Archive for December 2011

Photo: Armani (Yep, that's Megan Fox)
Beauty

Here Are Our 10 Favorite Pieces From the 2011 Holiday Makeup Collections

It’s December, and that means one thing: You can now indulge in all the Christmas music listening that you want, and you are free to abuse glittery eye shadows to your heart’s content. It’s the holidays!

The holiday makeup collections are always our favorites, because of the sheer fantasy of it all. Forget about sedate neutrals–go metallic and smoky and red and fuchsia. And this season’s offerings are truly stellar. We picked through all the collections and chose our favorite pieces, which was no easy feat. From the most gorgeous red lipsticks to shimmery face highlighters (and even something “lickable”), click through to see the winter wonderland of makeup available now.

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Streetwalker

Street Style: Ashley’s Style is Boyish and ’90s Grunge

Name: Ashley

Age: 19

Occupation: Photography Student

Blog: peachesisagoodgirl.blogspot.com/

How would you describe your style? A mix of casual, comfortable, ’90s grunge, chic and boyish.

What was the last thing you bought? A cab home from the airport.

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Fashion Is Fun

20 Moments that Rocked the Fashion World in 2011

We’ll cut right to the chase: A lot of crazy shit happened in the fashion world this year. While the industry that we call home can sometimes seem isolated and fantastical, many of its key players and events made headlines even in the mainstream media over the course of 2011.

In the last 365 days, we’ve seen our share of ups and downs: There have been exciting new beginnings and tragic falls from grace. A royal wedding and a Sarah Burton for McQueen dress captivated the world, while Galliano’s dress for Kate Moss made the fashion world swoon. We’ve celebrated the return of older models—like when 46-year-old Kristen McMenamy wore a bikini on the cover of Vogue Italia—and saw plenty of controversy surrounding very young ones. Just when we thought the boundaries of gender identity were breaking for good and that Lea T could kiss Kate Moss on the cover of LOVE, a men’s mag openly calls androgynous model Andrej Pejic a “thing.” We took it all in stride, and we’ve hopefully come out better on the other side.

Looking back at 2011, we’ve chosen twenty major moments that we believe defined the year in fashion. Which one made the biggest impact on you?

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  • Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 / 2:29 PM
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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: CFDA Agrees to Move NYFW, Designer Sketches for Katniss in the Hunger Games, and Kate Middleton’s Entire Wardrobe Could Be Yours

CFDA Agrees to Move S/S NYFW Dates: In the latest S/S Fashion Week scoop, the CFDA agreed to move NY Fashion Week to September 6-13, but won’t eliminate the second Thursday to allow for more men’s shows in London. It also agreed to revisit its scheduling after three years, instead of setting future dates in stone. No word yet from Italy. As Geri Halliwell famously said in the timelessly classic film Spice World, “have [they] not heard of compromisation?” {WWD}

Is Rudolph Cuter Than Karlie? Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, which has aired multiple times annually since 1964, pulled in 1.6 million more viewers last week than this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Maybe these stats will inspire VS to put some claymation models down the runway next year. Fingers crossed. {Washington Post}

Designers Design Their Ultimate Hunger Games Dress: Bella’s wedding dress – what?? InStyle asked 11 amazing designers – including The Blonds, Rachel Roy, and others – to sketch out their versions of Katniss’s fire dress for the upcoming The Hunger Games film. The results are seriously on fiya. {StyleCaster}

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Pre-Fall 2012

Chanel Pre-Fall 2012: Paris-Bombay

Leave it to Karl Lagerfeld to infuse all the decadence, luxury and over-the-top theatrics of the regular show season into the smaller, less-glitzy (until now) Pre-Fall season for Chanel.

Set in the Grand Palais in Paris, models walked a circular runway bordered by two lavishly set long banquets piled high with fruits, flowers, candelabras and there was even a silver toy train that delivered decanters of liquor to guests (according to Style.com). In other words, it was fit for a king–or, in this case, a Raj.

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People We Like

Tavi Interviewed Chloë Sevigny About Designing, Hoarding and Being an Outsider

Tavi Gevinson snagged yet another dream interview with an icon from her favorite decade (the ’90s). A photograph of Chloe Sevigny with hearts around it is currently on the homepage of Rookie, with a headline that doesn’t really do the interview justice: “Chloë Sevigny Makes Really Cute Clothes.”

