Tribeca Film Festival Red Carpet Recap
The Tribeca Film Festival is well underway and while Hollywood execs are tuning in to see the movies, we’re focused on the red carpet.
Olivier Theyskens
Thursday April 25th, 2013
Tuesday January 8th, 2013
Don’t Hold Your Breath For an Olivier Theyskens Low-End Collab
Lauren Sherman talks hairstyles and low-end collaborations at yesterday’s WWD CEO Summit.
Monday May 21st, 2012
Fashion News Roundup: Kate Moss is Snubbed By Her Hometown, Tilda Swinton Covers Candy and Carey Mulligan’s Met Ball Dress Sells
Carey Mulligan’s custom Prada dress she wore to the Met Gala sold on eBay for the bargain basement price of $2,950. {The Cut}
Tilda Swinton covers Candy magazine looking, shall we say, a little different than normal. {The Cut}
W fashion director Edward Enninful has been steadily gaining attention for his groundbreaking work, from Vogue Italia‘s ‘All Black’ issue to the W March Kate Moss cover story. Learn more about his entrance into the industry and his work process. {Business of Fashion}
Derek Blasberg interviewed Donatella Versace for V Magazine. Donatella talks about that infamous plunging dress that J. Lo wore the Grammys and why she decided to bring back Versace couture. {MrBlasberg.com}
Monday April 23rd, 2012
The Fashion Pack (Hamish Bowles, Karlie Kloss, Giovanna Battaglia and More) Descends On St. Louis for a Hoedown to Celebrate Derek Blasberg’s Birthday
St. Louis, Missouri is known for a few things: that big arch, delicious barbecue, Nelly, and hosting the evil St.Louis Cardinals [Ed.Note: Go Cubs!] What it is not known for is international fashion editors, models and socialites prancing around in Prada. Yet St. Louis encountered all those things this past weekend, thanks to Lou native Derek Blasberg, who convinced his fashionable friends including Giovanna Battaglia, Elizabeth von Thurns und Taxis, Hamish Bowles, the Brant brothers, fellow Missourian Karlie Kloss, and Taylor Tomasi Hill to fête his birthday at the Blasberg Family Farm in Hillsboro, Missouri. We bet the Midwest is still reeling.
Tuesday March 27th, 2012
See Anna Wintour, Jane Birkin, Kirsten Dunst and More Model Chanel’s Little Black Jacket
Chanel just launched thelittleblackjacket.chanel.com, an “e-exhibition” of Lagerfeld-lensed models and celebrities wearing black Chanel jackets styled by Carine Roitfeld (a live exhibition just opened in Tokyo). While the website is not the easiest to navigate, it really made me want to buy The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited (only $39 on Amazon). Seeing all Read more →
Friday December 30th, 2011
Cathy Horyn’s Year-End Fashion Roundup: Here’s What She Loved (McQueen) and Wants to Forget (Kim Kardashian and the Roaring 20s)
This is the time for year-end lists and reflection, and when it comes to fashion, we always look forward to what Cathy Horyn has to say. The Times published a slideshow today of what Cathy Horyn has deemed the top fashion moments of 2011 (check out our own list here) and believe it or not, she didn’t like everything.
Her top 10 list, in which she gives her take on what she felt were the biggest fashion moments and events of the year, includes the Alexander McQueen Met exhibit, Sarah Burton’s royal wedding designs, John Galliano’s fall from grace, as well as some less obvious choices such as a dress Giovanna Battaglia wore to Cannes, Olivier Theyskens’ success at Theory and, weirdly, Pop Phones: landline-style handsets that you attach to your cell phone with a cord. Apparently they’re a thing and editors were using them in the front rows? She also nails into the redundancy of 1920s-inspired clothes on the spring runways, justifiably praising Prada and Balenciaga for going against the grain:
Wednesday December 21st, 2011
Olivier Theyskens on How He Designs: ‘I Put Myself Mentally in the Place of Girls’
Olivier Theyskens sat down with Into the Gloss to talk everything from designing for himself (as a cool girl), how he learned to accept his appearance as a teenager, and why he loves New York (Hint: manicurists!).
Here are the best bits.
On his design mentality:
There’s been this shift in my mind that I basically…more and more put myself mentally in the place of girls. To imagine girls—would I like this if I was there? Would I want to dress like that? Would I like to wear that jacket? If I had that jacket, what pants would I really like to wear with it to look cool? That’s how I sort of evolved with designing. That’s maybe why—even the way I see my outfits even on the [Theyskens’ Theory] catwalk, they do not look like me as a designer, like I’m showing some impressive design. It’s more like me as I imagine I would like my clothes to be if I was a cool girl. [ed note: That explains the underwear] It’s very different from before, because it’s less seen from outside. It’s less that I look at the girl from outside, as a figure. It’s a mental shift, I think.
