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We Try Before You Buy: 7 High Street Items Destined for Cult Status
At Who What Wear we are always trying to help you find pieces that will be a long-lasting addition to your wardrobe, that will not only out-live fleeting trends and fit in with your personal style, but stand up from a design point of view. That is why this month we have brought you ‘The Great Try On‘ where our editors and friends of Who What Wear have tried new-season pieces and styling moves, to help you find those that are actually worth investing in or recreating yourself. There can be many difficulties shopping on the high street, from the wild discrepancies with fit and quality, not to mention a lack of size diversity and the promotion of a throwaway fast-fashion culture. But for many of us, shopping on the high street is what is accessible and realistic. That i...
Star-Sign Necklaces Are Currently Trending—These Are the 23 I Love
I’ve always liked to have a look at my horoscope, but I never really took much notice of it. (The fact that I’m a classic Capricorn who works too much is not exactly news to me.) But 18 months ago, when our lives became completely unpredictable, and the world turned upside down, I found myself engrossed in horoscopes to such an extent that I’ve now got an app that delivers my birth-time-specific horoscope every day. No, I don’t have a problem, but do feel free to psychoanalyse me and my behaviour. I would like to point out, though, that I’m not the only one who’s into horoscopes these days. Earlier this year, the BBC reported a boom in the number of people who have taken an interest in astrology. You Deserve to Make Money Even Wh...
Uptown’s Finest: New Art Exhibit Chronicles Harlem’s Fashion Legacy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Photo by and in the private collection of Beau McCall / Photo by and in the private collection of Beau McCall There is no street style without Harlem. A new exhibit details the iconic neighborhood’s contribution to American style and more. As spotted on Cool Hunting the upper Manhattan area is about to get some long-overdue credit. Lois K Alexander Lane (1916 – 2007) was a fashion designer and Harlem resident. In 1979 she founded the Black Fashion Museum as a hub to showcase the countless contributions by individuals of color to the fashion industry. During her early years she struggled to acquire pieces for the collection. Since then the institution would go on to house over 2,000 garments that were designed, fabricated or worn by African-Ameri...
Sienna Miller and Emily Blunt Wore Matching Outfits to the Met Gala For a Second Time
You know the friendship is real when you show up to the Met Gala in a matching outfit for the second year in row. Bona-fide besties Sienna Miller and Emily Blunt arrived at the 2021 Met Gala in co-ordinated, sparkling gowns that looked like they came straight out of Hollywood’s Gilded Age from the turn of the 20th century. Miller wore a champagne-coloured lace Gucci gown that featured crystal jewels around the bust, shoulders, and neckline. She completed the look with an oversize, muted pink feathered coat, light-pink clutch, and silver platform heels from the brand. Blunt wore a complementary sparkling gown from Miu Miu that featured white fabric wrapped around the bust with a white cape and diamond jewellery by Messika. She completed her look with a silver clutch, silver heels, and...
Activist Mikaela Loach Shares Revolutionary Ideas For Fixing Fast Fashion in Her New Documentary
Image Source: Waterbear Mikaela Loach is a climate-justice activist, a medical student, and a claimant for Paid to Pollute — a nonprofit organisation that is taking the UK government to court for paying billions in tax breaks to the oil and gas industry. The polyester used to make cheap clothes by fast fashion brands is a byproduct of drilling for oil and gas, which is also fuelling rising temperatures around the world. In Loach’s new documentary ReDress the Future, they partner with streaming platform WaterBear to investigate our attachment to unsustainable fashion, and explore how we can create healthy new ways to be creative with our clothes. ReDress the Future introduces the ideas and innovators questioning and reinventing a broken fashion system. Including expert insight from Fa...
Oh My, M&S’s Autumn Collection is Looking So Good This Year
Out of all the high street stores, M&S is probably the one whose autumn/winter collection we await most eagerly. Whether it’s their long-standing penchant for a classic winter coat or talent for creating enviable knitwear, it’s an ineffable alchemy that the store brings to our cold weather wardrobes year after year. Well, we are happy to report that the 2021 collection has finally dropped, and it might just be our favourite to date. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fai...
