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Friday May 6th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Forbes Lists the Top-Earning Models, Galliano Sues His Ex-Lawyer, and a Tool to Determine Whether or Not You’re Wearing Pants
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Forbes Lists the Top-Earning Models, Galliano Sues His Ex-Lawyer, and a Tool to Determine Whether or Not You’re Wearing Pants

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The World’s Top Earning Models: Gisele earned a whopping $45 million last year. Heidi Klum followed far behind at $20 million. Other top earners include Kate Moss, Adriana Lima, Lara Stone, and Candice Swanepoel. It definitely pays to be a Victoria’s Secret Angel. {Forbes}

Galliano Is Suing His Ex-Lawyer For Stealing $4 Million:As if John Galliano doesn’t have enough legal woes, he’s now suing ex-attorney Stephane Zerbib on the accusation that he stole $4 million from the designer. Zerbib is countersuing for defamation. Sigh. {NYP}

Cathy Horyn Tells Bloggers How They Should Blog: Refinery29 caught up with the fashion journalist–who never minces words–and asked her about the future of fashion journalism. Her advice? Don’t re-blog, be a reporter, and learn French. {Refinery29}

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Monday April 25th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Olivier Theyskens Knows Who’s Designing Kate Middleton’s Dress, Rodarte’s Secret LA Haunts, and Lara Stone Would Be an Evil Bond Girl
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Olivier Theyskens Knows Who’s Designing Kate Middleton’s Dress, Rodarte’s Secret LA Haunts, and Lara Stone Would Be an Evil Bond Girl

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Olivier Theyskens Apparently Knows Who’s Designing Kate Middleton’s Dress: Styleite caught up with Theyskens at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Karl Lagerfeld’s Magnum ice cream films, and he fessed up that he knew who was designing the dress. Maybe one more chocolate cocktail and he might have blurted the name. {Styleite}

Adweek’s Top Ten Most Influential Magazines. Plus, Joanna Coles Gets Editor of the Year: Joanna Coles, EIC of Marie Claire, is called the “anti-chic, anti-Anna” by AdWeek (and they mean it as a compliment.) Mags that made the list? Marie Claire, People StyleWatch, Cosmopolitan, and Vanity Fair, among others. No Vogue, though. *gasp* {AdWeek}

Beyoncé Wears a Dress Made of Petals With Her Knickers Showing for a Harper’s Bazaar Shoot in Paris: And she “hearts” us all. {JustJared}

No Such Thing As Standard Sizing: No doubt you’ve come across vanity sizing and arbitrary sizing while shopping for clothes. A new full body scanner is hitting malls to tell you which size you are in specific brands. (And a fun factoid: If you have a 27 inch waist you’re a size 8-10 at Marc Jacobs, but a size triple zero at Chico’s.) {NYT}

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Wednesday March 16th, 2011

Monday January 17th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Formichetti Taps Gaga for Mugler, Middleton Makes a Decision, and Carine Loves Lara
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Formichetti Taps Gaga for Mugler, Middleton Makes a Decision, and Carine Loves Lara

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Gaga Returns the Favor: Nicola Formichetti, Lady Gaga’s stylist, has tapped the popstar to create an original soundtrack for his upcoming menswear show at Thierry Mugler, where he is now the creative director. {WWD}

Is it Oldfield? Is Diana-favorite Bruce Oldfield designing Kate Middleton‘s wedding dress? Who knows, but royal snitches do say that she’s made a decision as to whom will be creating the most-anticipated dress of the century. {The Daily Mail}

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Published at 2:00 PM

Monday December 20th, 2010

The 15 Most Buzzed About Models of 2010
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The 15 Most Buzzed About Models of 2010

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I don’t like to do a lot of end of year reflecting about anything, except maybe all the shoes I wish I had bought but didn’t (a girl can dream, right?), but 2010 has seen some major model mayhem.

2010 saw more diversity in the typically cookie-cutter world of modeling. Was it perfect? Of course not, but the modeling industry may be taking much needed steps into the right direction. The top models of 2010 came in all body types, genders, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations, proving that there’s a lot more to being a successful model than a symmetrical face and a size zero frame.

Click though to see our list of the models that made made it big in 2010.

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Published at 7:29 PM

Wednesday December 8th, 2010

The British Fashion Awards: Who Won What

The British Fashion Awards: Who Won What

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At last night’s British Fashion Awards, the UK’s version of our CFDA awards (read: fashion Oscars), the ladies swept the show. According to Hilary Alexander at the Telegraph, last night’s awards were the strongest female showing since the awards were established in 1974.

Phoebe Philo, creative director for Céline, took home the top prize winning “Designer of the Year.” Alexa Chung took home the British Style award, an award decided by public vote which, according to the British Fashion Council, “recognises an individual who embodies the spirit of London and is an international ambassador for London as a leading creative fashion capital.” Naomi Campbell took home the new “special recognition” award and Lara Stone was named model of the year.

