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What to Expect on the Red Carpets During Awards Season 2024

 If red carpet stylists had their way, awards season 2024 would be a joyous celebration of emerging designers, diverse talent and archival looks with an underlining note of thoughtfulness regarding the state of fashion. But, there are brand partnerships at play, new collections to promote and sponsors to keep happy. Hollywood’s wardrobes become Tetris puzzles, as celebrity dressers navigate samples, alterations and custom commissions, while keeping in mind both the couture and ready-to-wear trends and incorporating some semblance of sustainability in line with the industry’s commitment to do better for our planet. A dress is never just a dress during awards season.

If this sounds like an impossible tick-boxing exercise, there will be overarching themes at play at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards and Oscars, as stylists fall for the same buzzy designers, directional silhouettes and whimsical embellishments that chime with the current mood, but have lasting impact. Vogue picked the brains of three heavyweight dressers to find out what we can expect from the nominees and guests on film’s big nights in 2024.


Fashion, darling

The SAG-AFTRA strike turned the “fashion space into an art form”, argues Holly White, who dresses emerging stars, like Heartstopper’s Joe Locke. Explainer: in the absence of premieres, celebs turned out to shows, dinners and store events in outfits otherwise reserved for big California moments. As such, there was more experimentation, which will now trickle onto the world’s stage.


Take Sienna Miller’s quirky bump-revealing Schiaparelli moment at Vogue World: London. Undoubtedly one of the looks of the year, masterminded by stylist Harry Lambert, the fabulous white crop top and bubble skirt perhaps wouldn’t have previously found their way to the Academy Awards, but catapulted pure fashion drama to the top of conversations. After being starved of red-carpet wear in the latter part of 2023, expect awards show attendees to dream big. Come January, people will especially be leaning on the new guard – Sabato de Sarno at Gucci, Peter Hawkings at Tom Ford and Chemena Kamali at Chloé – and looking at the modern house visions set to define the year in fashion.

Disco 2024
“If there is a time to shine, it’s on the red carpet,” asserts White. “Metallics will reign and spring 2024 brought some modern silhouettes to the runway that will give this somewhat consistent trend a contemporary and updated look.” Watch out, she says, for Paco Rabanne, Alexander McQueen and Ralph Lauren.

Zadrian Smith, who styles Ariana DeBose, agrees: “That Ralph Lauren look on Christy Turlington was killer.” His other predictions, which goes hand in hand with sheeny-shiny fabrications? Sheerness and fringing. “The flapper girl is making a comeback in a big way,” notes Smith, citing heavy embellishment and relaxed silhouettes as key signifiers of the ’20s revival (keep an eye on The Attico, Prada, Jil Sander and Givenchy). On the flip side, micro hemlines will keep the after-party scene looking disco fabulous (Gucci and Tom Ford, we’re looking at you).


Fashion Photography: What it Takes to Make the Grade, Part 2

 In celebration of the Fall segment of New York Fashion Week 2014, which runs from September 4-11, we interviewed three more professional fashion photographers for our second and final installment on fashion photography to provide a clear picture of what it’s like to be a fashion photographer, as well as some cogent hints and tips for those considering entering this glamorous, but challenging field. New York Fashion Week (NYFW) is a really big deal, and its scale and economics are staggering. There will be over 50 runway shows and the production costs for lighting alone at one of the Lincoln Center shows can easily top $100k. The total cost for just one of these extravaganzas can easily top $1M, which breaks down to about $1,750 a second! According to the New York City Economic Development Corporation, NYFW rakes in about $850M for the city, double the amount for the Super Bowl. Fashion Week events will be held all over New York City and you may rest assured that the world’s top fashion designers and scads of celebrities will be there, along with a profusion of fashion fans, aspiring fashionistas, and, of course, hordes of photographers.


