Results tagged “Milla Jovovich” (16)

Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

millajovovichwedding.jpgGoing to the Chapel: Congratulations to Milla Jovovich and new husband Paul W.S Anderson. She wore Temperley London for the ceremony and a mini dress she designed for the reception. And of course, she looked gorgeous. {Blasblog}

Were You Wondering: Brad Goreski, Rachel Zoe’s second assistant and the only boy of the threesome talks about the second season of The Project. {Valet}

A Stylist’s Stylist: ‘‘Accessorize when you can’t fit the clothes,” says crazy talented Arianne Phillips. You know, the woman Madonna and pretty much every major film studio goes to for their costuming needs. {T}

Quartered Covers: Not that we don’t love all of V’s covers, or that we’re not feeling LOVE’s double covers, but the four covers of September’s Another Magazine are exquisite. And if all those girls show up to their Fashion Week party, well Marc & Gaga might have some competition. {DailyFeed}

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Life With Nicole Chavez!

nicole & kristen.jpgLast week, I spent a few days in LA soaking up the other side of the fashion industry, one that loves the art as much as we do, but revolves almost entirely around celebrities.

So I dove right in, starting with a celebrity stylist: Nicole Chavez. Never heard of her? Well, you probably love her work since she styles Rachel Bilson (who, let’s face it, is best known for her style), Scarlett Johansson and Kristen Bell. I’d spent time with my fair share of editorial stylists, but for a career that has the same name, it couldn’t be more different.

We spent the day pulling clothes for three events for Scarlett - Comic Con, the LA Shorts Film Festival and a Dolce & Gabbana in-store appearance - which means we ran from her loft to a designer’s house to Dolce’s showroom to Prada’s store stopping to pick up shoes on the way and unloading FedEx boxes at home. It was a never ending parade of pulling and editing and choosing and trying on and my peppering Nicole with a million questions.

So how’d she get started? What was it like working on The OC? Does she ever want to do editorial? Find out after the jump!

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

sasha and milla and ellen.jpgLike Grown Up Lula: Ellen Von Unwerth shot Milla Jovovich and Sasha Pivovarova for July’s Italian Vogue. As if that’s not enough Fall clothes give us butterflies. {IMG}

On the Otherside: Catherine McNeil’s in the new Vogue Germany doing black and white for Patrick Demarchelier. She’s also kind of nakey. {Models}

We Are Not Alone: Haters of Adventures in Copyright beware, this may not be the link for you. {Daily News}

Long Time Passing: We love Lara, but we’re saying goodbye to our thick brows anytime soon. {NY Times}

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Quote of the Day

“If there is anyone’s footsteps I could follow in, it would definitely be Milla Jovovich where she is still a high-powered fashion model and an extremely respected actress and of course a full-time mother and has a fashion line.” —Lydia Hearst to Fox News.
Kate Moss

Model Slash Move On

kate moss topshop tea dress.jpgOur world is full of model slash something iterations.

The original, and most common, would be model slash actress: Lauren Hutton, Cybill Sheppard, Cindy Crawford, Elle MacPherson et al. Then came model slash photographer: Ellen von Unwerth, Helena Christensen, Iekeline Stange, ad nauseam. Now we’ve been blessed with a stash of model slash designers which brings us to our point.

To the pretty faces out there making dresses, please spare us from yet another slew of wannabe vintage floral tea dresses. You know who you are, the Gail Elliots, Milla Jovovichs, Erin Wassons and Kate Mosses of the world.

Miss Moss, your Topshop disasters have reached cringe-worthy status. The ditzy, daffodil covered, forties style, matronly, smocks without a dash of cool belong in the back of musty thrift stores, not on high street racks. And you can throw as many super cool Balmain blazers on top of the floral frocks as you like but you’re still a lamb in sheep’s clothing - especially since we know you ordered eight key pieces from Poltock and Walsh this season. Nary a flower in sight, just edgy leopard prints, sharp shoulders and a heavy dose of sexy.

Come on girls, leave the designing to Alexander McQueen. Model slash model can’t be so bad.

—CHARLEY B.

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Nina Ricci, "So Long Olivier."

nina ricci aw09 .JPGI held on tight to my Nina Ricci invitation all day.

Hard invitations are gold in Paris - no invite, no luck - and I wasn’t going to miss Olivier Theyskens’ last Nina Ricci collection for anything.

Unfortunately, my cab driver, or the traffic ahead of us, didn’t care that I had to get there, and so, at 7:27 I bolted out of the car and ran, desperately looking for a familiar face or anyone significantly underdressed for the Paris cold. Finally, I stumbled past a very serious security gate and into my seat with seconds to spare.

Paparazzi descended upon the front row, a hippie-headbanded Milla Jovovich was sandwiched in between Carine and Lou Doillon (side note: Earlier today, an editor suggested that I remind them of Charlotte Gainsbourg to which I almost actually said, “I die” out loud. Time to stop quoting Rachel Zoe in my head and time for said editor to get glasses), with Leigh Lezark and Emannuelle Alt on each end. Five camera flashes and the lights went out, a model started walking and the music clicked on - in that order.

The clothes were gorgeous, of course, but the shoes were literally breathtaking. The ball of the foot rested on at least a five inch platform while the heel ascended another few inches, without an actual heel which made it look like the girls were floating on air. Gowns came with giant sheer black ruffles, hot pink and turquoise glitter and beaded floral trains. The red jacket and long skirt caused the audience to spontaneously combust in applause mid-collection (something I’ve never seen, Natalie once at ThreeAsfour) though front-row grins lingered for the duration of the show.

