CHIC IN REVIEW

Nili Lotan, Designer of Slip Dresses and Staples, Is Having a Renaissance Among the Kids

Plus, Proenza Schouler’s designers makes a statement about diversity with their new lookbook, and John Galliano lets you into the studio.


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Photo by Felix Kim. Produced by Biel Parklee.

Abloh, Virgil

King of social media influencers. Here’s how he got there.

Kanye West, longtime collaborator of Abloh, just wants to bring joy to the world:

Comme Des Garçons

A brief history of Rei Kawakubo’s genre-defying, silhouette-defying label Comme Des Garçons ahead of its Metrpolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute retrospective.

Crow, Rosson

The Los Angeles-based artist makes imagined worlds constructed out of vintage Americana, loves Cormac McCarthy, listens to audiobooks while painting.

Galliano, John

The man, the myth. In a rare interview with i-D, designer John Galliano — an alumnus of Dior and his own eponymous label, now of Maison Margiela — opens up about social media, the next generation of designers, and Joan Baez.

Lotan, Nili

With fans like Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner (and Inez Van Lamsweerde), designer Nili Lotan is having a Renaissance among the millennial crowd.

McQueen, Alexander

Introducing a new box bag of diminutive proportions.

O’Reilly, Bill

Fox News finally deemed fit to give host Bill O’Reilly the boot, after new sexual harassment allegations emerged — and this, nearly 15 years after the network settled its first wave of claims against O’Reilly. Here’s what it means — politically, socially, and even economically — for Fox News.

Schouler, Proenza

Cast three transgender models — Torraine Futurum, Stav Strashko, and Marcs Marcus — in its new Pre-Fall 2017 lookbook, shot by photographer Ethan James Green. Designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez explain their new spread is intended as a kind of corrective to the “embarrassingly lackluster” attempts at diversity in fashion of late.

Virgil Abloh and His Army of Disruptors

Virgil Abloh, in Louis Vuitton, with Studio Job’s 2014 sculpture Cat Fight.

Photographs by Walter Pfeiffer; Sittings editor: Hannes Hetta. Set design by Jean Michel Bertin at Streeters London.photography assistants: Torvioll Jashari, Aline Blocman; fashion assistant: Evens Jean-Pierre

Virgil Abloh (bottom right), at one of his favorite design galleries, the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, in Paris, surrounded by some of his friends and collaborators (clockwise, from top right): Acyde, Christina Paik, Tremaine Emory, Guillaume Berg, Adriana Mora, Luka Sabbat, and Arthur Karakoumouchian. Mora, Sabbat, and Paik wear clothes from the Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh fall 2017 collection; Abloh wears a hoodie from the same collection. The table is by the Dutch design duo Studio Job.

Photographs by Walter Pfeiffer; Sittings editor: Hannes Hetta. Set design by Jean Michel Bertin at Streeters London.photography assistants: Torvioll Jashari, Aline Blocman; fashion assistant: Evens Jean-Pierre

A fashion shoot styled by Virgil Abloh in the Barcelona Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe. Photographed by Fabien Montique for a forthcoming book by Abloh of short stories through images.

A denim look from the Off-White Spring 2015 season.

Courtesy of Off-White.

Virgil Abloh and Ian Connor walk the runway after the Off-White ‘You Cut Me Off’ Menswear Fall/Winter 2016-2017 show as part of Paris Fashion Week, January 2016.

Photo by Getty Images.

Bella Hadid walks the runway during the Off-White show during Paris Fashion Week Fall 2017.

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Kris Jenner, Kanye West and Virgil Abloh at the Balmain Fall 2016 show in Paris.

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Behind the scenes with Virgil Abloh.

Abloh acknowledges the audience during the Off-White show as part of Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2016/2017 on March 8, 2016 in Paris, France.

Photo by Getty Images.

Virgil Abloh and muse, Luka Sabbat, attend Chrome Hearts X Bella Hadid Collaboration Launch as part of Paris Fashion Week at Chrome Hearts on March 5, 2017 in Paris, France.

Photo by Getty Images.

Virgil Abloh and Bella Hadid attend Chrome Hearts X Bella Hadid Collaboration Launch as part of Paris Fashion Week at Chrome Hearts on March 4, 2017 in Paris, France.

Photo by Getty Images.
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