Nicholas Kirkwood

Christopher Kane Wins the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund

Christopher Kane is the this year’s winner of the British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. Along with a £200,000 (or $320,000) check, Kane and his sister/business partner Tammy will receive “director level mentors across the industry.”

The beloved Scottish designer’s biggest challenge was to present a business plan to a panel of judges, including British Vogue editor Alexander Schulman and Joan Burstein from Browns. (His competition included E. Tautz, Nicholas Kirkwood, Osman Yousefzada, Charlotte Olympia, Jonathan Saunders, and Peter Pilotto.)

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: British Fashion Fund Finalists Announced, Kate Middleton’s Blue Issa Dress Gets the AIC Treatment, and Tina Turner is Hot

Meanwhile, Across the Pond: The British Fashion Council and British Vogue announced their Fashion Fund finalists yesterday. Congrats to Christopher Kane, E. Tautz, Nicholas Kirkwood, Osman Yousefzada, Charlotte Olympia, Jonathan Saunders, and Peter Pilotto. {Vogue UK}

Royal Knock-Offs: Kate Middleton’s engagement ring isn’t the only thing being replicated by stores looking to make a quick buck. Tesco, which is kind of like the Wal-Mart of the UK (but with more food), created a $25 version of her now-famous blue Issa dress. Shame. {NY Times}

Kate Moss: Art Dealer? Moss is reportedly selling portraits of herself at Art Basel in Miami next week. {Telegraph UK}

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: D&G Asks When?, Beckham and Hillier May Collab, & NYFW Gets Scheduled

Quando, Quando, Quando: A trailer for the first film from Dolce & Gabbana Motion Pictures, Quando, Quando, Quando, has hit YouTube. We just want to know quando it’s coming to theaters in America! {Fashion Copious}

Pilotto Shoes Go to Sale: Superstar shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood’s collaborations with Peter Pilotto have been strictly runway for the past two season, but for SS11 two styles of the shoes will go into production. We hope they’re easier to get our hands on than the Rodarte melting candle heels. {WWD}

Jon K Still Makes Our Day: In your monthly Jon Kortajarena update, the sultry Spaniard is starring in Pepe Jeans Fall campaign alongside Alexa Chung. Brits are grumbling that Kortajarena upstages Chung, to which we reply: He upstages everyone, except Tom himself. {Telegraph}

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Entertainment

Ten Questions for The City

1. I love how Olivia Palermo is so completely repulsed by Trash and Vaudeville that she looks like she might vom the entire time she’s in the store. Olivia, why won’t you let manager/buyer Jimmy help you try on shoes? He just wants to be the Prince Charming to your sulky snobby Cinderella, ok? Don’t deprive an aging ex-hair-band-er in a sleeveless studded leather vest of his simple pleasures (and possible foot fetish). That’s just bad karma.

2. Is Olivia part magpie? Is that why she desperately clutches that silver sequined platform stiletto in Trash and Vaudeville?

3. Olivia, pulling shoes for a shoot that have already been shot before? Tssk tssk. Shouldn’t you know your own magazine if you “work” there?

4. How many times is Nicholas Kirkwood mentioned in this episode? We’re too lazy to count, but it is a lot. We get it. Nicholas Kirkwood makes awesome shoes.

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Claudia Schiffer Talks Career, Buy Burberry Now & Get Up Close and Personal with Lady Gaga’s Grammy Dress

Model Behavior: Fashionair sits down with supermodel Claudia Schiffer. She talks about how she was discovered, Guess, Chanel and Patrick Demarchelier. {Fashionair} Shopping Spree: Burberry Prorsum AW10 outerwear and accessories are available to pre-order online at Burberry’s Web site; orders ship in 6-8 weeks. They’re only available for a few more days, so purchase quickly! [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Nicholas Kirkwood for Liberty

Shopping in London used to mean Topshop, now it means cheap vintage and Nicholas Kirkwoods. You can find his brilliant shoes at Seven New York, but only a few at a time — you can walk into Browns or Liberty and find piles. And for the Summer of Love/Liberty celebration of Carnaby Street’s 50th anniversary, [...]

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BFC/Vogue Nominees

This morning the British Fashion Council released a shortlist of designers up for the first ever BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund – the CFDAs for Brits. Richard Nicoll and Nicholas Kirkwood are on the list, as well as Marios Schwab, Erdem, Clements Ribeiro, E. Tautz and Angel Jackson. No major surprises, except for the inclusion of [...]

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And the Nominees Are…

This morning, we’re still reeling from last night’s turducken, but the British Fashion Council’s attending to much more important matters. They’ve released a short list of nominees for their new awards, the British Fashion Awards, which take place in London on December 9th. While some categories are conspicuously empty, they’ve listed the following: Top Model: [...]

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Nightcap

Happy Birthday Indochine

On Friday night, at Indochine’s 25th Birthday Party, we kept saying, these are like the fashion parties we read about before we moved to New York, part of the reason we wanted to move to New York, to see if things like this really happened. Practically naked (though elaborately head-dressed) women waited on booths full [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

She’s Back Y’all: Gemma Ward’s not going anywhere, thank god. She’s just taking a mini-break from modeling. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if she got back into it without losing those twenty pounds? {Fashionologie} Blurry Blogging: An even deeper look into the world of fashion blogging. Do you embrace the industry? Stay away from it? Can [...]

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People We Like

Meet the Master

This Thursday, October 22, you can meet Christian Louboutin. The master of the six inch heel will be at Bergdorf Goodman later this week to answer all your nagging shoe questions. You should, by now, know why his soles are red, but you could ask: 1. How he picks which designers to work with. 2. [...]

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Shopping

Notes from St. Trop: Shoe Edition

As a veteran shopper, and of course being in the fashion industry, I had a vague notion of K. Jacques, only because some of my fave retailers—NAP and Matches—carry the shoe, or rather sandal, brand. But having spent five days in the utterly gorgeous Port Grimaud (about 10 mins from St. Tropez), I can now [...]

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