Jezebel
- "I go to the same Starbucks every day in Beverly Hills and they're like, 'Can you please tell them that we want to have new outfits?'...I sit in American Airlines, same thing. I get it all the time. Those chains or big companies, they always come to me." Imagine: the entire American service industry remade in the image of Heidi Klum! [Sassybella]
- Every time we read an interview with Kate Bosworth, she talks about high school and sort of ups the ante in terms of the profound alienation she supposedly felt there. Here's the latest installment. [Vogue UK]
- "Four kids later, I'm a 32D, but my entire life I was told I was a 34B." And there you have things we never wanted to know about model-cum-Interview fashion director Stephanie Seymour. [Chic Report]
- Best protest sign outside of the new John Varvatos store in the old CBGB's space: "$1,600 used jackets destroy communities." [Does someone still care about CBGB closing, is that the issue here? Because guess what, guys, there's a global food crisis on and Al Qaeda is bombing countries you've never heard of, stagflation is upon us and we're in danger of electing a president who doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shiite, so get over it, thanks. -Moe] [Fashion Week Daily]
- Fun contest! Giorgio Armani is sponsoring a contest where the little people can pitch him concepts for the new ad campaign for his latest fragrance. Ten finalists get to meet Mr. Armani, though only one will have their ideas usurped for the perpetuation of Mr. Armani's own wealth. [Vogue UK]
- Why isn't one of the options for this "Do You Wear Religious Symbols" poll "Only as tattoos"?! [FabSugar]
- "Wow! It just seems like the next step to our larger goal. Every time we conceive a collection, we try to think of all the elements that would go along with our designs. And bags are next! We want to conquer that next year," says Proenza Schouler's Lazaro Hernandez. Oh really, bags! What a novel idea. [Fashion Week Daily]
- Says Duckie Brown co-designer Steven Cox, "I've always had this fantasy of making a dress out of bricks." Aren't you just ill that Duckie Brown only does menswear? [Washington Post]
- Apparently there is no "right" hemline this season, but if there were, it would involve pairing a long skirt with a long sweater. We don't make the news, we just report on it! [Guardian]
- The color blue: It's important. [Washington Post]
- Showing off your baby bump is so totally out of fashion. Duh. [IHT]
- Crocs is shutting down its factory in Quebec City, meaning 669 people now are out of work. Which also means there is a whole new demographic of people who really hate Crocs! [NYT]
- I actually don't believe anything I read about ELLE's fledgling reality show (which may or may not be titled Fashionista) anymore, but some say that editors at the mag are calling in sick to avoid having to work on it. [Jossip]
Comments
Starbucks by Heidi Klum: rhinestone bras, stiletto heels and mini skirts.
Thank jeebus that my workplace is far to boring to ever film a reality TV show. That Elle show sounds like a nuisance.
Did anyone see the new Croc high-heel in Vogue? Truly, the apocalypse is nigh.
I used to think I was a 34C but I'm really a 34DD. Now Bra's fit a little better. Thank's for the proper measuring!
The last time a celeb claimed to have had a hard time in high school it was Debra Messing in Allure. The very next issue a classmate wrote in pointing out that if she were unpopular, how the hell was she prom queen?
Ah, quelle dommage, Croc workers!
Crocs claims even more fashion victims.
Sorry kids, maybe the Ed Hardy factory is hiring?
Wow, Stephanie Seymour has FOUR kids? She looks fantastic. Twenty bucks says she still fits into that awesome mullet-style wedding dress from the G&R video. And I actually still care about Stephanie Seymour? Wonders never cease.
So apparently, Kate Bosworth is a true-American beauty.
Well, I had better lose 50lbs, bleach my hair, and get blue contacts-stat.
I'm tired of hearing the Hollywood lady actors talking about how they were geek and loners. They need a new script. It's oh, so not interesting or believable.
After squeezing out a kiddie poo, I can attest to the breast-growing thing. Why SS needs to tell everyone, I dunno.
@hamburgerhotdog: All positions were recently filled by Rock of Love 2 rejects.
At first I thought the Giorgio Armani thing was about midgets, which would have be awesome.
I don't understand what's wrong with Starbucks uniforms. They're black or white shirts (usually collared) and green aprons. Don't fuck up something easy, dudes.
And getting my bras resized changed my life. Or at least eliminated that bulge in your back and sides where your bra digs in.
Also, Moe? I luvs ya for that.
Er, Moe, I think the issue here is this store as a symbol of gentrification that's pushing people out of their homes and mowing over cultural history in order to make way for more rich white people. It may not be a problem on level with the global food crisis, but it is still a serious problem.
@gingerkhan: She was always my fave Super. All these years after that era ended, I still love seeing her. She is just totally stunning. The fact she had Axl at his hot-ass peak makes me love her all the more. (unabashed Axl fanatic upinhere)
I didn't realize she was Fashion Director of her husband's magazine. Interesting.
Please, how does one pronounce Proenza Schouler?
