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Herms iPhone Case

The title of our new BAZAAR.com shopping column nods to the storied editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland and her wildly popular series that simply asked, "Why don't you?" DV queried such over-the-top activities as washing your children's hair in champagne (like they do in France) and decorating every room in your home in a different shade of green—no matter how long it takes. Though the times may have changed, the notion that every life calls for a little unabashed luxury (whatever that means to you) most certainly has not.

Herms Opened a New York Flagship Store on Madison Avenue

Picture this meet-cute: You're walking down the street when your tote bag somehow snaps in half. An Hermès store manager rushes in out of nowhere, picks up the contents of your purse, and replaces it with a red Hermès Mini Kelly bag. It sounds like the plot of a movie, but in fact, it was the plot of a musical extravaganza that took place—for one night only!—at the new Hermès flagship at 706 Madison Avenue, to celebrate the store’s opening.

Highlights from the autumn/winter 2023 shows

Andreas Kronthaler presented an emotional tribute to his late wife with a collection that was entirely inspired by her life's work, and Westwood's granddaughter, Cora Corré, closed the show, dressed in a bridal look. In his show notes, Kronthaler addressed Westwood: "In everything we will show, I thought of you and where you came from, from the North of England. The 'masturbation skirt', do you remember? From a long time ago.

How Supermodels First Got Discovered

Long before walking the biggest shows at fashion week, Kloss walked a charity fashion show in her Missouri hometown. Then, at the age of 15, she made her New York Fashion Week debut on Calvin Klein's runway. "I was discovered at 13 in a mall in St. Louis. I had never been on an airplane, actually." she told CBS in 2015. Since, Kloss has walked every major runway in New York, London, Milan, and Paris—along with starring in campaigns for brands like Oscar de la Renta, Versace, and Diane von Furstenberg.

How to disrupt the beauty industry

“It’s humbling building a start-up,” says Gina Farran, “because everything you think you know gets destroyed in the first month!” Farran is talking about her whirlwind journey over the past two years co-founding Glaize, a new beauty brand that produces made-to-measure stick-on gel nails for at-home manicures (customers send in photographs of their hands and receive a laser-cut sheet of peel-off gel nails, tailored to their size and in the colour of their choice).