Every day is soccer jersey day
Soccer jerseys! Who doesn’t have one? Olivia Rodrigo partnered with Spotify for a now sold-out throwback FC Barcelona jersey stamped with her bubbly monogram over the red and blue vertical stripes. The Gap has two limited-edition summer collections featuring jerseys inspired by “football culture,” while Nike has two collections of Latin American-themed “statement” jerseys “rooted […]
Bode makes 20th century clothes for 21st century people
Editor’s Note: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. A few weeks ago, Mick Jagger posted a holiday message to his Instagram feed while wearing a deep red paisley shirt, its pattern whirling with canary yellow and inky black details. The piece had something nostalgically […]
Rick Owens: Fashion’s ultimate antagonist
Editor’s Note: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. Paris-based designer Rick Owens has been called many things in his long career. An antihero, a goth, fashion’s “prince of darkness.” He’s been labeled as such because of his proclivity for a largely noir, gray and […]
Opulent brides are funding India’s global fashion play
New Delhi — For decades, India was relegated to fashion’s backyard, with its embroidery and garment export houses manufacturing everything from ready-to-wear to couture for the world’s biggest luxury brands. But recent years have seen a radical shift, as Indian designers are making their presence felt on the global stage. Rahul Mishra is a regular at […]
Okhtein’s handbags are loved by A-listers. Meet the sisters behind them
Crammed with architectural landmarks that have stood for centuries, the narrow alleyways of Old Cairo are a portal to the earliest days of the Egyptian capital. The historic quarter has inspired countless artists and writers over the years, including Egyptian sisters Aya and Mounaz Abdelraouf. “We felt like we were living at a different time. […]
A closer look at the costumes of ‘Rosebush Pruning’
So intimately tethered is the American family at the center of Karim Aïnouz’s latest movie “Rosebush Pruning” – by blood, desire, and an excessive interest in designer labels – that the arrival of any outsider would guarantee friction. When Elle Fanning’s character Martha (the girlfriend of eldest son Jack, portrayed by Jamie Bell), is introduced […]
Is Erling Haaland our most glamorous soccer player?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. How do you define glamour? Like the ever-elusive concept of personal style, glamour is often intangible, innate, even aura-based. It’s in the details: the […]
Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga: Highlights from Paris Haute Couture
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this feature ran in the Big Style newsletter — a weekly portal into a world where clothing meets culture. Sign up here. Paris — My official business in Paris this week was to attend the haute couture shows, but throughout my time in the French capital I kept bumping into art. […]
Is Sant Ambroeus’ princess cake the world’s most fashionable dessert?
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this feature ran in the Big Style newsletter — a weekly portal into a world where clothing meets culture. Sign up here. New York has a bad habit of inflicting trend culture upon the masses — especially when it comes to food. You can almost immediately identify a year based […]
The Met’s Galliano show is already controversial. Can it be done right?
“I love Hitler,” the designer John Galliano said to a woman across from him at a Paris bar. “People like you would be dead today.” That was in 2010. Galliano was a legend at the time, the British genius who had helped reinvent Givenchy and Dior. When the video of his antisemitic tirade emerged in […]