The music industry hit the red blue carpet last night in Las Vegas for the Billboard Music Awards. We suspect the location may have affected many stars’ choice of outfits, because there were a whole lot of sheer and slashed looks–not to mention a serious lack of pants. Also side ass is back! Thanks Ke$ha!
Emma Watson really is all grown up, as evidenced in her June 2013 W cover shoot, lensed by Michael Thompson. {W}
We’re not sure who got luckier–Prince Harry or Karolina Kurkova. The two shared a chaste smooch at a polo match on the last day of the prince’s US tour. {US Weekly}
Here’s the 16-piece Kate Bosworth-inspired collection by Topshop, which the actress herself wore at Coachella in April. {Vogue UK}
Rita Ora–who is kind of Madonna’s doppelganger–is the new face of Madonna’s clothing line, Material Girl. {The Sun}
Did someone try to make her eat bread?
From first looks to after-party quick changes, get an inside look at what it’s like to be at fashion’s biggest night. Click through below to see the vines–and a whole gallery of images–from fashion’s finest last night.
It’s here! It’s here! The Met Ball red carpet is finally underway. So the fashion is great–though not exactly punk. According to Anna Wintour, though, her florals are punk, in a way: Andrew Bolton, the currator of the exhibit told her that pink was the real color of punk. Hence the color scheme. So there. Read more →
Ready to try to squeeze into child sizes? GapKids is releasing its second collab collection with Diane von Furstenberg this week. {WWD, subscription required}
Tara Reid was thrown out of All Saints after getting upset that the retailer wouldn’t give her a discount. {NY Post}
Looks like Elle Woods is going to need her own attorney. Reese Witherspoon and hubby Jim Roth were arrested in Atlanta for disorderly conduct and driving under influence, respectively. {US Weekly}
Florida has a python problem, and designers see an opportunity there. New handbag, anyone? {TheCut}
Today is Marc Jacobs’s 50th birthday, which is quite the milestone.
It wasn’t too hard to come up with 50 things we like about Marc Jacobs to commemorate his big day.
In an age when so many pop stars are manufactured head to toe, photos from a new exhibition arriving at the W Hotel featuring Madonna at her LES apartment in the ’80s are proof that the look the pop star became known for (well, the first one at least) was all her own. We chatted with the photographer of these images, Richard Corman, to get the scoop on how those photos came about, what Madonna was like back in the day, and what it was like apprenticing for Richard Avedon. Read on for our interview and photos from the exhibition.
Zahia Dehar actually showed up for an interview with the Telegraph–physically, anyway. She gave a lot of one word answers and also, um, cried. {Telegraph}
Kate Middleton and Prince William reportedly have a cute and fruity nickname for their baby-to-be. {US Weekly}
Bar Refaeli’s in trouble again for evading compulsory military service in her native Israel. {HuffPo}
From Material Girl to boy scout: Madonna donned a scout’s uniform (accessorized with fishnets of course) to present an award to Anderson Cooper at the GLAAD Awards. {New York Daily News}
Olivier Zahm wanted to photograph the latest Agent Provocateur campaign, starring Crystal Renn, in a setting where one “can accidently meet a handsome stranger.” Where else but a gas station? {WWD}
It’s only January, but we think Malia Obama has already earned that elusive “Photobomb of the Year” award with this epic pic from yesterday’s Inauguration. {Us Weekly}
Kanye West partied in Paris last weekend to celebrate Pyrex Vision’s new exhibit at Colette, where the burgeoning brand (designed by his style consultant Virgil Abloh) unveiled exclusive gym shorts. Perfect for Kanye’s Workout Plan. Or Madonna’s, because… {MTV Style}
Madonna is releasing a work out video, which we can only pray involves Vogueing. Can someone explain why this took so long? {HuffPo}
Valentino may be an octogenarian, but he still knows how to party.
According to Page Six, Valentino got in trouble with the Gstaad police after several neighbors complained he was blasting Madonna too loud at his chalet. Was he just blasting Madonna tracks? Maybe the Immaculate Collection? Or was it actually Madonna herself, because she was reportedly there too.
Did Madonna steal from Patricia Field? The “Vogue” hats being sold as merch on her MDNA tour look a little too familiar, according to Field’s camp. (Then again, Madonna did come up with the song. There’s also that magazine…) {Patricia Field Tumblr}
Why did Life and Style use a three-year-old bikini pic of Kourtney Kardashian for their cover story about her post-baby bod? {HuffPo}
Club Monaco has released their first Spring 2013 ad campaign, styled by Aleksandra Woroniecka and shot by Venetia Scott on the streets of NYC, and the images are gorgeous! {Fashionista Inbox}
