Archive for March 2009

Even though J.Crew’s had plenty of well-known models in their catalogs (Lauren Hutton, Cintia, Anouck, and Mallory from the Real World Paris, if you’re into fun facts, they’ve never signed just one face to front the print shopper from first page to last – until now. Fashion Week Daily reports that Liya Kebede, Ethiopian mother [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Outtakes from LOVE‘s shoot of Courtney Love by Hedi Slimane, right this way…

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If you’re one of those people who come home after a night out and end up spending a small fortune on Net-a-Porter, consider yourself warned. Rebecca Minkoff‘s having a surprise online sale tonight. It starts at midnight and goes until everything’s gone. Over 200 different items – bags, wallets, clutches, – will be 50% off [...]

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The first day of Spring has turned into everyone’s favorite reason to throw a shopping party. You’re going to have to find a way to squeeze in Hayden-Harnett’s Saturday afternoon fling. Their new Nolita location, on Elizabeth Street between Houston and Prince, is slightly more accessible than their Greenpoint location. Plus, Saturday means 20% off [...]

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The Wall Street Journal just reported that Claudio Scajola, Italy’s minister of economic development, has made good on his promise to pump some money back into the ailing fashion industry in his home country. He’s meeting with fashion industry leaders tonight in Rome at 7pm local time to present them with a plan that should [...]

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Way back in November, Leighton Meester was photographed doing a Reebok shoot on the street. Just today, Vogue UK’s reporting about the campaign, and also saying that the CW star is set to do “another” campaign come mid-May. But since we’ve never seen any of the Leighton/Reebok images in any magazines, and since Vogue UK’s [...]

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Trivia

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Quote of the Day

“You have to do a lot of tweaking and airbrushing to get the same from a celebrity that you would get from a model. A lot of celebrities — I’m gonna tell you right now — they’re not 5’11″; they’re not a size 2 to fit into these designer dresses.” –Tyson Beckford’s cold hard truth [...]

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There’s an interesting article in the New York Times this week about a study conducted by Duke/MIT professor that may color the ongoing fakes debate. The basic idea behind Professor Dan Ariely’s study, Faking It: The Psychology of Dishonesty and Counterfeits, is that if you do it once (buy a knockoff), you’ll do it again, [...]

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