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Did Statement Beauty Make Its New York Fashion Week Comeback This Season?
Choppy bobs and theatrical, pencil-thin brows weren’t mere supporting acts in Christian Cowan’s murder mystery-inspired spring 2025 runway show — they were main characters. Inspired by Bette Davis’ portrayal of criminal mastermind Madame Sin in the eponymic 1972 thriller film, 28 models strutted (or in some cases, wearily pranced with a perpetual glance over the…
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Surgery, shame and self-erasure: four women writers on the tyranny of impossible beauty standards
This Friday, one of the most shocking films of the year opens – a blood-drenched body horror with an unusual theme for the genre: Hollywood’s impossible beauty standards. The Substance stars Demi Moore as a 50-year-old actor who tries a mysterious procedure that claims to “unlock your DNA and a younger version of yourself”. Literally.…
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All The Summer Beauty Trends From Fashion Week SS25
While the international Spring/Summer month provides those North of the Equator inspiration for what they’ll be wearing next season, they are perfectly timed for Australians as we move into summer. Currently, we’ve finished soaking up sartorial inspiration from the New York SS/25 runways, and we’re turning our eyes to London, Paris and Milan. We’ll be…
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’60s-Era Beehives, Dove Gray Eyes, & More Beauty Trends From London Fashion Week
Just as quickly as it came, this season’s New York Fashion Week is behind us — and from Sept. 12 to Sept. 17, fashion lovers across the world will be in London for the English city’s own stylish festivities. From all the beauty moments of NYFW’s Spring/Summer ‘25 season, a few trends stand out. For…
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Stella McCartney doesn’t remember the Nineties because the decade was ‘that wild and good’
Fashion icons including Stella McCartney, Alexa Chung and Amelia Dimoldenberg gathered on London’s South Bank to celebrate the launch of In Vogue: The 90s – a new documentary series that tells the story of Nineties fashion through the eyes of Vogue editors Anna Wintour, Edward Enninful, Hamish Bowles and Tonne Goodman. “It was such a…
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Backstage at Burberry Spring 2025 Ready-To-Wear Collection
Image Credit: Fran Gomez de Villaboa/WWD Backstage at Burberry Spring 2025 Ready-To-Wear Collection at London Fashion Week Backstage at Burberry Spring 2025 Ready-To-Wear Collection at London Fashion Week
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Gary Hume on creating Burberry’s medical-green show set, which revisits the artist’s 1990 work ‘Bays’
In 1990, Sarah Lucas and Henry Bond took over a cavernous multi-story industrial warehouse in London’s Docklands, giving themselves and a handful of other rising Goldsmith graduates a vast floor each to fill with their work. Described by critics as a display of ‘calculated anarchy’ in rooms far larger than any gallery would dream of…
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Pack a power punch with oversized blazers
Oversized blazers are back and making waves in the fashion world, from international runways to Bollywood’s leading ladies. They’re popping up as a wardrobe essential among fashion-forward starlets this season. While actresses like Alia Bhatt, Tara Sutaria, and Kareena Kapoor Khan redefine chic with their versatile blazer looks, Hollywood divas like Cate Blanchett and Nicole…
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Burberry brings back ultra low-rise trousers in utilitarian London Fashion Week collection
Gen Z has been doing its best to bring low-rise trousers back, and now Burberry has given them the high fashion seal of approval. Ultra low-rise trousers populated the British heritage brand’s spring/summer 2025 collection, shown in the halls of the Brutalist National Theatre building on London’s South Bank. The opening look felt like business…
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Amazon, Notino, and Skims lead cross-border e-commerce in fashion, beauty, and luxury in Europe
Translated by Roberta HERRERA Published September 16, 2024 In the fashion, beauty, and luxury categories, cross-border online sales in Europe are dominated by Amazon, by the Czech company Notino, and by Skims, the brand co-founded by Kim Kardashian. Within these categories, Amazon leads in fashion, Notino takes the top spot in beauty, and Skims commands…