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Vogue
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Louis Shengtao Chen Resort 2026 Collection
Louis Shengtao Chen was crowned the winner of the 2024 edition of the Vogue China Fashion Fund last October. Since, he's taken a step back to, as they say, get all his ducks in a row. He stepped away from the runway for spring 2025, and put together a lookbook (and a very good collection at that). He skipped the fall 2025 season altogether, and now he's back to launch his first-ever pre-collection, a two-punch effort to expand his commercial footprint and gear up for the spring 2026 season and his return to the runway. Chen said that this collection is a sort of 'part one' to the main event coming in the fall. If that's the case, he put together a rather appetizing amuse-bouche: semi-sheer tailored coats in powdery pastel colors, cutesy floral separates with funky but cool askew seams and cascading ruffles, and a couple of fabulous multi-layered pencil skirts and slips with full godets that make them as flattering as they are weird. Ditto a couple of balloon-hemmed skirts and trousers, its top layers sheer and the under ones cut in white for a vintage-y x-ray look. In some, he's even encapsulated strings of pearls within. Chen cuts a mean dress; the clear evidence seen in prim and proper embroidered tea-length ball gowns and skirts or sinuously cut sheaths. The novelty this season is tailoring, a category Chen has somewhat explored in the past but never wholly committed to. Here he's made elongated waistcoats, some proper office trousers, and a great single-button blazer. Chen has been a particularly interesting designer to follow since his debut. His exuberant style and often explosive, mind-boggling silhouettes have made him a darling of the Shanghai Fashion Week scene, but it often left his followers wondering which parts of his world they'd actually be able to buy into. This past year has clearly afforded him a newfound maturity—he's kept his delightfully bizarro signature style but found ways of making it commercially viable. These are cool, fun clothes. Should he make the jump to Paris during the upcoming ready-to-wear season, as he's previously hinted, he should make sure to continue down this path.
Daily Mirror
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Brooklyn Beckham's modest net worth from minimum wage to hot sauce hopes
Brooklyn Beckham, 26, is no stranger to the odd business venture or two. Over the years, he's tried his hand at cooking, photography and even ventured into the hot sauce business in a bid to increase his net worth Despite his parents boasting an impressive net worth of £500million, Brooklyn Beckham is thought to have been told to find his own means of making money in a planned out strategy by David and Victoria Beckham to ensure their children understand the " importance of money". In a fresh swipe to the Beckhams, Nicola Peltz's family are said to be "frustrated" with the couple for apparently not contributing to their son's expensive lifestyle in California. Brooklyn, 26, has been embroiled in an alleged feud with his parents since his wedding to Nicola in 2022, with tensions escalating further last month when they failed to show up for David's 50th birthday party. Insiders accused the Beckhams of being "tight", with claims the billionaire Peltz family pay for most of the couple's lifestyle - including their £11million Los Angeles mansion. But the Beckhams have a very different approach to raising their children, instilling the "importance of money" in them from a young age, with Brooklyn taking on numerous jobs in recent years. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Brooklyn's net worth is thought to be around £7.9millon - a stark contrast to his wife Nicola whose is thought to be around £39million. Here, we take a look back at some of the jobs Brooklyn has had over the years - from being on minimum wage to venturing into the hot sauce industry. Barista Article continues below When Brooklyn Beckham reached the age of 15, he took up a job as a barista in a Kensington coffee shop, earning a humble £2.68 per hour. Due to his age at the time, he couldn't work more than seven hours on a Saturday and was given an hour's break after four hours. At the time, fans were impressed with Brooklyn's part time job, with one writing: "Good on Brooklyn Beckham who's got himself a job in a coffee shop at 15 when he could just lay back in a life of luxury." But a source close to the family claimed it was Victoria and David who encouraged the youngster to take on the role, hoping to teach him the importance of earning money through "hard work". It's not clear how long he worked as a barista, but it was thought to be a summer job in 2014. Modelling Thanks to his famous last name, Brooklyn earned his first modelling gig at just 15-years-old. He has since appeared in major publications such as Vogue China, Interview, New York Times Style Magazine, Dazed Korea and L'Uomo Vogue. He's also served as a brand ambassador for giants like Huawei's Honor line and Superdry, reportedly earning a £1million campaign deal in 2021. Photography Arguably one of his more notorious career choices was his pursuit of photography in 2016. Brooklyn secured a high-profile placement with a top photographer for a Burberry BRIT campaign. His hiring caused a lot of backlash in the industry, with prominent photographer Chris Floyd called Burberry's decision to employ Beckham a "devaluation of photography" and "sheer nepotism". But it seemed Brooklyn had a passion for photography, announcing in 2017 that he would be pursuing a photography degree at Parsons School of Design in New York. His first book of photography, titled What I See, received a lot of critique when it was published in June 2017. Social media users were quick to comment on the "terrible photographs and even worse captions". Random House defended the book at the time, insisting its target audience was his teenage fan base. In 2019, Brooklyn interned for British photographer Rankin, who has photographed the likes of Queen Elizabeth II and Kate Moss. But he quit his degree a year in, and decided his pursuit of photography was not meant to be. Cooking During the pandemic, Brooklyn found his passion for cooking, leading to his 2021 online series Cookin' With Brooklyn which received more criticism after it was revealed it took 62 professionals to create each episode, at a reported cost of £74,000. Brooklyn had no training or experience with cooking, but said it was a passion. But it seems he's kept up his hobby, still posting occasional recipes online. He recently told People that his love language is cooking, and that he will "try and cook every night" for her. "I love cooking my wife stuff," Brooklyn said recently, adding that Nicola likes to help in the kitchen on occasion and cook by his side. Hot sauce Brooklyn announced the launch of his new hot sauce brand Cloud23, available exclusively at Whole Foods shops in the UK, back in October. Cloud 23, named after the No.23 jersey his father wore at Real Madrid and LA Galaxy, comes in two variants - Sweet Jalapeno and Hot Habanero. The sauces are on the pricier side, retailing for £14.99, and sales figure from the venture have not been released.
