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Oh, Mariah!
When will you learn????
We know your new album bombed and all, but seriously, you can afford a stylist!
The singer showed up to host a night at The Bank nightclub in Vegas' Bellagio HOtel on Saturday night dressed in black from head to toe.
This outfit could have been cute if she had just worn the LBD (little black dress for you straight guys) and NOT the black stockings too.
Don't you agree?????
In exchange for hosting a night at the club, Mimoo filmed her new music video at The Bank on Sunday.
Is she still gonna go through with that tour she promised???
The economy is tough! And, as Janet has shown us, it's tough to sell out arenas these days!
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Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 6:00pm CDT
Adding some celebrity presence to Paris Fashion Week, design enthusiast Natalie Portman was spotted at the Giambattisa Valli Spring/Summer 2009 runway show on Thursday (October 2).
The “My Blueberry Nights” actress sat in the front row with a few pals, sporting a simple-yet-sexy black dress with matching black shoes and a pulled-back hairstyle.
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Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 4:39pm CDT
Enjoying her time at all of the Paris Fashion Week festivities, Emma Watson was spotted attending the Chanel Spring/Summer 2009 runway show earlier today (October 3).
The “Harry Potter” hottie smiled for the paparazzi outside the Grand Palais, looking fit and fine in a space-age-inspired sliver dress with matching jacket, along with a pair of black leggings and strappy black heels.
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1935: Is it back? Economically, maybe, who knows. Fashion-wise? Andre Benjamin certainly believes so fiercely! Andre, a.k.a. Andre 3000 of Outkast, long ago gave up rollin down the strip on Vogues and slammin Cadillac doe's in favor of acting, singing weird songs, and designing fancy menswear under the label "Benjamin Bixby." It features old-style things like breeches and waistcoats and "plus fours," something I could not even identify despite being a stylish man myself. So: is this a mark of progress, or something to scoff at? Take a look!:
Despite the fact that his clothing line is perhaps not for me—and perhaps something that would cause me to make jokes were I to spy it on the street, offending as it is to my traditional small-mindedness—there's no denying that Andre is a guy with an actual claim to being an artist, whereas just about every other celebrity designer just has a claim to being a narcissist. So good for him!
Later, to create a persona for his fashion line, Mr. Benjamin combined his surname with that of Bill Bixby. The character is a world traveler whose wardrobe includes things like a $995 cotton corduroy blazer, a $350 felted waistcoat and a $95 newsboy cap. At Barneys, those clothes now hang next to lines like Double RL and Engineered Garments, which have a similar bent of Depression Chic.
God it just sounds so ridiculous.
You think it looks good on the models, ladies? Wait till your boyfriend puts it on. It will be awful.
So, boo hoo, he made some crazy clothes. It's hardly Southernplayalistic. But it's an improvement over Sean John. This clothing line is just like Andre's music: he was great at standard, normal hip hop. Then he got bored with it and started making crazy shit. I liked the early stuff better, but the new stuff is still miles above whatever Puffy might turn out. Creativity is painful. The only thing worse is no creativity.
We still don't encourage anyone to actually wear this. [NYT]
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1935: Is it back? Economically, maybe, who knows. Fashion-wise? Andre Benjamin certainly believes so fiercely! Andre, a.k.a. Andre 3000 of Outkast, long ago gave up rollin down the strip on Vogues and slammin Cadillac doe's in favor of acting, singing weird songs, and designing fancy menswear under the label "Benjamin Bixby." It features old-style things like breeches and waistcoats and "plus fours," something I could not even identify despite being a stylish man myself. So: is this a mark of progress, or something to scoff at? Take a look!:
Despite the fact that his clothing line is perhaps not for me—and perhaps something that would cause me to make jokes were I to spy it on the street, offending as it is to my traditional small-mindedness—there's no denying that Andre is a guy with an actual claim to being an artist, whereas just about every other celebrity designer just has a claim to being a narcissist. So good for him!
Later, to create a persona for his fashion line, Mr. Benjamin combined his surname with that of Bill Bixby. The character is a world traveler whose wardrobe includes things like a $995 cotton corduroy blazer, a $350 felted waistcoat and a $95 newsboy cap. At Barneys, those clothes now hang next to lines like Double RL and Engineered Garments, which have a similar bent of Depression Chic.
God it just sounds so ridiculous.
You think it looks good on the models, ladies? Wait till your boyfriend puts it on. It will be awful.
