Over the past decade, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund has recognized and nurtured America’s best emerging designers. Meet the ten talented finalists who’ve made the cut this year.
martedì 29 ottobre 2013
The Season's Best Fur Accessories
With a riot of color and wit, fur—the most decadent of materials—shakes off its staid pedigree to wrap itself around an electric, live-wire future.
The Season's Best Fur Accessories
With a riot of color and wit, fur—the most decadent of materials—shakes off its staid pedigree to wrap itself around an electric, live-wire future.
Lone Ranger: Matthew McConaughey Has Become an Anti-Hollywood Hero
Canadians are known for their equanimity, but on this cool Saturday night, the air outside Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre carries a tinge of hysteria. Hundreds of fans, mostly women, line the road. They’re hoping to catch a glimpse of Matthew McConaughey, the star of Jean-Marc Vallée’s film Dallas Buyers Club, which is about to have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
At long last, a limo pulls up a few feet from the rope line. The instant McConaughey emerges, sleek as a greyhound in his dark Dolce & Gabbana suit, the crowd starts screaming, a whoosh of ecstasy that keeps cresting. “I feel like a teenager,” says a 40-ish woman, madly snapping photos with her iPhone. It’s like it’s 2005, the year that People named him the Sexiest Man Alive, all over again.
When I mention the frenzy to the actor two days later at his hotel, he gives a good-natured laugh. “Some were shriekin’ for me,” he admits in his familiar Texan drawl, “but most were only shriekin’ to be shriekin’.” Sporting a gauzy shirt, loose tan trousers, and that famously immaculate tan, the 44-year-old star looks like a backpacker you might meet in Goa—if that guy were good-looking enough to be the face of a Dolce & Gabbana fragrance.
On this Monday morning, his mood is as sunny as his outfit. Dallas Buyers Club wowed the critics, and McConaughey is being touted as a top Oscar contender for his galvanizing turn as Ron Woodroof, a racist, homophobic, sexually excessive Texas cowboy who, in 1985, learns he contracted HIV from a forgotten encounter and, in fighting for medicine to keep himself alive, gradually becomes a more decent human being. Reinforced by McConaughey’s unnervingly skeletal appearance—he lost 47 pounds to play the role—it’s a riveting piece of acting that’s at once angry, touching, and hilarious.
This triumph in Toronto is just the latest step in one of the oddest comebacks in Hollywood history. While many stars have recovered from flops to become bigger than ever, McConaughey has done something new: He’s bounced back from hits. Shucking off his male-bimbo image (oh, those shirtless photos!) after a series of profitable rom-coms, he has managed in the past eighteen months to turn in a rogues’ gallery of vivid indie performances, everything from spoofing his sexy-guy persona in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike to winning sympathy as a hopelessly lovestruck murderer in Jeff Nichols’s Mud—not to mention playing a self-promoting DA in Richard Linklater’s black comedy Bernie and a closeted journalist in Lee Daniels’s racial potboiler The Paperboy. Weathered and experienced, he has matured into a terrific actor—solid and serious, yet fearless. “Last year was arguably the best creative year of my career,” he says, “and it was the first year I ever lost money. I wound up in the red—and had the best time doing it.”
In person, McConaughey is exactly how you’d expect him to be—affable, twangy, and enviably comfortable in his own skin. He clearly doesn’t give a hoot what you think of him. He perhaps owes such ease to his upbringing. He was raised in Uvalde, Texas, by a colorful couple who kept divorcing and remarrying—his dad had played some pro football; his mother’s a cutup who’s been known, in her 80s, to flash her gams on the red carpet. Offering stories, not sound bites, he talks with his whole body, waving his arms, tap-tap-tapping on the table, lolling back on the sofa, then lurching forward to say something particularly juicy. “He’s from Texas,” says Vallée of his star’s nonstop physicality, “and Texas is movement.”
At long last, a limo pulls up a few feet from the rope line. The instant McConaughey emerges, sleek as a greyhound in his dark Dolce & Gabbana suit, the crowd starts screaming, a whoosh of ecstasy that keeps cresting. “I feel like a teenager,” says a 40-ish woman, madly snapping photos with her iPhone. It’s like it’s 2005, the year that People named him the Sexiest Man Alive, all over again.
