Love Loves Topshop: CFDA/Swarovski award nominee Pamela Love recently confirmed the rumors that she’s designing for Topshop. {Fab Sugar}
Eva Mendes is an Angel: The actress replaces Naomi Watts as the face of the fragrance Angel by Thierry Mugler. {WWD, subscription required}
Joe Zee is Nice and Talented: The happy fashion editor finally gets his own moment in the spotlight. {NY Times}
Click through to see who made our list–and why.
How do you measure influence?
Is it through website hits? Or sales? Through ad dollars? Or the number of mass retailers who’ve knocked off your work?
The answer is all of the above and none of the above. Influence is an intangible thing that just happens when you know your craft and you work hard at it.
To determine who belongs in the Fashionista 50–our list of the most influential people working in New York fashion–we used our own knowledge of the industry, combined with advice from industry sources. We also considered each candidate’s consumer reach–through sales, media, etc.
To be considered, candidates had to live and work in New York for most of the year.
What’s Fashionista’s definition of influential? It describes people who are shaping the direction of the New York fashion industry, both aesthetically and in terms of how the business works.
You’ll find the entire Fashionista 50 list after the jump. Click on the person’s name to read a full bio. And if you really want to click through the whole slideshow, you can do so here.
But Will There Be Cone Bras? Jean Paul Gaultier has designed a line of lingerie for La Perla, set to hit stores this November. {WWD, subscription required}
Richardson Goes Jersey: Headline-making photog Terry Richardson shoots the cast of The Jersey Shore for Rolling Stone. {Daily Mail}
It’s Not Always Clean Being Green: Be careful about what you put in your eco-friendly canvas bag. They can carry lots of icky germs. {Racked via The Consumerist}
Marc’s Taking Hair Tips From Daphne? Marc talks about his hair transplant to the UK’s Telegraph. At least he’s not using glue. {Daily Telegraph}
Say Goodbye Cintra: Cintra Wilson is out as the Times‘ Critical Shopper. The reason is unknown, but she’s probably been walking on eggshells since calling JC Penney customers fat. {Racked}
The Ticking Hands of Time: The snarky ladies at Jezebel are live-blogging SATC2. So far they’re still watching the previews. We can’t wait until they get to “Abu Dhabi.” (actually Morocco). {Jezebel}
Brad Sans Bow Tie: Rachel Zoe and Brad Goreski we’re shot by Terry Richardson. Who knew Brad was such a stud under those cardigans? {Terry’s Diary}
Good Romance: This TUSH editorial of Siri makes us want to run off into the woods and dress up like a fairy. Unfortunately, we are not supermodels, nor five year old girls, so this seems less than logical. {FashionGoneRogue} On the Traina: Erin Kleinberg sure does love her famous daughters/socials as models. First it was Read more →
Be the Last Intern: Magnus Berger and Tenzin Wild’s The Last Magazine needs design and production interns. You need experience and three to five days free to work. {Starworks} Break It Down: Peter Brant spends $500,000 a month on his polo ponies. He doesn’t understand why his soon to be ex, Stephanie Seymour, spends $50,000 Read more →
“I know that when shopping for clothing, I’m just not happy unless the décor involves taxidermy chickens dressed in Edwardian formalwear. Maxfield is good enough to provide these…and two other elements that have come to symbolize the mark of true sophistication for me: sex toys and human remains.” –Cintra Wilson in her critical shopper piece Read more →
“[Cintra] Wilson told me she usually writes about ‘obscure stores that don’t exist outside of Manhattan,’ and she thinks of her audience as ’1,300 women in Connecticut and urban gay guys in Manhattan.” She said it was ‘kind of provincial of me [Wilson]‘ not to realize how big The Times was and how her audience Read more →
This story on Allure’s blog, originally from The British Telegraph, particularly struck me just now in light of all of your comments on the Cintra Wilson quote, as well as just the heated tone of comments on the internet in general. Here’s the deal: A woman’s Facebook friend posted an incredibly derogatory remark about the Read more →
“J. C. Penney has always trafficked in knockoffs that aren’t quite up to Canal Street’s illegal standards. It was never “get the look for less” so much as “get something vaguely shaped like the designer thing you want, but cut much more conservatively, made in all-petroleum materials, and with a too-similar wannabe logo that announces Read more →
“She comes off as genuinely sweet, sunny and slightly dim, her punkette look the thinnest candy coating over an interior filled primarily with airy, whipped pink goo and nuvo-hippie, gestalt-y wow-ness.” —Cintra Wilson of the NY Times on Agyness Deyn. The writer goes on to debate whether said dimness is strategic or not.
