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SKIMS has just debuted several new shapewear styles for spring, and has tapped several Gen Z musicians to do it. “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2” collaborators PinkPantheress and Ice Spice star in the new ad campaign alongside fellow musicians Nessa Barrett and RAYE for Kim Kardashian’s fashion brand, which arrived on Monday (April 24).
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“I’m excited to launch this next generation of SKIMS shapewear with a campaign that celebrates these incredible musical artists,” Kardashian said in a statement regarding the release. “Ice Spice, Nessa Barrett, PinkPantheress, and RAYE are super talented women and truly reflect our SKIMS community.”
In the new brand images and videos, Ice Spice wears the Seamless Sculpt High Neck Thong Bodysuit in the color bronze and PinkPantheress wears the Seamless Sculpt High Waist Catsuit in the color jasper (charcoal gray). Elsewhere in the campaign images, Barrett is seen in the Seamless Sculpt Slip Dress in the color sienna (tan) while RAYE appears in the Seamless Sculpt Strapless Thong Bodysuit in the color clay (light gray).
“SKIMS just gets it and makes me feel extra snatched,” said Ice Spice. “I’m happy to be a part of the latest campaign.” PinkPantheress echoed her collaborator’s sentiment, adding, “These styles empower me to try clothes I wouldn’t have tried before and make me feel so comfortable and secure.”
On the charts, PinkPantheress and Ice Spice’s “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2” sits at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, while Ice’s “Princess Diana” remix with Nicki Minaj debuts at No. 4 on the chart.
See the photos and videos from the new SKIMS campaign below.
Zendaya has landed another major partnership. On Thursday (April 20), Louis Vuitton announced that the Euphoria actress has been named a house ambassador, and stars in the luxury fashion brand’s newest campaign for the Capucines handbag.
This partnership marks Zendaya’s first with Louis Vuitton. The photos for the Capucines bag features the star drenched in sunlight, posing with several models of the purse in Cote d’Azur (the French Riviera).
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“I remember growing up around LV campaigns,” the “Replay” singer shared in an interview with Vogue. “There was this one that I loved from the early 2000s of Naomi Campbell, and she’s like sprawled out over a trunk. I can still see it. I can see the image in my head and I remember seeing it in magazines as a kid.”
Starring in the campaign adds another dose of nostalgia, as the Louis Vuitton iconography played into her social media usage and made frequent appearances on Myspace during the social networking site’s prime. “Everyone had the LV-print on their Myspace page,” she explained. “At least I had that! Let me not try to put that on nobody else. That was definitely me.”
Zendaya was most recently an ambassador for Valentino, joining the fashion house’s family in 2020.
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It seems that two of the most beloved fashion brands might be partnering up. Supreme and Coogi are rumored to be collaborating on a forthcoming drop.
As spotted on Hype Beast the speculation is swirling around the streetwear community that the culture might be in store for a co-branded effort from the New York City headquartered company and the Australian fashion house. Earlier this week Supreme insider @dropsgg reported that the two brands are currently working on a capsule collection.
“Supreme x Coogi is set to release a collaboration together in the coming weeks! Who’s hyped?” the caption read. The accompanying visual is the iconic picture of The Notorious B.I.G. from a Vibe Magazine shoot of him wearing their signature jacquard sweater while counting money. While neither brand has yet to confirm or deny the rumor the mere thought of a collaboration has already got the internets talking. “coogi print box logos would b insane” one commenter posted. While another user responded “I been waiting for this all my life”.
Coogi was founded in 1969 in Toorak, Australia. Hip-Hop culture adopted the kaleidoscopic-patterned sweaters back in the mid 1990’s. Today the original knitwear pieces are highly coveted on the resale market; fetching upwards to $5,000.00 for never-worn pieces. Most recently Coogi has collaborated with Burton Snowboards, Rag & Bone, Android Homme, and Puma.
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Are you ready for Coachella? Flo Milli might be able to help — in the fashion department.
American Express has established a new global, multi-festival partnership with Depop, the trending, community-powered fashion resale marketplace, to create special collections of pre-loved clothing-turned-festival wear that are curated by a roster of talent. “Part of the fun of festival season happens when fans are planning and picking their ‘fits and expressing their creativity and individuality through fashion,” said Shiz Suzuki, vice president, global brand sponsorships and experiential marketing at American Express, in a press statement.
Peter Semple, Depop’s CMO, added that the Festival Edit collections are “inspired by iconic musical artists who embody the bold, creative spirit of the Depop community. With an ever-growing number of festival attendees seeking to shop sustainably, Depop is constantly meeting our community where they are and providing our customers with compelling new ways to commit to circular fashion.”
