Archive for May 2009

Fashion Is Fun

Casting Call

Ladies, it’s time to summon that inner model that lives within us all. Groovy J. Crew spinoff Madewell is holding an open casting at their Soho store this Saturday from 2-6 pm. They’re looking for girls with fab style to shoot for the My Madwell section of their website where you’ll mix in Madewell pieces [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Mother Chucker

While perusing one of our favorite entertainment blogs, EW‘s Popwatch, we happened upon a link to this site, What Chuck Wore. That’s right, an entire blog devoted to the fashion stylings of the current head of Bass Industries. The premise is simple: screen shots accompanied by fictional commentary from Chuck. Genius. By far, our favorite [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

WTF WWWWD

This week’s been spent cursing the rain, running into Anna and struggling with what’s become a tortured love for Jack Bauer — but in our downtime, we’ve been playing Nancy Drew: Fashion Edition. The first issue of WWWWD landed on everyone’s desk, in an anonymous, unlabeled, white envelope toward the end of New York’s AW09 [...]

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DJ Jazzy Gemma

Amidst all this model madness there’s one particular doll face we’ve been missing. We haven’t seen Gemma Ward since, well, we didn’t actually see The Black Balloon, so since the preview for The Black Balloon. Sister Sophie popped up at Australia Fashion Week, but Gemma’s all but disappeared since an Italian Vogue editorial with Lily [...]

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Beauty

L-o-l-a, Lola

Marc Jacobs is adding a new fragrance to his growing perfume catalogue this fall, Lola. The designer told WWD that while the super popular, Daisy “is more sweet and innocent, Lola is more sensual – the name conjures up a flirtatious, warm spirit.” We love the idea of a sassy counterpart to sweet Daisy. We [...]

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Shopping

Meet and Greet

I pretty much fell in love with Suno when I read about it in the Times back in February. This bright, patterned collection of 1000 one-of-a-kind pieces was created by Max Osterweis after years spent collecting original Kenyan textiles. They’re designed in New York, but produced in Kenya by locals (very fairly treated locals, at [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Guess Who?: Gucci’s finally cracking down on Guess for their interlocking ‘G’ logo. Wonder what took them so long? {Bloomberg} That’s What He Said: Olivier Theyskens likes fashion parties , but he’d rather smoke cheap cigars and pee in the Seine. We’ll see him at the former, thanks. {Hint} Broken Brants: Stephanie Seymour just filed [...]

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Nightcap

Nightcap: Fendi Chairs, Rihanna (Almost) & Apple Stem Cells

The Met Ball might have been Monday but the fashion pack just keeps going and going, so we made the three obligatory stops last night and this is what we saw: – At Derek Lam’s store opening, curved glass walls separate different sections of the store – think shoes from bags from dresses from coats [...]

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Shopping

POSH-ed

The 37th Annual Lighthouse International sale starts a week from today. So just in case you planned on shopping this weekend, we’d suggest saving a few bucks for the charity – Jason Wu, Christian Lacroix, Alexander McQueen, Burberry, DVF, Hermes, Lanvin, Marc Jacobs, Prada, YSL, Zac Posen, and pretty much everyone else has donated to [...]

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Slideshows

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Shopping

Tunes and Totes

In the mood for some live music and perhaps a new bag? Well, then we suggest you get to The Palladium at the AOL Time Warner Center from 7-8pm tonight. Cole Haan is presenting an evening with singer/songwriter Angel Taylor to celebrate the release of her new album. And in addition to the 30 minute [...]

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People Are Talking

Are Designers The New Celebrities?

Thanks to Hollywood’s recent penchant for all things fashion – The Devil Wears Prada, Sex and the City, Confessions of a Shopaholic – names like Vivienne Westwood and Anna Wintour have made their way into the general public. They’re in our tabloids, in Time magazine, on TV – with their own shows! – on 60 [...]

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