What Happened to Ungaro?: Cathy Horyn profiles the businessman behind the fall of the legendary house. {T}
Guess What? Big Boobs are Back! And It Should Make You Feel Really Bad About Yourself: The real question is: Why do these kinds of trend stories exist? {Daily Mail}
Coco’s Wedding Vid: First the still shot, now some action. Model Coco Rocha reveals a snippet of her wedding video. {Grazia UK}
New York Times Versus Neighborhoodies Versus Rodarte: When Rodarte released its New York Herald Tribune tee as a tribute to the cult-classic film Breathless, apparently they forgot the cliché that there are no new ideas. T-shirt underdogs Neighborhoodies had already been producing a near-exact doppleganger of the shirt for years– minus the ghosted-out “Rodarte” text, of course. Neighborhoodies is now in a legal kerfuffle with The New York Times, but the Times may not have much of a case. We expect the newspaper giant to emerge from the conflict with no winnings and some bad press–as they say, no news is good news. {Racked}
The Un-Cuddly Facts About Organic Cotton: Hipster mommies and daddies everywhere wouldn’t dream about putting their little Emmett/Regina/Asbury in anything other than 100% pure organic cotton, but they may not realize that the kid’s going to have a hell of a complex when he grows up. According to Time magazine, the insecticide restrictions necessitated by the “organic” label are putting babies in Africa at an even higher risk for Malaria, a disease that’s already wreaking havoc on Uganda. Let’s hope the newly-pregnant Stella McCartney avoids this trap….{Ecouterre}
Giles Deacon has officially confirmed his new post as creative director at Emanuel Ungaro.
“Various things have happened at the house recently which for legal reasons the company can’t comment on – but I like to think of the bigger picture,” Deacon told Vogue UK early this morning.
“The house and its legacy have a lot more to them than that – and there will be announcements over the coming weeks about the business. I can’t talk about them yet but various changes are being put in place.”
Giles Deacon was spotted lunching with a table full of Ungaro executives just last week and Estrella Archs, the Spanish unknown brought on to design with Lindsay Lohan left the company the next day. This morning, JCReport editor Jason Campbell tweeted: It’s official Giles Deacon is in at Ungaro. Giles marks the fifth designer for Read more →
Giles Deacon had lunch in Paris with a table full of Ungaro executives, including owner Asim Abdullah. They ate at Le Relais Plaza on Friday afternoon, and we can only imagine how difficult it was for Abdullah to explain why they hired Lindsay Lohan in the first place and why Giles should ditch his own Read more →
A Match Made in Paris: Colette’s Sarah Lerfel loves Tommy Ton—so much so that she decided to display his favorite streetstyle photos from AW10 on an entire wall of her store. Ton says that the best place to capture these moments is in the Tuileries in Paris. {Blasblog} McQ News: Gareth Pugh will not be Read more →
We wanted to use this picture of Lindsay to illustrate just how out of control her Ungaro reign has gotten, but we felt nice and chose the image at left, from a respectable magazine! This morning, WWD announced that Mounir Moufarrige, Ungaro’s President and CEO, is stepping down to focus on his other businesses, mostly Read more →
Blog-alicious: Meet Caroline. She’s guest blogging for Lucky (how we found her), but she’s actually a textile designer with her own blog full of illustrations, both fashion and otherwise, and other very pretty things. {ItLooksGoodToMe} Oscar & Valentino: The designer’s doc is on the short-list for an Oscar nom. Sadly, The September Issue is not. Read more →
If you thought Lindsay Lohan might give fashion a rest post-Ungaro, you’re wrong. After hanging out with jeweler Pascal Mouawad at Jermaine Dupri’s house late last week, she told Access Hollywood that the two are actually working together, “we’re doing something with a friend who owns bebe.” We wish we knew the terms of her Read more →
“I am going back to Paris for the next collection. I am learning. It’s in January. I thought it was in March.” –Lindsay Lohan’s Ungaro learning curve.
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 Read more →
So that Lindsay Lohan situation at Ungaro that we talked about a while back? Yeah, it’s happening. Late last night, WWD reported that Ungaro had name Ms. Lohan the “artistic advisor” to the house. They’ve also got a new designer, Spaniard Estella Archs, who has shown her own collections in Paris as of late, though Read more →
