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Saturday July 14th, 2012

Happy Bastille Day! Celebrate With a Look Back at Our Favorite French Style Icons, From Yesterday and Today
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Happy Bastille Day! Celebrate With a Look Back at Our Favorite French Style Icons, From Yesterday and Today

by Hayley Phelan & Emily Singer

What is it about the French? Or French women to be exact? No matter what they’re wearing–whether it be a t-shirt or a ballgown–they always manage to exude that certain…je ne sais quoi.

And it’s precisely that je ne sais quoi that has inspired designers (and our wardrobes) for generations.

So in honor of Bastille Day, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite french style icons–from those of the past like Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot, all the way up to the new guard, like Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lea Seydoux.

Click through to see them all.

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Tuesday May 15th, 2012

From Grace Kelly to Angelina Jolie: The Most Memorable Red Carpet Moments at the Cannes Film Festival
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From Grace Kelly to Angelina Jolie: The Most Memorable Red Carpet Moments at the Cannes Film Festival

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The 65th Annual Cannes International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, and of course we’re super excited to see what everyone will wear.

Not only does the festival offer a perfect blend of Hollywood glamour and French insouciance, but whether it’s the heat or the proximity to nude beaches, people tend to get pretty daring with their fashion choices. And it’s made for some pretty iconic red carpet moments over the years.

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Wednesday April 11th, 2012

Namesake Bags and the Celebrities Who Inspired Them

Namesake Bags and the Celebrities Who Inspired Them

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Today we learned that Mulberry was releasing its newest it-accessory, the Del Rey bag, a month earlier than its original May 14 release date. The bag’s namesake, of course, is fashion darling (and critical disaster) Lana Del Rey, who hit it big (like, really, astronomically big) in late-’11/early-’12 with her lo-fi YouTube music videos and Read more →

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Published at 6:38 PM

Tuesday March 27th, 2012

See Anna Wintour, Jane Birkin, Kirsten Dunst and More Model Chanel’s Little Black Jacket
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See Anna Wintour, Jane Birkin, Kirsten Dunst and More Model Chanel’s Little Black Jacket

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Chanel just launched thelittleblackjacket.chanel.com, an “e-exhibition” of Lagerfeld-lensed models and celebrities wearing black Chanel jackets styled by Carine Roitfeld (a live exhibition just opened in Tokyo). While the website is not the easiest to navigate, it really made me want to buy The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited (only $39 on Amazon). Seeing all Read more →

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Published at 3:08 PM

Friday December 9th, 2011

Jane Birkin Calls Her Namesake Hermès Bag a ‘Rather Trivial Piece of Heavy Luggage’

Jane Birkin Calls Her Namesake Hermès Bag a ‘Rather Trivial Piece of Heavy Luggage’

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In anticipation of her upcoming performance at Town Hall in NYC, style icon, songstress and philanthropist Jane Birkin spoke to WWD about music, her famous and hip offspring and that bag that Hermès named after her, which happens to have just broken the world record for most expensive bag ever to be sold at a public auction. Instead of putting it on a pedestal like the person who paid $203,150 for one might, she leverages it for charity:

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Wednesday April 6th, 2011

Monday November 22nd, 2010

Our Favorite Mother & Child Editorials and Campaigns

Our Favorite Mother & Child Editorials and Campaigns

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H&M’s holiday campaign features Stella Tennant and her daughters Cecily and Jasmine, nine and seven. They’re meant to embody the “spirit of togetherness” theme that H&M is pushing for the quickly-approaching holiday season.

Of course, it’s not the first time model mothers and their kids have worked together in campaigns and editorials. So we decided to round up some of our favorite mother-daughter moments. One of them may surprise you.

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Thursday August 26th, 2010

Lutz & Patmos Reveal Their Final Project: A Guest Designer E-Shop
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Lutz & Patmos Reveal Their Final Project: A Guest Designer E-Shop

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Tina Lutz and Marcia Patmos might be going their separate ways, but not without one last hurrah. Today, the knitwear duo opened an e-shop devoted to limited edition pieces created by their friends–designers, creatives, actors–over the last ten years. Remember the Jane Birkin-designed dress? Or the Kirsten Dunst-envisioned Omi & Opi mini? We do. And we’re particularly thrilled that our fashion idol Sofia Coppola‘s belted crewneck is there. We’ve been eyeing it since 2005, when it first hit stores.

The nicest thing about buying Julianne Moore‘s cardigan? A small portion of the proceeds will go to the charity of her choice.

Just for fun, we’ve included a list of guest designers, the year their piece was released, and which charity a purchase of their piece will benefit:

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Published at 11:00 AM

Tuesday April 13th, 2010

Lady Gaga Scribbles on a Birkin, YSL Makes a $450 Adaptor & That Balmain T-shirt’s Starting to Look Sane
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Lady Gaga Scribbles on a Birkin, YSL Makes a $450 Adaptor & That Balmain T-shirt’s Starting to Look Sane

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We’re done gawking at Balmain‘s obscenely priced t-shirt, but today we kept shouting, “What?!” 1. Socks in shoes. This is like troempe l’oiel clothing, which we’ve railed against in the past, but why would you buy shoes with socks sewn in when you can buy the same shoe without a sock and choose whether or Read more →

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Published at 7:17 PM

Thursday September 3rd, 2009

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We Love Your Photo Editor

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We just received a copy of Amanda Brooks’ new book (out September 15), I Love Your Style. And while we haven’t had a chance to really read through it, we are pretty much dying over the pictures which seem worth the cost of the book alone. The book breaks down style types into six categories: Read more →

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Thursday June 11th, 2009

Lutz & Vodianova

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Lutz & Patmos gets all the cool girls. They might make little more than sweaters, but they do manage to corral the most stylish women into guest designing those fancy sweaters. From Kirsten Dunst to Jane Birkin to Sofia Coppola (though who hasn’t she collaborated with?) – their Fashion Week presentations are just as fun Read more →

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Published at 12:03 PM

Monday January 5th, 2009

Quote of the Day

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“I just designed a low-cut jersey in boring colors like taupe and gray or faded blue.” – Jane Birkin, on the design process for her Lutz & Patmos capsule, in WWD.

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Published at 1:48 PM