Really Bad Ideas

St. John has cooked up a treat for Park Avenue ladies everywhere. The company’s launched an online-only trunk show for a new, smaller collection that starts today, lasting until March 18, with in-store sales set for the upcoming months. The all-black capsule line consists of the same silhouettes St. John is famous for, and is [...]

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Carrie: Not Dead?

You didn’t think Carried died with the movie, did you? Because if you did, you might be so glad to know she’s back – but younger. Candace Bushnell and Harper Collins have teamed up to bring you, The Carrie Diaries, a two-book deal that explores Carrie’s life as a teenager, and the series of horrible, [...]

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Lately, there are a lot of invites to events flying around that make us go, “huh?” And sometimes, they actually make us go “ew”: ELLE‘s sponsoring a Fashion Week show at the Metropolitan Pavilion on the 9th. The show’s being “curated” by LA boutique Dash, the children’s boutique Smooch, and the whole thing’s being hosted [...]

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Quote of the Day

“I need some new sti-le-ttos, Can’t walk, down the street in those. You are, who you wear, it’s true. A girl’s just as hot as the shoes she choose. FASHION, put it all on meh, don’t you wanna see these clothes on meh?” – Heidi Montag, in her new single, Fashion.

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This just in from Milan: According to a hospitalized eye-witness at the Tom Ford party in Italy, one of the spotlights came crashing down at the bash, landing square on the head of a former male model. He was shipped to l’ospedale, informed he needed stitches, and given some really good painkillers. Meanwhile, according to [...]

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Dear Desperate Fashion Publicists (again), Believe it or not, we’re aware that the Sex and the City movie is now in theaters. And even more shocking, we don’t really care what the girls are wearing. Okay, that’s not quite true – we do care that Carrie rocks a lot of Vivienne Westwood and that Charlotte [...]

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Reader Christopher is either excited or repulsed by the following news: Hilary Swank has signed on to produce a movie version of the spectacularly bad Falling Out of Fashion, the first (and hopefully only) novel by Karen Yampolsky, the former executive assistant of Jane Pratt. The book is a thinly veiled and thinly written account [...]

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We fully admit we watched Living Lohan last night, and it was about on par with the latest Indiana Jones: Poorly planned, gleefully great when it wasn’t paying attention, and ultimately better with alcohol. But as Dinah Lohan constantly Googled herself, and the show’s producers considered it a plot point, we noticed something awful: Dinah [...]

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We know Urban Outfitters sometimes makes shirts with stupid sayings, but this one really takes the cake – The mega-chain had to halt sales of a certain new tee after pretty much everybody reacted in outrage. The shirt features a Palestinian boy (which can be deduced by the Palestinian flag and map of Palestinian territories [...]

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While everyone continues to try and guess whether Nina Garcia just happened to be hanging out at the Hearst building yesterday, or if she is in fact being courted by Harper’s Bazaar, we offer some more fun Nina news to brighten your morning – The former ELLE Fashion Director has partnered with Step Up Women’s [...]

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We’re all for Sex and the City spoilers, but MySpace comments? Not so much. So imagine our “oh ick” moment this morning, when the official Sex and the City MySpace left us a comment – a giant photo of SJP eating pizza that said, “Hey, it’s Carrie. Need to talk about Big. Maybe over pizza?” [...]

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Well, now it seems that Sasha Pivovarova isn’t the only Sasha in the fashion world. This weekend, Variety ran a small but smirky story about Sacha Baron Cohen, the artist formerly known as Borat (and also Ali G, yo!), whose latest prank is playing Bruno, a flamboyantly gay fashion reporter from an unknown chiffon wonderland. [...]

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