Though I’d corrected at least three people throughout the day, “But it’s not confirmed that he’s leaving! He might make it!,” there was no questioning Olivier’s wave good-bye and the enthusiastic but sad standing ovation.

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News

Jovovich No Longer Hawk-ing Clothes

milla jovovich and carmen hawk.jpgFrostFrench might have been rescued but Jovovich Hawk is over - for good.

Milla Jovovich started her line of boho clothes in 2003 with her also-a-model friend, Carmen Hawk. In the past five years, their clothes have made it into stores like Fred Segal, magazines like Vogue, and they’ve partnered with both Mango and Target.

But her whirlwind designer stint has come to an end. She says rather underhandedly, in the September Lucky, that, “When one door closes…” We assume another will open?

Meanwhile, we’ve been spending a lot of time window shopping on-line (fashion week’s on the brain), and we’ve spotted some signature Jovovich-Hawk dresses.

We’ll be snapping those up right about now.

Is The New

Is the New: Families and Supermodels.

Picture 3.pngMilla Jovovich’s brood is the latest to pose with fancy luggage.

According to WWD, the designer’s family’s been shot on Mulholland Dr. lounging in front of her car, surrounded by the newest Samsonite Black Label bags.

The ads will debut just in time to compete with probably a better known family hawking a better known brand - the Coppolas for Louis Vuitton.

Our family vacations aren’t quite as calm or as elegant as the ads portray.

But maybe it’s because we don’t spend more on our luggage than on the vacation itself.

Fashion Week

Miss Sixty’s Missies

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Some of the cuties at Miss Sixty last night…

Smile pretty, please!


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News

Jovovich-Hawk Does Target

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A tidbit for weekend Fashionista addicts:

Milla Jovovich and Carmen Hawk will bring their stuff to Target next year, after Erin Fetherston’s winter collction.

The move marks the first time a “celebrity” line goes to Target, but also something stranger:

Jovovich-Hawk already did a range for the chain store Mango. Although Mango’s main presence is in Spain and France, it does have US branches, especially in California.

Now that we know Target doesn’t mind a brand with a mass market past, we can cross our fingers and hope for Karl Lagerfeld - a former H&M contributor - to hit the bullseye!

Meanwhile, look out for a Target commercial directed by Milla herself, plus those signature J-H smock dresses this Spring.

They will now cost $30, but if you can’t wait that long, they’re about $100 on Net-A-Porter’s sale site.

News

Mamie Models Mango

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Mango is a Spanish retail chain, but the star of their new ad campaign is American royalty:

Mamie Gummer (aka4 daughter of Meryl Streep).

Mamie was photographed in April for the store’s new advertisements that will appear in Britain and Spain.

She follows in the steps of other Mango models like Milla Jovovich (who also took a turn as a designer for the shop when Mango featured a capsule collection from Jovovich-Hawk) and other celebrity offspring like French model/actress Lou Doillon (daughter of Jane Birkin) and Lizzy Jagger (daughter of Mick and Jerry Hall).

Mango has a low profile in this country - they have only twelve stores in the US, none of which are near NYC - so we’re not sure if the ads will be out in the USA, where Mamie is also the face for the indie clothing label These Three Things.

And of course, you can see her looking cute around town

People We Like

Rachel Feinstein Tells You How It’s Done

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Stella Magazine might have Milla Jovovich on the cover, but our eyes went straight to the two-page feature on Rachel Feinstein.

As the artist gears up for a big London show, she dishes deep on her Marc Jacobs ads, her unwillingness to lose the red lipstick, and how she met her husband, the steadfastly famous John Currin:

“A friend had told Currin that Feinstein looked like the girl who kept appearing in Currin’s paintings. He insisted that Currin go and see her in her exhibition, and Currin eventually agreed.

‘Suddenly, I see this tall, handsome guy walking towards me,’ Feinstein says. ‘I just walked up to him and kissed him on the lips, and that was sort of that. Two weeks later he took me to Paris and asked me to marry him.”

Never have we reached faster for our tube of Retro Rouge

Fashion Week

Luck Be the Ladies

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Paper’s March issue stars Milla Jovovich and Carmen Hawk, with a story called “How to Succeed in Fashion - While Really Trying.” The piece has seven gorgeous photographs of the girls in their own clothes, plus an explanation of how the Jovovich Hawk line came into the loght - when Milla was offered an Emporio Armani modeling gig, her contract came with an option to “guest design.” That never panned out, but a new desire to make clothes did.

Meanwhile, author Mickey Boardman plainly reveals that the team had some work to do:

“Both girls were armed with lots of fabulousness and cute taste, but neither had much design experience. (To that, Milla says to Carmen, “Well, you took a class at Parsons.” Carmen responds, laughing: “In printmaking!”)

Compare this article to yesterday’s Times piece on Marchesa questioning whether the label’s success is due to talent or to Harvey Weinstein - the boyfriend of Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman.

And also, there’s this: during Fashion Week, we remember running to the Jovovich-Hawk for Mango presentation. Directly ahead of us was a harried English journalist. “Hello,” she said to the PR girls at the front, “I’m here to see Marchesa… I mean Jovovich Hawke… I’m sorry, which is it?”

Milla’s electric shadow at the back of the room let her know.

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