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Fashionista’s Week in Review: Victoria’s Secret Goes High End, Amy Winehouse’s Family Is Not Happy with Jean Paul Gaultier’s Homage, and Chanel Couture Takes Flight

Victoria’s Secret Launches a High End Line: As much as we all love neon pink panties and sequined bras, Victoria’s Secret has launched a higher-end line of lingerie which we could see grown-ups wearing.

Amy Winehouse’s Family Not Thrilled with JPG Couture: Though critics enjoyed Jean Paul Gaultier’s tribute to the late singer, her dad said it was in “bad taste.” Will a public apology follow?

Scott Schuman and Garance Dore Talk Integrity: We’re talking about their blogs, people. Here’s how the couple navigates the fine line of maintaining editorial integrity and making money.

CFDA Releases 2012 Model Health Initiative: And they mean it this time. Diane von Furstenberg is getting serious about the 16 and up rule after last year’s hoopla over then-15-year-old model Hailey Clauson.

Who’s Who in the Brazilian Fashion Scene: Brazil is contributing more to the fashion industry than just banging hot models. Pencils out–it’s time to take some notes.

Get to Know Model Myla Dalbesio: New Ford plus size model and performance artist Dalbesio is someone you’re going to want to know. We interviewed the rising star.

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  • Tyler McCall
  • Sunday, Jan 29, 2012 / 2:10 PM
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Parties

The Sartorialist’s Scott Schuman and Garance Doré on How They Maintain the Integrity of Their Sites and Make Money

To fête the launch of their ‘True Love In Pictures’ campaign with Tiffany & Co., Scott Schuman and girlfriend Garance Doré hosted a swanky shindig at the legendary jeweler’s Fifth Avenue flagship last night. DJ Solange Knowles spun old-school hip-hop tunes while models, socialites, and the who’s who of New York’s fashion crowd (those whose invites weren’t retracted) came out to celebrate the amazing alliance.

Joining forces with a brand like Tiffany & Co. is a big coup for anyone, even for the globetrotting street-style photo-blogging power couple, who collectively have collaborated with Gap, Burberry, Club Monaco, Moschino, and Kiehl’s in the past. (Both their sites have been growing–we know this because they’ve posted several jobs listings on our site.)

Regarding how they pick and choose whom they partner with, Schuman says they have to be careful, since they won’t shoot ads without their name attached to the project.

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  • Friday, Jan 27, 2012 / 10:32 AM
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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Take A Class on Beyoncé at Rutgers, French Elle Removes Offensive ‘Black Fashion’ Article, and Does LVMH Have a Heart?

Rutgers to Offer Course on Beyoncé: Now here’s a class we wouldn’t have regularly skipped when we were undergrads: a Rutger’s University professor is teaching a course on the significance of Beyoncé Knowles in regards to black feminism, studying her lyrics against the works of historical black female figures like Alice Walker and Sojourner Truth. Her husband, Jay-Z also has a course on him offered at Georgetown University. Next up: A seminar at Wesleyan examining how Blue Ivy Carter paved the way for infant musicians. {Sister 2 Sister}

Megan Fox Will Not Play Elizabeth Taylor: The actress took to Facebook to deny claims that she is in talks with Lifetime producers to play Elizabeth Taylor for their upcoming biopic, Liz and Dick. Looks like Lindsay Lohan might soon be getting some much-needed work after all! {ONTD}

ELLE France Removes Controversial Black Fashion Article: After facing much public scrutiny, ELLE France has removed their ‘Black Fashion Power’ article, which credited the Obamas for finally influencing black people to retire their Apple Bottom jeans, boots with the fur and “[return] to style with a sense of dignity.” ELLE‘s editor claims the article was “misinterpreted” (there seems to be a lot of that going around these days), but we’re pretty sure we got what author Nathalie Dolvio was trying to say the first time. {The Cut}

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Fashion Careers

Is a Fashion Career With KCD, WhoWhatWear or Garance Doré in Your Future? Check Out Our Careers Page!

By Nora Crotty Saturday, Jan 21, 2012 / 12:48 PM

If you want a career that will inspire your creativity, challenge you in the best ways, get you major connections and allow you to grow in the fashion biz, you’ve come to the right page.

Our careers page is packed with the latest job and internship opportunities in all facets of the fashion industry. Just email your resume and cover letter to the positions you find most appealing, and before you know it, you could be working as Garance Doré’s assistant, working for fashion PR powerhouse KCD, or joining the sales team at Bird. You’ll find those positions and tons more, just one click away at our careers page. So what are you waiting for? Your new career in fashion is calling you!
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Campaigns

The Sartorialist’s Scott Schuman and Garance Doré Take Pictures of ‘True Love’

What could say “I love you” better than a fat, blingin’ rock from Tiffany & Co.? The famous jeweler seems to think you can. For years, couples have looked to Tiffany’s to provide them with tangible symbols of their love, and now, just in time for Valentine’s Day, the retailer wants its customers to help them define the emotion.

