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Fashion Is Fun

Vogue.com, It Does Exist

stephanie lacava most wanted .jpgI need Style.com like I need my morning coffee.

But I’ve been clicking on Vogue.com more and more lately, in part because I’m anxiously awaiting obvious changes and excited for Condé Nast to really truly enter the digital age (I’d never actually say that out loud), but also because it lets you see a totally different side of Vogue’s editors.

Hamish has his sphere and Candy has her cast, but some features, like Meredith Melling Burke’s Most Wanted, feature a rotating cast of Vogue-ettes listing their current favorite things.

Sometimes there’s a theme, like Devon Schuster’s wedding or Jane Aldridge’s shoes and sometimes there’s not. Like this week’s list, from features associate Stephanie LaCava, is basically because she has ridiculously great style. She’s mixed Proenza shorts with Topshop boots and a Band of Outsiders toggle coat; it’s fun to see the thought process behind style we consistently admire.

Surprisingly, Vogue.com’s the best place to go if you ever forget that even the most major fashion people have a sense of humor.

Slideshows

Costello & Tagliapietra: Ladies & Bud

costello aw09 10.JPGWe know it’s going to be a good show when Meredith Melling-Burke’s sitting front row with a sixteen ounce bottle of Bud and the back row is filled with burly, jovial plaid, bow-tie and suspender-wearing men cheering on their good friends Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra.

The interns wore Bud tees as promised but the models wore very pretty, very Joan Holloway dresses (I know this is my second Mad Men reference in as many days but these collections are grown up, conservative and made for the sexiest girls in the most demure offices). The boys built some beautiful wool shifts, with a few cut outs, some ruching and draping and accessorized them with seriously chunky rhinestoned necklaces.

We’d wear those tightly nipped waists every day - if only we didn’t love beer so much.

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Quote of the Day

“Flip-flops, Crocs, ripped jeans, denim shorts, chipped nails, exposed lingerie, and makeup experiments.” - Meredith Melling-Burke’s list of fashion don’ts for her interns, from Style.com.
Fashion Is Fun

Notes on the Met Ball

kate at the met ball.jpgWhat I learned at the Met Ball last night:


- Zac Posen is my fashion superhero. Please see his combined superman costume with Kate Mara.

- Models only hang out with models. I felt like a kid in a candy store watching Coco, Anja, Hilary, Chanel, Stam, Lily D., and Doutzen cluster for 15 minutes…although literally no one else cared. Apparently George Clooney’s a bigger deal.

- Michelle Trachtenberg is one of the models. She jumped into Stam’s arms and kiss/kissed everyone else, (while also, interestingly enough, avoiding every single Gossip Girl cast member on the red carpet).

- Philip Lim and Chanel Iman are the perfect couple - and probably the only two people who look amazing in that faded mustard color.

- The Voguettes did not have to wear shades of white. I spotted mint green, gold, purple, and navy - which was on Meredith Melling-Burke who also wore Natalie’s beloved YSL star necklace.

- When I asked Christopher Bailey which superhero he was channelling, he said, “Christopher Bailey!” and giggled.

- Donatella Versace wears a wig.

- Penn Badgley wears red and blue cufflinks - his personal homage to Spiderman - while waiting for Blake Lively to pose for pictures. Apparently, the waiting has become a nightly routine.

- When Pacey stands next to Chuck, Nate and Dan, I long for the teen dramas of my adolescence - even if the clothes are better now.

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News

Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks

Robbie Myers.jpgWWD reports that things at Elle are getting even uglier.


Nina Garcia’s set to guest star on Ugly Betty in just two days, but if that isn’t enough editor-on-TV for you, don’t worry - both Robbie Myers and Joe Zee, (who must love appearing in front of a camera), will appear in the season finale with previously announced guest star Naomi Campbell.

The three make up part of Elle’s softball team which plays against Mode’s softball team for a charity tournament. We hope they don’t actually let Naomi use a bat.

We love Elle, but once their hard working editors get tired of being on TV, reality or otherwise, can someone in production please get in touch with Vogue?

We can’t think of anything better than Meredith Melling-Burke and Anna plotting in a dugout.

Models

Ryan McGinley Likes Models, and Other Things on the Women Management Blog…

shannan_pola07_w.jpgWe love the trend of modeling agencies starting their own blogs (thanks, Elite, for starting it!) because it gives us gossip and access to our favorite girls at like half the speed of stalking.


This week, Women Management launched their own blog, and here’s what we learned:

*That Ryan McGinley shot Shannan Click (left) for his own personal work.

*That Mariacarla Boscono is friends with Sean Lennon (did they meet through Irina?).

*That Meredith Melling Burke totally digs Toni Garnn.

*That Julia Stegner shot a Maybelline campaign in the rain last Friday and we totally missed it!

Check it out for yourselves.

Shopping

“You suffering from buyer’s remorse or something?” “God no, nothing like that.”

dvf wide leg pants.jpgMy closet is full of dresses, skirts and a couple pairs of jeans, but I generally don’t wear pants.


Mid-fashion week, I bought a pair of super wide-leg black trousers. I’d seen Meredith Melling-Burke wearing hers for a couple of days and they looked so chic. I wore them for a miserable couple of hours and realized, incredulously, that just because MMB can wear something, doesn’t mean I can.

So I returned them.

It was the first time I’d ever returned an item I actually wore. I felt 90% guilt and a 10% thrill of “Wow! I can actually get away with this?”

According to The Boston Globe, I contributed to a serious economic problem. Apparently, an increasing number of consumers are purchasing items extremely beyond their means for a specific occasion and returning them for a full refund when they’re finished. They call it “renting” - one woman even rented a dress to wear to her daughter’s graduation.

Do you guys do this?