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Tuesday May 8th, 2012

SCAD Students Show Off Their Work at a Dinner Honoring Hugo Boss CEO Mark Brashear
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SCAD Students Show Off Their Work at a Dinner Honoring Hugo Boss CEO Mark Brashear

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“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.

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Thursday April 26th, 2012

Monday April 23rd, 2012

The Fashion Pack (Hamish Bowles, Karlie Kloss, Giovanna Battaglia and More) Descends On St. Louis for a Hoedown to Celebrate Derek Blasberg’s Birthday
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The Fashion Pack (Hamish Bowles, Karlie Kloss, Giovanna Battaglia and More) Descends On St. Louis for a Hoedown to Celebrate Derek Blasberg’s Birthday

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St. Louis, Missouri is known for a few things: that big arch, delicious barbecue, Nelly, and hosting the evil St.Louis Cardinals [Ed.Note: Go Cubs!] What it is not known for is international fashion editors, models and socialites prancing around in Prada. Yet St. Louis encountered all those things this past weekend, thanks to Lou native Derek Blasberg, who convinced his fashionable friends including Giovanna Battaglia, Elizabeth von Thurns und Taxis, Hamish Bowles, the Brant brothers, fellow Missourian Karlie Kloss, and Taylor Tomasi Hill to fête his birthday at the Blasberg Family Farm in Hillsboro, Missouri. We bet the Midwest is still reeling.

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Friday April 20th, 2012

Loomstate’s Designers Bike Ride Drunk (for the Environment!), Convinced Winona Ryder To Stop Washing Her Jeans
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Loomstate’s Designers Bike Ride Drunk (for the Environment!), Convinced Winona Ryder To Stop Washing Her Jeans

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Just in time for Earth Day on Sunday, the fashion crowd went crunchy (well, as much as they could) last night at the charity concept store Treasure & Bond in Soho when Rogan Gregory and Scott MacKinlay Hahn of eco-fashion line Loomstate took over to debut their Loomstate 321 line.

This capsule line of reversible and versatile multi-colored tees, tanks and dresses fashioned from one knit, man-made fabric Tencil will appeal to the environmentally conscious, frugal and laundry-challenged alike. One of the light, mega-layered and color-blocked dresses that Rogan Gregory showed us can be worn in eight different ways.

Design partners Gregory and Hahn live and breathe by their eco-conscious beliefs–incorporating them not just in their designs but also in their daily lifestyles.

“To reduce my fossil fuel footprint, I ride my bike every day and I’m as healthy as I was 20 years ago,” Gregory explained to us. “Sometimes, it’s after midnight and I’ve drank like three beers. It’s kind of like, ‘Ah, I don’t want to get on the bike.’ But you get on the bike and you can feel good about it for so many different reasons.”

Wait, what?

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Friday April 13th, 2012

Cartier Relaunches Its Juste Un Clou Collection with a Model-Filled Bash
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Cartier Relaunches Its Juste Un Clou Collection with a Model-Filled Bash

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In honor of the relaunch of its Juste Un Clou collection, and coinciding New York City in the ’70s exhibit, Cartier decided to throw a little celebration. And by little, we mean really, really big. In fact, the only thing little about the entire evening was the endless array of passed hors d’oeuvres which, lucky for us, were never quite out of arm’s reach. There were tiny wild boar thingies, little poached quail eggs, baby banana Nutella crepes, microscopic filet mignon, shrunken lobster pastries… must stop/mouth watering. Moving on…

Juste Un Clou (which literally translates to ‘Just a Nail’) is a collection of rings and bracelets that are exactly that- the finest of fine jewelry (many loaded with diamonds, of course) molded into the shape of gracefully bent hardware that range in price from $2,175 to a whopping $34,650.

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Thursday April 12th, 2012

Life Lessons from Mr. Porter: How To Mix a Mean Martini and Undress a Man
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Life Lessons from Mr. Porter: How To Mix a Mean Martini and Undress a Man

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Last night, Mr. Porter (Net-a-Porter.com’s brother site) promised that they and “a few dashing friends” would make us “wish [we] were a guy… at least for an evening.” And while I wouldn’t necessarily say that was my exact reaction upon leaving the event, it was certainly an experience. The setting was reminiscent of a dimly-lit whiskey lounge frequented in Mad Men, though most of the ‘dashing friends’ looked more Chuck Bass than Don Draper (not that we’re complaining).

