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- "Designer" Heidi Montag to design own dress for "wedding" to "fiance" Spencer Pratt. How much cleavage will she show? [Just Jared]
- Further evidence that Project Runway's going down the tubes: LiLo's gonna guest-judge on Lifetime. [NY Mag]
- Dolce & Gabbana make bff Naomi "Siddhartha" Campbell their official muse. [Mail on Sunday]
- WTF? Why is Juliette Lewis walking in Milan? Granted, for a label called "Miss Bikini Luxe." [WWD]
- Cavalli, watch your back: Paris Hilton's latest line has hit Milan. Apparently it featured "baby pink, dog print T-shirts and sequins." [Daily Mail]
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The Devil Wears Muumuus
Remember when we counted the
number of luxury brand name mentions per page in the hateful YA series
The Clique (1.8 brand mentions per page, for those of you keeping score)? Well in today's
New York Times style section, Cathy Horyn takes a page out of our playbook and notes the number of products placed in the brand-loving
grown person novels hitting shelves this summer. Horyn examined the Choo-addled pages of James Patterson's
Sunday at Tiffany's, and found "When I got done turning down the corners of the pages of Mr. Patterson’s novel that mentioned a brand name or a stylish place (he, too, transports his characters to Nantucket), my copy looked severely riddled."
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NY Times critic Cathy Horyn reviews the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's latest exhibit, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" in today's paper. Her take? Speed of lightning, roar of thunder — it's a hit: "The ideas that dominate fashion — identity, performance, gender, body shapes, sexuality, logos and the quest for state-of-the-art materials — pretty well describe the world of the superhero...The magnified, supercharged body runs through fashion, from the hyper-athlete (cleverly evoked by Alexander McQueen in a 2005 silk ensemble with pretty football pads) to the sexy pinup, and is well represented in the exhibition... Dolce & Gabbana's corseted minidress from 2007 looks as if it were molded from Tiffany silver. It is actually made of leather...it would have been nice to see more clothing examples from the 1960s and '70s, and more abstract takes on transformation — where is Comme des Garçons, the avant-garde label of Rei Kawakubo?" [
NY Times]
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's annual gala: Oh, it happened all right. And though you now know who made it into the
the Good,
the Bad, and
the Ugly category of "fashion's Oscars," we know you're just dying to know what the media themselves had to say about the yearly orgy of fashion and fame. (At the very last you're dying to know what hoity-toity critic-types had to say about Anna Wintour's Princess Amadala outfit, right? Right.) The best of the press'
bon mots, after the jump.
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- More rumored changes for The Greatest Show On Earth, Project Runway: Season 6 of the show, the first to be broadcast on Lifetime, may feature "More Than A Pretty Face" magazine Marie Claire in lieu of Elle as the affiliated fashion magazine sponsor. [WWD, 1st item]
- Whoah: Are New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn and Skeletor/stylist Rachel Zoe more similar than we could have ever imagined? Possibly, if it's true that Cathy Horyn was also mysteriously not invited to the dinner and dancing portion of tonight's Costume Institute festivities. [Fashion Week Daily]
- And what does legendary costume designer Bob Mackie not like about the fashion industry? "Doing a fashion show that's on for 20 minutes and then it's over and everybody runs to the next one. Nobody sings, nobody dances, nobody tells jokes. I found it quite unsatisfying." I second that emotion. [WWD, sub req'd]
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- What the world needs today: a celebrity fashion "collaboration"! The latest is Rachel Bilson, with Brian Reyes, and the apparel in question is bridesmaids dresses, for her BFF's wedding to The O.C. and Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz. We hope she choses a style that is flattering on people who are not anti-food. [Fashionista]
- In a sad day in the history of the legendary House of Givenchy, Justin Timberlake has been tapped to front a yet-to-launch new fragrance of theirs. And in heaven, Hubert de Givenchy cries into the bosom of Audrey Hepburn. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, possibly off the deep end: "Love is everywhere. I look at you and I see love. Hearts are everywhere and love is everywhere. This is very good." Um, OK. [Fashion Week Daily]
- New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn: Banned again! This time from D&G. The As I Lay Dying of the garmentverse, that one. [Fashion Week Daily]
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Prada is, always, the biggest show of each fashion season. No one manages to be ahead of the trends quite like that PhD-holder Miuccia Prada, whose wares women love and men can't even find remotely sexy. Prada's looks are always "intellectual" and "provocative," but not in the bullshit way those terms are usually banded about: She plays with ideas, perverts expectations, and — sorry, menfolk — knows more about sex than Dr. Drew and Sue Johansson combined. Her fall/winter 2008 collection was done nearly all in lace. But no frou-frou doily shit here. Oh no: This was lace for tough chicks. Dominatrixes never had it so good. Annotated gallery of selected images — there was
a black model! — begins below, with the critics' rave reviews after the jump.