So, boo hoo, he made some crazy clothes. It's hardly Southernplayalistic. But it's an improvement over Sean John. This clothing line is just like Andre's music: he was great at standard, normal hip hop. Then he got bored with it and started making crazy shit. I liked the early stuff better, but the new stuff is still miles above whatever Puffy might turn out. Creativity is painful. The only thing worse is no creativity.
We still don't encourage anyone to actually wear this. [NYT]
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Nicole Richie has been working with Mouawad to create a unique, affordable jewelry line inspired by the 60s & 70s era and it’s about to make it’s debut.
The collection is said to target teenage girls to women in their 30s who admire the fashion plate’s style.
Prices range from $30 to $150.
The pieces are made from fabric, leather, silk strings, chains, rivets, feathers and gold plated metals.
The collection hits Kitson stores in November & on ShopKitson.com.
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We're not expecting many Americans to participate in the pricey auction, as our economy will probably be even more in the shitter come auction time.
But, the new news that recently deceased fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent's art collection goes up for sale early next year must have made the rich Arab oil-sheiks, Chinese business titans and Russian oligarchs giddy.
An art dealer told the media that the legendary French designer needed art "like water to survive".
Over the course of 40-years Monsieur Saint Laurent amassed hundreds of fine art pieces.
Works by big name artists like Picasso, Matisse and Goya had a place in his collection.
In fact, one of his Picassos, Instruments de Musique sur un Guéridon, should fetch $56 million!!!!
His partner of over 40-years, Pierre Bergé, said that every single piece in the collection will be sold. Berge said the decision to sell all the items had been taken before the designer succumbed to brain cancer in June. According to a report, Berge revealed that only when the last object had passed under the hammer would this signify the end. He also drew a comparison with divorce, saying "even when these objects are gone, they won't leave me".
Berge also said some of the proceeds will go towards the fight against AIDS.
Kudos to that!
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Victoria and David Beckham (photo right) were at Macy’s department store in New York looking fabulous as they launch their new his ‘n’ hers perfumes. But the former Spice Girl has revealed a less glamorous side to herself. According to the UK’s Sun, Victoria who famously claims to sleep in the nude, must be quite an odd sight then wearing socks and mittens in bed as part of her beauty regime.
Posh covers her hands and feet with moisturizing cream every night and then she puts on white cotton gloves and thick socks to keep her extremities baby soft, leaving David, baffled. Posh says:
“David must think I’m loony, because I get into bed with gloves and socks on,” she says. “I put really thick foot lotion on with socks before I go to sleep. I also use thick hand cream with gloves at the same time.”
Well we admire the devotion (sort of)? Posh has also admitted to being obsessed with her eyebrows. She’s always brushing them and careful not to overpluck! I guess it’s tougher then it looks being so glamorous.
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Posted: September 29th, 2008, 7:15pm CDT
Paris Fashion Week certainly draws spectators from all over the spectrum. And Katy Perry was spotted enjoying the week’s festivities in the City of Lights earlier today (September 29).
Joined by her boyfriend, Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy, the “I Kissed a Girl” songstress happily posed for the paparazzi, sporting a white strapless flowery knee-length dress with lavender heels.
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Posted: September 29th, 2008, 6:47pm CDT
When she isn’t busying herself with her starring role in the massively popular “Harry Potter” movie series, Emma Watson enjoys checking out some high fashion.
And the paparazzi caught up with her earlier today as she checked out the Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2009 show in Paris, France as part of Paris Fashion Week.
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Watch those nose jobs, (rich) fashionistas!
We 'fear' there'll be lots of Park Avenue/Hollywood red carpet face plant stories heading our way in the spring.
Next season's shoes are sky high!
The latest pair of shoes to commanded attention popped up at the Christian Dior show in Paris on Monday.
What do you think?
We've named them the babymomma shoe.
Doesn't the heel look like a pagan fertility god idol?
[Image via Getty Images.]
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Sacha Baron Cohen, alternatively more famously known as Ali G and Borat, was arrested in Milan after crashing the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada show at Fashion Week in Milan. Dressed in a velcro suit, and almost unrecognizable as one of his characters, Bruno, a fashion designer he’s currently filming a movie around, Cohen got half way down the catwalk before they shut the lights down on him.