With her mother as her first business partner, Lindsay Adler began shooting professionally at the age of 15, or about half her life (she’s now 29). She has since established herself as one of the leading fashion photographers in the city and works out of her studio in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. “It took me a long time to get into fashion,” Lindsay recalls, “and I explored many different genres, including nature photography with my family, shooting senior portraits in high school to make money, and eventually branching out into shooting weddings. What really inspired my transition to fashion was taking a fashion photography course in college and being exposed to some of the most exquisite photography I had ever seen. For about two years afterward I ran a portrait business in upstate Binghamton, New York, traveling to New York City frequently to build a network of fashion photography connections. Eventually I had enough contacts and a clear concept of what was needed to put on a successful fashion shoot, and in 2009 I moved to New York City and opened my studio, where I specialize in fashion photography and fashion-style portraiture.


Fortunately, I also have a talent for marketing so when I moved to New York I not only made extensive connections in the fashion world, but also in fashion photography education. As a result I teach all over the world at many major platforms, including, in the USA at WPPI, Photo Plus, Photoshop World, and I also give one-off classes at universities.” Lindsay Adler’s editorials and images have appeared in numerous fashion and photography publications including Noise, Marie Claire, Bullett Magazine, Zink Magazine, Rangefinder, Professional Photographer, and her pictures have been used in countless ad campaigns, TV promos, and on billboards. She is the author of four books on photography and is always working on new ways to share her passion and knowledge with others.



“I think what defines my style is that it’s clean, bold, and graphic,” says Lindsay. “It’s not casual, and it’s not rigid, but it is structured, and it’s graphic and bold in the sense of being colorful and high contrast. In other words, it’s arresting and eye-catching, not subtle—it kind of grabs you by the eyeballs. I shoot women primarily unless I have specific clients that want me to shoot men. My male partner specializes in shooting men and when people approach me for that kind of assignment I recommend him. My clients include Marie Claire, Essence, and InStyle magazines, and my book publisher is Peachpit, a division of Pearson Publishing. I’ve also been included in a number of online lists of ‘people under 30 to watch.’”


Lindsay’s Advice for up-and-coming fashion shooters:


“My primary suggestion for emerging fashion photographers is to bring together a strong team,” says Lindsay, “because it’s your creative team that makes you successful. That team should include hair stylists, makeup, and wardrobe people that have a good synergy, a genuine team spirit, and can work together harmoniously. Another important thing to remember is that rejection is part of your career—don’t take it personally, try to learn something from it, and move forward. Finally, you need to get hands-on experience. In fashion photography in particular there’s nothing like working on a fashion set to learn what fashion photography is all about. If you can sign on as an assistant pick a photographer that you admire both for their work and their business practices because those two things together are what makes a successful photographer. Even if you start out just running errands or moving equipment, you will learn something and eventually move up. And whatever you to, keep on shooting.”


Football-Fashion Collabs That Would Actually Make Sense

Over the past decade, we have seen fashion and football fall in love. Every fashion brand and their Nan have joined the great football gold rush and we have been left with more “new” and “exciting” collabs than we can handle. The issue is, with these “new” and “exciting” collabs, is that a lot of them don’t appreciate the depth of the football culture. Brands charge into a complex world with no roadmap, slapping logos on jerseys and re-telling tired stories of “footballing heritage”. It doesn’t have to be this way, though. What if brands actually took the time to understand football culture? What if clubs only signed off on collaborations that resonated with their story? What if football-fashion collabs actually made sense? Here are five we would love to see.


Fred Perry is a British icon. The fabled laurel wreaths have adorned the chests of young Britons up and down the land for more than half a century. The upper-left torso of mods, casuals, skinheads, rude girls, of Amy, Mike, Freddie and Terry were all decorated with that same broken circle. It’s a football fashion staple, too. Go to any ground in Britain and you’ll see the famous twin-tipped polo buttoned up to a hundred chins, fans subtly underlining their allegiance via the two coloured lines along each hem. If British football had a uniform, it would be made by Fred.

So, if Fred Perry is a British icon worn by British subcultures and British football fans at the British football, why are we suggesting that they collab with RSC Anderlecht, the biggest team in Belgium? It’s a fair question. It’s because last time they did it, they produced some all-time teamwear. In the late 1960s, Fred got the call from across the Channel to manufacture kits for Anderlecht, as well as their rivals Club Bruges and Standard Liege. The result, a typically elegant centre-badge Fred design in explosive RSCA purple, is one of football’s greatest forgotten gems. 2023 is the year to re-up this collab and get Fred back in the beautiful game.

