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Prada Goes Into Overdrive To Control Leaked Images Of Spring Campaign

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:27:00 EST

Images understood to be from Prada's spring campaign have leaked. The ads may not have undergone final retouching (we can't tell) but all signs point to their authenticity. Other sites have removed the pictures, but we believe they're pretty newsworthy! More »

Condé Nast "Reviewing" Derek Blasberg's Employment

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:00:00 EDT

The Derek Blasberg apologias are trickling in — hardly surprising considering Blasberg, for his 27 years, is wealthy and well-connected. But in asking for money from a company he intended to write about, Blasberg may have jeopardized his job. More »

"The Women Are Just As Vain As The Men… They're Label-Conscious Too"

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:40:00 EST

Booth Moore, fashion critic for the LA Times, calls the Jersey Shore crew "fashionistas." Yeah… no. But it's interesting that J-Woww has plastic surgery tips on her website. [LA Times, JWoww.com] More »

Miley In Bazaar: Satin Overalls And Jewels

Sadie Stein — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST

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Harper's Bazaar brings us "the real Miley Cyrus." And apparently, that's made of satin and gems: More »

Karl Lagerfeld Is Making A Silent Movie (It's "Laugh-Packed")

Sadie Stein — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Karl Lagerfeld is directing a silent movie. Obviously. "Expect a fast-paced, laugh-packed and loose interpretation of Gabrielle Chanel’s adventures between 1913 and 1923." Riotous, we're sure. [WWD]
We had heard, of course, about the new Chanel fishing rod. However! Until now we had not seen its quilted case and dainty tackle box! [Fashion Week Daily]
Hermes heir grabs a pilot's crotch, punches him in the face. This was perceived as interfering with the flight. [NY Times]
Lauren Conrad's fashion show was apparently standing room only. Although given that the front row was propped up by Lo Bosworth and Holly Madison, we're guessing it wasn't exactly Anna Wintour clamoring to get in. [Yahoo News]

The Rumor Mill

Sadie Stein — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Some "very reliable sources" have told some guy called MarcMyWords@aol.com who has told Fashionista that Marc Jacobs may be getting married this weekend in Paris. To his "3-months Brazilian beau" who, we can only assume, is older than three months but whose relationship with the "troubled designer" is not. So take that for what it's worth, but it's kind of a moot point, since, as far as we can tell, same-sex marriage is not legal in France. [Fashionista] More »

Retraction: Agyness Deyn Is Offically Actually Awesome

Moe — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Breaking news: a Telegraph profile today inspired me to finally watch the Agyness Deyn music video. It is generic and derivative and cynically targeted at the aging Britpop nostalgists who write blogs and I fucking love it. Oh man, and I don't even hate myself for this. Embedded after the jump. [Telegraph]

Will Italian Vogue Break With Fashion Mag Tradition, Feature Black Models?

Jennifer — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EDT

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Europeans are always more progressive than Americans. Rumor is, Italian Vogue may be producing a cover featuring only black models. [Fashionista]

Heidi Klum Loves A Struggling Underclass In Uniform!

Jennifer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EDT

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"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]

ELLE Continues To Toy With Nina Garcia's Affections

Jennifer — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EDT

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The latest on the Nina Garcia saga: If she takes the editor-at-large gig she'll only be there til mid-October, when ELLE's contract with Project Runway ends and then she'll be let go for reals. (Dear Nina: You can do better than that.) Meanwhile, no one at ELLE or its publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media has issued a single comment on the entire situation. [WWD, 1st item]

A New Vuitton-Murakami Handbag Line "Will Help Make New York Strong Again!"

Moe — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Takashi Murakami: would you just look at that fucking face? That is a face that will almost melt your cynicism away. You'll forget most people know who he is because he designed a line of handbags for Louis Vuitton...

Rachel Zoe Transforms 'Teen Vogue' Intern Into It Girl You've Never Heard Of

Moe — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:00:59 EDT

By now you have probably heard that Anna Wintour has tacitly ceded the title of Most Important Person In A Relatively Unimportant Industry to Rachel Zoe. There is no better evidence of this than the story in October's Teen Vogue wherein writer Jane Keltner conveys the tan'n'anorexic stylist's supposed influence through chronicling her alleged transformation of lowly Teen Vogue intern and NYU student Elana Fishman into the next, um, Teen Vogue intern NYU student socialite (an article made all the more remarkable by the fact that Rachel Zoe is actually on the masthead at Hearst's Cosmopolitan, meaning her influence transcends the usual corporate affiliations.) But here's the problem: the whole stunt was kinda a failure. After a whole summer spent self-promoting and Zoe-ing, Fishman barely Googles. Also: she looks really stupid. You'll have to trust me on this until I can scan you the evidence. More »

Pete Wentz Is Sorry He's So Tastemaking; Maggie Rizer Is Sorry She Didn't Shave

maria — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:20:46 EDT

There are a lot of Fashion Week blogs full of content that would probably be terribly interesting to people who don't read blogs while they're at Fashion Week. Sound like a familiar conundrum, anyone? Here, Intern Maria sifts through the Fashion Week blogs for anything of interest to, uh, anyone we might know.

