Archive for January 2011

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Fashion Is Fun

Tibi Recognizes Editors For Their Street Style With Personalized Stationery

Here’s proof editors-as-style-stars are influencing designers: Tibi‘s Amy Smilovic used street style shots of five editors known for their unique style and created personalized stationery for them as gifts.

But if you’re not lucky enough to be Italian Elle‘s Eva Fontanelli, Teen Vogue‘s Jane Keltner deValle, Elle‘s Kate Lanphear, Teen Vogue‘s Mary Kate Steinmiller, or Marie Claire‘s Taylor Tomasi Hill, you can purchase standard Tibi stationary decorated with adorable illustrations of girls in frothy dresses in Tibi stores or at Tibi.com.

Check it out–we’ve got to admit, the stationery is pretty cute.

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Teen Vogue Invites Bloggers to WWDMagic, Launches a Personal Style Blog Network

Fashion industry trade shows can often be an overwhelming and tedious experience for attendees who must navigate through a thousand plus booths of designers, hawking their latest creations. This year, WWDMagic, the Las Vegas-based show, has partnered with Teen Vogue to bring the event to a much, much bigger audience.

They’ve invited 30 bloggers–including Jane Aldridge of Sea of Shoes and Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This along with a slew of up-and-comers–to participate in panels, trend reporting, video segments, and competitions as part of a Blogger Concourse Lounge during the three day show (February, 14 – 16, 2011). Teen Vogue will also use the lounge to promote the launch of their personal style blogger network Fashion Click. (Lucky, by the way, is also launching its own blog network.)

Much like Tumblr’s own coverage of NYFW, coverage of the bloggers’ trip will be aggregated to one page: Wwdmagic.tumblr.com.

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Beauty

Three Korean Beauty Brands To Try

Japan has long had a reputation for producing amazing cosmetics and skin care lines (Shiseido and Shu Uemura, anyone?) but another Asian country has been quietly infiltrating the US market lately. Look to Korea for new beauty innovations coming down the pipeline.

I was talking to a friend who’s a veteran marketer in the beauty industry. She thinks Americans have this idea that Asians have perfect, flawless skin. Now, this friend also happens to be Korean-American…and she has perfect, flawless skin. I’m not stereotyping here. Just saying.

You can’t find Korean brands on every drugstore shelf yet, but it may be headed that way. Amore Pacific, a company based in Seoul, owns about 15 different makeup and skincare brands, a few of which have some exposure here in the US. If you’ve not heard of Amore Pacific, you will soon.

WWD recently listed them as number 20 in their list of 100 top beauty companies. Most of the company’s business right now is in Korea and China, but in 2009 the company’s US business increased by 25%.

The Amore Pacific brand offers skincare under the Amore Pacific label and a very high end line called Sulwhasoo. Etude is a younger, cheaper makeup and skincare line. Oddly, the company also owns the Lolita Lempicka fragrance brand.

Click through to learn more about some of these brands:

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Alber Spreads Romance, One Royal Chooses Her Wedding Dress, and Jimmy Choo for Dudes

Alber Elbaz Steals Our Heart Again: To celebrate the upcoming summer wedding of Prince Albert of Monaco to Charlene Wittstock, Elbaz has teamed up with the Hotel Métropole Monte-Carlo in Monaco to create a romantic package for two that features Elbaz-designed cocktails and treats, a Lanvin Gift, and helicopter ride over the French Riviera. Swoon.
{Vogue UK}

Jimmy Choo For Dudes: All the men out there who have ever envied a woman’s shoe collection can now sport their own Jimmy Choo’s. Tamara Mellon has designed a men’s line that includes a range of high tops, biker boots, gentleman’s evening slippers, and even those croc Hunter wellies. The collection will be available to order online in July.
{Telegraph}

An Abrupt End to Tao Comme Des Garcons: Tao Kurihara’s Spring/Summer 2011 collection shown in Paris last October will unfortunately be her last. The designer will instead focus on the Tricot Comme Des Garcons label shown twice a year in Tokyo.
{Fashionologie}

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Streetwalker

Street Style: Ingrid Wears a Scarf From Her Boyfriend’s Mom

Name: Ingrid

Age: 21

Occupation: Student

Where are you from originally? Norway.

What is the most prominent color in your wardrobe? Black.

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Fashion Is Fun

Glamour + Garance + Jane + Mr. Louboutin = More News on That Mysterious Blogger Shoot

Last week we told you about a mysterious blogger photo shoot involving Jane Aldridge, with Garance Dore serving as the photographer. The Sea of Shoes star wouldn’t reveal more than those two details, but we’ve done some digging to get the scoop.

According to our sources, Aldridge was seen shooting at the Christian Louboutin boutique in New York’s Meatpacking District, and that the film permit said Glamour magazine.

So, contrary to what we originally assumed, this might have been an actual editorial photo shoot. Or it could be the second promotional shoot Dore’s done for Glamour. Last year, it was a fantastic street style spread that ran as an advert in the magazine.

