Standout Collections From SCAD’s Senior Fashion Show
Francisco Costa and Andre Leon Talley may have been the most recognizable names at last weekend’s SCAD student fashion show, but the students themselves made just as big a splash in Savannah.
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Wednesday May 22nd, 2013
Season Two of Model Files Is Off to A Hilarious Start
Over the past several minutes, both Nora and Hayley have had to ask me what I’m watching because I’ve just been lol’ing all over the place in front of my computer over here. Why? Model Files.
Chanel, Christian Louboutin Top List of Most Popular Fashion Brands on Pinterest
A new study ranks the leading fashion brands on Pinterest. And while rankings of brands on social media platforms are pretty common–this one is interesting because the brands themselves don’t really have much to do with their presence, since on Pinterest, all content is user-generated. For instance, Chanel, which does not have an official Pinterest account, ranked number one with 150,000 total shares, 58 million total impressions, and an average 56 pins per day, and 1,244 repins per day.
Cara Delevingne Apparently Not Impressed by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Lunge-Style Flirting
Ever wonder how Leonardo DiCaprio manages to lure in so many supermodels (besides, you know, just being really rich and famous and handsome)? Now, we know. He lunges at them.
Tuesday May 21st, 2013
Times Editors Forced to Examine Fashion Photography Policy
Last week, after readers complained about a T cover featuring Julia Nobis–whom they felt was disturbingly skinny and young-looking–T EIC Deborah Needleman issued a response to New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan. In it, Needleman mentioned that she had “considered adding some fat to her with Photoshop, but decided that as it is her body, I’d let it be.”
This raised new questions about the New York Times‘ treatment of photography–didn’t the paper of record hold itself to a higher standard than to just Photoshop some fat into (or out of) a model with little more than a second thought?
Turns out it does–but fashion photography is a different story.
Harrods Owners to Invest in Versace?
The restructuring of its Versus line may not be Versace’s only big business news this year, with new investors said to be quite interested in the family-owned Italian fashion house.
Monday May 20th, 2013
Francisco Costa on Rejecting Tom Ford and the Met Gala’s Punk Theme
This past weekend, the fashion crowd made its annual pilgrimage to Savannah, Georgia for Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)’s senior fashion show–and this year I had the pleasure of being a part of it–and even got to interview Francisco Costa, this year’s recipient of the Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award.
We chatted about Savannah, his own fashion education, career challenges, and celebrity dressing–including his experience outfitting a few A-listers for this month’s Met Gala. Also–expect another mass collaboration in the near future.
Watch Ben Affleck Try to Shill Hermès Herpes Handbags on SNL
SNL has this new skit where relatively brain dead former porn stars hilariously try to shill luxury goods they can’t pronounce.
Saturday night, they (and Ben Affleck as “Girth Brooks”) took on Hermès. Or is it herpes?
New Details Emerge on LVMH’s Secret Plan to Take Over Hermes
A new investigative report reveals some juicy new details on the methods through which LVMH came into its 22.6% stake in Hermes. And those details don’t exactly support Bernard Arnault’s recent claims that LVMH came into those shares “unexpectedly.”
Saturday May 18th, 2013
Zoe Saldana in Prabal Gurung, Liberty Ross in Dior and More
Tired of the endless stream of extravagant gowns at Cannes? Yeah, neither are we. But, we felt bad for the step-and-repeating celebs who don’t happen to be in the south of France right now. And they deserve some attention: Liberty Ross looking hotter than ever in Dior? AnnaSophia Robb looking adorable in one of our fave designers Katie Ermilio? Can’t miss.
Click through for that and the rest of our 10 best dressed of the week (Cannes excluded)!
Thursday May 16th, 2013
Club Monaco Debuts Super Cute Fall Collection on Bloggers
Club Monaco has gone and made us fall in love with them all over again.
Julia Nobis Too Thin to Cover T? Deborah Needleman Doesn’t Think So
While we see T as more of a fashion magazine, many New York Times subscribers probably don’t. As people who look at images from fashion magazines and runways on a daily basis, we didn’t give this T cover featuring Julia Nobis in a swimsuit and leather jacket a second thought–at least not for any other reason than the impracticality of wearing a leather jacket over a swimsuit.
However, several readers–whose eyes are probably less accustomed than ours to seeing unrealistically thin people everywhere—complained about how shockingly thin and underage Nobis looked on the cover and in the accompanying editorial.
Deborah Needleman, T‘s EIC, however, disagrees.
