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Tuesday, Jan 6
What Michelle Obama Should Wear To The Inauguration
Today, Style.com ran sketches for Michelle Obama's inaugural wardrobe by designers Derek Lam, Vena Cava, Doo.Ri and more Fashion Fund winners. Which means: more styles for everyone to choose from! Michelle Obama: What Should She Wear? [WWD] Runway to Change [Style.com]
Model Sues Google After Random Blogger Calls Her "Old Hag"
Kanye West might be releasing a Louis Vuitton sneaker. We wish he'd stop being so lamely mysterious. [The Life Files] Monique Lhuillier and Naeem Khan are the latest designers to jump on the non-runway-show Fashion Week bandwagon. Cause who wants to be the insensitive designer throwing a s...
Monday, Nov 10
Little Edie Beale: The Ultimate Recessionista
You know, we've talked a lot about the difference between 'fashion' — that remote art form that most of us admire from afar — and style. What we wear. A couple of years ago, Little Edie Beale, the eccentric poor relation of Jackie Kennedy immortalized in Grey Gardens, was discovered by Fashio...
Fashion Icon Sarah Jessica Parker Goes On Exhibit
In an apparent attempt to rob the Costume Institute of gravitas, Sarah Jessica Parker will be doing the audio commentary for the Met's latest exhibit. The SATC tour bus frantically adds a stop. [ElleUK] Says the curator, “Walking through the galleries listening to Sarah Jessica Parker’s...
Tuesday, Nov 4
Fashion Designers Continue To Be Full Of Political Opinions
Rihanna's the face of Gucci's new "Tattoo Heart" campaign, which features, um, tattoo hearts on clothes. Some of the proceeds benefit Unicef. [Perez Hilton] The secret of Yves Saint Laurent's success? "He liked women to be beautiful." [Reuters] Wanna see a young female moddle in Lagerfel...
Friday, Oct 24
Why In Hell Does David Arquette Have A Fashion Line?
David Arquette starts fashion line. With Ben Harper. It involves "cuffed trousers cut out of cool chambray, vests accented with bow snaps, minidresses screen-printed with clusters of chubby birds and ruched boyshorts for bikini sets. The palette is intended to be timeless in navy, red, w...
Monday, Sep 8
This Weekend I Weathered A Fashion Hurricane For Rosa, Patricia & Reese
Tracy Reese is one of the few black designers at New York Fashion Week. Sitting in the first seat in the first row — his seat number was A:1:1 — was Andre Leon Talley. Also in the front row: Miss Jay from America's Next Top Model, wearing jeans with elaborately stitched back pockets, CFDA prez Fe...
Thursday, Sep 4
Will Diversity Be In Style During Fashion Week?
Issues Of Race And Ethnicity Follow The Runway During Fashion Week [NY Daily News] Simon Doonan: Lack of Diversity on the Runways Is a Bigger Problem Than Thin Models [NY Mag] Earlier: On The Runways Of Milan, Color Just Wasn't Considered Chic
Andre Leon Talley: Vogue Editor, Style Adviser, Political Surrogate For Obama?
Like everyone in Fashion, Vogue Editor at XL Andre Leon Talley has many opinions, feels they should be heard. "Asked how Americans can still look fabulous despite the recession, Talley said, 'Wear something old that you love' until Election Day. 'Then, vote for Barack Obama, who'll fix th...
Wednesday, Aug 27
Fashion Icon Tara Reid Launches Clothing Line
This is how we want our birthdays celebrated from now on: "Rumor has it (Sonia) Rykiel’s daughter, Nathalie, has asked a host of international designers, including Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan and Jean Paul Gaultier, to design an outfit in the spirit of Rykiel to pay homage to the sweater...
Monday, Aug 18
Size Zero Models Welcome At London Fashion Week
Anyway. After re-evaluating its plan to improve models’ health, the British Fashion Council announced that nobody will have to get a doctor’s certificate to walk the runway. But the BFC would like you to know that some of its proposals are going ahead: under-16s won’t be on the catwalks, an...
