From Beyoncé’s fashion in the Renaissance world tour to the Paris Fashion Week runways to the Tony’s red carpet, it’s clear that breastplate is in. Actor Lupita Nyong’o attended Sunday’s Tony Awards ceremony wearing a custom one designed and crafted by Pakistani artist Misha Japanwala. The piece, centered around realistic recreations of a person’s body, was full of symbolic significance and power for Nyong’o. “Misha, thank you for this special opportunity to BE EXACTLY HERE, IN THIS BODY NOW.,” the actor wrote on Instagram. The snap felt particularly poignant when one considers that bare nipples (but not recreations of them!) are banned on numerous social media platforms to date. There were plenty of great out and about shots from various posters on vacation, showing off crochet bags and tanks and itty bitty skirts (such as Ice Spice’s denim number). Designer Presley Oldham, the nephew of ’90s fashion stalwart Todd Oldham, showed off a maximalist necklace they recently created. While Romeo Beckham and beau Mia Regan captured their punk all black looks in a mirror selfie.
Though Pharrell Williams’ debut collection as creative director of Louis Vuitton men’s will only come on June 20, yesterday, the multi hyphenate star provided an indelible glimpse at what his tenure will look like through an ad campaign starring Rihanna. In the visual, Rihanna wears a leather trench, decorated in what appears to be a pixelated version of the monogram pattern, and her baby bump is on full display (an ever effective maternity style move for the star). She is a vision of luxury on the go—the starlet carries an array of colorful LV monogram bags on her arms and even a coffee cup featuring a decorated holder sleeve. The fact that Rihanna is starring in the ad campaign for a men’s category exemplifies the growing fluidity in fashion. It is not the first time Louis Vuitton has played with traditional gender lines. In 2016, Jaden Smith appeared in a Louis Vuitton woman’s ad wearing a metal embroidered kilt. In neither case do the stars appear as if they’re wearing clothes meant for someone else or existing outside of the gender binary, but, instead, simply expressing themselves.
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