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Hypebeast
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Acne Studios Taps Moomin and Friends on Another Collaborative Capsule
Summary Like many of us,Acne Studioscan't get enough of Tove Jansson'sMoomins. After an initial collaboration back in November of 2024, the fashion house is reconnecting with Jansson's characters for another full-length Fall/Winter 2025 collaborative range. This go around, the pair, who share Scandinavian roots, presents a 16-piece unisex lineup of both apparel and accessories, spanning jersey, denim and knitwear stamped with sketches of the animated Moomins gang. Arriving as the latest release in Acne Studio's 'Face' series, the extensive release comes dipped in a vibrant pallate of colors, leaning into the whimsical aura of the magical Moomins land. Other characters – Little My, Snorkmaiden, Stinky and the Hattifatteners – materialize in the form of embroidered patches and printed graphics, landing on some of Acne's signature silhouettes such as the brand's 1981 jeans and striped shirting and sweaters. Footwear rounds out the release, with a pair of classic lace-up sneakers stamped with Acne's Face logo and further elevated with removable metal Moomin patches. The full Acne Studios x Moomins drop lands online at Acne's officialwebstoreon May 28, followed by an in-person drop at all Acne Studios stores worldwide on May 30.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Clogs, Snake Print, and More 2025 Spring Shoe Trends to Wear All Season Long
There's a quintessential spring moment that gets me excited every year. It's not switching my closet from chunky winter knits to breezy spring dresses, and it's not even feeling the warm sunlight when I step outside my apartment. It's actually feeling that first warm-ish air on my feet when I walk around in my springtime shoe assortment. Sure, we shed layers in the spring. But we also let go of the heavy boots and thick socks that have sustained us, an underrated aspect of springtime fashion that I feel deserves more attention. Thankfully, this spring's shoe trends are giving footwork a time on the sartorial main stage. There are innovative takes on the classic clog, as well as prints that invite us all to a westside trip. Cringe-worthy but actually cool silhouettes like peep-toe shoes and slingbacks make a comeback, while laces will be on everything from flats to heels. As you take stock of the season's wishlist, take a peek at the five defining shoe trends for 2025 below. No, it's not the early 2010s. But yes, peep-toe shoes are back on the trend cycle—just not how you remember them. This season, they're cooler and less business casual than in past decades, with designers like Tory Burch, Acne, and Miu Miu endorsing the style. At Miu Miu, metallic versions were styled with legwarmers, while Tory Burch pushed the silhouette with barely-there pee-toe details. Acne went all in, with peep-toe style heeled boots throughout the collection. In case you missed it, the boho renaissance is in full swing this spring. Thanks to brands like Chloé and Isabel Marant, the defining trend of the late 2000s is back, and with it, its signature shoe: the clog. But brands like Miu Miu and Ulla Johnson are reimagining it, with slip-like clog sandals and strapped clogs. Chloé is also pushing it forward with wedge-clog hybrids that feature wood carvings. Cowboy Carter won Album of the Year at the Grammys. So it makes sense that the Western bug is biting fashion too. This time, it's all about the snake print on everything from gladiator sandals and ankle boots to slingback heels. Brands like Isabel Marant, Jil Sander, and Dries van Noten endorsed the trip west, giving an edgy take to the classic Americana aesthetic. Spring shoe styles are usually unfussy—allowing people to go from thick boots to breezy on-the-go silhouettes. But this spring, it's all about the art of the in-between with lace-up styles taking center stage. At Chloé, for example, kitten heels featured lace-up details, while Chanel displayed lace-up booties that were oh-so-retro. Dries van Noten also showed mule versions that looked ready to go from the boardroom to the party. You may have seen kitten heels and mules trending over the past year. Now, a new classic bombshell enters the villa: the slingback. Coperni, Valentino, and Dior were some of the brands that endorsed the classic style for spring, with both heeled and flat versions. While the style has some business casual connotations, this spring it gets a makeover via Mickey Mouse ears at Coperni and feminine bow details at Valentino. Read the original article on InStyle
Forbes
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Fashion Designers Are Using Musical Acts To Bring Life To The Runway
PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 02: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY - For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Anok Yai walks the runway during the Mugler Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 02, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by) Global fashion weeks have become a place to steal the show. It is no longer just reporters and buyers attending runway shows, but celebrities, influencers and brands who weave their way into the fashion week mix to bring their own style to the stage. In an ever-competitive fashion market, brands need to keep up. Some use extravagant lighting on the runway (like Acne or Viktor&Rolf), others use unconventional spaces to host their runway shows (like the recent Chanel runway the Grand Palais in Paris, or Tom Ford showing his Spring/Summer 2020 collection on a New York subway platform). But more independent fashion designers are turning to hiring live musicians to add a spark to their runway shows. With