Tom Ford is something of a deity in the fashion world--from revamping Gucci to creating covetable luxury beauty products--for men, natch--it sometimes seems like Ford can do no wrong. Even A Single Man, his very first directorial effort, was Oscar-nominated. Still, Ford is not without his mistakes.
Yesterday afternoon Kristen Stewart sat down with the new fashion and lifestyle editor for French Vanity Fair (formerly of Le Figaro), Virginie Mouzat, to answer questions from her Internet fans about the actress's first ever fragrance endorsement, Balenciaga's Florabotanica. More than 5,000 questions came in--many of them off-the-wall bizarre--but obviously the brand chose questions that were more on-point and actually about, you know, the fragrance. Click through to see what she had to say.
Karl Lagerfeld's kitten Choupette celebrated her first birthday today and boy, what a year it has been. That diary must be 1,000 pages by now. The w
Emmanuelle Alt To Take The Reigns At French Vogue?: WWD has it from "industry sources" that French Vogue's fashion director, Emmanuelle Alt is rumored to be on the short list to replace Carine Roitfeld as editor. Apparently Virginie Mouzat, Le Figaro's fashion editor, is still in the running as well. {WWD subscription required} Roland Mouret Does NOT Ghost Design For Victoria Beckham, OK?: There were always rumors that Mouret had a hand in designing Victoria Beckham's well-received collections and one journo recently asked him about it. Here's what he said: Mouret retorted with the following outburst: "Oh my God, that question! Politicians, movie stars, it's always the first things they want to know and I'm like, why? Why would I want to design a collection for Victoria Beckham? Yes she is a friend and yes she asks for advice and yes I told her the name of a pattern cutter, but she has lots of friends she asks for advice - Marc Jacobs. I like to help people that's all." {Telegraph} Jennifer Aniston, Reporter?: Jennifer Aniston interviews her Just Go With It costar Nicole Kidman in the latest Harper's Bazaar and she's pretty good at it. And then they do this thing where they're all "You're pretty," "No, you're pretty!" which is funny. {Harper's Bazaar} Kellwood Acquires Rebecca Taylor: Kellwood Co. continues their acquisition spree with Rebecca Taylor. Last year they acquired Adam, by Adam Lippes, and Isis. The Daily Front Row is reporting that Kellwood has Gryphon in their sites next. {WWD subscription required}
Of course the question after "What will Carine do next?" is: "Who will replace her?" We have our own ideas. Some are so out there that we can't imagine them actually happening, but it's fun to think about. Who would you like to see replace Carine at Vogue Paris? (Okay, we know the real answer is "no one," but that's not an option.) Click through to see our picks.
