Archive for August 2011

Shopping

Start Saving Now: These New Charlotte Olympia Shoes Are the Cat’s Meow

By Leah Chernikoff Thursday, Aug 4, 2011 / 3:45 PM

Charlotte Olympia always makes awesome shoes that we one day dream of being able to afford. This season, however, she’s really outdone herself. For fall/winter Olympia has designed several shoes embroidered with kitties on the toes (thanks to Elle for pointing them out). And you guys all know how I feel about cats in fashion. So, you see, I had to share these with you. Shame that they’re just under $900 US (£545). Check out the other styles. You know you wanna see them in their red velvet platform incarnation.
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Beauty

Cosmoprof Report: Everything You Need to Know About What’s Happening in Nails Now

While I have to admit I have a little bit of nail art fatigue and am looking forward to some of the gorgeous nude polishes that are launching this fall, my interest was definitely peaked again at Cosmoprof. Nails are still a huge focal point for the industry, and there are new brands, new trends, and new innovations. While some struck me as gimmicky, some are definitely going to turn into modern classics.

Click through to check out my trend report and learn a bit about some new things in the world of nails that are launching soon.

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Streetwalker

Street Style: Norma From Vienna Shows Us Up With A Neon Blue Bag

Name: Norma

Age: 17

Occupation: Student

Where are you from originally? Vienna.

How would you describe your style? Different.. I wear what I like.

What is your favorite store in NYC? Topshop and Urban Outfitters, but I prefer vintage shops.

What is one thing that you want to do before you leave New York City? Take a photography course, which I’ve just done.

Who is your favorite photographer? I can’t say.

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: See The ANTM All-Stars, Beyoncé Lands Another Cover and Elle Fanning vs. Alexa Chung

Daphne Guinness Gets an Exhibit at The Museum at FIT: Opening on September 16 (when NYFW ends), the exhibit will showcase 100 selections from Guinness’ personal collection in a space designed to look like her Manhattan apartment. If anything could follow McQueen, this is it. Ends January 7. {Racked}

Beyoncé Is A Sexy Feminist On The Cover of Harper’s Bazaar UK: Bey proves that feminism can definitely be hot, although she admits the word itself isn’t and wants to create a new, more appealing label. Her suggestion: “bootylicious”. Yes. {Huffington Post}

Meet The ANTM All-Stars: Hell yeah, I see you Shannon form Cycle 1. Our fave modeling show is bringing back their (second) best of the best for another season later this fall. Practice your smize! {US Weekly}

Gucci Announces Nominees For First “Women In Cinema” Awards: In her second collaboration with the Venice Film Festival, Frida Giannini will award a prize to a woman for outstanding acheivement in film-making on September 2. Nominees come from every part of the film industry, including Tree of Life’s Jessica Chastain. {Telegraph}

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Fashion Is Fun

More Pix From Liza Minnelli’s Terry Richardson-shot Editorial for LOVE: She Wears Terry’s Glasses and Gives You the Finger

By Leah Chernikoff Thursday, Aug 4, 2011 / 1:01 PM

Terry Richardson has just revealed more images from the editorial he shot featuring Liza Minnelli for LOVE. And we’re in love. I was hoping for a classic Terry thumbs up photo of them together but he’s done one better: in one shot he’s gripping Liza’s thigh while she caresses his chest, and in another captioned “Liza as me” Minnelli is wearing his glasses.

Click through to see the rest.
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Campaigns

Watch: Adorable Toddlers Being Adorable in Gucci’s Fall/Winter Kids Collection

By Dhani Mau Thursday, Aug 4, 2011 / 12:20 PM

We love high-end designer kids collections simply for things like this: normal little kids who probably have no idea what Gucci is wearing their clothes and, you know, playing around with some sort of giant mythical Gucci dog/bear hybrid animal. The kids are dressed in Gucci’s fall/winter ’11 collection, which was inspired by the English countryside according to creative director Frida Giannini. We love the girl with the bangs’ outfits–a red coat with black patent leather boots and, later, a white shift dress, which she wears while holding hands with a little boy in a black tuxedo. Aren’t they a little young to be getting married? Read more »

Beauty

Kate Bosworth Wins the Ombré/Tie Dye Hair War–Peep Her New Teal Tips

Sorry, Lauren Conrad. You’ve been toppled from your hair color throne. Kate Bosworth stepped out at a Coldplay concernt last night in LA with a new man and that hair.

