Archive for June 2011
Streetwalker
Street Style: Imogen Loves to Swear
Name: Imogen Morris-Clarke
Age: 19
Occupation: Model
Agency: NEXT
How would you describe your style? Friend Amanda Nørgaard: Very chic with a twist… with a cool London attitude, always. Very european and timeless! IMC: I also love ’70s stuff, and I don’t have enough!
What is your favorite vintage shop? I love Portobello Market in London.
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By Boe is a New York based contemporary jewelry company sold in top department stores and boutiques worldwide, and regularly featured in the fashion press.
We are looking for a skilled, detail oriented individual to manage operations for the By Boe e-commerce website as well as all operations pertaining to domestic wholesale accounts.
Responsibilities include:
-Monitoring and reporting online traffic and sales
-Updating website on a periodic basis
-All customer service tasks related to online sales
-Overseeing online marketing, including email campaigns, social media, discounting, promotions, online advertising and partnerships
-Servicing all domestic wholesale accounts
-Invoicing and collection from all domestic wholesale accounts
-Assisting in sales at tradeshows and showroom visits
Skills required:
-Proficient in Excel and Photoshop
-Excellent online skills, including experience with HTML
-Excellent writing skills
-Ability to learn, process and retain information quickly
-Outgoing personality and great customer service skills
-Organized and self motivated multi-tasker
-Extremely detail oriented personality a must!
Compensation commensurate with experience; contact meg(at)launchcollective(dot)com for more information.
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Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt.
PARIS–Soft and romantic are never words used to describe a Comme des Garçons show, which often requires intensive focus to understand the complicated creative process behind the seemingly difficult to wear clothes. But those words precisely describe the collection designer Rei Kawakubo sent out into a small darkened room near the Gare de l’Est.
Saved for the models’ wet sheen, the side kiss curls gracing their temples, and the occasional large multicolor crowns on their heads, the show combined key elements from the staple of CdG’s signatures, like the mixed prints and checkerboards in shiny grey silk nylon as well as red and fushcia fabrics that recalling the patchwork of scarves stitched into a dress from this fall’s “Hybrid fashion” women collection. A long cotton shirt dress in fuchsia or black was shown with jackets and coats as the new underpinning for next summer.
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Fashion News Roundup
Fashion News Roundup: Beyonce Spoils Solange, Gaga’s Getting Sued, and the Thriller Jacket’s Been Sold
Beyonce gifts Solange with 25 pairs of shoes: The singer, who’s been known for spending millions on her loved ones, splurged at Saks and Bergdorf’s on Thursday, and bought her sis a pair of shoes for every year she’s been alive. Can we join this family? {NY Post}
Lady Gaga sued over wristbands: An attorney with Michigan-based 1-800-LAW-FIRM is suing Ms. Germanotta on pretenses that she profited from the “We Pray for Japan” wristbands sold on her website, of which proceeds supposedly all went to tsunami and earthquake relief efforts. Say it ain’t so, Gaga! {Showbiz Spy}
Heidi Klum is releasing a new QVC jewelry line; we’re hoping she doesn’t get sued this time: The supermodel plans for much more, well, original inspiration for her second collection. QVC and Heidi’s lawyers aren’t alone in crossing their fingers that she’ll avoid a lawsuit this time around. {Styleite}
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Over the past few days, Duchess Catherine wore some new digs by two designers she’s worn before. Today she attended Wimbledon with Prince Wills wearing a tennis-appropriate pleated tiered white frock by Temperley London. On Saturday, she wore a military style coat dress by Alexander McQueen to attend the Irish Guards military parade.
It seems that Sarah Burton for McQueen is becoming Kate’s go-to designer–Grazia reported last week that she was spotted at the label’s HQ in London picking up something red for her North American tour. Kate has proven that she’s loyal to the brands she likes and a loyalty to Sarah Burton at McQueen serves her very well indeed.
Click though to see more images of Kate in Temperley at Wimbledon today, and in McQueen at the Irish Guards parade on Saturday.
**All photos: Getty
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Webvertorial
Seven Questions for Danish Label Won Hundred’s Creative Director Nikolaj Nielsen (Plus The Fall Look Book)
By Leah Chernikoff
This post is brought to you by Effen Vodka.
There’s a lot of great fashion coming out of Scandinavia these days, but one of the labels I was most excited to see up close and personal over Copenhagen fashion week was Won Hundred. The label, which launched in 2004, was just nominated for Danish designer of the year by the Dansk Fashion Awards. I wouldn’t be surprised if they took home the win–the line defines Danish style in the best way: simple and practical but never boring, well-constructed, well-fitting basics for men and women. Think A.P.C. but less precious. It’s the kind of label where you always want everything they put out.