These 7 Influencers Always Repeat Their Outfits, and That’s Why We Love Them
It’s hard to remember a time when everything you mused, liked and—let’s face it—ate, wasn’t documented on social media. And the effects have certainly been felt where our wardrobes are concerned. For many, posing for an outfit photograph has become part of their daily routines. Some have carved impressive careers from doing so, but at what cost? As it turns out, a financial one. Our obsession with showcasing our clothes has developed into a culture of excess, where many would choose buy new than be seen in the same dress for a second or third time. Don’t take our word for it—just look at the facts. Carrying out a study in 18,000 households across 20 countries, Movinga asked participants to estimate the percentage of unworn clothes they have in their wardrobes. On av...
Street Style Is Back, and These 5 Easy Trends Are Ruling Already
The streets of New York City haven spoken: Autumn outfits are go! It’s been exciting to see fashion month kicking off in IRL style once more, and while the runways have wowed us (Proenza! Rodarte! Tom Ford!) it’s the scene on the sidewalks that has us reaching into the depths of our closets to rediscover some gems for the new season here in Blighty. Although the weather has been set to summer over the pond, the mood and outfit choices have shifted to autumn in subtle ways: a fabric option here, a colour there, the addition of a smart layering piece or the switching up of a silhouette. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, ...
The Breathtaking 2021 Met Gala Looks We’ll Be Talking About for Years
That’s right, the time has finally come. After a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, the Met Gala is back, and believe us when we say it’s really back. While we typically find ourselves counting down the days in the lead-up to the first Monday in May, this year has us especially on our toes and not just because we’ve been missing the epic red carpet looks. The 2021 Met Gala, who’s theme is In American: A Lexicon of Fashion, will be an “intimate gala” with a guest list that skews notably Gen Z, if the night’s co-chairs Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman, Naomi Osaka, and Timothée Chalamet are any indication. The looks you’re about to bear witness to feature everything from over-the-top feathers and showstopping s...
Emma Raducanu Attended Her First Met Gala in a Chanel Cruise Co-ordinated Set
British tennis player Emma Raducanu attended her first ever red carpet event — the 2021 Met Gala — following her historic win at the US Open Tennis Championships. The rising star wore Chanel for her fashion debut at the Met’s Costume Institute Benefit Gala under the theme “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion”. Raducanu’s black-and-white co-ordinated set was from the Chanel Cruise 2021/2022 collection. It featured a black-and-white silk twill cropped top and skirt with a printed silk crepe coat. She completed the look with black patent-leather Chanel pointed-toe wedge boots, a pearl belt from the brand, and Chanel makeup. Raducanu was joined by fellow young woman ambassadors at the Chanel table — Lily-Rose Depp, Kristen Stewart, Whitney Peak, and Margaret Qualley. Keep ...
Lewis Hamilton Used His Table at the Met Gala to Support Emerging Black Fashion Designers
After being cancelled due to coronavirus last year, the Met Gala, fashion’s biggest event of the year, was back with a bang last night in New York City. Cohosted by singer Billie Eilish, poet Amanda Gorman, actor Timothée Chalamet, and tennis player Naomi Osaka, the event undoubtedly makes top billing in the celebrity calendar, drawing the hottest names in the business showcase their ensembles for the evening and fundraising for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This year, the selected theme was “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion”, and Vogue reported that Met Gala regular and fashion icon Lewis Hamilton chose to use his influence at the event to showcase Black designers. A frequent Met Gala attendee, the seven-time Formula One champion is known for wearing the work of high p...
Behold: Every Must-See Beauty Moment From 2021’s Met Gala
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for, (and for a bit longer than usual): the 2021 Met Gala. It might not be the first Monday of May when fashion’s most elite typically convene (the Costume Institute’s annual affair was canceled last year and postponed to this September due to COVID-19), but better late than never, and we’re anxiously anticipating how our favorite designers, models, and Hollywood stars interpret this year’s theme, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, on the red carpet. Now, the attendees will be required to wear masks once they’re inside and the event is set to be comparably smaller and more intimate than years past, but there will still be a step and repeat happening on the iconic Met steps. And, most assuredly, l...
