Earlier this week, rumors circulated that London private equity firm Apax Partners was in talks to sell Tommy Hilfiger to Phillips-van Heusen, a US conglomerate that owns everything from Calvin Klein to Bass to John Varvatos. Yesterday, the New York Post aimed to prove that those rumors were true. It’s no surprise to those familiar [...]
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Home Sweet Home: Refinery29 hung out with Taylor Tomasi-Hill at her NYC apartment. As suspected, her West Village place is just as cool as she is. {Refinery29} Ladies Man: Last year Tom Ford confirmed he would return to designing womenswear at some point. Now the designer is said to be moving forward with these plans; [...]
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Kenzo wins the award for best invite, maybe ever. They’ve sealed a stash of fall leaves inside a vacuumed plastic bag with chunky cardboard letters to spell out KENZO. If there are leaves on this runway, they’re officially a trend after providing crunching ground forBilly Reid and Topshop Unique. Meanwhile, the Chanel invite’s covered with [...]
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Which beauty editor puts on plays with her cats? She even dresses them up (though we hope she refrains from doing their makeup).
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We’re sure it has something to do with advertising. A kerfuffle over pages in a recent issue, maybe? But still, Balenciaga has a lot of nerve not inviting what might be the most commercially influential fashion team in the world to its shows. Carine Roitfeld told WWD yesterday that Balenciaga had “blacklisted” Vogue Paris, denying [...]
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1. Where’s Lady Gaga when you need her? 2. This is the challenge to be avant-garde, so why are so many designers afraid to be? 3. We’re impressed that Jay made “leather” out of trash bags, but why was the top so hideous? 4. Isn’t it funny how Jesse started out by calling his skirt [...]
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Which fashion designer appeared on the cover of Vogue?
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The Oscars air this Sunday, and we know what that means: Celebrities in safe gowns, long teary speeches, and…swag. While the heyday of the Oscar swag bag is over–thanks to an IRS crackdown in 2006–free stuff for celebs is still an indelible part of the awards show season. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and [...]
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“Freud’s great unanswered question, ‘What does a woman want?’ seems to be hanging over this round of collections, and it’s already turned up some funny, off-beam stabbings around in the dark. Funny, that is, because isn’t it obvious? What we want is a casual way of dressing that’s also formal enough, new yet not ridiculously [...]
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This morning, Britt messaged me in a state of bewilderment: Net-a-Porter was shilling a $385 crocodile Nancy Gonzalez iPhone case! I was a little less shocked. Mostly because I’d just seen the results of February’s MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, a monthly report that tracks consumer spending in all sorts of realms, from airline tickets to restaurants [...]
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It’s Fashion Month, and we are all mentally in AW 2010. Trust me, I’m as excited as everyone else to get my hands on a shearling coat, new chunky booties, and maybe something with a little bit of, um, velvet. (And I can’t wait to see what Lanvin and Isabel Marant do in Paris). Everyone [...]
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Marion Cotillard’s second Lady Dior video premieres tomorrow, before the Dior show in Paris. It’s directed by Jonas Akerlund who’s worked with everyone from Madonna to The Rolling Stones and Cotillard, who trades her sexy dresses for slim suits, sings Franz Ferdinand’s “Eyes of Mars” instead of “Lady Rouge” as previously reported. Click the arrow [...]
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