Peter Nygard, the founder of one of Canada's largest clothing brands, was sentenced Monday to 11 years in prison for four counts of sexual assault of women and a girl in Toronto. He could be released in about six and a half years with credit for time spent in pre-trial custody, or sooner if he is granted parole. Nygard, 83, is "a Canadian...
Sep 10, 2024
A handful of new sexual assault allegations against Guess’ co-founder Paul Marciano have come to light after a dramatic press conference that saw some of the accusers speak on the case. Represented by attorney Lisa Bloom, the four models, one revealed to be Amanda Rodriguez, each spoke at the conference about their personal experiences with...
Mar 18, 2022
After keeping silent for years, more than a dozen women hope their harrowing testimonies will spur prosecutors to pursue a pillar of the French fashion industry, accused of abusing young models with widely known impunity over dozens of years. "It's haunted me for 20 years," Lisa Brinkworth, a former BBC journalist, told AFP of her encounter with...
Sep 6, 2021
New York-based designer Alexander Wang is facing allegations of sexual assault against male models. On Monday industry watchdog Diet Prada posted a series of Instagram Stories called “Wangover,” which sees multiple models and individuals come forward to accuse Wang of harassment, ranging from being groped to being drugged. British model Owen...
Dec 31, 2020
American model Gigi Hadid appeared as a potential juror in disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein's rape and sexual assault trial on Monday, adding a fresh celebrity twist to the high-profile proceedings. Hadid, 24, raised her hand in the New York state court when Judge James Burke asked the dozens appearing for jury selection whether any of...
Jan 14, 2020
Donna Karan failed her draping class at Parsons, didn’t get accepted at WWD for an illustration job, says the last thing she wanted to do was fashion, and was fired from her first job at Anne Klein. With all these early knockbacks, the fact that she proceeded to become one of the foremost female designers in the global fashion industry of the...
Oct 10, 2019
The Harvey Weinstein case has triggered a social movement that has barely wavered in the past two years after the scandal broke in late 2017. The constant flow of damning testimonies presented by the media and on social networks is concrete proof of the movement’s strength. These testimonies, we must note, are allegations. Right now, they come...
Aug 19, 2019
French designer Julien Fournie hailed witches as proto-feminist trailblazers who sent shivers through the patriarchy as he staged his Paris haute couture show in a church on Tuesday. The flamboyant couturier who believes that women should learn to love their curves, and knows how to make the best of them, sent out a run of models of all ages and...
Jul 3, 2019
In this episode of “The Models,” a new three-part Vogue docuseries which sheds light on the realities of life in front of the camera, several of fashion’s most successful stars open up about the complicated power dynamics at play at every level of the modeling industry in the age of #MeToo. Source: Vogue, YouTube.
Apr 17, 2019
Fourteen top French lingerie labels staged a huge rock concert cum fashion show Sunday in the city which invented sexy underwear. The musical extravaganza in Paris called "Lingerie Rocks" set out to show that in the era of #MeToo lingerie "was about making women feel good about themselves". Creations by five rising young designers were also...
Jan 21, 2019
"We haven't yet found a better way of selling knickers than a beautiful bottom," says Sarah Stagliano, one of a new breed of French lingerie designers grappling with how to make exciting underwear in the age of #MeToo. With G-strings and push-up bras losing their allure as ultra sexiness gives ways to comfort, and the whole idea of seduction...
Jan 17, 2019
It's only three words on a T-shirt or embroidered on a denim jacket in Palestinian designer Yasmeen Mjalli's collection, but they carry a powerful message: "Not your habibti", or darling. She sees the clothes as helping empower Palestinian women facing unwelcome male attention in public. "When a woman is exposed to so much harassment on the...
Jan 15, 2019
