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The Schmooze Lena Dunham and Leandra Medine Talk Hasidic Fashion
We all have that friend we turn to for last minute fashion advice. For Lena Dunham, that friend is Leandra Medine, a.k.a. The Man Repeller. This text-message exchange, posted to Dunham’s Instagram account on Tuesday, has them discussing a Very Important question: Despite what would have you believe, the runways have recently been clogged with…
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The Schmooze Is John Galliano Poised For a Comeback?
John Galliano, the star designer sacked by Dior for a drunken anti-Semitic rant, has been successfully rebuilding both himself and the Maison Margiela fashion brand since he took over its helm in October, said the man who gave him the job. Diesel founder Renzo Rosso, chairman and main shareholder of Maison Margiela’s parent OTB group,…
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Film & TV How Iris Apfel Became a 93-Year-Old Style Icon
Iris Apfel is not your bubbe’s bubbe. But by the end of the documentary “Iris,” you’ll wish she was yours. Apfel, a spunky 93, has spent a lifetime successfully navigating the fine line between eccentric and icon. She mixed charity goods from flea markets with designer clothes to create looks that made her a fashion…
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The Schmooze Inside Iris Apfel’s (Many) Closets
Age, fashion and wisdom fuel the late great filmmaker Albert Maysles’ documentary, “Iris,” a loving homage to Iris Apfel, the inimitable 94-year-old empress of style and chutzpah. Philosophically embellishing the subtext of fighting the clock while continuing to astound and surprise, Iris Apfel — in a sequence in which she is stacking so much jewelry shoulder…
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Life Bringing Holocaust Victim’s Fashion Designs Back To Life
On a freezing morning this winter a group of visitors gathered at a museum gallery in Wisconsin, surrounded by mannequins dressed in what would have been the latest fashion — if you were in the Europe of the late 1930s. At first glance it looked like the Jewish Museum Milwaukee was putting on a standard…
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Life Where High Fashion Meets Modesty
Adi Heyman At first glance, the fashion blog “Fabologie” looks no different than masses of other fashion blogs, with surveys of collections by luxury labels like Chanel, Celine and Burberry, a piece on the five best items of the season, a post on the military fashion trend and, of course, photos of women from various…
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Forward 50 2014 Tavi Gevinson
Started an acclaimed fashion blog? Check. Founded a magazine? Check. Gave a TED talk? Check. Acted alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini? Check. Hung out with Vogue’s Anna Wintour? Check. Starred in a Broadway show? Check. But celebrate her 18th birthday? That’s something Tavi Gevinson managed only this past April. At 11, Gevinson had garnered…
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Opinion Mango Shirt Slammed as Attempt at ‘Nazi Chic’
Mango’s new shirt After Sears’s swastika ring and Zara’s concentration camp shirt comes another piece of fashion that has incensed the internet: The lightning-like black symbols on the women’s shirt ‘Rayo’ by Spanish fashion company Mango look suspiciously like the runic insignia of the Nazi SS units and the youth organization Jungvolk. “Why does Mango…
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