The French may not go gaga over Valentine’s Day like we do with Be Mine sweets and rampant red flowers, but they still observe Saint Valentin. One such couple is Madjissem and Guillaume Salmon. She’s the model-esque managing director for Maisha Africa, a nonprofit supporting children while he’s the well-known pr for Colette. They make quite a pair.
If you were somehow under the impression that print media is dead, As If Editor-in-Chief Tatijana Shoan is here to prove you wrong. The second issue of her quarterly magazine, which features Alek Wek, Roxanne Lowit, Miguel Adrover and Isca Greenfield-Sanders, is an artful reminder why we love to hold glossy pages in our hands. Here, the photographer and former model talked to us about hitting New York fashion week — it involves recipes and a little Rosemary — and, as a cover girl for many a Harlequin Romance, gamely answered our question about Valentine’s Day plans.
You could call Philip Crangi and Darren Spaziani the power couple of accessories. Philip is the CFDA-winning designer of Giles & Brother while Darren is the Head of Accessories Design at Proenza Schouler. But it’s the little things, like being holed up in their New York apartment or finding (or making) thoughtful gifts, that make Philip and Darren each other’s best, well, accessory.
Rachel and Neil Blumenthal are a quintessential New York couple. They bond over parenthood, catching up with Homeland (she says) and Real Housewives of New Jersey (he says) and a shared entrepreneurial spirit. Neil co-founded Warby Parker while Rachel is founder and CEO of Cricket’s Circle. Here, they reminisce about their first date.
While the rest of the fashion crowd is zigzagging its way through the collections today, Shu Pei will be celebrating Chinese New Year, too. Here, wearing Tory’s 797 Crossbody Pouch, the model reveals her favorite traditions and talks about her early days in New York.
Happy New Year! Or rather, Happy Lunar New Year! We checked in with astrology expert Susie Cox on what 2013, under the Chinese zodiac, brings.
It’s Lunar New Year’s Eve tonight — not to mention Day Three of the official New York Fashion Week calendar — so we chatted with the Editor-in-Chief of Vogue China, Angelica Cheung, and got her thoughts on both topics. She dished jiaozi, jet lag, favorite Chinese designers and shared a few words of wisdom on keeping the work/life balance.
It’s Carnaval! So today, take a page from Veruschka and party like it’s…1969. Here’s the supermodel in one of our favorite shots, as she lives it up in Rio for the wild, take-no-prisoners festival. Even if you’re trapped in snowy terrain — and that’s much of the fashion industry right now — you can still shimmy and shake, glamorously, to the samba beat.
Veruschka, photographed by Hulton Archive/Getty Images, at Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, 1969
Few songs and videos are as fashion as George Michael’s Freedom! ’90. Maybe it’s because it has bona fide supers Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista pouting and lip-synching alongside a baby-faced then-model Mario Sorrenti, as directed by David Fincher (yes, of The Social Network and Fight Club fame).
Turns out, one of our Fashion Love couples, Alison Edmunds and John Pearson, was at the shoot. Pearson is the striking fellow peeling the orange. Alison was on set reporting a behind-the-scenes story for Vogue. We asked the couple, who had already been dating for nearly a decade by then, what it was like.
Alison Edmond and John Pearson met as teenagers in Yorkshire, England, before, as Alison says, “any of this fashion stuff happened.” That fashion stuff would be Alison’s career as a magazine and fashion stylist and current Fashion Editor-at-Large for Marie Claire and John’s as one of the most sought-after male models of the last few decades, producer and editor. That’s him on the Prada Spring 2013 runway. You might also remember him from George Michael’s iconic Freedom video with Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and the lot — a shoot Alison covered for Vogue. Thirty years together and three children later, they are still very much in love.
With Fashion Week (and the weekend!) upon us, we hunted down mixologist Brian Bartels, of Fedora, Joseph Leonard and Perla, for a boozy refresher. The novelist and Director of Bar Operations for Little Wisco restaurant group surprised us with a cheeky take on the Aperol spritz, named after industry shutterbug Terry Richardson and resembling a camera lens. “A colleague of mine was joking about how anything can happen at his photo shoots,” says Brian of his mustachioed inspiration. “The same applies to cocktails — anything can happen.”
We caught up with Alexis Bryan Morgan, Executive Fashion Director at Lucky, before the onslaught of Fashion Week. Here, wearing Tory’s Isidor Dress (available in April), the mother of two talked to us about the Lucky life, Paul McCartney and why editors sneak in a drink or two between shows.
