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Mickie Meinhardt

Thursday September 29th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Andrej Pejic Will Meet The Queen, Bloggers Might Need Agents and Armani’s Fashion Film
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Andrej Pejic Will Meet The Queen, Bloggers Might Need Agents and Armani’s Fashion Film

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Dior Successor To Come “In The Next Few Weeks:” The Telegraph’s Lisa Armstrong previewed Dior’s spring collection at the atelier and spoke with president Sidney Toledano about the fate of Dior. He kept silent, but did say we’d all know what’s up soon. {Telegraph}

Diversity On The Catwalk: Though the runways are still more vanilla than they should be, this season was a bit more diverse than usual. See how Jezebel broke it down by numbers. {Jezebel}

Do Bloggers Need Agents? According to the New York Times, they might want to sign on with an agency or lawyer to make some money and avoid exploitation. It works for the big names, but is it a good idea for everyone? {NY Times}

Anna Dello Russo’s Armani Fashion Film, Starring Karolina Kurkova: ADR styled and starred in Armani’s new advertisement-cum-fashion film, Back Gamon, where Kurkova plays a glamourous, mysterious lady of wealth who slips Bond-girl style between a poker game and a lover. ADR’s styling is bomb, as always. {Anna Dello Russo}

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Monday September 26th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Lady Gaga Sued Her Own Fan, Angela Missoni Didn’t Graduate High School And Hello Kitty for Forever 21
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Lady Gaga Sued Her Own Fan, Angela Missoni Didn’t Graduate High School And Hello Kitty for Forever 21

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June Ambrose is Getting a VH1 Show: The stylist to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys will get her own show in early 2012, but don’t expect a Rachel Zoe copy; she’ll dress her big clients but also give style and brand advice to emerging talents. {Stylelist}

Your Exclusive Prada Bag Is Actually Made in India: Prada used to source their materials from India and ship them to Italy, but now they’re cutting out the shipping costs by making them at the source and then charging more for the cheaper-made piece. They’re reasoning? The “Made In India” label is exclusive. {Racked}

Lady Gaga Sued Her Own Fan Site: Gaga’s team sued the operators of LadyGaga.org (est: 2008) claiming they “intentionally registered the domain name to capitalize on Lady Gaga’s fame.” But the site doesn’t actually make any money, only gives love to their Queen, so the courts ruled against it. Odd for someone who claims to love her fans so much, don’t you think? {Styleite}

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Thursday September 22nd, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Watch Tavi Rap, Lindsey Wixson Demonstrates How To Shoot A Gun and that Awful “Anna Rexia” Costume
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Watch Tavi Rap, Lindsey Wixson Demonstrates How To Shoot A Gun and that Awful “Anna Rexia” Costume

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West Hollywood Bans The Sale of Fur: It’s the first U.S. city to do so. The law doesn’t include animal pelts or secondhand/vintage pieces though. {Daily Mail}

Ricky’s Was Going To Sell An “Anna Rexia” Costume: It featured a skeleton frame printed on a skintight black dress and had a “measuring tape” belt, presumably so the wearer could show off how tiny her waist is. Obvious outcry forced the store to pull the costume; how did this even get produced in the first place?? {Jezebel}

Watch Tavi Rap In A Cab: Refinery29 interviewed the 15-year-old blogger about her fashion week experience, high school and secret talents, which includes rapping Nicki Minaj. {Refinery29}

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Gucci Spring 2012: Twenties Bling
Reviews

Gucci Spring 2012: Twenties Bling

by Alice Pfeiffer

MILAN–Like Hermès, Gucci’s mission (or fate) is to forever reinvent horseback riding chic. This season, it did so by introducing a clear, precise palette: black, white, green, bling.

Like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde collection, the line seemed split into two opposing personalities. The daywear consisted of masculine silhouettes, mainly composed of suits–cropped jackets, green geometric motifs, gold buttons, and side zips that flared out at the trousers’ otherwise straight ankles. As for nighttime, the decisively more girly looks made a straightforward reference to 1920s flappers: fringed hems, drop waists and loose sleeveless tops.

