<![CDATA[Jezebel: cbgb]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: cbgb]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/cbgb http://jezebel.com/tag/cbgb <![CDATA[Hand-Picked]]> Musician Alison Brown: "It's a kind of sisterhood, really...women are leading the charge with the most interesting bluegrass." (That's legend Lily May Ledford at left.) [WSJ]

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5310307&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Posh + Tom Cruise = Velvet Suits For Everyone?]]>

  • Oh sweet Jesus: There are reports that Victoria Beckham will serve as the stylist on Tom Cruise's new movie, The Hardy Boys. [Fashionista]
  • It's confirmed: The all-black Italian Vogue cover shot by Steven Meisel is a go and Jordan Dunn is set to star. [Vogue UK]
  • Claire Danes: The new face of Gucci jewelry. Says Gucci creative director Frida Giannini: "Claire Danes is a modern icon...[Her] sensual, confident beauty and her passionate, independent and strong character embodies today's Gucci woman." Also, Claire Danes always looks totally bored by everything. Just saying. [WWD, 1st item]
  • Lindsay Lohan is the face of Visa's new glorified Salvation Army stores where old clothing can be swapped for other people's old clothing. How far she has fallen. [WWD, 5th item]
  • Yay for the Humane Society for demanding for revised (meaning, honest) labeling practices for fur garments. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Barneys New York creative director/ my imaginary best friend Simon Doonan on the infamously red-soled Chrisitan Louboutin shoes: "Christian's shoes are like the circus coming into town. Louboutins are a total drug and there is no methadone." [WWD, 2nd item]
  • Start counting down now: The McGraw by Tim McGraw fragrance enters drugstores in August. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Model Maggie Rizer wants to open up a doggy day care center and spa in New York's West Village. Of course she does. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Salma Hayek has been named the godmother of Puma's ocean-racing team. [Fashion Week Daily]
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=384005&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[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]
  • Best protest sign outside of the new John Varvatos store in the old CBGB's space: "$1,600 used jackets destroy communities." [Does someone still care about CBGB closing, is that the issue here? Because guess what, guys, there's a global food crisis on and Al Qaeda is bombing countries you've never heard of, stagflation is upon us and we're in danger of electing a president who doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shiite, so get over it, thanks. -Moe] [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Fun contest! Giorgio Armani is sponsoring a contest where the little people can pitch him concepts for the new ad campaign for his latest fragrance. Ten finalists get to meet Mr. Armani, though only one will have their ideas usurped for the perpetuation of Mr. Armani's own wealth. [Vogue UK]
  • Why isn't one of the options for this "Do You Wear Religious Symbols" poll "Only as tattoos"?! [FabSugar]
  • "Wow! It just seems like the next step to our larger goal. Every time we conceive a collection, we try to think of all the elements that would go along with our designs. And bags are next! We want to conquer that next year," says Proenza Schouler's Lazaro Hernandez. Oh really, bags! What a novel idea. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Says Duckie Brown co-designer Steven Cox, "I've always had this fantasy of making a dress out of bricks." Aren't you just ill that Duckie Brown only does menswear? [Washington Post]
  • Apparently there is no "right" hemline this season, but if there were, it would involve pairing a long skirt with a long sweater. We don't make the news, we just report on it! [Guardian]
  • The color blue: It's important. [Washington Post]
  • Showing off your baby bump is so totally out of fashion. Duh. [IHT]
  • Crocs is shutting down its factory in Quebec City, meaning 669 people now are out of work. Which also means there is a whole new demographic of people who really hate Crocs! [NYT]
  • I actually don't believe anything I read about ELLE's fledgling reality show (which may or may not be titled Fashionista) anymore, but some say that editors at the mag are calling in sick to avoid having to work on it. [Jossip]
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=382004&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nina Garcia And ELLE: In? Out? Or In?]]>

