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Monday October 17th, 2011

Want a Byline on Vogue Italia? Italian Vogue‘s Franca Sozzani Launches Online Fashion Encyclopedia With Reader Submissions

Want a Byline on Vogue Italia? Italian Vogue‘s Franca Sozzani Launches Online Fashion Encyclopedia With Reader Submissions

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Want an Italian Vogue byline? If so, you’re in luck, as they are apparently pretty easy to come by these days.

A few months ago, Italian Vogue editor in chief Franca Sozzani posted an open call for pitches on her blog for a vague new online project. Even though it wasn’t at all clear where she was going with it, tons of people sent in pitches (via the comments section) and she even publicly critiqued almost every one.

The recently-launched Vogue Encyclo seems to be the result. (Thanks to WWD for bringing to our attention.) It is not unlike American Vogue‘s Voguepedia in that it identifies fashion’s important people, places and things, encyclopedia-style. However, like Wikipedia, Vogue Encyclo’s articles are all reader contributions, as in anyone can participate and, pending review from Vogue staffers, will receive a byline.

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Published at 10:15 AM

Tuesday August 2nd, 2011

Fashion Takes a Swan Dive: Beyond Bjork and Black Swan, Swans are Having a Moment
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Fashion Takes a Swan Dive: Beyond Bjork and Black Swan, Swans are Having a Moment

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We all know that fashion’s number one favorite animal and prop of choice is cats. However, another graceful animal is making its way into clothing, accessories, ad campaigns and editorials: swans. Not Black Swan or swan-inspired, but actual swans. We most recently noticed them in LOVE‘s “What Lies Beneath” spread, in which they swim around with naked models. They’ve also made notable appearances in Italian Vogue, Miu Miu’s spring 2011 collection and more. Click through for some of our favorite swan-filled fashion imagery. And don’t worry, we didn’t include Bjork’s swan dress since you’ve probably seen it enough.

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Published at 6:30 PM

Tuesday November 10th, 2009

Life With...

Life With Molly Stern!

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In the midst of Fashion Month, a vacation, a birthday and what’s starting to feel like a blog explosion, I ran out of time to finish posting the series of Life With’s I worked on in LA this summer. Next up is Molly Stern. I’m tempted to call Molly “make-up artist to the stars,” but Read more →

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Published at 12:57 PM

Wednesday September 2nd, 2009

Beauty

Would You Wear These Lips?

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There’s been much buzz on the interwebs about Rihanna’s Italian Vogue couture shots by Steven Klein. The nudity! The bondage! The muzzle! While I generally think the pictures are all-around fabulous, I couldn’t help but focus on her practically opaque white lips in this particular shot. I also just spotted a chalky pink version of Read more →

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Published at 4:11 PM

Friday April 10th, 2009

Monday November 10th, 2008

Meisel Makes a Puzzle

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Steven Meisel made a puzzle. The image, of Meghan Collison, is from his patterns shoot from Italian Vogue December 2007. It’s limited edition – as in only 1,000 exist – and it comes in a box both signed and numbered by Meisel himself. Considering he’s not the most willing photographer when it comes to publishing Read more →

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Published at 12:56 PM

Monday October 27th, 2008

An African Issue

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We don’t think Daisy Lowe means curvy. We don’t think putting Jourdan Dunn on every runway means diversity. And we don’t think Italian Vogue will save the world – but we do think it’s single-handedly given the fashion industry good face. Just a few months post-”A Black Issue,” comes “The Africa Issue,” but this time Read more →

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Published at 3:30 PM