FALL FASHION: As August draws to an end, it’s time to start thinking about what you want to wear come fall and, if your list is long, exactly how you intend to pay for all those most-wanted wardrobe additions. On Vogue.com, with images, ideas, and inspiration pulled straight from the pages of the September issue of Vogue, our editors have broken out the top ten truly wearable trends for the upcoming season. Then they took it a step further by finding the ways you can add new looks to your repertoire for $100 or less.
After three weeks (and thousands of sets), the FNO Style Setter contest—powered by Polyvore—is down to the final six sets, which means it is up to you to decide who wins the grand prize: a trip to New York City, a tour of the Vogue offices, and access to a Vogue photo shoot. The moment Fashion’s Night Out officially ends (Thursday, September 8 at 11:00 p.m. EST), the set with the most comments on Vogue.com wins. Need incentive to comment? One lucky commenter, selected at random, will win the identical prize, no set creation necessary. The two winners will be announced Friday, September 9, at 12:00 p.m. EST.
Photo: Courtesy of Ullmann-Publishing (book cover); Ben Stern (Vogue archival image)
You wouldn’t expect any book charging itself with the not-inconsiderable task of documenting fifteen decades of fashion to be anything less than weighty; lifting Charlotte Seeling’s sizable 512-page encyclopedia Fashion: 150 Years of Couturiers, Designers, Labels (Ullmann, due out on January 15) requires positively Herculean levels of strength. And with more than 500 illustrations, it’s unlikely you’ll be cradling the Kindle version in your hands anytime soon. (Your device would crash with the same resounding thump if you’d let this tome slip to the floor.) That aside, Seeling’s walk down the runways of history is worth a look for its broad sweep (from Belle Epoque curves to the twenty-first-century epoch with the likes of Haider Ackermann) and some great images. That’s the upside. The down? While there are plenty of case-study chapters devoted to individual designers—Alaia, Lagerfeld, McQueen, and McCartney—talents like Marc Jacobs and Calvin Klein don’t, bizarrely, earn similar treatment here. And, to these eyes at least, there didn’t need to be pages devoted to Wolfgang Joop. Still, given this was originally published in Germany, that probably explains the support for Seeling’s home team.
Welcome to the hustle and bustle of Seoul Fashion Week, where even the littlest locals get in on the action and the hordes of street style photographers are moving mosh pits. So who was there to witness the chic commotion? Korean superstar–meets–fashion It girl Irene Kim—and in real time, of course.
Kim took over Vogue.com’s Snapchat to capture the nitty-gritty, emoji-edited moments of earlier-than-6:00-a.m. mornings, backstage moments with buzzy new brands, and some kimbap snack time. Don’t miss a minute, and join in on the unfiltered fun: here.
Photographed for the February 2010 Issue of Vogue by Annie Leibovitz
Inspired by his addiction to style and the fashion worlds from New York to Paris, Diddy’s new album, Last Train to Paris (to be released December 14), is a brilliant fusion of stream of consciousness and beats that bring to mind the broken cadences of avant-garde jazz. During Fashion Week last year, he sent out the call via e-mail and voice mail to high-fashion friends to come to his studio to participate in the record. I was somewhere doing what I usually do—previewing a collection or sitting around on the fourth floor of Manolo Blahnik’s midtown shoe emporium—when I received the invitation. Rushing to his studio, I thought about what I would say on the album, which inspired his February 2010 Vogue fashion shoot with Natalia Vodianova, photographed by Annie Leibovitz and styled by Grace Coddington, in which he appeared with the swagger and elegance of Cary Grant in a gorgeous shawl-collared camel double-breasted coat by Tom Ford. It wasn’t his first shoot with the magazine. In another Annie/Grace collaboration, for the October 1999 issue, he looked as dramatic as a thirties screen idol, escorting Kate Moss, dressed in couture, around Paris.
