About ten years ago, girls in boarding school stole their mother’s Louis Vuitton pochettes, which were kept inside larger handbags to hold makeup, keys, and other travel necessities. The girls transformed the bags into actual purses, often linking a Vuitton keychain into the strap to make it longer and easier to carry. The new accessories Read more →
Have nameplate necklaces been replaced… by mud flap girls? FabSugar has a feature today about the jewels, and we admit, we’ve been seeing them a lot lately. The charms capture the same trashy, supposedly cool vibe as their nameplate predecessor, but we like them even less. Why? Well, at least the nameplate necklace represented you Read more →
FabSugar extols the gorgeous new Versace ads, and we agree, they’re super. But don’t they remind you of something? Something like Burberry’s Spring ’07 campaign, which also stars Kate Moss in a cropped British mini-dress and some fellow supermodels as her backup dancers? Have a look and let us know if it makes you hungry Read more →
At a stylist’s apartment this weekend, I spied a suspiciously cute sweater dress – black, slightly sheer, and shaped like the torso of a rock star. “Did Stella McCartney have a sample sale?” I asked. When her face turned red, I thought it meant, “Yes, and I didn’t tell you because secretly, I haven’t forgiven Read more →
Pop Sugar’s photos of Zac Posen in LA inspired a new question: Is Zac taking over where Tom Ford left off? The designer hit Hollywood to corral some of the same faces once cultivated by Ford (Demi Moore and Anjelica Huston among them) during LA Fashion Week, and sheathed Gwyneth Paltrow in one of his Read more →
Slate has a long and windy article about American Apparel today, exploring their global expansion and wondering if it’s the millennial version of Gap. We don’t love American Apparel’s sexist, greasy founder, but we remember last year in Mexico City, when we went to AA with the Heatherette crew and saw hordes of Mexican kids Read more →
Marimekko has always been beloved – I still remember my kitty cat bedspread, my cars and trucks pillowcases, and my blue dotted wallpaper from childhood. But lately it seems the brand is more style conscious – Marimekko dresses are at Anthropologie (and are cute); Marimekko flowers are painted on Soho boutique windows; Marimekko prints are Read more →
Early this year, Fashionista got a book in the mail. It hat a hot pink cover and a pop perfect title: Supermodel. The book was an epic poem. It starts off with a beautiful girl clinging to a tree in a tsunami, but skids far away from the actual life of Petra Nemcova from there. Read more →
Uggs have finally started fading, replaced by motorcycle stompers, horse riding boots, and Wellies lined with extra socks. But in their place comes another vision of slouch: flannel pajama pants in plaids and prints, flapping in the streets. We’ve seen the pants in Starbucks, at the Angelika Cinema, outside Chanel in Soho, uptown by the Read more →
Last week in London, Marc Jacobs drew a crowd and Gareth Pugh drew applause, but perhaps the real breakout star wasn’t a designer – it was a website, called Dirty Dirty Dancing and skyrocketing, somehow, onto everyone’s bookmarked pages. The concept of the site is easy – photographer Alastair Alan goes to fashion parties, takes Read more →
Britney may not get a new Puma/ Heatherette/ Hearst bag, but maybe she’ll get something better – a Judy Garland gown from Heatherette’s Fall ’07 line. We remember seeing the photo-screened frocks in Heatherette’s Fall show. Now here they are on Total Request Live, looking glittery and gorgeous and rather like Alber Elbaz’s most recent Read more →