Real Madrid & Loewe



Loewe is Spain’s most successful luxury brand. Real Madrid is Spain’s most successful football club. In 1905, Loewe were granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment by King Alfonso XIII. 15 years later, Alfonso XIII granted Madrid FC the title “Real” (royal) as a show of his support. Casa Loewe Madrid, the brand’s flagship store, is just off the capital’s Paseo de la Castellana. The Santiago Bernabeu is 10 minutes north. You couldn’t make up a more perfect football brand story.

Real Madrid have an aura of wealth around them that no other club can match. No matter how hard PSG, Juventus or Bayern try, the spotless white army at La Casa Blanca have an untouchable grandeur that borders on the perverse. For most people, this perpetual exhibition of elitism is a turn off – Super League, Perez, €60m on a 16-year-old etc. – but it does leave the club in a unique position in the fashion world. No-one else can match a fashion house for luxury. No other club can operate on that level. Lean into it and they could make something unprecedented. Two cultural titans of the Spanish capital, coming together to create footballing opulence. The most luxurious football fashion collab there’s ever been.

Bologna F.C. 1909 & C.P. Company


When you think of C.P. Company and football, it’s usually goggle hats on the terraces, loud jackets in dingy pubs or, occasionally, excellent VERSUS-produced editorials. What if it was different, though? What if C.P., founded by the “godfather of sportswear”, turned their sights to producing some on-field magic? How would they apply the experimental philosophy that made them famous to teamwear?

The first thing they’d need is a team to kit out. Who better than their hometown club of Bologna? Massimo Osti founded the brand as Chester Perry in 1971 and, for the last 50 years, C.P. Company has pioneered cutting-edge fabric innovation from Crevalcore – a small town just 40 minutes from the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara. C.P. would have I Veltri playing in some of the most technologically advanced football gear we’ve ever seen. Fabrics that prevent sweat from even forming, training-wear that could survive in space, the warmest bench coats that have ever been stitched. Catch Thiago Motta doing sideline analysis through the digitised goggles of Miglia Mille, some Terminator, Google Glass type stuff. The people need it and, by people, we mean streetwear heads willing to drop a bag on a weird jacket. Molto bene.



Fast Fashion and its Advantages

Fast fashion goes with the English adage – out of sight, out of mind! Fast fashion defines the different fashion trends in clothing, apparels, jewelry, accessories, etc., that hit the market, hit their peaks and zoot out of sight before you even have time to make up your mind about whether you liked it or not! Here are the advantages of Fast Fashion.


Followers of fast fashion will agree that the above quote aptly epitomizes fast fashion. It comes, it captivates our minds, and it leaves before we have had enough of it! Fast fashion is the fastest to leave the catwalk and hit the stores. It has been regarded by many as a movement against the normal trend that the fashion industry tends to go by – where a design, or a new product takes a minimum of six months on an average, to go from the first piece crafted for a ramp to the millions produced for the consumers. Fast fashion is for those who like to keep up with the times, and who like to try fresh new styles of clothing every once in a while. The aim of fast fashion brands – like the Spanish retailer Zara – is to monetize the craze for a particular fashion trend before it gets old and before the consumers are besotted by any other competitive, rival or an “anti-trend”!



One cannot comment on fast fashion and not mention “the most innovative and devastating retailer in the world” (in the words of Daniel Piette, Fashion Director, Louis Vuitton), the Spanish retailer Zara. Founded by Amancio Ortega and Rosalia Mera in 1975, Zara has captivated the market like no other fast fashion retailer has ever been able to, bringing clothes from the catwalk to the consumer within a staggering period of only two weeks! Zara has given its costumers some really trendy, chic and affordable clothes. Zara’s fast fashion apparel is practical, something you and me can wear and not feel awkward or conscious. At the same time, it isn’t something that is out-dated or old-fashioned. These traits of Zara are also the traits of fast fashion; chic, trendy, catchy, practical, stylish, unique and yet affordable. A few of the other fashion retailers include United Colors of Benetton, GAP, Forever 21, etc.

