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"I don't believe in fashion faux pas. Every look I did was important at the time. When I was in the Lady Marmalade video it was all about being over the top, sexy and playful... Would I do that today? Probably not. It was a different time, a different place for me... I've had so many wardrobe malfunctions on stage. One time I was doing a dance move and I had to get off a table. Somehow my high heel got stuck in my fishnet tights and I fell flat on the floor. I sat there, with a bruised butt and a tear in my pantyhose...Being objectified in magazines comes with the territory." That's X-Tina Aguilera, folks, in the Times of London's weekly "My Life In Fashion" column. [Times of London]
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Is Vera Wang the next Martha Stewart? Wang has just announced the launch of her own bridal registry. "Our authoritative position in bridal and bridal registry has allowed us to leverage this [consumer] trust into a lifestyle brand. The next logical step is to capitalize on our relationship with the client over the course of their lives. Our objective is to continue to grow our lifestyle product offering and keep pace with the evolving needs of the consumer," she says. Translation: She's gonna slap her name on furniture, fabrics, rugs, lighting and house paint and watch the brides go bonkers. [BrandWeek]
In today's Times of London, Keith Richards, for some inexplicable reason, is allowed to free-associate on, of all things, fashion. Behold: "Fashion thinks more about me than what I think about it. I just wore what I wore and people noticed. The sexiest thing a woman could wear? Being stark f***ing naked....I don't do underwear. I never do the washing. How would I know whether my clothes stink? I throw them away....I can't say I'm bothered about the fate of the planet. I got a guitar case out of Louis Vuitton. They paid me a lot of money and it's all going to charity. I'm going to charity." [Times of London]
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Fundamentalist Fashion: Not So Different Than High Design
The question that keeps coming up again and again with regards to the Eldorado, Texas branch of the FLDS isn't "Where are all the men?" or even "Where's Sarah?" but rather, "Have you noticed what the women are wearing?" The media has even dubbed the phenomenon, somewhat crassly, "polygamist fashion", and the stories have multiplied in such a way that we figured we should take a look. What we learned is that there actually isn't anything that odd about the sect's sartorial choices — we've seen weirder on the runways of Gaultier. And speaking of high-minded fashion, a few designers (most notably Marc Jacobs) seem to have anticipated (or rather, copied) the FLDS aesthetic. After the jump, selected looks from various designers whose recent wares look most similar (in modest silhouette and tonal palette) to that of the FLDS females. More »
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Is Nina Garcia's PR Company Using Interns To Promote Her Cause?
Though neither Elle nor publisher Hachette Filipacchi nor Nina Garcia will confirm Garcia's having been "let go" from the magazine last week, WWD reports that Garcia hired Rubenstein PR to speak for her. And! A little birdie tells us that Rubenstein has handed off some of the Garcia damage control work to its interns, deploying legions of them to comment on sites like Perez Hilton and TMZ. The minions leave encouraging and kind remarks, complete with stats on Nina's many successes while at Elle in the comments. (Many examples here, here, and here.) Oh, and take a look at this comment from "MakeItWork", in response to Perez's post Elle Vs Nina Vs Project Runway: More »
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Aliza Shvarts: The Halloween How-To For Harvard Students
Aliza Shvarts '08 is more than just an alleged abortion-inducer; according to our commenters, she is also a style icon of sorts. In fact, we predict that come Halloween, students all over Cambridge and other rival Ivies will be dressing up as the suddenly-notorious art student from that other East Coast institution of higher learning. In order to help them along, we decided to create a handy guide to recreating Aliza's look... Black leggings? Check! Fringe boots? Check! Leopard-print shorts? Of course. Everything they need to create a Shvarts costume (except for the discarded uterine lining), after the jump. More »
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Marc Jacobs Isn't Crazy -- He Just Has Issues
"Why is there this division all of a sudden between people in support of me and people against me? How did this happen? I haven't done anything to anybody! I look at Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano—everybody has their shtick. And just because this wasn't my shtick two years ago, it's a problem."Marc Jacobs is upset. He is also really buff, debatably character-disordered, and, at present, unusually sober. He's practically a psychological case study: A lost little boy with an aching, damaged soul, living in the public eye. (With diamond studs in his ears, to boot.) At least, that's the angle Marie Claire executive editor Lucy Kaylin takes, as she profiles America's Most Important Fashion Designer in this month's issue of GQ. More »
