Abyaar Real Estate Development Co. just announced a partnership with Christian Lacroix. The designer’s set to build a 38-unit residential tower in the Jumeirah district of Dubai. With Lacroix’s lace, brocade, glitter and bold prints, he might actually be the perfect designer to take Dubai to the next level in its quest to be the [...]
Read more »The challenge: Christian Lacroix’s ombre tights. The strategy: Dip-dye What you’ll need: A box of navy blue powder dye – try the sewing kits/cleaning supplies section at Duane Reade; a pair of opaque, white tights (American Apparel); A wastebasket; Large wooden spoon. Step One: Fill the wastebasket with the hottest water possible. (You might want [...]
Read more »Christian Lacroix already did a diffusion line for La Redoute, but apparently, that’s not enough. The couturier just released images of a new collaboration with Evian, where he’s design both a ready-to-wear bottle and a “couture” one. The vessels are made from etched glass, with the RTW one selling for $6 at the grocery store, [...]
Read more »Anouck Lepere may be posing for J. Crew, but our favorite unlikely catalog girl is Lily Cole. Last season, she was the face of Bloomingdale’s. This season, she’s mugging for La Redoute. The images may be a little cheesy, but let’s give the French-based chain store a little credit: After all, their guest designer – [...]
Read more »When designer Peter Bertsch took home the 1,2,3 prize at Hyeres, we were intitially struck by the sculptural beauty and absurdity of his his “Half Plant/Half Human” collection. With dresses that recalled the ambigious sexuality of Georgia O’Keefe’s flower paintings, Bertsch revealed his talent for playing with the physical boundaries of the body and the [...]
Read more »Reese Witherspoon’s dress by Olivier Theyskens might top the style charts, but Zac Posen’s gown for Gwyneth still wins a contest of sorts. Here’s a raw, unedited, unresearched, slightly mad scorecard for designers, dresses, and the Oscars. Zac, it seems, gets a Mr. Popularity award for two major dresses of the night… Armani – 2 [...]
Read more »The Paris couture season might be many things, but hurried isn’t one of them. Designers spend weeks on single gowns; models sit in the same makeup chair backstage for hours; shows themselves stretch into the night or the morning. Because a couture piece is made by hand, it takes some labor time – at least, [...]
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