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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Gisele Has the Victoria’s Secret Angels on Her Team, Carine Roitfeld Styles Models with Peds on Their Heads, and Christian Louboutin Gifted Blake Lively His Entire Spring Collection

Gisele Has Angels on her Side: Nearly a week after the big game, this whole Gisele-is-a-poor-sport debacle still has some steam. Days after Giants’ running back Brandon Jacobs told Tom Brady’s supermodel wife to “stay cute and shut up,” Gisele’s former Victoria’s Secret Angel compadres have come to her defense. Quoth Adriana Lima, “Leave her alone!” {Vogue UK}

Fashion 2.0 Awards Winners Announced: The 3rd annual Fashion 2.0 Awards, which honors the fashion brands that have been most innovative in the media and technology, were held in NYC last night by the Style Coalition. Winners of the night included DKNY for Best Twitter, Marc Jacobs for Best Website, and one of our personal favs, Instagram for the Next Big Thing in Tech. The big winners of the night, for the Fashion 2.0 Visionary Award, were Gilt Group co-founders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson. {Fashionista Inbox}

A Burch v. Burch Lawsuit in the Works? Though no law suit has been formally filed, rumors are swirling that Tory Burch is on the verge of suing ex-husband and business partner Christopher for trade infringement over his new venture C. Wonder. Chris is still the co-chairman at Tory Burch, but is looking to sell his stake and continue growing his own businesses. What will happen when the monogrammed ballet flats come off? Watch this space. {WWD subscription required}

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News

Carine Roitfeld Wants to be the ‘Joan of Arc of Fashion’; Will Launch Biannual Mag to Link ‘the Runway and the Real Woman’

By Dhani Mau Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012 / 10:00 AM

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Karl’s turn as guest editor at Metro wasn’t just about Karl. (OK, it was mostly about Karl). But the issue also features interviews with some of his favorite people including Azealia Banks (who performed at his house last week), Florence Welch (who performed at his spring show), Haider Ackermann (his preferred replacement at Chanel) and, of course, Carine Roitfeld, his partner in crime. Since any interview with the former Vogue Paris EIC is gold, we couldn’t wait to read and share the best parts. Click through to learn more about her relationship with Karl, not being “porno” anymore and new details on her forthcoming magazine, due out in September. Will she ever run out of interesting things to say?
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Magazines

Carine Roitfeld Uses ‘Real People’ in VMan for Guest Editor Gig, Shoots a Pinup Calendar Featuring Victoria’s Secret Supermodels

Carine Roitfeld is continuing to relish her role as a freelancer by taking on yet another new quirky gig. She guest edited VMan‘s spring fashion issue, which will hit newsstands on February 14, WWD is reporting. And instead of using male models, she shot “real people.” Well, real men to be exact–like chefs, mechanics, architects and even a fireman. Obviously they’re all hot, or “not hard to look at,” as WWD puts it.

Carine told the trade, “I like men trendy, but not fashion victims. It’s more effortless.” She claims that the images in VMag are “very new for a men’s magazine,” which is quite intriguing.

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Campaigns

Joan Smalls and Saskia de Brauw Trapeze High Above the Ocean for Karl Lagerfeld’s Complete ‘Chanel Athletics’ Spring 2012 Campaign

By Dhani Mau Friday, Jan 6, 2012 / 9:06 AM

Joan Smalls and Saskia de Brauw continue their seaside workout routine in these additional images Chanel just sent over from their spring 2012 ad campaign, shot beautifully by Karl Lagerfeld and styled by the inimitable Carine Roitfeld. Read more »

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Fashion Is Fun

Ten Fashion Questions From 2011 That We Hope Get Answered in 2012

2011 is coming to a close, and some of the most pressing fashion mysteries of the year have yet to be resolved. While we’re all looking forward to a year of new collections, It-girl obsessions, and strange sartorial choices, here are some questions from 2011 we’ll still want answered after the clock strikes midnight.

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Carine Roitfeld on the Demise of Her Friendship with Emmanuelle Alt: “I Am the Winner”

Eric Wilson profiles the “new” post-Vogue Paris Carine Roitfeld in today’s Thursday Styles and she is, as she has been this year, completely, awesomely, unfiltered. We gotta say, we love the un-Condé-d Carine. Now that she’s a free agent–taking on styling gigs for Chanel and Givenchy and Barneys to name a few–she’s also free to speak her mind. And she does. She sounds off on everything from the demise of her relationship with her successor Emmanuelle Alt, to the rumors that she asked to be seated directly across from Alt during Paris Fashion Week as a way of asserting her still-considerable clout, to news about her forthcoming magazine.