The Instagram rich list: the top paid fashion and beauty influencers of 2019

Instagram feeds across the globe are filled with #OOTD and #shelfie posts created by fashion and beauty influencers. 

Having become many people's main source of inspiration over the years, the 'gram has created hundreds and thousands of Internet-famous faces, many who have become celebrities in their own right.  


The lucky ones are not only raking in the followers but also rather a lot of dosh. From Chiara Ferragni to Hudda Kattan, bloggers these days can earn up to $33,000 per Instagram post.

Social media scheduling tool Hopper HQ has put together an ' Instagram Rich List 2018' , revealing the top paid influencers of 2018, plus how much they get paid per post - and, as expected, it is an eye-watering amount...

Work Out Clothes Almost Too Good To Wear To The Gym

The world of athleisure cannot stop blowing our minds! From beautiful pastel sports bra and legging pairings to mesh bombers and cashmere sneakers—these pieces are just too good to only wear to the gym.


You can get so much more out of your workout clothes then just a quick sweat session, especially when they look this cute. Pair this Outdoor Voices sporty bomber with high-waisted white jeans. Or you could layer on a chunky crew knit and white button down shirt with The Upside stirrup leggings for a off duty look.

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Fashion tips for Christmas party season

According to the lighthearted survey by department store David Jones, 45 per cent of fashion mishaps witnessed are tacky Christmas-themed accessories or outfits, and 38 per cent involve guests ending up barefoot. David Jones womenswear buying manager Teneille Ferguson said it was important to stick to a dress code and make an effort if the occasion called for it.


“People struggling to walk in heels or, even worse, carrying them is never a good look,” she said. Flats and embellished sandals and slides are having a moment, so it’s the perfect excuse to avoid heels if they’re not going to stand the test of time at a function. “Being comfortable in what you’re wearing is ­always the safest bet to avoid a fashion faux pas. Avoiding gimmicky accessories is also key.” Ms Ferguson said the ­festive season was a great time to wear something a ­little different and more ­adventurous than your usual style called for. “For a work Christmas party, wearing something sophisticated and not baring too much skin would be advised,” she said. “For a barbecue or something more informal — a pretty floral dress with sandals would be perfect, as would an off-the-shoulder top or cami with jeans.”


Etiquette expert Anna Musson said the most common festive season faux pas include giving gag gifts, ­re-gifting without checking for cards, and gifts from the two-dollar shop. “Never arrive empty-handed, never let gift givers know you don’t like their gift, don’t avoid saying ‘Merry Christmas’. It is Christmas so embrace it. And the big no-no, being noticeably drunk at the office Christmas party,” she said.

Party-Ready Shoes to Kick-Start Your Holiday Wardrobe

When it comes to your holiday party–circuit wardrobe, building your look from the ground up has surprising sartorial benefits—not to mention the leg-lengthening advantages of certain vertiginous stilettos. Festive shoes are about sophistication, not snobbiness, and the most refreshing options for this season play with color, embellishment, and texture, injecting new life into the most tried-and-true party frock. 


Better still, you’ll be wearing the more versatile among these well after the holidays. Case in point? In his new capsule collection for Salvatore Ferragamo, Colombian-born designer Edgardo Osorio’s reinterpretations of some of the brand’s iconic models have resulted in swoon-worthy, party-ready shoes. His black-and-white polka-dot mid-heel sandals are brimming with possibilities for all seasons.


If comfort is a main concern (which it should be—there is nothing less sexy than the post-party hobble caused by blistered feet screaming for relief), there are plenty of options that allow for a sense of physical freedom. From high-wattage crystal toe embellishment to glimmering pom-poms and ornately decorated buckles, the appeal of eveningwear flats is all in the details.
Whether you prefer stilettos or platforms, classic styles or playful details like disco-ball encrustations and feather-and-ribbon ankle ties, the most festive shoes this season are above all ready to party. Shop our favorite pairs above and get ready to dance up a storm.

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