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2 months ago | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish
In 1973, WWD gave its readers the heads up on what was to come. A bevy of fresh faces were taking over the runway. They were just the change fashion needed: the Black model had arrived. Icons from the ’70s to the ’80s continuing to grace the runway. Then, as now, the Black model movement on the runway remains a powerful and unapologetic celebration of belonging and beauty. WWD has covered the runway for over 115 years with succinct coverage of the evolution of the runway.
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2 months ago | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish |Cynthia Erivo |Glenn Close
Gia Carangi is celebrated as one of fashion’s first “supermodels.” Her rapid rise to fame and untimely death from AIDS at the age of 26 in 1982 have cemented her legendary status in the fashion world. Gia, as she was known, was discovered at a nightclub in Philadelphia, her birthplace. She arrived in New York City in the late 1970s, just as fashion, music, art and the nightlife, epitomized by the opening of Studio 54, were at the heart of the city’s vibrant culture.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish
Avant Garde matriarch Michele Lamy’s aesthetic has created legions of fans. From her beginnings as a sportswear designer and performer in Los Angeles to fashion figure in Paris, where alongside her husband and design partner Rick Owens she continues to evolved her distinct personal brand. Here, a look at the avant-garde icon’s style evolution.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish
Combining style and royal duties was never a challenge for Princess Caroline of Monaco. She had her mother, Grace Kelly, to thank for that. From her earliest days, her baptism dress made the pages of WWD in 1957 to wearing Pucci and her devotion to Dior and Marc Bohan. Bohan designed for Grace Kelly and created two of Caroline’s three wedding ensembles. Caroline became a fixture on the international party scene just as ’70s glam style became fashionable.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish
There are many iconic shoes in fashion’s timeline, but none like Roger Vivier’s “Belle Vivier” pump. Classic, elegant and edgy, “Belle Vivier” made its debut in Yves Saint Laurent’s 1965 Mondrian collection. The shoe, specially designed for the now-historic collection, would come to transcend the “Mod” decade.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish
Christian Dior’s vision for the house he founded in 1946 is firmly embedded in the DNA of the iconic fashion brand. One could not imagine a mention of the couturier without his eponymous signature “New Look” inclusive of the “Bar”, “Corelle” and “Rein” silhouettes that reignited French fashion and sent the fashion press into a frenzy. The debut, in illustrated detail, headlined the March 13, 1947, issue of Women’s Wear Daily.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish |Sharon Stone
Model and fashion icon Lauren Hutton exudes style, but that didn’t happen overnight. Hutton was the quintessential model-muse for young women in the late 1960s. Taking off her makeup and wearing comfortable clothes. Rejecting the mode of the time — an aesthetic she declares was all her own doing. “Real style you can develop for yourself,” she told WWD in an interview published on Jan. 1, 1997. The conversation then is quite similar to today’s fashion conversation.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish |Kerry Washington |Nicole Kidman
American model Lauren Hutton has swooned the media since her career began in the 1960s. WWD coined her a “realgirl” for her unfiltered, natural looks in 1966, just at the start of her modeling career. Her simple, yet elegant style, honest persona and signature gap-toothed smile, liberated a new generation of women. By the age of 29, she was the models’ model.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish
Marchesa is known for its timeless elegance and glamour. Since its founding in 2004, designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig have continually created winning red carpet looks. The name and ultra-feminine aesthetic of the brand is inspired by European eccentric and style icon Marchesa Luisa Casati. Today, the brand is solely owned by Georgina Chapman, who continues to craft exquisitely feminine eveningwear, bridalwear and dresses in luxe fabrics and details for any event.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
wwd.com | Tonya Blazio-Licorish
Simon Doonan’s life-size celebrity caricatures defined now-defunct Barneys New York holiday window displays beginning in the 1990s. As creative director for one of New York’s chicest shopping spots, he transformed traditional holiday windows into contemporary exhibitions during his two-decade reign at the famous retailer. WWD coined him the “diminutive doyen of display” for his playful look at celebrity that critiqued and mirrored Nouveau Society of the time.
