The Met Ball is this Monday, and obviously we can’t wait to see who will be in attendance and what everyone will be wearing to fashion prom. Excitement reached a fever pitch at last night’s fancy Balmain dinner, where we got to rub shoulders with the label’s young designer Oliver Rousteing, Anthony Vaccarello, and models Read more →
One diet pill company has gotten very, um, creative when it comes to viral marketing. Yesterday, the Twitter accounts of several models including Joan Smalls, Lily Donaldson, Jourdan Dunn, and Toni Garrn, were hacked to sell diet pills, the fine folks at Fashin are reporting. Apparently, once followers clicked on the link posted, a virus Read more →
Garance Doré Doesn’t Think The Vogue Kiddie Diet Article Was Necessarily A Bad Thing: While we’re all up in arms over Dara Lynn Weiss’ “Weight Watcher” testimony in this month’s Vogue, blogger Garance Doré thinks it does serve a positive purpose. She writes, “…I find it good that Vogue, through that testimony, breaks the silence of one of those ‘normal’ women that live with a food disorder all their life.” While she makes a good argument for awareness, it’s not like there isn’t a huge discourse about eating disorders, especially in the fashion world. We’re more concerned about the psychological effects Weiss’ actions had on her perfectly healthy seven-year-old. {The Cut}
Lady Gaga Tweets A Photo of Herself Without Makeup: … so we guess she doesn’t go to bed entirely in costume like we imagined? {Lady Gaga Twitter}
Joan Smalls Covers Vogue Australia: Joan Smalls is on the cover of like, everything right now, and that includes the May issue of Vogue Australia. Continue to collect those coins, Ms. Smalls! {Fashin}
Dolce & Gabbana Sues Dolce & Banana: No, this is real. The famed Italian design house has filed a lawsuit against Cape Town gift shop Dolce & Banana for trademark infringement, claiming the store “makes a mockery of the well-known trademark, Dolce & Gabbana.” Sounds like Domencio and Stefano are not fans of clever puns. {Racked}
Finally, we have a full fashion editorial to go a long with those mesmerizing gifs of Jessica Stam, Abbey Lee et al donning ridiculous, over-the-top hair and makeup. The spread stars March cover girl Joan Smalls, along with more of our faves: Jessica Stam, Karen Elson, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Lindsey Wixson, Daphne Groeneveld, Guinevere van Read more →
Models spend a lot of time in hair and makeup chairs at shows and for shoots, and they have access to some of the most talented hair stylists and makeup artists in the world. It stands to reason that they’ve picked up a few beauty pointers along the way, so this fashion month we decided to ask some of the best models in the business what tricks they’ve learned.
We chatted with Jourdan Dunn, Coco Rocha, Andrej Pejic and many more backstage at shows in New York, Milan, Paris and London. Click through to learn all their beauty secrets.
PARIS–Isabel Marant raked in $82.9 million in sales last year and has plans to open six new stand alone boutiques by the end of next year in Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Paris, London and Los Angeles, according to a report in WWD. It’s not surprising, considering the queen of Parisian cool has quite the knack Read more →
We’ve been treated to Steven Meisel’s crazy/tacky/kitcschy/awesome “Haute Mess” gif’s for Vogue Italia over the past week, and today the cover for the March issue has finally dropped. It features Joan Smalls, as shot by Steven Meisel, and is appropriately titled “Over the Top.” While the full inside editorial isn’t on Vogue Italia’s site yet, Read more →
Today the Fashionista team was busy running all over Manhattan to catch shows from Alexander Wang, Prabal Gurung, Altuzarra, Band of Outsders, Rachel Antonoff, Wes Gordon, and so many more!
In between taxis, subways, and the occasional pedi-cab, we managed to take a few snaps of NYFW through our eyes. Click through the gallery to see everything from Gisele backstage at Alexander Wang (yes, this happened and we almost died) to a real cat posing with models at Rachel Antonoff!
Gisele Has Angels on her Side: Nearly a week after the big game, this whole Gisele-is-a-poor-sport debacle still has some steam. Days after Giants’ running back Brandon Jacobs told Tom Brady’s supermodel wife to “stay cute and shut up,” Gisele’s former Victoria’s Secret Angel compadres have come to her defense. Quoth Adriana Lima, “Leave her alone!” {Vogue UK}
Fashion 2.0 Awards Winners Announced: The 3rd annual Fashion 2.0 Awards, which honors the fashion brands that have been most innovative in the media and technology, were held in NYC last night by the Style Coalition. Winners of the night included DKNY for Best Twitter, Marc Jacobs for Best Website, and one of our personal favs, Instagram for the Next Big Thing in Tech. The big winners of the night, for the Fashion 2.0 Visionary Award, were Gilt Group co-founders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson. {Fashionista Inbox}
A Burch v. Burch Lawsuit in the Works? Though no law suit has been formally filed, rumors are swirling that Tory Burch is on the verge of suing ex-husband and business partner Christopher for trade infringement over his new venture C. Wonder. Chris is still the co-chairman at Tory Burch, but is looking to sell his stake and continue growing his own businesses. What will happen when the monogrammed ballet flats come off? Watch this space. {WWD subscription required}
We look forward to the couture collections for so many reasons–the pure fantasy of it all, the exquisite details, and of course, the often equally as fantastical beauty looks. We’ve already broken down the gorgeous looks at Chanel (left), but here’s a look at the rest of the collections. From elaborate hair accessories to full-face makeup, click through for our favorite beauty looks from the spring 2012 couture collections.
We already showed you Chanel’s awesome spring 2012 ad campaign, in which Joan Smalls and Saskia de Brauw perform acrobatics high above the ocean, so here is the behind-the-scenes video. And unlike the actual ads, everything is in color. The sunny, serene video reveals that the models were not exactly risking their lives for Lagerfeld‘s Read more →
Joan Smalls and Saskia de Brauw continue their seaside workout routine in these additional images Chanel just sent over from their spring 2012 ad campaign, shot beautifully by Karl Lagerfeld and styled by the inimitable Carine Roitfeld.
