Oprah’s been on a bit of a fashion kick lately with Christian Siriano last week and two of our favorites Joe Zee and Mary Alice Stephenson yesterday (along with O: The Oprah Magazine’s Adam Glassman.)
Unfortunately there’s no video up yet but you can follow along with their shoe and bag interventions. And, wow, did they have their work cut out for them. Because let’s face it, there are some really, really bad shoes out there. And I’m a huge sports fan, but the Cubs purse? Oy.
Oprah can be a bit (well, a lot) grating at times with all the self-aggrandizing, but anything she can do to make bad accessories go away, we’re behind. And she picked a good team to help her do it. Honestly, if it’s half as successful as what she did for the book industry, really we all win.
The Costume Institute just announced their Spring 2010 exhibition and the hosts for the Gala Benefit (to be held on May 3.) This year Anna will be sharing the duties with Oprah and The Gap’s Patrick Robinson.
Oprah and Anna together—that’s like some sort of world domination thing going on, right? Let’s just hope they can play nice in the planning process as these are two women who don’t often have to share.
This year’s exhibit sounds super interesting: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity. It will shine the spotlight on different archetypes of American femininity through dress and “reveal how the American woman intitiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sexual emancipation.”
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