New York Bridal Fashion Week around the corner, all eyes are on the runway. While music performances on the runway are nothing new, Victoria Secret has created showstopping concerts out of their fashion shows, with major acts like Taylor Swift or Bruno Mars, while Louis Vuitton had Pharrell & Jay-Z perform in 2023. But not every designer has this kind of budget, which is why many designers rely on the tradition of 'runway music,' that being a chosen playlist selected by the designer or a respected DJ (one cultural critic calls it 'sound branding'). Shannon K, outfit BJS productions Now, more independent designers are hiring up-and-coming musicians to perform on the runway, like Shannon Kumar, whose stage name is Shannon K. The pop musician, who sings in English and Hindi, is best known as the daughter of Indian Bollywood star, Kumar Sanu. She recently performed on the runway at Los Angeles Fashion Week's Spring/Summer 2025 collections for brands like Mifuae and Anna Gupta, and has more runway performances planned this year. Having performed at large venues, she loves the intimacy that a runway show brings. 'It's certainly an experience, I get to interact more with the crowd,' she said. 'Unlike a concert, a fashion show offers a unique opportunity to really connect with the audience.' She performs her hit songs, like 9-5 and OTT, and aims to compliment the fashion with her own sound. 'If you can add a bit more excitement and entertainment, you can make the event even more enjoyable for everyone,' said Kumar, who made a debut with her single A Long Time, which was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Poo Bear, a frequent collaborator of Justin Bieber. To musicians like Kumar, it's more than just providing a soundtrack to clothes. 'I feel like fashion shows should create a lasting emotional impact, not just present garments,' she explains. 'Adding live music, dancers, dramatic lighting and stage designs all work together to make the experience more dynamic and memorable for the audience. Music is a way for fashion designers to tell their story.' A fashion runway At her upcoming show on March 22, Kumar will perform a bilingual song to 'truly represent the fusion of East and West cultures,' she said, to 'showcase the power of music to transcend language barriers.' As she explains: 'Musical performances elevate the overall atmosphere of fashion shows, creating an immersive experience for the audience. They serve as add-ons to the designer's vision, truly elevating their fashion story to new heights.' Taiwanese fashion designer Malan Breton recently showed his latest collection at London Fashion Week. The designer's new Fall/Winter 2025 collection, which he showed at the Royal Horseguards Hotel, is inspired by the lunar new year, the Year of the Snake, which he combined with influences from Victorian couture and Asian silk fabrics. As part of Breton's latest collection, which showcased metallic fabrics and embroidered snakes, live music was composed and performed by British pop band, Johnny Hates Jazz, alongside Malan Breton with a mix by DJ Marc Baigent. Closing the show, Clark Datchler, the lead singer of Johnny Hates Jazz performed the band's 1988 single, 'Shattered Dreams.' LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 21: Models walk the runway at the Malan Breton show during London Fashion Week February 2025 at The Royal Horseguards on February 21, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by) Breton is a classically trained musician who has often had musicians take the stage of his runway shows, like singer Crystal Waters, M People's Heather Small and Billboard topping musician, Kristine W, which is partly why he has made it an essential element of his shows. 'Fashion is a symphony of movement and emotion, and live music is its heartbeat,' said Breton. 'It transforms a runway into a living, breathing performance—where fabric, form, and melody intertwine to create a story that lingers in the soul.' The British composer and producer Oscar Osicki works with several independent musicians; he has seen many of them perform on the runway. He cites a recent Paris Fashion Week show where acclaimed classical composer Max Richter and a group of musicians performed at a Christian Dior show in 2022. 'For luxury fashion brands, I think that having famous artists perform is a symbol of status,' said Osicki. 'In the case of Richter, his music is classical, but accessible. Classical music often has a sort of luxury status. It even suggests that you're creating 'timeless art,' rather than mere passing entertainment. It's a brand association.' An audience member captures fashion week with their phone BMW recently hired German composer Hans Zimmer to compose a new soundtrack for a luxury car launch, while Osickinotes that operatic soprano singers often sing at Paris Fashion Week runway shows. 'These fashion brands are using the music to create associations with their brand, perhaps wealth, drama, status, high art, timelessness, or classical beauty,' said Osicki. 'The fashion brands that reinvest in music help their appearance. The music they choose affects how we experience the fashion show, and hopefully the music helps us remember it as cinematic.' Diana Mahrach showcased her latest couture collection at New York Fashion Week, in a runway show accompanied by a live performance by Melina, a German-Canadian singer. The music only adds to the runway show, says the designer. 'I believe that seeing a fashion collection should engage as many senses as possible,' said Mahrach. 'Inviting a singer, such as Melina who opened my Fall/Winter 2025 collection runway show in New York City was all about realizing my vision of blending music and fashion to truly elevate the runway experience and make it unforgettable for the audience.'