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- "'Who are these dreadful women?' Manolo Blahnik screams in horror as he brandishes the latest edition of a smart society magazine. An assistant points out kindly that they are four of Hollywood's top female stars. Looking pained, Blahnik turns away muttering 'Dreadful, dreadful,' before adding, with a roll of his eyes heavenwards: 'I'm totally confused. I don't even know what taste is any more. Frankly, I can't bear to buy magazines. I just get so upset.'" Yeah, we hated that Vanity Fair cover too. It's so gross and pink and Easter Sunday and like how does Anne Hathaway qualify as "fresh"? And also: who is responsible for those fug satin slingbacks? Let's check the credits...ah yes! Shoes from Manolo Blahnik, London, or call 011-44-207-352-8622. Click the jump to see them displayed on six other well-known actresses!) [Times of London]
- A link to the first time Blahnik got all Jonathan Franzen on us! [NY Observer]
- Hey, and it turns out Blahnik isn't the only guy who takes this fashion stuff pretty seriously! Giorgio Armani dis-invited New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn a day before the show! Cathy seems to take this pretty seriously herself: "It's no wonder that cynicism, and not mere dramas, is born." [NY Times]
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- So, Marc Jacobs hater/International Herald Tribune critic Suzy Menkes may have loooved Marc's show, but general MJ fangirl, the NY Times' Cathy Horyn, missed it altogether! Only to then check it out online and write, "[I] can see why some people found it a little slack." Only to then be responded to huffily, via the COMMENTS, on Marc by Marc himself, if you will: "Dear Cathy....I wish you could have been at my show...I deliberately stated I was uninspired this season as I have felt that talking about inspiration is so not the point to making and showing a collection." So yeah, any time you thought about dismissing the entire industry as one big neverending middle school...you were pretty much right. [WWD, 1st item]
- Oh no! Pink eye rampant at London Fashion Week! Think it's a deliberate conspiracy to sabotage the whole "certificate of health" thing? Yeah, fashion people are not that smart. [Vogue UK]
- The latest victim of an eye-infection? Hagyness herself! [The Sun UK]
- Aw, Benetton is getting back to its awesome ad roots: Its newest campaign is a promotion for a microlending program in Africa. [Fashion Week Daily]
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- David Beckham has a new endorsement deal: Armani underwear in the United States! And you were afraid he and Posh might go broke... [Vogue UK]
- Erin Fetherston for Target: Sorta secretly sorta available for purchase online. [Fashionista]
- Karl Lagerfeld: "I am a popular figure for Halloween. Last year friends of mine counted 19 copies [of me] they saw at their parties alone... Few [designers] have a very special way of dressing. They are 'classic' or jeans and T-shirt, so what can I take from them? [But] Ralph Lauren like a cowboy could be fun..." [WWD, 1st item]
- Were you dying to hear more news about Agent Provocateur? Says Maggie Gyllenhaal of posing for the secretive, unassuming lingerie brand: "It was a great experience. But my brother once called me from Heathrow [Airport] to tell me he had passed a giant picture of me in my underwear. I guess I forgot that would happen."[WWD, 3rd item]
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