While true, Sevigny also proves that she’s undeniably cool (which we of course already knew), a little troubled and surprisingly relatable. She chatted with the 15-year-old editor at Opening Ceremony in NYC (her resort collection for the retailer just hit stores) about designing clothes, teen angst and being an outsider. Here are the best bits:

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People We Like

Sally Singer On Unsexy Photo Retouching, What Kind of People She Hires, and the ‘Circus’ That Is Street Style

Sally Singer, the former Vogue features and fashion news editor, is celebrating her one year anniversary as the editor-in-chief of the New York Times‘ T Magazine. New York Magazine sat down with the editor for a pretty enlightening interview in which she talks about her thoughts on photo retouching, the nuttiness that is street style now, and what it was like to work at Vogue. Here are the best nuggets from the interview:

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Fashion Careers

Closetista.com is looking for 2012 interns!

Closetista is a blend of traditional e-commerce and video programming bringing trend-conscious shoppers across the country closer to brands than ever before.

We’re looking for interns with not just a great love of fashion and knowledge of young designers, but also with real work ethic. You’ll have plenty of errands and lots of somewhat mundane daily tasks, but you’ll also get to work closely with the small team of an exciting start-up. We’re looking for a few different kinds of interns:

*Production Operations: If you’re someone that loves working behind the scenes and has a passion for the nuts and bolts of producing video and photography content, this internship is the opportunity you’ve been looking for! You’ll help the team on photo and video shoots from setting up equipment to assisting with styling.

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News

Watch: Karl Lagerfeld Previews His New Lower-Priced Line (Unrelated: He Also Reveals He Carries 20-30 iPads With Him)

By Hayley Phelan Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 / 10:45 AM


More details have emerged about Karl Lagerfeld’s affordable priced line ‘Karl,’ thanks to, of all the unlikely places, Europe’s biggest tech conference, Le Web.

Lagerfeld was on-hand at the conference as a keynote interviewee, and in between drawing a picture on his iPad (of himself, naturally) and eliciting gasps from the tech-savvy audience for saying he didn’t use email (according to the WSJ blog), the high-profile designer divulged more information about his ‘Karl’ line and showed a preview of the collection. Read more »

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Cathy Horyn Thinks Fashion Blogs Lack Reporting; Has a Suggestion for the Kind of Blog You Should Start

Barnard College puts out a great fashion mag called Hoot, and you might recognize the name of one of the contributors to their latest issue: It’s Cathy Horyn. The Times critic is a Barnard alum and she wrote a thoughtful piece for Hoot about how she got where she is today, and shared her advice to future fashion writers. She also has a very specific idea for the kind of blog you should start.

Horyn says she always knew she wanted to be a newspaper reporter but “in the post-Watergate era, many young people had the same idea,” so she went to J-school at Medill at Northwestern and started work as a copygirl at the Chicago bureau of the AP on the weekends. After graduating, Horyn applied to 75 newspapers and “received two positive replies,” one of which was from The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. She took the job and covered the school board. Doesn’t sound like the path to a career in fashion journalism, right? Well, that’s kind of Horyn’s point:

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The Business

Ungaro’s Demise Continues; CEO Jeffry Aronsson Reportedly Out

Things aren’t looking good at the house of Emmanuel Ungaro. In fact, they haven’t for a while. Just three months after Giles Deacon left his roughly year-long tenure as creative director, WWD is reporting that the company’s new CEO, Jeffry Aronsson, is leaving, as well as much of the house’s advisory committee.

Aronsson has only been with the company since June and was brought in with the hopes of turning the failing company around, as he is considered to be a “turnaround expert,” based on successful CEO positions at Donna Karan International, Marc Jacobs International and Oscar de la Renta previously.

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Fashion Is Fun

Awesome: Rovio Exec’s Wife Wears Angry Birds Ballgown to the Presidential Palace in Finland

By Hayley Phelan Tuesday, Dec 6, 2011 / 6:45 PM

Photo: Iltalehti


Angry Birds and eveningwear: The two go hand-in-hand, no? Well at least in the case of Teija Vesterbacka they do.

Vesterbacka, who happens to be married to a Rovio executive (Rovio is the company that created Angry Birds), wore a floor length ball gown bearing the unmistakable face of the red bird from the popular video game to an independence day celebration at the Finish Presidential Palace, according to Jezebel. Read more »