Meet Marc Jacobs’ New Muse: Transgender Director Lana Wachowski

As the co–writer and director of the Matrix franchise, Lana Wachowski is well known for her film success and, as a transgender woman, as an advocate and ally to the LGBT community. Now, thanks to a new Marc Jacobs campaign, Wachowksi can add “model” to her list. In the image, Wachowski can be seen smiling as she models a plaid top and cardigan designed by Jacobs. “It is a personal diary of people who have and continue to inspire me and open my mind to different ways of seeing and thinking,” Jacobs continued. And Wachowski is first up on Jacobs’ list of inspirations.

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Meet Marc Jacobs’ New Muse: Transgender Director Lana Wachowski

Making a Murderer’s Dean Strang is a fashion icon

The other — for the dreamers, the lovers, the rainbow chasers — is with a renewed sense of hope and belief in goodness, elicited by the stunning performances of Avery's defense lawyers, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting. Both seemed like truly decent, extremely intelligent people — 21st century Atticus Finches with only very slightly updated eyewear. Most of the series' footage is from 2005, but there isn't an item in Strang's wardrobe that was conceivably purchased after 1993.

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Making a Murderer’s Dean Strang is a fashion icon

Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer star in Balmain campaign

Balmain and the house's artistic director Olivier Rousteing have unveiled their Spring/ Summer 2016 campaign on the fashion brand's Instagram account.

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J.W.Anderson drives fashion’s digital overhaul by broadcasting show on gay app Grindr

J.W.Anderson is taking social media use to a whole new level by livestreaming his upcoming catwalk show on the popular gay networking app Grindr. The UK label's Autumn/Winter 2016 menswear runway show will be broadcast from London Collections Men on the app on January 10, where it will run in a loop for 24 hours. The news marks the first time that the all-male lifestyle focused social network, which uses location-based technology to bring together a global community of users in 192 countries, has dipped its toe into the designer fashion sphere.

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