Archive for December 2009

Everyone’s Talkin’ About: Vogue Italia’s always up to something new. This month, Steven Meisel’s coordinated a Twitter cover for the magazine. The girls: Christy, Gisele, Natalia, Lara and Kasia, took the pictures of themselves. And, it’s Kasia’s first Vogue Italia cover. {Models} Better Late Than Never: In case you, like us, missed it, Net-a-Porter’s gone [...]

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Along with a massive business, Tory Burch has obviously amassed a rather amazing friend base. As the holiday season rolled around, she and her staff got to thinking about what everyone was up to, what they were buying for others, where they were going, what they’re planning to do in the new year, etc. So [...]

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Shopping

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Rumor has it, and by rumor we mean WWD so we’ll err on the side of reality, that David Lynch, the legendary director of not-so-straightforward films like Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet, is directing the next installment of John Galliano’s highly stylized Dior commercials. Or “short films.” Olivier Dahan’s The Lady Noire Affair left off [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

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We’d all love to be in Shanghai recovering from a Chanel-full night, but the DecadesTwo Chanel event in LA next week might be a more realistic way to fill the Chanel shaped hole in your heart. On Wednesday, December 9th from 10am to 7pm the Melrose Avenue store will be devoted to Chanel bags, clothes, [...]

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In the beauty world, this is definitely a huge coup. Lancôme has just signed Julia Roberts as a “global ambassadress.” No matter what you think of her movies of late, there is no doubt about the bankability of Ms. Roberts. And we are well aware of how desperately every cosmetics brand on the planet has [...]

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Trivia

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Not Just A Label, the London based online shop catering to the most fashion forward avant-garde customer, is ushering in the holidays with some serious British it-girl cred. They’ve recruited Pixie Geldof to model and endorse the denim bolero at left. It’s designed by Kay Desmond who says her work stems from, “the psychology of [...]

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These days companies are kind of taking an every which way but loose approach to marketing. And we can’t say we blame them—not only with the economy being in the state it’s in, but because the world is changing quickly and we like to see people trying new things. Sure some might not work out, [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

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While Christmas shopping a couple of weeks ago – I love buying presents – I spent an unusual amount of time scouring Urban Outfitters. They’ve stacked, at least at their Broadway location, piles and piles of obscure, goofy gifts including ornaments and headphones and books and stockings and bottle openers and games and best of [...]

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