  • You knew this already, but Project Runway judge/style tome author/ELLE fashion director Nina Garcia has parted ways with the magazine that made her. At least, ELLE has yet to tell anyone the rumors are false.
  • Our sources say Garcia came in Friday morning around the hour fashion people usually get to work Friday morning, and was gone with all her earthly possessions by lunch time. Her assistants apparently cried all day, packing the rest of her things.
  • New rumors are starting to surface that she's "in talks" with ELLE regarding some sort of position there.
  • We suspect the fact that ELLE fashion news director Anne Slowey and creative director Joe Zee are getting their own Tyra-produced show this fall doesn't exactly make for a great environment. (Coupled with the fact that the magazine's fashion coverage has gotten a million times more interesting since Zee came on board.) But these are just our speculations. Know anything? Drop us a line! [WWD, MediaBistro, NYMag]
  • And in other very important world news, Project Runway guest judge/style tome author/ELLE covergirl Victoria Beckham's denim line DVB has been dropped by Kitson and Fred Segal. Um, anyone else seeing a trend here? [News of the World]
  • A reader wrote in to Guardian fashion writer Hadley Freeman asking when it is okay to wear shorts. Freeman's response? "When it's flipping well warm enough to do so, like, duh." [Guardian]
  • Despite the rumors, Kate Moss is not on the outs with lingerie line Agent Provocateur and just shot a wedding-themed ad campaign for them. [This is London]
  • Phat Fashions is suing Victoria's Secret for copyright infringement. Apparently, no one can use a frilly letter 'P' but the Phat designers. And while I can't believe I'm saying this, I think it's gonna be Kimora FTW. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Whoa, Vidal Sassoon was a resistance fighter during WWII?! [Telegraph]
  • Elton John: Wears Tom Ford's fragrances! (Also likes that Tom Ford's ads frequently contain naked men? Again, JUST speculation.) [Page Six]
  • The John Varvatos store in the old CBGB's space? Could suck more. [Washington Post]
  • Yay for Cambodia, the latest country to allow its young female citizens to be exploited by the western world by making them into runway models. (And Cambodia is usually such a leader on the youth exploitation front.) In all seriousness, [ITN]
  • Nicholas Huxley, the director of the Sydney Institute's Fashion Design Studio, says Australian women dress "cheap and nasty." [News.com.au]
  • Want to have guaranteed success as a jewelry designer? Than go into a career in anything but jewelry design [WWD]
  • OMG will or won't Prada go public in June? The suspense is killing me. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Carolina Herrera junior is pregnant again. Just what the world needs: Another kid with a trust fund. [WWD, 2nd item]
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=379347&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Legendary Rock Club CBGB Achieves The Impossible, Sells Out Even More]]>

  • Designer John Varvatos has bought the space formerly occupied by rock club CBGB's to open a new store. He's the one who designs clothes for Converse, which is that super-hip iconoclastic footwear brand owned by Nike, and... Move to North Korea if you hate capitalism so much! [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Project Runway Season Four designers' designs here. Only a week to go! [FabSugar]
  • Stella McCartney is doing a denim line with Notify jeans. Will she design a pair with one leg, too? Because that would be sick and distasteful and awesome. [Vogue UK]
  • Designer Zac Posen's mom Susan on her recent trip to Tokyo: "My guide was like, 'Shall we eat Italian tonight?' And I said, 'Please! You can get Italian anywhere.' Japanese food three times a day? Heaven!" [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Marc Jacobs to a passerby who stopped him while smoking outside of the New York Accessories Council ACE Awards on Monday night, when asked "What in the world is going on inside?": "It's a ceremony. I think it has something to do with fashion." [Fashion Week Daily]
  • "Dr. 90210" is releasing his own line of "shapewear." Not okay. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Hugo Boss: Profits are up about 13%! Does anyone care? [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Maidenform: Profits are down about 13%! Does anyone care? And does this mean that people enjoy a little early 90s style for their outerwear than they do their underwear? [WWD, sub req'd]
  • The Agent Provocateur saga continues: The next face of the lingerie label (starting in three months time) is to be French actress Vahina Giocante. We have no idea who she is but we love the name. [Vogue UK]
  • Someone needs to tell model Natalia Vodianova that being all smug about how easy it is to be the mother to three children under the age of 5 is fucking annoying. [Vogue UK]
  • OMG! Mariah Carey sang "Hero" at the Glamour Woman of the Year awards?! We would rather hear Mariah sing "Hero" (our favorite song in, what, 1993?) than win an award any day. [Fashion Week Daily]
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=319859&view=rss&microfeed=true