Kelly Rowland has a beauty that not only radiates outwardly but also internally. During the HollyRod Humanitarian Awards she shone brightly in a black Gaurav Gupta gown that left us in awe.
The nonprofit organization was created by Holly Robinson Peete and retired NFL quarterback Rodney Peete and serves individuals living with Parkinson’s disease and children with autism.
For this year’s 26th annual gala, Kelly Rowland presented Viola Davis with the Jacqueline Avant HollyRod Humanitarian Award for all her philanthropic endeavors over the years.
“Viola Davis perfectly exemplifies the spirit of this award, named after Jacqueline Avant who was a true champion of generosity, love, and philanthropy,” said Rowland who attended alongside her husband Tim Weatherspoon.
Weatherspoon, who has been married to Rowland since 2014 and shares two children with the ‘Motivation’ singer, was smitten by how stunning Kelly looked.
The Gaurav Gupta dress was elegant and regal against Rowland’s rich chocolate complexion. Characterized with centered cutouts and unique gold pendants, Kelly gave us goddess vibes.
When it came down to her glam, she kept her long stands pulled back in ponytail, showcasing her gold dangling earrings. Her make-up was perfectly contoured, with bronzer, and a subtle smokey eye. Her nude lip was the perfect shade to keep her dress in the spotlight.
We thought Kelly looked absolutely flawless in this black Gaurav Gupta ensemble, and we always love to see her glistening from head to toe.
Beyoncé is “giving you high fashion with a simple white tee” as the new covergirl of Levis latest campaign called “Reiimagined.”
The ‘Cowboy Carter’ singer who also has a song entitled “Levii’s Jeans” on her latest country album, made headlines yesterday when the campaign debuted and left fans in excitement.
Slaying inside of a laundromat setting, Queen B sported a full Levis ensemble including a crop white tee, with blue hip hugging Levis jean’s, and a denim cowboy hat.
Her platinum blonde hair was complimented with loose curls, bringing out her caramel complexion and hazel eyes.
The first chapter of the campaign “Launderette” is a remake of the brand’s iconic 1985 ad that originally featured Nick Kamen strolling inside of a 1950s launderette, and pouring a paper bag of rocks into a washing machine.
Instead of rocks, Beyonce is seen throwing a pale of diamonds into the washing machine along with her Levis jeans directed by Melina Matsoukas.
“I am honored to work with Levi’s to create quintessential American iconography,” expressed Beyonce in a Press Release. “Denim on denim has often been seen through a male lens, so this reimagining campaign, which celebrates the iconic female perspective, is important to me.”
Beyoncé is proving that she is a force to be reckoned with. With her Cécred haircare line, whiskey brand SirDavis, and Levis campaign, she is diversifying and showing off her business acumen.
Rihanna showcased the perfect mix of glam and streetwear while dinning at her favorite Italian restaurant Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica Sunday evening.
The ‘Diamonds’ singer wore black on black including an Awake NY tracksuit jacket that she paired with black leggings and brown and white Puma sneakers.
Extravagant in length and rich in texture, RiRi’s Bottega Veneta Faux Fur Shawl was the star of her outfit. In addition to her shawl’s chic appeal, perhaps it could also serve as a fabulous throw.
Rihanna’s oversized square-frame shades added a mysterious vibe against her jet black hair. She kept her make-up to a minimum, serving a bare face with a subtle lipgloss.
We thought Rihanna looked super comfy, and we’re looking forward to seeing how she’ll turn it up this Fall season.
Paris is no fret for Sulmers, who once lived there and has become a fashion week extraordinaire. So when the moment presented itself, of course she spoke with some of the hottest to do it in fashion.
Cardi, who’s known for her lyrical flow and head-turning looks, arrived to see Olivier Rousteing designs in a long emerald green shaggy coat by the Parisian brand that was belted at the waist. Her leather headband and gold shell earrings were modern and beautiful.
Contrary to green, Sulmers and Carter opted for all black monochromatic ensembles with Claire rocking an off-the-shoulder Balmain double breasted dress, with black transparent gloves.
