Charlize Theron is badass in her new buzz cut, shaved for her role in Mad Max.{Refinery29}
Rihanna is such an exciting style star precisely because you can never predict what she’s going to do next. She recently donned designer menswear, and nailed it, for an event in London. {FabSugar}
Prince William is just like us–he makes his own bed! These new pictures on his website prove it. {US Weekly}
Elizabeth Olsen dishes on her style and raiding her super famous older twin sisters’ closets. Sounds like a tough life. {Grazia}
Tyra Banks may be the only person in the world who’s eager to show off her back fat. We’re too distracted by her glorious smize to notice anything. {HuffPo}
Michelle Obama is the First Lady… to wear Jason Wu’s new Miss Wu line, which isn’t even out ’til January! {The Daily Beast}
Georgina Chapman talks Blake Lively’s “hand-draped silk tulle bodice adorned with custom crystal and rose gold embroidery” Marchesa wedding gown. Can we please just see a pic already? {Vogue UK}
Donatella Versace is the subject of two profiles this morning in advance of her upcoming couture show and even though she’s one of the most recognizable faces in fashion, they reveal some pretty fascinating things.
While she may not do as many interviews as say, Karl Lagerfeld, she’s often just as honest and unfiltered. However, in these, from WWD and the Telegraph, she’s doesn’t actually say anything that head-scratching. Well, there was one thing about sleeping in a freezer. And did she really mean to say she “asphyxiated” her children? Read on for that, her thoughts on returning to the Paris Ritz for her couture show, selling the company and her friendship with fellow feminist Miuccia Prada.
Burberry is being sued by the estate of Humphrey Bogart after they used an iconic image of the actor wearing a trenchcoat from the film Casablanca. Adding insult to injury, Bogart’s son asserts the trench in the photo was probably from rival brand Aquascutum. {Telegraph} Kate Middleton went to a wedding this weekend, and in Read more →
If Mr. Lagerfeld and Mr. Cavalli have taught us anything, it’s that unfiltered honesty is the best, most hilarious, policy. And speaking of unfiltered designers, we haven’t heard from Donatella Versace since last November’s Versace x H&M media blitz. But with the house’s recent return to couture and the sudden interest sparked by potential IPO rumors, we’re starting to hear more from Ms. Versace again (which, yay!).
Tim Blanks moderated a lively interview with the designer yesterday at Oxford University Union, wherein she opened up about her design process, personal life, how she’d like to dress the Queen, and that time Elizabeth Taylor stole some jewels. We weren’t there but Vogue UK was. Read on for the highlights.
This morning, Donatella Versace and H&M creative advisor Margareta van den Bosch sat down with moderator Tim Blanks for a chat on (what else) the Versace for H&M collaboration, which will hit stores in (OMFG!) just over a week. Here’s what we learned.
The collection is an homage to Donatella’s late brother, Gianni:
“Yes, it was an homage to Gianni. I couldn’t [pay homage in the same way] in my own line [the main Versace line] because it’s too archival, but I wanted to give it to a whole new customer, especially the younger crowd, through H&M.”
Working on the collaboration was difficult for Donatella emotionally:
“[Before the collaboration] I never went back [into the archives] to look because it’s something I have in my heart and it’s very painful. It was a hard process for me but then I said, ‘No, everyone should see what Gianni was.”
Wonderful Wixson: T Magazine has named Lindsey Wixson breakout model of the year. {The Moment}
Royal Granny Panties: Some Miami playboy came into possession of a pair of Queen Elizabeth II’s panties after they were left on a private plane in 1968. The owner of the panties recently passed away, so they’re being auctioned of as part of an estate sale. They’re predicted to fetch an estimated $9,000 via the same auction house that sold Queen Victoria’s undies back in 2008. {TMZ}
Tom Ford loves nakedness, especially that of fat women, saying “Fat women almost always look better without the constraint and lumpy pinching of clothes, all the straps and elastic squeezing and sucking.” But if you have to wear clothes, he’d like you to wear his. {Contact Music via Jezebel}
When Gianni Versace was murdered in 1997, his fashion house was worth something like $2 billion, with annual sales of $550 million. In 2009, the house of Versace garnered about $380 million in sales, and lost about $40 million. In just a decade, the Italian fashion house went from big industry player to tiny–but still Read more →
The memorial service for the King of Pop is about to get under way. And until we did our morning read of WWD, we hadn’t even thought about how it would affect LA’s fashion industry, which happens to operate basically right around the corner. I used to work in the Cooper Building in downtown Los Read more →
Mark Haddaway and Katy Rodriguez, the brilliant duo behind Resurrection, have been working on a project. We’re so jealous, we might cry. They’ve assembed what The Telegraph calls, “the most important [collection] to come up at auction.” It includes original 1970′s Vivienne Westwood from both the legendary Seditionaries and Pirates collections. There are Paco Rabanne Read more →
