Category Archive: Fashion

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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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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Legendary Glamma: Timeless Style

For NYC-based stylist Dee and her brand The Vintage Point, style, class and glam have no age limit. Dee proves this through her new content series “Granny Series,” in which the NYC fashion connoisseur utilizes fashion to highlight her elderly grandmother. 

Dee’s grandmother, Margaret Chola, is seen on Instagram rocking styles that are elegantly timeless and chic, all the while maintaining a hint of modernity to the clothes that her granddaughter styles her in. From fancy headwear to fabulous pantsuits, Miss Chola does not dress to "un-impress." 

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Róisín Pierce: O’ Lovely Lace

There’s this misunderstanding that femininity is equal to docility, in other words: be quiet, listen and attend to the needs of others, and never want for more. 

Yet the hauntingly bridal visages that Róisín Pierce has put on the runway gives female rage and revolt a whole new face. The delicate interweaving of silk, lace, Irish crochet, bridal veils, florals, ribbons, and bows all create fashion pieces that reinterpret designs that are seen as traditionally feminine. All thanks to one designer working out of her house in Dublin with her diligent mother, Angela.

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Diotima: Dismantling the Colonial Gaze

“Seductive, Artisanal, Nuanced.” Those are the words used by Rachel Scott to describe her brand which aims to create a bridge between Jamaica, the Caribbeans, and the West.

The Kingston, Jamaica-born designer studied French and art at Colgate University in upstate New York and graduated with her Bachelor’s degree in 2006. From 2006-2007, she attended Istituto Marangoni in Milan, Italy where she studied fashion/apparel design. After graduating, Scott worked for brands such as Costume National and J. Mendel, and served as Vice President of Design at Rachel Comey for about seven years. She first founded Diotima in 2021 after realizing that there was a lack of direct Caribbean and Jamaican representation in fashion.

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Maison Kitsuné: Eclectic Innovation

The fashion industry is about being daring, unique, and setting trends. Numerous fashion labels vie for visibility and acclaim. For newcomers, it can be very difficult to stand out in a highly competitive market. Making a name for yourself and establishing an instantly recognizable brand are vital for success in the fashion industry. Unconventionally, Paris-based fashion company Maison Kitsuné has managed to distinguish itself from the competition.

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