Is Celebrity Fashion Criticism Dead? Melissa Rivers Has an Answer

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Fashion

Melissa Rivers Defends Red Carpet Show Amid New Confrontation Claims

Melissa Rivers has recalled an unnamed actress confronting her over a Fashion Police critique, while defending the programme's blunt focus on celebrity fashion rather than personal character.

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Shopping

Can We Hate the Ad but Still Love the Shoes? Karina's Converse Sneakers Deserve a Closer Look

Converse got Karina's controversial campaign image wrong, but did it get the shoes right? Meet the Chuck 70 X and chunky Run Star Crush.

Runway

From Snack Packaging to Sunsets on Mars Couture: FJU Talents Celebrates 10 Years of Taiwanese Fashion at London Fashion Week

FJU Talents celebrates 10 years at London Fashion Week as Taiwanese designers turn Mars sunsets, snack packaging, and parasitised snails into fashion

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Beauty

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Fashion

'Using Black Pain for Marketing Is Grotesque': Converse Ad Revives Fashion's Long History of Racist Imagery

Converse has apologised and withdrawn a Chuck 70 X campaign image featuring aespa's Karina after viewers compared its composition with a Ku Klux Klan hood and lynching imagery.

Fashion Debate

Do you miss the era of celebrity fashion criticism?

Melissa Rivers' comments revive the debate over whether traditional celebrity fashion criticism still belongs in today's social-media-driven fashion world.