Kollin on the other hand, looked sharp in a black Balmain suit that included a cropped blazer layered over a turtle neck sweater. He paired his look with wide leg trousers, and black patent leather Oxford shoes.
We have to admit, if anyone deserves a round of applause, it’s without a doubt Kollin, who is the mastermind behind Cardi’s iconic outfits.
In addition to attending the Balmain show this week, Cardi B also shut down the internet in an all black Mugler look that screamed “EDGY” from her head to her toes. Her bowl haircut, and black lined lip, complimented her deep plunge neckline blazer.
She also took a calculated risk at the Rick Owens fashion show in Paris in soft hues of brown. The mother of 3, who looks absolutely incredible after just giving birth at the beginning of this month, wore a brown knitted maxi dress to the show. She layered her Rick Owens dress with a long innovative cape that had exaggerated shoulders.
Between the Balmain, Mulgler and Rick Owens show, Cardi B was a sight to behold. She is becoming known for making quite an entrance, and we’re always anticipating what she’s going to wear next!
While Schiaparelli is world renowned for its couture collections, their “Future Vintage” Spring/Summers 2025 foray was just as alluring, with a menu that spoke to every woman in every station of life: from daydreaming millennials to working Gen X’ers and cruising baby boomers.
The show was an unabashed celebration of the female form, with looks that accentuated waists under corsets–a detail that added unmitigated sex appeal to every look.
Stand out pieces included a shirt dress in white linen with black checks featuring a wide collar and a tonal corset with lacing in the back, white piqué jersey polo bodysuits paired with draped skirts, and bodycon dresses gathered towards the middle into braids, finished off with metal bijou buckles.
In addition to the garments, the accessories were stunning: belts, bags, and heels were finished with quirky surprises like crystal detailing, along with the house’s signature anatomical and trompe l’oeil details.
In the show notes, Daniel Roseberry says, “The world may feel more chaotic than ever, but here, the mood is celebratory both of what fashion can be, but of how fashion can make you feel.”
Everything about Schiaparelli Spring/Summer 2025 felt SO good. What do you think?
London Fashion Week celebrated its 40th anniversary, as the streets bustled with designs, models and enthusiasts alike. With this historic milestone, London, the cultural leading capital of fashion and platforming is here for it all. With bigger brands strutting their way into Fall/Winter shows as well as red carpets, The W joined the bash in their style by sharing a toast to the artistic processes and emergent designers on Sunday, 15th September with The W Fashion Week 2024. Not just with a platform, but a huzzah to those rising.
Megabrand tends to take the spotlight when it comes to promotion, displays and celebrity sponsorships, and it happens quite frequently that the limelight rarely falls on the up-and-coming designers. While the capital leads the game in fashion, it still falls short in this aspect. Despite the city’s cosmopolitan reputation, the fashion and beauty scenes tend to lack diversity. Many such brands with culture and innovation embedded in their designs never make the cut or a list of the top five hundred or ten. By working together with retailers, organizers, volunteers from all over the world, community organizations and industry leaders, The W Fashion Week steps in to close the disparity and get the wheels churning.
Phadria Antoinette Prendergast, the Editor-In-Chief at The W, assembles a group of skilled enthusiasts alongside fashion technicians to curate a platform hosting international and national companies to recognition. Highlighting under-representative, alternative and underprivileged talent, The W Fashion Week is dedicated to elevating the visibility of marginalized voices that are remodeling structures, redefining color schemes, and reinventing creativity and style. This year, a cohort of 28 designers—ten more than 2023—from six different countries hit The W’s runway at Mercedes-Benz World to amaze the public with their craftsmanship.
Boasting a star-studded group of attendees, this year’s line-up at W Fashion Week was modern, futuristic and fluid in appeal. From concrete streetwear to metallic silhouettes, if you’re looking for a statement outfit in this spectator crowd, look anywhere and everywhere. From Prendergast herself—who was wearing Diesel and Prada—to TV personalities like Jasmine Johnson and Love Island-winner Josh Oyinsan, influencers like Balia Adare and Anisa Farah, entrepreneurs like Diamante Dawn Laiva and Samantha Harding, athletes like Wyse and Ollie Hassell-Collins, and models like Josh Legrove and Mataya Sweeting, everyone interpreted fashion in their element. Solidifying their presence and game at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in London, amongst an audience of five hundred, the brands took to the stage in all glory and glam.
