On Your Bike

It could go wrong really quickly. Bike shorts, a controversial relative to leggings, were unmissable on the spring runways. But it wasn’t just black spandex; designers jazzed up the shorts with prints, bold color, elaborate embroidery and unique fabrications to amp up the appeal, or create the potential for more fashion disasters.
“From a commercial standpoint, we’ve really seen the bike short popularize this past year with the immense saturation of streetwear. If winter’s cozy was the hoodie and the track pant, summer’s iteration is that oversize T-shirt with the body-con bike short underneath,” said Marian Park, youth fashion editor at trend forecasting company WGSN.
It’s not a new trend — nothing ever is. Princess Diana sported the shorts regularly in the Nineties with casual crewnecks, as did Madonna to more glam effect in the Eighties. A comb through the WWD archives revealed references to the skintight item as “bodywear.” Virgil Abloh even name-checked Princess Diana as a muse for his spring 2018 Off-White collection, and celebrities — i.e. Kim Kardashian in Yeezy — and influencers have also taken the trend to the streets.
RELATED: To see a brief history of celebs in shorts, click here. 
And now designers argue for more sophisticated styling approach,

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It’s New Year’s Eve — and, for many, party time! Along with the conundrum of what actually to do to welcome in 2019, there is the problem of what to wear (unless, that is, you are staying home and vegging out on the couch). For suggestions, WWD pulled together some recent standout festive looks in New York and Paris, like this Ralph & Russo couture gown worn by Elizabeth S. Louis last month at the annual Paris debutante ball Le Bal.
For more festive looks, click through the gallery.

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Take a journey through the year’s best spirits, from truffle-infused vodka to whiskies aged in rare woods.

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Queen Elizabeth II has handed honors to a clutch of names in the arts and fashion worlds as part of her New Year’s Honors List 2019. Honorees will receive their awards at Buckingham Palace at various times over the next few months.
Christopher Bailey is among this year’s honorees. Bailey, who served as Burberry’s president and chief creative officer until last March, and who had previously been chief executive officer, will receive a CBE, or Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his work at the British brand.
This is Bailey’s second royal accolade: He already holds an MBE, or Master of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, which he received in 2009.
Twiggy has also been recognized by the British monarch. The model and Andy Warhol muse whose pixie cut defined the fashion of the Sixties, will be named Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

TWIGGY LEAVING LONDON AIRPORT FOR NEW YORK WHERE SHE WILL DO PHOTOGRAPHIC MODELLING – 20 MARCH, 1967
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Daphne Selfe, Britain’s oldest working model at 90 years old, is being honored for creating opportunities for older women in the modeling industry. She will receive a

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MILAN – Count Umberto Marzotto, heir of the Marzotto textile family, died Friday at age 92, in Lugano, Switzerland. The cause of death was a degenerative illness.
Funerals will be held on Jan. 3 in the Duomo of Valdagno, the Italian town in the Veneto region where the Marzotto company is headquartered.
The son of Gaetano Marzotto Jr., the entrepreneur and philanthropist who built the family-owned company into an international and giant textile and fashion powerhouse in the 1900s,  Umberto Marzotto is survived by his second wife, Gemma Gerolimetto, and his four children Matteo, Paola, Vittorio Emanuele and Diamante. Their sister Annalisa died in 1989 after battling cystic fibrosis.
This is the latest death in the Marzotto family, following that of Umberto’s brother Pietro, a former chairman and chief executive officer of the group, last April, and of his first wife Marta, in 2016. His brother Giannino, a former Marzotto chairman, died in 2012.
Umberto Marzotto was a longtime former president of the publicly listed Zignago SpA, a glass maker based in Portrogruaro, in the Veneto region, and part of Zignago Holding, consisting of a diversified portfolio ranging from the production of wine to real estate assets. He was also a member of the Marzotto

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