Jezebel
Nicky Hilton is one of our favorite not-a-fashion-designer-fashion-designers. Because she doesn't even have any real claim to fame other than being Paris' sister. (Even Lauren Conrad talked her way into a lucrative reality TV deal.) Yet the girl keeps on trying, telling herself she actually has a "career." Her fall collection for Nicholai by Nicky Hilton, which just showed at Los Angeles Fashion Week, is 1) better than a lot of the shit we've seen from LA Fashion Week and yet 2) seems to be a blatant rip-off of the equestrian looks that dominated several seasons ago and the current obsession with those American Apparel faux-leather leggings. The combination of these two? Baffling. Select looks from the Fall/Winter 2008 Nicholai collection for your review, after the jump.
1. Patent red plus a pussy bow? Some how filthy. Try not to think about it. 2. For when the sales girls at Ralph Lauren have been naughty? 3. Why be a jockey if you can be a stripper?
1.Unflattering in so many different ways. 2.This sweater gives the poor girl football player shoulders. 3. This look really makes no sense.
1. A dress to make my vertigo worse. 2.Houndstooth and pleather: unfortunate bedfellows. 3.Prim, proper, and so not Hilton.
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I actually kind of love the black dress on the bottom-most right, and I wish I had the aplomb for the dress on the bottom left, but the rest: poop saaaaandwich.
Remember, she isn't really that skinny you guys. It's all angles and media conspiracy.
Nicky looks painfully thin.
a) i'm glad that i changed majors and ended up not studying fashion design, since it's obvious that if i'm not on tv or know someone who is, i dont have the right to even want to be a fashion designer.
b)ive DEFINITELY seen that white with black piping dress somewhere else and will not go investigate.
c) yawn.
1. Why is there a girl in the front row with cat make-up?
2. I think Nicki's been listening to a Lot of the white stripes lately
3. I wish I could fake a career and get rich!
I like the last black dress, but the striped sweater and shiny leggings? Um...did she raid Pat Benatar's old closet or something?
@LoveNoelG: I wish unflattering angles would make ME look skinny.
Unflattering angles mostly just make it look like all the fat in my body is shifting squashily to triangulate directly at the photographer. I suffer from photo-fatmorph.
pleather makes unfortunate bedfellows with anything...
On the bright side, I'm glad I'm not a rich heiress. Namely because my friends would actually tell me when I make horrible mistakes, before I make an ass of myself in public.
Um, I actually would love to have this entire collection in my closet. I'd rock the shit out of it. Except maybe the weird black trench/dress on the right in the 2nd row of pics.
Come on, give her a break. Nicky had that Grrrreat handbag line, you know, for people who have an intense and abiding love of the number 7.
Its actually not that bad - waaay better than Lauren Jersey Conrad.
also, the prints on her dress are actually scissors, hair clips, and combs.
no lie.
Lolita Goth mini top-hats would have been a nice touch...
@geisha1010: the trick is to be born rich and then fake a career.
Who is the girl in the background with cat makeup on?
It looks very Taxi circa 1989 to me.
Someone didn't just give her flowers, they gave her FLOWERS! That is the biggest fucking bouquet ever.
Her legs--so small.
@geisha1010: Cat? She's a kitty-kat. And she meow-meow-meows, and meow-meow-meows.
The shiny leggings attracted her.
wait. why havent you guys reported on robin antin's pussycat dolls collection? talk about baffling.
is its clothing? is it lingerie? is it for REAL?
@tscheese: She is wealthy and cameras make her look THINNER! Someone may have sold their soul...
Are those... tools? doctor's equipment? on her dress?
No.
@geisha1010: What, like the smock you wear at the salon? REALLY? Yuck.
Please stop.
I've always felt sorry for her because she seems to be such an awkward, gangly sidekick to Paris's queen-bee divaness. That said, the poor thing has no taste and a desperate need for calories. Who would wear this dominatrix equestrienne shit, anyway? And did anyone catch the pics of her house in the latest issue of InStyle? Wall to wall fug. I don't see how she doesn't suffer vertigo every time she walks through the door.
methinks the equestrian look was inspired by seeing her own knobby-kneed coltish legs in the mirror
If they're letting people into your show who are wearing CAT MAKE-UP, you're not a real designer. Sorry Nikki. Surely Paris has some old shiny leggings that she'll let you play with...
@tetracycloide: two things i'd like if the afterlife gives me a mulligan: money and a fake career!
the collection (so-called) is just super boring. suuuuuper boring. i feel drowsy.
@PhillyLass: I would totally wear this dominatrix equestrian shit. Such as.
Are those the flowers her boyfriend/Mary Kate leftovers was carrying in a box? Did she reward herself with flowers? Is this customary in the fashion industry?
why does just one chick get the riding crop?
What is this, a dance recital? Real designers don't get flowers from Mom after their show.
ahhhh, schadenfreude.
@tetracycloide: Don't tell Jenna Jameson or PETA that.
So... what was black and white and red all over again?
i've always much prefered her to paris, and think she as more a great deal more talent (though i'm not a huge fan of this collection).. and is classier to boot... but wow i hope she gets help regarding her weight; her weight loss looks to the point of taking a serious toll on her health (or if it hasn't yet, it certainly will if she keeps this up)
Thou goest to women, do not forget thy whip.
I like the little black dress, actually. Looks like two layers of material, love the teeny bit of lace accent at the hem; very delicate, classy and so not like the rest of the collection!
Clearly, she saved the best of the collection for herself.
@Leiakat: I hope a skinny girl wouldn't sell her soul to look thinner. Particularly to the degree she looks critically ill. Certainly the devils' work.
*insert feminist rant about female beauty ideals here*
Are you really allowed to wear ripped jeans and t-shirts front row at an LA fashion show?
@LoveNoelG: Oh no - she's trying to show the models that if she can be a size -4, so can they!
totz uncreative...i is asleep.
Re: pix 1 and 3; it's time to STOP the cross-legged cat walk style!
I can't focus on the clothes becos I'm watching for the inevitable stomp-stumble.
What are they doing? Practicing against their homeward-bound police-stop for suspicion of DUI, and then demonstrating they can walk a straight line with opposing feet even?
("How's that Ossifer? Say,, yer kinda cute!")
- Meanwhile the pulled-over black SUV on idle has been left in gear and is motoring down the street. Moddle is oblivious, singing along with the Ramones at the top of her teeny lungs ....
BTW where do you find tulips with four-foot stems that Hiltie is carrying? - I'm impressed!
BTW2: No way her knees are ever going to touch even with duct-tape.
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All sneers aside I like her collection.
she is thinner than her models. *sigh*
I want to say that I prefer Nicky to Paris but really, both are equally brain-dead. I recall on Project Runway that Sasha Cohen, a freaking figure skater, not someone with her own 'line,' was able to articulate her impressions of the presented designs faaaar better than Miss Hilton and her robotic, "Yah, that dress is like, waaay preh-teh." Ugh.
Equestrian dominatrix? Madonna, June 2006 W magazine:
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@misssgolightly: So funny, you are the only one that noticed that.