“Bruno’s” black velcro suit was covered in various articles of clothing, including a jacket, a dress, a handbag and a boot, and he wore what looked like a large black sheet as a cloak as he walked the catwalk, passing legitimate models on the way down. A man who appeared to be amused at first tried to grab him, but a model in a yellow dress wasn’t phazed by the intrusion and just kept doing her job, walking back down the catwalk, and blocking the guy from keeping his grip on Sacha.
After the comedian was removed, he covered his head in one of the pieces velcroed to him, wrapped his black cape around him and Milan police took him down to the station.
Dressed in a velcro suit he was bundled away by security guards and taken to a nearby police station where he was formally identified.
A police officer at Milan Sempione police station said: ‘A British national by the name of Sacha Baron Cohen was brought here and identified.
‘He did not have any ID documents on him so someone was sent to his hotel when he got here to fetch his passport.
‘He was actually very funny and the first thing he said was ‘Can I make a phone call’ like they do on TV.’
Cohen was released without charge and was last night still thought to be in Milan.
[From the Daily Mail]
Security at Fashion Week had been increased especially for Cohen after earlier in the week he and his film crew found their way backstage of another show by Italian designer Iceberg.
Scantily clad models screamed and security guards dived on him and several others with him and bundled them away. TV footage screened on Italian TV showed Cohen dressed as his creation Bruno, a flamboyant Austrian fashionista.
[From the Huffington Post]
Sacha Baron Cohen is in Milan filming his next mocumentary style movie Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male. I must admit, I have a thing for Cohen, so I’ll be seeing the movie, but the ridiculously long movie title was only funny the first time. And even then only the first time I heard it.
Note by JayBird: Here’s Sacha on the catwalk. He doesn’t get very far before security pounces on him.
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Who looks like she’s channeling Paula Abdul circa 1989 in this straight-up monstrous outfit?
It’s Sandra Bullock!
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Posted: September 24th, 2008, 8:54pm CDT
Following a short promotional trip to London, Rihanna has made her way to Milan, Italy to keep an eye on the latest fashions during Milan Fashion Week.
At the Gucci Spring/Summer 2009 show on Wednesday (September 24), the “Take A Bow” hitmaker looked oh-so-sexy in a cute black mini dress held up by a black studded leather collar paired with knee-high boots and matching black nail polish.
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have all but recently abandoned their Wal-Mart partnerships to focus on their own upscale collections.
Well, it looks like their hoity-toity designs will be available to mall rats soon!
As you fashionistas know, items from the Olsens' fashion lines, The Row and Elizabeth + James, are very pricey and only carried at 'fancy' places.
Well, according to a new report, the twins are teaming up with mall staple Steve Madden on shoes for their Elizabeth+James line.
We're assuming that the shoes will be sold at Steve Madden locations, so the shoes will be pricier than your average Madden shoe but not super dooper boutique-store pricey.
Are U excited about this new development?
[Image via WENN.]
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Patchouliriffic!
Juliette Lewis hit the catwalk in this flower power-inspired outfit by Miss Bikini in Milan, Italy on Saturday.
Jules is a rocker, actress and model!
Busy bee!
Work the runway, sweetie.
Make LOVE to the catwalk!
We like her like this and we like her all sweaty and grunge!
[Image via Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images.]
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Rumer Willis debuted a much-improved look on the red carpet for the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood party last night. She’s let her hair grow out a bit to a more flattering length and was wearing it in a style that fit her face better. She was also sporting a new tattoo that says, “Be Present,” in a pretty script. Rumer’s always had a killer body, but she managed to accent it with just the right dress so it really stood out. All in all she pulled off her look really well.
Rumer Willis is famous for her fashion disasters, but the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore finally got it right at the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood party where she turned heads in a barely there black dress which showed off her new toned figure.
The revealing outfit also revealed a tattoo which reads ‘be present’.
Rumer was also sporting a new red hair colour at the event in Los Angeles County Museum of Art and her slender frame.
[From the Daily Mail]
I really love the Daily Mail’s quickly put together stories. That last sentence makes it sound like the event was held at the Museum of Art and in her slender frame. They also originally wrote her tattoo said “Be Prepared.” Because nothing says “cool tattoo” like a Boy Scout motto.
It seems like Rumer’s growing into herself and learning what works for her and what doesn’t. We all have our body issues to deal with, and it can take some time and adjustments to figure out how to conceal or complement them. Rumer’s had to do that in front of the cameras. Luckily it looks like she’s finding a style that works for her.