Christina and Swaim Hutson are cult figures in the fashion world — at one point responsible for Obedient Sons & Daughters and Generra. The design duo now juggle both their creative consultancy Hutson New York and parenthood. Somewhere in there, they get time to just talk.
Yeah, we can’t wait to see who is best new artist. But we’re also happy to just sit back and listen. It was a good year.
This is one of my favorite pictures, from a trip to the Bahamas with the boys. So many great memories. Sawyer was so excited because there were giant starfish everywhere. All we had to do was reach down and pick one up. On a side note, we posted this picture on the blog last year for Mother’s Day, and the response from readers here and on Facebook was incredible. A lot of people also asked about the dress I’m wearing — it’s the Amira, from one of our first collections. It’s still my beach go-to, and it’s the first dress I pack when I go some place warm. I love the Mexican folk embroidery and easy silhouette. We brought it back for spring — I hope you like it! — Tory
Fashion Week involves more than klieg lights and runway spectacles — there are a lot of sleepless nights, especially for designers and their teams. Of course, you can’t burn the midnight oil without a little sustenance so we asked a few of our designer friends — in the Garment District, TriBeCa and NoHo — for their go-to late-night takeout spots and orders. And there’s not a handful of almonds in there.
It’s one week and counting until Valentine’s Day and also the start of New York Fashion Week. In the spirit of fashion and love, we will be highlighting several impossibly chic and impossibly in love duos between now and Valentine’s Day (also the last day of NYFW). We begin today with Lisa and Jeff, two young American designers showing this week, who are also newlyweds.
They don’t call New York the city that never sleeps for nothing. We kick off fashion week here with an ode to Gotham’s twilight hours. As New York at Night: Photography after Dark shows, the city comes alive when the sun sets. With shots from Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Diane Arbus, Stanley Kubrick, Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley and more, the book’s a seductive and electrifying slideshow of the city pulsing through the ages. And like New York itself, there’s a little of everything, from the glittering and glamorous to the gritty and deliciously debauched.
Photograph by Larry Fink, George Plimpton at Elaine’s, NYC, January 1999 © Larry Fink
From wheat and yellow to the global magpie, see and hear what inspired Tory for Spring 2013.
We caught up with street-style photographer Candice Lake as she settled in to her new London apartment after her January wedding back home in Australia. She’s known on the fashion week circuit for her height (a cool 6′) and streamlined style (a lot of color blocking). Here, wearing Tory’s Lacquered Rattan Basket and Daphne Wedges, Candice talked about how she reinvented her own career in fashion, style and how to kick homesickness.
Curling up with James A. Michener’s 1959 novel Hawaii is the next best thing to jetting off to the sunny islands themselves. The book, a favorite of Tory’s mom Reva, is an epic tale that traces the history of Hawaii from its creation (literally — chapter one begins with volcanic eruptions) to its statehood, as seen through the eyes of various families through the ages. Equal measure fact and fiction, it’s a lush, sweeping narrative, much like Michener’s 1947 account of the South Pacific, which turned into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. There’s a Hollywood version of Hawaii, too, which starred Julie Andrews. One of the extras was a young as-yet-unknown Bette Midler. Who, it so happens, is a Honolulu native.
While getting ready for the Grammys, we stumbled across this incredible group shot. It’s somehow hard to imagine all of this genius standing together, but there they are. 1975. Stevie Wonder wins album of the year. So we put this playlist together with songs by each of these boys and linger in the past. We miss you madly, John Lennon….
From left: David Bowie, Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Yoko Ono and John Lennon at the Grammy Awards, New York, 1975, photographed by Ron Galella
It’s hot somewhere, right? While it’s winter here in New York, we dream of warmer days ahead. And the kinds of things you get to wear then, like a tank, jeans and gladiators. Photographer Bibi Cornejo Borthwick (shot here by Hanuk) epitomizes the buy-now-wear-later ethos as she pairs our Marlien Denim Leggings in just that kind of sunny-day combination. Her vertical stripes, paired with a heel, add an extra leg-lengthening boost.
Talking with your mouth full is A-ok in Gail Simmons’ book — actually, that’s the name of her memoir Talking With My Mouth Full, which charts her culinary-curious childhood and career. We spent some time with the author and Top Chef judge at her favorite neighborhood haunt Haven’s Kitchen to chat BBQ, Last Suppers and daily hot chocolate cravings. (Her recipe for Spiked Hot Chocolate is perfectly timed with a recent cold spell here in the Northeast.)