This morning, WWD published a story about models edging out celebrities in fall campaigns. The publication says that European houses have booked more models than celebrities for their recent ads, and that American houses—which tend to favor models over celebrities, anyways—will likely continue in this vein for fall as well. The one exception? Madonna for [...]
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Fall 2010 Paris
Fall 2010 Paris
Stefano Pilati Answers Anna’s, “What, no color in this collection? No evening?”
I felt silly taking pictures of the YSL logo beamed onto the cement floor of the Grand Palais until Fabien Baron rolled up next to me and broke out his blackberry. The YSL show may share a venue with Chanel, but aside from that single special effect, it’s a more sedate affair. Except for the [...]
Read more »Stefano Pilati’s showing YSL’s Autumn/Winter 2010 collection at the Grand Palais tonight, but to add excitement to anticipation, he’s recruited LCD Soundsystem to play live at the show. Pilati’s been working with James Murphy (the producer behind the French project) for almost two years now, but it’s the first time he’ll appear live. The musical [...]
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Fashion News Roundup
Fashion News Roundup
Fashion News Roundup: Victoria’s Secret Models Walk a New Runway, Prabal Blogs & Naomi’s Off the Hook
Walk This Way: More Victoria’s Secret regulars will be walking the high fashion runways. Designer Giles Deacon cast Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley to walk in his show today. {Vogue UK} Ever Expanding Blogosphere: Prabal Gurung has a blog! Yesterday he talked about his favorite blogs and today we learn that [...]
Read more »I don’t know much about men’s fashion – other than what I do and don’t like – but I’m making an effort to learn. Step One: Study GQ.com. So far, I’ve learned that men’s runway collections are even less realistic than women’s, but also that major trends for women, from SS10 in this case, influence [...]
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Menswear
Menswear
Bruce Weber’s YSL Film
Here’s the much anticipated Bruce Weber for YSL video. It’s not so much about menswear, as it is about getting naked. At the beginning, a muscled model pulls on a YSL tank top, but after that it’s full of naked women and then naked men and then a naked baby. Bruce Weber narrates, he wanted [...]
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David Lynch Does Dior
Rumor has it, and by rumor we mean WWD so we’ll err on the side of reality, that David Lynch, the legendary director of not-so-straightforward films like Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet, is directing the next installment of John Galliano’s highly stylized Dior commercials. Or “short films.” Olivier Dahan’s The Lady Noire Affair left off [...]
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Fashion Shows
Fashion Shows
The Fruits of Their Labor
These past few weeks we’ve seen a resurgence of all things juvenile. From pigtails at Prada to side braids at Wang, girlish hairstyles are a go for spring, but it doesn’t stop at the head. Tao, Moschino, YSL and Ungaro embraced the youthful phenomenon in their Spring collections. Each designer topped their ready-to-wear with prints [...]
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People We Like
People We Like
The September Issue
The only movie that’s made me laugh harder than The September Issue this year is The Hangover. Anna Wintour is funny; my mascara is smudged from tears of laughter. The film may start out with Anna saying that fashion’s picked on because people are bitter they aren’t a cool kid, but she only gets more [...]
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You Wanted to Poke Pilati…
For this, the fifth edition of the YSL Manifesto, the brand has finally decided to take things online. In preparation they’ve launched both a Facebook page and a Twitter account to increase their online social networking presence and prepare their fans for the launch of a ‘microsite’ on September 1st which will store archives of [...]
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Stefano Pilati At London Fashion Week
Vogue UK has just reported that YSL’s Stefano Pilati will be making an appearance at LFW – in his role as Creative Director for the label Veryta. The line is actually designed by fashion illustrator Tanya Ling and uses fabrics by Pilati BFF Filipo Binaghi. The Vogue eds say that the collection is incredibly easy [...]
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