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Wednesday, Dec 30
Lindsay's Clothing Line As Tacky As You'd Expect; Carla Bruni Frees French Coke Smugglers
Sketches of Lindsay Lohan's full clothing line were released today, along with the expected wholesale and retail prices of the items. Holy 75-85% markup, Lilo! The Ungaro-dabbling starlet Tweeted her excitement. And yes, kneepad leggings are included. [WWD] Carla Bruni intervened on b...
Monday, Nov 9
Versace In Trouble; Kate Moss Fires Hairstylist
Dana Thomas — author of Deluxe — wrote an excellent feature on the quagmire of the house of Versace. Thomas takes aim at Donatella and Santo Versace's resistance to change and ham-handed business decisions. It's a thrilling read. [Newsweek] "My kids are my best style advisors because they a...
Monday, Nov 2
Lindsay's Racy Leggings Ads; Steve Madden Teams With Mary-Kate & Ashley [Rag Trade]
Here are leaked pictures of Lindsay Lohan's spring campaign for 6126. The images were shot by reality-TV-star photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani. [Gone Hollywood] That was quick: Steve Madden has finalized a deal with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to manufacture shoes and accessori...
Wednesday, Oct 28
Kate Moss Busts Out; Cindy Says She'd Never Make It As A Model Today [Rag Trade]
Pictures of the new Kate Moss Topshop collection are out — and they prominently display the supermodel's breasts, which she just recently up and grew, like she's some kind of experimental woman built by science, or something. [Telegraph] Seeing the Alexander McQueen runway shoes side-...
Wednesday, Oct 21
Victoria's Secret's Diamond Bra, Now With More Diamonds; Eva & Tony Do London Fog
Australian denim brand Ksubi is going to do a lower-priced line with the department store David Jones. And possibly another one with Topshop. [Sassybella]Anhropologie is extending its reach across the Atlantic. Its first European store opens on Friday in London. [WWD]
Wednesday, Oct 7
Katy Perry Loves Muppets; A Hilarious Story Involving Kate Moss, Journey, & A Man In A Thong [Rag Trade]
Katy Perry, like Lady Gaga before her, has succumbed to the charms of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac's fall collection. The singer wore this dress to the label's spring show — which is like wearing the band t-shirt to the concert. [People] Twelve Syrian fashion designers presented 60 looks i...
Wednesday, Sep 30
Buttoned-Up Beauties At Rochas [Fashion Show]
Olivier Theyskens no longer designs for Rochas, but under the direction of Marco Zanini — who has worked for Dolce & Gabbana and Versace — the line continues to be buzzworthy. Zanini's vision? Clothing that's simple, understated and elegant.
Tuesday, Sep 29
Marc Going On Gay Housewives; Designers Unimpressed By Berlusconi
Marc Jacobs is rumored to have signed on to appear on Kept, Logo's gay version of The Real Housewives. An open casting call will be held soon in New York to find other "high-powered (openly gay) playboys." [N.Y. Daily News] The Italian fashion world wasn't pleased with foreign reviews of Milan...
Glamour & Quirkiness At Milan amfAR Gala [Good/bad/ugly]
Janet Jackson, Dita Von Teese, Chanel Iman, Donatella Versace and many more got all dressed up for amfAR's Inaugural Milan Fashion Week Event last night. Gorgeous gowns and elegantly eccentric ensembles abound! Anna Piaggi! Italian fashion writer! Style icon! She of magical spreads f...
Tuesday, Sep 22
How Long Until Fat-Hating Fashion Stylist Invokes "But I Love Beth Ditto" Defense?
The stylist who allegedly walked out on Mark Fast's show says it wasn't because the models were too "fat" - but because they were too fat to walk right! "The walk is very important,'' she explains [Mirror] The stylist in question is reportedly Erika Kurihara, fashion editor at hipper-tha...
Thursday, Sep 17
Emma Conjures Clothes, Versace Tweets, Jackass Kickboxes [Rag Trade]
It has been the most incredible gap-year project," says Emma Watson on her new ethical fashion line. What happened to Habitat for Humanity? [WWD] Quoth the Chanel-clad sorceress: "I wanted to help People Tree produce a younger range because I was excited by the idea of using fashion as a to...
Thursday, Sep 3
Jewel Thief Model Re-Launches Line; Yoko Ono At Fashion Week [Rag Trade]
Nancy Talbot, the woman behind the Talbot's retail chain, has died in Colorado. She was 89. [NYTimes]Donatella Versace tells Out magazine — the October cover of which she graces, with model Paul Sculfor — that "You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive." Which is a point of view...
Thursday, Aug 6
Doonan Jumps To Ed Hardy's Defense; Smell Like Kate Moss For Fall
Barneys' Simon Doonan: "Criticizing Ed Hardy for being cheesy is like saying that Elvis was 'flashy' or that Liberace was 'tacky.' It's a giant case of DUH! Of course it's cheesy! That's the whole point, you doo-doo heads." [NY Observer] "Ed Hardy is fromage-y and hedonistic and naughty an...
