fashion – The Philadelphia Observer https://philadelphiaobserver.com Just another WordPress site Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:03:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Lori Harvey Debuts The Latest Fashion Trends As The First-Ever Cover Star For ‘The Zine’ https://philadelphiaobserver.com/lori-harvey-debuts-the-latest-fashion-trends-as-the-first-ever-cover-star-for-the-zine/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:03:02 +0000 https://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=3737 Lori Harvey Debuts The Latest Fashion Trends As First-Ever Cover Star For The Zine

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Is anybody surprised that Lori Harvey is the first cover star new magazine, The Zine? We aren’t, but that’s because the beauty entrepreneur is always up to date on the trends. Her style, coupled with her stunning looks, places her at the top of many people’s favorite list. Because of her many attributes, including her impeccable fashion sense, The Zine has put the skincare boss at the forefront of this season’s issue as she gives us fierce visuals of projected trends in beauty and style.

The Zine shows what’s up next in beauty and fashion via a compilation of stylish images. Each season, the publication “uncovers the emerging and niche forms of self-expression, visual aesthetics, and more inspired by young people who are sparking conversations around authenticity and identity,” according to the magazine.

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Editor Eva Chen targeted Harvey as their first-ever cover star because of her strong influence. “Lori is just one of the many creators that I truly believe are the next generation of talent that’s redefining the boundaries of possibilities of beauty and style. I can’t wait to see the new heights they’ll take us to—the future is bright indeed.”Lori Harvey Debuts The Latest Fashion Trends As First-Ever Cover Star For The Zine

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In this season’s compilation, Harvey gave us severe 90s nostalgia that had us floating down memory lane with popping colors, bold accessories, and platform shoes. According to The Zine, Harvey’s looks in this editorial shoot will undoubtedly pop up on your timeline soon because the trends are “inspired by young people who are sparking conversations around authenticity and identity.”

Some of the looks include 90s Cyber Raver, Statement Knitwear, 3D Nails, Maximalist Hair, New Work Fusion, Jelly, Chunks & Glitter in 3D, Hyper Reality, and New Romantics.

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]]> How Salvador Dalí has influenced your wardrobe https://philadelphiaobserver.com/how-salvador-dali-has-influenced-your-wardrobe/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 01:16:55 +0000 http://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=1779  
When Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí first put a lobster on a dress, he wanted to be provocative. It worked. His 1937 collaboration with boundary pushing fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli caused consternation. The silk organza A-line gown they created together, subsequently worn by Wallis Simpson in the pages of Vogue, elicited shock, head scratching, and plenty of voluble conversation from the fashion world. Apparently Dalí was disappointed though. He felt that the dress was missing one final touch: a dash of mayonnaise.
The Duchess of Windsor wearing a white Schiaparelli dress.
 
 
The Duchess of Windsor wearing a white Schiaparelli dress. 
 
It’s hard in the present day to imagine a lobster on a dress being such a big deal. It’s the kind of print you could easily find now, adorning everything from loafers to smocks. Henrik Vibskov’s Spring-Summer 2020 collection featured plenty of pink and red crustaceans, for example, and Louis Vuitton’s Autumn-Winter 2020 menswear show saw models stride down the catwalk wearing white fluffy coats decorated with oversized, similarly plush lobsters.
 
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Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2021 Men's show.
 
 
Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2021 Men’s show. Credit: Yanshan Zhang/Getty Images
 
The reason we now find such imagery so commonplace is, in part, thanks to a 20th century avant garde art movement: Surrealism. With an emphasis on the untapped power of dreams and a drive to create fantastical art through techniques such as automatism (spontaneous, uninhibited writing and artwork) and juxtapositions of unlikely images Surrealism aimed to release the unconscious mind and, in doing so, set loose the imagination. It was deeply influenced by Freud’s writing about hidden desires and feelings, as well as other psychological and political thinkers including Karl Marx.
 
 
 
 
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The word itself was first used in 1917, but it really came to the fore as movement in the 1920s. In the 1930s. Plenty of Surrealism’s key proponents turned to design, creating extraordinary, often startling objects. A select few embraced fashion too. Schiaparelli collaborated with both Dalí and fellow artist Méret Oppenheim, who would go on to incorporate clothes to unnerving ends in her own work, such as gloves adorned with fur and veins. Joan Miró designed bright, brash costumes for the Ballet Russes. Eileen Agar devised playful designs like her 1936 “Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse,” which featured seashore detritus including a lobster’s tail and a fishing net. This back and forth traffic between art and fashion manifested in other ways too. Photographers including Man Ray and Lee Miller brought a Surrealist eye to their fashion photography, while figures such as painter Leonor Fini developed a reputation for outrageous costuming.
Madelle Hegeler shows off jewelry by Salvadore Dali in New York.
 
 
Madelle Hegeler shows off jewelry by Salvadore Dali in New York. Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
 
Many of their experiments have since bled through to mainstream fashion. Elsa Schiaparelli’s 1938 padded skeleton dress has inspired countless designs featuring bones, spines, hearts and other things usually kept beneath the skin, with Alexander McQueen’s Spring- Summer 1998 spine corset in collaboration with jeweler Shaun Leane a particularly notable example. Elsewhere, the movement’s desire to upend the normal has been reflected in shows as disparate as Hussein Chalayan’s Autumn-Winter 2000 catwalk show featuring tables that turned into skirts and Victor & Rolf’s Spring-Summer 2010 collection of tulle ball-gowns with huge cut-away holes.
Victor & Rolf Spring Spring-Summer 2010 show.
 
 
Victor & Rolf Spring Spring-Summer 2010 show. Credit: Dominique Charriau/WireImage/Getty Images
 
More recently, designers have demonstrated a renewed kinship to the art movement. Last year several labels cited Surrealist creators as major reference points. Simone Rocha’s Autumn-Winter 2019 show drew on Louise Bourgeois’ fearless approach to the female body, the designer subsequently working with art gallery Hauser & Wirth later that same year to release a set of earrings directly inspired by Bourgeois’ fabric sculptures. Fellow designers Eudon Choi and Roland Mouret also respectively cited Méret Oppenheim and Lee Miller as key figures for their Autumn-Winter 2019 shows. Dior, too, has repeatedly rummaged through Surrealist history, with head designer Maria Grazia Chiuri name-checking artists and photographers including Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, and Dora Maar in recent seasons.

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