Archive for January 2009

The internet is helping circulate the rumor that Amy Winehouse is set to design a capsule collection for Fred Perry, a British label that produces clothes like these. But frankly, we don’t buy it yet, because: 1. Remember that “fashion and makeup” line that was announced about a year ago, then never mentioned again? 2. [...]

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Over the holidays, NexCen’s failing Bill Blass name was finally bought by a company called Peacock International Holdings LLC, for just $10 million. For a moment, it looked like some random company might be able to resurrect the brand everybody had already said goodbye to, but that was put to rest this morning with the [...]

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To: Tips@Fashionista.com From: Atthe@Meeting.com Happy New Year! And have you heard that Men’s Vogue is actually folding altogether? It looks like they’re scrapping the whole poly-bagged thing. xoxo [Editor's Note: If you know what's going on, you know what to do...]

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Quote of the Day

“Uptown is represented by a fantastically detestable office rival of Whitney’s, Olivia Palermo, who has provided the show’s single greatest contribution to the nomenclature of reality TV by referring to herself not as a socialite but as a “social.” This has the benefit of confirming for whoever might actually be wondering that she is in [...]

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Amidst all the talk of Fashion Week cutbacks for next month, there are at least two small designers we can all expect to find on the show schedule for Fall 09: As part of their recently earned Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation awards, both Ohne Titel and Cushnie et Ochs have won $25,000 each to help [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Today, thousands of shoes littered the Palmetto Expressway in Miami. Just in case the January sales weren’t doing it for you.

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It’s that time again – In this edition, we ask, who would you have wanted to be (in fashion!) for just one day in 2008? Britt: Posh: Because in twenty-four hours, I could know what it’s like to wear Roland Mouret and 6″ Louboutins on a play date, get a rave review from Style.com, call [...]

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Quote of the Day

“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes and handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.” – Karl Lagerfeld, to the BBC.

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Fashion Is Fun

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Bust out a ball point and that brand new calendar you just got! Reader Kate wrote in to say that Anna Wintour will be speaking at the 92nd Street Y this coming May, to discuss the impact of Vogue and her charitable efforts with New York philanthropist (and head honcho at Loews Corporation), Jonathan Tisch. [...]

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Yikes – Less than one month ago, it came out that ten of the twelve new Kira Plastinina stores in the US would close up without having been open even a year. Now, it’s official: The US operation of Kira Plastinina has filed for bankruptcy. So much for those fifty stores Kira wanted operating in [...]

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Quote of the Day

There are too many stories about socialites — or, at any rate, too few such stories that sufficiently demonstrate why we should care about these creatures. What once felt like a jolly skip through Bergdorf now feels like an intravenous feed. To read Vogue in recent years is to wonder about the peculiar fascination for [...]

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