Performa seances and NYU classes aside, James Franco has kept it pretty low-key for the past couple weeks. What has that crazy Artist been up to?
Making commercials Seven For All Mankind's spring jean campaign, because he's an advertising art director now. Obviously.
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A memo sent out Tuesday by Condé Nast CEO Charles Townsend may have announced the "structural realignment" that would propel growth and success for the company. It may have emphasized the "importance of this mission." What the memo actually did, however, was prompt a wave of confusion — from people inside of 4 Times Square Read More
Late last week, in a moment that feels particular to the neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a girl in her early 20s with long, seemingly unwashed brown hair, stained denim cutoffs, scuffed boots and a loose white tank top that exposed lacy bra straps rode by on a bicycle and caught the attention of a Read More
“If I see another movie star in a fashion magazine — it’s ridiculous! It’s a nightmare,” said John Fairchild, who launched W magazine in 1971. “That’s what they call the cutting edge," he continued. "I hate that word. And buzz. It’s a crock. They love buzz! When I hear the word buzz, it reminds me Read More
Midway through New York’s Olympus Fashion Week, it seems that no one cares any longer to tell fashion designers whether they’re right or horrendously wrong. Or is it that the press has realized that their fashion opinions just don’t matter in the American marketplace?
“It used to be,” said John Fairchild, the former rip-roaring publisher of Read MoreWhen James Fallon, then the London bureau chief of Fairchild publications, interviewed John Fairchild, the legendary editor and publisher of Women's Wear Daily , for the paper's 90th anniversary issue, the man who spent the late 50's boozing with Chanel, and the 60's reinventing the American look and spatting with most designers, told him the Read More
It can happen any season. Somebody-then everybody-decides there's a young star designer out there. A single fashion show becomes the Show. It's held downtown, somewhere gritty and inconvenient. And, odds are, half of the people in the seats have never heard of the prodigy before. They're there because of who else is there.
Right in the Read MoreThe sale of the Walt Disney Company's Fairchild Publications to S.I. Newhouse Jr.'s Advance Publications went through the afternoon of Aug. 24. The price? A reported $650 million.
In addition to taking on Jane and W magazines-publications that fall under Advance Publications' Condé Nast Publications division-Mr. Newhouse is the new owner of the fashion trade publication Read MoreWearing a silk leopard-print ascot and a black cotton shirt, Kenneth Paul Block nursed a teatime martini in his art- and book-filled Riverside Drive apartment on May 10. Mr. Block's evocative and elegant fashion illustrations for Women's Wear Daily and W –which have immortalized such style icons as the Duchess of Windsor, Babe Paley and Read More
With less than 48 hours to go before New York's fashion week was to pack up its tents, the major themes of the week had emerged on Feb. 18. Can fashion successfully combine art and commerce? Can the private fancies of creative designers and their customers co-exist with the more public, commercial demands of salability?
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