Month: June 2024

Paris Olympics 2024: The Global Runway

The Olympics has been commonplace for celebrating the world’s vast cultures and the spirit of sportsmanship for centuries, but it is also a global stage ready for fashion brands to display their latest designs.

France 

Taking center stage at the 2024 Olympics are the hosts.

Berluti, a French luxury brand, and Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton worked together on the navy blazers with burnished lapels, silk skirts/slim-fit pants, and leather loafers that Team France will be wearing to the Opening Ceremony.

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Maya Ixta: A Rising Star

There is nothing better than discovering a great song with less than a thousand Spotify listens. The primal instinct to declare “I heard it first!” takes over the mind and body: being the first of a friend group to “discover” a great artist is truly a feeling like no other. 

While listening to “Time” by Maya Ixta, a 17-year-old Latin-American artist based in Los Angeles with only sixty monthly listeners to her name, I felt the rush of that primal gate-keeping instinct. The song is steeped in the influences of Kali Uchis, PinkPantheress, and Billie Eilish. Like Uchis often does, Ixta alternates between English and Spanish lyrics on the track. The production features a fast-paced syncopated drum beat akin to those on PinkPantheress’ debut album “Heaven Knows.” The heart of the song is most aligned with Eilish: the lyrics of “Time” aptly and delicately explore the fleeting nature of time and anxiety about the future.

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Tyler Mitchell: Visualizing Utopia

In September 2018, Beyoncé graced the cover of Vogue dressed in a frilly white dress and stunning floral headpiece. This was one of many images of the singer featured in that issue, all of which were praised for treading the line between reality and fantasy, documentary and portraiture, subtly refracting the glossy light that tends to fall on fashion and celebrity toward a softer, more nuanced feeling.

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Snow Patrol: Chasing Success

If you find yourself listening to playlists filled with the gentle ambience of sad rock music then Snow Patrol’s 2006 Grammy-nominated hit song, Chasing Cars, is almost guaranteed to make an appearance.

Snow Patrol is a Northern Irish alt-rock band that was formed in 1997. They went mainstream in 2004 with the album “Final Straw,” and multi-platinum 2006 album “Eyes Open,” which included their international hit song “Chasing Cars.” 

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Virginie Viard: Stabilizing Chanel’s Complicated Legacy

On Wednesday, June 5, Chanel announced that artistic director Virginie Viard was leaving the fashion house. Viard spent 30 years working for Chanel in various posts, working her way up to the head artistic director position in 2019 when her mentor, the legendary Karl Lagerfeld, passed away. Viard was only the third artistic director of Chanel’s 114-year history, following Lagerfeld, who was preceded by the founder, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel. 

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Karlie Kloss: Supermodel + Entrepreneur + Philanthropist

One of the most iconic Victoria’s Secret Angels of her time, Karlie Kloss has had a multitude of career developments in fashion, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. 

Kloss was first discovered at 13 years old by a representative from Elite Model Management when she participated in a modeling contest at her local mall, the St. Louis West County Center. She walked her first New York Fashion Week in 2008, at 15 years old. She later joined Victoria’s Secret in 2011 where she walked her first runway and established herself as an Angel - a model who has a contract with the brand and is considered to be a spokesperson for the company. However, in 2015, Kloss left the agency to explore different career paths.

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