Archive for December 2010

Entertainment

Check Out the Awesome Retro Posters For Black Swan

Black Swan doesn’t quit. Natalie Portman gives a stunning performance, Rodarte made beautiful costumes, and now a UK design firm has put out a series of gorgeous vintage posters to promote the film abroad (we hope we’ll see them stateside too).

Design studio LaBoca created four posters to promote Aronofsky’s “nail-biting” thriller, drawing inspiration from Polish and Czech posters from the 60s and 70s, as well as ballet posters from the early 20th century, the Guardian is reporting.

We wish all movie posters looked this good. Check them out.

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Streetwalker

Street Style: Sam Wears Whatever is on the Top of His Closet

Name: Sam

Age: 21

Occupation: Student/ Actor

How would you describe your style? Whatever’s on the top of my closet that I like.

What are the most prominent colors in your wardrobe? Black and blue.

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Entertainment

Move Over John Casablancas (and Tyra): Kate Moss Wants To Open A Modeling School

Kate Moss has parlayed her modeling career into many successful business ventures–most notably her 14 collections for Topshop and not her forthcoming jam line, Kate’s Damson Jam (that we’ve still yet to see).

Moss should probably stick with what she knows best, which is modeling. So it makes sense that she’s thinking of opening a modeling school, reality TV style.

“I think I could open a modeling school,” Moss told the UK’s Company magazine (as reported by the Telegraph). “In Britain’s Next Top Model they put the contestants through the torture of what modeling can be like. And it honestly can be humiliating.”

After recovering from the revelation that Moss actually watches Top Model (Supermodels! They’re just like us!), we think Moss opening a modeling school is a great idea. She’s the best in the biz and would kick ass at it. Also, we’d like to request that it be a reality TV show because that would be amazing.

If you have any doubt about Moss’s teaching or modeling abilities, revisit this clip which shows the top model killing her L’Oreal audition.

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Fashion Is Fun

Happy Holidays From @NoBtotheS

By No BS Tuesday, Dec 21, 2010 / 3:04 PM

Happy Holidays to you and yours from @NoBtotheS! May this holiday season be spent with the people you actually like, your Blackberry hidden under the bed, copious amounts of eggnog and the gifts you think you deserve.

The Business

Breaking Biz News: LVMH Takes Another Bite Out of Hermes, VF Buys Rock & Republic

Big brands love using the holiday season as a time to make major acquisitions. Usually, they wait until a day or two after Christmas, when everyone’s still climbing out of that Honey-Baked Ham hole.

However, this year, the big guns are coming out long before A Christmas Story will even appear on TNT.

To start the morning off right, VF announced their plans to acquire bankrupt denim label Rock & Republic for $57 million.

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Mrs. O in Marc, A Model Union Is In the Works and the Ugliest Sweater of Them All

A Model Union?: Model Sarah Ziff has plans to establish “The Model Alliance,” a professional organization for models in the U.S. to help regulate the industry. She’s working with Fordham’s Fashion Law Institute to set up clinics to get a sense of the problems models face and what their legal rights are. {WWD subscription required}

Another Royal Wedding: Prince William’s cousin Zara Phillips, 29, got engaged to her boyfriend, England rugby player Mike Tindall. Somehow we figure this royal wedding might get overshadowed… {People}

The Ugliest and Creepiest of Sweaters To Wear To Your Ugly Sweater Party: No explanation necessary. Just click on the link. {The Daily What}

Mrs. O In Marc: The FLOTUS finally wore Marc Jacobs. A dress from Marc’s fall 2010 runway collection no less. {The Cut}

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Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day: Chloe Sevigny Thinks Peaches Geldof Is “Just Sort Of Around”

By Leah Chernikoff Tuesday, Dec 21, 2010 / 1:32 PM

“I’m glad I grew up during the last vestige of cool, in the 1990s, when everything wasn’t blogged and on the Interwebs, when things were more on the downlow and underground. I guess I am stylish, but I would rather have people come up and say ‘I really liked your performance in this or that’ than ‘I really like the way you dress.’ That irks me. Anyway, the term It girl gets used too loosely…Today the term is used to describe, say, Peaches Geldof—a girl who doesn’t do anything but is just sort of around. The original It girl was the 1920s movie star Clara Bow; then, in the 1960s, with Edie Sedgwick and Warhol, It girls turned into socialites, ladies of leisure—people who had ‘it’ just for being ‘fabulous.’ But Edie was just a rich drug addict, and when I got called the It girl everyone thought I was that too. I looked like a junkie because it was the 1990s and grunge was the fashion. But I felt I was doing stuff, not just being a socialite.”

