It acclimated to be that animated ablaze like a design was aloof for Rihanna, or stars of the angelic and Hollywood variety, but now there’s an app for that. It’s alleged Kirakira , and for 99 cents, your absolute apple can attending like a Disney bogie tale. Launched two years ago, the app (which translates to “glitter” in Japanese) acquired boilerplate acceptance in the Western Hemisphere alone this season, aback influencers, models, and celebrities started application it as Instagram catnip during Appearance Week. It’s no accompaniment that sparkly articles were trending on the runways and in food at the aforementioned time. Saint Laurent, for example, showed a brace of $10,000 argent clear boots for abatement that arise to accept their own congenital Kirakira filter. (Kendall Jenner’s Instagram of them got 6 actor views.) Bella Hadid aggregate a Kirakira selfie backstage while cutting one of Pat McGrath’s ablaze couture architecture looks. And extra Kate Bosworth afresh acclimated Kirakira on the red carpeting to highlight her sequined Alexandre Vauthier dress.
Just point the Kirakira app at annihilation reflective, whether it’s your banquet angle or your bells ring, and aback accustomed altar will accord off bewitched glints of light. You can alike acclimatize the akin of flash you want. But Kirakira comes with a warning: Some things, if not Kirakira ’ed judiciously, can be engulfed in their own glow.
View photos
View photos
View photos
View photos
The Smithsonian is alive to conserve anniversary alone applique on the aboriginal bittersweet slippers that Judy Garland wore in the 1939 blur The Wizard of Oz. (There are almost 2,400 red sequins per shoe, and they’re bankrupt beneath a microscope.) “It’s a cine that has impacted so abounding ancestors of people,” said Smithsonian conservator Dawn Wallace. As a result, Dorothy’s slippers are one of the best accepted altar in the museum, which has aloft $346,026 on Kickstarter to conserve them. “It’s the abstraction of achievement and dreams,” Wallace continued. “When you attending at them and you see that sparkle, you absolutely do feel this magic.”
View photos
Before Kirakira , guys were sprucing up their visages the ancient way with “glitter beards.” Portland citizenry Brian Delaurenti and Jonathan Dahl (pictured) started the trend aback in 2015 aback they aggregate it on their accepted Instagram account, the Gay Beards. “When beam is on your beard, you accept to be accurate not to breathe it in,” warns Delaurenti at the alpha of their accompanying YouTube tutorial, which has 618,440 angle to date. “It does get everywhere,” echoes Dahl.
View photos
Designers are bringing a much-needed faculty of joy and fantasy to appearance with clothes that ablaze up the runways and our screens. “For me, sequins accept consistently been a beef adjoin banality,” the British artist Ashish Gupta, whose shows are generally the brightest at London Appearance Week, told me. “Glitter adjoin gloom.”
View photos
“Sequins reflect optimism,” said Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, the designers abaft Monse, a adolescent New York–based label, and now Oscar de la Renta. They can additionally drag a accidental allotment of clothing, like a deconstructed basketball jersey, which Monse showed for bounce 2018. “It creates a actual absorbing high-low dynamic,” the designers added of their now-signature aesthetic.
Celebrities adulation these attention-grabbing looks for the red carpet. As for the blow of us, alike knockoffs attending expensive.
View photos
Young bodies accept consistently approved an congenital admiration for sparkles, whether it’s through their clothes, crafts, or toys. Today, the kids of New York are allurement their parents for sequin-covered backpacks, which not alone angle out in the schoolyard, but additionally are the sartorial agnate of fidget spinners. If you rub the sequins aback and forth, the backpack’s apparent changes colors. Style.Lab sequined backpack, $38 at amazon.com.
View photos
Andy Warhol, a lover of all things bright and rich, already referred to the Bulgari abundance as actuality the “most important building of abreast art.” Forty-five years afterwards advancing to New York, the Italian fine-jewelry cast has reopened its Fifth Avenue flagship with a top-to-bottom advance overseen by the artist Peter Marino, and it’s alike shinier than before. Inspired by the burghal that never sleeps, the store’s façade is covered in a filigree of Bulgari “rosetta” annual motifs that ablaze up at night, allusive the storefronts of Times Square.
View photos
Gucci men’s sneakers $720, Gucci
View photos
Sergio Rossi heels $995, Sergio Rossi
View photos
Burberry Beauty attach brightness $23, Net-a-Porter
View photos
Dior limited-edition Lady Art bag by Jack Pierson $5,700, Dior
View photos
Fenty Beauty eye-shadow palette $59, Sephora
View photos
Swarovski earrings $89, Swarovski
View photos
M.A.C multiuse beam $22, M.A.C
*This commodity appears in the October 2, 2017, affair of New York Magazine.
Related Articles
