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Friday November 18th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Kate Moss Photo Sells for $25,700, Margherita Missoni Gets Engaged, and Why Joe Zee Won’t Put Kim Kardashian on Elle
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Kate Moss Photo Sells for $25,700, Margherita Missoni Gets Engaged, and Why Joe Zee Won’t Put Kim Kardashian on Elle

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Margherita Missoni is Getting Married: That’s amore! The 28-year-old designer will marry race car driver Eugenio Amosnext year in Italy. Wonder if any of the party favors will end up on eBay? {WWD}

Naked Kate Moss Photo Sold For Mucho Dinero:An anonymous buyer won a huge, rare photo of a young Kate Moss at auction yesterday for approximately $25,700. It was between this photo or a new car, but I decided to go the rational route. {Grazia}

James Franco Gets into Advertising: Is James Franco getting career advice from K. Lagerfeld – or better yet, Don Draper? The actor/director/producer/screenwriter/perfume model/failed Oscar host can now add ad-man to his resume – he’s set to direct and shoot Seven For All Mankind’s multimedia campaign for spring 2012. {WWD}

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Published at 2:15 PM

Thursday October 27th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Marc Jacobs & the Proenza Boys Join CFDA Board, Mary Katrantzou for Topshop and an Interview With James Franco’s Ass
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Marc Jacobs & the Proenza Boys Join CFDA Board, Mary Katrantzou for Topshop and an Interview With James Franco’s Ass

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First Look: Mary Katrantzou For TopShop! Wait, it’s even better than it sounds: Katrantzou is perfectly replicating her crazy awesome Fabregé prints for the diffusion line, meaning you can look runway-ready without the hefty price tag. {Elle}

Marc Jacobs and the Proenza Schouler Boys Join CFDA Board: Jacobs, Lazaro Hernadez and Jack McCullough are the latest additions to the 26-member board for the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Congrats, guys! {CFDA}

A Grace Kelly Movie Is In The Works: It’s going to be a King’s Speech style film about a period in 1962 when Kelly helped resolve disputes between Morocco and France, and every blonde actress from Elizabeth Olsen to Rachel McAdams to Carey Mulligan is rumored to be playing the part. {Vogue UK}

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Published at 1:45 PM

Monday October 17th, 2011

James Franco Is the Poster Boy for Gucci’s New Bespoke Service
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James Franco Is the Poster Boy for Gucci’s New Bespoke Service

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After earning his masters degree, acting in major blockbusters, penning short stories, and directing and producing critically acclaimed short films, James Franco has finally gone back to harvesting his foremost talent: Being really, really, ridiculously good looking.

Franco is starring in Gucci‘s new campaign for their just-launched bespoke service. Shot by Nathaniel Goldberg at the huge Roman film studio Cinecittà, the campaign is called “All The World’s a Stage,” and as you can see, it features a squinty-eyed (but still completely hot) James Franco posing nonchalantly at what looks like a movie set.

“James has an innate ability to fuse classic elegance with contemporary style and interpret formalwear in an individual way,” Gucci creative director Frida Giannini said in a release.

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Published at 11:30 AM

Monday August 29th, 2011

In Honor of Lady Gaga’s VMA Drag Show, Here are the Best Gender-Bending Fashion Editorials, Covers and Campaigns
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In Honor of Lady Gaga’s VMA Drag Show, Here are the Best Gender-Bending Fashion Editorials, Covers and Campaigns

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At the VMAs last night, Lady Gaga spent the entire evening as her “male counterpart” Jo Calderone (which she first broke out on the September 2010 Vogue Hommes Japan cover, left) vehemently refusing to break character. Perhaps she felt she’d exhausted all womenswear options? Ran out of Versace? Couldn’t get to the costume store because of Irene? (I’m done now).

Whatever the reason, it made us think of some other famous gender-bending moments in fashion. Take a peek at who passed the best as the opposite sex (hint: there’s one designer who really loves his drag).

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Published at 6:43 PM

Tuesday June 14th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: James Franco Shot Agyness Deyn for Elle, Celine Reissues Old Faves and Forbes‘ Best-Paid Celebs
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: James Franco Shot Agyness Deyn for Elle, Celine Reissues Old Faves and Forbes‘ Best-Paid Celebs

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Celine to Reissue the Classics: The brand is taking six of Phoebe Philo’s best ensembles and re-releasing them in new color palettes: aqua cuffs on a button-down and a cobalt blue tuxedo pop out and scream “Buy me! I’m available in July at Bergdorfs, Jeffrey New York, Barneys and Kirna Zabete!” {The Moment}

James Franco, Photographer? Franco has been looking to break into new forms of art/self expression and is now adding photographer to his ever-expanding repertoire. In a collaboration with Joe Zee, Franco shot Agyness Deyn for a spread in Elle. If it’s anything like those strange videos the two filmed last year, it should be quite interesting. {WWD}

Prabal Gurung Wants To Know Your New Things: Inspired by his Resort 2012 collection, Prabal Gurung has a new feature on the brand’s Facebook page called #newthing, where the public is invited to share their favorite recent discoveries, the best of which will be posted to the main website. {Prabal Gurung}

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Published at 1:39 PM

Wednesday May 25th, 2011

Volkswagen Rocks the MoMA
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Volkswagen Rocks the MoMA

