This past week, all of our favorite fashionistas migrated to Paris to attend the White Fairy Tale Love Ball at the Chateau de Valentino (proving that the fashion set live like royalty in real life… ). The ball was hosted by Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova to raise money for her organization, the Naked Heart Foundation. While the guests …
The illustrious French fashion house Maison Martin Margiela was recently commissioned by Hotel Maison Champs-Elysées in Paris to reconceptualize the interior design of the 5-star hotel. La Maison Champs-Elysées is located on 8 Rue Jean Goujon, in a corner of Paris that boasts all the most distinguished French couture houses, making it most fitting that …
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This is bollocks. Frankly, Zoe is a talented stylist, a successful reality-TV personality (whatever that even means), and has emerged from her maelstrom of personal issues (both publicized and not-so…) as a very, very strong ‘brand.’ So it’s only natural that she’d capitalize on that brand equity with an eponymous clothing collection, non? Not so much… …
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Gareth Pugh is collaborating with MAC for a limited-edition makeup line, to be launched globally in November. Just how Pugh will translate his macabre Haute Goth aesthetic into a collection for one of the most mainstream cosmetic companies in the world remains to be seen, but the very idea makes for some interesting hypothesizing. Pugh, the young protégé …
The left side of this composite image was used, in plain terms, illegally. Little surprise then that she is suing the beauty behemoth for its advertising campaign which a) incorporates an image from a test shoot, b) claims the model used a product and achieved the results (where it should have stated that the model never used …
PHOTOSHOP AWARDS: MODEL SUES ESTEE LAUDER FOR USING UNAUTHORIZED PHOTO Read More »
[PHOTO CREDIT: Jay Calderin] I had the exciting opportunity recently to get a sneak peek at the Massachusetts College of Art ‘Voltage’ Senior Fashion Show (while filming a feature for the show…). It was certainly a daunting task to select whom to highlight, what with all the endless trains of chiffon, tulle, peacock feathers and …
As much as it pains me to admit it, I am beginning to wonder if my wardrobe will rely as heavily in the coming years on the amazing deals I have, for the past few years, been fortunate enough to find on the flash-sale sites like Gilt Groupe and Rue La La. The economy is improving, if …
[Daphne Guinness getting ready for the Gala in a Barney’s window… Why not?!?] It was McQueen Mania at the Met last night, as the Costume Institute celebrated the designer and his body of work in their annual fundraising fête. But the mania was well deserved, if regrettably posthumous. Few designers accomplished what McQueen accomplished with his work: an …
[image via www.prada.com] “My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.” Easy for you to say, Ms. Prada. WWD reports that sales for the label were up over thirty percent this past year, to a figure over 2.7 billion dollars. Staggering. Consider that she is all but a god of her industry, universally revered and unfailingly praised …
Diane von Furstenberg, the president of the CFDA, announced the CFDA Awards nominees tonight in NYC. Alexander Wang made a strong showing (the veritable Meryl Streep of the Fashion world…), but I have to admit I’m gunning for a Proenza win for Womenswear Designer of the Year. As for the Gaga nomination, I have little to …