Yesterday, Tiffany & Co’s whatmakestruelove.com, a “unique guide to matters of the heart,” launched an interactive photo blog, “True Love in Pictures.” The retailer tapped the talents of street style photographer Scott Schuman (of Sartorialist fame) and his girlfriend Garance Doré to curate a collection of images that will serve as a source of inspiration for future users. The blog features snapshots of canoodling couples (not them sadly), his and her housewares (like “S” and “G” mugs ahem), and handwritten love notes. Aw.

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Fashion Is Fun

Happy Fashion ‘Ween! Here’s How to Dress Like Your Favorite Fashion Industry Insiders

It’s Halloween this weekend, and what better way to celebrate than by going as your favorite fashion persona?

Fancy yourself a Karl Lagerfeld? Or how about BryanBoy? Whatever your fashion predilection, we break down the best costumes for emulating our favorite fashion industry insiders this weekend.

Check it out and Happy Halloween!

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Fashion Careers

The Sartorialist and Garance Dore Are Expanding Their Blogs, Hiring an Ad Sales Director

According to this Mediabistro job posting, Scott Schuman of The Satorialist and Garance Dore are looking to expand. And fast. The duo is shopping around for a Digital Ad Sales Director and Trafficker to start immediately.

The new employee will be expected to “oversee the digital ad strategy of the two properties…manage current accounts, generate new business, work to develop new ad solutions, and also be capable of handling the trafficking/tech side.” The individual must have “3+ years of digital sales experience” and be “outgoing and self motivated, with a positive attitude.” (Though we’d like to add a that a potential candidate better have a sense of “integrity” to the list as well.)

The salary is “competitive,” and considering that Schuman said he made between a quarter and half a million dollars off of just two ad accounts alone, we’re guessing (hoping?) the new person will be compensated more than fairly.

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Scott Schuman (aka the Sartorialist) Dishes on How Much Money He Makes, How Tavi’s Success Is a ‘Conspiracy,’ and How No One Believes in Magazines Anymore

Online interview magazine The Talks just published a candid conversation with The Sartorialist‘s Scott Schuman. In it, the original street style blogger (well, almost–everyone copied Bill Cunningham) gives his two cents on Tavi, bloggers in general, how much money he makes, his girlfriend Garance Doré, and advertisers and magazines, which he says are “driven by fear.” He comes across as very…we’ll say ‘confident.’ Also, he uses the word integrity a LOT. Here are the best bits:

The Talks starts out asking Scott about teen bloggers like Tavi Gevinson, the 15-year old with a hugely popular blog and online magazine. Scott says he doesn’t think her audience is that big and calls her success “a little bit of a conspiracy by established print media that wanted to show that this blog thing is not that important, that it’s done by a bunch of twelve year olds.” A little extreme, no? He continues, “But a lot of us are serious grown-ups.”

Then, he says the problem with Tavi and blogs like hers is that they steal pictures from other people, arguing that “for blogs to take the next step, they have to have people like me who are in charge of all the elements – the writing, the visual, everything. Those are the ones companies can buy into.”

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Image of the Day

Image of the Day: Garance Dore Can Take Photos, Drink and Smoke All at the Same Time

By Fashionista Monday, Sep 26, 2011 / 6:30 PM

Tommy Ton for Style.com

Tommy Ton snapped one of our favorite street style bloggers and illustrators, Garance Dore, multitasking on the streets of Milan recently. In light of Garance’s recent postings on getting in shape and being New York-ified, we’re glad to see she hasn’t let our fair city erase her French-ness yet. This is the Garance we love. Read more »

Rants

Hey Garance! We’re Not ‘New York Skinny’ and We’re Proud Of It!

This morning one of our favorite bloggers Garance Doré took to her site to discuss her struggles with body image and compared what she calls “New York Skinny” with “Paris Skinny.” While we commend Doré for discussing a topic that’s so often swept under the rug and for being so open (that’s why we love her)–we couldn’t let some of her comments about fashion girls go by without comment: Namely, that all New York fashion girls are scary skinny, and all Parisian women have great body images.

For example: “The women in fashion in New York, they’re not just skinny. They’re New York skinny. New York skinny means thin to the brink, yet muscly from Pilates because it gives you those super long lean muscles.” As a New Yorker who has lived in the city for six years and worked in the fashion industry for most of it, I just want to clarify something: We are not all anorexic. Sadly, like most women in the world, girls who work in fashion do face unrealistic body standards–and sadly, yes, many of women in the industry struggle with it. But I certainly wouldn’t say it’s the norm–or that it’s accepted.

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Mood Board

August Mood Board

By Steff Yotka Sunday, Aug 7, 2011 / 2:00 PM


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Fashion Is Fun

The Ten Best Fashion Illustration Blogs

Fashion photography may have trumped illustration a while back, but hand sketching is anything but dead. The blogosphere is full of talented artists who take runway looks, magazine editorials, and street style images and reinterpret them by hand into whimsical creations.

We’ve rounded up ten fashion illustration blogs that we adore. Click through, and prepare your eyes for a fashionable feast.

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