On Friday (April 7), Flo Milli unveiled the first Festival Edit collection, where Depop users around the world can shop the “Conceited” MC’s favorite Y2K-inspired finds on the app and online. “American Express and Depop are bringing my personal style to life this festival season and I’m so excited to be part of the first collection,” she said. “Through both my music and fashion, I always aim to express myself with authenticity and creativity. I can’t wait for Depop users to shop my festival-ready looks, featuring bold, glam pieces with Y2K and grunge influence.”
Flo Milli will make her Coachella debut on Saturday, April 15 and April 22. Shop her Festival Edit collection here.
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Finding the right swimsuit can be a task. From body type to fabric, cut and style, there’s a lot to factor in when shopping for swimwear.
Can you even swim in a crochet bikini? You can certainly try, but crochet bikinis are probably better for making a fashion statement than taking a dip — and celebs have taken notice. Dua Lipa, who loves rocking crochet clothing, was spotted in a checkered crochet bikini in Miami last year, while Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney struck a pose in a Mao London Lili crochet bikini during a 2022 beachside photoshoot.
But it’s not just swimwear. Olivia Rodrigo sported a crochet look on the cover of Variety in 2021, Miley Cyrus has worn crochet multiple times, and Solange is no stranger to the crochet trend.
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Provided that you don’t have the time (or the patience) to make your own crochet bikini, we’ve done some of the searching for you and rounded up some of the hottest crochet bikinis, coverups, dresses, and tops that you can buy online — without spending a fortune. And most of the items can be worn on the beach or to Coachella, Lollapalooza and other music festivals and outdoor concerts.
Below, find a list of crochet bikinis and cover-ups for stylish shoppers on a budget. For more recommendations, read our roundup of the best slides for summer and best sunglasses under $25.
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ASOS
Weekday Bikini Top
$19.25 $35 45% off% OFF
The Weekday bikini top from Scandi has triangle cups and adjustable straps, and it’s on sale at ASOS. The top and matching bottom ($17) are discounted, but only select sizes are still in stock (small, medium and large). Find more crochet bikinis from ASOS here.
Nasty Gal
Crochet Checkerboard Triangle Top and Skirt
$24.80 $62 60% off% OFF
Talk about bang for your buck! This Nasty Gal crochet bikini top and skirt is on sale for just $26. Available in sizes XS-XL, the figure-hugging set features a checkerboard design and a halter-neck style top with a tie closure in the back.
Amazon
Bsubseach Women Hollow Out Sleeveless Bikini Swimsuit Cover Up
$31.99
Kick back poolside in this crochet cover up from Amazon. The sleeveless coverup features a split hem and is available in more than a dozen different colors. This knitted piece can be worn to a beach, pool party, cruise, music festival and more.
Revolve
PQ Renee Crop Top
$76
Another coverup option, this rainbow crop top from Revolve is a cool outfit to wear over your bikini. It features a cropped design with cap sleeves and nearly out of stock. In the event that it sells out, you can pre-order it to ensure that you’re first in line when it’s restocked next month.
Urban Outfitters
Out from Under Bliss Crochet Bandeau Top
$59
According to the product description, this Urban Outfitters crochet bikini is made with recycled materials. The bandeau top and matching bottoms are available in pink and green and in sizes ranging from XS-XXL.
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Cider
Cider Strappy Crochet Bikini Set $36
This strappy little bikini set from Cider features a halter tie neck and a high waist. It’s almost out of stock, but still available in size small.
Cider
One Shoulder Crochet Top
$17.60 $22 20% off% OFF
Also available at Cider, this one shoulder crochet top will look good with a pair of jeans, shorts or a skirt. The top is available in sizes M-XL. Click here for more crochet tops.
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White Fox Boutique
Private Island Crochet Set $49.99 $
Not quite a bikini but definitely good for the beach, this crochet set features a halter neck low-cut crop top and elastic-waist fringe mini skirt. The set is available in black and white in sizes XS/S-M/L.
Revolve
Lovers and Friends Alexia Mini Dress
$118
The Lovers and Friend Alexia Mini Dress can be worn solo or as a bikini coverup. This adorable dress has a trendy, center-bodice cutout and it ties in the front (it’s available in sizes XS-L).
Amazon
Women’s Crochet Lace Halter Swimsuit
$35.49 $42.59 17% OFF
Looking for a one-piece bathing suit? This crochet swimsuit from Amazon is available in 10 different colors including black, blue, green, coral, white and multiple shades of red.