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Magazines

Check Out Kristen Stewart’s Vogue Shoot, Outtakes Included

Kristen Stewart‘s Vogue cover leaked last week and now the official cover story, plus photos from her spread, shot by Mario Testino, are up on Vogue.com.

Vogue‘s cover girls are often made to look too “Vogue”–too sleek and plastic and photoshopped but Stewart looks every bit the angst-ridden 20-year-old we know and love on February’s cover. She looks beautiful, and a little miserable. Which is kind of how she looks on every red carpet.

Stewart’s Vogue fittingly seizes on her love for Proenza Schouler.

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The Business

This Morning’s Fashion Biz News: J.Crew Almost Settled, Burberry and Richemont Leap Again, and Escada Gets Bar-ed

The financial markets in the US were closed yesterday, which in turn made things in Europe–as well as behind-the-scenes here–much more exciting.

The most critical news: J.Crew is close to settling a lawsuit regarding its takeover. Some public shareholders felt that J.Crew’s Mickey Drexler accepted an offer for the company that was too low–$2.86 billion–and they want to be compensated. Those shareholders will receive $10 million for settling, and J.Crew will entertain other potential offers until February 15. (Although Reuters is reporting that there haven’t been any rival bids, which means the deal is likely to go through next month.)

Over in Britain, the morning’s big stories are Burberry and Net-a-Porter.

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Entertainment

Why Rodarte Won’t Get The Credit They Deserve for Designing Black Swan‘s Costumes

Part of the anticipation leading up to Black Swan‘s release, at least in the fashion world, had to do with the fact that Rodarte had designed the ballet costumes. The Mulleavy sisters created 40 costumes for the Darren Aronofsky thriller, including outfitting the entire ballet corps. So it follows that Rodarte has been the bold faced name associated with Black Swan‘s beautifully twisted costumes.

But with awards season in full swing, you won’t see Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s names next to the nominations for Best Costume Design (Black Swan has already received a best costume nom from the Critics Choice Awards and will likely get an Oscar nomination). Amy Westcott will take the credit, as she received the “front credit” as costume designer for the film while the Mulleavy sisters only receive a backend credit.

In The Hollywood Reporter, Merle Ginsberg notes there’s “a long history of fashion designers creating costumes for stars above and beyond what a film’s costume designer does–and not getting the credit they crave.” The most famous example of this, Ginsberg points out, is Edith Head winning the Oscar for Sabrina when Givenchy outfitted Hepburn for the film.

In the case of Rodarte for Black Swan, a source told THR that the Mulleavy’s were “naive about movies,” meaning they didn’t negotiate credits in their initial deal, and weren’t members of the the Costume Design Guild when they worked on the film (they are now).

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Menswear

Virtual Tour: Pitti Uomo

I spent last week in Florence, Italy covering Pitti Uomo and Pitti W, the men’s and women’s trade shows known best for translating high-fashion trends to retail. You won’t find middle-of-the-road brands at this event: Each label is either steeped in tradition, or starting a revolution in its specific category. (Whether that’s men’s brogues, outerwear, bow ties, or hats.)

When I wasn’t scurrying off to press previews, runway shows, or, um, blogging, I was floating from booth to booth, checking out what the vendors had on offer. Here’s a bit of what I saw. (Tomorrow, I’ll reveal my new street style icon, who I found at the fair.)

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Magazines

Kate Moss and Lea T. Lock Lips on LOVE’s Issue 5 Cover

Today was a good day for all of you LOVE-aholics out there; Katie Grand and Co. just released a teensy image of the first cover of the fifth issue, a black and white photo of Lea T. and a Burberry-bedecked Kate Moss, shot by Mert & Marcus with the headline “This is Hardcore.”

If you are even half as excited as I am about LOVE’s newest issue, the cover is just the fix to have you up at night guessing at what kind of goodies will be inside.

As if that wasn’t enough to make my countdown to February 7 all the more suspenseful, the LOVE website has been completely made-over with the Lea T. and Kate cover as the background and a short movie previewing the contents on the issue. From the images in the video, I think this issue of LOVE is going to be just as jaw-dropping as the rest.

Now how long until the Bieber cover is released… ?

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Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day: Chloe Sevigny Is Not Dating Pauly D But Wishes She Were

By Leah Chernikoff Monday, Jan 17, 2011 / 2:29 PM

“No [I'm not dating Pauly D], but I wish, because that would be hilarious. That would be the weirdest couple in the world. It would be like the apocalypse…We represent extremes, in opposite directions. So for us two to come together, it would be a very strange meeting of the minds or colliding of two worlds. I haven’t watched that many episodes, but of the ones I have… if I were to pick one of the dudes on the show, I’d definitely pick him.”

–Chloe Sevigny in Interview on rumors that she is dating the Jersey Shore’s Pauly D. Wonder how those got started?