Trendspotting: Paging Bettie Page
After a slow but steady reemergence over the past few years, retro fashions like little-girl bangs, ruby lips, tie-front crop tops and high-waisted pants are back in a big way. Pinup chic, popularized by Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page, among others, is fundamentally demure, even wholesome in comparison with some hypersexy modern styles. [...]
Trendspotting: Sew Cute
First came “babyccinos” and iPad apps for infants—now there are these, just some of the outrageously priced designer children’s items offered in the burgeoning market for stylish tots: a frothy little Lanvin dress that retails for $1,200, a fuchsia puffer jacket from Moncler priced at $380 and a pair of $132 True Religion cargo pants. [...]
Trendspotting: Bottoms Up
Everyone loves their blue jeans, even the fashion elite. During the fall-winter 2012 showings at New York Fashion Week, dungarees from Levi Strauss, Hudson Jeans, 7 for All Mankind, Raleigh Denim and Rock & Republic held their own alongside the couture-clad. Levi’s hadn’t shown at New York Fashion Week since its 2007 collaboration with Damien [...]