@Fizzy77: I'm sorry, my inner grammar nazi is showing: plurals do not need apostrophes (bras, thanks). It'll save you time in the long run. :)
"Apparently there is no "right" hemline this season, but if there were, it would involve pairing a long skirt with a long sweater."
So in other words, the way I dressed in high school in 1994 because I didn't know how to dress my body? Great. . .really want to relieve those days.
@Philthyist LOVES Idris Elba.: Just one blue contact. Remember, KB has those freaky two-diffrent- colors eyes.
Doesn't PS know that the bag is so over?
Jeez. SHOES PEOPLE! SHOES!
@Eeva Penelope Arbuthnot-Ramsbottom: Pro-en-za Shoo-ler. More or less.
Let me shed a tear for Kate Bosworth...nope can't do it. High school was an excruciating time for 99.9% of all people, even the cheerleaders, as I can attest. If this is supposed to make us feel sorry for her or somehow think she is soooo down to earth, etc...it's not working.
@hfree: oh good call, what's the other? Green?
@Le Kangourou de Kataroo: Skooler. I have heard it pronounced as such. Mind boggling.
I still care about CBGB closing! But you're right, Moe. Overpriced used jackets? Not the number one problem here.
@LoveNoelG: She's one of my unexpected girl-crushes. She's aging so well, and I had no idea she was a mother of four. I was never a fan of her or Axl during the G&R stuff, though. Wasn't the gossip back then that Axl beat the shit out of her? ... And what is the name of those G&R songs? Where she was in the videos? I'm having a brain freeze...
@LoveNoelG: Yum, Axl in a kilt.
@gingerkhan: November Rain.
@Le Kangourou de Kataroo: @Philthyist LOVES Idris Elba.: Now I'm confused! And tempted to call it Prune-ee-ziiia Skyloo-air and tell people "that's how it's supposed to be pronounced, I know because it's my mother's name".
@Triphena: Say it ain't so! High heel crocs? *shudders at the thought of the next Jack Nicholson bumming-around-in-St-Tropez photo op*
@Eeva Penelope Arbuthnot-Ramsbottom: [www.bestweekever.tv]
This isn't a college entrance essay.
@JSouth: so true. Most kids I knew all felt strange & out of place, even with a good group of friends. It's just the age.
KB may still look like a 16-yr-old, but hey, she's 25 now, surely too old to be playing that high school record over and over. We're especially tired of hearing about your SAT scores and Princeton acceptance, Miss B . . . from, say, 21 on, it kinda doesn't matter anymore? (oh yeah, unless you haven't really accomplished anything since 12th grade)
@Philthyist LOVES Idris Elba.: Huh. That's odd. Proenza, SCHOOL HER! SHOW HER YOUR MOVES ON THE COURT!
@scrumtrulescent: No shit!
Meh. I just pointed it out because it was two words in one comment (i.e. probably not a typo), because it is worth knowing, and because I was commenting anyway - not because it was making my eyes burn or anything.
@LoveNoelG: I sat near her at my brother's college graduation. I had completely buried that celebrity sighting in the dark recesses of my mind until this post.
@Eeva Penelope Arbuthnot-Ramsbottom: @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: it is upsetting. I was watchign one of those crack for your brains fashion shows on E- and they kept saying Skooler. And yet I still believe it should be shooler.
@CrankyOldBroad: It's all true. They're called the 'Cyprus'.
They kinda look like someone told Aldo to make an orthopedic shoe for old ladies to wear dancing.
@Philthyist LOVES Idris Elba.: I know, I refused to believe it was SKOOLER until the target commercial when I heard them say the name. haha.
You know what would be awesome? It would be awesome if comments would work properly and stop disapearing.
@Eeva Penelope Arbuthnot-Ramsbottom: I just think it was a rude comment, and combined with the pretentious "it'll save time in the long run", I felt like I had to say something. Chances are the girl probably has a pretty good hold on possessive nouns without your assistance.
@hortense: The worst part about Croc is that the factory in Québec is actually making a profit. But not enough for the company.
Where are the poor retarded kids who do the packing going to go?
(What's the politically correct term for retarded in English? I can't seem to be able to come up with it.)
Maybe Heidi will give the stewardesses/stewards uniforms that show off their butt cleavage.
"I was such a dorky geek in high school."
Translation: I can hardly believe I'm this famous because I have no real acting talent, just a pretty face, this is just the guilt talking."
"I go to the same Starbucks every day in Beverly Hills and they're like, 'Can you please tell them that we want to have new outfits?'...I sit in American Airlines, same thing. I get it all the time. Those chains or big companies, they always come to me."
Wow, that Heidi Klum's got an inordinate amount of pull. She's like Angelina Jolie and Kofi Anan.
some news, stephanie--implants will do that to you. most women's breasts change size several times a year. hubby peter grant owns interview, hence "fashion director". connect the dots.
@RosaLimonade: Mentally challenged, I believe.
I care more about the gentrification of CBGB's a hell of a lot more than I care about what happened on the last Rock of Love episode or what the latest picture of Kevin Bacon looks like.
@Antiheroine: word!