Superhero films have been dominating the box office and as such dominating our thoughts. And because fighting off enemies whilst also looking awesome necessitates a skin-tight costume (superheros are the stuff of fantasy, after all) it’s a fine line between superhero and superfreak. Not just those of the X-Men kind, but the Rick James kind. The kind you don’t take home to mother. With a…

It’s the kind of shoot where you don’t notice much fashion. There’s plenty of blurring, obscuring, plenty of techniques from Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott that gear towards mood creation. The male models are, for the most part, clothing-less props. The shoot’s main drawcard – one time supermodel Linda Evangelista – is veiled, blurred, smudged with lipstick and left looking a little lost; but what…

Doesn’t matter what you think of them – tacky, attractive, ineffective or just unnecessary – fashion and beauty advertisements are special. Especially when big names get together on the same creative platform. Think Mario Testino and Kate Moss – that kind of special. These are the kind that’ll look flashy on beautifully scented pages of a glossy magazine, but when they are bookmarked and filed…

We’ve certainly looked at allegations of photo shoots being a little more than inspired by other works before now, but this one is a little different. Photographer Steven Meisel is oddly being accused of copying himself. Which honestly makes no sense on the face of it, but becomes a little clearer when you look at the details behind his two photo shoots.

Is Vogue Paris in for a directional change? And is it for the best? That’s the question that has been on just about everybody’s lips since Emmanuelle Alt replaced Carine Roitfeld as editor-in-chief of the print media title. So it is that every issue that Alt releases to the public is not solely digested, but is picked apart with fervour. And today that process of…

I’ll confess I’d never used a primer before testing out this one from L’Oreal. And, being generally skeptical of anything that promises to work miracles (smooth out my small but increasingly discernable pool of wrinkles? As if.) I was wholeheartedly expecting to try it, write a few words about it, and never use it again. But this little pot of Studio Secrets smoothing resurfacing primer…

A little while ago we told you that Linda Evangelista would be returning for Prada, and we also told you that we would bring you the shots from the campaign as they become available. So here they are – keep an eye out for these in the magazines in the next few months. Look out after the jump for the rest of the shots.

It’s nice to see the bigger fashion houses turning away from using stars in their campaigns even if it is to the super models of the last decade. Now Linda Evangelista has been given the tap, and will be the face of Prada’s Fall(Autumn)-Winter 2008/2009 campaign. The campaign will be shot by Steven Miesel, quite exciting if you consider the last time they worked together…

Fashion isn’t always supposed to be comfortable or practical, especially when it comes from the catwalks of Milan, Paris and London. Big hats, amazing props and tight slinky designs have all been common ways to push the fashion boundaries into new and interesting trends. However there is a fine line between a fashion parade made for the purpose of selling clothes and one designed to…

Dolce and Gabanna led Milan’s men’s fashion week with the reinvention of the space aged suit. Abrasive golds and sharp silvers were the common feature colours which presented themselves throughout the show. There was no dispute about the entertainment value of the designs with jaw dropping creations stunning audiences, however were the designs impractical and if so, why dress models in clothing that the normal…