Archive for January 24th, 2008

Trivia

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Alexander Wang: Jobs!

Cutie designer Alexander Wang is looking for not one, but two new people for his design team! Job 1: Tech Designer – Don’t apply unless you have 3 – 5 years’ experience as a tech and working with factories overseas. Job 2: Woven Tech Designer – Don’t apply unless you have experience in QC and [...]

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Makeup

Pretty In Ink

Today in The Times, Ruth La Ferla explores all the faux tattoos in fashion spreads the day after we did, and now we can tell you something else: Those faux tattoos getting spray-brushed on Ben Cho’s models for his upcoming Fashion Show? They’re being made by Temptu, the same artists who did the skin work [...]

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Fashion Week

Who’s Catherine Holstein?

When we were getting our Fashion Week thoughts together, we barely registered the name “Catherine Holstein” on the line up, but had a vague enough memory of her cute/retro designs in Teen Vogue to know it might be fun to go. Then we noticed her slot’s kicking off the hipsterest day of them all, also [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Stella for LeSportsac

We’ve never been huge fans of LeSportsac. We’re a little too girly and we never really understood the price point. But we previewed their new line by Stella McCartney, master of mass-market collaborations, and it’s surprisingly cute. The color palette is pure Stella; deep purples matched with dusty rose and silver hardware. For a minute [...]

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Streetwalker

Streetwalker: The Sartorialist Gets Shot

Scott Schuman, aka The Sartorialist, Photographer Got Him: Celebrating the opening of his exhibit with a private viewing at The Danziger Gallery in Chelsea last night. Stalked Him: Well, because he’s the Sartorialist! But also because we’ve never seen a man so impeccably dressed in clothes that fit so precisely. Shot Him: He’s like the [...]

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Quote of the Day

“I saw Uma ahead of me. I caught up with Uma in the backstage and asked her what she thought of the show, half embarrassed that I bothered. “I have no comment to make at this time,” she said, as if she had said it a million times before. Okay. Wouldn’t “beautiful” have worked just [...]

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Magazines

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An Open Letter to Blake Lively at The Chanel Couture Show

Dear Blake Lively, We know we love you. But. If you’re going to your first fashion show ever, and it’s the Chanel Couture show besides, wouldn’t you like to wear something… cool? Even Serena and Blake’s ultimate idol, Audrey Hepburn, would wear something a bit more fitted, more flirty, and dare we say it, more [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Sasha’s Lucky Strike

This doesn’t really have to do with anything, but it’s a sweet story: We hear last year, when Rag + Bone launched its first big fashion show at Cipriani and Sienna Miller showed up and the paparazzi chased her to her car, there was a little trauma happening backstage: Specifically, one of the models didn’t [...]

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Fashion Week

Charlotte Ronson Changes Showtimes

Attention, shoppers: Charlotte Ronson has pushed her show time from Sunday, February 3 to Monday, February 4. The show takes place at 3 pm in the Altman Building, and may mark the first time ever that there’s actually enough room for everyone with an invitation. Charlotte says “We didn’t realize that the Super Bowl was [...]

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Models

IMG Rocks Our Socks With Diverse Show Package

Major sparkles to IMG Models for their latest show package, which includes eight models of African descent – far more than we’ve seen from any other agency so far. And they’re all really, really gorgeous (especially new face Gabriella, left, who just looks cool). The show cards also include some returning all-stars, including Freja, Stam, [...]

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