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Published at 12:40 PM

Monday September 19th, 2011

New London Show Reviews and Galleries! Julien MacDonald, Jaeger and Jasper Conran
Fashion Week

New London Show Reviews and Galleries! Julien MacDonald, Jaeger and Jasper Conran

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Julien, Jaeger and Jasper, oh my! Besides the same first letter, the latest three shows from London Fashion Week have crazy covetable colors in common too. Go to our Fashion Week page to read the reviews for Julien MacDonald‘s breathtaking Japanese embroidery, Jaeger‘s English ladylike separates in poppy colors and Jasper Conran‘s sleek columns in Read more →

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Published at 4:00 PM
New London Show Reviews and Galleries! Topshop Unique, House of Holland and Jonathan Saunders
Reviews

New London Show Reviews and Galleries! Topshop Unique, House of Holland and Jonathan Saunders

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NYFW may be over, but Fashion Month has only just begun. Here’s the first of our London Fashion Week reviews, which you can see in full on our Fashion Week page. Between TopShop Unique‘s Egyptian themed body-con silhouettes, House of Holland‘s blown-up leopard spots and Jonathan Saunders 50s Miami prints, London is looking to be Read more →

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Fashion News Roundup: Tavi Needs a Managing Editor, Shake-Ups At J. Crew and Anna Dello Russo as the Queen
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Tavi Needs a Managing Editor, Shake-Ups At J. Crew and Anna Dello Russo as the Queen

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Is FNO Doomed? Vogue “insiders” reportedly dished on what we noticed too: the event is too much work for not enough revenue. Speculation says this might have been the last year–will you miss it? {Page Six}

Celeb Style From LFW: Peep what the famous are wearing during London’s shows; who looks better, Kate Moss or K.Stew? {FabSugar}

Marissa Webb Leaves J.Crew: The former VP of women’s design is heading out to “pursue other opportunities;” she’ll be succeeded by Tom Mora, head of the weddings and special occaisions who has been with the company for 10 years. {WWD

Tavi’s Looking For a Managing Editor: Launch managing editor Emily Condon is leaving the fledgling Rookiemag.com to return to her day job at This American Life. She was only on board for the launch. Who do you think is right for the job? {WWD subscription required}

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Friday September 16th, 2011

Nicola Formichetti on His New Sportswear Line for Uniqlo and His Own Line, Which He Hope to Launch Next Year
Events

Nicola Formichetti on His New Sportswear Line for Uniqlo and His Own Line, Which He Hope to Launch Next Year

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Nicola Formichetti has been on a roll lately. He just opened his pop-up shop, Nicola’s, on Walker Street in Tribeca to great fanfare (and a bangin’ party), selling everything from stuffed pandas to Gaga memorabilia to, now, Uniqlo. Today, Nicola’s became host to Formichetti’s new collaboration line with the Japanese mega-brand (for whom he’s the fashion director), a sportswear line called The Innovation Project that uses Uniqlo’s highly developed fabrics to make basic, easily wearable clothing.

It’s quite a departure from Formichetti’s usual robots-in-bondage type stuff; cranberry puffy nylon winter parkas, lime green HeatTech fleece pullovers and snowy white windbreakers don’t exactly scream the kind of stuff he’s been doing for Thierry Mugler. The attention to detail does, however, like the zippers which can pull apart Hulk-style to make shedding layers easier on athletes. The price point is fitting for the pop-up as well; prices don’t rise above $200, even for the parkas.

I got the chance to chat with Formichetti about his partnership with Uniqlo, his store, and what he has planned for the future (hint: he’s working on his own brand!).

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Published at 4:45 PM

Thursday September 15th, 2011

The Blonds and Jeremy Scott Spring 2012: Hooray for Ass-less Chaps and Playboy Bunnies on the Runway
Fashion Week

The Blonds and Jeremy Scott Spring 2012: Hooray for Ass-less Chaps and Playboy Bunnies on the Runway

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Sometimes, you need a little break from the “serious” fashion. All “sophisticated minimalism” and the “new modern silhouette” makes fashion a dull girl (or boy). Fashion is fun! It shouldn’t be technical all the time. Luckily, we have The Blonds and Jeremy Scott to look forward to each season to slap us in the face when we start to get a little bleary eyed. Check out the reviews and pictures from The Blonds sparkly Katy-Perry-meets-Gaga leotards and micro-minidresses and Jeremy Scott’s Vegas-sexy wild West vacation wear. These clothes may not be practical, or even really wearable (unless you’re a Playboy Bunny, I guess), but they are a lot of fun to look at when monochrome pantsuits are getting you down.

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10 Questions For America’s Next Top Model All-Stars
Entertainment

10 Questions For America’s Next Top Model All-Stars

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1. The theme of the cycle is “over the top”–isn’t that redundant?

2. Bianca signed with Ford and Lisa recorded an album? Strange things no one knew. Also, why is Lisa here? Isn’t she like, 40?

3. How did Tyra manage to get such great prizes? Italian Vogue spread (one online and one in the mag), a spread in Beauty in Vogue, an Express campaign plus the ush Covergirl contract and agency gig. Damn.

4. Is it fair to say Jay Manuel has been doing the blue hair thing since way before it was cool?

5. Brittany had plastic surgery (this could be a statement)?

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