Heatherette

Fashion Is Fun

A Masterclass in DIY

Accessories designer Aleksandra Olenska’s CV makes our heads spin. The London based stylist trained under the legendary Camille Bidault Waddington, and has since created accessories for designers like Peter Jensen and Roksanda Ilincic as well as bespoke pieces for Kylie Minogue, Heatherette and Bjork. She also styles for magazines like Vogue and Exit, teaches at [...]

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Richie Rich Returns

There’s been a lot of “What’s going on?” with Heatherette this year, but we procured the full story from Richie Rich himself at the Screaming Mimi’s dinner last night in Chinatown. Here’s the deal: The Weisfeld Group, which bought Heatherette for $6 million in 2005, declined to renew Richie and Traver’s contract at the end [...]

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Richie Rich’s Album Official

The official release for Richie Rich’s album, Celebutante (yes, that’s the same name as his Hot Topic shoe line), is now out: The electro-techno-glitter-pop (ok, we made that up, but we’re sure it’ll have an equally hip hyphenate for genre) mix drops October 22nd, to be followed by a huge club kid bash the following [...]

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Beauty

Ungaro on Your Face

MAC is teaming up with Ungaro‘s Esteban Cortazar for fall. It’s the second “from the runway” collaboration for the make-up giant, after partnering with Alexander McQueen last year. (They don’t count Heatherette because their make-up wasn’t based on anything runway related.) The Ungaro colors, set to debut this fall, will feature a “softer palette of [...]

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Richie Rich for Hot Topic

More news from the business of Richie Rich: He’s launching a new solo line. For Hot Topic. It’s going to be called Celebutante, and we have no idea who will be the new face – but since Avril Lavigne and Perez Hilton have both done lines for the mall brand, maybe they can get together [...]

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Richie Rich Goes Solo for Footwear

Is Heatherette finished? We still can’t get a straight answer, but here’s something that helps our decision: Tonight, Richie Rich is launching his own line of shoes in the Lower East Side… all by himself. The shoes are different from the super cute footwear Heatherette already made for Irregular Choice, but their muse is the [...]

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People Are Talking

Heatherette Break-Up: Bogus?

We all know there’s been a ton of rumors lately that Richie Rich and Traver Rains are walking on separate yellow brick roads these days, but some recent developments might prove otherwise – First, the glitter boys shot a prom-themed spread for ELLEgirl with Lydia Hearst right after the rumors of their demise swirled Gossip [...]

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People Are Talking

Is Heatherette Dunzo?

Industry insiders have keenly noted two departures from Heatherette in the past two weeks: First, technical designer Macky Dugan got his own label and his own studio, and then publicist Lysee Webb took a new job at Paper magazine, running their events and promotions. Now we hear (from a TV producer, no less) that Traver [...]

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Explain

We Wish It Was A Joke

Giorgio Armani makes roller skates now. 1. If any designer’s making roller skates – shouldn’t it be Heatherette? 2. That new business plan – the one where he refrains from sticking his name and logo on everything in order to re-establish himself as a luxury instead of mass market brand – was introduced less than [...]

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Heatherette Designer Goes Solo

Last night’s hysterical launch of Heatherette’s makeup line brought a lot of cotton candy, a great streak of Teyana Taylor (who is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous in person), too much glitter (who’s surprised?), and one bit of sad news: Heatherette’s technical designer, Macky Dugan, is going out on his own. The New Zealand native, who came [...]

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Buy, Buy, Baby

Would You Wear a Face?

The Miu Miu Harlequin girl is haunting us. Seriously. We see her face on Kirsten when we flip through Vogue. She stares up at us from the “dress” on Byrdie Bell. She even shows up when we scroll through Net-a-Porter. But the odd thing is, we never see faces on girls in real life. Whether [...]

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Peaches Now Designs, Edits

We guess British socialite Peaches Geldof was taking notes when she beat out Agyness to open PPQ’s show in London last season. The young label (think Richie Rich and Trevor Rains’ style, except British and with less glitter), has just announced that Peaches will design a capsule collection of mostly dresses, all around a color [...]

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