Archive for May 2011

Fashion Careers

Stylist Sally Lyndley Needs Art, PR/Social Media and Styling Interns in NYC and L.A.!

Sally Lyndley, stylist and and Fashionista contributor, is building a new team of interns in New York City and Los Angeles, and a virtual intern team to work on Research and Market Editing via the Internet. The intern teams will be working with Sally and her full time teams on both coasts. During the internship, they are committed to teaching the teams as much about the practice of styling and the fashion industry as possible. In return, they ask for teamwork from interns to help Sally prepare shoots, consultancy projects and runway shows.

Sally is looking for interns to work in ALL the following areas:

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Vuitton’s New Face, Queen Latifah Gets Fashionable and a Formichetti Pop-Up Shop

Sixteen-Year-Old Nayasha Matonhodze is the New Face of Louis Vuitton: The model is one of six up-and-comers shot by Steven Meisel in a Rolls Royce for the Autumn/Winter 2011 ad campaign, ironically featuring a Rolls Royce that Matonhodze is just barely old enough to drive. Do I predict the next Chanel Iman? {Telegraph}

Queen Latifah Does HSN: The actress and spokeswoman will partner with the Home Shopping Network to create a line of moderately-priced clothing and accessories called Queen, debuting in August. It’s friendly to all body types, but don’t you dare call it plus-sized; Latifah wants to “bury that word – this is for all sizes”. {WWD (subscription required)}

Anthropologie Joins Tumblr: The lifestyle brand will launch Etymologie today, a site dedicated to wordplay and creative self-expression. It will base posts around a weekly word, which staffers will interpret their own way with photos, videos, blurbs, etc. They’re going for that whole intellectual angle. {Etymologie}

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Textbook

Textbook for Fashionista: Elsa Schiaparelli

By John Jannuzzi Monday, May 23, 2011 / 1:30 PM

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Why Carine Roitfeld Does Vodka Shots Before Going to Fashion Parties and More Nuggets from Her Profile in the Financial Times

The Financial Times has a nice juicy profile of Carine Roitfeld out. Carola Long, the FT‘s deputy style editor, got to have decadent three hour lunch with the former Vogue Paris EIC at one of her favorite Russian restaurants in Paris (she ordered the herring). Over the course of those three hours, Roitfeld dishes on her new freelance life, leaving Vogue Paris, her booze preferences, the thing hates most in fashion, and the sorry state of runway shows today.

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News

Watch: Nicholas Kirkwood on His Keith Haring Capsule Collection

By Lauren Sherman Monday, May 23, 2011 / 11:00 AM

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Beauty

Pat McGrath Introduces Dolce & Gabbana’s Fierce Summer Beauty Collections, Gives Us Tons of Makeup Advice

There are very few things that can make me blow off my Saturday morning kickboxing class (Omar teaches it. Omar is hot.) Pat McGrath demonstrating Dolce & Gabbana’s summer makeup line at Saks was an exception, so instead of pretending to kick someone’s ass this past Saturday morning, I drank coffee and watched the makeup master work her magic.

Dolce & Gabbana introduced two lines for summer, with two distinctly different feelings that are nonetheless compatible.

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Princess Beatrice’s Hat Sells for Over $130,000; A Look Back at the Meme It Created

The infamous Philip Treacy hat that Princess Beatrice wore to the royal wedding has been sold at auction on eBay for £81,100.01–that’s $130765.66. Proceeds will go to benefit Bea’s chosen charities: UNICEF and Children in Crisis. The bidder’s identity has not yet been revealed.

The hat’s auction page was viewed around 724,000 times and 94 bids were placed on it, according to the UK’s Telegraph. The sale also sets a new record for the sale of a designer hat on eBay.

It’s a lot of money for hat that a lot of people thought was ridiculous. Bea’s hat caused nearly as much of a fuss as Kate Middleton’s wedding dress or Pippa Middleton’s bum. It prompted the creation of countless Facebook pages from “Princess Beatrice’s ridiculous Royal Wedding hat” which has 143,609 likes to “Princess Beatrice’s hat looks like a uterus” with 930 likes.

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Balmain Set to Launch a More Affordable Collection

Now that Balmain has installed a new head designer (Olivier Rousteing replaced Christophe Decarnin last month), the French fashion house, known for its absurdly expensive clothing, is launching a secondary ready-to-wear collection called Pierre Balmain, says WWD.

The line, funded by Italy’s Ittierre SpA, will be designed by a different team than the runway collection, but will have to be OKed by Rousteing and his cohorts. The best news for Balmain fans is that it’s unlikely you’ll see a $1,625 t-shirt in this collection, since Ittierre probably wants to actually sell more than a few outfits. What’s more, there are rumblings that the launch will take place this September in New York. Woohoo! We’ll keep you updated.

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The Business

Labelux Buys Jimmy Choo for an Estimated $850 Million

On the selling block for the past year or so, Jimmy Choo has been bought from London-based private equity firm TowerBrook Capital by Labelux, a burgeoning luxury group which owns brands like Bally, Derek Lam and Solange Azagury-Partridge. Labelux reportedly paid between ₤500-550 million–around $850 million–for the high-end shoe label.

According to a statement released by the Vienna-based firm, Jimmy Choo founder and chief creative officer Tamara Mellon and CEO Josh Schulman will stay on board, and Mellon will take a stake in the new company being formed by Labelux.

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Magazines

Our 20 Favorite Images From Katie Grand’s New Site, KatieGrand.com

You can imagine the excitement I felt yesterday morning when I found out Katie Grand had launched her own website housing her complete works.

Grand’s new website features a signature quirky design that highlights her immaculate styling. From Pop to Love to Miu Miu to The Face to Dazed and Confused to Vuitton, Grand has literally done it all. And any fashion enthusiast will consider her new site a blessing.

Usually stylists’ work is hard to find without trolling The Fashion Spot for hours, and even then, it’s usually incomplete. Grand’s site is organized and encyclopedic, and will make your mouth water.

We’ve pulled our 20 favorites from Grand’s archive, but we recommend heading to KatieGrand.com and wasting a few hours, too.

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People & Parties

Joffrey Ballet Students Turn Guess Window Models For a Night

Last night, Guess, in partnership with Harper’s Bazaar, hosted a cocktail reception to benefit the Joffrey Ballet School. It wasn’t necessarily your typical benefit for the arts–it took place in a crowded Guess store on Broadway and felt more like a shopping party with girls dashing in and out of fitting rooms in leopard print dresses in between sips of their pink cocktails. But since the purpose of the event was to raise money for the Joffrey Ballet School (guests received 20% off their purchase with a minimum donation of $5), this worked out perfectly. Cashiers were busy the entire night.

The best part was that actual dancers from the Joffrey Ballet school in full-on tutus were walking around the store talking to people, posing for pictures and even doing ballet poses in the windows. “So many of the patrons tonight have come up to the dancers and said, ‘are you really a dancer or are you a model?’” said Davis Robertson, longtime Joffrey Ballet principal and current Board President and Dance Director of Live Arts Collaboration at the Joffrey Ballet School.

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Best Dressed

Best Dressed: Milla Jovovich in Prada, Kirsten Dunst in Chanel and More

By Alaina Hernandez Friday, May 20, 2011 / 6:09 PM


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