When I mention the frenzy to the actor two days later at his hotel, he gives a good-natured laugh. “Some were shriekin’ for me,” he admits in his familiar Texan drawl, “but most were only shriekin’ to be shriekin’.” Sporting a gauzy shirt, loose tan trousers, and that famously immaculate tan, the 44-year-old star looks like a backpacker you might meet in Goa—if that guy were good-looking enough to be the face of a Dolce & Gabbana fragrance.
On this Monday morning, his mood is as sunny as his outfit. Dallas Buyers Club wowed the critics, and McConaughey is being touted as a top Oscar contender for his galvanizing turn as Ron Woodroof, a racist, homophobic, sexually excessive Texas cowboy who, in 1985, learns he contracted HIV from a forgotten encounter and, in fighting for medicine to keep himself alive, gradually becomes a more decent human being. Reinforced by McConaughey’s unnervingly skeletal appearance—he lost 47 pounds to play the role—it’s a riveting piece of acting that’s at once angry, touching, and hilarious.
This triumph in Toronto is just the latest step in one of the oddest comebacks in Hollywood history. While many stars have recovered from flops to become bigger than ever, McConaughey has done something new: He’s bounced back from hits. Shucking off his male-bimbo image (oh, those shirtless photos!) after a series of profitable rom-coms, he has managed in the past eighteen months to turn in a rogues’ gallery of vivid indie performances, everything from spoofing his sexy-guy persona in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike to winning sympathy as a hopelessly lovestruck murderer in Jeff Nichols’s Mud—not to mention playing a self-promoting DA in Richard Linklater’s black comedy Bernie and a closeted journalist in Lee Daniels’s racial potboiler The Paperboy. Weathered and experienced, he has matured into a terrific actor—solid and serious, yet fearless. “Last year was arguably the best creative year of my career,” he says, “and it was the first year I ever lost money. I wound up in the red—and had the best time doing it.”
In person, McConaughey is exactly how you’d expect him to be—affable, twangy, and enviably comfortable in his own skin. He clearly doesn’t give a hoot what you think of him. He perhaps owes such ease to his upbringing. He was raised in Uvalde, Texas, by a colorful couple who kept divorcing and remarrying—his dad had played some pro football; his mother’s a cutup who’s been known, in her 80s, to flash her gams on the red carpet. Offering stories, not sound bites, he talks with his whole body, waving his arms, tap-tap-tapping on the table, lolling back on the sofa, then lurching forward to say something particularly juicy. “He’s from Texas,” says Vallée of his star’s nonstop physicality, “and Texas is movement.”
McConaughey was 23 when he first caught the public eye in Linklater’s 1993 cult hit Dazed and Confused. The movie instantly set a template for his rascally image—his first words were “Awright, awright, awright!” More important, it proved him to be a screen natural, a quality that goes beyond simple handsomeness. (“Matthew has a musical rhythm,” says Martin Scorsese, who just directed him in this month’s The Wolf of Wall Street, in which he plays Leonardo DiCaprio’s slippery mentor. “It’s there in both his dialogue and his body language.”)
giovedì 24 ottobre 2013
Street Chic: New York
Photo: Alyssa Greenberg
Invest in a good chunky knit sweater and build out your outfit from there.
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Mango Star Miranda Kerr Uses Coconut Oil "in the Bedroom"
Photo: Inez and Vinoodh for Mango
I thought I was having a good hair day—and then I met Miranda Kerr. Curled on a couch at the Gramercy Park Hotel, the supermodel wore skinny jeans, a blazer, and no makeup. Her long, shiny hair hung loose down her back.
And while I'll never have her genetics, her husband, Orlando Bloom, or even her "I just woke up this way" brand of wavy hair, I can get the dream girl's outfit—and you can, too. Kerr just teamed with photographers Inez and Vinoodh to shoot Mango's latest collection, and all the affordable clothes are available to buy.
Here, Kerr speaks about her Mango shoot, doing yoga with her son, and how to keep a straight face on the catwalk.
You've shot for Mango before. What's different this time around?
In this shoot, you can see a masculine side and punk side coming through. This is more grungy than before, and I really like that.
"Grunge" and "punk" aren't two words normally associated with you...
Which is good! It's really good to be able to express different sides of yourself, and it's interesting because we used the same photographers as the last Mango shoot, but we got a different outcome. It's good to show that versatility, because it shows the way you dress and the way you carry yourself can really change the whole dynamic of your personality. That's what I think is great about clothes: you can use them to express how you're feeling in that moment. And the thing with Mango is you can buy them anywhere in the world, and they're also quite affordable. So they make self-expression easy.