Scattered amongst the cocktail-bearing guests were various “classes” being taught by some gorgeous gents, meant to show us women folk how to be more like men. Or, how to please our men with our manly skills. Or, how to show our men how to be more like the real men they should be. Even if the closest thing to a man in my life right now is a betta fish named Banana. Whatever.

So, looking to share some gentlemanly tips with the men in your life? Here are some of the best ones we picked up over the course of the evening:

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Tuesday March 27th, 2012

Chloe Sevigny, Joe Jonas, Andrej Pejic and More Turn Out to Support Jeffrey Fashion Cares
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Chloe Sevigny, Joe Jonas, Andrej Pejic and More Turn Out to Support Jeffrey Fashion Cares

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It’s that lovely time of the year again when a boatload (literally) of assorted well-heeled celebs, models, designers and scenesters get together to channel fashion and philanthropy at the star-studded Jeffrey Fashion Cares event on the USS Intrepid. The annual fundraiser, which benefits a number of organizations that support those living with HIV/AIDS and members Read more →

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Wednesday March 21st, 2012

Bianca Balti, the Face of Ferragamo’s New Fragrance, Tells Us Why She’s Like a Cat
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Bianca Balti, the Face of Ferragamo’s New Fragrance, Tells Us Why She’s Like a Cat

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Last night Ferragamo celebrated the launch of their new fragrance, Signorina, with a celeb-filled bash at Julian Schnabel’s glorious pink Palazzo Chupi (his daughter Stella also happened to be one of the hosts of the party). The Richards sisters, Kate Mara, AnnaSophia Robb (the newly cast young Carrie Bradshaw), Courtney Love, Emma Roberts, and fashion-y Read more →

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Monday March 19th, 2012

Last Night’s Party: A Fete for Gia Coppola’s Sofia Coppola-esque Film for Wren
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Last Night’s Party: A Fete for Gia Coppola’s Sofia Coppola-esque Film for Wren

by JENNIFER CHAN

LOS ANGELES–It was an evening of film and fashion last night as L.A.’s style setters crowded into TENOVERSIX to fete What’s Up, a short film by Gia Coppola (Sofia’s niece and mini-me) in collaboration with Wren’s Melissa Coker and styled by Lula Magazine’s Leith Clark (who unfortunately missed her flight and wasn’t able to join in on the fun).

The film, which first debuted at New York Fashion Week spring 2012, follows the adorable and very bored Bella Zarember as she looks for ways to fight her ennui in the City of Angels. Rich and bored in LA? Sounds like a Coppola movie!

And what do you do when you’re a stylish bespectacled LA high schooler with time to kill? Change in and out of lots of different outfits (all Wren styled by Leith Clark) and accessories with jewelry from Wren x Fallon.

“The clothes speak for themselves, so I just focused on everything else,” said Coppola, who, like the rest of us, cites aunt Sofia as her style idol.

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Saturday February 18th, 2012

Kate Moss, Rihanna, and More Attend Stella McCartney’s London Dinner Show–Oh, and Alexa Chung Levitated on Swords
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Kate Moss, Rihanna, and More Attend Stella McCartney’s London Dinner Show–Oh, and Alexa Chung Levitated on Swords

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Stella McCartney had a special presentation tonight in London, and it sounds like it was possibly the best thing that ever happened. We were sadly not there, but we are giving the endurance tweeting award to Grazia, who kept us up to speed about what was happening inside the venue. And a lot happened. First Read more →

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Friday February 17th, 2012

Last Night’s Party: Fashion Week Comes to a Bizarre Close With Guns N’ Roses, Justin Timberlake, Sienna Miller and More
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Last Night’s Party: Fashion Week Comes to a Bizarre Close With Guns N’ Roses, Justin Timberlake, Sienna Miller and More

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Never saw this one coming but it really happened: Axl Rose and his recreated Guns N’ Roses sounded the closing bell of New York Fashion Week. Needless to say, the hodgepodge of ridiculousness that ensued surpassed all of our prior expectations, and it’s worth noting that the original bar was set rather high. Though when Read more →

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Published at 5:00 PM

Wednesday February 15th, 2012