Of course the boys got a few nods, too. Here, the complete list of winners:

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Published at 10:46 AM

Monday November 8th, 2010

Thursday October 28th, 2010

Fashion News Roundup: Nordstrom To NYC, What Designers Will Wear on Halloween, & An Isabella Blow Biopic Is In The Works
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Nordstrom To NYC, What Designers Will Wear on Halloween, & An Isabella Blow Biopic Is In The Works

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SoHo Gets a Nordstrom: New York City is finally getting a Nordstrom. Except it’s not just any ordinary Nordstom–it’s a concept shop with a charity angle. The store will donate all of its earnings to charity. While most of the details are not yet worked out, the store will occupy 11,100 square feet at 350 West Broadway. {Racked}

When Designers Get Into Costume: With Halloween only a few days away, T Magazine asked some of their favorite designers what they were going to be for Halloween. Pamela Love is going as Georgia O’Keeffe, Joseph Altuzarra will dress as wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, Eddie Borgo is going to go as Pee Wee Herman and Chris Benz is deciding between a matador and a bellhop . {T Magazine}

Isabella Blow Biopic: There has been a lot of rumors surrounding the making of a biopic focusing on the life of the late Isabella Blow. Apparently, it’s really happening. The film’s director and producers have all been chosen, and the screenplay has already been written. Set to be involved in the film are John Galliano and Philip Treacy, both who were very close to Blow. {The Cut}

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Published at 12:42 PM

Sunday October 17th, 2010

Kanye West Only Follows 15 People on Twitter and They’re All Models

Kanye West Only Follows 15 People on Twitter and They’re All Models

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Kanye West has always been into following models. He dates models. He watches them on the runways during fashion week. He raps about them, shouting out 21 models by name in his new single “Christian Dior Denim Flow.” And now he’s literally following models. On twitter.

West’s popular twitter is followed by 1.4 million people but right now he only follows 15 (he follows two different Alessandra Ambrosio handles). He’s notoriously picky about whom he deigns to follow on twitter, so it’s safe to say his chosen 15 are special people.

They happen to be very tall pretty people, too. They’re all top models that he named in his latest song, “Christian Dior Denim Flow”: Alessandra Ambrosio, Esti Ginzburg, Anna Rubik, Kate Moss, Coco Rocha, Bar Refaeli, Jourdan Dunn, Lara Stone, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Veronica Webb, Doutzen Kroes, Chanel Iman, Selita Ebanks and Jessica Stam.

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Published at 12:49 PM

Monday October 11th, 2010

Fashion News Roundup: Lanvin for H&M Trailer, More Sofia Coppola For LV, and Lara Stone Wants Little Gay Boys
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Lanvin for H&M Trailer, More Sofia Coppola For LV, and Lara Stone Wants Little Gay Boys

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Lanvin Hearts H&M Trailer: Remember when we told you about the competition H&M was holding offering an exclusive Lanvin video to the most popular blogger? Well, Zet Fashion was able to gather up enough votes to win exclusive rights run a cut of the Lanvin Hearts H&M trailer (the full vid debuts on November 8 at HM.com). The video shows Leigh Lezark pouring Alber Elbaz tea and it’s pretty amazing. {Racked}

More Sofia Coppola for LV: Sofia Coppola is a busy lady. In the past year she has given birth to her second child and directed her new film Somwhere. She’s also added more bags to her popular collection with Louis Vuitton. The expanded collection will offer more colors and shapes as well as her signature SC bag in luxe crocodile. {Daily Front Row}

Sally Singer’s First Issue at T: Rumors are floating around that Mick Jagger will grace the cover of Sally Singer’s first issue of T. {Fashionologie}

Lara Stone On Having Kids: Apparently, Lara Stone is all about having kids. Little gay boys, specifically. “I would love to have children some day,” she told British Vogue. “I’d like little gay boys. That would be good. I’m terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys. And then they have boyfriends.” {The Cut}

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Published at 12:44 PM

Tuesday October 5th, 2010

Fashion News Roundup: eBay’s new style site, Vuitton’s Disco Inspiration, and Lara on Vogue, Again
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: eBay’s new style site, Vuitton’s Disco Inspiration, and Lara on Vogue, Again

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eBay’s New Look: eBay just launched ebaylookbook.com, a style site with user-generated personal style that visitors can vote on. Popular participants can win fashion accessories. There’s also a trends and style tips section contributed by our very own Lauren Sherman. {eBay Lookbook}

Marc Works Hard For the Money: It sounds like Marc’s seventies infatuation will carry over to tomorrow’s Vuitton show. Supposedly, his inspiration for the collection was disco sensation Donna Summer. {Daily Front Row}

Dov Charney Continues to Dodge Bullets: American Apparel will not file for bankruptcy thanks to an alteration of their agreement with lenders at Lion Capital. The agreement sounds like it came with some conditions. “We are working together with Dov to realign the capital structure of American Apparel to support a number of key initiatives within the business, including the hiring of several new senior executives,” said partner Lyndon Lea. Sure this is all great news for the company and its patrons, but this doesn’t in any way mean the end of all of American Apparel’s problems. {NY Mag}

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Published at 12:30 PM

Sunday September 5th, 2010