Headlines This Week 12/4

• 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 9/4

• Behind the Scenes of Gossip Girl FashionIndie.com
• Proving there’s nothing the Snuggie can’t do, nowhere the Snuggie can’t go, and no fashion barrier the Snuggie can’t break, the blanket with sleeves is having its very own fashion show this Fashion Week. NYMag.com
• We could hardly contain our excitement when a Sex and the City sequel was announced, and now, our favorite fashionista is getting back to work. Sarah Jessica Parker is creating her own fashion show on the streets of Manhattan as Carrie Bradshaw. People.com

• Peeks inside of V Magazine’s Issue #61 which was released on newsstands yesterday, this spread features supermodel Naomi Campbell in Moscow, Russia. Karl Lagerfeld shoots the supermodel wearing Chanel, Dior, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, Dolce & Gabbana and Yves Saint Laurent, styled by Maria Chaix. Nitrolicious.com
• LADY GAGA KanyeUniverseCity.com

Headlines This Week 2/27

• Penélope Cruz, in a froth of 60-year-old Paris silk, must have wondered about her vintage Balmain dress when Tim Gunn, ABC’s red-carpet fashion expert, trilled, “It’s really a museum piece.” And what does that make the sexy Ms. Cruz? Anne Hathaway, in a glittering Armani column, looked a little nonplused when Mr. Gunn said to her, “I have to ask you, what actually belongs to you?” The gaffes were as dazzling as the couture clothes and borrowed diamonds. NYTimes.com
• YSL hosted the biggest private art auction in history ended at the Grand Palais in Paris Wednesday night as the final sale of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection brought the grand total to 373.5 million euros, or $484.6 million. The auction, according to WWD.com, has officially made Paris the art capital of the world.
• Apparently Chanel makes a Segway. As in the preferred mode of transportation of mall security guards. Chanel’s comes complete with the classic 2.55 handbag and matching black quilted-leather mud flaps and handlebars. Top speed is twelve miles per hour. It’s available by special order and the price hasn’t been listed, but as a reference point, know that the Chanel bicycle is $12K. NYMag.com
• You may bristle at the notion of shelling out $540 for a hand-me-down from the LA County Jail, but one look at – no, one touch of – Raquel Allegra’s one-of-a-kind T-shirts may have you rethinking rent, according to DallasNews.com.
• Sienna Miller wasn’t the only star power showing off her design skills at London Fashion Week– Big Love’s Chloe Sevigny also debuted her second collection for Opening Ceremony. The new line, Chloe tells WWD, is a “slight homage” to one of her favorite designers, Miguel Adrover, with dashes of “gay lumberjack,” James Dean, preppy New England and English punk. People.com

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