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Magazines

Fashion Hacker Nabbed For Leaking Condé Nast Images; Refuses To Talk About It Unless Compensated

Fashion hackers beware: Remember last year when Condé Nast’s server was hacked and photographs from W, GQ, Vogue and Lucky were leaked online?

The hacker, Ross Ulrich, a 22-year-old college student in Columbus, Ohio, has been nabbed. Condé Nast sued Ulrich for copyright infringement and he settled with the publishing house for $12,500. The Smoking Gun (TGS) is also reporting that the FBI raided Ulrich’s house earlier this year.

Ulrich got into Condé Nast’s servers handily, he told TGS, “without having to brute force anything.” He uploaded the Demi Moore covered December 2009 issue of W (you know the controversial “was her hip photoshopped out?” cover) on fashion forum The Fashion Spot (a popular destination for leaked images and “first looks”) and after Condé forced the removal of that image, Ulrich posted loads more images, including the entire unpublished content of GQ‘s December issue, onto a blog called FashionZag. The re-posting was, Condé’s lawyers said, “willfully done by defendants to thumb their noses at Condé Nast,” according to WWD.

Ulrich’s motivation?

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Models

Max Mara’s Spring 2011 Ad Campaign Stars Karolina Kurkova

By Lauren Sherman Tuesday, Dec 21, 2010 / 12:15 PM

Supermodel Karolina Kurkova–who was a fixture at October’s Paris Fashion Week, walking for Jean Paul Gaultier and supporting Hakaan–looks stunning in Max Mara’s Spring 2011 take on minimalism. Click through for more. Read more »

Sales

Paul & Joe Blowout: Today on The Outnet

We love The Outnet. Mostly because we own a piece of Erdem due to their fantastic discounts, but also because they team up on exclusives with plenty of our favorite designers, from Alex Wang to Balmain. For instance, today the site is hosting a special sale with Paul & Joe.

Not only will shoppers get a chance to score second-season merchandise at wallet-friendly prices, but designer Sophie Albou has opened up her archives to offer devoted fans the opportunity to scoop up some limited edition Paul & Joe pieces. We’ve been after the khaki short suit for years–it’s perfectly proportioned–so it’s nice to be able to revisit favorites that we thought got away. We suggest heading over to The Outnet asap, as this stuff is sure to sell out fast. (It did the last time the outlet site and Albou got together.) Enjoy!

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Behold: Gisele Bündchen Goes Punk for Balenciaga’s Spring Campaign

Lately it seems Gisele Bündchen is more super mom than supermodel. When we last saw her she was in cartoon form, starring in an AOL kids animated web series “Gisele & the Green Team,” which promotes green living.

So it was a surprise when Bündchen walked the runway for Balenciaga in September. Now Bündchen has teamed back up with the French house to star in their spring campaign (shot by Steven Meisel, styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé). Of course, it’s not a long-maned Victoria Secret-esque Bündchen you’ll see. Designer Nicolas Ghesquière has used less conventional punkier waifs like Charlotte Gainsbourg as his muse, so it follows that Bündchen’s look for the campaign is harder and more androgynous.

Bündchen’s campaign costar is male model Yuri Pleskun who appears in a rather disconcerting black and white image naked, his eyes darkened, and what looks like lipstick smeared sloppily across his mouth.

Take a look.

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Hunter Wellies, a Balenciaga Bag and a Tucker Blouse Top the List of Most Coveted Sale Items of 2010

What do a James Perse black dress, a pair of fuschia Hunter wellies, and a floral Tucker blouse have in common?

They each topped sale aggregator Shop It To Me‘s list of most clicked-on items of 2010. This was measured by how many clicks each item received when it showed up in Shop It To Me’s daily email alerts.

Other coveted items included a Balenciaga bag and a Black Halo one-shouldered dress. What these findings tell us:

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