Archive for April 2009

ACNE called these jeans the “Generic Girl Ripped Jeans” because: 1. Generic is the first word to pop into their mind when they picture the $375-ripped-jean-customer? 2. They know they’re kind of late to jump on the roughed up, boyfriend jean bandwagon and are making a point of noting they’re doing the same thing as [...]

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Start saving your pennies ladies and gents – Los Angeles vintage mecca Decadestwo is opening a New York City outpost next month. They’ve acquired a small space above Soho’s Kiki de Montparnasse and collected 2000 pieces of designer clothes, jewelry, bags and shoes to sell to (new)vintage hungry New Yorkers. The store will be there [...]

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Slideshows

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Dean and Dan Caten, the lovable brothers behind Dsquared2, are launching their own radio show. The broadcast airs on Sirius satellite radio’s BPM channel starting May 5th. The boys will play all their favorite music, including bits from their runway soundtracks. And aside from their own witty commentary, they’ll have interviews with some of their [...]

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Bravo can’t get their fashion fill. They’re hard at work on a retail docu-series amid the famed halls of Santa Monica’s Fred Segal. The show, the network’s third fashion series, will focus on the competitive nature of retail in such a high end setting and believe us, in a store like that, with its customers [...]

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Warning: Once you start watching videos on Modelinia, it is very, very hard to stop. But this one, featuring May Anderson and her oh-so-eloquent description of how one turns from model to designer, is worthy of its own recognition. The Danish model had a fear of looking back on her life in fashion and thinking, [...]

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Gap’s Urban Beach

Gap’s Fifth Avenue pop-up shop’s currently full of ballerina clothes and six-year-olds twirling in pastel tutus. But come Wednesday, April 30th, it’ll be an Urban Beach Pop-Up shop. Gap’s collaborating with Havaianas to kick off summer with an abundance of Brazilian, neon flip-flops. You’ll be able to customize them, too – mix and match colors, [...]

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Wang’s Non-Campaign: Alexander Wang’s one young designer who won’t be buying ad space anytime soon, his lookbooks are already pretty enough. {StyleFile} Biba-licious: LOVE meets Barbara Hulanicki and the countdown to her Biba for Topshop collection officially begins. {LOVEblog} Cover Girl: Emma Watson’s on the cover of May’s Interview. Sneak a read of her Derek [...]

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Magazines

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We miss Natalie for a lot of reasons, one of which was her innate knack for tracking down the best food at even the most anorexic fashion party. Which is why we started waxing nostalgic when we saw this retro video for BabyCakes, the Lower East Side vegan, gluten-free bakery. Owner Erin McKenna make the [...]

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Quote of the Day

“Doing the collections, it’s kind of like shopping.” –Hanne Gaby Odiele in Sunday’s Times.

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