We are excited for this Special Week of Talented Designers and Creatives!
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Spring BFWMN we are showcasing the talent of 30 Designers here in the Twin Cities! You Don’t want to miss it. Join us and show support of our local talent. In addition to our 30 Designers, we have a few National names to add to the list as well. There are 10 Designers on the Paisley Park Fashion Show which we will be introduced. Let’s get to the rest of the week: 5/13 Fashion Influence Mixer Location TBA networking event with a splash of fashion and a mini fashion show with @jummyscorner; 5/14 Fashion on the Rooftop Location @mn_african_american_heritage_; Join Us on the Rooftop again for a Amazing Fashion Show featuring @nsod_@energygear and a Special Guest!; 5/15 Closet of Grace Fashion Show Stay Tuned for details; 5/19 Black Girl Magic Fashion Show with the W Minneapolis Hotel one of our Signature Shows, featuring @kendollray@aert.fashion@gabriella_kalema_designs.
And, you don’t want to miss this! The 5/20 Finale Black Man Magic Fashion Show Mercedes Benz St. Paul featuring @renaissance.access@cotyclothingco and a very Special Guest TBA.
The Official Sponsor for BFWMN is @morriesauto. We are Celebrating our 5 Year Anniversary! Kick Off the week with us @officialpaisleypark. This will be an Epic Show!
Vogue: The Met Gala 2022 theme is “In America: An Anthology of Fashion.” Based on a two-part exhibit from the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this second installation by Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, centers on the tenets of American style and prizes the anonymous and unsung heroes of US design.
Since the opening of part one, “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” in September 2021, visitors have taken to writing the museum with new ideas of words to add to the lexicon. “They’re really engaging with the concept for the exhibition, which is this sort of new language for American fashion. That’s been really exciting,” says Bolton, and the second part, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” has the potential to draw even more feedback from visitors.
Presented across 13 of the American period rooms in the museum, the exhibition “provides a historical context for Lexicon, in a way,” says Bolton. Whereas “Lexicon” offers an expansive look, “Anthology” gets specific, delving into the usually overlooked backbone of American style. “The stories really reflect the evolution of American style, but they also explore the work of individual tailors, dress-makers, and designers,” says Bolton. “What’s exciting for me is that some of the names will be very familiar to students of fashion like Charles James, Halston, and Oscar de la Renta, but a lot of the other names really have been forgotten, overlooked or relegated into the footnotes of fashion history. So one of the main intentions of the exhibition is to spotlight the talents and contributions of these individuals, and many of them are women.”
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The full list of names affirms Bolton’s hunch, with some you know and some you certainly do not: Bill Blass, Marguery Bolhagen, Brooks Brothers, Stephen Burrows, Fannie Criss Payne, Josephine H. Egan, Franziska Noll Gross, Anne Klein, Lloyd “Kiva” New… Six additional “case studies” as Bolton calls them, mostly by anonymous makers, will be presented as a way to inspire a deeper connection with artistry and craft via a single object.
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The designers included largely came from “research that we’ve been doing in our own collection archives,” says Bolton. “We’ve been exploring untold stories and focusing on designers who have been almost written out of fashion history because they weren’t commercially successful or they had a short career span, but at the time had a big impact on American fashion.”
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Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, 1818–19, John Vanderlyn (American, 1775–1852), 1818–19; Gift of the Senate House Association, Kingston, N.Y., 1952 (52.184).
Helping bring the exhibition to life are eight directors, who will create vignettes to accompany each period room’s theme. Janicza Bravo will take on the Rococo Revival Parlor and Gothic Revival Library; Sofia Coppola is paired with the McKim, Mead and White Stair Hall, and Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room; Julie Dash will be in the Greek Revival Parlor and Renaissance Revival Room; Tom Ford is in the gallery showcasing John Vanderlyn’s panoramic 1819 mural of Versailles that will touch on fashion’s own Battle of Versailles; Regina King will design the vignette in the 19th-century parlor from Richmond, Virginia; Martin Scorsese is coupled with a 20th-century living room designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; Autumn de Wilde is with the Baltimore and Benkard Rooms; and Chloé Zhao will create a work based on a Shaker Retiring Room from the 1830s. “Working with the film directors and seeing what they do with our narrative is very exciting,” says Bolton. “I feel like an executive producer, or a script supervisor. Maybe a costume designer.
“Creating cinematic displays inside the Greek Revival Parlor and the Renaissance Revival Room for the exhibition is a challenge and an excellent opportunity to work with Andrew Bolton and the Met curators as we dive headfirst down into strange and wonderfully intimate conversations with the fashion icons Mdm. Eta Hentz and Ann Lowe,” says Julie Dash of her vignette for the exhibition.
The in situ installations and inclusion of the short films is just the latest in Bolton’s reimagining of what a fashion exhibition can look like. “I’ve been thinking about this for a while: How do we shift the paradigm of fashion exhibitions? I think we’ve been very successful working on blockbuster shows in the past. It’s a paradigm that has been adopted by a lot of museums and I’ve been thinking about how we can shift the paradigm,” says the curator. “Among the things I’ve been really, really focusing my energy on are these stories [for “Anthology”], but also I am very much object-based now.”
What does object-based really mean? Since working on this curation, Bolton says he has become obsessed with the idea of the anonymous designer. For decades, anonymous works—those without a specific person accredited, common in the early fashion boom of the 19th century—were less valued by collectors and museums than a garment with a label. “What I’m really interested in is doing these really deep dives and forensic analyses of objects so that we can create a sort of creative profile, even though we’ll never find who the person was.”
