January 3, 2008

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Intern(al) Affairs

Jan 03, 2008 @ 2:58pm

lily marie claire.jpg Guess what?


Marie Claire is looking for accessories interns to begin immediately in their Manhattan office.

You should be available 3 full days a week. Responsibilities include working in the closet on jewelry check-ins and returns, running errands, and working on special projects for editors. Sometimes this will include coffee, lunch, or photocopies. You should be excited about that.

You also must be professional, detail-oriented and able to perform well in fast-paced environments. This is an unpaid internship so you must be able to get a letter of responsibility from your school [editor's note: these can be forged; we've actually done it].

To apply, please email your resume and availability to Jen at jkramer@hearst.com.

Good luck!

Love Is Blind. We Are Not. Geek Chic?

Jan 03, 2008 @ 2:10pm

WHICH major fashion editor-in-chief can't use her own internet (or rather, she refuses to try)? Her assistants have to help her with everything, including email - which perhaps explains the glossy's tangled "new" website...

Jan 03, 2008 @ 2:00pm

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Dazed and Nostalgic

Jan 03, 2008 @ 1:23pm

bridget.JPG Two months ago, Dazed and Confused did an enchanting, enchanted shoot on the set of the Neverending Story film.


It featured two models, vaguely dressed as the film's faraway heroes, The Empress and Atreyu, wearing elfin dresses from Prada and Rodarte.

The spread was styled by Katie Shillington, a fashion editor at the magazine, and we loved it.

Now this month, something else that we love:

A spread with Bridget Hall, also styled by Katie and inspired by another '80s child classic, Jem and the Holograms. Dazed even made a music video to go with the story, and although it featured a Courtney Love soundtrack, we thought of something else:

The quote from Anna Wintour about how the best stylists work from a place of childhood loss, "the degree to which the fashion editor's visual perspective is governed by his or her earliest years... in a great stylist is a deep pool of memory and longing. It's down there that the extraordinary images swim from."

Ms. Shillingford seems to like swimming from her old TV set.

Jan 03, 2008 @ 12:48pm

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Jan 03, 2008 @ 12:05pm

"What is Mr. Lagerfeld with his ponytail, ZZ Top frock coats, half-gloves and knuckles barnacled with Chrome Hearts hardware but the image of a biker daddy?" - Guy Trebay on the biker look, in The New York Times.

Would You Wear A One-Piece Bathing Suit?

Jan 03, 2008 @ 12:02pm

Serena poolside.JPGLast night's Gossip Girl included a wardrobe choice that we've been pondering since we first booked our New Year's flight to Florida earlier this year - the bathing suit.


Instead of the standard tied-at-the-sides, red and pink hibiscus print bikini, Serena derobed poolside to reveal the more modest choice of a navy one-piece.

We weren't sure if we should be confused or in awe (we've had a recurring day dream of laying out on a yacht wearing a maillot and straw hat somewhere off Tahiti for the past five years.)

But realistically, we haven't worn a one-piece swimsuit since fifth grade for fear of looking like, well, a fifth grader. (And we're sure that when we finally get up the ladder in age, we'll be having the same conversation with our best friend from a cramped dressing room somewhere, begging for reassurance that a one-piece doesn't make us look, well, retired.)

Would you wear a one-piece swimsuit? Or is this a look better left to those on the outsides of the 12-40 age range?

Jan 03, 2008 @ 11:32am

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Karlie Kloss Is Healthy; Cool

Jan 03, 2008 @ 11:27am

karlie.JPG We hear a lawsuit may be in the making, thanks to a slanderous model blog that insisted yesterday the model Karlie Kloss, 15, is in rehab for anorexia.


Karlie's representatives at Elite counter that the story's a lie, and we should see Karlie back in New York next month for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

More proof seems to be on Teen Vogue's website, where a new video of Karlie (plus Chanel Iman and Ali Michael) shows the St. Louis sophomore looking like a goofy and wiry adolescent for sure, but definitely not sick (or even tired, for that matter). Actually, the whole thing reminds us of the Nikki Taylor covers for Seventeen, a staple of unattainable prettiness from our junior high years.

This doesn't mean that a real discussion about teenagers in the fashion industry shouldn't happen, or that it's a great idea for grown women to crave the features of developing girls. Regardless, it's nice to get confirmation that Calvin Klein's newest face is doing just fine.

So, to reiterate:

Karlie Kloss = healthy, pretty.

Us = hungry, also pretty.

The end.

Project Runway Has a Threesome

Jan 03, 2008 @ 10:31am

Project Runway Grace Remember last season, when there was so much talent on Project Runway that the producers let the final four contestants show at Bryant Park?


We hear that's not happening again.

According to someone intimately connected with the show, there will only be three designers on the final catwalk this season, which is always held at the very uncomfortable 9 am.

We're not going to speculate on exactly which designers scoot themselves into the Final Three...

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't in the comments section below.

London Fashion Week Declares a Hipster Day

Jan 03, 2008 @ 10:03am

Irina in Roksana We just got our schedule for London Fashion Week, and although the whole event seems incredible as always, there's one particular day - Wednesday, February 13 - that's a little too OMG for words.


The party starts at noon with Armand Basi, a favorite avant guardian of ours from last season, when he sent Tanya D. preening down the runway in a skirt of faux plastic feathers and not much else.

At 2:30, Richard Nicoll takes his turn and starts something of an underground fashion triathalon:

3:30 has House of Holland, the uniform of cool DJs and cooler emerging models. 4:30 hosts Fashion East, the hotly anticipated and always crazy group show for new designers. 5:30 slates the Serbian beauty Roksanda Illincic, whose floaty dress is seen on Irina Lazareanu at left, and then 6:30 we get the plastic fantastic genius of artist / designer / resident misfit Gareth Pugh. Strangely (perfectly?) every one of these labels has the same publicist - the madcap babe Mandi Lennard, who's kind of like Vivienne Westwood mixed with Bonnie Morrison.

Then at 7:30 it's time for Giles, and 8:30 has Rodnik.

We suggest trying to carpool with Jefferson Hack, Peaches Geldof, or best yet, with Agyness - after all, the shows can't start until she's blown through hair and makeup.

Jan 03, 2008 @ 9:30am

"We say that some guys are model cute and some guys are boyfriend cute." -- Tyson Beckford on the pilot episode for Make Me a Supermodel.
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10 Questions for Project Runway...

Jan 03, 2008 @ 3:15am

klum.jpg10. How do they remember all these models' names? The only one we remember is Morgan... from Season One.


9. Raise your hand if you think Kit Pistol is the ghost designer behind Erin Fetherston for Target?

8. When Christian said "Oh great, we get to make shit out of candy" - didn't that make you sort of like him?

7. Was Elisa this crazy before she was in a coma?

6. Tim Gunn, wait - you were right about Sweet Pea's dress, but have you ever actually seen a maxi pad? Be honest.

5. Ricky's silver dress = one big ripoff of the Dolce + Gabbana metal bustier from Spring '07?

4. Victorya's silver dress = one big ripoff of Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons?

3. Chris' silver dress = should have won, right?

2. Can you make Zac Posen a float out of Starbursts? Don't be shy...

1. Who needs chocolate?