Here’s Rumer at the 6th Annual Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party last night. Images thanks to WENN (Photographer Jody Cortes) and Images thanks to Fame.
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Australian Supermodel Elle Macpherson, 44, topped the poll of 3,000 women carried out by British high street store Debenhams.
Elle who is 6 feet tall and nicknamed ‘The Body’, graced the covers of all the major fashion magazines including six cover appearances on Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue. She is also a very successful as a business woman with her own fragrance and lingerie line and according to Forbes, she is worth around $120 million.
Cindy Crawford, 42, who became the first modern supermodel to pose nude for Playboy magazine was voted second, followed in third by iconic 58-year-old British star, Twiggy - who shot to fame in the ’60s and was one of the original supermodels.
Twiggy was kind of the exception to the supermodel popularity contest. A Debenhams’ spokeswoman said:
“Women prefer curvier figures. They go for girls like Elle and Cindy. Most of the original supermodels feature in the top 10 which illustrates just how iconic their figures are.”
Others in the top ten (heavily weighed with British models) include Kate Moss at number seven and Liz Hurley who came in at ninth place.
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Posted: September 18th, 2008, 2:48pm CDT
She’s been having a ball checking out all that there is to offer at London Fashion Week. And last night, Mischa Barton even took some time to help out a charity.
The “Oh in Ohio” hottie was spotted attending the Fashion For Relief fundraiser, held at the BFC tent at the Natural History Museum in downtown London.
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Posted: September 17th, 2008, 4:00pm CDT
Most people know her as the spell-casting redhead from the Harry Potter movies, but Emma Watson is a bona fide fashionista!
And she was spotted checking out all of the latest lines from the world’s top designers at London Fashion Week while looking quite sexy herself.
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Posted: September 15th, 2008, 7:47pm CDT
She’s well-known for her fashion enthusiasm and earlier today Mischa Barton was spotted living it up at the Temperley London fashion show at Phillips de Pury & Company as part of London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2009.
The “Assassination of a High School President” hottie looked smokin’ in a fringed-out black cardigan overtop a black and beige plunging neckline venetian blind-style dress teamed with black platform peep-toe heels.
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Posted: September 15th, 2008, 6:58pm CDT
Not only is she a chart-topping songstress with countless sold-out shows under her belt - Avril Lavigne is also a funky fun clothing designer!
And yesterday (September 14) she was spotted at a fashion show in Harajuku, Tokyo, showing off the latest looks of her fresh young clothing line Abbey Dawn.
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Gwen Stefani is one of the few celebrities out there who hasn’t just slapped her name on a brand of clothing and claimed credit for it. First off, Stefani is actually an integral part of the designing of the clothes for her well-respected L.A.M.B. fashion line. And second of all – she obviously didn’t name it after herself. Paris Hilton, you hear that?
L.A.M.B. is branching out, according to Women’s Wear Daily. The uber-trendy clothing line is going to design the uniforms for W Hotel’s female bar staff.
Gwen Stefani is adding a new initial to her L.A.M.B. empire. The smokin’ songstress has hooked up with W Hotels to design uniforms for the posh chain’s female bar staff.
Ladies toiling away in the hotels’ Living Room lounges across the country will suit up in L.A.M.B.’s wash-and-wear black jersey minidresses—with diagonal stitch detailing and a fitted, ’80s-chic vibe—starting in December or early next year, per WWD.com.
“I wanted to design a super cute dress that I would be excited to have in my own closet and approached it in the same way I think about my clothing for a tour,” Stefani said.
“We’ve designed a sexy and comfortable outfit for these women to wear out on their own stage every night.” Stefani’s style aesthetic should go smashingly with the Michael Kors-designed separates sported by other W Hotel employees.
[From E! News]
People has copies of the sketches of the dresses. They look good, but like they’re not very forgiving. Though I’m guessing the help at the W lounges probably serve as eye candy anyway, so they can probably already pull it off.
This isn’t the first time a celebrity has designed uniforms, in case you’re sitting there scratching your head. Katherine Heigl designed a line of scrubs for Peaches Uniforms creatively called the “Katherine Heigl Collection.” I don’t think they’re big promotional push of trendy scrubs (i.e. slightly less ugly than before) worked well – they’re not listed on the brand’s website anymore.