Take Eli Russell Linnetz’s quilted blanket worn by A$AP Rocky to the Met Gala. A quilt found in a vintage store and relined by Linnetz became a pop cultural phenomenon when the rapper wore it up the red carpet with Rihanna. The original was made by Mary Ann Beshers (1918-1999). Her great granddaughter, Sarah, recognized the quilt and identified it; months later, Linnetz took a portrait of the family with their famous heirloom. Hundreds of other dressmakers and seamstresses will never be as lucky as Beshers—but with this show, Bolton hopes to retrain eyes and minds to consider the sources of all our garments.
Linnetz’s quilt will also have a starring role in “Lexicon.” By mid-March, Bolton and his team will have refreshed the exhibit with 70 new pieces from over 30 new designers not represented in the original show. Hanifa, Grace Ling, Batsheva, LaQuan Smith, CDLM, Lorod, Barragán, and many more will be added to “Lexicon.” “Anthology” will open on May 7 and the two shows will stay open until September 5.
Refinery29: The thing about hair color is that the “trends” tend to be cyclical and a little boring if you consider that the hair growing out of your head can be bucketed into one of the base categories: black, brown, blonde, red, gray, or white. Still, there are degrees of variation and, of course, colors that fall out of the natural spectrum and come from bleach and hair dye.
What’s fun is that in 2022 the “trends” (as they were) are less about the colors themselves and more about the new techniques, exacting placement, and the way that they speak to the general feeling of the time. Ahead, we break down the top hair-color trends upcoming for 2022. Scroll through and consider your hair and what you want to do with it in the new year.
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Bright Color
If you’re considering going brighter with your color, now’s the time to do it big and go copper, golden peach-tinted, or a periwinkle purple (like Pantone’s 2022 color of the year, Very Peri). According to celebrity hairstylist and Leonor Greyl ambassador Trace Henningsen, the color itself is yours to decide, but brightness is the vibe. “Mood boosting colors will leave you with a vivacious appetite for joy and positivity, instantly giving you strong appeal and inciting feelings of optimism,” she says.
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It doesn’t need to be a salon appointment either; you could try an at-home color kits from IGK or Madison Reed. Or a less-dramatic option: a color-enhancing conditioner from dpHue, Leonor Greyl, or the one from KeraColor that went viral on TikTok.
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Hair Frosting
PHOTO: COURTESY OF GRAHAM NATION
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Hair frosting is like the grown-up version of babylights, where the bleached strands are carefully sprinkled throughout the hair, almost strand by strand (visualize snow falling atop a tree). “Frosting typically uses small, cool-blonde tones to contrast the darker base color,” colorist Stuart Marsh tells R29. “It’s easy to maintain, as it’s designed to blend into your natural hair color.” Stuart says that hair frosting creates a really soft, multidimensional look. “The results can create full layers of color with a detailed finish that never appears ‘overdone.'”
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This visual — Madison Bailey styled by hair pro Graham Nation — is a good example of hair frosting, blonde over brunette. Other celeb examples of the vibe include Halle Berry, Suki Waterhouse, and Dakota Johnson — all hand-colored by Tracey Cunningham.
Refinery29 contributor Maybelle Morgan experienced the new treatment and described the process: “Permanent hair color is applied to the roots, while an ammonia-free gloss is distributed through the mid-lengths to ends using a gradient technique, which brings out different tones in your hair and lends lengths a modern, ombré effect,” she explains. According to L’Oréal, the result is “Seamless, light-reflective color that screams Parisian chic, like adjusting the brightness on a computer screen.”
An evolution of the “money-piece” highlights, hair contouring is all about highlighting the baby hairs that frames the face in a soft and delicate way. “The hair contour is softer than a money piece, it’s not a color block, so it’s there’s lower contrast,” explains hairstylist and colorist Tom Smith. “The benefit is that is lightens the strands around the face and into the hairline, and it lifts the face. ”
The style has already started to take off on TikTok, with the hashtag for #haircontouring amount millions of video tutorials — and it’s easy to see why. Not only does this look frame your face nicely, but it is also fairly low-maintenance as you’re sectioning off only the front pieces of hair. “To achieve this look simply ask your hairstylist for a lift around your face that’s a shade or two lighter than your natural color,” offers Smith, adding: “You’ll be right on trend.”
Here’s 12 ways to style winter’s warmest head piece.
L’OFFICIEL: Typically worn by skiiers, snowboarders, race car drivers, and some safety officials, such as police, in the winter, the balaclava is making its way to the forefront of fashion. With big desginers, such as Rick Owens and Gucci, creating their own versions of the headwear, more and more people are being drawn towards its unique style. It’s almost full face coverage provides a sleek barrier of warmth against the cold winter weather. This trending winter head piece may look daunting to style with your everyday wear, but it’s easier than you think.
The balaclava comes in a variety of different fabrics, which plays a good hand in styling it with different outfits. For chunky wool knit balclavas, try making it with a wool knit sweater and jeans for a cozy winter look. Need something more sleek and sophisticated? Try a cashmere balaclava with a blazer and mini skirt combo to give you a business-casual winter look.
Balaclavas are a simple way to spruce up any plain winter outfit, or a good way to add a bit of warmth to your look. See some of our favorite ways to style this headpiece below.
