And one of the founders of Vena Cava launched a jewelry line.
But after she saw them... she was kind of grateful.
All the biggest fashion stories from this week in one place.
The pigeon is REAL, you guys!
The actress isn't one to keep her mouth shut, but in this case, her not saying much at all makes a much bigger statement.
Lena Dunham was caught schmoozing with Anna Wintour at last night's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund event in LA. We think we smell a Vogue cover... {HuffPo} That infamous "Cocaine Kate" UK tabloid cover is apparently still haunting Kate Moss: Playboy reportedly had to move its 60th anniversary issue party from LA to London because its hard-partying cover girl is having trouble securing a US visa. {NY Post} Kanye West may be decked out in custom Maison Martin Margiela for Yeezus, but Drake is getting the Calvin Klein Collection treatment for his current North American tour. {WWD}
Pippa Middleton wore a gorgeous floral and lace Tabitha Webb dress for the Queen's Coronation Festival. {Fashionista Inbox}* You'd never guess these celebrities modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch! Wait--chiseled jaws, blue eyes, and abs for days? Maybe you would have guessed. {HuffPo} Katy Perry revealed she's a lifelong Freddie Mercury fan, naming her next fragrance "Killer Queen" after Queen's hit song. {WWD} Aww! New fam Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, and North "Nori" West nap together. Wonder if they wear matching Givenchy pajama sets? {US Weekly}
While at the helm of New York Magazine's fashion blog, The Cut, Amy Odell developed one of the most distinctive (and by that we mean hilarious, biting, sharp) voices in fashion writing. So when she announced, early last month, she was finally leaving The Cut after four years for Buzzfeed, we've been wondering just what Odell's acid tongue would bring to a site we know best for aggregating photos of cats who fell asleep sitting up (which, aww! obvs, we love). "It's smart news and features for women," Odell says of Buzzfeed's new vertical, Shift, which launches today. Odell will edit the vertical, while former Gawker and Rolling Stone scribe Doree Shafrir will head things up as executive editor. Jezebel's Anna North and The Jane Dough's Hillary Reinsberg are also on board. But how will Shift be different from other sites that bill themselves similarly, like North's former employer Jezebel or The Hairpin? And how will Odell cover fashion in this new space?
To get you up to speed, Jezebel ran a piece today called "Marc Jacobs Doesn't Pay His Models, Says Model." The model they're referring to is Hailey Hasbrook, a 17-year-old from Oregon, who keeps a blog in which she detailed her experiences working during New York Fashion Week last month, which she also spoke about briefly in an interview with WWD. Of particular interest is her account of working with Marc Jacobs. And while she says she had fun and everyone was really nice, there were definitely some rules broken. Jenna Sauers points out that Marc Jacobs violated (another) CFDA guideline which asks that under-18 models not be kept working past midninght.
The Sartorialist's Scott Schuman posted two photos of Milanese fashion blogger Angelica Ardasheva on his site yesterday (thanks to Jezebel for identifying her and her blog). Schuman doesn't usually post commentary with his images--they speak for themselves. But on this entry he offered these thoughts: I saw this young lady in Milan several times this past season. She is one of the crop of new bloggers. I loved that she's a bigger, curvier girl than most of the other bloggers who you see in the press and tend to represent the genre. The subtle thing she achieves so successfully in these two looks is to complement the sturdy but beautiful shape of her legs with an equally strong shoe. A daintier shoe would be overpowered but these shoes create a beautiful harmony for the lower half of her body. Commenters seized on Schuman's descriptors, and 1148 of them have weighed in, most of them expressing outrage or disappointment, like this one:
The Isabella Blow book war just won't quit. And the authors of the competing biographies--Tom Sykes, who cowrote Blow by Blow with Isabella's widower Detmar, and Lauren Goldstein Crowe who wrote Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion--continue to use the fashion blogosphere to duke it out. Crowe has spoken out again, though this time, instead of responding to Syke's latest outrage, she's taking issue with one of the sites covering the saga, lady blog Jezebel. Seems Crowe didn't like Jenna Sauers' implication, as she recapped the back-and-forth on Jezebel, that the authors were simply drumming up publicity at Isabella Blow's expense. "Far be it from us mere bloggers to act like some kind of voice of morality here, but a talented and troubled woman died and all these people can think about is their petty little publicity-chasing book-selling feud?" Sauers wrote. So Crowe sent a response to us and Racked, titled, "A Letter to Jezebel." Here it is, in full: How strange of you to recall, step-by-step, the grisly tale between myself and Tom Sykes ("Competing Isabella Blow Biographers Attack Each Other," November, 11, 2010) but when it comes to my completely coherent clarification to decide to "act like some voice of morality" and point out that "a trouble woman died," and accuse us both of pandering for publicity's sake.
Score: So you're not one of the select few playing Bocce ball in the south of France with Karl Lagerfeld, Pacey, and Vanessa Paradis, as least Garanc
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These images of a single Louboutin floating through Alice in Wonderland-like space have surfaced. We've never seen a Christian Louboutin ad before-
Last week's comments from Danish model Rie Rasmussen have caused a deluge of anti-Terry Richardson stories. At the end of Paris fashion week, she sai
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She's Back Y'all: Gemma Ward's not going anywhere, thank god. She's just taking a mini-break from modeling. Wouldn't it be wonderful if she got bac
Be the Last Intern: Magnus Berger and Tenzin Wild's The Last Magazine needs design and production interns. You need experience and three to five day
Jezebel has a couple shots of Kate Hudson from the latest issue of Elle UK, coming out later this week. First, let me just say I barely recognized her
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Fancy yourself an ad-man? If so, or if you've just watched one too many episodes of Mad Men, you can have a hand at creating an ad for Armani Exchange
Georgia Peach: Just in case you don't have as massive a crush on Georgia May Jagger as we do, which is kind of inconceivable, here's a mini-portfolio
photo courtesy garance doréSwan Song: Garance got her hands on a brilliant French Vogue from 1973. Sylvie Vartan's on the outside and Ungaro's on th