Angela Rockwood, one of the paraplegic stars of the Sundance Channel’s show Push Girls, has landed a Nordstrom campaign. {HuffPo} Is your vagina feeling old? Are you looking to, er, tighten things up down there? This vaginal cream sold in India promises to make you feel “18 Again.” Or as they sing in the commercial, Read more →
Alexa Chung is back on the old modeling horse for Parisian brand Maje’s fall ad campaign. {WWD}
Hearst, which recently acquired Elle magazine, is planning to bring back the short-lived spin-off that was Elle Accessories. Shoe lovers rejoice. {The New York Times}
Justin Bieber launched his new perfume, called “Girlfriend,” this week. A zillion screaming girls screamed even more. {WWD}
Jennifer Hudson, American Idol alum and Weight Watchers frontwoman, is the newest celeb to get her own clothing line with QVC. It will only feature clothes for “average” sized women, meaning sizes 6 through 16. {Stylelist}
Alexa Chung Named Newest BFC Style Ambassador: She’s long been the stye ambassador to our hearts, but now Alexa Chung can add yet another title to her growing list of fashionable ventures. The British Fashion Council has named the influential Brit It-Girl their ‘Young Style Ambassador,’ as which she will “promote British fashion design talent to a global market.” While it seems to us that Chung already does that job quite well, it never hurts to make things official. {Elle UK}
Parsons Students Compete in International Fashion Showcase at London Fashion Week: The first ever International Fashion Showcase is happening now at London Fashion Week, with young designers from 19 different countries competing against each other for the Emerging Talent Award. Representing the US is a group of MFA students from Parsons, showing a collection titled “Lost Time is Never Found Again.” {Racked}
Carine Roitfeld Working with V on New Project? We’ve been anxious to hear about Carine’s latest project following her departure from French Vogue, and now WWD is speculating that her new magazine may be in collaboration with V Magazine. Though Carine herself has yet to comment, she’s already guest-edited an issue of the fashion mag and has reportedly been seen around the V office a lot lately… {WWD}
When we first heard that Fern Mallis, who ran New York Fashion Week at IMG for almost a decade, was launching a jewelry line on QVC, our initial reaction, we must admit, was: really? Mallis is a fixture in the New York fashion scene, having gone on to host a series of talks with fashion icons at the 92nd St. Y as well as a SiriusXM radio show called “Fashion Insiders With Fern Mallis” after she left IMG. While Mallis obviously knows the fashion biz in New York inside and out, we never suspected she was into making fashion. But she is.
Mallis has just announced that she’ll be launching a jewelry collection for QVC called Fern Finds: by Fern Mallis, which she’ll hawk live during New York Fashion Week (obvi), starting on Friday, February 10 at 10pm (EST). We chatted with the former Fashion Week head honcho to find out just what inspired this move to design, whose style she looks up to, and which of her fashion friends she consulted with before starting her line.
Leave it to Vogue Italia to blend two things that don’t go together (QVC and designer labels) into one hilarious (and dead-on) spoof editorial (and video). Creating satirical, off-beat and controversial shoots is kind of Vogue Italia’s thing, and while past editorials (ahem, Karlie) got everyone riled up for all the wrong reasons, this QVC-themed Read more →
Nicole Richie has come a long way since her days as Paris Hilton’s funny-but-also-kinda-trashy best friend. She’s got a fledgling clothing line, a successful accessories line (which she just won an ACE award for) and according to US Weekly, she’s also working on a new line for QVC. Go Nicole!
A source told the magazine: “The line is cute — it can be worn by teeny-tiny girls but also goes up to size XXXL,” and added that, “Nicole has a great fashion sense, and she’s very hands-on.”
No word yet on what the line will be called (may we suggest something honoring her other kid, Sparrow?), or what the pricing point will be, but QVC usually keeps things wallet-friendly.
Just what the world needs: Another Kardashian clothing line. Mother Kris, who recently hyphenated her last name to include Kardashian, is launching a line with QVC this fall.
