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Headlines This Week 1/15

kristenk — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:00:03 +0000

It’s the changing of the models at Armani this week. First Megan Fox made her sexy debut, replacing Victoria Beckham. Now, the design house is offering a sneak peek at their new men’s campaigns, featuring David Beckham’s hot, new replacement in the Emporio Armani Underwear. People.com
This seemed destined somehow. One of Britain’s best, Stella McCartney, has made almost as much hay out of her collaborations with Adidas, GapKids, and others as she has off her own label. NYMag.com

Curves Ahead: V Magazine – I think it probably could have been a better editorial, but the models are gorgeous. Mahalo Fashion

Natalie Portman was an early convert to Rodarte’s transcendent dream world filled with artful prints, thoughtful silhouettes, and futuristic visions. Elle.com
While fashion designers might seem like the keenest clairvoyants of the fashion sphere, we actually hand the honor to textile designers. Before the sketches are even drawn at fashion design houses, mills are producing the fabrics in colors and patterns that will outfit people a whole year in advance. Pipeline.refinery29.com

Headlines This Week 1/8

kristenk — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:00:25 +0000

Tell-it-like-it-is Hills boss Kelly Cutrone has finished a new book with hints for burgeoning fashionistas and working girls based on her own experiences! JustJared.com
Yesterday, jacket company Weatherproof installed a billboard above the Red Lobster in Times Square starring a model who was neither a fashion professional nor size zero. NYMag.com
Fashionation has a list of six super-human women who are aging quite gracefully. We’ve added four more to complete the list. FashionIndie.com
What do you guys think were the worst fashion trends of the decade? I would have to say these. Every time I saw a girl/woman wearing these boots, it made me cringe. Popgloss.com

Lady Gaga is hitting the small screen tonight for her much-anticipated stint on Bravo’s Launch My Line. People.com

Headlines This Week 12/18

kristenk — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:00:37 +0000

With 2010 upon us, we couldn’t help but ask: Who were the most fashionable women of the decade? What were the moments, sartorially-speaking, that we could never forget? Vogue.com

Yes, folks, after a lazy season under the California sun, Project Runway has left Hollywood, returning to its proper home in the Big Grimy. The jump from Bravo to Lifetime dulled down some of the show’s bite, but it was really the L.A. vacation that made Project’s last go-around seem a bit too breezy. NYMag.com

Charlize Theron is putting in some serious footwork to help kids in her native South Africa. Today she debuts a new, limited-edition collaboration with do-gooding company TOMS Shoes. People.com

Spotted on StyleWatch, Kendall Jenner, 14-year-old half-sister of Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, featured in a fashion campaign for Forever 21’s Twist Collection. Nitrolicious.com
As soon as my hair gets long enough I may even have to try this one! It’s always great to see hair and make up styles successfully make it from the runway to the streets, and that’s exactly what happened to the notorious braid from the Alexander Wang runway show. FashionIndie.com

Headlines This Week 12/11

kristenk — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:00:40 +0000

In what is probably the coolest Olympic Uniform, check out the Burton 2010 US Olympic Women’s uniforms. Loved that they kept the same color scheme for men as well. Popgloss.com

Audrey Hepburn’s enduring status as a fashion legend was solidified on Tuesday, when more than 40 items from her closet raised a staggering $435,180 at a London auction. People.com

Kind of a boring poster for this much anticipated movie. Fashionindie.com
What a joyous holiday season this is turning out to be for models. Not only are they tall, thin, beautiful, and blemish-free, but they are having babies left and right. NYMag.com

Headlines This Week 12/4

kristenk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:00:44 +0000

For her upcoming wedding to Tye Strickland, former Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars star Melissa Rycroft will walk down the aisle wearing an Alfred Angelo bridal gown. People.com
The Wall Street Journal reports: “No one has ever purchased the Victoria’s Secret Fantasy Bra. Past bras — including the 2006 Hearts on Fire Diamond Fantasy Bra, worth $7 million — have all been dismantled.” FashionIndie.com

Models Kasia Struss, Lara Stone, Natalia Vodianova, Christy Turlington, and Gisele Bundchen photographed themselves for Vogue Italia’s December 2009 Twitter Cover Story. FashionIndie.com
Most blogs we look at wouldn’t use the word “ass” in a headline, so our curiosity was most piqued when we noticed it in big bold letters at the top of a Style.com post. NYMag.com

It is a wonder that Tom Ford, the former creative director of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent who turned louche sexuality into high fashion in the 1990s, didn’t try his hand at directing a movie sooner. NYTimes.com
A gaggle of perfectly well behaved geese, prim as French schoolchildren, waddles down the catwalk, opening an over-the-top hallucinogenic circus parade to celebrate the “Sonia Rykiel pour H&M” collections (one lingerie, the other sweater dressing). Vogue.com

Headlines This Week 11/13

kristenk — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:22:45 +0000

Bravo is gearing up to drop another big fashion show on us, and this time it’s a documentary style show about the big time fashion photogs Markus Flinko + Indrani.The show doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a flop either. FashionIndie.com

120 Bridesmaid Dresses You’ll Want to Wear Again… Popgloss.com
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner jet set across Europe on New Moon promotional tour stops in England this week. What was she thinking?? JustJared.com

