How Two Shanghai-Bound Victoria’s Secret Angels Get Dressed to Hit the Airport

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show isn’t set to shoot until Monday, but the girls have already turned the sidewalk into their own personal runway, even before touching down in Shanghai. Before catching their flight from New York, Angels Martha Hunt and Elsa Hosk took the lead with an impromptu photo shoot just outside of the check-in counter. It was clear where they were headed, too, thanks to super cute coordinating T-shirts that read “Angel” and “Love,” respectively.

Hosk threw on a statement coat from street-style favorite Sandy Liang. The moto jacket was done in patent leather and trimmed with pastel pink shearling—a perfect match for everything VSFS, from the satin robes worn backstage to the bright pink carpet leading into the after-party. Like Hunt, she tucked her tee into supermodel-approved off-duty skinny jeans and flat boots. Her cherry red cat-eye sunglasses tied in nicely with a crocodile bucket bag in the same hue, but it was the proverbial VS puckered lip pose that read the most angelic of all. Hunt kept things decidedly more pared back in a cool blue palette, but added polish with a menswear-inspired tweed blazer and a classic gold watch, which is sure to have come in handy when getting on Shanghai time.

The Clothes From the New Y/Project x Honest By Collaboration May Not Be Transparent, But Everything Else Is

If you happen to follow Honest By’s founder Bruno Pieters on Facebook or Instagram, you’ll have seen a tantalizing image on his feeds of late: a headshot of Person Unknown with a box obscuring his/her face, and the date 19.10.17, teasing the label’s latest collaboration. So, perhaps no need for the drum roll for the big reveal, given the headline of this story already gives it away, but Glenn Martens of Y/Project is the latest designer to work with Pieters on his own project. (Yep, you likely already guessed that, given the obscured face’s tufty blonde crop and chin stubble.) Since its inception in 2009, Honest By has challenged industry thinking of where things are made, what they’re made of, and how much (usually way too much) is being charged for them; an impeccably cool and impeccably credentialed prod of the conscience, as it were.

In the case of this latest collaboration, that means a six-strong capsule of re-imagined seasonless and gender-free Y/Project pieces from the Spring and Fall 2017 collections—a trench, a striped shirt, articulated jeans, a sweatshirt/dress, a turtleneck top, and skirt-cum-pants—all of which are produced in France, with every element of their execution, fabrics, finishings, the lot, traceable back to their sources of origin. Everything also carries the GOTS tag, which means the pieces are made to the Global Organic Textile Standard. “There’s a lot of talk about sustainability these days,” Pieters said over the phone from Antwerp, where he’s based, “but it means nothing without transparency.” Everything, in other words, is naked and unafraid—including, it has to be said, the reminder of how sharp and assured Martens is as a designer, after coming off a run of stellar Y/Project shows.

“Bruno has been a mentor to me—we go way back,” says Martens, and indeed they do; Pieters tutored him while he was at Antwerp’s Royal Academy, before hiring him to consult on the European H&M offshoot Weekday, and then asking him to design the first Honest By collection, so things have gone full circle. For Martens, Pieters was a designer whose work exemplified “a level of craftsmanship we don’t find that easily in fashion today.”

Clearly those standards haven’t slackened, for this capsule doesn’t sacrifice any of the inventive detailing and interactivity typical of Y/Project—the double construction of the shirting, the detachable legs on the buccaneer denim, the broad double shoulder line on the trenchcoat. Some of the materials used for the new pieces switched, with that trench now in gabardine, not leather. The experience has also been eye-opening for Martens, fueling him to think more about his own label’s actions and accountability. “We are very much aware of where we produce, and while I wouldn’t say we are totally certified in terms of fabrics, we’re trying,” he says, listing how when he arrived at Y/Project, 80 percent of the collection was leather, while now, he says, “the only leather in the Spring 2018 collection are the shoes.”

As for Pieters, it may only be a collaboration of six pieces, but the impact of it can be far greater. “People who are interested need to be encouraged,” he says. “There aren’t a lot of role models for young designers interested in sustainability, just Stella McCartney, really, and that’s it. Glenn is still maybe more niche than that, but I think he is going to have an impact.”