Saturday, Aug 1
Jude Law's Bald Spot To Blame For All Of His Troubles; Tim Burton Wants To Scare Your Kids [Dirt Bag]
A source claims that Jude Law, who, as Dodai mentioned yesterday, is currently caught up in another scandal involving a 24-year-old model who is carrying his fourth child, gets into such situations because he's seeking validation about his looks. [DailyMail] "It's actually embarrass...
Wednesday, Jul 15
An 80s-Tastic Christy Turlington Retrospective [In/fashion]
Christy Turlington is, of course, a lot more than a model these days. She quit the industry at the age of 25 to study comparative religion at NYU, and is currently a graduate student in public health at Columbia. Now 40 and a mother of two, Turlington is making a documentary about maternal heal...
Sophie Dahl Gets A Cooking Show; Tilda Swinton To Be Face of Pringle [Rag Trade]
Model turned cookbook author Sophie Dahl is getting her own cooking show on BBC 2. Dahl says her show will cover on the "emotional" side of food. "It's cooking with an anecdotal thread, irreverent, unpredictable and not without flaw." [Sun] Tilda Swinton will be the Spring 2010 face of Pring...
Wednesday, Jul 8
Jackson Family Fashioned In Versace; Kaiser Karl Disses Audrey Tautou
Michael Jackson's entire family — including the kids — reportedly wore Versace to his memorial service yesterday. The singer was a longtime admirer of Gianni Versace's work, and LaToya Jackson contacted Donatella Versace to arrange for the custom outfits. [InStyle] The above would see...
Thursday, Jul 2
New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold [Rag Trade]
Posh and Becks are in an underwear ad, together! David seems to be deep in thought, perhaps pondering the wisdom of letting Armani give him hair that belongs on a Lego newscaster. Narrate Victoria's inner monologue in the comments! [Telegraph] Keira Knightley is still the face of Coco Mad...
Wednesday, Jul 1
Modeling And The Tragedy Of Karen Mulder [Model Behaviors]
Karen Mulder was a blonde 5'10" Dutch teenager who shot to fame after a friend sent in pictures of her to the Elite agency's famous Elite Model Look competition. Within two years, Mulder had given up high school to work full-time for clients like Valentino, Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Yv...
Monday, Jun 29
Michelle Obama Loves Fashion Again; Beckham Brings In New Designers For Denim Line [Rag Trade]
Michelle Obama may have skipped the CFDAs, but she'll celebrate the National Design Awards at the White House on July 24. The winners, chosen by the Smithsonian and including Francisco Costa, will participate in events around Washington. [WWD]
Thursday, Jun 25
Jacko's Sparkly Concert Costume; Anna Read What You Wrote About Her On Facebook [Rag Trade]
Meanwhile at Glastonbury, the band Florence and the Machine had its outfits designed specially by Topshop. [Telegraph] Anna Wintour is said to have instructed Vogue petty officers to create sockpuppet accounts on Facebook to monitor fan page comments about The September Issue. [P6] Bu...
Friday, Jun 19
Fashion Writer Blames "Fascist Industry", "Gay Designerdom" For Womanity's Ills [Nonsense]
His comparison of the supposed project of fashion to "the earlier schemes of Marxists and National Socialists, to create The New Man" is risible in its hyperbole. Lastly, he shares this vision of the fascist designer gays' "New Woman" ideal:
Tuesday, Jun 16
Vogue & The Size Zero Problem [Mag Hag]
Mags: Vogue Running Backwards In High Heels [Girl With A Satchel] Vogue Editor Launches New War On Size-Zero Fashion [Times of London] Fashion Houses Hit Back In Row Over Who's To Blame For 'Size Zero' Models [Guardian] Fashion Heavyweight Bags Thin Models [Daily Telegraph]
Rodarte Wins CFDA; Barack Obama Officially Most Stylish Man [Rag Trade]
Having lost the women's wear prize to the Mulleavy sisters, and the accessories award to Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, Marc Jacobs won only the International Award, which had been pre-announced. The consolation of already having a bunch of CFDAs to his name m...
Wednesday, Jun 10
Kanye Buys Hoodies, Stands Up Agyness; Stella To Design For Gap [Rag Trade]
Last week, Kanye apparently stood up Agyness Deyn. [Mirror] Uh oh. Tim Gunn's Tide commercials were truth-squadded by Consumer Reports, who found that not only was his claim that Tide Total Care doesn't fade clothes after 30 washes untrue, but that another Tide product, Tide 2x Ultra Cold...
