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The blogger behind the satirical site WTForever21, whose particular brand of sass we have known and appreciated for some time, has been hit with a cease-and-desist from the California-based clothier. If Rachel Kane doesn't delete her site — Forever 21's latest deadline is June 10 — the company says it will file a lawsuit against her. More »
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Ten days ago in Paris, just before the most recent Christian Dior fashion show, company C.E.O. Sidney Toledano took the highly unusual step of getting up on the runway to make a speech. The circumstances that led Toledano to take this action were, too, highly abnormal: Dior's creative director of fifteen years, John Galliano, had been arrested days before for allegedly harassing two strangers with an anti-Semitic and racist diatribe. Another, similar, criminal complaint had just been made by an alleged second Galliano victim, and there had also been the release of that now notorious cell phone video of Galliano telling a third group of people, "I love Hitler. People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, you'd all be fucking gassed." Dior suspended Galliano after his arrest, and fired him almost as soon as the video, brokered by a paparazzi agency, hit the Internet. But before the fall Dior collection — the last Galliano work that will sell under the Dior name — Toledano felt the need to explain himself and limit any damage to a brand that realized revenues of over $28 billion last year. Toledano's speech read, in part: More »
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The top row of shirts is by Forever 21. The bottom row is by a small California-based label called Trovata. Welcome to a peek behind the curtain at secretive, cult-y, and very rapidly growing fast-fashion chain Forever 21. More »
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In 1064, Turkish armies laid siege to Ani, a bustling, largely Armenian city of 200,000. They were ordered to destroy Ani, and kill everyone they found. In 2011, Elle Turkey used the ruins left behind for a fashion story. More »
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"It's fun to delve into the past," says '80s designer Claude Montana. But only up to a point: Montana won't discuss Wallis Franken, the model and wife who fell to her death in 1996, after suffering years of Montana's abuse. More »
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Self-adjusting skin cream. Intelligent foundation. Prosthetic cheek pads. All these and more are the future of cosmetics, if companies like Lancôme and Clarins are to be believed — and what a weird, Technicolor future it is. More »
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Cathy Horyn is not sorry for what she wrote about Snooki. Nor does she feel particularly bad for Tommy Hilfiger, Alexander Wang, Giorgio Armani, or any of the other people whose collections and/or fashion sense she has publicly critiqued. More »
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Designer Kobi Levi's avant-garde footwear designs are very, very strange. More »
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My oh my, what exactly is going on in these pictures? More »
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"His ideas came from everywhere. It was never about, ‘Oh let's look at the Seventies,'" says Sarah Burton. (Why, whoever could she mean?) "Lee was about feeling, and he was a storyteller. It has to come from within you." More »
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So-called "ethical" fashion is going high-end. This season, there were major ethical and "sustainable" fashion shows at both Paris and London fashion weeks, the latter held at Prince Charles' house. And luxury conglomerates want a piece of the "green" action. More »
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Max Azria's shows tend to have a few defining features: a flirty aesthetic, a neutral palette of fabrics, and — for the past umpteen seasons — an almost all-white cast of models. Yesterday, I asked him why that is. More »
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Anna Wintour will tell you, Fashion's Night Out tonight isn't about sales. Or about trying to catch a glimpse of an Olsen, or even mini-manicures or astrological readings. You know the score: it's all about getting sozzled on Fashion's dime. More »
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Paper editor Kim Hastreiter and incoming T editor Sally Singer dance around a key question in this long, fairly insightful conversation: Is it really possible to be a smart person and like fashion? More »
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Elite London is reporting that British fashion photographer Corinne Day has died; Day was diagnosed with a brain tumor last year. Day will be remembered for, among other things, her iconic shots of a then-15-year-old Kate Moss for The Face. More »
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The story Jezebel friend and fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson styled for Blackbook's September issue is out. And it features one Christine Staub, the daughter of stunt lesbian crazy-person Danielle Staub. More »
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Last night, Diane Von Furstenberg confessed she's unaware where her Haiti charity money went, Norma Kamali said her plus-size clothes might inspire her overweight customers to "look at other lifestyle choices," and Prabal Gurung talked Twitter and Demi Moore. More »
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For fall, Rodarte presented a collection inspired by women factory workers in Ciudad Juárez. Juárez is the world's most violent place, outside of active war zones. Hundreds — some say thousands — of women have been murdered in Juárez. More »
