Archive for January 14th, 2008

Vogue Best Dressed List

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Fashion Is Fun

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Shopping

Bangled to the Bone

As obsessed as we are with the abundance of florals for spring, (honestly we’d wear that Balenciaga dress everyday if we didn’t have to actually move), we don’t know how well we’d pull it off. So, we’re going to wear this branch necklace instead. It kind of echoes the trend without actually looking like everyone [...]

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Quote of the Day

“It’s the middle of the night here in Milan. I have not been out in a long while, and tonight I tried to attend a fashion party in order to have some observational stories to file in this blog. Unfortunately they did not let me into the party, so I don’t have any stories.…” – [...]

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Models

Bungling Burberry

Last week, we watched the behind the scenes video for Burberry’s ad campaign at least ten times. We realized that as hard as we wished, we’d never wear that blue ruffled dress and dance side by side with our version of British royalty while Christopher Bailey looked on approvingly. Instead, we got back to work [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Elisa Has Amnesia…?

It’s not that we want to inundate you guys with Project Runway stuff (ok, maybe we do,) but this is just too strange not to share: A tip from one of our readers: From: Reader Nils (Gmail) To: Tips@fashionista.com You remember that crazy designer from this season of Project Runway, Elisa Jimenez, who got in [...]

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Haiku

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Shopping

Tees Tease Lohan

And then sometimes, Forever 21 gets it right. Witness their hysterical “Diva,” tee, with a slightly cleaned-up image of Lindsay Lohan buried like a Wonderland tortoise in a hoodie and massive, bloodshot-hiding sunglasses. The shirt just went for sale on their website, and as far as we know, it wasn’t copied from anyone (except, perhaps, [...]

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People Are Talking

Love Is Blind. We Are Not. I Only Have One Photo In My Hands…

WHICH current major model was billed as “a disaster” when she started working several years ago? “She was so awkward and quiet, we hated shooting her! It was so good when she moved away from us to New York!” says a magazine stylist. Now she’s the face of an international cosmetics line…

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Models

Coco Goes Gap!

Dear Coco Rocha, The problem with your fabulous new Gap ad is this: We look at your perfectly bare face, your casually creased sleeves, the effortless pop of the waist in those jeans. We see the tangled hair and the easy smile. And then we think, “Oh, that’s so easy, it’ll take five minutes to [...]

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