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rag trade
Vivica A. Fox Puts Her "Useful Styling Skills" To Work
- Vivica A. Fox is going to be the host of a new VH1 series called Glam God, in which the actress, who is known for her amazing style (??), will be searching for the next celebrity stylist. I can’t wait to see another reality show winner do absolutely nothing while everyone else on the show tries to one up Jerry Springer factor. I hope there’s a really good gay man or at least someone with a weave to yank on. [ConcreteLoop]
- Getting Gay With Bags is Here! Marc Jacobs completes his special handbag for twink-blogger Bryanboy (the bag is called “the BB”) and Bryanboy gets really excited and…whips himself? [Gawker]
- Designer Claudia Escobar has made a luxury clothing line out of salmon skin. "Many people who lived near rivers and oceans have used fish throughout history. It's not my original idea," she says. [Reuters]
- Mischa Barton’s created a line of handbags, coming to London’s John Lewis, Debenhams and Fenwicks stores on July 2nd. Why not make handbags for the United States, Mischa? Is the dollar too weak, or is it that we just don't give a shit? [FabSugar]
fashion show
Calvin Klein Resort Collection: Heavy On The Beige But Easy On The Eyes
There's a reason why Calvin Klein is a household name. His clothing is simple, classic, expensive-looking and well-made (not that I own any, but I think it's a safe assumption). His resort line is no different, and while some of the looks were a bit Star Trek-ey, my favorites (shown below) will all end up in my closet someday when I'm a grown-up and have a really important job. Designer Francisco Costa stayed away from all the Beach Blanket Bingo hubbub that can sometimes surround summer, and instead made us think of being barefoot on the sand, sipping white wine, eating mussels, and not sweating whatsoever. Some selected looks from the collection, after the jump. More »
Loose Lips
Oh no he didn't. Howard Stern manipulated sound bites from a Dolly Parton audiobook into sexually graphic and racist statements last week. Dolly has released a statement today condemning Stern. "If there was ever going to be a lawsuit, it's going to be over this. Just wanted you to know that I am completely devastated by this." Chin up lil' lady. • Heather Stohler, a model who appeared with Kate Moss in Calvin Klein ads, died on Sunday in an apartment fire in Indiana. She was 29. • Marc Anthony ex-wife, former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres has written a book called Married to Me: How Committing To Myself Led To Triumph After Divorce. "The takeaway," reports Radar, is "even international beauty queens can find themselves alone and unshaven, binging on Candace Bushnell and self pity." [Reuters, TMZ, Radar]
rag trade
Anna Wintour: 1; Rachel Zoe: 0
- OMG: Rachel Zoe has been disinvited from the Anna Wintour-hosted Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala, taking place Monday night in New York. This is what you get when you tempt the gods and proclaim yourself more important than Vogue. [Fashion Week Daily]
- Also, Wintour has instructed Vogue staffers that they may only wear white, silver, or other "pale shades." Just like the colors of faces that she likes to see on her magazine's cover! [Fashion Week Daily]
- French Vogue editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld and designer/Chanel creative director "Krazy" Karl Lagerfeld were both named to the Time 100 List, as influential members of the fashion community. Something about the way they both made fashion about "the street" or something. [Vogue UK]
- Gisele Bundchen is still the top-paid model, according to Forbes. Heidi Klum is the second. Take that, Moss. [Sassybella]
the naked truth
Germaine Greer; Glamour Editor: Miley Cyrus Hubbub Is Hypocritical
Media folks continue to weigh in on the semi-racy photographs of Miley Cyrus, and while they make different, though mostly salient points, almost all the writers agree on one thing: Disney is a big fat hypocrite. Writer/feminist Germaine Greer points out that teen girls have been sexualized for eons. "In western art most of the women portrayed semi-clad or totally nude are children," Greer writes. "Their nipples are pallid and undeveloped, their breasts hard and veinless, their pubes unfurred." She also adds that the image of a naked, adolescent-figured 34-year-old Kate Moss freaks her out more than a backless Miley Cyrus, because "The icon of the 34-year-old mother qua 13-year-old virgin is even more disturbing than the sexy image of the 15-year-old Cyrus, because it is so much rarer and weirder." More »
rag trade
Frances Bean Cobain: Modeling For Chanel?
