H&M has its eye on India: The retailer is reportedly planning to spend about $130 million on an initial 50 stores in the country. {The Business of Fashion}
Naomi Campbell goes blonde on the cover of Vogue Brazil. {Fashion Gone Rogue}
Here’s a first look at Alber Elbaz’s debut makeup collection with Lancôme. Unsurprisingly, it looks pretty adorable. {WWD, Subscription required.}
The Jaggers are having a big week–Jade Jagger tied the knot this past weekend and today her half sister Georgia‘s latest ad campaign dropped. We’re noticing a common thread among the past few campaign stars for Material Girl, Madonna and daughter Lourdes Leon’s juniors clothing line for Macy’s: they’re all daughters of famous musicians–something Lourdes Read more →
What young girl hasn’t gone shopping in her mother’s closet from time to time? There’s just something really alluring about blazers with oversized shoulder pads. Now imagine those poofy shoulders as pointy metal dominatrix-worthy bras by a world-class designer. That’s the case for Lourdes Leon, who, thanks to her mama Madonna, has prime access to Read more →
Sasha Pivovarova gave birth to a cute little “fairy princess” named Mia Isis… Collective awwww. {Twitter} Naomi Campbell cares about “good vibrations” and spent her birthday lighting candles in a church in Jerusalem. {Racked} PR All Stars host Angela Lindvall and new ANTM judge Rob Evans get involved in some sexy lucha libre for V Read more →
Madonna is finally launching her own brand for grown-ups. Following the success of Material Girl, the junior’s line she does with her daughter Lola, Madonna is launching Truth or Dare by Madonna, starting with a fragrance deal with Coty. After that will come footwear, handbags and intimates. According to PR Newswire, Truth or Dare is aimed at women ages 27-50 “who have a timeless style and an innate sex appeal.”
If that sounds like you, the collection will reportedly be available exclusively at Macy’s (like Material Girl) for the initial launch in 2012, but the fragrance will get a wider distribution in 2013.
But why now?
Madonna is nothing if not self-aware–after all, she manipulated her own image successfully for several decades. In this new promotional video for her Macy’s Material Girl line, she pokes a lot of fun at herself–her image, her diva reputation, her age, her uncool mom-speak (“Whatevs” is “Timeless”)–while daughter Lola plays the annoyed teenager role perfectly. Read more →
While waiting for Zac Posen’s show to start on the open air balcony of Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center (review and pix to come) , we had the chance to chat with front-rower Kelly Osbourne. She’s ascended the fashion food chain as an E! red carpet interviewer and morning-after Fashion Police lady. She’s also the face of Madonna’s Material Girl label, so she rubs shoulders with some pretty fashion forward people. We had to ask her about what all this recent experience taught her about fashion.
Fashionista: Have you been to any shows yet this season?
Kelly Osbourne: I was at Charlotte Ronson last night and that was great. I just decided to do one show a day this week because it’s too much otherwise and I just want to have fun and enjoy it. So I’ve just picked the ones that I really, really, really wanted to see. Unfortunately some of them are all at the same time.
How has doing red carpet commentary changed the way you look at fashion or the way you dress?
It’s been a little over a year since apparel manufacturer L.A. Triumph slapped Madonna with a lawsuit, claiming that her “Material Girl” line for Macy’s threatens their own “Material Girl” juniors clothing line that they have been selling since 1997. We thought it sounded crazy, considering the fact that Madonna invented “Material Girl,” the song (well, writers did, but you know what we mean), in 1984.
However, we learned last August that L.A. Triumph actually had a leg to stand on, because while Madonna may have the copyright to the name of the song, she doesn’t have the trademark, since she hadn’t yet sold any products bearing the name (several missed opportunities there if you ask us!)
Madonna, understandably, was hoping they didn’t–she requested that the court throw out the lawsuit, which the judge has denied.
Butter London is a high-end range of nail colors; the company works closely with designers and stylists to formulate new colors every season for runways and editorials. Some of these then get produced for us mortals to wear. And who can forget “No More Waity, Katie,” the color released to celebrate Kate Middleton’s exciting engagement Read more →
Whether you’re a hip parent with a newborn or a teen on the verge of leaving the juniors’ department, pop star mommies Madonna and Gwen Stefani have you covered.
Gwen Stefani‘s Harajuku Lover’s line is shrinking down for the diaper and preschool set; Stefani is taking her pop-arty ode to Japanese street dressing and making it kid friendly for Target. Called Harajuku Mini for Target, the line will be introduced in November and again in January 2012. While she’s designed children’s clothing and shoes for her contemporary LAMB line, this is a first for the younger Harajuku line.
LOS ANGELES–In January, it was revealed that Kelly Osbourne would replace everyone’s favorite Disney star-turned-stripper heel wearing rocker Taylor Momson as the face of Madonna and daughter Lourdes’ teen line for Macy’s Material Girl. Last night, Osbourne spoke to a group of tweens at a launch party for the new Material Girl spring collection in the Macy’s Beverly Center Juniors Department—just to the left of the Jessica Simpson section.
In a Q&A lead by Project Runway alum and FIDM Instructor Nick Verreos, Osbourne revealed how she came to land the campaign, meeting Madonna, and how tweens should dress.
The 26-year old Osbourne can thank little Lola–not Madge–for thinking of her for the campaign. Osbourne had never event spoken to Madonna until they were on the set of the campaign shoot. “I have been in a room with her before, but I have been too shy to say ‘hi,’” Kelly admitted to Verreos.
It was Lola, a big fan of Osbourne’s (she gushed about her on her blog for Material Girl), who sought out Osbourne for the gig after they met at a Jay-Z concert in London back in July 2010.
After Taylor Momsen was dropped from IMG, it was no surprise to learn her reign as the face of Madonna and Lourdes’ Material Girl line for Macy’s was coming to an end. The homepage of the Material Girl website still says that they are “desperately seeking” a new Material Girl to be the face of the brand, and has been asking readers to write in who they think should be the next Material Girl since January 11.
But the search is over. Material Girl has just announced on their twitter and then on their blog that they’ve selected Kelly Osbourne as the new face of Material Girl for 2011. “We’ve had a long time crush on Kelly and featured her as one of our “cool peeps” over the summer,” the blog reads, “We are so thrilled.”
Apparently the crush is mutual. After being featured as one of Material Girl’s “cool peeps” last summer, Kelly responded by writing, “to be thought of as an inspiration in that way is brilliant… I hope little girls look up to Lourdes because she doesn’t dress too grown up and she always looks so stylish,” Grazia is reporting.
Osbourne is a great (read: safer) choice to be the face of Material Girl.
