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Archive for May 2007
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Vionnet’s New Day: Sophia Kokosalaki Is Out
Vogue Paris reports today that the British designer Sophia Kokosalaki is out at Vionnet. Sophia was hired by the French fashion house just over a year ago. Though her Spring collection for the house got lots of press, Vionnet’s envisioned Fall as a sinister place where shimmering silk was the only bright spot. It was [...]
Read more »Fashion Week
(and in a shocking twist, WWD has photos up before Style.com)
Read more »Josh Goot for Target: Too Cheap, Too Fast?
There’s a fun debate happening in Australia, where their designer golden boy, Josh Goot, is launching a Target range. The issue isn’t whether a young designer should have a mass market line – rather, it’s that Josh’s Target collection looks thisclose to his actual runway clothes, which cost about five times the Target range. There [...]
Read more »Trendspotting
Rubber Soul
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has piece on sneakers, and their increased presence in the nightlife scene, noting “someone at a nightclub may be wearing a $50 pair of dress shoes, while the guy standing next to him is wearing a pair of $2,000 sneakers.” I swoon when I pass a cute pair of Adidas (or [...]
Read more »Top Model
First Look: Samantha Francis for Elite
Jaslene’s first composite card is here, but we’re more excited about Samantha Francis, the 19-year-old from Alabama who was eliminated second from America’s Next Top Model… and still got an Elite Model contract. We like Samantha’s weird spin on the All American Girl look, and there’s something else: If she begins to book jobs that [...]
Read more »We’ll just call it The Chanel Weekend. Yesterday, we revealed that Audrey Tatou will play Coco in an upcoming biopic of the designer. Today, thanks to darling reader Lina, we’ve got a sneak peek at the Coco Mademoiselle ads, which have just started to run in France. The ads star Keira Knightley, who took over [...]
Read more »Audrey is Coco Chanel. Zut Alors!
Just in case you’re making a weekend blog stop for fashion info and not funny comments, here’s something new: Variety announced that Audrey Tatou will play Coco Chanel in the latest film about the designer. Some of you called it from the very beginning, but we still wonder if Audrey is reckless and ruthless enough [...]
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Shopping
Adventures in Copyrights: Move Along
Earth to Urban Outfitters: Even the darling Henry Holland has moved on from his crazy t-shirts with the filled in letters, and yet, you still seem a little hung up. We know it’s tempting to buy giant shirts and slap vaguely rhyming words on them. We know that neon is your summertime friend. But if [...]
Read more »Will Martha Melt for Tom Ford?
We love the news that Tom Ford will be on the Martha Stewart Show next Tuesday, for several reasons. 1. Millions of viewers will watch the king of sex style bake a pie. 2. Martha will be forced to interact, nicely, with the man who straddled naked Scarlett on a magazine cover. 3. American women [...]
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