy of the German thinkers Kant, Fichte, and Jacobi? If not, why does it employ their terminology? Or is transcendentalism a “Saturnalia or excess of faith?” — Harold Bloom in How to Write about Ralph Waldo Emerson
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | September 22nd, 2011 | 12:00 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Uniqlones
Meaning: People who dress head-to-toe in the plain, quality, identikit clothes of Japanese mega-chain Uniqlo. I thought I’d invented this neologism and remembered it again while reading a piece on the company in one of London’s weekend style mags (I was lagged and forget which one it was). But, no, it was also the title of a New York Magazine feature last year. Eff you, New York!
Usage: “That ad agency party was a total attack of the Uniqlones.”
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By Lauren Chan | August 16th, 2011 | 4:45 pm
New York Magazine’s biannual fashion issue has arrived, and with it came an encouraging industry-wide frenzy about cover model Andrej Pejic. This time around, Pejic is not only receiving attention for his looks but also for what he has to say. It’s kind of momentous, as if a star was born—one that, as Pejic puts it himself, doesn’t get out of bed for less that $50 a day. (A far and ironic cry from Linda Evangelista’s famed similar claim about her $10,000 minimum.)
The androgynous model has been on a rapid rise to fame since Sarah Doukas started marketing him as a woman, Carine Roitfeld styled him in Fendi, and he walked Jean Paul Gaultier’s runway. He embraces his gender-blending look, saying, “It’s not like, ‘Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman’; I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.”
What seems to have struck readers positively is Pejic’s amusing personality. He relieves tension with punch lines like, “My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I’m like Britney Spears!” He’s surprisingly hilarious and confident—not to mention, successful—for a 19-year-old.
Pejic is no stranger to controversy. In May, FHM ran a story online that referred to Pejic as a “thing” and later took it down. In the same month, Pejic covered Dossier shirtless, and the magazine got censored at both Barnes & Noble and Borders. So, does the praise Pejic is receiving from New York Magazine mean the mainstream is ready to embrace him as an icon? We’ll have to wait and see. But if his career takes a turn for the worse, he’ll tell you, “I’ll come back with a sex tape…I’d bring in latex, make it really fashion, really artsy.”
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By Anna Cipollone | November 18th, 2009 | 1:00 pm
Photo via WWD
Zac Posen is launching a low-priced line called Z Spoke set to launch initially as a Saks exclusive. Posen claims the line has an “urban hipster quality” and is not just “Zac-for-less.” The line starts at $78 for a t-shirt–not quite as “lower-priced” as hipsters would hope. [The Cut]
Project Runway season six contestant and resident crank Irina Shabayeva stole her reasons on “Reasons to Love New York” T-shirt print directly from New York Magazine’s 2008 article of the same name. This after she accused fellow contestant Althea Harper of cribbing one of her designs and after Shabayeva attempted to put someone else’s drawing on one of her final collection pieces. [The Cut]
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By Anna Cipollone | October 20th, 2009 | 12:08 pm
Lucian Matis has been named the winner of the first FDCC Designer Development Fund award. The fund will be awarded annually in support of Canadian fashion designers who demonstrate potential for growth. A business mentorship with FDCC prez Robin Kay is part of the prize. “We want to extend the potential to build their brand and assist the designers with the necessary tools to help them emerge nationally and internationally in this new economy,” says Kay. [LGFW]
Georgia May Jagger will join Coco Rocha as the two new faces of Rimmel London’s campaign starting in 2010. [The Cut]
This week’s New York Magazine has named Anna Wintour one of the 12 most powerful New Yorkers. This news didn’t come as too shocking, but more confusing is the fact that the Vogue powerhouse is the sole woman to make the list. [The Cut]
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