Archive for November 2011

Fashion Careers

WhoWhatWear.com is currently seeking a full-time Fashion Writer/Editor!

WhoWhatWear.com is currently seeking a full-time Fashion Writer/Editor to join its fast-paced editorial department in Los Angeles. The ideal candidate is an accomplished journalist with a comprehensive knowledge of celebrity style, runway trends, and fashion brands, as well as exceptionally strong writing skills. The Fashion Writer/Editor must also have strong visual sensibilities and the ability to make fashion market recommendations that are suitable and appropriate for WhoWhatWear.com’s content. This position reports directly to the Editorial Director, offers enormous potential for growth within the company, and will be an integral part of this exciting multi-media fashion and beauty start-up.

Job Responsibilities:
-Conceive, report, write and publish daily fashion and celebrity style stories for WhoWhatWear.com
-Work with the ad sales team to create advertorial copy
-Provide top editing and editorial guidance to freelance writers, blog contributors, and associate editor as needed

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Drug Ring That Smuggled Cocaine Shaped as Manolo Blahniks Busted: Here Are Our Favorite, Inevitable, Puns About the Story (Snow Shoes, Drug Mule…)

An elaborate drug smuggling network from Colombia was recently dismantled in Barcelona. The fascinating operation involved disguising cocaine as high heels by sculpting a liquid form of the drug into stilettos, which would later be broken back down into powder. However, they weren’t just any high heels; these masterful drug dealers were apparently making cocaine replicas of Manolo Blahniks, specifically.

We’re not sure if Colombian drug traffickers watch a lot of Sex and the City or are big fans of Anna Wintour‘s ubiquitous mules. Perhaps it’s just because Manolo is one of the most famous names in women’s footwear. Whatever the reason, according to EITB.com, the traffickers themselves, a 34-year-old man and his 24-year-old wife, described the women’s shoes as “Manolos,” by name. The police investigation, which began over a year ago, was even officially dubbed “Operation Manolos.”

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Fashion Careers

CA Creative is Seeking Spring Interns!

CA Creative is seeking interns for the spring semester. We are an editorial and social media agency based in New York, focused on fashion and lifestyle brands, with clients including Kanon Organic Vodka, Joie, Equipment, Kain Label, and David Yurman. By putting our clients in touch with the industry’s top movers and shakers we work to create innovative online content and drive brand awareness.

CA Creative interns will work on a variety of tasks including but not limited to: writing original Twitter, Facebook, and blog content, monitoring and controlling social media outreach, working in Photoshop to edit feature templates, working with the team on editorial calendars, and more.

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Entertainment

Report: Marc Jacobs Will Make his Acting Debut in Disconnect Alongside Jason Bateman and Alexander Skarsgard

Ever since we heard that Marc Jacobs was cast in a movie, we’ve been feverishly awaiting more information (and okay, maybe cooking up a few too many fantasy roles for him). Well, the wait is over.

According to Marc Jacob’s IMDB page, the designer has been cast in indie drama Disconnect, set to premiere in 2012. The film is directed by Henry Alex Rubin (who previously directed the Oscar-nominated documentary Murderball) and will feature a slew of notable actors including Jason Bateman, Alexander Skarsgard, Andrea Riseborough, Paula Patton, Frank Grillo and Michael Nyqvist. And Marc Jacobs.

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Models

Behind-the-Scenes at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Fittings: See Miranda Kerr in the $2.5 Million Bra, Adriana Lima’s Bum and More

By Cheryl Wischhover Monday, Nov 7, 2011 / 10:30 AM

This Wednesday night, the Victoria’s Secret Angels will prance/walk/fly down the runway wearing a bunch of fantasy lingerie for the taping of the 2011 Victoria’s Secret fashion show. The fittings have been taking place this past weekend, and there are a lot of sneak peeks of what’s to come. While most people won’t get to see the full production until it airs on CBS on November 29 at 10/9C, these pictures should tide you over until then. Read more »

Shopping

Anna Wintour Gets All Feminist On Us (and We Like It); Talks Japanese Street Style

As you may have heard, Japan’s Fashion’s Night Out took place on Saturday and, thanks to a big push from Anna Wintour, was one of the biggest ever produced. 400 retailers participated, as did the top editors from all of the Vogues internationally. Designers like Michael Kors, Burberry’s Christopher Bailey, Roberto Cavalli, Derek Lam, Thom Browne, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim came out to show their support as well.

Despite the many recognizable fashion faces in Tokyo this weekend, Wintour was the one who “ascended to rock star status,” according to WWD (of course she’s ‘big in Japan’). Apparently, shoppers were following her, yelling her name and constantly snapping photos. But the Conde team wasn’t just there for photo ops. They were there to support Japan in reinvigorating their retail business post-earthquake and take in Japanese fashion.

