Archive for February 3rd, 2010

Fashion Week

Pre-Fashion Week Mad-Libs: Betsey Johnson!

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Prep School Fashion Hackers’ Access Denied

Gawker reported this morning that Vermont gubernatorial candidate Peter Shumlin’s daughter, Becca, and her friend/accomplice Remy Renzullo hacked into PR firm BPCM’s database and added themselves to the guest lists for Alexander Wang, Preen and Cushnie et Ochs, just to name a few. First thought: Who did they hire to hack into a database? Second [...]

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Fashion Week

How Much Brands Pay for Celebs to Sit in Their Front Rows

Carolina Herrera and Marc Jacobs have virtually banned celebrities from their front rows. But when it comes to labels such as Miss Sixty and Rock & Republic, it seems like the more A, B and even C-list stars they can get, the merrier. We tapped industry insiders to break down the cost of putting of [...]

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Slideshows

Cat Holstein’s First Collection for Evisu

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Magazines

Katie Grand Advocates Body Diversity, But LOVE‘s New Covers Aren’t Diverse

Katie Grand has always championed that beauty comes in all sizes, great and small. And for her latest issue of bi-annual magazine LOVE, she upholds this belief with eight separate covers of naked fashion icons. Kate Moss, Lara Stone, Daria Werbowy, Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova, Kristen McMenamy and Jeniel Williams stripped down to pose for [...]

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Fashion Week

Narciso Rodriguez Goes Boom, and Other Party Gossip

Yes, Fashion Week’s mostly work, but for a few hours each night we get to party, too. We’re not sure what’ll rival September’s Alexander Wang-surprise-Courtney-Love-in-a-gas-station concert, but random news is trickling in. We hear Narciso Rodriguez is throwing a bash at the Standard’s Boom Boom Room, which’ll maintain its Fashion Week status. Meanwhile, Timo Weiland’s [...]

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Shopping

SPOTTED: Perfect Vintage Clogs

When it comes to clogs, we’re with Garance. We can’t get behind them, at least not Kate and I; Steff says, “They just make your feet look like hooves.” Lauren loves Rachel Comey’s clog boots – but she’d never wear real clogs, backless ones, like Chanel’s. However, if you are into clogs – and we [...]

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Blame Thieving Fashion Magazine Editors for the Shortage of Giles’ Dinosaur Bags

PHOTO COURTESY JAK&JILWhat happens when Giles makes the most amazing perfect fantastic Dinosaur bag for Spring 2010? Editors steal it. A lot of the best things on the runway – and by best we mean most fun to look at, not most practical or well made – don’t get put into production, like the Nina [...]

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Kellan Does Calvin, The Tents Are Up at Bryant Park & Jason Wu Gets An Upgrade

Vintage CK: Kellan Lutz’s Calvin Klein ads broke this morning. Apparently, they’re focusing their campaign on the internet. Hopefully, that means the picture at left will pop up more often than not. {WWD} The Tents Are Up: Fashion Week is seconds away and Bryant Park has pitched the Tents…for the last time ever. It’s the [...]

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Fashion Week

The Jersey Shore Invades Fashion Week

There’s yet another group of pseudo-celebs that you’ve got to compete with for fashion week tickets. Jersey Shore cast members have been requesting seats for next week’s shows, according to Page Six. In general, we kind of enjoy those Jersey Shore crazies. Although we’d see rather them on TV, not at work. We’re making unofficial [...]

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The Business

New Look Wants To Pummel Its High Street Rivals

New Look, the British high street shop that’s done collaborations in the past with everyone from Luella to Giles to Tatty Devine, plans on hopping back on the London Stock Exchange. The second-largest women’s retailer in the U.K. wants to raise money–about $1 billion–in order to spruce up its existing stores and also build new [...]

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Fashion Week

Stockholm Fashion Week Aims to Please

Yet another mini-fashion week has caught my eye: Fashion Week by Berns in Stockholm, which wraps up today. Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz and Max Factor, many of the designers that showed Monday and Tuesday are personal favorites, including Fillipa K, Cheap Monday and Whyred. This afternoon, Acne hits the runway. (I’d say that 25% of my [...]

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