The Kris Jenner Kollection (yes, it’s really called that) will include such staples from Kris’ wardrobe as black leggings, white button-downs and black blazers–all of which the Kardashian matriarch frequently sports on her family’s popular reality TV show. The line will launch on QVC’s live New York Fashion Week broadcast on Sept. 8, and, like a true self-promoting Kardashian, Kris will promote her kollection by wearing it throughout the new season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and tweeting about it.
The pieces will range from $35 to $140, and while we could live without the zippered leggings (seriously, why does every celebrity line have to have them? ahem, Lohan) there are a few pieces from the line that actually kind of work, like the sleeveless Tuxedo dress, shown in the look book.
Besides being at war with the letter C, Kris Kardashian-Jenner revealed to WWD that she has some other rather lofty goals:
Beyonce gifts Solange with 25 pairs of shoes: The singer, who’s been known for spending millions on her loved ones, splurged at Saks and Bergdorf’s on Thursday, and bought her sis a pair of shoes for every year she’s been alive. Can we join this family? {NY Post}
Lady Gaga sued over wristbands: An attorney with Michigan-based 1-800-LAW-FIRM is suing Ms. Germanotta on pretenses that she profited from the “We Pray for Japan” wristbands sold on her website, of which proceeds supposedly all went to tsunami and earthquake relief efforts. Say it ain’t so, Gaga! {Showbiz Spy}
Heidi Klum is releasing a new QVC jewelry line; we’re hoping she doesn’t get sued this time: The supermodel plans for much more, well, original inspiration for her second collection. QVC and Heidi’s lawyers aren’t alone in crossing their fingers that she’ll avoid a lawsuit this time around. {Styleite}
I’m sure many of our loyal readers were missing this week’s Mad Men Style Recap, but due to the demands of fashion week, I missed the episode and still haven’t watched it. This just means that Sunday’s recap will be twice as nice.
To compensate for the lack of Mad Men during fashion week, I sat down with Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant at the QVC pop-up store. Janie was promoting her aptly titled QVC line, Janie Bryant MOD, and had been perkily signing tees and chatting up loyal fans.
Janie’s QVC line is just everything I’d hoped it would be: Tons of faux leopard in the form of hats, capelets, and bags, charming necklaces that do double duty with detachable brooches, and stunning nail polish colors. Inspired by the ’50s and ’60s, vintage Vogues, and the timelessness of true movie stars, the collection has the elegant touches every modern girl’s wardrobe needs.
Shoshanna Gruss, née Lonstein, has been in the biz for a while now. She launched her eponymous line over ten years ago, and has done a few collaborations since. Her girlie dresses made to fit a more voluptuous figure developed a cult following (at least amongst the preppy UES set), so we asked the designer about her decision to do accessories, why she’s jumped on the QVC bandwagon, and how her Maltese pups helped her land the QVC deal.
So you’ve partnered with Judith Ripka for this line–how did that come about?
I’ve been a customer and admirer of Judith Ripka for as long as I can remember. After running into around our neighborhood while walking our Maltese dogs, we developed a friendship. I respect her as a mother, a business women and an artist. Accessories to me, are what make one’s look their own. It completes a woman’s outfit and expresses who she is, and who she wants to be. I have always wanted to do a jewelry line to complement my Shoshanna collection. It’s been a dream to be working on this business with an icon such as Judith.
When it comes to important stylists, you don’t really get much bigger than Lori Goldstein. From her work with Vogue Italia to her new campaign for Juicy Couture to that smoldering August cover of W, you know Lori’s work. You know it well.
But unlike the current generation of top stylists, Lori lets her work speak for itself–she has no desire to be a celebrity in her own right. However, she is more visible than ever, thanks to her LOGO line for QVC, which launched last year. The latest collection debuts August 9 at 1pm on the kitschy-cool shopping network.
I recently got the opportunity to chat with Lori about her latest adventures, and what it takes to make it in fashion.
Fashionista: So your latest collection for QVC hits August 9. What can we expect from it?
“Are you stalking me,” asked Isaac Mizrahi last night when I told him how much I loved hearing him speak at the 92nd Street Y a few weeks ago? “Oh my god no,” I whimpered as the color drained from my face. “Kidding!! I’m SO glad you enjoyed it, that’s so great to hear! It Read more →
