Archive for January 2009

Trivia

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Fall 2009 New York

Alison Lewis + Ashley Granata = Fashion Week Love!

Mark your calendars, please. Ashley Granata, formerly of Style.com, and Alison Lewis (do we still have to introduce her as half of the former Mooka Kinney?) have teamed up to show off their collections in a joint show at New York Fashion Week! Alison will be showing her Fall 09 Lewis collection alongside Ashley’s accessories [...]

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Shopping for Others

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Mc2 Model Management Needs an Intern

Mc2 Model Management’s NYC branch is looking for “highly motivated and energetic” interns to assist their agents part-time or full-time. If you’re thinking to yourself, who?, it’s the agency founded by Jean Luc Brunel, the guy who first signed Christy Turlington when she was just fourteen. Responsibilities include scanning pictures, answering phones, assisting with updating [...]

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The Commodification of Fashion Week?

Just because women have stopped buying shoes doesn’t mean they’re unwilling to drop a couple hundred bucks for tickets to a runway show. American Express told the Wall Street Journal yesterday that they sold 97% of their $150 – $250 Fashion Week packages within five days. Most of those tickets are to Diane von Furstenburg’s [...]

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Mayle Says, “Surprise! Not Closing Yet”

Back when Jane Mayle announced she would be closing up shop next month, everyone shared pretty much the same reaction: Sadness and disappointment with an undertone of “I’ve got to hit their next sale.” So you’d think that today’s news of Mayle holding off her closing until April – and tucking a “highly limited-edition collection” [...]

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Fall 2009 London

London Fashion Week for the Boys

Who knew the industry would turn to men’s fashion in the face of financial catastrophe? The past few months have seen shifts toward menswear from everyone from Christophe Decarnin at Balmain to Alexander Wang to Gareth Pugh, all of whom should be very refreshing after this season’s rather dull showing. But thanks to London Fashion [...]

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House of Style Returns

The 90′s television revivals aren’t stopping at 90210 and Absolutely Fabulous. No, House of Style‘s jumping on the trend, too. The Post reports that the MTV show that made Cindy Crawford America’s sweetheart is back for a second try, and the producers already have their sights set on Chanel Iman and Bar Rafaeli (who already [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

McQ for Target Debuts in Manhattan During Fashion Week

Just because Target refuses to build a central Manhattan location, doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten about us. In fact, they love us so much they’re erecting a McQ Market at St. John’s Center (330 West Street at West Houston Street) from noon until 10pm on February 14th and 15th so that those of us stranded on [...]

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Beauty

Sparkles, Thanks to Karl

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Fashion Is Fun

Karl, Marc, Yves – Set Your DVR

In honor of Fall Fashion Week, television stations tend to broadcast fashion-related movies during the month of February, and this year’s no exception. Lagerfeld Confidential, the documentary about you know who, airs on the Sundance Channel on February 9th at 7pm EST. Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton, which followed Marc in the making of the [...]

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Slideshows

Chadwick Tyler Exhibits his Girls

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