Archive for March 2011

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Seven Questions for Mono Lake’s Molly Girard Coonan

We’ve said it before ad we’ll say it again: Fabricly is becoming to young designers what record labels are to unsigned artists: a haven to produce and make a profit. The e-commerce site launched in December with a goal to help young designers transform their ideas into full-blown fashion lines.

First up on their roster? Molly Girard Coonan.

The New Mexico native, who earned her degree in France and interned at Givenchy, has been tapped by the brand to create a collection which she’s named Mono Lake. Enamored by her line, full of fun fringed tees and athle-chic shorts and rompers, we tracked down Coonan for a quick chit chat….

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  • Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 / 12:30 PM
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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Japan Fashion Week Canceled, Vena Cava’s Commerce, and Jean Touitou Mouths Off (Again)

Japan Skips Fashion Week: The tragedy-stricken country cancels its Fall 2011 fashion week. {WWD, subscription required}

Vena Cava Digital: Now you can buy all of Vena Cava’s clothes on their website. While you’re there, don’t forget to checkout their awesome blog and the for-sale collection of excellent vintage tchotchkes. {Vena Cava}

17 Things You Didn’t Know About Jean Touitou: The APC designer muses on Samuel Beckett, Metronomy, and crappy French restaurants. {WSJ}

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Fashion Is Fun

Watch Kate Moss Drunkenly Seduce a Teddy Bear…For Charity

By Leah Chernikoff Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 / 11:16 AM


Kate Moss made Page Six recently for rumors that she had a little too much to drink at the YSL after party in Paris. But in this video the excessive boozing is all an act to creepily seduce a teddy bear–in the name of charity. Read more »

Beauty

Are You Impressed By This Unretouched Makeup Ad?

By Cheryl Wischhover Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 / 10:30 AM

Yesterday Huff Po posted this ad for Makeup Forever’s HD High Definition foundation. The copy on the ad: “You’re looking at the first unretouched makeup ad.”

As a person who spends her life analyzing makeup and snake oil, this one threw me for a loop. My first reaction was, “Ooh, groundbreaking!” immediately followed by, “Hey, wait, they’re selling me a product to hide all my ‘imperfections’” to “Hmm, I’d like to try this.” And I don’t even wear foundation. Then I started picking apart the model to look for all HER imperfections. This is all very messed up.
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Beauty

Check Out Photos From Emma Watson’s Lancôme Campaign Shoot

Yesterday Lancôme officially announced that Emma Watson would be their newest ambassadress. Paparazzi shots of her campaign as it was being shot by Mario Testino in Paris surfaced last night. From the looks of the shoot, Lancôme is bringing out Watson’s tougher side, giving her strong red lips and dark smokey eyes, slicking down her short pixie hair, and putting a cropped leather biker over her soft blush dress.

Thoughts?

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Entertainment

Rihanna’s Complete Vogue Spread Has Arrived

Fashion Bomb Daily got her hands on Rihanna’s April Vogue editorial, shot by Annie Leibovitz. The good thing about Rihanna is that she’s so beautiful, and her skin is so smooth, that she doesn’t really need any photoshopping. Which means these photos look surprisingly natural, particularly for touch-up happy Vogue.

What do you think of the spread? Click through to see the rest.

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Streetwalker

Street Style: Eva Puts On Whatever She Feels Like in the Morning

Name: Eva Chen

Occupation: Beauty director at Teen Vogue

How would you describe your style? It’s eclectic and whatever I feel like in the morning.

What is your current beauty obsession? Rodin Olio Lusso.

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Fashion Is Fun

Snowboarding With A Champion, Nike 6.0, And Some Surfers

So I got to go snowboarding with the most decorated woman snowboarder in Winter X Games history. I didn’t even knock her down while getting off the lift. Win! But perhaps I should back up a minute.

Nike 6.0 sponsored a trip for some editors to go to Windham Mountain to preview the brand’s Action Sports collection, then to try it on the slopes firsthand. We were greeted at an enormous mountainside log mansion, complete with antler chandeliers and masses of soft, curly shearling pillows strewn everywhere. After settling in with some coffee and snacks, we were introduced to three of Nike’s Action Sports athletes.

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Fashion Week

Best of Fall 2011 Fashion Month

By Alaina Hernandez Monday, Mar 14, 2011 / 5:22 PM

Our favorite collections of Fall 2011, arranged in alphabetical order. Did your pick make the cut?

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Image of the Day

Image of the Day: Is This Victoria’s Secret Model Missing Half Her Thighs?

By Leah Chernikoff Monday, Mar 14, 2011 / 4:42 PM


Anything look off about this Victoria’s Secret model’s legs to you? We know models are supposed to be skinny and all but her legs look like arms. Really skinny photoshopped arms. (Victoria’s Secret via The Gloss)

The Business

Moda Operandi’s Aslaug Magnusdottir Talks Isabel Marant, Layaway for the Elite, and Why LSD Was Her Top Choice for a Partner

Innovations in retail are few and far between. In 2007, I remember hearing about Gilt Groupe and thinking, “this is going to change the way people shop.” Over the last four years, the flash sales site has certainly altered our idea of a discount.

But I’d argue that Moda Operandi–a new platform that allows users to buy pieces right off the runway–is equally as innovative, if not more so.

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Daphne Guinness Says She Didn’t Call Victoria Beckham an “Ugly Pig,” Emma Watson Is the New Face of Lancôme, and Watch Crystal Renn Dance With a Chanel Surfboard

Crystal Renn is a Surfer Girl: Watch Crystal Renn dance and model and make shadow puppets and do everything but surf with a Chanel surf board in this fashion film on StyleCaster, the first of a three-part series Renn will do with the site. {StyleCaster}

Daphne Strikes Back: Daphne Guinness has taken to Twitter to deny the quotes attributed to her in the UK’s Sunday Times Magazine in which she reportedly called Victoria Beckham an “ugly pig” who “annoys the shit” out of her. “I feel like killing myself, I have been stabbed in the back by that journalist…I am so sad stitched up by the sunday times. I thought c. long was a friend. I would never call anyone an ugly cow, not my words,” she tweeted. “And for the record I not only admire Victoria Beckham but know her and like her. My point was that I do most things alone without a backer.” {@TheRealDaphne}

Tyra Banks Launches New Website, Is Enrolled at Harvard Business School: Tyra Banks is launching a new beauty site called TypeF.com tomorrow. She’s also been enrolled at Harvard B-School for the past year but we doubt she’s taking part in flip-cup tourneys. {The Cut}

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