- Frances Bean Cobain is rumored to be the next face of Chanel. That's hot. And also crazy. Oh, Karl. [Vogue UK]
- Louis Vuitton has postponed indefinitely its "China Run" car rally, which was originally scheduled to take place in late May with a route from Chengdu and Kunming. Reason? Um, it's not exactly cool to be supporting China's blatant disregard for human rights right now and France is all pissed re: the Olympics etc etc. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Also, Yohji Yamamoto wants to teach China about Peace and improve relations though the country and his native Japan through his new Yohji Yamamoto Fund For Peace. This will mainly involve fashion shows. Of course. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Also China's on the warning list for counterfeiting shit. Oh, China. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Tommy Hilfiger, ambiguously racist? Says the designer, "[W]e feel that with our European-influenced approach, the sophisticated and higher level of quality and fashion somehow reaches the type of people who represent the brand very well... Ten years ago it was positioned with a lot of red, white and blue and a lot of logos and you would look at these street kids wearing the clothes as billboards." [FT]
rag trade
Heidi Klum Loves A Struggling Underclass In Uniform!
- "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]
Badvertising
This Calvin Klein Jeans ad is in the new issue of Lucky magazine. Actress Kate Bosworth appears to be wearing faded, acid-washed jean shorts. Really, Calvin? Really? Anyone ready to party like it's 1989? (Click picture to enlarge.)
This Calvin Klein Jeans ad is in the new issue of Lucky magazine. Actress Kate Bosworth appears to be wearing faded, acid-washed jean shorts. Really, Calvin? Really? Anyone ready to party like it's 1989? (Click picture to enlarge.)
rag trade
OMG: More Clothes Are Coming From Kate Moss!
- Kate Moss's fifth collection for Topshop launches today. It's inspired by "travel." Oh, bite me. [Vogue UK]
- Spanx bras — to flatten your back fat, of course — in stores now! [WWD, sub req'd]
- You will be so proud of Eva Mendes! She overcame that whole nasty rehab debacle to be chosen as the face of Calvin Klein underwear. Yay Eva! And yay Calvin Klein for taking a chance on a star who is trying to overcome adversity. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin has extended her evil empire to include a lingerie line (entitled, sickeningly, "Pussycat Dolls...shhh") and a costume jewelry line. [WWD, 3rd item]
- Nicole Richie doing a maternity line? Why, God, why? [LATimes]
fashion show
CFDA 2008: Will Marc Jacobs' Bad Behavior Be Rewarded?
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) just announced the nominees for its annual awards (think: the Oscars of the fashion industry), and, as reported earlier, Marc Jacobs nabbed a prestigious Womenswear Designer of the Year nod. But considering the fact that his peers spent the past year harping on him and that every critic under the sun (except the ever-adoring Cathy Horyn) said that his Spring/Summer 2008 collection sucked big time, the nomination seemed a little shocking. Still, he'll probably win: After all, he's probably the American designer with the most name recognition and ability to parlay his branded name into dollar signs. After the jump, I compare Jacobs to the other nominees, including those for the Swarovski Womenswear Designer of the Year (given to a rising designer with the most promise), complete with pretty photos, and a tiny bit of backstory on each. More »
rag trade
Marc Jacobs, The No Country For Old Men Of The CFDA?
