Name: Devon
Age: 23
Occupation: Stylist and designer.
How would you describe your style? Seeing the world through rose-colored
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What was the last good movie you saw? Probably something by David Lynch.
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Sources inside 4 Times Square tell us that Anna Wintour was recently shipped off to China by Si Newhouse. The reason for her journey? She’s serving as some sort of ambassador.
Who Wintour was meeting with is unclear, but we’re assuming it was a mix of Conde Nast execs and advertisers based there. After all, China is ripe for magazines. Unlike mature economies–such as Europe and the US–the printed word still has plenty of money-making potential in most Asian countries.
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Welcome to @NoBtotheS‘s series on the suicide inducing habits of people in the fashion industry. (Editor’s note: If you’re not familiar with NoBtotheS, or No Bullshit, she/he is an anonymous fashion publicist working in New York City who’s famed for a hilarious Twitter account.) Up first, Fashion Editors–love to hate them and hate to love them.
1. They put the fun in trust fund: It took me a while to get wise to the fact that half of you come from wealthy backgrounds (rock legend patronage, heir to publishing giant, luxury goods parent company, and frozen food giant, etc, etc) and thus have the freedom to accept a position with a starting pay of $25k…the rest of you just marry well.
2. Overwhelming sense of entitlement: Here’s the thing; you’re not fooling anyone! All I have to do is search your name in entourage to see that you haven’t responded to my last DOZEN or so emails. But now that you want something (event invite, discount or a freebie) we are suddenly friends of the bosom.
3. Editors that don’t actually, you know, EDIT:
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Polyvore Offers Users the Chance to Redesign A Rebecca Minkoff Classic For Her Fall Collection
With over six million users, Polyvore is the largest fashion community online. And lately, the names and prizes they’ve wrangled for their growing community of set-creating users has amped up their fashion cred. They recently teamed up with Kate Moss and Janie Bryant to cull them for style advice and ask them to judge set contests, and now, they’ve partnered with accessories designer Rebecca Minkoff, whose bags garner something of a cult following.
But this latest partnership is much more than Minkoff simply offering style advice and judging a set contest. Users will actually have the chance to redesign a Minkoff classic–the Morning After Clutch–and the winning design will be featured on the runway come February, and will be produced and sold on rebeccaminkoff.com in March. The contest, which started today and ends November 29, asks users to create their own take on Minkoff’s clutch using digital images of the leather, hooks, tassels, studs, zippers, straps, and applicants. Minkoff will personally select her top ten, and then users will vote on the finalists on Minkoff’s facebook page from December 1-8 to select the winner. And if having your design selected and produced as part of Minkoff’s fall collection wasn’t prize enough, the winner will be flown to NYC to attend Minkoff’s fall show, where the bag will debut.
Read more »In this video series, exclusive to Fashionista, Victoria’s Secret models reveal what their lives were like pre-Angeldom. This segment features one of our longtime favorites, Behati Prinsloo:
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show airs Tuesday, November 30 at 10pm EST on CBS.
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Entertainment
Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Sigourney Weaver Cover V‘s ‘Age Issue’
By Sarah St. Lifer for Stylelist
V magazine hits newsstands with its new “Who Cares About Age?” issue, featuring three alternate cover icons of agelessness: Jane Fonda, 72, Susan Sarandon, 64, and Sigourney Weaver, 61.
Fonda gets frisky in leopard print, Sarandon looks saucy with larger-than-life hair, and Weaver is playful in a baseball cap.
“If you’re upset with how you look at 25, life’s going to be tough,” Sarandon tells the magazine.
Fonda adds: “‘There’s fabulous things about being older. The older people get, the less scared they are. All the studies show you’re not as anxious.”
And they’re not the only non-20-somethings celebrated in the issue. Read more »
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Valentino for Gap: The Full Collection
A couple months ago, Gap announced that they’d teamed up with Valentino to produce a capsule collection. The seven-piece collection, created to celebrate Gap’s arrival in Italy, hits stores this Friday, November 26.
Sadly, the pieces will only be available in select stores in Europe–at Gap’s new stores in Rome and Milan, as well as Colette in Paris and at Dover Street Market and Gap’s flagship store in London. We were doubtful as to how Valentino’s signature ruffles would translate into a collaboration for the high street retailer but for the most part, it works. The color palette is simple–army green, cream and black–so as not to upstage the ruffles adorning all the cargo looks.
There are few pieces from the capsule collection that we’re bummed won’t be available stateside. Namely, the black leather skirt (£129), the army parka with ruffles (£149.95), and the gathered skirt fixed with a big loopy bow (£69.95). The ruffle-front cargo pants, however, we’ll gladly leave to folks across the pond. And if you can figure out how to wear them without looking clownish, let us know.
Click through for a look at the full collection, courtesy of the Telegraph.
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Here’s a portrait of Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz queued up yesterday at Rockfeller Center’s H&M. Click through for another adorable image. And thanks to reader Ryan for sending these! Read more »
While Lauren was shopping Lanvin x H&M with Alber at the Pierre, I was shopping Black Fleece with Thom Browne at Housing Works. Thursday night was the VIP gala to celebrate the 7th annual Fashion for Action fundraiser. Housing Works operates several charity thrift stores throughout the city to support the needs of low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. All of the proceeds from Fashion for Action–which includes a silent auction and sample sale–will benefit Housing Works’ lifesaving services. We got to talk to Thom, the event’s chair, about the fundraiser and his upcoming women’s collection that we’re already obsessed with. But first, the party.
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What Should Baby Zoe Wear?
We’re all excited that Rachel Zoe finally confirmed that she and Rodge are expecting. Congrats! It undoubtedly will be the most stylish baby of all time! (Sorry, Suri.) We figure a child of Zoe will probably be swaddled in Chanel, so it’s a good thing Karl is making kids clothes now, at least for the runway.
Since Chanel hasn’t come out with a full line of kids clothes yet, we’ve rounded up some of the most precious and most ridiculously expensive designer baby clothes out there. We’re just assuming Zoe will have a girl, hence all the dress suggestions.
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Here’s something to shock you out of your Friday afternoon slump.
We hear that IMG is selling New York Fashion Week newspaper The Daily, according to a source close to the situation.
The likely buyer? Editor-in-Chief Brandusa Niro, who founded the publication in 2003.
This development follows the news that Valentine Uhovski, Emily Gyben, and Emily Popp–all longtime reporters at the pub–have left. Guillaume Bruneau, who was most recently an art director at Elle, and Eddie Roche, a former producer with Alley Cat Group, have joined as art director and senior editor, respectively.
In late October, The Daily struck a deal with AM NewYork–a free morning newspaper that’s circulated throughout New York City–to distribute an insert, called The Daily Chic Report.
In an email to Fashionista, an IMG spokesperson said: “We decline to comment on rumor and speculation.”
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