https://www.scmp.com/rss/318275/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com If you are delighted by the magpie style that has come to define Gucci and that has seeped into your wardrobe by way of Zara or H&M, then you must thank designer Anna Sui, because she has been creating collections that mix Victorian lace with hippie flowers and punk denim since she founded her line in 1981. If you are someone who identifies as male but prefers sweet dresses to sedate trousers, then you should give Sui a round of applause, because she was blurring gender in her catwalk shows... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3027945/how-anna-sui-saw-future-fashion-everyone-else-and-how?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3027945/how-anna-sui-saw-future-fashion-everyone-else-and-how?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:15:11 +0000 The fashion industry has become more diverse and more inclusive, but still has its flaws. Designers often have tunnel vision and the industry still makes shocking gaffes. There are too many cases of profound insensitivity and cavalier cultural appropriation but in the past decade, the industry has opened its doors to more people of colour, plus-size women, transgender women and those who simply don’t fit the fashion world’s definition of beauty. Most importantly, fashion is talking about... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2110317/how-fashion-industry-tuning-diverse-world?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2110317/how-fashion-industry-tuning-diverse-world?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:46:55 +0000 On the first day of her new job as the creative director of Anne Klein two years ago, Sharon Lombardo arrived at the company’s midtown Manhattan offices and was greeted by … no one. There was no receptionist to escort her to a design studio because there was no studio. There wasn’t even an Anne Klein sign confirming that she was in the right place. Lombardo cried that spring day, considering the enormous task that lay ahead: to revive one of America’s once-great fashion brands. In the 1960s and... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2096108/saving-anne-klein-can-faded-fashion-house-reclaim-its-1970s?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2096108/saving-anne-klein-can-faded-fashion-house-reclaim-its-1970s?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 May 2017 10:30:23 +0000 There is no such thing as street style. Not any more. Oh sure, photographers still surge around the entrances to fashion shows in an attempt to capture style in its so-called natural habitat. The women (it is mostly women) traipse to and fro posing for the photo pack, sometimes feigning nonchalance. But very little of what is presented as “street style” is actually of-the-street, born and bred. These looks have not been cobbled together organically. Much of what we’re seeing the fashion crowd... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2024913/how-street-style-lost-its-meaning-and-its-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2024913/how-street-style-lost-its-meaning-and-its-power?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Oct 2016 05:48:15 +0000 The death of designer Sonia Rykiel is one of those singular moments when we are reminded that fashion has come a long way, which is to say that women have come quite far as well. Rykiel, with her flaming red hair and uniform of all-black attire, was 86 when she died on Thursday after years of living with Parkinson’s disease. She had long been retired from the label that continues to bear her name. Her legacy had been carried forward by her daughter, Nathalie, as well as the brand’s current... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2009291/sonia-rykiel-told-story-generation-women-one-simple-sweater?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2009291/sonia-rykiel-told-story-generation-women-one-simple-sweater?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:12:20 +0000 On the first day of New York’s celebration of spring 2017 menswear, the designers of Duckie Brown were fixated on a photograph of an elegantly dressed young woman taken2,000km away. In their downtown studio, Daniel Silver and Steven Cox were hunched over a tiny mobile phone image of Ieshia Evans, the woman in the fluttering sundress whose steely posture was unbowed as she stood between police officers armed with riot gear and angry protesters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, decrying the death of... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/1989274/baton-rouge-dallas-gender-neutral-hipster-chic-can-fashion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/1989274/baton-rouge-dallas-gender-neutral-hipster-chic-can-fashion?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Jul 2016 04:39:42 +0000