Behind the scenes of our 25th anniversary cover

January 17, 2023/22.25

Once Lindsay Adler’s photo shoot arrived here, there was still plenty of work to do to get the 25th anniversary cover just right, says Jack Yan […]

Pierre Cardin, visionary designer, dies aged 98

December 29, 2020/13.43

Claude Iverné/Creative Commons 3·0 Top: Pierre Cardin’s official portrait in 1992. Above: The cover of the book accompanying Pierre Cardin’s 60th anniversary retrospectives in 2010. Legendary fashion designer Pierre Cardin died December 29 aged 98, according to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, of which he had been a member since 1992. Born Pietro Costante Cardin […]

Movado holds Shanghai event with singer Li Ronghao and actor Jerry Chengjie Yuan

November 5, 2020/10.25

Movado’s Shanghai event saw actor Jerry Chengjie Yuan, singer Li Ronghao, and Movado China general manager Danni Hammer. Movado held its Music Time Journey event in Shanghai on October 29, with an interview format featuring its spokesman, singer–songwriter Li Ronghao (李榮浩) and host, actor Jerry Chengjie Yuan (袁成傑). Movado China general manager Danni Hammer, […]

NGV and Dior announce House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture exhibition, starting August ’17

December 10, 2016/1.57

Wayne Taylor Top: National Gallery of Victoria and House of Dior announce House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture at NGV International, opening August 2017. At the media announcement on Friday, Sandra Sundelin, Alejandra Zuluaga, Ella Bond, Maddison Lukes, and Bela Pelacio Hazewinkel model various Dior designs. Above: Ella Bond models the Dior bar […]

Cheryl Cole steps out in 1950s style for ‘Under the Sun’ video

July 27, 2012/11.44

Cheryl Cole’s video for her new song, ‘Under the Sun’, has been released, with a sexy time-warp theme. The Geordie songstress attracts the attention of every man in the video, which has props and fashions from almost every era from the 1940s to the present day. While Cole’s 1950s’ costume—a yellow brassière, cream […]

Deryn Schmidt recalls the 1940s in autumn–winter 2012 collection

January 31, 2012/21.50

Hot on the heels of her début at New Zealand Fashion Week last year, Deryn Schmidt has become a household name synonymous with feminine fashion. Having showed as part of the new generations show at Fashion Week, her collection was one of the most sought after and highly praised by both local and international media […]

Charity calendar brings 1940s’ pin-up style into the 2010s

March 24, 2011/8.19

Mandi Lynn Pin Up for Prems is a charity calendar with a difference. Born out of a desire to help the Neonatal Special Care Unit of Hutt Hospital, which specializes in caring for newborn babies and helping parents during and after births, mother and businesswoman Georgia Wright and renowned Wellington photographer Mandi Lynn came […]

Richard Avedon exhibition opens at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

August 10, 2010/5.08

Above Richard Avedon: Veruschka, Dress by Kimberly. New York 1967. Copyright ©2009 by the Richard Avedon Foundation. Photographer Richard Avedon continues to inﬂuence what deﬁnes fashion photography today, six years after his passing. In a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, entitled Avedon Fashion, 1944–2000, the photographer’s output is comprehensively examined, […]

Karen Elson, Libby Callaway speak at couture exhibition

June 22, 2010/13.08

Victoria & Albert Museum Above Zémire evening ensemble by Christian Dior, autumn–winter 1954–5. Cellulose acetate, with the skirt lined with layers of silk and net. The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn. is showing an exhibition entitled The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957, from June 18 to September 12. […]