CNN
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
In the world of Hodakova, fashion is found in spoons, belts and briefcases
Cate Blanchett has never worn so much silver. Not in the sense of glitzy sequins or hand-applied crystals (par for the course on the red carpet) but the kind of sterling normally found in one's cutlery drawer. Last April, Blanchett appeared in Vogue China wearing a corset made out of two antique silver platters. With her hair bobbed and blown-out at the ends, she looked like a 1950s Joan of Arc — the ornate serving dishes folded around her torso like rudimentary body armour. That same summer, Blanchett made headlines when she arrived at an LA red carpet in a halter-neck top fashioned out of 102 vintage silver spoons. Before the year came to a close, the cereal utensil was repurposed once more: at the Toronto Film Festival in September, they were used as a peek-a-boo detail, hemming the black blazer that Blanchett wore like a metallic fringe. This fusion of tableware-turned-couture was the work of Ellen Hodakova Larsson, a Swedish designer and the founder of four-year-old independent Stockholm-based brand Hodakova. And it's not just the kitchen that Larsson finds inspiring. So far, she has made dresses out of leather briefcases, baguette bags out of belt buckles, and clutch purses from equestrian riding boots. Her treasure trove of household items are largely donated from stores and businesses across Sweden. 'We do collaborations with different companies that provide us with materials they're overstocking,' she told CNN. Speaking after her Paris Fashion Week show on Thursday, where Larsson presented clothing transformed from guitar strings and other musical instruments, she explained: 'It always starts with an intuitive mood, being open-eyed. If something speaks to you and you feel it, I just follow the intuition and trust the process.' Born during the pandemic, Hodakova has a distinct celebrity client roster that reads as a who's who of Hollywood's most sartorially daring — from Tilda Swinton, Greta Lee and Lady Gaga to Emma Corrin, Saoirse Ronan and Julia Fox. Larsson's avant-garde approach to upcycling also won her the prestigious 2024 LVMH Prize, which included €400,000 and a year's worth of mentorship with the luxury conglomerates' executives. 'It's the first time we have seen a project about sustainability that has numbers, that she (Hodakova) sells,' LVMH judge and Dior's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri told Vogue at the time. 'We want to recognize these important results.' The term 'upcycling' — first coined in 1994 by German engineer Reiner Pliz — has been a familiar part of environmental conversations for the last 30 years. But Larssons' interpretation feels fresh. She designs exclusively with discarded items, almost never starting from scratch, since her raw materials already tend to be fully formed items: ribbon rosettes, ballpoint pens, watch faces or paper envelopes. 'You put something in a different room, use it in a different way, it affects how you see something,' said Larsson, who repurposes objects without altering their original shape. In Hodakova's world, anything can become luxurious — even the mundane. 'I'm hoping to change the perspective of (these items),' said Larsson. Growing up in the Swedish countryside on a horse farm, Larsson's family home had a make and mend attitude. They grew their own food and chopped their own wood, while Larsson's mother fashioned clothes out of fabric scraps for her and her brother. A new garment wasn't bought, but created with some handy reworking. It's this resourcefulness that threads together the Hodakova universe. Hodakova's most individual items — such as a dress made from a wax jacket turned inside out, worn by Saorsie Ronan to the recent New York screening of 'The Outrun' — can only be bought directly from the label's website, where it notes that the garments are made 'on-demand' in roughly 3 weeks and may 'vary slightly.' Meanwhile, more commercially wearable pieces can be purchased off the rail at one of Larsson's 24 global stockists, which include Dover Street Market and Ssense. In Larsson's latest collection, trousers were the garment du jour; they were reimagined as floor-length gowns, double-breasted coats with peter-pan collars and even nun wimples. Each trouser waistband, whether it had found new purpose as a coat sleeve or a dress neckline, still came complete with a belt. 'I love trousers,' said Larsson by way of explanation. There were also bulbous fur coats made out of a patchwork of jettisoned pelt hats, Medusa-style dresses decorated with belts springing outwards like serpents (causing some models to stumble), and jackets repurposed from leather pants. Amid a global luxury downturn where several shoppers have tightened their purse strings, many designers have opted to prioritize commercial viability. But seemingly not Larsson, who dressed a model in nothing more than the shell of a wooden cello for the final look in her show. Does she not feel the pressure to sell wearable styles to hit margins? 'You can't do what everyone else is doing,' said Larsson, explaining that it was more important to act with 'a good purpose.' 'If you stick to that purpose, it's not a problem,' she said. 'You find solutions.'