So we asked creative director and denim vet Nikolaj Nielsen how the line came about, what Danish style is all about, and how on earth he came up with the name “Won Hundred.”
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Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt.
PARIS–At the exit of the Centre George Pompidou, otherwise known locally as the Beaubourg, there were mixed reactions to Riccardo Tisci’s spring menswear show for Givenchy. “It’s horrible and repetitive,” I heard a man said to his colleague in front of me as we reached an impasse near the photographer’s pit. “Maybe I am wrong but I completely love it,” I said softly as I turned to my companion as we raced to get to the fashion bus onto the next show. Often such wide range reactions to a collection usually means that it was a great show; a bad one won’t generate such wild opinions.
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Rent the Runway–the service that lets you rent designer dresses for a few days at a time–is teaming up with Lancôme to sell a selection of color makeup, including Juicy Tubes, eyeliners, and bronzer.
The goal is to give RtR (www.renttherunway.com) clients the “head to toe” experience: Not only can you now wear a high-end dress for a fraction of the price, you can have makeup that complements your new look delivered in the same package.
“Lancôme is the perfect partner for our entry into beauty,” Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman said in a statement. “They’re a luxurious, aspirational and sophisticated brand, just like our designer partners.”
It’s no surprise Rent the Runway is entering the full-price market, and beauty seems like a smart way to do it. Lancôme may be luxurious, but it’s prices are attainable. A Color Design Lipstick, for instance, is $22. Not cheap–but not crazy, either. These impulse purchases should add a nice little cushion to RtR’s top line. (The site also sells lingerie at full-price.)
Click through for a full list of RtR’s Lancôme offerings.
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Princess Beatrice Hired Emma Watson’s Stylist: How Her Style Has Changed Since That Infamous Hat
Princess Beatrice took a lot of heat for the Philip Treacy hat she wore to the Royal Wedding. That hat spawned hilarious internet memes (some likening it to a toilet), was the inspiration for numerous Facebook pages (including one comparing it to a uterus), and ultimately raised over $130,000 for charity after Bea had the brilliant idea to put it up on eBay.
While Princess Beatrice seemed to take all the hat flack in stride, the Daily Mail is reporting that she has hired Emma Watson’s stylist Charlie Anderson because she was ” ‘mortified’ by criticism of her outfit at the Royal Wedding.” Anderson, the former fashion director at Tatler, reportedly charges £1,500 a day (that’s $2395), and according to the tab, other clients have included Anne Hathaway, Nicole Richie and Katie Holmes. Anderson’s agency confirmed to the Mail that she has been working with the Princess of York since the Royal Wedding and signed a nondisclosure agreement.
So is Anderson worth her crazy high day rate? So far it seems so. Take a look at Bea’s best outfits post-Royal Wedding.
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Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt.
PARIS–When I arrived at the YSL menswear show, which took place in an intimate loft near the Jardin du Palais Royal, I found basketball star Dwyane Wade already sitting in the front row section, right off of the stage’s exit.
“This is my first time at a Paris show and today I am only seeing YSL and Givenchy,” he said when I asked if he is doing a round of shows this weekend. “These clothes are elegant but in a subtle way and not loud,” he responded when I enquired if he wears YSL on a regular basis.
Wade was wearing an ice blue mixed cotton single-breasted suit, a white cotton shirt, a dark blue silk linen scarf tied around his neck and white leather high tops embroidered with a red, white, and blue YSL logo. More than anyone so far that I’d seen at the Paris shows, Wade convey that touch of French elegance: calculated. but always giving an air of non-chalance.
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Magazines
Sarah Jessica Parker Will Cover August Vogue, Kate Moss Will Cover the All-Important September Issue
Conde Nast has chosen Kate Moss and Lindsay Lohan to cover two of their biggest September issues, Page Six is reporting (the Post calls them “beloved bad girls”). Moss will cover Vogue and Lohan, who is currently under house arrest, will cover Vanity Fair.
Our sources at Conde have confirmed that Moss will indeed cover September, accompanying a Testino-shot story that focuses on her July nuptials (for which Testino is the official photographer). Currently, the details about Moss’s upcoming wedding to Jamie Hince are being kept top secret, but it’s unlikely we’ll have to wait until September to hear anything about it (like who’s designing the dress??). Also, this is at least Moss’ fourth Vogue cover this year–she already covered the Brazilian, Japanese and French editions of the mag and is apparently rumored to be covering next month’s British Vogue. Since 1993, she’s covered American Vogue eight times, most recently 2008′s August “age issue.”
Speaking of August…our sources have also confirmed that Sarah Jessica Parker will cover Vogue’s age issue this year, to promote her upcoming film I Don’t Know How She Does It.
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