Archive for October 2010

Entertainment

The Best Looks from Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” Video

We’re completely unabashed about our love for Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” video. The song is awesome but the styling is even better. Willow earned some fashion cred when she sat front row next to her mom at Milan Fashion Week. This video should cement her status as the most fashionable nine-year-old in the land. We’re betting the video was styled by Mariel Haenn, who styles Willow as well as Rihanna, and for this dazzling display of creativity (hair as a paintbrush, lip art, and silver eyelashes are just a few of the standout style moments) she deserves massive props. And it’s all age-appropriate. We’re looking at you Cyrus sisters.

Here are our favorite looks from “Whip My Hair” (images are screengrabbed from the video and from Just Jared):

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Sales

Racked Dealfeed: Dolce Vita, Decadestwo, & MaxMara

Dolce Vita
Deal: 30% off everything in store
When/Where: Friday, October 15 through Friday, October 22. Mon—Sat noon—8pm, Sun noon—7pm. 149 Ludlow St between Stanton and Rivington Sts (212-529-2111)”>Dolce Vita

MaxMara
Deal: Markdowns on fall/winter coats, womenswear, and accessories
When/Where: Monday, October 18 through Friday, October 22. Mon—Thurs 9am—6:30pm, Fri 9am—5pm. Soiffer Haskin, 317 W. 33rd St between Eighth and Ninth Aves (718-747-1656)

Decadestwo
Deal: 20% off designer merchandise from labels like Prada, Balenciaga, Dries Van Noten and more with the code DEC20.
When/Where: Online

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Shopping

Breaking News: Pierre Hardy x Gap Booties Won’t Arrive in Stores Until October 28

Tear. Our beloved Pierre Hardy x Gap booties, which were scheduled to hit stores tomorrow, won’t arrive until October 28. That’s next Thursday.

We’re assuming this has to do with shipping. Even though the shoes weren’t produced in France, they might be coming through Gap Europe, and with the all the strikes going on in the country, there’s a chance that they are stuck in transit.

Besides, it’s only 10 more days, right? Let the countdown begin….

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Streetwalker

Street Style: Suttirat Dresses Like An Urban Grandpa

Name: Suttirat Larlarb

Age: 38

Occupation: Film Designer

What was the last good movie you saw?The Social Network

What are you listening to? Billie Holiday

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News

This Will Make Your Monday. Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” Video Is Out Early and It’s Amazing

By Leah Chernikoff Monday, Oct 18, 2010 / 1:50 PM


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Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day: Paulina Porizkova Bites The Hand That Fed Her

By Leah Chernikoff Monday, Oct 18, 2010 / 1:10 PM

“[T]he one guarantee that you will never make it as a model is to go on [America's Next Top Model],” Paulina Porizkova, former ANTM judge, dishes to the NY Post on how Tyra Banks’ long-running model reality show does not a super model make. (Of course, she’s right though, none of the ANTM winners have gone on to be super successful models.) In this no holds barred interview, Porizkova also takes aim at Naomi Campbell, Nicole Kidman and Janice Dickinson. It’s worth a read.

Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Diddy Won’t Wear Pink to Support Breast Cancer Awareness, M.I.A Wears A Burqa on the Red Carpet, & Amar’e Stoudemire Wants To Cover Vogue

Diddy Doesn’t Wear Pink: Sean ‘Diddy” Combs hosted a pink-themed charity party for breast cancer awareness. Except he wouldn’t wear pink. Apparently organizers had to hand Diddy a pink scarf, but he never put it on. He just carried it. {Page Six}

Lagerfeld’s Dubai Fashion Island On Hold: Last week, we told you about Isla Moda, a man-made fashion-centric island off the coast of Dubai that Karl is helping design. However, it looks like things have screeched to a halt due to city’s economic collapse. {The New York Observer}

M.I.A is Burqa-Chic?: M.I.A walked the red carpet for the Spike TV Scream Awards wearing a burqa (or niqab). For her performance, the singer ditched her burqa for a more colorful, less conservative getup. {Coco Perez}

