Michael Roberts

Magazines

Grace Coddington Sold Her Memoir For a Rumored $1.2 Million

Kudos to Grace Coddington! The beloved Vogue creative director just sold her memoir to Random House for a rumored $1.2 million, the Observer reports.

This means it’s really happening and also further discredits a recent Page Six article that reported Anna Wintour was the one shopping around a memoir. It said Coddington had “pushed the project aside” once Jay Fielden, with whom she was originally writing the book, was appointed as editor-in-chief at Town & Country. Instead, the book will apparently be co-written by current Vogue writer Michael Roberts.

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Inside Jenna Lyons’ Closet & Tavi Turns 14

In Case You Missed It: Yesterday’s episode of Oprah featured J.Crew’s Creative Director, Jenna Lyons. The media queen not only went inside the J.Crew offices, but she also went inside Jenna’s closet! It’s like a dream—huge and colored-coded. Click to watch the clip! {HuffPo} Happy Belated Birthday: To Tavi! The bite-sized blogger turned 14 yesterday. [...]

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Fashion Shows

First Look: Valentino

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Weekend Tweets

A Weekend’s Worth of Tweets

In which we catch those of you, and those of us, who spent the weekend outside, away from a computer or on a phone-cation, up on the fashion Twitterverse. 1. “I don’t get it,” from @jess_stam. She’s new to the world of tweets, give her a warm welcome! 2. “A Lanvin ‘snow sprite’ cashmere elf [...]

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Fashion Shows

Matthew Blows It

You know a show’s bad when you can’t wait for it to be over, especially when it’s only seven minutes long. Unfortunately, that’s the way Matthew Williamson went yesterday. It wasn’t all his fault though. The ridiculous heat – sweat poured off front row faces including Olivia Palermo, Cecilia Dean, Twiggy, Yasmin LeBon, Leigh Lezark, [...]

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Fashion Shows

All Black Models at Sophie Theallet

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Michael Roberts. No Miley.

Michael Roberts, style director of Vanity Fair and style contributor to everywhere else, is having his first proper exhibition at Mark Seliger’s 401 Gallery. Though he’s best known for his work within the fashion industry, this will be a display of twenty years worth of photographs taken from his time in Sicily. Though there are [...]

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