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Street Style: Carly Is Obsessed with Opening Ceremony’s Fur Collars

Name: Carly Rosenbrook

Age: 23

Occupation: Student

How would you describe your style? Retro, streamlined, minimalist.

What are you currently obsessed with? The fur collars that they’re selling at Opening Ceremony right now.

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  • Ashley Jahncke
  • Friday, Jan 27, 2012 / 4:00 PM
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January Mood Board

By Steff Yotka Sunday, Jan 8, 2012 / 4:00 PM


It may be January, but here at Fashionista we’re dreaming of a hot sunny, days and bright happy clothes. With the temperature in New York at over 60 this weekend, can you really blame us?
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Street Style: Nina Works at Opening Ceremony and Is Inspired By Phoebe Philo

Name: Nina

Age: 17

Occupation: Sales Associate at Opening Ceremony

How would you describe your style? Grunge meets rock n’ roll with minimalist things thrown in. I’m very inspired by Phoebe Philo.

What was the last thing you bought? A jacket by ModeKungen.

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  • Ashley Jahncke
  • Monday, Dec 19, 2011 / 2:17 PM
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Fashion Is Fun

Watch: Chloë Sevigny Ruined Her Proenza Schouler Dress From Last Year’s Met Ball and Still Hasn’t Gotten it Fixed

By Dhani Mau Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 / 4:30 PM

Last Week, Opening Ceremony unveiled the first installment of “At Home With Chloë,” which, unfortunately, isn’t a reality show, but a series of videos created in collaboration with the retailer Chloë Sevigny designs clothes for. Part one was a tour of her closet and enviable wardrobe and part two is more of the same, but we’re still eating it up. Read more »

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Tavi Interviewed Chloë Sevigny About Designing, Hoarding and Being an Outsider

Tavi Gevinson snagged yet another dream interview with an icon from her favorite decade (the ’90s). A photograph of Chloe Sevigny with hearts around it is currently on the homepage of Rookie, with a headline that doesn’t really do the interview justice: “Chloë Sevigny Makes Really Cute Clothes.”

While true, Sevigny also proves that she’s undeniably cool (which we of course already knew), a little troubled and surprisingly relatable. She chatted with the 15-year-old editor at Opening Ceremony in NYC (her resort collection for the retailer just hit stores) about designing clothes, teen angst and being an outsider. Here are the best bits:

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Shopping

14 Designer Versions of the ‘Ugly’ Christmas Sweater

Taking fuddy duddy, traditionally American things and turning them into high fashion seems to be a budding trend. (See: Glamping.) The latest target of the luxury fashion world’s makeover is everyone’s favorite holiday tradition: The Christmas Sweater.

Somewhere between classy (as defined by Derek Blasberg) and campy (as defined by Corky St. Clair) is this list of Christmas sweaters from big name designers like Stella McCartney and Marc Jacobs. It’s the best new mix of high and low, plus you’ll probably wear these Christmas sweaters again, as opposed to the one your mom made you with yarn and a hot glue gun. (Sorry, Mom!)

Check out the festive options available for Christmas and get in the holiday spirit!

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Watch: A Look Inside Chloë Sevigny’s Closet Reveals She’s ‘Kind Of a Pack Rat, Hoarder’

By Dhani Mau Monday, Dec 5, 2011 / 9:30 AM

If you’ve always wanted to raid Chloë Sevigny‘s closet, here’s your chance to at least get a peek inside. Opening Ceremony filmed an “at home” series with the actress–slash–designer and in part one, which sort of feels like a very hip episode of Hoarders (she calls herself a “kind of pack rat, hoarder”), she shows us the clothes-containing portion of her East Village apartment. Read more »

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Grandma-Appropriate, Not-Too-Tight Thanksgiving Outfit Ideas That Are Still Cute

Thanksgiving is a notoriously hard holiday to dress for because it requires sitting at a dinner table for hours with relatives who you only see once a year while simultaneously trying to consume unreasonable amounts of food and/or liquor. This presents a unique problem: dressing to impress your distant family while maintaining a level of comfort that is conducive to eating and sitting for long periods of time.

While we all know Thanksgiving isn’t the time to break out our best Carine Roitfeld-inspired look–too tight for face-stuffing!–finding a fashionable alternative to sweats can be difficult. We’ve pulled together the most stylish items that are comfy, chic, and won’t disturb your proper Grandma. (So don’t wear your Balenciaga Darth Vader visor, ok?)

Of course our list includes Stella McCartney, the legendary mixer of casual and elegant, our favorite button downs from Madewell, a hat trick of cute shoes, and a Céline t-shirt–because a girl can dream, right?