Nasty Gal
Crochet Wide Leg Beach Cover Up Pants $27.60 $68
If you’re not ready to commit to a bikini or bathing suit, these wide leg pants are another way to bring crochet to the beach. The matching top is out of stock, but you can wear it with a regular bikini top or cropped top.
Revolve
Dundas x Revolve Maia Maxi Dress
$328
This halterneck dress might be too cute to pass up. The braided design is similar to crochet and its equipped with a knit bralette, open knit skirt and back-tie closures. The dress is available in sizes XXS-XL but sizes M-XL are currently in stock.
Megan Thee Stallion joined the iconic Law Roach at The Hollywood Reporter and Jimmy Choo’s Power Stylists dinner on Tuesday night (March 28), celebrating the beloved stylist making the publication’s list of the 25 best celebrity stylists.
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As expected, the “Hot Girl Summer” rapper didn’t disappoint with her Roach-curated look, a gold vintage 1997 Paco Rabanne that was originally worn by Yasmeen Ghauri. The stylist revealed at the event that the outfit was remade “months and months and months ago” by the house’s Julien Dossena.
Meg added her flair to the look with her natural, voluminous curls as well as a sleek cat-eye makeup look and long, golden nails.
Megan Thee Stallion attends The Hollywood Reporter And Jimmy Choo Power Stylists Dinner at The Terrace at Sunset Tower on March 28, 2023 in West Hollywood, Calif.
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“What can I say about Law?” Meg told THR of her fashionable peer. “He’s the best. Like, I’m so upset that he’s going away right now because I need him. The world needs him. But he’s amazing, and we appreciate him so much. We don’t have a business relationship. It’s more like family. I’m still going to bother him, and he’s not going to stop being my family. He’s just not going to be in my closet.”
The event comes just a week after Roach announced his retirement from personal styling, explaining on Instagram that the decision came because “the politics, the lies and false narratives” finally got him. “You win,” he shared. “I’m out.”
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PUMA is one of the most respected athletic brands in the game and has a deep connection to Hip-Hop culture, and an ongoing collaboration with celebrated designer Rhuigi Villaseñor adds to that legacy. The two unveiled the third part of their capsule collection that honors the birthplace of Hip-Hop and its massive global influence on culture overall.
As Hip-Hop’s 50th anniversary looms just ahead, PUMA and Rhuigi Villaseñor’s latest drop takes us back to the 1970s and the early days of Hip-Hop by honoring the b-boys, b-girls, and the city that never sleeps.
The collection boasts the T7 Track Top and Track Pants, both stylish and functional for those ready to hit the floor and show off some moves as only the best breakers can. Along with the top and pants are an array of graphic t-shirts and a customary bucket hat. Completing the set is the Suede BBOY, which brings everything in the capsule drop together in the best of ways.
For the campaign drop, New York’s W.A.F.F.L.E. dance crew modeled the designs, as seen in the images below. Pieces range from $40 to $185 and the capsule will officially drop on April 1 at PUMA.com, PUMA’s mobile app, PUMA NYC’s flagship store, and retail locations around the globe.
To keep up with all things PUMA, click here.
To keep up with Rhuigi Villaseñor, click here.
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Jung Kook is the latest K-pop star to team up with American fashion brand Calvin Klein, and naturally, BTS fans are freaking out.
The K-pop singer’s teaser of his partnership with the brand arrived on Monday (March 27) and featured him engaging in a few athletic endeavors. While fans will have to wait for the rest of Jung Kook’s Calvin Klein ad to arrive, the first look shows snippets of the BTS member wearing double denim — a jean jacket, denim pants and the brand’s signature white briefs — as he runs though a black-and-white space. His face was not fully revealed in the ad teaser, but his eyes, hair and smiley face finger tattoo gives him away in the video, which is captioned, “Same time tomorrow?”
Reactions to the video were overwhelmingly positive, with ARMY members universally fawning over Jung Kook’s good looks in the advert. “Thanks, I have to call off work now because this made me forget how to breathe… y’all owe me a sick day… or more photos,” one fan tweeted, while another fan added, “JK! He is the epitome of cool! This will be a superb ad campaign! His duality of bad boy looks and adorable giggles & grin are sure to set ‘Calvin’s’ on fire!”
Jung Kook isn’t the first K-pop star to be featured in a Calvin Klein campaign: BLACKPINK’s Jennie got a featuring spot in an ad for the brand earlier this month.
See Jung Kook’s Calvin Klein teaser in the video below.