According to WWD, Conde chairman Jonathan Newhouse broke into song at one of the FNO events and Wintour, after visiting with several local designers, told the Wall Street Journal all about her enthusiasm for Japanese fashion and the role it has globally. Plus, she had some interesting–and commendable–things to say about the criticism placed on women in positions of power in response to Japanese Cabinet Minister Renho’s controversial Vogue photoshoot from last year.

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Magazines

Gisele Bündchen Plays Suggestively with a Water Gun for Terry Richardson in Harper’s Bazaar Brazil

By Leah Chernikoff Monday, Nov 7, 2011 / 9:00 AM

Harper’s Bazaar Brazil’s inaugural issue was off to a good start with a striking Terry Richardson-shot cover of Gisele Bündchen. Now Made in Brazil has scanned in the accompanying editorial, and it’s starting to look like Harper’s Bazaar Brazil could be the country’s best glossy. “Brazilian Bazaar may just be Brazilian Vogue done right,” a few editors told Made’s Juliano Corbetta. You can’t go wrong with Gisele and Terry, some cat ears and a watergun.

Take a look at the full spread. Gisele plays a CAT you guys.
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Fashion Careers

Fashionable Nursing Uniforms? Pratt Fashion Design Students Took On the Challenge

The splashy designs we see on the runway and in editorials often take a lot of the spotlight in the fashion world, but there’s also a whole world of functional clothing that exists to allow people to do their jobs better or to portray a certain image to clients or customers. Nurses are a perfect example. Their jobs are often messy (both literally and emotionally), but the clothes they wear to do their jobs make them invisible. And as much as popular culture loves the “naughty nurse” image, fishnets and thigh high boots don’t work in real life. I know this from first-hand experience, because I used to be a nurse.

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Beauty

Why You Should Spend Money on Facial Mist (and the Top Five to Invest In)

Contessa Schexnayder is a makeup artist and has been shackled to the beauty industry for over nine years, working for such lines and retailers as Nars, MAC, Bobbi Brown, Blue Mercury, and Space NK. She is a self-proclaimed ingredient know-it-all, and likes long walks on the beach.

With all of the lotions and potions beauty companies are hustling the last thing you need is another useless product to waste money on. Keeping this in mind, I can say with great confidence that you need some facial mist in your life. Not only does it set your makeup, but it also helps with: calming, hydrating, replenishing, adding radiance, and irritation. Mists are beauty lifesavers and can take you from looking tired and lackluster to bright and dewy in seconds. Trust me.

I’ve rounded up the five best misters on the market. And if you can’t get behind shelling out for water to spray on your face, we’ve added some alternative uses (i.e. scolding your cat, warding off zombies, pretending you went to the gym).

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Mood Board

November Mood Board

By Steff Yotka Sunday, Nov 6, 2011 / 4:19 PM


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Style

A Tribute to the Iconic Style of Loulou de la Falaise, Muse to Yves Saint Laurent

Loulou de la Falaise, the iconic muse and collaboratrice of Yves Saint Laurent died yesterday. She was 63.

In a 2002 New Yorker article about Yves Saint Laurent, writer Judith Thurman called “the quintessential Rive Gauche haute bohémienne” by the New Yorker, de la Falaise’s style served as the inspiration for YSL’s Le Smoking suit and YSL’s classic sheer blouse, a style de la Falaise often wore herself.

In addition to serving as muse and constant companion to Yves Saint Laurent, de la Falaise designed accessories for the iconic French house. As Cathy Horyn writes in her On the Runway post remembering de la Falaise, her “chunky bracelets and necklaces…helped establish the YSL look.” After Saint Laurent retired in 2002, de la Falaise launched her own ready-to-wear line, sold in a namesake boutique she opened on Rue Cambon.

We thought it fitting to remember Loulou de la Falaise through her incredible influential style. Take a look.

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Events

Lucky Shops Is Happening This Weekend: The Bargains You Can Score, What the Celebs Bought and Styling Advice From Mary Alice Stephenson

Last night’s Lucky Shops VIP shopping night was a bit of stylish mayhem in the middle of Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. I estimate there were at least a zillion people in attendance, all carrying reusable Lucky shoppers loaded with discounted designer duds and nibbling away at the most adorable miniature hors d’oeuvres I’ve ever seen. A decent smattering of celebs mingled amongst the crowd as well, also scouring the racks for deals and trying on sparkly costume jewelry.

There were two whole floors of excellent bargains, with most stalls offering 30 – 50% off of retail prices, and some even more.

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