Earlier today we came across a story: “Online poll announces the top ten most iconic dresses of the past fifty years.” We were naturally excited, expecting Grace Kelly, Jean Seberg, and Jackie O. What we got was Ginger Spice’s Union Jack, Elizabeth Hurley’s safety pin Versace, and Bjork’s dead swan. Sure, those dresses are iconic, Read more →
Winner: ElleUK asked Garance to illustrate a limited edition cover of the magazine featuring Demi Moore. It’s stunning. {Garance} Must Haves: Anne Pitcher, the fashion and buying director of Selfridges, outlines her top ten trends from the fall collections. Lace, fur and shearling make her list, and they’ll get around their no-fur policy with Rebecca Read more →
Say What Alber: Remember when Alber told The New Yorker he’d never do a diffusion line? And then when he did do a diffusion line? Someone did and someone asked and he just couldn’t handle it. {ElleUK} On McQueen: Try to break up your Sarah Mower with other important critics. Like Hilary Alexander’s Alexander McQueen Read more →
We’re basically over the size zero debate – models will always be skinny. But absolutely no one’s over Mark Fast’s runway statement from last Friday. Why? Because it wasn’t just the audience made uncomfortable by the big girls, but also the team behind the show. One staff member quit over Fast’s use of plus size Read more →
In Vogue: We’re a sucker for epic young Hollywood portfolios in any magazine, but Teen Vogue‘s is always styled best and has the most fashion – this time around that includes Alia Shawkat, maybe better known as Maeby Fünke, who happens to be co-hosting Rachel Antonoff’s SS10 presentation. {TeenVogue} London Bound: Christopher Bailey talks to Read more →
“Don’t tell anyone, because I’m not allowed to do this, but we absolutely are going to have a show in mid-July, during Fashion Week – and it won’t be a funeral: it’ll be a fightback…I can’t stand the idea that people think I am to blame, but to a certain extent I am paying for Read more →
Mark Haddaway and Katy Rodriguez, the brilliant duo behind Resurrection, have been working on a project. We’re so jealous, we might cry. They’ve assembed what The Telegraph calls, “the most important [collection] to come up at auction.” It includes original 1970′s Vivienne Westwood from both the legendary Seditionaries and Pirates collections. There are Paco Rabanne Read more →
The Courtney Love interview in The Telegraph is so incredibly outrageous that of course it’s almost boring. She chants for thirty minutes with a Buddhist guru before she starts the interview. She admits to blacking out on large periods of her life, including a three-hour phone chat with Vivienne Westwood. She is not dating, has Read more →