Kate always manages to work the oh-so-disheveled look to perfection, but it’s kicked up a notch with the teal/turquoise ends. We don’t know if this is intentional–it probably is–but from roots to ends her hair perfectly ombrés from natural, to baby blonde, to faded teal. Her brows look pretty spectacular, too. She’s definitely been hitting the brow powder in a good way–it’s a great contrast to her hair.

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People We Like

Brad Goreski Is Writing a Book Doling Out ‘Life and Style Lessons from the Front Lines of Fashion’

He already has his own Bravo reality show and now stylist Brad Goreski has landed a lucrative book deal.

Brad just Tweeted, “Hi everyone! I am so excited to be writing a book for @harpercollins. It’s called “Born to Be Brad” and will be out sometime next year :)”

The full title is Born to Be Brad: Life and Style Lessons from the Front Lines of Fashion, according to Coco Perez, and the tome will reportedly cover everything from Brad’s childhood to landing a job as Rachel Zoe’s assistant and everything in between.

“Sometimes the hardest thing to do is be true to yourself,” Brad told the site. “I hope that Born to be Brad will inspire others to pursue their dreams, because to make dreams come true we have to listen to our hearts and not be afraid to fail.”

The book is expected to hit shelves around the same time Brad’s Bravo show, “It’s a Brad Brad World” airs next year. Got to time those things right!

We’re big fans of Brad’s and congratulate him on all his success! He’s hilarious and we’re sure that will come through in his book. Also, being clever as we are, we’ve noticed a pattern emerging here in how Brad’s projects are titled. So for his future endeavors, we have some title suggestions:

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Fashion Careers

Beyond Vintage is looking for Design Interns!

Beyond Vintage, a brand that re-creates pieces from past decades with modern fabrics and cut, looking for a stellar candidates ready to jump in and learn the business from the ground up!

Qualifications:
-Organized, dedicated and eager to learn
-Mac or PC Photoshop and Excel skills highly desired
-Senior in design school/recent grad preferred

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Entertainment

Alison Brod on Being Called a C*** on TV: ‘It Was Actually Good For My Career’

If you watched the last season of Entourage (or were forced to watch it with you boyfriend, but come on, you didn’t really mind) you might have caught a scene where Jeremy Piven’s Ari Gold calls someone named Alison Brod a c***.

Brod is, of course, the PR maven with a serious penchant for pink whom you might remember as repping Whitney Port‘s line on The City (she’s no longer listed as one of Brod’s clients). But the well-heeled publicist wasn’t peeved.

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Models

Heidi Klum Asked Lamar Odom’s Stylist to Cut Her Kids’ Hair and More From Her New Huffington Post Blog

Heidi Klum is the latest model to pen a blog for the Huffington Post (Jessica Stam wrote about cell phone etiquette for Huffpo Canada in June). In “Caring for my Kids’ Hair,” Heidi waxes poetic on the challenges of just that. Apparently, three of her four kids (with musician Seal) have curly hair, while her daughter Leni (who has a different biological father) has straight hair. This, I realized, after much confusion, is why the blog appears in the “Black Voices” section of the online magazine.

I know from personal experience that “mixed” curly hair can be a major challenge that most people don’t know what to do with and Heidi actually offers some pretty helpful advice.

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Fashion Is Fun

See Kim Kardashian’s Curves in 3D in Racy New Mag WMB

We didn’t think it was possible for Kim Kardashian‘s curves to get any more three-dimensional than they already are, but new mag WMB (stands for World’s Most Beautiful) is touting itself as the first 3-D magazine–and Kim’s its first cover girl. WMB (not to be confused with the other WMB, or Women Mean Business, an Irish magazine for businesswomen) shot Kim in a ramshackle old building in the desert wearing all sorts of outfits that are inappropriate for the desert.

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