CNN
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
In the world of Hodakova, fashion is found in spoons, belts and briefcases
Cate Blanchett has never worn so much silver. Not in the sense of glitzy sequins or hand-applied crystals (par for the course on the red carpet) but the kind of sterling normally found in one's cutlery drawer. Last April, Blanchett appeared in Vogue China wearing a corset made out of two antique silver platters. With her hair bobbed and blown-out at the ends, she looked like a 1950s Joan of Arc — the ornate serving dishes folded around her torso like rudimentary body armour. That same summer, Blanchett made headlines when she arrived at an LA red carpet in a halter-neck top fashioned out of 102 vintage silver spoons. Before the year came to a close, the cereal utensil was repurposed once more: at the Toronto Film Festival in September, they were used as a peek-a-boo detail, hemming the black blazer that Blanchett wore like a metallic fringe. This fusion of tableware-turned-couture was the work of Ellen Hodakova Larsson, a Swedish designer and the founder of four-year-old independent Stockholm-based brand Hodakova. And it's not just the kitchen that Larsson finds inspiring. So far, she has made dresses out of leather briefcases, baguette bags out of belt buckles, and clutch purses from equestrian riding boots. Her treasure trove of household items are largely donated from stores and businesses across Sweden. 'We do collaborations with different companies that provide us with materials they're overstocking,' she told CNN. Speaking after her Paris Fashion Week show on Thursday, where Larsson presented clothing transformed from guitar strings and other musical instruments, she explained: 'It always starts with an intuitive mood, being open-eyed. If something speaks to you and you feel it, I just follow the intuition and trust the process.' Born during the pandemic, Hodakova has a distinct celebrity client roster that reads as a who's who of Hollywood's most sartorially daring — from Tilda Swinton, Greta Lee and Lady Gaga to Emma Corrin, Saoirse Ronan and Julia Fox. Larsson's avant-garde approach to upcycling also won her the prestigious 2024 LVMH Prize, which included €400,000 and a year's worth of mentorship with the luxury conglomerates' executives. 'It's the first time we have seen a project about sustainability that has numbers, that she (Hodakova) sells,' LVMH judge and Dior's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri told Vogue at the time. 'We want to recognize these important results.' The term 'upcycling' — first coined in 1994 by German engineer Reiner Pliz — has been a familiar part of environmental conversations for the last 30 years. But Larssons' interpretation feels fresh. She designs exclusively with discarded items, almost never starting from scratch, since her raw materials already tend to be fully formed items: ribbon rosettes, ballpoint pens, watch faces or paper envelopes. 'You put something in a different room, use it in a different way, it affects how you see something,' said Larsson, who repurposes objects without altering their original shape. In Hodakova's world, anything can become luxurious — even the mundane. 'I'm hoping to change the perspective of (these items),' said Larsson. Growing up in the Swedish countryside on a horse farm, Larsson's family home had a make and mend attitude. They grew their own food and chopped their own wood, while Larsson's mother fashioned clothes out of fabric scraps for her and her brother. A new garment wasn't bought, but created with some handy reworking. It's this resourcefulness that threads together the Hodakova universe. Hodakova's most individual items — such as a dress made from a wax jacket turned inside out, worn by Saorsie Ronan to the recent New York screening of 'The Outrun' — can only be bought directly from the label's website, where it notes that the garments are made 'on-demand' in roughly 3 weeks and may 'vary slightly.' Meanwhile, more commercially wearable pieces can be purchased off the rail at one of Larsson's 24 global stockists, which include Dover Street Market and Ssense. In Larsson's latest collection, trousers were the garment du jour; they were reimagined as floor-length gowns, double-breasted coats with peter-pan collars and even nun wimples. Each trouser waistband, whether it had found new purpose as a coat sleeve or a dress neckline, still came complete with a belt. 'I love trousers,' said Larsson by way of explanation. There were also bulbous fur coats made out of a patchwork of jettisoned pelt hats, Medusa-style dresses decorated with belts springing outwards like serpents (causing some models to stumble), and jackets repurposed from leather pants. Amid a global luxury downturn where several shoppers have tightened their purse strings, many designers have opted to prioritize commercial viability. But seemingly not Larsson, who dressed a model in nothing more than the shell of a wooden cello for the final look in her show. Does she not feel the pressure to sell wearable styles to hit margins? 'You can't do what everyone else is doing,' said Larsson, explaining that it was more important to act with 'a good purpose.' 'If you stick to that purpose, it's not a problem,' she said. 'You find solutions.'
