Fashion month officially kicks off this week with the shows in New York. While it may warm up by the time Paris fashion week rolls around, it’s going to be really cold for a while, which means everyone’s going to be bundled up. What’s a street style star to do if no one can see her outfit?
Capitalize on all the wackadoo spring 2013 accessories, that’s what.
Taylor Swift covers December’s Cosmo and dishes about her past relationships… sort of. {US Weekly}
Heidi Klum has cancelled her famous Halloween party in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. She promises to reschedule it as a “haunted Christmas.” {HuffPo}
Jessica Biel may have surprised us by picking out a sugary-pink wedding gown, but it turns out she also surprised herself. {The Cut}
On the left is Martha Stewart on the cover of her latest Halloween issue. On the right is the late style icon Isabella Blow, whom we’re sure needs no introduction.
While we appreciate Martha breaking out of her conservative Connecticut Mom image and, ahem, spreading her wings, we have to call her out for cribbing a bit too much from Blow, who wore the artsy style in 2006, when it was actually original. Furthermore, Blow’s butterfly mask was created by milliner master Philip Treacy, while Martha’s kind of looks like she hot-gunned some poor butterfly’s remains together and stuck them to her face.
Philip Treacy gave the Sunday Guardian a juicy unfiltered interview, where the famed milliner dished on everything from his muse Isabella Blow, having Lady Gaga as an intern, and the backlash that followed the hat he designed for Princess Beatrice to wear to the royal wedding. The highlights:
The infamous Philip Treacy hat that Princess Beatrice wore to the royal wedding has been sold at auction on eBay for £81,100.01–that’s $130765.66. Proceeds will go to benefit Bea’s chosen charities: UNICEF and Children in Crisis. The bidder’s identity has not yet been revealed.
The hat’s auction page was viewed around 724,000 times and 94 bids were placed on it, according to the UK’s Telegraph. The sale also sets a new record for the sale of a designer hat on eBay.
It’s a lot of money for hat that a lot of people thought was ridiculous. Bea’s hat caused nearly as much of a fuss as Kate Middleton’s wedding dress or Pippa Middleton’s bum. It prompted the creation of countless Facebook pages from “Princess Beatrice’s ridiculous Royal Wedding hat” which has 143,609 likes to “Princess Beatrice’s hat looks like a uterus” with 930 likes.
LONDON–Fashion Week crowds across the globe are awaking from a bleary eyed winter slumber to the spectacle of the Fall 2011 collections. So what better timing than the night before London’s catwalks ignite, for biannual magazine AnOther to celebrate its first decade of razor’s edge fashion editorial. Editor-in-Chief Jefferson Hack placed illustrated birthday cards from designer pals–including Karl Lagerfield, Alber Elbaz of Lanvin, the Missoni family, Philip Treacy and Gareth Pugh–into the hands of local patissiers to create 10 birthday cakes on display through the weekend at Selfridges.
“I wanted to inspire our readers with the insane possibilities of what can be achieved at the highest level in bringing fashion and food together,” says Hack.
1) Do you think Philip Treacy ever throws a diva fit and just hollers and screams at everyone? His reserve is impressive.
2) Did Ivy say she was inspired by hospital curtains?
3) The upside down rose hat didn’t work with Heidi’s mom-shag, did it? At least now we know why she was wearing it a few months ago.
1) How fantastically snarky is the editing this season? The St. Gretchen montage at the beginning of the show was classic.
2) Should we continue the Tim Gunn word-of-the-week? This week you must use “Schiaparelli-like” in a sentence. Alternatively, I’ll accept “woolly animal balls.”
3) Why didn’t Betsey Johnson do any cartwheels?
4) ”Mustache or no mustache?”–Mondo (This is a question I ask myself everyday.)
5) Was Michael’s comment: “Everyone knows you love a hot glue gun” to AJ a euphemism or not?
A recent survey conducted by MyCelebrityFashion.co.uk found that almost fifty percent of women prefer to keep their clothes on during sex. Why? According to the Telegraph, who first reported on the survey, 54 percent of women keep at least one item of clothing on while doing the nasty to “improve body confidence.”
We don’t really buy it. Sex is about being naked, right? The survey sample size was only 1,563 people anyway.
But we decided to have some fun with this and recommend some of the more ridiculous pieces of clothing and accessories to wear during sex. If you must.
Here are our picks. What would you keep on?
Blow by Blow, a new play about the life of fashion icon Isabella Blow, will premiere at the 11th Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival next month.
The play is unrelated to the Blow film, which is being produced by John Galliano. But much like the movie, the stage presentation will depict her life and death.
Playwright Jean Bergantini Grillo spent the last three years crafting the script. Accomplished director Jen Forcino is at the production’s helm, and she’s brought on costume designer Susan Voelker to create the garments. (Voelker plans on re-imagining some of Blow’s famous Philip Treacy hats for the stage.)
We’ve got a feeling Voelker’s going to be under more scrutiny than Grillo or Forcino in this circumstance.
Essentials and Stores in Wang’s Future: Alexander Wang is expanding to a line of “essentials” and a store in NYC coming sometime this year. {WWD}
Brad Pitt to Play Philip Treacy? In more news about the in-the-works Isabella Blow movie, Philip Treacy says he wants to be portrayed by Brad Pitt, to which we say, who wouldn’t want Brad Pitt to play them in a movie? {Vogue UK}
Igor + Andre Meet F21: Danny Robert’s designs hit Forever 21 today in the form of blogger portraits on tee shirts. Get them while they’re still in stores! {WWD}