We Tag Along With Santoni’s Marco Zanini on His Summer Trip to Japan

Marco Zanini loves to travel. “As much as I long for a lazy holiday at the end of a year of exhausting work, when it’s time to plan, I get restless. I know that if I don’t feed my curiosity—moving around, exploring something new—I’ll be bored stiff after a couple of days and my mood will become intolerable!” says the creative director of Santoni. Zanini presents his second collection for the label in Milan today. After almost a year of careful, patient research, he and his boyfriend, Giuseppe, came up with a summer itinerary far-flung enough to satiate the curiosity that feeds his creative work.

The pair left for Japan at the beginning of August, avoiding the well-trod tourist route and focusing instead on a remote area north of Tokyo. “There were no Westerners, [at least] we didn’t meet any,” says the designer, who is half Italian, half Swedish. Yamagata Prefecture is four hours by bullet train from the hyperbolic urgency of Tokyo, but Zanini and Giuseppe felt worlds away. “It was really as if the time had stopped,” remembers Zanini.

Why this fascination for the Japanese countryside? “I longed for something as far away as possible from our hectic lifestyle, both mentally and physically,” he says. “I adore Japan and love everything about its lifestyle: the calmness; the humble yet hyper-sophisticated aesthetic; the art of careful, impeccable presentation. Also, being the son of a Swedish mother, I find a lot of similarities between these two cultures. They feel to me as if they were like cousins, with the same shared aesthetic values and idiosyncrasies. There’s a love for simplicity, even for severity, both in Japan and in Sweden. So, to me, Japan feels utterly exotic but also very familiar.”

Here, Zanini shares his scrapbook with Vogue.

Britney Spears and John Galliano’s Designs for Dior Inspired This Elevated Denim Label

It’s fair to say that Jerome Dahan and Noam Hanoch have denim in their genes. Dahan is a founder of Citizens of Humanity (and 7 For All Mankind) and Hanoch (who once worked under Alber Elbaz at Geoffrey Beene) was his design partner there for over 10 years. The duo is taking their obsession to the next level with Jean Atelier, a new line that brings together high-end denim and luxury ready-to-wear. The collection of jeans, skirts, blouses, jackets, and trousers starts at $425 and goes far beyond the classic five-pocket true blues, drawing on rarified fabrics from all over the globe, including French lace and selvedge denim from Japan.

“It’s a fully realized collection with its core firmly rooted in denim,” Dahan explains. “It draws inspiration from the history and heritage of blue jeans but it has a feminine aesthetic and a point of view.” There are also some pretty iconic fashion references behind it. “When we started this process, we were looking at images of Britney Spears in the ’90s and Dior pieces from Galliano’s early years at the house,” says Hanoch. “I also looked back through my design archives, all the way back to my days at Guess in the ’80s.” With designers such as Calvin Klein and Vetements riffing on classic denim tropes—overalls, western cowboy shirts, and the Texan tuxedo—on the runway, that elevated approach to the humble fabric couldn’t be better timed. And given their expertise, the cut and fit of their denim is just as exacting as you’d expect.

“We want to reach the denim aficionado who will appreciate the construction and also those who are simply attracted to the look and the feel of our fits,” says Dahan. It doesn’t hurt that he has one very stylish denim aficionado living right under their nose, namely his wife Elsa, Jean Atelier’s brand manager. A quick scroll through her Instagram reveals precisely why she’s the unofficial muse for the collection: She manages to make even the most simple pieces appear polished—skinny black jeans, cool white T-shirts, moto jackets, and yes, the occasional lace blouse and overalls. And with the full collection launching online today, mastering that easy sense of chic just got a lot easier.

Hailey Baldwin Says Yes to the Bridal Slip Dress, Just In Time for Friday Night

For those staring into their closets tonight feeling less than inspired, let Hailey Baldwin show the way. The model turned up in Los Angeles last night wearing the ultimate going-out ensemble—one that could easily make the move from day to night, then back to bed again.

Baldwin stepped out in a satin slip dress by Jonathan Simkhai with barely-there shoulder straps that dipped down to reveal a daring open back. The lace detail at the bust had a bridal feel, while the midi hem was a demure, covered-up counterpoint to all that sex appeal. She decided to take a minimalist approach to her accessories: Casadei pumps in a contrasting matte hue with a silver stiletto heel lent a touch of shine after dark.