photo courtesy The SartorialistA Friend In Need: Which is better? Adrien Grenier on the Sartorialist? Or Adrien Grenier labeled ‘Friend’? Either way, the combination of that face and Scott’s camera is fantastic. {Sartorialist}
Teenage Wasteland: We would have paid so very much money to witness one Madonna’s early (as in childhood) performances of “Baba O’Riley”, complete with midriff top and body paint—so very SS10. {RollingStone}
Wannabe: So it’s not exactly hard-core fashion news, but we like to include all things that sort of involve a Beckham, which this does. There may be a Spice Girls musical in the works. To which we say, hell yes. And zigazig ha. {JustJared}
Chicest in All the Land: We definitely can’t argue with Inès de la Fressange being named the most chic woman in France. Oh, to live in a country where Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is at number five. Sigh. {Telegraph}
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Die Hard: Do you think Tallulah’s getting ribbed about these pics over at her Bazaar gig? We’re just super glad that’s not our dad doing all those things because this is definitely more uncomfortable than anything her stepdad has ever Tweeted. {W}
All Tied Up: We’ve been rocking out old school knot bracelets since Memorial Day and plan to all summer long. Behnaz has a different spin. {Elle }
Thank You Selma: Charivari creator Selma Weiser passed away this weekend. We have her to thank for giving Marc his first fashion job and basically reinventing merchandising and retail. {WWD}
This is…Fashionair: Manager and producer Simon Fuller (he of American Idol and Spice Girls fame) is taking his wily media ways to the internet in September by way of a fashion website called Fashionair. Will VB be blogging? {Grazia}
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When we heard from our Inbox that Puma and Sergio Rossi were collaborating on a capsule collection to be sold at Colette starting January, we got excited. We like Sergio. We like Puma. We love Colette. So this should work.
But:
They’re sneaker-heels. The last time I wore sneaker-heels, I was about ten and going through my Spice Girl phase - since then, I thought we all decided any sort of shoe that tries to combine high-heels with sneakers was out of the question, so much to our surprise, Sergio and Puma are doing just that.
We’re not exactly sure where one wears sneakettos, but we do know that considering the purple satin lace-ups and Mary-Janes with gummy white soles, we won’t be wearing the collection anytime soon.
It’s too bad. We love the parts (Sergio, Puma, Colette), but the sum, well, we’ll save our kicks cash for Lacroix + Gola.
—HAYLEY PHELAN
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Reader Ashley writes in to say that the Spice Girls concert was amazing but the t-shirts were even funnier than Scary Spice’s hair:
Apparently, Posh and the rest heart Henry Holland!
The t-shirts feature lyrics from the girls’ most famous songs, all rendered in Henry’s trademark block script.
Our favorite?
The ones that say “Stop Right There”… but this one that screams “Who Do You Think You Are” seems more appropriate:
It seems Mel, Mel, Victoria, Emma, and Gerri think they’re nu rave club kids!
We are not in LA for today’s Victoria’s Secret show, but that doesn’t mean our spies aren’t.
So far, it seems the biggest news is the Spice Girls’ stage wardrobe, designed by Roberto Cavalli. But instead of the cat print cough-up he did for H&M, we hear the Spice Girls outfits will be highly evocative of their original plasticine style.
“He’s working with a Union Jack motif for some of it, and he wants to stay true to each girl’s original stage persona.”
We’re not sure Scary Spice is so thrilled with that, but it may appeal to a certain New York fashion editor, who used to dress up as the Spice Girls during high school and perform with her friends at birthday parties…