Monday October 31st, 2011
See What Marc Jacobs, Alexa Chung, Hamish Bowles and More Fashion Folk Wore for Halloween
The past four days have been a non-stop party for a lot of fashion people here in New York. And those Halloween parties have been well-documented. The Tribeca Grand’s Overlook Hotel party, the Boom Boom Room’s fete and last night’s V party hosted by Terry Richardson drew the most fashion-heavy crowds and, as we all know, fashion people like to dress up. They also seem to like obscure references–many of their costumes were tough to identify, but still fun to look at. So, from Alexa Chung to Joan Smalls to Marc Jacobs, here are a bunch of fashion people in their Halloween best!
Photos: Terry’s Diary, Paper, Style.com, BFA
Tuesday September 20th, 2011
Burberry Prorsum Spring 2012: Parkas, Prints and Kanye West in the Front Row
Burberry was the show to be at this week in London. The biggest venue we’ve been to all week–a tent set up in Kensington Gardens–was barely able to contain the star power of Kanye West (his second show of the day), Sienna Miller, Samantha “Sam Cam” Cameron, and a drop-dead-gorgeous Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Fashion royalty was there, too, in the form of Anna Wintour, Olivier Theyskens, Rachel Zoe, and Mario Testino.
The show live-streamed on multiple sources (including Fashionista!) and once again the label is putting the spring goods on sale right away–though you have to wait a few months before they ship. So what would we buy?
Friday July 15th, 2011
Fashion House Musical Chairs: A Visual Guide
Usually, it’s editorial shakeups that get us all confused and inspire us to create befuddling charts and guides to recap and (at least attempt to) make sense of movement within the fashion industry. Lately, however, it seems that most of the movement is taking place at big fashion houses. Whether it’s the economy or designers getting burnt-out, it seems like a top level position opens (or gets filled) every week.
From Galliano’s exit from Dior to Marios Schwab’s from Halston (which happened so recently we didn’t have a chance to include it), here’s our little visual guide to the recent ins and outs at major fashion houses.
Friday April 29th, 2011
Olivier Theyskens Explains How Andrew Rosen Convinced Him To Join Theory Over Croissants at the French Embassy
Full disclosure: not all of us chose to pull all-nighters watching the royal nuptials. Why? This morning, we were invited to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for their first “Breakfast at 972″ panel discussion. Their inaugural guest of honor was none other than Olivier Theyskens–Theory’s Artistic Director, former designer at Rochas and Nina Ricci, and a longtime Fashionista favorite.
After enjoying coffee and croissants in the main atrium of the gorgeous Fifth Avenue mansion, a small group of (insanely chic, primarily French) guests were ushered in for an intimate chat moderated by Charlotte Sarkozy and Timothée Verrecchia. Theyskens looked totally dapper in a slouchy white Bottega Veneta blazer and a pair of vintage, denim-like trousers he later told us he bought “because they reminded me of the pants the fish vendors at the Les Halles marketplace in Paris wear.” Even for a designer with a famously romantic aesthetic, it seems like simplicity is key.
Some of the morning’s key points:
Monday April 25th, 2011
Fashion News Roundup: Olivier Theyskens Knows Who’s Designing Kate Middleton’s Dress, Rodarte’s Secret LA Haunts, and Lara Stone Would Be an Evil Bond Girl
Olivier Theyskens Apparently Knows Who’s Designing Kate Middleton’s Dress: Styleite caught up with Theyskens at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Karl Lagerfeld’s Magnum ice cream films, and he fessed up that he knew who was designing the dress. Maybe one more chocolate cocktail and he might have blurted the name. {Styleite}
Adweek’s Top Ten Most Influential Magazines. Plus, Joanna Coles Gets Editor of the Year: Joanna Coles, EIC of Marie Claire, is called the “anti-chic, anti-Anna” by AdWeek (and they mean it as a compliment.) Mags that made the list? Marie Claire, People StyleWatch, Cosmopolitan, and Vanity Fair, among others. No Vogue, though. *gasp* {AdWeek}
Beyoncé Wears a Dress Made of Petals With Her Knickers Showing for a Harper’s Bazaar Shoot in Paris: And she “hearts” us all. {JustJared}
No Such Thing As Standard Sizing: No doubt you’ve come across vanity sizing and arbitrary sizing while shopping for clothes. A new full body scanner is hitting malls to tell you which size you are in specific brands. (And a fun factoid: If you have a 27 inch waist you’re a size 8-10 at Marc Jacobs, but a size triple zero at Chico’s.) {NYT}
