It’s come to our attention that couture’s confusing. Clothes don’t earn the label just because they debut in Paris, or because they walk a runway on Lara Stone’s back, or because they cost an obscene amount of money. To design couture, to become a couturier, one must be certified by the Chambre Syndicale de la [...]
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Shopping in London used to mean Topshop, now it means cheap vintage and Nicholas Kirkwoods. You can find his brilliant shoes at Seven New York, but only a few at a time — you can walk into Browns or Liberty and find piles. And for the Summer of Love/Liberty celebration of Carnaby Street’s 50th anniversary, [...]
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Last night I attended a panel at Pratt Institute featuring Barneys’ fashion director Julie Gilhart, Slow & Steady Wins the Race designer Mary Ping and Uluru designer Caroline Priebe. They talked about sustainable design, but it wasn’t your typical marketing spiel. Indeed, these three women are passionate about design with a conscious. But their cause [...]
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Project Runway‘s guest judge this week is Matthew Williamson, which makes us very happy. We’re hoping that means the challenge will either involve Ibiza or rainbows. What’s more, we really liked some of the dresses fashioned from a burlap sack last Thursday, which makes us hope for more great design in the coming weeks. But [...]
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Stuart Weitzman: PR interns with a serious love of shoes needed. Beyond Vintage: They need help with design, production & administrative duties. Made Her Think: The jewelry company needs design interns to help with everthing from mood boards to production. APM Models: The agency needs organized, enthusiastic interns who love fashion.
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As we mentioned yesterday in our post about the trials and tribulations of couture, cobbler Jimmy Choo doesn’t design his namesake brand. However, he does design made-to-measure shoes under the moniker Jimmy Choo Couture. Choo also designs his own loafers, according to an interview in local British newspaper the Buckinghamshire Advertiser. Here’s what else Choo [...]
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So, I got cable last Thursday for the first time in five years. That means I spent most of the weekend engrossed in programs as varied as Teen Mom and The Jersey Shore. While mostly glued to the incredible train wreck that is MTV, I did peruse the channels to see what I’ve been missing [...]
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“Givenchy update: Natalia V is walking in Tisci’s couture show tonight. She’s pinch-hitting (pinch-musing?) for MariaCarla, who can’t make it.” –Derek Blasberg’s tweets are like the eye of the couture storm.
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Several eco-fashion blogs, including the well-done Ecouterre, are concerned that H&M’s organic cotton collection may not be 100% organic. Indeed, H&M has admitted that some of its certified-organic clothes may contain genetically modified strands of the white stuff. So, how big of a deal is this? Well, for those admirably dedicated to wearing only 100% [...]
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Claw Money: If you can’t make Christina Hendricks look fantastic, you probably shouldn’t attempt to knock off McQueen and Nicholas Kirkwood in one shoe, or else you’ll end up with this disastrous looking creation. {Racked} Welcome to Beckham Island: Rumor has it that Victoria Beckham’s designing a hotel on the island Karl Lagerfeld’s developing in [...]
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