Friday, May 29
Versace Sticks With What Works; Two More Labels Fold [Rag Trade]
The economic situation has encouraged a measure of conservatism in fashion, but this is extreme. Versace's Fall 2009 ads with Gisele Bundchen in a jewel-toned dress under strong directional light look exactly like Versace's Spring 2009 ads with Gisele Bundchen in a jewel-toned dress u...
Tuesday, Dec 2
Style Icon, Designer Victoria Beckham Gets Surreal
Notify jeans classifies butts into three categories. [Guanabee]Apparently Katie Holmes is surrounded by a whole gaggle of other moddles for her ballyhooed Miu Miu campaign. [New York] Uniqlo beats the odds, is up 32%. [WWD] This, we like: Kate Moss is teaming up with Liberty to use their cl...
Thursday, Sep 11
Gossip Girl's Nate Archibald For Versace? [Rag Trade]
Is Gossip Girl pretty boy Chace Crawford set to replace McDreamy as the face of Versace? [Perez Hilton] Fashion slang seems to have no regard for a word's actual meaning: "Designer Ashleigh Verrier said her favorite fashion word was "diaphanous" — an adjective characterizing fineness...
Thursday, Jun 19
David Beckham's New Armani Ad: Yes. [Rag Trade]
Night owl Kate Moss launches her second perfume in Berlin. "Moss was actively involved in choosing the fragrance, packaging and name, vetoing options like Enigma and Velvet Night and instead going with Velvet Hour, a name she says invokes dusk, a favorite hour of the day. 'There's that fee...
Wednesday, May 7
It's A Bird! It's A Plane! No, It's Anna Wintour's Dress
The trouble with last night's party at the Met, if I may speak frankly, is that it was a little like being sucked into a sequined wind tunnel. It started with a little breeziness before the superhero displays—Oh, hey, Narciso and Claire! Hi Liya! Alessandra! Isaac! Diane! Tom!—and then, su...
Tuesday, Apr 29
Donatella Versace Expresses Love For Fellow Blondes
Donatella Versace loves Hillary Clinton but thinks she should dress more like Donatella Versace if she wants to nab the presidency. [Vogue UK] But forget politics — where are we, Washington D.C.? — Donatella would much rather meet Martha Stewart. [Fashion Week Daily]
Friday, Apr 11
Pam Anderson & Lauren Conrad, White House Correspondents [Dirt Bag]
Seriously? The White House Correspondents dinner must not be what we think it is, because Pamela Anderson, Lauren Conrad and Perez Hilton (and Donatella Versace) are invited. [ONTD] Lily Allen was kicked out of the men's room at a club in London — and she was with Razorlight singer Johnny B...
Thursday, Apr 10
Donatella Versace At The White House Correspondents Dinner: It Promises To Be A Blow Out!
TIME magazine invited Donatella Versace to the annual White House Correspondents dinner, and she thought the invitations said white lines so she RSVPed. No actually she thought they said "Winehouse" Correspondents dinner. [NY Mag]
Sunday, Feb 24
Patrick Dempsey Welcomes Donatella Versace Into His Family [Rag Trade]
The Herve Leger dress that Victoria Beckham wore to the Marc Jacobs show last season is now on sale at Intermix. Er, maybe not? So many people tried to buy it online that the Intermix website crashed. [Fashionista]Why was this not a challenge on Project Runway this season? Clothing made from...
Tuesday, Dec 11
'W' Cover Model Hilary Swank Rings In New Year By Popping Pills [Rag Trade]
A tipster tells us that this year, Conde Nast staffers are receiving "very big, engraved" umbrellas as their Christmas bonuses. "Engraved"? With what? Wintour's new lips? Anyone have a pic? Diane von Furstenberg is to China as Tom Ford is to Russia. Says DVF, ""I am totally impressed and ex...
Tuesday, Sep 18
Donatella Versace's Not-So-Gilded Designer Age [Fashion Victims]
At twelve, Donatella had her first highlights-- "'Lighter and lighter and lighter,' I told them!" she recalled. At fourteen, she was suspended from school for wearing eyeliner to rival Cleopatra's; by sixteen, she was a platinum blonde.This chronology is courtesy of writer Lauren Coll...
Friday, Sep 7
Giorgio Armani Pulls A Valentino, Randomly Asserts His Non-Retirement [Rag Trade]
Donatella Versace is one hard-working bitch: Our favorite bleached-blonde, tanorexic cokehead Italian says she left the hospital immediately after delivering one of her two children (via Cesarean) to complete the designs on the Versace men's line. All we can think about is 1) the pain...
Thursday, Jul 19
Where Were You When You Learned Of The Versace Murder?
Well, of course they weren't. But for me, the murder of Gianni Versace somehow solidified my naivite, or, perhaps, my desire to find fashion perfectly beautiful. I didn't know about Donatella and her tanorexia or Allegra and her anorexia or the silly excessive Miami lifestyle or the silly...