Anthropologie To Open Accessories-Only Store: On October 29, Anthropologie will open its first ever accessories-only store in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The store will have a large selection of shoes and jewelry, including estate and antique jewelry. The new store marks the start of several new retail-concept stores Anthropologie plans to roll out. {WWD subscription required}

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Shopping

Lulu & Co Launches on Thursday With Pieces Designed By Gareth Pugh, Marios Schwab, Jonathan Saunders

Lulu Kennedy might not be a fashion household name here in the States, but if you’re part of the industry in London, she’s somewhat of a demigoddess. The founder of Fashion East launched the careers of some of the UK’s most beloved designers, from Richard Nicoll to Jonathan Saunders.

Now Kennedy has teamed up with several of those clothiers to create Lulu & Co, a caspule collection that hits stores on Thursday. (Specifically Matchesfashion.com, Harvey Nichols, Colette and Restir Tokyo.)

The launch includes dresses from 10 designers, and we want them all. Click through to pick your favorite.

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J.Crew Gives in to Internet Outcry, Switches Out Hairy Legs Tights on Model

Last Friday, someone on the internet noticed that the model at the top of J.Crew’s women’s shoe page online looked like she had really hairy legs. Initially folks thought that it was a photoshop prank. But how very un-J.Crew! The real reason was that the model was simply wearing a pair of the brand’s lace tights ($22.50) that, in the “fawn” color, ended up making their models’ legs look more hairy than haute. Or, like an actual fawn’s legs.

The weekend was enough time for the “J.Crew Hairy Leg Tights” to become something of an internet meme and today the Daily Mail is reporting the story with the headline, “Somebody get the girl a razor! Trendy tights that appear to make legs look HAIRY take internet by storm!”

So, in what seems to be an effort to quell the “internet storm” that has been brewing over the tights, J.Crew has switched out the lace tights in “fawn” for a pair of black patterned tights that are, unquestionably, tights.

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Adventures in Copyright

Toms v. Bobs: Quite Possibly The Most Ridiculous Adventures in Copyright Ever

When we read this story in the LA Times on Sunday, we couldn’t quite believe it:

Skechers, makers of those ugly, inefficient sneakers that were inexplicably popular in late 1990s, has created a line of shoes called Bobs. These shoes are in the style of a traditional alpargata shoe–kind of like an espadrille loafer–and for every pair sold, two pairs will be given to a child in need.

Sound familiar? That’s because it’s the business model of Toms, a shoe line launched by trustafarian/entrepreneur Blake MyCoskie a few years ago. MyCoskie gave away his 1 millionth pair of shoes last month, according the Times.

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Kanye West Only Follows 15 People on Twitter and They’re All Models

Kanye West has always been into following models. He dates models. He watches them on the runways during fashion week. He raps about them, shouting out 21 models by name in his new single “Christian Dior Denim Flow.” And now he’s literally following models. On twitter.

West’s popular twitter is followed by 1.4 million people but right now he only follows 15 (he follows two different Alessandra Ambrosio handles). He’s notoriously picky about whom he deigns to follow on twitter, so it’s safe to say his chosen 15 are special people.

They happen to be very tall pretty people, too. They’re all top models that he named in his latest song, “Christian Dior Denim Flow”: Alessandra Ambrosio, Esti Ginzburg, Anna Rubik, Kate Moss, Coco Rocha, Bar Refaeli, Jourdan Dunn, Lara Stone, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Veronica Webb, Doutzen Kroes, Chanel Iman, Selita Ebanks and Jessica Stam.

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Best Dressed

Best Dressed: Carey Mulligan, Michelle Williams, Selita Ebanks and More

By Dhani Mau Friday, Oct 15, 2010 / 6:50 PM

Never Let Me Go stars Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan looked lovely at the film’s European premiere. A platinum-haired Michelle Williams wore a gorgeous Erdem number with leopard print pumps. Caroline Sieber looked chic in Mark Fast. And Selita Ebanks rocked an intense Ferragamo frock.