Beyoncé rocks a rhinestone-covered black velvet hat and and matching curve-hugging black bodysuit on the cover of Vogue France in a story celebrating the new couture collection she’s co-created with Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing.
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As the accompanying story explains, instead of working to finalize Balmain’s spring 2023 collection last July, Rousteing was obsessing over Bey’s then-new album Renaissance album. “I was sketching and sketching as I listened, and sometimes you can’t control the emotion of your sketch,” he told the magazine about his priorities at the time (which also included preparing for holiday). “And I started to imagine the sketches inside her album, how they would relate to the songs and the lyrics — it wasn’t something I was supposed to be doing but I was just inspired by the music to do it. And that’s how this started.”
Rousteing did eventually get to that vacation, but he told Vogue he couldn’t stop sketching Renaissance-inspired ideas, so when he returned to Paris in August he reached out to Bey’s stylist, Marni Senofonte, and pitched her team on a couture collection. “My hope was that she would be up for something even beyond the work we have done together before… I wanted us to be co-designers,” he said, noting that to his joy, Beyoncé was totally on board.
That kicked off a five-month collaboration between the designer, Senofonte and Bey that included cutting down the 50 looks Rousteing had amassed to a “playlist” of 17 final ones that eventually became the Balmain x Beyoncé couture collection. “The result is a suite of A-side looks that honor both the history of the house and the musical heritage of the performer,” the magazine explained, noting that two of the pieces have already been seen in the real world at this year’s Grammy Awards and the BRIT Awards.
“I can’t help but be thrilled by the history-making aspects of this collaboration,” Rousteing said of the 17 items inspired by a track, or lyric, from the album. “This appears to be the first time that a Black woman has overseen the couture offering from an historic Parisian house. And those designs were created in partnership with the first Black man to ever oversee all the collections at an historic Parisian house. Let’s hope those two firsts help inspire plenty of others…Thank you, Beyoncé for creating the infectious, joyous music that launched this journey—and for partnering with me to ensure that we designed the collection that perfectly reflected the power of those compositions.”
The accompanying story breaks down 12 of the looks — with notes from Rousteing on their inspiration and formatio — from the opening one, an “I’m That Girl” bustier in hammered metal by sculptor Elie Hirsch covered in spikes, with matching spiked bracelets, to a stunning “Plastic Off the Couch” dress that took inspiration from the song’s disco vibe by melding three different concepts.
“The first is an extremely sensual silhouette that relies on impressively curved front-and-back boning to create that impeccably fitted, body-con tulle bustier. The second is a dazzlingly lustrous shine achieved by galvanized, pink-chrome fabric (allowing us to channel the slippery and slick title material),” reads the description. “And the third is an unexpected combo of two iconic Parisian couture signatures: the bow and le smoking. Beyoncé and I were very inspired by the Balmain archive’s many mid-century examples of the founder’s brilliance in creating surprising couture silhouettes via new twists on bow sizing, shape, and placements. Building on that legacy, we decided to flip our glossy pink bow 180 degrees… this transformed what normally would have been a bow’s hanging fabric edges into the most reduced version possible of a classic smoking’s lapels.”
In an Instagram post with Rousteing celebrating the collaboration, Bey wrote, “Thank you @olivier_rousteing and @balmain for bringing RENAISSANCE to life in couture. Designing alongside you was freeing—thank you for allowing me to celebrate the human form, to take artistic risks, to push boundaries and to freely express myself. To the @voguefrance team, thank you for trusting in our vision and sharing it with the world.”
Click here to see the looks and descriptions and check out the cover images in Beyoncé’s Instagram post below.
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One of the hottest accessory imprints is trying to change the game again. Telfar is rolling out a new pricing model.
As spotted on Business Of Fashion the New York City based label is changing their approach on how they sell their uber popular bags. This week the company announced they are restructuring their pricing model with a goal of empowering their consumer base.
Starting with their forthcoming collection, all of their bags will be released at the wholesale price. From there pricing will increase depending on the demand. Once an item sells out of inventory it will remain at that final price for all future drops. Founder Telfar Clemens explained their strategy in an exclusive interview with Fast Company Magazine. “Many brands use price as a barrier to entry. I never wanted that for my brand,” he stated.
This is just yet another move in Telfar’s approach to disrupting the luxury category. Previously Telfar launched their “Bag Security Program” where consumers can pre-order bags prior to production and receive their piece months later. The initiative is a direct response to the difficulty of purchasing bags upon launch (they sell out quickly). In 2021 they launched their “Telfar TV” feature on the Telfar app to combat bots.
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