Trends & Subcultures

Fashion photographer Kevin Tachman was backstage at the Giambattista Valli show for Farfetch at this year's Paris Couture show.

From blush pink sneakers that started a million love affairs with streetwear style to pairs of hot pink strappy sandals that have become a perennial summer shoe savior.

No modern interior look is complete without a stack of beautiful books to arrange on your coffee table. We pick 6 of the best Assouline art, fashion and food books to own and adorn your coffee table with.

While men wearing womenswear hasn’t quite taken off yet, women have long been showing us how to wear the mannish trend.

Since fashion designer and activist Katharine Hamnett emblazoned tops with the era-encapsulating phrase "CHOOSE LIFE" in the '80s, famous faces and couturiers alike have celebrated graphic tees, using them to send explicit messages or inject their collections with a flash of color.

Tribal clothing demonstrates one of the most inspiring aspects of fashion: the ways in which designers can draw on and reinterpret cultural influence.

Warm weather brings a major influx of get-togethers and day trips, so ideas for summer outfits (and cold brew) are in high demand.

Prairie chic is back, but to pull off today’s version of the trend you have to rethink the romantic fashion you envisioned yourself wearing as a young girl.

Skaters have long been part of a closely guarded subculture notorious for its distaste for outsiders, but the surge of the skate clothing trend has changed that – at least a little.

Pastel fashion is building momentum. Though the palette has been periodically popular for centuries (it was used in tandem with Rococo opulence) a particularly interesting uptick in the pastels trend began on runways in 2012.

At the beginning of the 19th century, post-revolutionary France swelled with newly impoverished artists, poets, philosophers, musicians and travelers. No longer sustained by the patronage of their former upper-class clientele, bands of free thinkers chose to embrace a lifestyle outside of traditional French society.

The Fall 2016 runways were awash in embellished bags, feeding into the trends for decadence and Baroque glamour. From photo-real images to nature-inspired patterns, the embellished clutch and evening bags appeared in collections in myriad forms for Fall 2016.

Things that come to mind when you hear the word “classic”: a little black dress, pumps, a crisp button-down shirt, and black and white. The monochrome fashion trend has proved its longevity, but that hasn’t stopped designers coming up with new ways to make it feel fresh.

The leopard print fashion trend is nothing new. It has swirled around fashion crowds since the 1920’s, but incarnations of the print have changed with every generation who wears it.

Teenagers have come a long way in almost every way since the ‘80s and ‘90s. With more access to information than ever, teen clique style is no longer mandated by what teenagers see at school or on TV.

We’ve long equated tiaras with royalty. We were made to believe that only a handful of women in the world were born with the right stuff to pull off the real deal.

Fashion week is a big deal, but only the finest haute couture designers ever get to show their most intricate and beautiful designs on the couture runways.

When Andy Warhol printed a soup can on a paper dress in the 1960s, Andy Warhol fashion was born, and it has been prominent on runways ever since.