- Who will win the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Womenswear Designer of the Year award, the "Best Picture" of fashion? The nominees are: Marc Jacobs, Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein, and Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough of Proenza Schouler (who tied last year with Oscar de la Renta.) Bets? [WWD, sub req'd]
- Oooh and Fran Lebowitz will emcee the awards themselves on June 2. [Fashion Week Daily]
- Ok, so now Waris Dirie is saying she was abducted and assaulted while she was missing in Brussels. And treated like "prostitute" by police. She originally said she was just, like, lost. Her manager says she was in shock. [Telegraph, Yahoo]
- And what is Erin Fetherston's latest short film about? "Zooey [Deschanel] plays a tramp who eats a magic mushroom and finds herself with a group of fairies." Of course she does. [Fashion Week Daily]
- Whoah is Posh going to guest-design for Roland Mouret? Whoah. [Fashionista]
vanity projects
Epic Calvin Klein Story Contains Secret To All Fashion, And Maybe Life
Back in 2003, Calvin Klein went to a Knicks game so high he thought it would be a cool idea to get up and start chatting up the players. The only problem was, of course, that he was high, so he couldn't really walk, and then the other problem was that basketball players don't know what the fuck Calvin Klein looks like, so they got kind of scared. "I wasn't nervous, but I was surprised. I was like, Is security going to come over here at some point or what?" remembers Latrell Sprewell. Hey, Latrell Sprewell, the guy who choked his coach! Freaked out by little old Calvin Klein. Anyway, thus begins an epically epic Ingrid Sischy story in the latest Vanity Fair on the career and life of Calvin Klein that spends paragraph after paragraph going on & on about how he selected fabrics, dropping names no one cares about (Melanie Ward, Grace Coddington, whatevs) using the term Zeitgeist approx. 78 times and leaving all the good drug abuse shit to such lines as "he also walked away with a taste of more than H20" and "no doubt Klein had more than Perrier in his system." But! More »
rag trade
Christina Aguilera: If You Are Going To Shill Overpriced Jewelry, Do It Like This
- OMG Christina Aguilera looks so pretty in these Hitchcock-inspired Stephen Webster ads! It's like, we finally see what Christina Aguilera has been going for all these years with this excessive bombshell crap — and it is good. The wonders of Photoshop, folks! [Sassybella]
- Contrary to the rumors being reported like everywhere, Gisele Bundchen says she is not designing a line in — oh Jesus Christ, this word again — "collaboration" with Dolce & Gabbana. [Fashion Week Daily]
- Eva Mendes gets to keep her Calvin Klein perfume gig despite her stint in rehab. Somewhere Lohan is burning each and every piece of Jill Stuart she owns. Ha ha ha, as if she could find a specific of clothing in that mess. Just burn down the whole closet, Linds! [WWD, 1st item]
- Memo from the U.S. Court of Appeals to Polo Ralph Lauren: You don't own the image of a polo player, and you can't tell the U.S. Polo Association you do. But hey, nice try protecting that sophisticated "intellectual property" of yours! [WWD, sub req'd]
- Rashida Jones is backing an eco-friendly clothing line called Laloo. [Perez Hilton]
politics of style
Future First Ladies Should Be Judged Solely On Fashion
We never tire of discussing the politics of style (or is it the style of politics?) and this country's increasingly-manic presidential campaign is inspiring lots of fashion-minded folk to weigh in. (Like Mark Fiore and his genius animated spoof on Project Runway and the Clinton campaign.) The question being posed today is, who would make a more stylish First Lady: Michelle Obama or Cindy McCain? The Guardian breaks down the two women's "qualifications" into the following categories: hairstyle, accessories, "x-factor," pre-campaign, occasion wear, and power suit. Should anyone even be evaluating these women for their preparedness for a position based on something as superficial as fashion? Probably not. But, hell, it's Friday. After the jump, we respond (in a highly partisan manner) to the Guardian's rankings and style the women for such First Lady events such as standing patiently at inauguration ceremonies and kissing sick babies in hospitals. More »
rag trade
Model Katoucha Niane's Body Found In The Seine
- The body of former model Katoucha Niane, one of the first major black models, has been found in the Seine river, in Paris. Missing since January, she lived in a houseboat and is presumed to have fallen off after a night of partying and drinking. Her career highlights included walking for Thierry Mugler, Paco Rabanne, Lacroix and serving as a muse to Yves Saint Laurent himself. [AP]
- Tom Brady is rumored to be the next face (well, chest) of Calvin Klein underwear. [Page Six]
- The BCBG Max Azria Group: 100% fur-free starting with its Spring 2009 collections. This is a huge sacrifice for them since BCBG has always been sooooo closely associated with fur coats, so don't forget to spend more money next time you're there! [Fashion Week Daily]
- Rag Trade quote of the day: "Any woman over 40 has extra flesh here and here. I never hesitate to say to Alber [Elbaz, Lanvin's designer], 'Think of older women!'" Lanvin chairwoman Shaw-Lan Chu-Wang. [WSJ]
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