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Takeaways from Heineken Lagos Fashion Week 2022

 Fashion designers, celebrities, social media influencers and fashion enthusiasts were back in the city of Lagos, the fashion capital of Nigeria to celebrate Africa shaping fashion’s future. With vibrant colours, slinky evening wear and imaginative detailing on display, plus cameos from artist, Big Brother Naija ex housemates and Media personalities. Since its inception in 2011, LagosFW has been integral to shaping Africa’s fashion future and this year it featured African Designers such as Munkus,Tia Adeola, Pettre Taylor, Aora, MetaKay, Elie Kuame, Oshobor to bring fresh design and color to the African fashion and accessory design. Other designers like Pepperrow, Olisa Kenya, Rick Dusi, Lulla Studio’s, Zinkara, Geto and others displayed design and fabrics that combined vintage styling, contemporary and daring aesthetics, flowy and feminine silhouettes, glitz and glamour, and modern design. The fashion week event also featured its “Swap Shop” initiative for the second...
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Lady Gaga's 8-Inch Platform Heels Look Really Hard to Walk In

 Lady Gaga is collaborating with the one and only Dom Pérignon, hosting a star-studded event in Los Angeles on Thursday night. For the evening's celebrations, Gaga chose to dress in all-black, effortlessly marrying two of her well-known fashion eras for a style renaissance. The "House of Gucci" actress is well known for her sartorial point of view, having oscillated between the over-the-top meat-dress era and a more casual, grungy persona over the past decade. This week, however, she fell comfortably in the middle, choosing an elegant black velvet gown that boasted a statement-making off-the-shoulder bow necklace crafted of black satin. To keep it casual and slightly '90s-inspired, the star slipped into a pair of ripped fishnet tights and black leather elbow-length gloves, rocking a pair of sky-high platform stilettos that harken back to the 2000s. The dress was a special one as it was a custom piece designed by Gaga's sister, Natali Germanotta, for h...
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Asian American Pacific Islanders and Adaptable Designers Find a Home at Fashion Week MN

 Fashion designer Cindy Leewood grew up wearing traditional Khmer garments in Cambodia, but would often daydream about moving to the U.S. and dressing in a trendy, Westernized way. “I wanted to be wearing leggings, I wanted to be wearing crop tops,” she recalls. Her father came to America as a refugee, and though he eventually moved back to Cambodia, it was always his intent to bring his children to America to finish their education. When Leewood entered high school in Minnesota, she remembers the distress of being between two cultures. She found it hard to break into existing friend groups, and often felt disconnected from her peers.“I could speak the language, but I didn’t act quite right to fit in,” Leewood says. “I grew up not showing skin, not wearing shorts, not wearing tank tops … It could be like 90 degrees out and I’d be wearing so much clothing.”These days, Leewood has found camaraderie with other AAPI designers, like the ones who’ll be showcased tonight at Co...
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‘I’m gonna have to make my own money’: the rise of the side hustle

 In 2010, not long into my first job on a magazine now in the great magazine graveyard in the sky, a fellow junior and I were appraising the performance of a new intern. Fresh out of university, this person had arrived late and then suggested they conduct the celebrity interview for the next issue. “That’s the thing with these young ones coming through now,” my colleague said with a solemn shake of their head, “they just don’t want to put the graft in.” Twelve years later and society is in a moment of transformation when it comes to work and our attitudes towards it. The Great Resignation – or at least the Great Thinking About Resignation – is upon us. The Covid pandemic smashed through many of the grand narratives we have passed down for generations about having a job: the need to be present in an office, the idea we are somehow indispensable to the wider machine we are operating in. For older people already in charge, this meant scrambling to adjust the modern workpl...
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Billy Porter teams with Phipps Conservatory for summer flower fashion show

 Actor and groundbreaking fashionista Billy Porter is teaming up with Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens for a new show that will feature elaborate costumes inspired by Porter’s iconic looks and roles, along with his hometown of Pittsburgh. “Billy Porter Presents: A Summer Flower Fashion Show” will run run May 6 to Sept. 24 at the historic glass house in Oakland. “The idea evolved when Billy was shooting (the 2022 Amazon film) ‘Anything’s Possible’ at the Conservatory last summer,” said Joe Reed, Phipps director of marketing and communications. “His energy, vibrance and compassion really inspired us, and we engaged him about taking that inspiration to the next level.” Since wearing a black velvet tuxedo gown by Christian Siriano at the 2019 Academy Awards, Porter has become known for wearing innovative, gender-neutral designs. Porter is working with the Phipps horticulture and facilities team, who will be designing and fabricating four costumes — three made of...
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Fashion outlier Shayne Oliver wants his clothes to make you cry

 Shayne Oliver has been speaking for about ten minutes and still hasn’t answered a question. Just as his train of thought begins to crystallise into something vaguely decipherable, he launches into another non-sequitur, another reference, which takes him down another stream of consciousness. “Do you have air conditioning over there?,” he says, mid-monologue. “I pray for you guys.” He’s barely slept, admittedly, having spent most of the previous night in his studio, but there is a slipperiness to his speech that could easily be read as reluctance. “I don’t think the press has ever taken me particularly seriously as a designer. I don’t draw on traditional references and my work is multifaceted so people tend to think of me as some kind of artist. But I am a designer. I am a creative director.” Though critics, like the silver-tongued Cathy Horyn, have described Oliver as the only “disruptive” designer to have ever come from New York, fashion has always struggled to get pu...
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Kate Moss reveals dangers of the fashion industry

 The British model was just 15 when she was working with a male photographer who asked her to take her top and bra off during a photoshoot for a bra catalogue. Now 48, she told BBC Desert Island Discs that she had taken her top off when asked, despite being "really shy then about my body". "And he said: 'Take your bra off' and I could feel there was something wrong so I got my stuff and I ran away. "I think it sharpened my instincts. "I can tell a wrong 'un a mile away." Moss grew up in Croydon, south London, and was signed by Storm Management in 1988 at the age of 14. She became famous two years later after a photoshoot on Camber Sands beach in East Sussex. Moss told presenter Lauren Laverne that remembering the photoshoot - with fashion photographer Corinne Day for magazine The Face - was "painful". 'I didn't want to take my top off' "That scrunched up nose that is on the cover, she would say, 'S...
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