Kevin LeBlanc

1 week ago | nylon.com | Kevin LeBlanc

The summer party circuit is here — are you ready? We certainly are, after announcing our Fourth of July plans and readying ourselves to brave the muggy city heat and make the best of open-toe-shoe weather. The city was drenched in rain this week, but that didn’t stop partygoers from sipping on coconut water and pretending they’re ten toes deep in the sand. Below, dispatches from Los Angeles and several bars below 14th Street that brought the energy, raincoats be damned.

1 week ago | nylon.com | Kevin LeBlanc

Each summer, we chart a course through swimwear, like pointing out how swim bottoms were getting bigger last summer and providing a how-to guide for bikini styling courtesy of our favorite social-media follows. This year, though, we’re taking the path less traveled towards beachwear nirvana and eschewing larger trends.

1 week ago | nylon.com | Kevin LeBlanc

The precipice of summer promises some warmer weather to test our favorite summertime trends, but the weather simply hasn’t cooperated. Fashion doesn’t care, though, and is steaming full-throttle into new territory with delectable candy-colored bags and new dresses just in time to shove into your overweight carry-on. There’s also another piece in the designer-appointment puzzle being shifted, plus some campaigns and album-cover shoots worth a closer look.

1 week ago | nylon.com | Kevin LeBlanc

As the wife in one of the most talked-about marriages in the public eye, Hailey Bieber knows how to block out the noise. She also knows how to have a good time — and dress for it. Fresh off the news of her beauty brand Rhode’s $1 billion acquisition by e.l.f. Beauty, Bieber showed us how billionaires dress, stepping out in a classy, billion-dollar-leg-flattering little black dress.

1 week ago | nylon.com | Kevin LeBlanc

One of the first real tastes of summer style we get comes from Cannes, where stars step out in their freshly steamed ready-to-wear and display the fashion you’ll need to know about for the rest of the season. Case in point: Rihanna went shopping for diamonds (resisting a pun here) and wore a black Khaite dress with a shift silhouette comfortable enough to obscure baby bump number three — and made the argument for a fringe-filled vacation wardrobe.