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Leandra Medine

Sunday May 19th, 2013

Fashionista’s First-Ever Conference, All The Fashion at Cannes, and More Met Ball
Week In Review

Fashionista’s First-Ever Conference, All The Fashion at Cannes, and More Met Ball

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You Are Cordially Invited to Our First-Ever Conference: Find out what it takes to “make it” to the top of the fashion pile, as well as how to network and find alternative fashion careers, from the industry’s top professionals at Fashionista’s first conference, “How to Make It in Fashion.” We are so lucky to have Zac Posen as our keynote speaker, as well as Rebecca Minkoff, Leandra Medine of fashion blog Man Repeller, and Rachel Antonoff as panelists. Sign up here!

We’re On Cannes Watch: We’re keeping track of all the fashion that’s walking the annual Cannes Film Festival red carpet. We identified 10 international style stars to watch out for and spotted some interesting things—like Julianne Moore’s crazy tortured-looking feet in platform stilettos!

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Published at 4:00 PM

Monday May 13th, 2013

Join Zac Posen, Rebecca Minkoff, and the Man Repeller at Our First Conference!
How I'm Making It

Join Zac Posen, Rebecca Minkoff, and the Man Repeller at Our First Conference!

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Fashionista is excited to host its first ever day-long event, How to Make It in Fashion.

This isn’t just another conference where you leave with a goodie bag and nothing else. (Although there will be a great one.) Along with tips on networking, alternative career paths, and plain old inspiring success stories, you’ll have a chance to actually talk one-on-one with many of our speakers (including Zac Posen, the Man Repeller’s Leandra Medine, Rebecca Minkoff and more) as well as Fashionista editors about how to kick-start your career or take it to the next level. You’ll get real, take-home advice, make connections, and who knows? Maybe you’ll take the first step towards your dream job.

All the deets and how to sign up, right this way.

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Published at 12:25 PM

Wednesday May 8th, 2013

Suzy Menkes Talks Blogger Backlash, the Perils of Fast Fashion, and Getting Flashed by Madonna
Events

Suzy Menkes Talks Blogger Backlash, the Perils of Fast Fashion, and Getting Flashed by Madonna

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Last night, Fern Mallis sat down with Suzy Menkes for the latest installment of her “Fashion Icon” series at 92Y.

The noted fashion critic candidly (and sometimes hilarious) addressed everything from catching an upskirt view of Madonna sans underwear at the Met Gala, why she didn’t like Punk: Chaos to Couture, and why she was surprised by the negative response to her controversial “Circus of Fashion” piece.

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Published at 1:00 PM

Thursday May 2nd, 2013

A Delicate Piercing Craze Sweeps the Fashion Set
Preciously Punk

A Delicate Piercing Craze Sweeps the Fashion Set

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With the upcoming Costume Institue exhibit and Met ball set to celebrate punk style, I wanted to look a little closer at the delicate piercing craze New York Adorned’s J. Colby Smith has spawned within the fashion community. Piercing is a hallmark of punk style–in the safety pin through an ear kind of way. And Colby himself is an admitted punk.

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Published at 6:30 PM

Wednesday April 17th, 2013

H&M Dresses Team Sweden, Rita Ora Is Mickey Mouse on Elle, and Is Kate Upton The Other Woman?
Fashion News Roundup

H&M Dresses Team Sweden, Rita Ora Is Mickey Mouse on Elle, and Is Kate Upton The Other Woman?

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H&M dresses Sweden’s Olympic athletes, makes us want to be Swedish Olympic athletes. {WWD}

Beating President Barack Obama for TIME‘s list of most influential people of the past 10 years? Lady Gaga. We still aren’t convinced that isn’t a typo. {TIME}

Hey Rita, you’re so fine! Ms. Ora is just too darn cute dressed up as a certain cartoon rodentia on the cover of Elle‘s May 2013 “Women in Music” issue. {Elle}

Kate Upton’s apparently in talks to play opposite Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann in Fox’s upcoming revenge comedy The Other Woman. {Variety}

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Friday March 8th, 2013

Saturday February 23rd, 2013

The Princess and the Peacock: We’re Still Not Over Suzy vs. Susie
Rants

The Princess and the Peacock: We’re Still Not Over Suzy vs. Susie

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“So do you want to talk about this?” asks Leah.

This being Suzy Menkes’ “Circus of Fashion” article from T, which turned into this “Blog is a Dirty Word” manifesto from Leandra Medine, which rolled into this “Sad Clown” response from Susie Lau. (A Times story called “My Look, My Ego, My Brand” snuck in there, as well, as did a piece questioning whether fashion bloggers have gone “too far” on The Daily Beast.)

So what do I think about this? I think I need some whiskey.

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Published at 2:24 PM

Friday February 15th, 2013

Tuesday February 12th, 2013

How to Avoid a Fashion Week Meltdown
Fashion Insiders Tell Us

How to Avoid a Fashion Week Meltdown

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We’re approaching the home stretch of New York Fashion Week, which means many of our attitudes have shifted from excited and energetic to when-will-this-be-over? So, we asked some of fashion’s busiest bees to tell us what they do to stay sane (and no we don’t mean pharmaceuticals–though those certainly aren’t off-limits). From Jenna Lyons’ many coats, to BryanBoy’s cathartic Instagramming, click through for their (and our) tips and tricks!

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Published at 6:45 PM
Ring Parties Are the New Arm Parties
Accessories

Ring Parties Are the New Arm Parties

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My fashion friends wear tons of rings. Rings on their ring fingers, rings on their pointer fingers, rings on their middle fingers, rings at the top of every single finger, rings stacked and stacked. But if you’re imagining Karl Lagerfeld-inspired, goth-style rings, don’t. These rings are excruciatingly delicate—just a sliver of silver or gold. But together, they form a… wait for it… ring party!

“I am wholly standing behind the finger party though I’d rather call it a digital rager, puns et al.,” says Leandra Medine, founder of The Man Repeller and trade-marker of the phrase arm party (the ring party’s predecessor).

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Published at 2:23 PM