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Wednesday July 21st, 2010

Dolce & Gabbana on CNN: “The Designer With Two Heads”
Entertainment

Dolce & Gabbana on CNN: “The Designer With Two Heads”

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There are many things I love about fashion, but my favorite part of the industry and best part of this job is the chance to meet designers. I have such admiration for these people who create gorgeous things, and when I get to meet them I often turn into a 12-year-old meeting Justin Bieber. I’ve giggled. Very professional.

Often times the designers’ stories are better than any prepackaged reality shows out there. CNN’s Revealed aired today and featured Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. Theirs is an amazing love story and success story set in the incomparable backdrops of Milan and Portofino, Italy.

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Published at 12:00 PM

Monday June 28th, 2010

Hilary Alexander, Football (Er, Soccer) Commentator?

Hilary Alexander, Football (Er, Soccer) Commentator?

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Fashion and sports don’t often mix, but leave it to the World Cup to bring these two disparate worlds together. Louis Vuitton designed the carrying case for the World Cup Trophy.

Dolce & Gabbana outfits the Italian national team. Soccer players are such lovely specimens that they often double as models (see David Beckham for Armani, Kaka for Armani, and Freddie Ljungberg for Calvin Klein to name a few).

But the funniest instance of the worlds of fashion and football colliding happened yesterday, when the Daily Telegraph’s Hilary Alexander essentially live-twittered the England-Germany match. The Brit paper’s fashion director proved she is just as serious about football as she is about fashion. Well, almost.

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Published at 10:00 AM

Monday December 21st, 2009

People We Like

An American Princess

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My fascination with Grace Kelly really knows no bounds. Not only was she an amazing beauty, a divine actress, but the little girl princess fairy tale come to life—at least from the outside. Where would Betty Draper get her style inspiration, if not from Princess Grace? Hilary Alexander reveals in today’s Telegraph that starting this Read more →

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Published at 2:45 PM

Wednesday October 7th, 2009

Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

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Say What Alber: Remember when Alber told The New Yorker he’d never do a diffusion line? And then when he did do a diffusion line? Someone did and someone asked and he just couldn’t handle it. {ElleUK} On McQueen: Try to break up your Sarah Mower with other important critics. Like Hilary Alexander’s Alexander McQueen Read more →

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Published at 2:16 PM

Monday August 31st, 2009

Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

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In Vogue: We’re a sucker for epic young Hollywood portfolios in any magazine, but Teen Vogue‘s is always styled best and has the most fashion – this time around that includes Alia Shawkat, maybe better known as Maeby Fünke, who happens to be co-hosting Rachel Antonoff’s SS10 presentation. {TeenVogue} London Bound: Christopher Bailey talks to Read more →

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Published at 12:45 PM

Sunday March 8th, 2009

Fall 2009 Paris

The Pre-Lagerfeld Show

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This morning’s Lagerfeld show was scheduled for 10:00 am. Doors started to open at 10:49 am. It was cold and it was raining and this is what I heard – all polite, all amusing. Hilary Alexander: “Get me someone from the press office please. Are we just supposed to wait here in the rain? Karl Read more →

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Published at 2:03 PM

Monday February 23rd, 2009

Fall 2009 London

PPQ, Or, A Catastrophe

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Published at 8:25 AM

Thursday February 19th, 2009

Fall 2009 New York

Anna Sui: Mix Master

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Published at 9:44 AM