2024 became the biggest year yet for The W Fashion Week, with numbers rising from eighteen to almost thirty designers and brands from all over the globe showcasing their collections and body of work for a total of 193 looks. Be it streetwear, evening drapes, athleisure, or accessories, Fashion Week was here for the challenge and so were the designers who accepted it. Liam Brandon Murray, DETARON Couture, Prudence Young, Zhania Studio, MOUF, Iman Grine, Blu Reign, Confidence by Grace, Shauna Courtney, DEFIED + Zoe Hoop Jewelry, Upsycle, Soixantethree, Gangsterus, Travel Infinite, MURMAID, HAUL, Bonifique, Bav Tailor, Rainbow Dropz, Voglia Swim, Matthew Joseph, Anko + Karina Immanuel, and ZastaStudio + ITELE are the few prominent names which made their way to people’s hearts.
With such large numbers on display, The W Fashion Show 2024 had something from everyone. Brands like Bonifique and Voglia Swimwear showed sportswear and athleisure, while Prudence Young, Zhania Studio, ZastaStudio turned heads with their avant-garde and experimental designs. Bav Tailor’s collection was inspired by holistic practices, but they weren’t the only ones tapping into their heritage: Iman Grine blended modern trends with traditional elements of Moroccan culture. Matthew Joseph reflected on societal pressures through his collection No Space to Breathe while brands like Everyday Fit, MOUF, Blu Reign, Detaron Couture, Travel Infinite, Soixantethree, MURMAID, HAUL, and Gangsterus stretched the boundaries of street style and innovation. Both Anko and DEFIED showed their debut collections, the former making a case for modern minimalism and the latter tapping into 1980s nostalgia, while Shauna Courtney and Confidence by Grace showed the perfect capsule wardrobe for the modern woman. Rainbow Dropz and Upsycle brought us back to the 2020 trends of bold crochet creations and upcycled denim. Footwear was provided by ITELE, jewelry by Zoe Hoop Jewelry, and accessories by Karina Immanuel.
The runway reflected many of the trends we’ve been seeing during this Fashion Month so far. In particular, when it comes to colors and textures, the collections adhered and added their take on the naturally narrow way to interpretation to widen the scope of the trends. Muted earthy shades and jewel tones were the predominant color spectrum for the almost 200 looks from couture to streetwear: muddy greens and browns, mustard and lemon yellows, desaturated blues and pinks spanned designers and collections. Texture play was another standout feature of many designers’ works: tactile pieces in fuzzy, rugged, distressed, and scaly materials added a sensory feel to the runway. With an overarching desire to incorporate an earthy and natural feel into the garments, designers and curators made use of various color combinations and texture samples to their accord for delivering the beauty of nature as they interpret it.
Backed by a team of meticulous assistants, editors, stylists, make-up artists, socials and digital groups, stewards as well as the magazine’s staff, the runway was powered by a collective effort of those remote and offline, enthusiasts and/or participants. Until the next cycle, the next arena and the next theme, the magazine bids you well and invites you to hail the art of fashion as an art, diversified. Not gate-kept.
Ah, the things we do for fashion. Rain pelted down on Paris Wednesday evening, as gridlocked cars inched around Place du Trocadero. The weather outside was positively frightful, but that didn’t stop avid fans from assembling outside the Eiffel Tower adjacent venue to catch a glimpse of their favorite stars/soldiers in the Balmain Army. Anitta, Cardi B, Brooklyn Beckham, and even the first lady of France found their ways inside without a hair out of place, though Anitta joked backstage that her dress was so tight she could hardly breathe. The show itself offered a welcome respite, with the words, “Je T’aime” or “I Love You” playing over and over again on the loudspeakers. The first looks boasted sequined red lips, as if to kiss the pain away.
What followed were dresses decorated with feminine faces, and shifts sporting distinctly Parisian signature stripes, elevated and embellished in a way only Balmain could.
Balmain’s Spring/Summer 2025 offering was more wearable than most. Pointy shouldered blazers in black paired smartly with silk blouses and tailored pants in wool and leather.