The highlights:

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Campaigns

Saskia de Brauw and Joan Smalls are Gymnasts for Chanel’s Spring 2012 Campaign, Styled by Carine Roitfeld

By Leah Chernikoff Thursday, Dec 22, 2011 / 9:01 AM

Karl Lagerfeld told WWD back in October that Chanel’s spring/summer 2012 ad campaign, which he photographed at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France (the setting for his last resort collection), would be “all about athletics and the sea.…It’s very modern sportif and in black-and-white.” True to his word, the campaign stars Saskia de Brauw and Joan Smalls on some uneven parallel bars. Because who doesn’t do gymnastics by the sea in head-to-to Chanel, looking all serene? Good thing they’ve got wrist bands. Another image shows Saskia breezily sailing by on a rope swing.
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Magazines

The 25 Best Fashion Editorials of 2011

It happens every year: Our ever-growing pile of fashion magazines inches higher with each passing month, and by the time December rolls around, we can barely sift through the hundreds of stylish images we bookmarked for inspiration. 2011 was no exception, and in a year that celebrated retro supermodels, androgyny, vivid colors, and plenty of experimentation in the beauty department, choosing our favorites was particularly difficult.

The best editorials of the year ran the gamut from huge ensemble casts of blue-chip models styled by greats like Katie Grand and Carine Roitfeld, to intimate, one-on-one portraits of our favorite girls like Lindsey Wixson and Daria Werbowy. The acid brights that dominated the spring collections allowed for some pretty trippy trend stories last season, but the fall glossies featured much moodier imagery, with a number of gorgeous spreads in black and white.

Here are the editorials from 2011 that will stay tacked up on our walls and fill our inspiration boards well into the new year—and beyond.

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  • Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 / 5:25 PM
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Best Dressed

Best Dressed 2011: The 20 Most Stylish Ladies of the Year

Believe it or not, we are already nearing the end of 2011. So, before we prepare to embark on what will surely be a very stylish 2012, we decided to take a look back at some of 2011′s most stylish people and moments.

It wasn’t easy picking just 20, but we think the following ladies made the biggest impact and smartest choices this year. From starlets to musicians to editors, click through for who we believe to be the 20 best dressed gals of the year (and five of their best looks). Who do you think was this year’s best dressed?

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Fashion Is Fun

20 Moments that Rocked the Fashion World in 2011

We’ll cut right to the chase: A lot of crazy shit happened in the fashion world this year. While the industry that we call home can sometimes seem isolated and fantastical, many of its key players and events made headlines even in the mainstream media over the course of 2011.

In the last 365 days, we’ve seen our share of ups and downs: There have been exciting new beginnings and tragic falls from grace. A royal wedding and a Sarah Burton for McQueen dress captivated the world, while Galliano’s dress for Kate Moss made the fashion world swoon. We’ve celebrated the return of older models—like when 46-year-old Kristen McMenamy wore a bikini on the cover of Vogue Italia—and saw plenty of controversy surrounding very young ones. Just when we thought the boundaries of gender identity were breaking for good and that Lea T could kiss Kate Moss on the cover of LOVE, a men’s mag openly calls androgynous model Andrej Pejic a “thing.” We took it all in stride, and we’ve hopefully come out better on the other side.

Looking back at 2011, we’ve chosen twenty major moments that we believe defined the year in fashion. Which one made the biggest impact on you?

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  • Alyssa Vingan
  • Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 / 2:29 PM
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Carine Roitfeld

Carine Roitfeld Talks Kate Middleton, Aging, and Her New Magazine

It’s looking like a slow news day with the Versace for H&M madness subsiding (or at least shifting to eBay) and Thanksgiving coming up, so we were psyched to find this Carine Roitfeld interview with the UK’s Guardian, published over the weekend. It’s another piece timed to the release of her new-ish book Irreverent (a lovely holiday gift!), and even though Carine has given tons of interviews to promote Irreverent, she never runs out of witty, charming and hilarious things to say.

In this interview, she advises women to dress their age and never ever borrow from their daughters closets:

As you get older, you must never share your wardrobe with your daughter. Never ever. You will never look beautiful in a jean jacket and a mini-skirt, even if you have a beautiful body. You have to wear something for your age or you will look really ridiculous. There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds. You have to look every five years at your wardrobe and say: “Is it OK to wear this with my legs? Is it OK to wear sleeveless with my arms?’ Then you have a cull. It’s not nice but you have to do it.

It’s good advice. Click through for more highlights, including Carine’s thoughts on Twilight, her new magazine, and her habit of styling shoots with with scissors and meat.

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Shopping

Holiday Gift Guide: 10 New Coffee Table Books For the Fashion-Obsessed

It’s officially mid-November, which means it’s probably time to start shopping for holiday gifts…or at least thinking about it. Not sure what to get your fashion-obsessed loved one? This year, we’d recommend a pretty fashion book, especially because there are so many good ones that have come out recently.

Who wouldn’t want a photographic look back at the house of Gucci or Carine Roitfeld’s career sitting on their coffee table? We certainly do, so we’ve compiled what we believe are the 10 best fashion books to have come out this year. And if you end up buying one of them for yourself, that’s okay. We won’t tell!

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