Something tells me Katherine had a lot less to do with scrub designs than Gwen and L.A.M.B. did with the W’s dresses. They definitely look very hip, but like they’re not quite basic enough to last as long as you might want your employee’s uniforms to go. The 80s look is big right now, but they could look pretty dated within a year. But that probably just means more work for Gwen.
Here’s Gwen going to a doctor’s appointment at Cedars Sinai on September 4th. Images thanks to Fame.
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This has got to be our favoritest picture of the week!!!!
Danity Kane's breakout star, A-lister Aubrey O'Day, works what her momma gave her at the Nico & Adrian's fashion show in New York City on Thursday night.
Such style and sophistication!
She's a role model to young girls everywhere!!!!
[Image by Vinnet Bradshaw via Genius Hates Company.]
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Love it or hate it????
Designer Andreas Melbostad showed his Spring 2009 Phi collection in New York on Thursday.
MC Hammer style harem pants were part of his offerings.
Will you rock harem pants come spring?!
[Image by Bebeto Matthews via AP Photo.]
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Danity Kane's Aubrey O' Day was snapped with her furry friend at the Reem Acra 2009 Spring Collection show NYC on Thursday.
Her doggie looks miserable!
We wouldn't want to be seen with her either.
O'Day's sequined getup is horrific!
It's so baton major crossed with a little clown.
The dog's tutu is kinda cute, though.
[Image via AP.]
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Several celebs were in attendance at the Calvin Klein show during NY Fashion Week.
And, while there, many of them were photographed and praised.
When Tyra Banks left after the show, she exited to screams of "We love you, Tyra! New York loves you!"
Even some nearby construction workers joined in, showing their love for Miz Banks.
However, not everyone received the same fawning treatment, such as Rachel Zoe.
When Raisinface left the show, one photog yelled at her, "EAT A SANDWICH!"
A few minutes later, his paparazzi friend ran up and said, "I told her she's horrible! That she's a terrible role model for women! Ha-ha!"
And when they asked him how Zoe responded, he laughed and said, "She threatened to call the cops and then took off running!"
Poor Zoe.
But seriously - you tried to fix your face, now fix your body.
Eat something!
[Image via WENN.]
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No really, I checked with Jezebel editor Anna Holmes, seriously no one cares this year. I even checked with the anonymous comments left on New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn's blog; this is like the most irrelevant-feeling Fashion Week since the terrorists got involved. Why? Well I thought of five good reasons! This guy (pictured) is your first clue…
Marc Jacobs is the only designer anyone cares about and, even though his collection was sort of cool this year, his collection has always been sort of a loss-leader funded by his insane diva behavior and that behavior mostly stopped this year. Last September Marc Jacobs started his 9 p.m. show two and a half hours late and everyone had a hissy fit about it, which in turn caused Marc Jacobs to have a hissy fit over how he was an "artist" and people should not be thinking about quotidian details such as whether their dogs had been fed. Then he dyed his hair blue, went insane and maybe also to rehab. Anyway, that is as good as it gets, in fashion. (That should tell you something.) But he is sane this year. It's all about the clothes, and no one really cares about clothes!
Everyone who isn't Russian is poor. Times Thursday Styles regular Stephanie Rosenbloom has a story about the nation's thrift stores. This is hugely significant for two reasons: 1. It is actually a story, and last year around this time Stephanie Rosenbloom was writing about horseback riding in the Hampton's, but it turns out she has been hiding out in the Business section lately, getting down to proverbial business. 2. The story is that the demand for other people's cast-off ill-advised purchases has exceeded the nation's supply of ill-advised purchases.
Cindy McCain is the new Victoria Beckham. Example: last week Us Weekly decreed Michelle Obama to have hands-down better style than Cindy McCain. This week the selfsame magazine has a whole feature on Cindy's supposed "makeover" and how pretty she suddenly supposedly looks! And that is not even to mention the matter of Sarah Palin's disappearing-reappearing beehive, and Michelle Obama's Thakoon dress and the cool shirt pictured above, which we found on Philebrity. Political fashion icons are the new celebrity fashion icons, and that is bad for the industry because unlike worthless celebrities who are allowed to change outfits as fast as they can spill tequila and Sparks on the ones they were wearing, politicians, at least when they are not wearing $300,000 dresses, have to pretend they understand the realities of working-class Americans busy raiding thrift stores/insurgent safe houses.
