Sea Of Shoes Blogger's Parents Gave Her 'Several Hundred Thousand Dollars' To Spend On Footwear
The Texas Monthly has a new profile of Jane Aldridge, the 20-year-old from Texas who parlayed a teenaged personal style blog documenting her pricey designer shoe collection into a footwear collaboration with Urban Outfitters, a début at the Crillon, and a close, personal friendship with Kanye West. And it is so…
Sartorialist Calls Fashion Blogger "Curvy," Shitstorm Ensues
Scott "The Sartorialist" Schuman snapped these two photos of Milan-based fashion blogger Angelica Ardasheva. Schuman called Ardasheva "a bigger, curvier girl than most of the other bloggers who you see in the press," and remarked that "[t]he subtle thing she achieves so successfully in these two looks is to complement…
Ladies, Tom Ford Would Do You Too
- Artist John Currin interviewed Tom Ford, and joked that sometimes innocent statements are "The small acorn that will grow into a great oak of a scandal later." Well! Ford then claimed, "I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist."
Marc Jacobs Dresses Up Like A Lady
- The cover of this magazine has been out for a while, but only the full spread reveals just how well Marc works a handbag. [Fashionologie]
- Trendy label Eleven Paris booked Zoe Kravitz and model Ash Stymest for its lookbook. [TLF]
Joan Vass, Who "Broke Every Rule Of The Business," Dead At 85
- Pioneering knitwear designer Joan Vass, who outfitted Ali MacGraw, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Candice Bergen, has died in Manhattan. Vass majored in philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was notorious as a fashion industry provocateur. Recalls her son Jason:
In Defense of Cathy Horyn
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.
Courtney Love And Kurt Cobain Burned Marc Jacobs' Grunge Pieces
- Courtney Love regrets destroying vintage Marc Jacobs: "Marc sent me and Kurt his Perry Ellis grunge collection. Do you know what we did with it? We burned it. We were punkers — we didn't like that kind of thing."
Carey Defies Vogue Editrix; Steve Madden, Misunderstood Creative Genius Of Footwear
- Carey Mulligan isn't taking Anna Wintour's sartorial advice. "Anna said I should wear short for the Oscars. I was like ‘No, that is so not what I had in my head when I was 6!" Once bitten, twice shy. [People]
Fashion Bloggers Run Afoul Of New FTC Rules?
A few weeks ago, we received an intriguing invitation in the tips inbox. Ann Taylor wanted us to come inspect their summer Loft collection — and they were willing to pay us to do it.
Alicia Wants You To Buy Her "Stuff"; Marc's Outré New Campaign Raises Eyebrows
- At last, a celebrity with a realistic outlook on her whatever-line: "Unless you need it, it's just stuff," says Alicia Silverstone of her collaboration with Ecotools. [WWD]