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The PR honcho is so over revenge. In the contemporary Panopticon of social media, reality television, and e-mail forwards, Cutrone's rule is "don't ever put anything in writing and never say anything when anyone's around." Except for, apparently, this interview. More »
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Since Gucci named Sarah Burton the new creative director of Alexander McQueen, the world that had so appreciated the late Scottish designer's talents has been waiting to see Burton's first move. More »
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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 »
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So much of the African American experience is stashed in basements and attics. So writes fashion journalist Robin Givhan in her recent article about the Black Fashion Museum Collection's move to the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. More »
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Derek Blasberg, the ubiquitous man-about-town social arbiter, covers parties for Condé Nast's Style.com. Last Friday, he wrote about a fun little shindig Yves Saint Laurent threw. Thing is, a credible source tells us he asked for $2500 from the brand. More »
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Today, the Gap is unveiling a very beige trio of capsule collections from the winners of this year's Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund awards. So how did Patrik Ervell, Sophie Théallet, and jewelry designer Monique Péan do? More »
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In an unguarded moment, Bryan Grey-Yambao (better known as BryanBoy) attempted to live-Tweet a sexual encounter with two strapping Swedes. He's since deleted the tweets, but at least he thoughtfully took the time to mention one paramour wore Lanvin. [@BryanBoy] More »
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A reader sent in a link to a post at Tom & Lorenzo about a fashion spread in the May 2010 issue of Interview magazine. More »
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Meg R. noticed something funny at Woman Within, a website that sells clothing sizes 12w to 44w.  All of the models were very thin, thus not representative of the intended customer base at all.  More »
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What's Naomi going to talk about on Oprah today? Apparently, her closet, her love of ballet, and her habit of throwing phones at the little people in her life. Oh, and the small matter of that blood diamond. More »
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Something is lacking in the current push to include plus-size models in mainstream fashion publications (or "separate-but-equal" media outlets such as Vogue Italia's "Vogue Curvy"). More »
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This is a video of Naomi Campbell refusing to answer questions about her relationship with the notorious Liberian warlord/president Charles Taylor, and about a large blood diamond Taylor allegedly gave the supermodel in South Africa in 1997. More »
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It's hard to know what to make of Tamara Mellon. On the surface, she's a cunning businesswoman with the savvy to serve simultaneously as a brand figurehead. Or, possibly, a cunning brand figurehead with the ability to appear business-savvy. More »
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For years, designers and editors have focused on a specific demographic of thin women, overlooking the many big and beautiful fashionistas. If there's anything we've learned from magazines, it's that the fashion world can be out of touch with reality. More »
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Adrienne at Native Appropriations has collected an impressive amount of evidence of the trend (still going strong) of wearing clothes and accessories that reference American Indians. More »
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Are you following Jezebel's Jenna Sauers as she Tweets about Fashion Week? You should be, especially for behind-the-scenes pictures like this one of Jenna and fellow model and writer Crystal Renn. [Twitter] More »
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"It's really annoying," Tavi says. "People complain that my generation is stupid, but when I show that I have a brain, they call me a fake." If fame gets old, she may "go J.D. Salinger on everyone." [Chicago Tribune, Earlier] More »
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Be thankful if you still have a job: After the hell year that was 2009, a lot of fashion people don't. Many designers were fired, some were hired, and plenty lost their businesses altogether. An overview of the tumult: More »
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Consider the cruel plight of model Lara Stone. Although she wears, at most, a U.S. size 4, the fact that she has breasts means that — well, nobody in fashion calls her 'fat' exactly, but... More »
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On the current cover of Flaunt is a David LaChapelle photograph of Naomi Campbell, entitled "The Rape Of Africa." The fold-out cover features black boys playing with M16 rifles and grenade launchers while a white male model slumbers. More »
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Anne Slowey is no longer sure about any of what she told New York about Tavi Gevinson. "I don't recall ever saying she had a 'Tavi team,'" writes Slowey, who had compared Gevinson to fake author JT Leroy. [Elle] More »
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Vogue contributor and children's author Lesley M. M. Blume wrote us today to distance herself from some of her reported comments about 13-year-old writer Tavi Gevinson, whom she thrice called "a novelty." More »
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