Did you have a favorite piece from the campaign?
The boyfriend blazer and the boyfriend jeans are super cool, and I quite like the coats. This coat here… [points to a shot from the catalog]. I actually think this should have been the cover shot. It's really cool!
Oh my gosh, you should be an art director next!
[Laughs] Right, because I don't have enough to do!
Yeah, you're pretty busy. I saw you making muffins for a Net-A-Porter video yesterday. They looked yummy! And I like how you substituted honey for sugar.
You should always do that. There are a few things that are always good substitutes: Coconut oil instead of any other oil, because you can raise it to the highest cooking temperature, and it still works, and then honey instead of sugar or goat's milk instead of cow's milk. Cow's milk is very hard to digest…Do you know your blood type? Because if you know what it is, you can look online and find out what foods act like medicine in your body and foods that act like poison. It really works. You should look it up!
I will! But what's with you and coconut oil? You talk about it in so many interviews.
I think everyone should have coconut oil for more reasons than one. You can use it in your hair, you can use it as a makeup remover, you can cook with it, you can use it in the bedroom! Um… [Laughs]
Yeah?
You can though—it's quite versatile, that coconut oil! [Laughs] You know, now I really need to do a coconut oil campaign in which I talk about all of this. That would be funny, right?
Yes! So we're both flying to Paris tonight. Any tips for jet lag?
I try to always sleep on the plane, if you can. And as soon as you get off the plane, look up and get a little sunlight in your eyes. And also as soon as you can, take your shoes off and put your feet on the ground, in the grass. It's good to re-center yourself. And use rose hip oil during the flight to stay hydrated. There's a really good one from my skincare line, KORA Organics, and I use it on flights. That way, your skin won't be dry or dull once you land.
What about tips for keeping a straight face when you want to start laughing? It must be hard on the runway.
I know! It's funny, right? It just takes mind control. When you have to be serious doing Balenciaga, Stella McCartney, or Chanel, you just have to focus. At the end of the day, people are there to look at the clothes. And I try not to make eye contact with anyone, because if you make eye contact with someone on the runway, it's over! You have to stay in the zone, feel the music, and feel the clothes.
Everyone's talking about Nicolas Ghesquière right now. What was it like to walk for Balenciaga while he was there? Especially right after having a baby?
Balenciaga was spur of the moment. I'd worked with Nicolas a few seasons before. I think he's a genius, and we really connected and appreciated each other. So I was walking for him before I was pregnant, and then I walked for him while I was pregnant, and then I walked for him as soon as I had the baby. And I just really appreciate him. He's a really good person. He's so creative and so talented.
And you were on the Balenciaga runway two months after giving birth.
The trick is to be gentle with yourself! Don't be hard on yourself. Be gentle and focus on filling your body with nutrients. Don't think about calories. Calories will drive you mad, and then you'll crave things just because you can't have them, and that's when you start eating sweets. And I don't believe in working out really soon after giving birth. I mean, every body is different and every birth is different, but I think you have to be really gentle. I started really gently doing yoga. Then I did Pilates, which is a bit more intense, and finally some light resistance training. But it was very gentle and very organic. My workout was, like, hiking with the baby. Because it's something you can do together as a family, and it's easy and it's fun. And when I do yoga at home, Flynn will be there jumping around next to me and it's fine.
Now that he's a bit older, does Flynn do yoga with you?
Oh yeah! Flynn is very good at downward dog!
lunedì 3 giugno 2013
The girl that made millions of people laugh.
Hahahahahahahhaahahah is impossible to resist laugher with this kid so wicked.
Damn this kid is still on school. I’m curious what their petagogs or teachers think about hit wicked girl. I think she’s a unique case or mabye she’s bored by her sister with her photos. Little kids are not the same. Even to school they do alot stupid things with teacers on different subjects. Even with principal. We can’t say that she’s uncultured but she’s showing dissrespect.
What about you? What do you think about this photo?
Damn this kid is still on school. I’m curious what their petagogs or teachers think about hit wicked girl. I think she’s a unique case or mabye she’s bored by her sister with her photos. Little kids are not the same. Even to school they do alot stupid things with teacers on different subjects. Even with principal. We can’t say that she’s uncultured but she’s showing dissrespect.
What about you? What do you think about this photo?
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