The must-have item this year is the jumpsuit. Perhaps you heard about the school in Texas that recently decreed that all kids who chose to violate dress code requirements by rolling up their skirts or whatever would risk being forced to don prison jumpsuits for the remainder of the school day. Now, there is always going to be that one group of totally cool high schoolers who make the prison jumpsuits into some sort of "subversive" fashion statement, but bottom line is that high schoolers would not be incurring dress code violations if they did not want to show off their skinny high schooler legs etc. etc. and those high schoolers grow into the adults who consume fashion. So this gives me pause:
Yet designers are willing to risk everything on a gut feeling. The trend-forecasters, fabric mills and color experts can offer all the advice in the world. It's still little more than a crapshoot when a designer says: Jumpsuits! A lot of them have been saying that over the past few days. Apparently that's what we're all supposed to want come spring. And if Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler are right, we'll want jumpsuits to be silver and sparkly and worn with just a frisson of dominatrix attitude.
Lydia Hearst got hospitalized… And the affliction is kidney stones? Is there even a drug you can get those from?
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Cityfile compiled a booklet of Faces at Fashion Week and posted it online so people like you could have your own glamorous little liquid crystal menagerie to admire right at your very own venue of indentured servitude. Look, Carine Roitfeld! The Ronsons! Andre Leon Talley and Kelly Cutrone and two separate Hearsts! And the most startling realization upon clicking and resetting text size enough to read the goddamn thing…
- Fuck, I know who like, all of these people are. So do a lot of you, I bet. And I don't even buy clothes, or think about clothes, or watch reality TV. How the fuck did that happen?
- Oh yeah, there was that time and that time and that and that. Oh yeah and that.
- This sort of calls to mind the time I asked my friend, who covered the fast food industry for the Wall Street Journal, why McDonald's didn't accept credit cards. She said industry conventional wisdom had long held that people didn't want to be reminded once a month of the massive quantities of grade C beef and high fructose chicken lips they'd consumed that month. Now I sort of see why.
- Okay, I didn't know Muffie Potter Anston or Anna Anisimova. Yay. So who are they, you ask? Well, Muffie is the wife of some plastic surgeon and Anna is the "daughter of a Russian billionaire" who doesn't have "much of a career to speak of." Huh. Well, I am sure they have rich inner lives in any case!
- You'll note that McDonald's locations everywhere accept credit cards now. Maybe people know better than to open their statements.
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Posted: September 9th, 2008, 6:03pm CDT
Ever since her rise to fame on “The Hills,” Lauren Conrad has been making a name for herself as a fashion designer as well. And last night, she enjoyed a warm welcome at the first-ever Style Week Orange County.
LC showed up at the Irvine Spectrum Center for the unveiling of her new holiday collection and over 2500 (including family and former neighbors) screaming fans cheered wildly in approval.
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Perhaps coming close to overshadowing the launch of her first fashion collection, Victoria Beckham has unveiled a striking new short hairstyle. Looks pretty fierce we think.
Victoria debuted her new cut at New York Fashion Week, where she was in the front row with new pal Jennifer Lopez for Marc Jacob’s catwalk show.
The dark, brunette Fifties-style cut reminds a bit of Halle Berry’s look. Celebrity hairstylist Garren of New York is said to be the man responsible for the new look.
Earlier in the day the former Spice Girl launched her first fashion collection at the fashion extravaganza to a handpicked selection of glossy fashion magazine editors.
Posh said of her new career: “I was never going to be the world’s best singer, but I hope I can be a good designer.”
The collection appears to be a hit with: “Beautiful”, “desirable” and “classy” among the words bandied about.
Top boutiques and department stores have already begun competing over the right to sell the first collection of dresses with “Victoria Beckham” in the label when it hits stores in February.
With only 400 dresses being made in the first season, the range looks destined to be a sellout, even with retail prices starting at $1300.
The 10 dresses are all immediately recognizable as signature Victoria Beckham. They are figure-hugging, cut to maximize curves, although with a modest below-the-knee hemline and come in sizes six to 14.
Couture-type fabrics - organza, silk gazar, taffeta - and restrained shades of black, navy, oyster and ivory (with one shot of electric blue) are offset by full-length rose gold zips running from the nape of the neck to the back of the knee.
The high standard of the collection prompted many to question whether Posh, who has no design training, could take credit for their creation.
The influence of Roland Mouret, whose dresses Beckham often wears, is very visible in the collection, but Victoria said yesterday that she designed the entire collection with no assistance from anyone.
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