Whitney Port, author/fashion designer/reality star, is looking for a little help from the internet to pay for her show at fashion week. Donating to her includes some interesting rewards like ‘thank you’ tweets. The only problem–well besides the fact that a fashion show ain’t no charity? Whitney Port is supposedly already rich off the $20,000 Read more →
Feeling like breakfast just isn’t chic enough these days? Then you’ll want to check out this Louis Vuitton monogrammed waffle maker. {HuffPo}
Lindsay Lohan’s sister Ali is moving far, far away from her infamous family to model – to South Korea, to be exact. {StyleBistro}
Gwyneth Paltrow took a break from GOOP to film this short spot as the new face of Hugo Boss Nuit perfume. {YouTube}
In case you’ve got a case of the Mondays, HBO’s documentary About Face: Supermodels Then and Now is set to air tonight at 9 PM to make your day a little chicer. {HBO}
Gwyneth Paltrow is the face of Hugo Boss’s new fragrance, Boss Nuit Pour Femme. {WWD}
You know who else likes dressing like Olivia Palermo and Kate Middleton? Orthodox Jews. (Yeah, we never saw that coming either.) {BuzzFeed}
Everyone can finally rest easy, because Liv Tyler’s lost/stolen Givenchy jacket has been found!! Praise the almighty fashion gods. {NY Post}
Andrej Pejic looked the picture of a blushing he-bride modeling Rosa Clara’s wedding gowns at her show in Barcelona (say: Barthelona). {The Cut}
“I’m so awesomely proud to show off our SCAD student work here in New York City with our incredible partners of Hugo Boss,” Michael Fink, SCAD’s dean of fashion explained at a dinner this week celebrating the school’s latest Etoile Award recipient: Hugo Boss CEO, Mark Brashear. Held at the Mallick Williams & Co gallery, which is currently exhibiting a display of Jeremy Kost’s jigsaw Polaroids, the event served as a platform to show off some of the school’s senior theses, which will take to the runway on May 19th in Savannah.
“I’ve gone down there twice now, I just love the whole Savannah thing–they just own the whole town. I couldn’t be more impressed with the programs and the quality of the work,” Fern Mallis said.
PARIS–This past January, Antwerpian designer and ex-creative director of Hugo Boss Bruno Pieters launched his new collaborative label ‘Honest By’. On top of being vegan and produced in a totally transparent manner, each collection is designed by another, like-minded fashion house. Tomorrow, the line will see its first collaboration with Paris-Based, Canadian born label Calla. Read more →
Prabal Gurung Designs Uniforms For Sephora: Why couldn’t this happen while we were working retail? For the first time since 2001, the cosmetics and beauty retailer is changing their uniform, and using the talents of Prabal Gurung to make their staff look fresh ta def. WWD reports the new uniform choices will include a “black shift dress with red trim and a fitted black pantsuit with red accents for women, and a black shirt, black sweater with red accents and black pants for men.” Haute! {WWD Subscription required}
Jennifer Garner Is so Adorable on InStyle: The actress and soon-to-be mommy x3 covers the January issue of the glossy. But she doesn’t think she’s as cute as we do (!): “I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.” You’re pregnant! You’re supposed to! {JustJared}
Speaking of Skinny Jeans During Pregnancy–Sasha Pivovarova Is Possibly Pregnant: The Russian model is three months pregnant with her first child. Congratulations to Sasha and her husband, Igor Vishnyakov! That kid is gonna have some mean cheekbones! {Belfast Telegraph}
As we reported earlier, Hailee Steinfeld’s fall 2011 Miu Miu campaign, which depicted her sitting near a train track, was banned in the UK for being “irresponsible because it depicted a child in an unsafe location.”
By that logic, the following ad campaigns, some of which depict actual dangerous situations, should never have made it to print. I mean, I can’t believe we aren’t hearing about people hurting themselves every day by climbing the Eiffel Tower in high heels and standing on top of volcanos. Although, death by attempting to recreate a Dior campaign would be a pretty chic way to go. Fashin has some excellent “irresponsible” ad campaigns with some hilarious captions here. Click through for 10 more examples.
Fashion has been notoriously slow to take to the online world (particularly on the editorial side), but some brands are really getting it right. A smart digital strategy can translate to brand awareness, and ultimately, lots of sales.
L2‘s Digital IQ Index took this concept to the next level and released its third annual report card assessing brands’ “digital IQ.” The ratings they give range from Genius to Feeble. Digital strategy is often uneven, and this can hurt a brand. Per the report: “Although 94 percent of brands in the Index have a presence on Facebook, one in five brands still lacks e-commerce capability.” How annoying is it to try to buy something online, only to discover you actually have to leave your home? That kind of thing really matters to consumers these days.
So who’s excelling online and who needs a lot of help? Here’s the top ten list:
Yes, there are more.
But just because this is the last installment of Ranking the Fall Ads, doesn’t mean these are the bottom of the barrel picks. This roundup has Lanvin, Chloé, and Prabal Gurung who are definitely among our favorite designers every season. (Spoiler alert: They’re our fave ads as well!)
So click through our slideshow to see where your favorite fall ads landed on our ranking!
It wouldn’t be a Friday without some celeb fragrance news.
Heidi Klum Gets A Scent: We’re frankly surprised that it took this long. Heidi’s new fragrance, Shine, will launch in September 2011. There’s no information about what the fragrance will actually smell like.
She has already worked with Coty, who’s producing the scent, on Euro makeup brand Astor, but this will be her first foray into the American beauty market. Heidi told WWD that her dad was a marketing director at a cosmetics company and she interned there when she was 13. Perhaps a full color line is next?
And any bets on whether or not the next batch of Project Runway designers will have to create a look inspired by Shine?
Orlando Bloom Is Not A Model:
