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Meet Posh In New York Now; Buy Anna Sui At Target Soon
- Unlike her husband, who plans on doing zero promotional work for his Adidas line, Victoria Beckham is in New York to unveil a new 20 ft Emporio Armani ad at Macy's. [UPI]
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Jessica Simpson Prettifies Pageant Contestants; Jason Wu Hearts Michelle Obama
- A match made...somewhere. Miss USA contestants will be sporting barely-there bikinis from the Jessica Simpson collection. [NYDN]
- The nebbish-weight cage match between Woody and Dov continues, as Allen decries the jersey-meister's "rep-tarnish" tactics. [NYP]
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Marc Jacobs To Marry; Louis Vuitton Levels Its Sight On Google
- Fresh off his CFDA award women's wear nomination, Marc Jacobs is reportedly engaged to his Brazilian boyfriend of one year, Lorenzo Martone. Mazel tov to the happy couple! [WWD]
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Jessica Travels, Kimora Cuts Back, Jen Wants A Beauty Deal
- Jessica Simpson is launching a line of luggage. Because that's the image of America we want to project when we travel abroad! [People]
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Ritchie & Rachel Are Frenemies Once More; Marc Jacobs Breaks Hearts
- Rachel Zoe and Nicole Ritchie hugged while cameras for Zoe's reality show rolled. Presumably they made up based on their shared love of airtime and handbags the size and price of compact cars. [WWD]
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Fantastic Plastic
Yowza. Your childhood playmate is looking fierce in the new $500 Barbie Fashion book. Check out images of the iconic dollface, sporting designer duds by Anna Sui, romping in New York and channeling a late '50s beach bunny. [NY Mag] -
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Newsweek's Women Leaders Are Diverse And Sometimes Dumb
Newsweek has several essays worth of advice in its current Women & Leadership issue. The issue boasts a varied and impressive group of women including master of the universe Tyra Banks, designer Anna Sui, director Kimberly Peirce, Duke medical school dean Nancy Andrews, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. These women are supposedly telling America "what matters most" but they offer mostly useless platitudes about having strong mothers and working really hard. Not everyone was completely fluffy — Cynthia Nixon and a few others were substantive and intriguing — but the majority of it was not riveting stuff. My favorite was when Olympian Dara Torres explained her swimming dominance by saying "I'm probably genetically gifted." Since most of these essays are filler anyway, I've read each one and taken out the most pertinent sentence or two for your comprehensive ease.
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Fashion Show: Anna Sui
Born in Detroit to immigrant parents — her mother a painter, her father an engineer who graduated from The Sorbonne in Paris — Anna Sui's first runway show was in 1991. Some seventeen years later, she's still known for mixing girly and quirky and her love of flea markets is reflected in her upbeat, funky designs. For Spring 2009, Sui drew inspiration from handmade "ethnic" clothing — at various times, items from the collection seemed like they could be Polish, Chinese, Indian, African, Mexican or Spanish. A traveling gypsy show for modern women on the go? You be the judge: Click the photo at left for a gallery; then click any picture to start the show. More » -
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Gossip Girl Party Was A Guilty Pleasure
Last night, the cast of Gossip Girl kicked off the show's second season with a fete at chi-chi emporium Henri Bendel (with YSL Beaute) on Fifth Avenue. And look how much fun they had! Although Blake was MIA (boo!) as was Penn (double boo!), Leighton, Taylor, Jessica and Kelly did everyone's favorite guilty pleasure proud. The Good, The Bad, and The Anna Sui — after the jump! More » -
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Ewan McGregor Represents "The World's Great Wildness" Cologne
- Is no one safe from the lure of Designer Fragrance? Ewan McGregor is the face of Davidoff "Adventure." The cologne “explores uncharted fragrance territory. Its fresh spicy woody composition is daring and elemental, inspired by the world’s great wildernesses and raw, masculine emotion.” [BlackBook]
- Avril Lavigne's clothing line for Kohl's goes the way of Lauren Conrad...one way express to the bargain bin. [Perez Hilton]
- Teen Vogue launches book (presumably for teens) on getting into the fashion industry. "It's set to be a sort of archive of interviews with different people in fashion — designers, photographers, models, editors, etc. and meant to teach young Teen Vogue readers about what it takes to break into the industry." Seems like a cruel hoax. [Fashionista]
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Christian Siriano Leads A Fashionable, Fame-Whorish Life
- Christian Siriano for president! I mean, hell, if Sienna Miller, Eve, Brett Ratner, Becki Newton, and Brittany Murphy all like him, surely the's a uniter, not a divider. [Page Six]
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Agyness Deyn's Mother Reveals The Reason Her Daughter Is So Fat
- Agyness Deyn's mom Lorraine Collins is as amazed as we are that someone as FAT as Agyness could ever make it in fashion: "She has wonderful curves and a bit of meat on her. When she's home, she eats everything." [Mirror]
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Fashion Show
Anna Sui's first runway show was in 1991, and since then, the designer raised in the suburbs of Detroit has launched fragrances, cosmetics and a limited edition Barbie, all with her signature eclectic style: A mix of girly and ethnic, flea-market funky and babydoll-swing. For fall, Anna's serving up deep, rich colors, tons of texture and a dash of whimsy, in outfits seemingly inspired by gypsy foreign exchange students and Hollywood-style Native Americans. Check out the 10-image annotated gallery, below. More » -
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Another Fucking Fashion Label Sues Forever 21
Another day, another moneyed clothing company files a copyright infringement suit against Forever 21, offering YET ANOTHER CHANCE for me to defend a store I don't even like simply on the grounds that the blend of fashion industry bombast and incomprehensible waste of time is just such a tantalizing tardorama. Today, Anthropologie is the infringed plaintiff. That's added to Gwen Stefani, Diane Von Furstenberg, Bebe and Anna Sui, who, on Monday, printed up a batch of cheesy "Forever Wanted" T-shirts with the words "'Thou shalt not steal'; Exodus 20:15," at the bottom, a "sly" reference to the Forever 21 founders' Christian beliefs that made me want to hurl because, hello, if you're going to bring Jesus into this, you might think for a moment on that old parable about the rich man and the eye of the needle being threaded by the impoverished sweatshop worker sewing all those deleterious violations of intellectual property, and how much time that laborer would have to spend in the factory to bring home one of Anna Sui's lawyers' billable hours.
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Molly Sims Doesn't Think Before She Speaks
- Ooh, awkward! Alice+Olivia designer Stacey Bendet flew Molly Sims out to walk in her show today. Simms told New York magazine that the models at Alice+Olivia are underfed, in response to the magazine's statement that high-end shows have well-fed girls and low-end shows do not. Stacey Bendet = Pissed. Molly Sims = Stupid. [NY Post]
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Who Do You Have To Sleep With To See A Model Doing Coke In This Town?
- Those Sisley cocaine-snorting ads? Not exactly real. Which makes us sad because we really wanted to see something realistic in a fashion magazine. [Sassybella]
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Thou Shalt Not Wear Italian Designs If Thou Art French
- France's new President and First Lady, Nicolas and Cecilia Sarkozy, cause national uproar when they both wear Italian-designed Prada to inauguration. Only in France, kids, only in France. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Pucci label celebrates 60th anniversary with a party that we bet would be a lot of fun on acid, which may have been the catalyst for such profundities as Laudomia Pucci's: ""But you will see there is no red - Daddy worked with fuchsia." [IHT]
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