Wednesday, Jul 16
Lauren Conrad's Fashion Star Is Fading
Obviously John McCain hasn't kept up with the new arch-unfriendly flip-flop research. His campaign's been handing them out. It's doubtless intended as a cutting pun. [Los Angeles Times] Halston creative director OUT! [WWD] Tim! No need to entice; you had us at "tonight at 10/9 central. Wat...
Thursday, Jul 10
Karl Lagerfeld To Design "Chanel Homes" On "Fashion Island"
John Galliano is launching his first scent. As one would expect, it comes in nifty packaging and will be available in three sizes, a body lotion, shower cream and body scrub. The perfume itself combines rose, lavender, bergamot, violet and amber notes and as is meant to evoke the impression...
Thursday, May 1
Anna Wintour: 1; Rachel Zoe: 0
OMG: Rachel Zoe has been disinvited from the Anna Wintour-hosted Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala, taking place Monday night in New York. This is what you get when you tempt the gods and proclaim yourself more important than Vogue. [Fashion Week Daily]
Friday, Mar 14
Opinion: Nicky Hilton's New Nicholai Collection: American Apparel-esque Horsewomen Of The Apocalypse [Fashion Show]
Nicky Hilton is one of our favorite not-a-fashion-designer-fashion-designers. Because she doesn't even have any real claim to fame other than being Paris' sister. (Even Lauren Conrad talked her way into a lucrative reality TV deal.) Yet the girl keeps on trying, telling herself she actu...
Tuesday, Mar 11
CFDA 2008: Will Marc Jacobs' Bad Behavior Be Rewarded? [Fashion Show]
Womenswear Designer of the Year: Designer: Marc Jacobs Known for: Running late, reviving punk, loving Victoria Beckham and Sponge Bob SquarePants, equally Seen on: Posh, natch. Also: Winona Ryder, Courtney Love, M.I.A., and every starlet under the sun Odds of winning: 2:3 (I mean, the guy...
Tuesday, Feb 12
Opinion: Fashion Falters At Opening of Vanity Fair Celeb Portrait Exhibit
The Bad: English children's TV program host Konnie Huq missed the memo that the rugged boot with dress thing is totally over. Model Erin O'Connor looks bland and not particularly model-like in nautical striping.
Monday, Feb 11
Friendly Stylists! Free Champagne! Our Marxist Model Gives Fashion Week Another Chance... [Modelslips]
Fashion Week is over! But we'd be remiss if we let it slip back into the rosy glow of memory without telling you how it all ended for our anonymous model Tatiana. When last she caught up with us, she was contemplating the overthrow of global capitalism in the wake of a soul-sapping shift workin...
Friday, Feb 1
"You Know, Models Are In, Like, The Five Percent Of People Who Look Like Models"
I fucking wish! I'm in this for the travel and the experience. I grew up poring over mags like The Face and Nylon at the library; how could I not be thrilled to meet designers, and see their collections months before the public? The jobs you hear about are the hundred-grand photo campaigns for...
Tuesday, Sep 4
Fashion Is, Actually, Mostly About Vanity And Consumerism
Fashion Week is here! And with it, the inevitable Fashion Week-pegged crop of even more inevitable stories about the many wondrous aspects of making clothes: The one declaring the "paradigm shift" underway in the way we avoid nakedness this season; the one about how, thanks to modern te...
Thursday, Aug 16
Opinion: 'NY Times' Critic Cathy Horyn Sucker-Punches Vera Wang [Fashion Fight]
NY Times fashion writer Cathy Horyn's hatred of Vera Wang's designs continues apace. As part of her review of the September issue of Vogue, Horyn took the time to slam the print advertisements for the Vera Wang Fall/Winter ready-to-wear collection... a collection she already dissed in prin...
Tuesday, Jun 5
CFDA Awards: The Winners, Losers, And Marc Jacobs [Winners & Losers]
As you probably know by now, "The Oscars of Fashion", also known as the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards, were held last night. What you may not know is that the CFDA ceremony is an extra-special event that the fashion industry's major players spend weeks and weeks obse...
