All The Vibes: #21
Pharrell for British GQ, Bella Hadid serves AI fashion realism and cowboys are having a moment
Whether it's runway shows, magazine editorials, new trends, fashion news, brand collaborations or cool ad campaigns; ‘All The Vibes’ is a place for you to discover all of the fashionable things that should be on your radar.
If you didn’t know you needed to know these fashion tidbits, well, now you know.
So sit back, relax and enjoy! Let’s get into round #21.
It's rare for a creative director to be given such a stage on which to perform, but we all knew Pharrell was going to be the talk of town once he took the helm at Louis Vuitton. For a British GQ Hype issue, the star takes centre stage and talks about his aspirations in growing and exceeding LV's standards.
To better understand the demographics that make up the UK's fashion industry, the British Fashion Council has teamed up with the non-profit The Outsiders Perspective to try and figure out where change is needed within the industry going forward, Vogue Business reports.
A$AP Rocky received the Virgil Abloh Award at HFR's 16th Annual Fashion Show & Style Awards. And as HighSnobiety states, this is kind of a full circle moment for the rapper as Abloh designed the visuals for Rocky's first album cover and his 2013 LONG.LIVE.A$AP tour.
If it seems like new fashion titles are dished out every week thats because they are. And in the latest lineup of high-profile link-ups, H&M has appointed Heron Preston as their Creative Menswear Advisor. But what does this mean exactly? Your guess is as good as mine.
Bella Hadid is back, baby. After suffering with health issues this year which saw the model mostly out of action, she stars in the Fall 2023 campaign for Marc Jacobs' Heaven line. It's giving AI alien. It's giving ChatGPT created this campaign. And it's giving post-apocalyptic fashion futurism.
What a mess. ICYMI, Tremaine Emory stepped down from his role as the creative director of streetwear label Supreme claiming allegations of systemic racism within the company. For a brand that's built on Black culture, style and aesthetics, this is disappointing. But not surprising. But is it right for Emory to have wanted to sell clothing that depicts the lynching and enslavement of a Black person? Is it right for a brand to profit off of that type of imagery? Hard no from me.
I'm feeling the witchy vibes and summer solstice meets goth aesthetic taking over fashion right now. The TikTok girlies are championing the style reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed and Sabrina The Teenage Witch — feels like we are back in my 90s heyday. Yes yes yes. And as i-D so eloquently asks, is fashion falling under neo-Paganism’s spell?
Finding the perfect t-shirt is an art form but designing one may be a whole lot harder. Starting a decade ago, Erik Allen Ford and Sasha Koehn started the label Buck Mason with a lofty goal: to make a superior T-shirt. They now sell more than a dozen short-sleeved t-shirt variants, and it sounds like they're not slowing down any time soon.
I once worked backstage at a Poster Girl LFW show, so it's safe to say I've been invested in the brand ever since then. And their latest campaign, styled by the icon that is Mel Ottenberg and shot by Moni Haworth, took to the streets of New York and caused a commotion in the best way possible. This is how you flex on your ex, or show up to court proceedings. Iconic.
Yeehawww, cowboys are having a moment. It's their world and we're just living in it. As Western styles permeate the greater collective consciousness, the Old West genre is being fused with a new vibe thanks to the likes of Lil Nas X, Beyoncé and the 2023 movie of the summer, Barbie.
If you haven't perused the depths of the @throwingfits Instagram account, then you're missing out. Part satire, part comedy, they take aim at anyone who falls into a fashion stereotype mould. Are they mocking the fashion industry? Yes. But are they also laughing at themselves, and those of us who make the industry what it is today? Yes again.
Hypebae's 'Behind the Atelier’ series profiles the inner workings of design houses and explores what goes down behind the scenes. In its 16th instalment, they spoke with Chinese designer and founder of the New York-based brand ZIMO, Zimo Yan, about Asian history and heritage, how her designs serve as a catalyst for meaningful dialogue and how her symbolic silhouettes bridge the East and the West.
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