Tote bags, cinched closed with belts, will easily be the next workwear must have. Pops of color came with red sequined gowns and blush pink dresses—the latter closed the show in a storm of silk rose hued dresses that would make any fashion enthusiast blush.
Lengths:
Mostly mini with a smattering of floor sweeping gowns.
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Colors:
Black, gold, white, pink, red.
Fabrics:
Suede, silk, sequins, metal.
Shapes:
Hourglass emphasized by strong shoulders and pronounced hips.
Accessories:
Gold belts, gold tipped heels, fold over boots, gold necklaces, “belt” tote bags. Accessories were inspired by tubes of Balmain lipstick, eyeshadow palettes, and fragrance bottles.
Cool kids snaked down the sidewalk outside of the Espace Niemeyer, a former Headquarters of the Communist Party which now moonlights as a futuristic venue with a stark geodesic sphere decorating the lawn. Guests, mostly clad in all black, sauntered into the spaceship-like space, ambling into an inner dome that beamed lights down on the collection amidst glittering chrome tiles. Lithe models sauntered slowly down the runway, most boasting barely there sheer lace bodysuits, dresses and pants that boldly exposed breasts and thongs.
For those more demure and mindful, De Javier offered jackets with pointy shoulders, dresses with billowing sleeves and long trains, and oversized coats that made serious sartorial statements.
De Javier has been named Riccardo Tisci’s protege, and Tisci’s touch could be seen in the horns and pointed shoulders of select garments; similar to the sharktooth, Tisci finds a focal object and sticks to it, weaving it throughout all of his collections to mark his territory.
Judging by the amped and overflowing crowd and the exquisitely executed looks, De Javier is certainly poised for a fashion industry take over. He’s got next. What do you think?
Lengths:
Floor sweeping gowns with ample fishtail trains.
Colors:
Black and White.
Fabrics:
Lace, cotton jersey, feathers, mongolian fur.
Shapes:
Bold shoulders on lithe models, skin clinging silhouettes.
Rapper Cardi B’s snatch back game is too real. After just giving birth to her third child on September 7th, the Grammy award winning artist is back on the scene, looking better than ever before.
If you’re a fan of Cardi’s, then you know that following the delivery of her baby girl, she was quickly back in the gym, working on her physique,
Some people say “no pain, no gain,” and based off of how incredible Cardi B looked while stepping out in New York City this week, she’s definitely been putting in that work.
Rocking a red custom Matthew Reisman Asian inspired printed dress, Cardi’s dress had a corset bodice that showed her cleavage. Her front high slits of her dress showed off her metallic gold sandals and her red mini Hermes bag was the perfect accessory.
Her glam was also on theme, with her hair styled straight with two buns that had chopsticks. Her smokey eyeshadow, lined lip and skinny eyebrows reminded us that 2024 is indeed “The Year of the Dragon.”
With an EP entitled, ‘High Maintenance,‘ Saweetie is far from average, and she has proven that she is a chameleon on the fashion scene.
During London Fashion Week, the Bay Area native look absolutely gorgeous at the Richard Quinn show. She embodied timeless beauty in a cream and black gown by the UK designer.
Quinn, who earned his Fashion MA from Central Saint Martins, created his label in 2016 and has received numerous awards for his exceptional design ability. In 2017, he received the H&M Design Award, and following that he won the British Fashion Award in 2018 for Emerging Talent Women’s wear.
Saweetie stole the style spotlight at The Dorchester in London as she posed in an off-the-shoulder black sequin laced gown that had a cream 3-D floral bodice. With peach eyeshadow and a warm neutral tone lip that glistened in the midnight sky, she looked like a femme fatale.
Fans took to Instagram to share their enthusiasm for how bomb Saweetie looked. Designer @Sai.Sankoh wrote, “She looks elegant. Love it😍,” while @callbackchristina wrote, “Saweetie looks so majestic😍😍😍. I see you @richardquinn🔥🔥. “
One thing’s forsure, and two things for certain, Saweetie looked like royalty at the Richard Quinn show, and we love her queen-like confidence that was perhaps symbolic to modern day cinderella.
