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8 Jun

A Closer Take a look at the Costumes for

Craig Blankenhorn “And Just Like That” returns for season two on June 22, premiering on Max. While many fans of the “Sex and the City” reboot are looking forward to seeing how this season’s plot unfolds, many more are waiting to see what fashion the show will feature this season. Fashion has at all times been a key component of the “Sex and the City” franchise. Foremost character Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, established herself as a fashion-obsessed Recent Yorker from the very first episode of the series, which premiered in 1998. The show proved influential in popularizing many fashion brands and products. Carrie’s Fendi baguette bag, which she began wearing in season two, is credited with the American popularity...
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11 Apr

Esteban Cortázar Designs Costumes for Miami Ballet

Approaching 40, Esteban Cortázar has come full circle. South Beach’s famed wunderkind who hobnobbed with Gianni Versace, Madonna and ’90s supermodels is rediscovering his roots after spending 16 years in Paris. Living amongst Latest York, his native Colombia and South Beach, he’s designing costumes for Miami City Ballet’s “Sentimiento,” a commissioned work choreographed by Durante Verzola that premieres at Miami’s Arsht Center on Friday inside the “Fresh & Fierce” program. “I’m a beach boy at heart,” said Cortázar of an environment that brings him happiness and inspires his creativity. “I used to have an insecurity about Miami, but it surely seems like less of a town now and more of a city with some weight to it. I would like to...
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5 Apr

Daniel Lee to Create Costumes for Latest Wayne McGregor

LONDON – Burberry and its latest chief creative officer Daniel Lee are working with director and choreographer Wayne McGregor to create the costumes for his latest work for The Royal Ballet. The brand new, as-yet-untitled ballet production by McGregor, who's resident choreographer at The Royal Ballet, will premiere on June 9 on the Royal Opera House in London. The one-act work is about to a commissioned rating by the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, with lighting design by Lucy Carter and set design by the late Cuban-born American artist Carmen Herrera, who died last 12 months, aged 106. McGregor said he wanted to gather “a stellar team for this extraordinary Royal Ballet project with the late, great minimalist artist Carmen Herrera.” He described Lee as an...
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10 Dec

‘Gossip Girl’ Revives Blair Waldorf Headband and Packs a

HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” returned for its second season on Dec. 1. The show continues to follow the lives of Recent York’s Upper East Side crew who attend the celebrated Constance Billard — St. Jude’s School. Fashion has continued to play a giant part within the storylines and lives of the characters because the show’s original run on The CW network from 2007 to 2012, under the helm of costume designer Eric Daman, who returned for the reboot. In the unique series, he brought the characters to life with designs from brands like Henri Bendel, Chanel, Valentino and Gucci. It made style stars out of Blake Vigorous as Serena Celia van der Woodsen and Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf. Although he...
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