You’d think after thirteen seasons of America’s Next Top Model, any regulars on the show couldn’t possibly have kept any information about themselves from the public. NYMag.com
Carrie Underwood kicked off tonight’s CMA Awards red carpet in a glittering Theia siren gown that shouted sex appeal. But the show’s host was quick to reveal, “I’m not going to keep this one on all night!” People.com

Headlines This Week 11/6

kristenk — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:00:32 +0000

More Motown covers, Blacksponation and Barbès-Bamako inspiration (Oups I forget the Pocahontas touch, with fringes and hairy mocassins)! Enjoy the last collection of “papa Marc (Jacobs) and the afro hair”, sounds groovy, isn’t it? Popgloss.com
We teased you last week with this, but as promised, here is Lara Stone’s cover for the December 2009 cover of British Vogue, where the glossy named her the Model of the Year. Modelinia.com

Leighton Meester (B. on Gossip Girl) looks Ahmazing on cover of Glamour UK. IKnowWhatYouWore
Ridley Scott is working on a movie to begin filming next year about the downfall of the Gucci family dynasty. However, the Gucci family is freaking out over how scandalous the film could be. NYMag.com

For the latest H&M Divided Art collection, they’ve tapped fashion illustrator, Laura Laine, hailing from Helsinki to create two illustrations to be printed on T-shirts and tanks. Nitrolicious.com
Designer Jum Nakao created these incredibly ornate and delicate dresses for the Paper Fashion exhibition at the MoMu in Antwerp. At the end of the runway show the models ripped themselves out of them! CocoPerez.com

Headlines This Week 10/30

kristenk — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:31:21 +0000

Cutouts in the daring, Cushnie et Ochs sense may not be for everyone, but as you can see below, there are plenty of ways to try out this trend without baring the odd patch of skin or looking too much like an Erin Wasson hipster copycat. Elle.com
On last night’s episode of America’s Next Top Model, Tyra Banks brought the girls to a sugarcane field in Hawaii. She decided to dress them up as bi-racial, which means blackface for some. “It’s going to suck to scrub it off later,” says one contestant. “I’ve always wondered what I’d look like as a different race,” enthuses another. NYMag.com
Love it or hate it, you have to admit Marge Simpson has some serious mo-jo going on with her hair. And lately, the ladies in Hollywood have been taking note, like Debra Messing at an event in Beverly Hills, Katie Cassidy at the Hollywood Style. InStyle.com

The past year or so of Lady Gaga dressing up like a self-important performance artist is finally paying off. The “Poker Face” singer is being given a fashion award. EOnline.com
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen hit the road in New York City as they sell their new line, Olsenboye, out of an ice cream truck on Monday (October 27). JustJared.com

Kate Moss makes anything look good, once again she’s featured in her own Topshop designs for her Christmas 2009 collection which launched today at Topshop stores and topshop.com. Nitrolicious.com

Headlines This Week 10/23

kristenk — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:22:40 +0000

The recession hasn’t killed the fashion industry, but it’s certainly crippled it. Fashion’s brightest future will only come with change, according to Ashley Olsen, Isaac Mizrahi, and Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan, who spoke last night at the 92nd Street Y talk “The Future of Fashion,” moderated by Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive. NYMag.com

Gucci has announced the launch of the Gucci App for iPhone and iPod touch, which is now available from the App Store. FashionIndie.com

Does this mean we can expect to see pointy cone-bra corset styles at Target? Mark your fashion calendars: Jean Paul Gaultier is doing a cheap chic collection for Target arriving in stores March 7, 2010. People.com
Vogue creative director Grace Coddington expressed her concern about the fashion industry’s attachment to very young, very thin — and many times anorexic — models, in a talk with ex–Men’s Vogue editor Jay Fielden at the New York Public Library last night. Popgloss.com
With the wind of Marc Levin’s HBO documentary Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags, which aired Monday, at their backs, supporters of NYC’s shrinking Garment District gathered today at noon for a Save the Garment Center rally. There was a sizable turnout for the event at the corner of 39th Street and Seventh Avenue. Style.com

Headlines This Week 10/16

kristenk — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:00:29 +0000

Last week Ralph Lauren came under fire for (what looked to be) an extremely altered photo of a model in one of its ads. Bloggers at the website BoingBoing.net posted the image online, and lawyers for Ralph Lauren attempted to sue them for copyright infringement. Shine.Yahoo.com

I am loving Forever 21’s Fall 2009 look book! It’s full of cute jackets and coats, scarfs, printed tops, boots and more. TheLipstickDiaries.com

Marc Jacobs, Naomi Campbell, Amanda Lepore, Daphne Guinness, Natasha Poly, Olivier Theyskens, and Shalom Harlow are just a few of the famous fashion faces who supported François Nars 15th anniversary effort. Fashionindie.com

The film was simply mesmerizing, beautiful and most of all captivating. I strongly encourage you to go out and watch it in theaters with your girlfriends. Audrey Tautou plays Chanel and she did an impeccable job at recreating the women who changed fashion forever. HauteMimi.com

Talk about an all-star cast! Kate Hudson, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Fergie and Marion Cotillard team up with screen legends Sophia Loren and Judi Dench to star in the musical Nine along with leading man Daniel Day-Lewis. People.com