Fashionista's BFF's Assistant's Ugly Headband = OMG Internet WAR!

Moe — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:12:53 EDT

As MySpace will attest Fashionista blogger Faran Krentcil has many friends, one of whom works at a magazine and has an assistant they like to laugh at behind her back because she wears totally hideous outfits all the time, and sometimes they pay her false compliments just so they can get a closer look at her insane ensembles, and today she decided to post a blog entry about this fact, and I think you can see where this is going i.e. commenter MUTINY. Wrote one:

"everyone always laughs at you faran when you go out. trust me on this."

'InStyle' Accessorian And Champion Bluffer Alice Kim So Fed Up With New York She Is Leaving For...Omaha

Moe — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:27:57 EDT

The news has hit that "accessories maven" and poker-champ Alice Kim — with whom one of us has worked, and enjoyed doing so — has left InStyle for Nebraska (a state). But no one seems to want to point to her as the anonymous editor of "ViewFromTheFourthRow", even though there is lots of that real discreet pointing-into-the-palm and head-jerking in that direction going on now. Omaha might seem like an extreme choice for someone accustomed to one of those really fabulous media lives like the ones we live, but a few years ago another similarly fabulous person, Meagan Daum, did it as well. She blamed credit card debt, but anyone who has read her ensuing novel The Quality-of-Life Report remembers.... well, first they remember this really gross scene where a horse shoots a massive gush of splooge all over the guests at her dinner party, which was one of those moments where the "character" almost forgot why she had left in the first place: New York society was getting, um, fed-up making! Think "VFTFR" might share her opinion? More »

Vogue Magazine: Oh The Irony Of It All

Anna Holmes — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:27:03 EDT

We just came across this item, which references the horrible Keira Knightley/baby-elephant spread in the new issue of Vogue. For those of you who haven't seen it, the item is essentially a collage of the above image with a handwritten note reading "Maybe if they knew how to accessorize they wouldn't be going extinct?" One thing we'd like to make clear: As much as we enjoy Fashionista, we are animal-loving women (though not animal-loving enough to stop eating meat! We're working on it, people!) and we're feeling really, really fucking pissy about that Vogue spread. So we'd like to make a few points. One: Elephants aren't "going extinct", they're being hunted (and driven) to extinction. A subtle difference, yes, but an important one. Two: The baby elephant pictured above was orphaned, probably because its mother was slaughtered for her ivory. How's that for championing the luxury goods market? Now, back to shopping! More »

Who Is The View From The Fourth Row Blogger? Here Are Some Guesses

Anna Holmes — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:25:00 EDT

Following today's report that the blogger behind bitchy fashion blog View From the Fourth Row is about to be unmasked (and perhaps fired), we thought we'd make a list of the most likely candidates. According to Fashionista's Faran Krentcil, the anonymous blogger is a) a woman, b) an accessories editor and c) employed by Conde Nast. While we'd love to believe that Vogue's Candy Pratts Price (left) is the culprit (perhaps her penchant for flipping the bird at fashion-loving women goes both ways), the 4 Times Square traitor is surely a lower-level-type editor ("fourth row" and all that). Here are some of the possibilities, not including accessories editors at the bridal magazines. (Bridal magazines? Like, yuck!) More »

Rag Trade: The Versaces Know You Can Never Be Too Rich Or Too Thin

Anna Holmes — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:15:41 EDT

Some good news for Donatella Versace and ailing, anorexic daughter Allegra: Their family's company is raking it in, and might even go public. And yes, we will probably go to hell because of that headline. [WWD]

Blogosphere's Collective Brain Explodes Over Sarah Jessica Parker's Clothes For People Who Do Not Read Blogs

Moe — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:10:59 EDT

Sometime last month someone announced the news that Sarah Jessica Parker is "designing", by which we mean, "profiting from the sale of," a line of clothes for poor people. And not you-and-me poor, but the type of poor that is targeted by the "Layaway" section at my corner Dollar Store - basically you and me if we had a few kids and no laptops poor. The line is being sold at Steve & Barry's, a chain of discount sporting goods stores - we love how WWD keeps calling it a "sportswear" store! as if you can buy Ackris in there!! - that according to this Business Week story is known for undercutting Wal-Mart prices by as much as 40%. (And if that doesn't scream "Kathie Lee Gifford" to you, you definitely did not take econ alongside upstanding young capitalists like Steve & Barry.) (Who incidentally, started the chain that would conract the "designing skills" of SJP, after graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, from which Jezzy #2 dropped out after realizing we would pretty much never not be too poor to pay for it.) More »