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Monday night’s Volkswagen-sponsored party at the MoMA had all the promises of a good time: fine art, James Franco, and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem as the DJ. Sounds like just the formula to get any cool kid out of their apartment on a Monday night and into the MoMA’s sculpture garden; and not even the rain could stop party-goers from busting out their best looks. (That vanguard of handsome umbrella holders may have helped…)

But why the bash? Because Volkswagen was celebrating the North American launch of its new Formula racing prototype, the XL1. You don’t have to understand “carspeak” to know that VW’s newest addition to its fleet is a hit. The design is sleek, futuristic, aerodynamic, and fit to be shown off at a museum. Honestly, it was hard not to try to sneak into the driver’s seat and speed away. The XL1 also functioned as a great segue to announce Volkswagen’s new partnership with MoMA–it’s financing exhibits and donating works of art to MoMA’s collection.

But enough business, on to the partying…

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Published at 12:00 PM

Wednesday March 9th, 2011

Monday February 28th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Terry Richardson Meets Monica Lewinsky, Plans To Photograph A Naked Lindsay Lohan and James Franco
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Terry Richardson Meets Monica Lewinsky, Plans To Photograph A Naked Lindsay Lohan and James Franco

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Terry Richardson met Monica Lewisnky: Terry Richardson hung out with Monica Lewinsky this weekend. It was only a matter of time. {Terry’s Diary}

And More Terry Plus Naked James Franco and Lohan: Richardson’s also about to shoot a book of full frontal nudity starring James Franco and Lindsay Lohan. (We promise, that’s all the Terry news for today.) {NY Daily News}

Liu Wen Goes Pink for Vogue Italia: In Liu Wen’s first Vogue Italia editorial the model wears a pink wig. Alice Gentilucci styled the Miles Aldridge shoot in which Wen wears nothing but Armani. {Fashion Gone Rogue}

Elle Got Comedians To Make Fun of the Fashions: Elle‘s had comedians from shows like The Daily Show and Last Comic Standing offer their two cents on the fashion coming out of New York and London. It’s funny. {Elle}

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Published at 2:00 PM

Monday January 31st, 2011

Tuesday November 30th, 2010

8 Outfit Changes for Oscar Host Anne Hathaway
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8 Outfit Changes for Oscar Host Anne Hathaway

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Anne Hathaway and James Franco are hosting the Oscars this year. We’re very much looking forward to this, both for James Franco’s craziness and Anne Hathaway’s ensembles, because you know there will be many and you know they will all be ah-mazing. We’ve decided to lighten Rachel Zoe‘s load a little this year (she is pregnant and all) and style Annie ourselves. So, ignoring the fact that many of her looks will probably be Fall 2011 (the Oscars are a couple weeks after Fashion Week), here are eight plausible outfits for Anne Hathaway’s big night.

And don’t worry, there are more couture dresses than sweatshirts inside.

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Published at 6:42 PM

Wednesday October 20th, 2010

Fashion News Roundup: Wearable Airbags, Kelly Osbourne’s Closet and The Return of the Kitten Heel
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Wearable Airbags, Kelly Osbourne’s Closet and The Return of the Kitten Heel

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Attention Bicyclists: Finally, a couple of Swedish designers have come up with solution to protecting your head without wearing one of those lame-looking helmets. Employing the same technology cars have been using for years, the Chieftain wearable airbag hides under your hipstery scarf and deploys on impact. {Fast Co. Design}

James Franco, Contemporary Artist: James Franco puts on makeup again in Allison Chernick’s James Franco as Bruce Nauman, a remake of Nauman’s Art Make-Up video piece from 1967. The film is the first in a series in which contemporary artists are enlisted to star in remakes of art films, “prompting a dialogue between the original artwork and the artist reinterpreting it.” {NOWNESS}

Out of the Closet: The newly svelte and fashion-obsessed Kelly Osbourne opens up her closet in the latest installment of Bluefly Closet Confessions. Her extremely jealousy-inducing wardrobe includes a never-worn Balmain dress, a gorge Chanel dress her dad bought her and a YSL fur-lined coat from the ’60s. {Bluefly Closet Confessions}

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Published at 12:44 PM

Wednesday October 6th, 2010

Fashion News Roundup: James Franco in Drag, Dash’s Location Confirmed and Bravo’s The Fashion Show is Back
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: James Franco in Drag, Dash’s Location Confirmed and Bravo’s The Fashion Show is Back

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Dash New York Has an Address: A former SoHo gallery space at 119 Spring between Mercer and Greene will soon be Dash’s newest location. A Keeping Up With The Kardashians spin-off with Kim and Kourtney will focus on the store’s opening. Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick stopped by on Monday to check it out. Kanye West, inexplicably, was also there. Also, Scott apparently has a clothing line in the works that will be “inspired by the looks of Ralph Lauren and Tom Ford.” {Racked NY}

Stormy Weather: Burberry has a new capsule collection of outerwear and accessories called “Winter Storms.” They also made this video to feature the clothes and it just makes us want to bundle up with a cute male model. {Burberry}

Win Wonderland: Want a free year’s subscription to Wonderland magazine? All you have to do is like Wonderland’s Facebook page and put “@Wonderland Magazine” as your status. And the easiest contest of the year award goes to…{Wonderland Magazine}

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Published at 12:50 PM