New York Times
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The Power of a Perfect Suit
If you need to find the musician Harrison Patrick Smith in any room that he's in, just look for the guy in the skinny black suit. What the pinstripes are to the Yankees, a shrunken, chauffeur driver's black suit is for Mr. Smith, 28, who performs as the Dare. And so, on Wednesday evening in Paris, Mr. Smith sat at the Acne Studios fashion show wearing, what else? A reedy, single-breasted suit. 'They're all slightly different,' he told me. I'll take his word for it. The Acne suit he wore looked pretty much identical to every suit I've ever seen him in. Same slender cut. Same coal shade. The first one, he said, was cobbled together at his local Goodwill in New York, but he now owns one by Gucci. Maybe, he hoped, Acne would let him keep this one. Mr. Smith said he could use a few more. He's currently touring Europe, doing his sweaty one-man show. What I thought was that he made a simple idea work. Years ago, he would have been just another guy in a suit, but men's fashion has devolved, particularly for his baby-faced generation. Mr. Smith always sort of looks like he's doing something subversive. Do I even need to point out that he was the only guy in the room wearing a suit? The Dare though, would have looked less daring at the Tom Ford show an hour later. After all, there is no American label this side of Ralph Lauren for whom the suit has mattered more. Tom Brady, Jay-Z, David Beckham — if a man hovering around middle age made it to a best dressed list, a Tom Ford suit likely graced his shoulders. Mr. Ford has been a leading lobbyist for the meticulous suit since before Mr. Smith was born. Last year, Haider Ackermann, a Colombian-born designer, was named the Tom Ford creative director. This was his first show for the label, and there was nothing to indicate that any of Mr. Ford's hard-fought elegance had leaked out of the label. Certainly, as I entered, sandwiched between what appeared to be two 50-something clients in glimmering tuxedos, I felt underdressed in my khakis and knit cardigan. All the more so when I spotted Mr. Ford in the front row wearing, of course, a double-breasted suit. Suited waiters ringed the room with martinis extended on silver trays — a signal, as I took it, that Mr. Ackermann intended to lead with tailoring. My dress-code inadequacy swelled. That assumption was wrong. The first men's looks were oil-slick sportswear: moto jackets with snap-button collars, cropped pebble-grain trousers and animal-skin boots tapering to a witchy pointed toe. I thought not of Mr. Brady, but Buzz Bissinger, the 'Friday Night Lights' author whose fondness for uber-lux leather garments nearly sent him to financial ruin. As Mr. Ackermann said backstage, Mr. Ford has always been 'about suiting and red carpet, but there's a daily life too, and I wanted to embrace that moment.' A very glossy daily life, perhaps. But Mr. Ackermann did not hold fire on the tailoring for long. Eventually, the suits came. And kept coming. A charcoal double-breasted suit, worn with a starchy microdot black-and-white shirt and a broad pinstripe suit peaking out beneath a belted trench were pure Patrick Bateman. No accident, as Mr. Ackermann said on a recent podcast that he had been thinking of 'American Psycho,' that chronic touchstone for men's fashion designers. Backstage, he said he was also envisioning Mr. Ford and the authority that emanates from the founder in his firm-shouldered suits. As the show flowed, Mr. Ackermann maintained the straight-backed architecture that makes Tom Ford suits a genuine benchmark for men, while redecorating the facade. Colors were bracing, and fits sat off the body just enough, while underpinnings aimed to startle traditionalists. Though he smirked off the word backstage, there is still an aspirational glamour to these really excellent suits. But they were also charged with a 'well, this is new' unconventionally that could draw in a new generation of clients that thumbed past suits previously. Take the slouchy tweed number worn over a leather shirt, or the almost-tan double-breasted suit with roomy trousers that undulated as the model passed. Slouchy and roomy, it should be said, were not common adjectives during Mr. Ford's time at the label. (Mr. Ackermann is yet another creative director whose best look may be his own. He took a bow in a capacious double-breasted model with the collar folded over in full self swaddle. Second-skin ease par excellence.) Or consider the two suits — mint and robin's egg blue — that were each paired with a fresh-as-driven-snow white shirt and white tie combo. Or the Aquafresh green sportcoat worn with sepia trousers, a lighter cigar-brown shirt and a black tie. (I can hear the ad now: Nine out of 10 leading fashion stylists endorse this look.) Toward the end, a model in slicked-back hair arrived in a black-and-white dotted suit jacket with slightly contrasting black-on-black dotted trousers. I wish Mr. Smith had been there to see it. It might have convinced him to add a different sort of dark suit to his rotation.
