From monojeaning to bone broth: this week’s fashion trends

What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week

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Dogna Gvasalia The world’s hottest designer, Demna Gvasalia of Vetements, has his clothes reimagined for poochwear. God bless you, internet.

La Liste Tunisienne Homeware designed by Laurence Touitou, aka sister of APC founder Jean. Based on the household items the siblings grew up with in Tunisia, there’s handicraft and chic in equal measure. Win win.

Monojeaning On the cover of Needed Me, Rihanna is wearing a pair of jeans as one outfit. Dizzying denim skills. Continue reading...





Published By - Theguardian.com - Sports New, LifeStyle News, Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis: Friday 29 April 2016 12.23 BST

Why is Kim Kardashian famous? You asked Google – here’s the answer

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries

How do you begin to dissect fame like that of Kim Kardashian? Where do you make the first cut in such omnipresence? Because it’s not just about her, the flesh and bones woman, any more. We exist within her vast show, literally and figuratively. Even if you don’t actively choose to follow her movements, she’s there. Inescapable.

We should start with the unavoidable: the sex tape. In the mid-00s Kardashian wasn’t famous like her friends Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton, for whom she was a stylist. Richie and Hilton were catapulted into the public eye with their feckless and fantastic reality show The Simple Life, blasting a tsunami of velour Juicy Couture and Von Dutch trucker caps into society. They giggled and pouted on every red carpet and magazine cover going. But this kind of fame eluded Kardashian, despite her notorious parents and her social life. Until, that is, her sex tape – recorded in 2003 with her then-boyfriend Ray “Ray J” Norwood – was “leaked” into the public domain. Continue... 

Published By - Theguardian.com - Sports New, LifeStyle News, Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis: Wednesday 20 April 2016 08.00 BST