Harvey Nichols

Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Forbes Lists the Top-Earning Models, Galliano Sues His Ex-Lawyer, and a Tool to Determine Whether or Not You’re Wearing Pants

The World’s Top Earning Models: Gisele earned a whopping $45 million last year. Heidi Klum followed far behind at $20 million. Other top earners include Kate Moss, Adriana Lima, Lara Stone, and Candice Swanepoel. It definitely pays to be a Victoria’s Secret Angel. {Forbes}

Galliano Is Suing His Ex-Lawyer For Stealing $4 Million:As if John Galliano doesn’t have enough legal woes, he’s now suing ex-attorney Stephane Zerbib on the accusation that he stole $4 million from the designer. Zerbib is countersuing for defamation. Sigh. {NYP}

Cathy Horyn Tells Bloggers How They Should Blog: Refinery29 caught up with the fashion journalist–who never minces words–and asked her about the future of fashion journalism. Her advice? Don’t re-blog, be a reporter, and learn French. {Refinery29}

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Parties

Lulu Kennedy is Amazing, Not Only Because She Said ‘Fashionista’s Got Balls’

LONDON–Fashion East, the London launchpad for raw young talent, celebrated its 10th year with the launch of a 10-piece range under new label Lulu & Co. Each look, some of which were only seen on the runway–never in stores–were handpicked by Fashion East founder Lulu Kennedy from the archives of alum like Richard Nicoll, Roksanda Ilincic, Jonathan Saunders and Henry Holland.

To mark the occasion, the East End fashion pack brought the party West to Harvey Nichols in London’s posh Knightsbridge neighborhood for a Mexican-themed disco replete with fish tacos, hibiscus margaritas, and wonderfully kitsch gold palm trees. Everyone from Roisin Murphy and Pixie Geldof to supermodel/presenter Jade Parfitt spun around in their favorite pieces from the range, while a tagteam set was DJ’d by Princess Julia, House of Holland and Hazel. We nabbed the ageless fairy godmother of London fashion, Lulu Kennedy, dressed in a fiery organza gown by Jonathan Saunders, to talk disco and a decade of designers.

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Labels

Harvey Nicks Gets Hakaan

The work of Hakaan Yildirim, Turkish design sensation, ANDAM winner and Carine protégé, is now available to purchase. But only at British department store Harvey Nichols, which also stocks fashion darlings Erdem, Peter Pilotto, and Christopher Kane.

The prices aren’t insane–they’re not cheap, either, but doable if you can generally afford a $2,000 dress. A peplum skirt rings up at £660, approximately $870, and a wool body con dress will set you back £1,130, or around $1,485.

This is a huge get for Harvey Nicks, and we bet they’ll be keeping Yildirim on come spring. But we also bet he’ll be showing up in several more retailers by 2011.

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Magazines

Lula Pops Up in Harvey Nichols This Thursday

To celebrate 5 Years of Lula‘s editor in chief Leith Clark has collaborated with Harvey Nichols on a pop-up curated by the magazine and designed by set designer Fiona Leahy.

Apparently Clark is turning the 4th floor of Harvey Nichols, which she calls, “the only store you need to visit in London. British style heaven,” into a wonderland of her favorite things. With products created especially for pop-up from the likes of Rodarte, Erdem, Lover, Miu Miu, Charles Anastase, Rachel Antonoff, and Sonia Rykiel; and books and music from her friends, i.e. Liz Goldwyn, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Derek Blasberg, Daisy de Villeneuve and Karen Elson, it sounds like her favorite things and our favorite things have a lot in common.

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Play Date: When two fashion people, a photographer and a model, land in a wooden house in the forest, Todd Selby still manages to make it look fashion-y. Peek inside Shannan Click and Dan Martensen’s upstate New York house. {TheSelby} The Never Ending Question: Do you fur? Do you not fur? When is it okay [...]

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Magazines

LOVE Watch: This Weekend and Beth

This just in from five hours into the future: Bad news: The first copies of LOVE are still being printed – as in, right this second – so those advance copies at Harvey Nichols and Dover Street Market are happening only on Saturday. Fun news: The Beth Ditto cover is a full naked page, kind [...]

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Proenza Schouler’s for the People, Too

For those of you wondering when Proenza‘s line of bags will be available to more people than their socialite friends, here’s your answer: The line – dubbed PS 1 after the New York City public school system and not the boys’ initials, as previously thought – debuts at Harvey Nichols next month, and on Net-a-Porter [...]

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Harvey Nichols Hearts Wallace and Gromit

Harvey Nichols just got a little cuter. The departments stores eschewed Darias, Sashas and Aggys, in favor of some very cute and quirky celebs – made of plasticine, naturally. The new campaign features Wallace, Gromit and even Lady Campanula Tottingham decked out in designer duds – they look pretty awesome. Sure, Lady Tottingham could stand [...]

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