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02
August
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Kendall Jenner on Fall Fashion and Her New Calvin Klein Campaign

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Considering that we’re still in the throes of summer, it may feel a touch surreal to be thinking about fall style already. Thankfully, we have the perfect excuse to dream about cozy knits and sexy long-sleeve dresses: Calvin Klein’s fall 2023 campaign, starring none other than Kendall Jenner and debuting exclusively on ELLE.com. The supermodel-entrepreneur-expert cucumber-cutter has been working with the legendary American brand for over a decade now, fronting both signature CK Underwear ads and sporting its signature wares. Next season sees Jenner in vampy makeup with blown-out hair, embracing a classic ’90s supermodel look that wonderfully contrasts her more pared-back appearances, both in front of the camera and in candid street style photos.

Inez and Vinoodh

The upcoming collection is an encapsulation of the fall trends we’re shopping now in hopes for slightly cooler weather around the corner: loose-fitting suits in neutral colors, knit dresses, leather miniskirts to pair with crisp poplin skirts. The lines are clean, easy to wear, and incorporate seamlessly into any wardrobe, whether you skew minimalist or you’re an ultra-maximalists who needs a palate cleanser. Jenner, as is her wont, rocks everything, from curve-hugging black dresses to an alluring black cut-out slip dress paired

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19
July
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7 best street-style looks from Milan Fashion Week 2024

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The Milan Fashion Week is an influential event in the world as celebrities, style influencers, and fashion connoisseurs touch down in the romantic city to commemorate the historic event.

The menswear fashion week was replete with brand ambassadors, clothing buyers, Hollywood A-listers, and fashion influencers decked in streetwear chic and eye-catching designs.

On the lookout for style inspo from trendsetters in the industry? Check out the best street styles from the Milan Fashion Week below.

7 best street style looks from Milan Fashion Week 2024

1. Sabrina and Idris Elba

The Hollywood stars caused quite a stir as they attended the Gucci Ancora show sporting Gucci creations and looked every bit the power couple.

Sabrina wore a daring off-white top with jewel embellishments on the neck and straps. She accompanied this with a matching purse, wide-leg denim, and the signature red pointy-toed Gucci shoes which she matched with a dark red belt. She opted for bold red lips and a slicked-back hairstyle.

Idris Elba matched Sabrina’s casual vibe with a patterned long coat from the Italian brand with dark red, black, and white patterns. He completed the suave look with baggy jeans and dark shades.

2. Karina

The K-pop sweetheart

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14
July
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The Fashion Power 100 list: every industry style player ranked

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The fashion industry is worth around £1.2 trillion and is estimated to employ around 430 million people globally. But what does power in fashion mean now? Fashion is a followers’ game but the real influence happens on the high street and in your wardrobe. The (mostly male) billionaires might be holding the purse strings, but we’re wearing the merch. We’ve looked at the industry and its tributaries from every which way — is a footballer more powerful than an industry favourite designer if everyone’s copying their style? Are the traditional titans of publishing holding their own over the stars of social media? And what of the Kardashian Klan? 

The Standard Fashion Power 100 list is, in reality, a work in progress. Over the next 12 months these names will fall in and out of favour; one viral campaign image can propel a person to the top of everyone’s feed and one spurious post can get them momentarily cancelled. But for 2023, looking at revenue, followers, old-fashioned clout — and, most crucially, total cut through — we’ve compiled the 100 names which we think are directing the most critical element of all — what we’re all actually wearing. 

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05
July
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Sydney fashion designer Lee Mathews is still in demand after close to 25 years. Here’s why

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As online shopping became nascent, Mathews knew she had to “develop a language to tell people who we were, what we stood for”. She spent “so much money” on consultants, trying to articulate the Lee Mathews brand, she says.

“These were questions I’d never really asked myself. For a very long time it was just, you go to work, you make some clothes, you sell them. I never set out to start a business.”

Before she launched her eponymous label, Mathews was an art director at Vogue Australia and worked at luxury boutique Belinda Seper and at Country Road. She discovered a love of printmaking and, with the sewing skills she had learnt from her grandmother as a child, she began making clothes for friends and family – who urged her to take them to market.

An early Mathews dress, sold at Belinda Seper, from the early 2000s. Steve Baccon

She ran her own race then, and runs it still. Growth has been organic, but is often still scary, she says. “As opportunities presented themselves, they begat more and more of them,” she says. “And there was very little planning until we got to about the sixth store, I think.

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02
July
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‘Chefcore’ is the a la mode restaurant-inspired style you’ll actually want to wear | Fashion

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There’s a trend bubbling up in restaurant kitchens, and this time it’s got nothing to do with small plates. “Chefcore”, as coined by the menswear writer Clayton Chambers, has chefs ditching their traditional formal whites for a more casual aesthetic.

For a long time, no one cared what chefs wore, either inside or outside the kitchen. However, thanks to TV shows such as The Bear – where Carmy’s (Jeremy Allen White) perfect white T-shirt gained a cult following and (spoiler alert!) he gives protege Sydney a custom Thom Browne chef’s jacket – customers are as keen to know the brand of clothes a chef is wearing as they are the specials.

Look around your favourite eatery and you’re likely to spot that stiff, long-sleeved jackets have been replaced by Carmy-esque biceps-grazing T-shirts while torque hats have been ousted by baseball caps.

Jeremy Allen White as Carmy in The Bear. Photograph: Matt Dinerstein/FX Networks

It’s a trend that is heating up in front of the pass, too. London’s celebrated nose-to-tail restaurant St John recently swapped its front-of-house formal whites for laid-back corduroy tailoring, teaming up with the Savile Row tailor Drake’s on a clothing collection.

At Osip, a farm-to-table

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