Archive for September 2010

Fashion Is Fun

Pre-Fashion Week Mad-Libs: Honor

By Dhani Mau Friday, Sep 3, 2010 / 5:00 PM

Meet up-and-coming designer, Giovanna Randall. Her line, Honor, is debuting next week and she is really excited about everything!

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Magazines

Editorial Musical Chairs: Candy Pratts Price’s New Gig and More

We have a few significant moves to report on this week. Publicists arranging Fashion Week invites and seating charts, take note.

Candy Pratts Price, who was laid off last year from her position as Style.com’s executive fashion director, was just hired as Vogue.com’s new creative director. The two sites are owned by the same company. Basically, this is just a shuffle that took a really long time to happen.

Nancy MacDonell, another former Style.com editor, has just been hired at AHAlife as a contributing editor. Gilles Bensimon was also just hired by the new lifestyle shopping site as creative director.

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Best Dressed

Best Dressed: Sandra in Zero + Maria Cornejo, Gwen Hits the Beach in Style, & Chloë Does Leopard Right

By Steff Yotka Friday, Sep 3, 2010 / 4:00 PM

In this week’s best dressed Gwen Stefani keeps cool at the beach, Sandra Bullock looks amazing in Zero + Maria Cornejo, Chloë Sevigny gets in touch with her inner animal at an Emmy’s afterparty where Anna Paquin traded in her McQueen for a simple and chic LDB, and Drew Barrymore continued on her fashion mission, I mean press tour, looking like she stepped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

Streetwalker

Street Style: Megan Says, ‘Make Art!’

Name: Megan

Age: 31

Occupation: Choreographer

What kind of dancing do you specialize in? Contemporary Abstract

How would you describe your style? I go for things that fit well, I also love patterns and mixing and matching patterns and things from different eras.

What is your favorite dessert? Sour cherry pie from Vermont.

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People Are Talking

Love is Blind. We are Not. Who’s the Boss?

By Lauren Sherman Friday, Sep 3, 2010 / 2:30 PM

Which leading fashion brand was noticeably absent from Vogue‘s September issue? The advertiser was trying to make a point about just how (not) relevant/powerful Vogue is, and pulled at the last minute.

Hint: It makes up for one “half” of a fashion’s biggest powerhouse.

The Kid Who is Selling Vogues on eBay Just Got Fired From GQ

We get anonymous tips all the time. But usually when someone tips us off and asks us to include his info, he typically doesn’t still work for the company that he’s narking on.

Reader Warren sent us a link to his eBay page yesterday, revealing that he nabbed an old issue of Vogue with Lauren Weisberger on the masthead while an intern at the glossy. He also said in his email to us:

“If you do decide to post it as a story, my info is below in my signature.”

We assumed that meant he was no longer associated with Vogue. But we were wrong.

Apparently the college student was interning at GQ this semester, and he just got canned when his superiors found out about the stunt. In normal circumstances, we would feel bad for printing his name, but it seems like he might have wanted this to happen? Very strange.

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Caption This

Caption This: C Is For…

By Leah Chernikoff Friday, Sep 3, 2010 / 1:00 PM

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Karlie on the Tube, Gaga’s Short Film and Barbie’s Fashion Week Internship

Karlie on Gossip Girl: We’re not sure which will be a bigger deal, Fashion’s Night Out or the Gossip Girl episode centered around it. In addition to a bunch of designers and Vogue editors, Karlie Kloss will be making an appearance. Reportedly, she is playing herself and delivers a line at a meeting with Eleanor Waldorf and Lily Van Der Woodsen. {Modelinia}

London’s Fashion’s Night Out: Lucky Londoners, your T-shirts are cooler than ours and your FNO will be over before ours begins! Let us know how it goes. Here’s what’s happening on the other side of the pond. {Vogue UK}

Statue of Gaga: Lady Gaga and Marc Jacobs cover V’s New York issue. The V appears to be constructed out of chewed gum and there appears to be an old television and a shopping cart in the background. What does this mean? {Daily Mail

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Beauty

Video: MAC Teaches Us How to Create the Perfect Cat-Eye

By Steff Yotka Friday, Sep 3, 2010 / 12:00 PM

The AW10 runways were abundant with looks inspired by the classic beauty of the 1960s. That means the cat-eye is this season’s must have makeup look.

Since there’s no one we trust more than MAC to show us how to create the perfect ’60s inspired look, I headed over to their studios to find out the best way to translate runway makeup into real life. Read more »

Entertainment

Ten Questions For Project Runway

1) Is it true what Gretchen said to her mom? Is life really more than just fashion?

2) Is anyone at all shocked that the thin girls got chosen first?

3) Did Michael D. call his model “volumptuous” (yes, with an M)? I did several rewinds. He did.

4) Why was it OK that Ivy trash-talked Michael C. for the entire first part of the show, but it was not OK when he allegedly did the same to her?

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People We Like

Tsumori Chisato Dresses French Children–And a Few Adults–For Petit Bateau

PARIS–Tsumori Chisato’s fantasy world is about to conquer French children’s fashion. In December, she will launch a childrenswear line in collaboration with Petit Bateau (a bourgeois, micro-sized American Apparel).

The line, to be sold in Petit Bateau boutiques, will include pieces for babies, children, and–phew!–adult-sized garments, too.

Fashionista.com met up with her, got a sneaky preview of her Francophile designs, and talked children’s fashion, her love for stripes, and the future of her label.

Fashionista: What will your collaboration with Petit Bateau offer?

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The Business

Steve Madden Might Take Over Betsey Johnson’s Company

If you’re one of those people who vehemently dislikes the Steve Madden brand–and believe us, we know plenty of those people–you might want to stop reading this. Because you’re quite possibly going to be propelled into a fit of rage.

Betsey Johnson is broke, and she owes a lot of money that she can’t pay back. So Steve Madden–who already owns the license to sell handbags under Johnson’s name–has taken over a $48.8 million loan to Johnson’s firm. That means if she cannot pay him back by Aug. 20, 2012, Madden will own the Betsey Johnson brand.

This isn’t Madden’s first attempt to gain traction in the designer sector. The controversial shoemaker–oft the headliner in our Adventures in Copyright series–debuted his “upscale” collection Steven just a few years ago, and also produces shoes for Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s contemporary brand Elizabeth and James. But this would be his first big acquisition in the upper-end apparel market.

Is this a good thing for Johnson?

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