Archive for March 2009

Fashion Is Fun

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London: Lanvin Opening Thursday; Ignoring Others

Last week on South Audley Street in Mayfair, London’s Rick Owen‘s store opened alongside its pretty cool neighbours, Marc Jacobs, Dover Street Market (DSM) and the pap-favourite Scotts restaurant. Thursday, Lanvin is to open its doors in the same hood. On a “go-see”, DSM and Rick Owens were completely empty. Going west, a smidge past [...]

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Shopping

Spring Peek at Loeffler Randall Fall 09

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Streetwalker

Streetwalker: WoMan of the Hour

Tancha, 21, fashion student Got Her: Off Rue Etienne Marcel, headed to her internship at Gaspard Yurkievich. Stalked Her: Because we’ve been wandering Paris for days looking for the perfect flat lace-up oxfords – and she has them. Shot Her: Because she’s essentially wearing a men’s suit and still looks feminine. She managed to balance [...]

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Models

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Spring Shoes & Good Deeds

We’re always a fan of doing good while shopping – a trend that peaks during the holidays and then goes into hiding the rest of the year. So we were thrilled to see these signs in the Belle by Sigerson Morrison windows on our street. They’re holding a spring canned food drive and giving you [...]

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Site Seeing

Party Report: The Last Straw, in London

Parties? They’re still happening, but opposed to the good old days (last year), where it was three or four fashion events/private views/store openings/dinners/etc per week. This year, it’s just one(ish) – and its always a bun-fight*. At a recent soiree, there was a strict one tipple** per guest rule. Call it the the English Revolution [...]

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Magazines

Advance Publications Pulls Back

Fact: Conde Nast, the publishing company of Vogue, Teen Vogue, Glamour, Allure, and so many more, is a subsidiary of the media company Advance Publications, which is owned by the Newhouse family. Fact: Advance Publications has just instituted a pension freeze and mandatory ten-day unpaid leaves for employees at all of their daily papers outside [...]

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Major Wardrobes in Real Life?

A teeny sentence in this morning’s WWD confirms a story that was floating around during Fashion Week, and so was subsequently ignored. Gossip Girl has inspired a reality show. Bravo – the network behind Project Runway, The Fashion Show and Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style – has started filming a show, which may or may [...]

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Vogue Best Dressed List

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Bebe Needs “It”

Here’s a sentence we never thought we’d write: ELLE, Elite Model Management, Look Model Agency and Bebe are teaming up. They’re in need of a new It-girl. You can apply here – and there will be 600 semi-finalists, so we think you have a pretty good shot. Those semi-finalists have to go to an in-store [...]

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Quote of the Day

“What do you most value in your friends?” –Vanity Fair “They have to love my designs.” –Valentino

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