Check out all the Thanksgiving-friendly options in our slideshow!

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Opening Ceremony Spring 2012 is the Cat’s Meow

Just because Carol Lim and Humberto Leon are now busy turning Kenzo into the coolest brand around, it doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten about the line that started it all or that their creative energy is spent. Their latest collection for Opening Ceremony is filled with as many fun, lust-worthy pieces as we’ve come to expect from the talented duo. Not that it’s predictable–we never know what Lim and Leon are going to do next–only that it won’t be boring and we’re going to want it all.

The inspiration for spring 2012 was summer music festivals in England, Argentina and the U.S. and we bet we’ll be seeing a lot of these clothes on the backs of stylish revelers at those very festivals next year. The ’90s definitely have a presence here via babydoll silhouettes, crop tops, metallic silver pants, plaid miniskirts, varsity jackets, lots of matching tops and bottoms and off-the-shoulder body con dresses.

However, our favorite part the collection, which should come as no surprise, is the cat faces. As we’ve learned, the best way to make something better is to cover it with cats. And that is what they’ve done here.

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Urban Pulls All Its “Navajo” Items, Tattoo Barbie Freaks Everyone Out, And It’s a Girl for Carla Bruni

Urban Outfitters Removes All It’s “Navajo” Products: The retailer was distastefully selling items labeled “Navajo,” and received a cease-and-desist letter in June from the Navajo Nation, who has a trademark on the name since, you know, it’s their name and all. After some controversy, all UO’s “Navajo” products have either disappeared or been renamed. {Jezebel}

Katie Grand Awarded Fashion Innovator of the Year: On October 27, The Wall Street Journal is hosting its first-ever awards show to honor “Innovators of the Year,” where Grand will receive the fashion award. Congrats Katie! {WWD}

Tattoo Barbie Makes Moms Everywhere To Freak Out: Tokidoki made a $50 collectible Barbie with pink hair and chest and arm tattoos, so naturally everyone went apeshit and fears their children will turn into hard-partying burnouts like Quinn from Glee. {Jezebel}

Ashley Greene Is The New Face of DKNY: One of our fav Tweters, DKNY PR Girl, announced yesterday that the Twilight star will be the new band ambassadress for DKNY and DKNY Jeans. {DKNY}

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Miss Piggy’s Style Evolution from the 1970s to Now

Miss Piggy is poised to make her silver screen comeback this November in the latest (and long overdue) Muppet movie. Some big fashion names are attached to the film, too (in which she plays a Vogue Paris editrix)–Zac Posen and Louboutin made her costumes.

Like any good star plugging a new film, she’s been all over the place lately. She appeared at Opening Ceremony in NYC during Fashion’s Night Out. Last week Lifetime announced she’d be a judge on Project Runway All Stars, and a few days ago there was an unconfirmed rumor sweeping the internet that she was the new face of MAC.

Miss Piggy has always owned her sometimes over-the-top style and her zaftig proportions since she first hit the scene in the mid-1970s. And she looks pretty damn good for a lady who’s been in showbiz for 40 years. (Though it’s fairly obvious that she’s had a nip and tuck here and there).

Miss Piggy loves fashion, and she’s gone through the same bad trends we have. She’s done Farrah Fawcett hair, perms, the Rachel, and even gone brunette.

Click through to see how Miss Piggy’s style has evolved through the years. Just don’t make fun of her–she’s been known to hurl frogs through a window.

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Peep the Full Muppets X Opening Ceremony Collection Featuring Hipster Versions of Kermit, Miss Piggy and More

The highly-anticipated (we think?) Muppets X Opening Ceremony collection is now available at Opening Ceremony stores and online. There are no faux fur coats or feather boas and the collection is actually quite simple and casual, which we like. It’s also pretty affordable, which we like even more. It’s comprised of an assortment of tees, sweatshirts, button-downs and sweaters featuring your favorite Muppets like you’ve never seen them before. Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal, Fozzie and Gonzo are all credited as wearing Opening Ceremony FW 11. It’s kind of amazing.

Here’s a little more on how the collaboration came about, from Opening Ceremony:

So how did the collection come together? Well Miss Piggy demanded glamour, Animal had to include his sticks, Kermit nodded a lot, Fozzie got the giggles and well, Beaker just panicked. As Kermie says in the new MOVIE TRAILER, “The Muppets have always been about artistic integrity.”

If the goal of the collaboration was to make the Muppets’ image a little bit hipper, this should have done the trick. Click through to see the full collection.

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