...and more fashion news you missed this week
Here’s a pitch for film studios struggling with original content ideas: Inside Out but it’s inside Julia Fox’s brain. Ideally when she’s getting dressed in the morning or communicating with paparazzi to get some new Instagram content. Rather than amorphous blobs representing different types of emotional states, there would be leather claws, centaurian legs, and dead bodies. There would also be shed-loads of condoms, which is something Fox has taken to dressing herself in, first fashioning a handbag out of them and then a boob tube – which she decided to wear on a bucolic walk around LA this week. Fashion obviously loves a condom (see the Diesel AW23 show) and they’re often handed out at after-show parties – which is very radical and quite techno of them. At least she’s put them to good use!
In other news this week, Chanel staged a fashion show at Paramount Studios and Chlöe Sevigny announced that she’d be selling her old clothes to the public, while 8,000 shoppers in Paris – the city of style and culture – were caught queuing for Shein. Elsewhere, Kim Kardashian brought nerds back into the mainstream and Peter Do was hired as the creative director of Helmut Lang, while Beyoncé revoked her pro-worker agenda with some tour costumes and FRUiTS magazine broadcasted its comeback.
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GUCCI’S GOT A NEW STAFF MEMBER
This week, Alia Bhatt was announced as Gucci’s first-ever Indian ambassador. The actor, producer, and entrepreneur received the Time100 Impact Award for her contribution to the entertainment industry and will star in Netflix’s upcoming Heart of Stone series. She’ll make her first official appearance at the brand’s Cruise 2024 fashion show in Seoul.
RICK OWENS GETS WITH PEACHES
An extension of his Converse x DRKSHDW collaboration, Rick Owens has just launched hisLaceless TURBODRK Chuck 70, along with a campaign starring Peaches. “SHE IS AN ESSENTIAL COUNTERBALANCE TO THE HOMOPHOBIC, MYSOGINIST ENERGY THAT IS STILL, UNFORTUNATELY, A FACT OF LIFE,” Owens said. “HER SCRAPPY RESISTANCE AND FEROCITY ARE IN THE TRADITION OF THE RAMONES, WHO REPRESENT THE SPIRIT OF CONVERSE THE MOST TO ME.” Fans can buy the shoe from May 16 here.
VOGUE PRINTS ITS FIRST BRAILLE EDITION
Dovetailing with its “Reframing Fashion” issue, British Vogue released its May edition in braille. Readers can receive an audio file and print a braille file of the issue at home for free, or register their interest in being sent a physical braille copy. It’s the first time that a major fashion magazine has broadened access to braille readers, setting a new standard for the industry at large.
THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MARKET
Next week, Dover Street Market will unlock the doors of its first archive sale in six years. A honeypot for bargain Comme des Garçons, the concept store will be taking over Printworks in London from Tuesday morning to Sunday afternoon. Stock will be replenished daily with discounts of up to 80 per cent and you can get all the timings here. There’s a reason it’s being billed as the “greatest-ever archive sale”.
DANIEL LEE CAN’T FIND HIS BACCY
Daniel Lee serviced the ‘rah where’s my baccy’ girls this week when he revived the Nova Check print with his debut swimwear collection at Burberry. “An ode to summer escapism inspired by Burberry’s heritage of adventure,” it also pays homage to Goldsmiths students that spent their holidays sprawled across Islington rooftops. A woozy and nostalgia-tinted campaign was shot by Tyrone Lebon and scored by Vegyn – click here to see more of that.