Naomi Campbell is boycotting British Airways and Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 after having been arrested there for getting physical a few weeks ago. Call us crazy, but we're not sure how you boycott an airline that already declared you unwelcome on any of its flights ever again. [Times of London]
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Feminist Thinks Women Should Boycott Marc Jacobs
The "Fashion & Style" section of Today's New York Times features a story about the Juergen Teller photographs Marc Jacobs uses for advertising purposes. The ads are unlike ordinary fashion ads because the photographs are raw, overexposed and kind of mysterious. Cathy Horyn writes, "Buying something from Marc Jacobs is like joining a club. Of course, that can be a turnoff to some people, but that would matter only if Mr. Jacobs sought a justification for the ads, one beyond their ability to inspire and provoke. And since some of the ads barely show the clothes, clearly he is not." Of the new ads starring Victoria Beckham, Horyn says "Instead of looking like a glamorous celebrity, she has been rendered as an abstraction, a living doll." Fun, right? Over on Feministing, Courtney E. Martin finds those ads severely troubling. In fact, she suggests that we all boycott Marc Jacobs. More »
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Star Power Is Not (Yet) Enough To Make Liz Claiborne Stylish
Does anyone buy Liz Claiborne? In December 2006, following years of financial troubles, the company brought on William McComb, a swaggering CEO who knew nothing about the fashion industry but soon realized that a little makeover out of the pages of Management 101 were not going to be enough to revive the struggling brand. McComb's secret weapon, of course, was Project Runway's Tim Gunn, whom he hired as the brand's chief creative officer in March 2007. As the April issue of Fast Company reports, McComb loved Gunn's work in both reality TV and in academia and figured that if Gunn could salvage a paralyzed fashion design program and help create a hit show, surely he could figure out how to make women buy basics from Liz Claiborne again. Or not! More »
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Fug Footwear: A Step In The Wrong Direction
"What do you think of these?" I asked my boyfriend, showing him an image of the It Shoes of the season, the Prada sandal platforms that, according to a story on hideous heels in today's New York Observer, look "like the work of someone on acid, or at least weed". "I dunno," replied boyfriend. "Guys don't notice shoes." Women, however, do, which is why it is so very odd that this season's most-talked about accessories are the ugliest expensive shit you ever saw. So why are women shelling out the big bucks for things that might turn you to stone for looking at them, if you don't break your back walking in them? Are ugly and overpriced shoes the latest ploy by retailers to create a wealthy elite? More »
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Women Who Love Fashion Are Not Inherently Idiotic
"Quick," writes Jessa Crispin on TheSmartSet.com. "How do you tell if a woman in a movie is supposed to be intelligent? First off, she'd probably be brunette, but past that. Glasses, yes. Little to no makeup. Her hair is probably in a ponytail. Clothes she probably bought at the Gap in a size too big. You know she's the smart one because she thinks about more important things than her appearance." We live in a world where "trendy" girls with "it" bags are often vapid, shallow beings bereft of a brain. The fashion magazine industry often makes things worse: "Elle talks to Ashlee Simpson. And writes down what she says. To be recorded for all time," Crispin notes. And "there is a huge disconnect between the fantasy world of Vogue — where women spend their days romping in fields wearing $1,500 sequined leggings — and reality." And yet there are women who are smart and care about fashion. Right? Right? More »
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Back in the 1930s, some fashion designers were asked about what they thought people would be wearing in the year 2000. And, uh, weirdly — they really hit the nail on the head about most everything from platform shoes to sheer dresses. If only our clothes responded to our body temperature, though. Sigh. Video of these predictions begins above. More »
What Do You Think People Will Be Wearing In 70 Years?
Back in the 1930s, some fashion designers were asked about what they thought people would be wearing in the year 2000. And, uh, weirdly — they really hit the nail on the head about most everything from platform shoes to sheer dresses. If only our clothes responded to our body temperature, though. Sigh. Video of these predictions begins above. More »
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Formerly Punk & Currently Quirky Vivienne Westwood: "Why Don't People Tear Their Own Clothes?"
You've gotta love Vivienne Westwood. The 66-year-old British fashion designer is sorta insane, but she sorta knows it, so it's all good. She hates expensive shit, yet continues to sell it (a girl's gotta eat?) and is basically single-handedly credited with creating punk. When Sabine Durrant of the Telegraph interviewed Westwood recently, Viv informed her: "I can't think without my glasses." Glad to see someone else suffers the same problem! Everything that trickles out of her mouth is somehow amazing and perversely awe-inspiring. She's kind of a big dork: "Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary I'm delighted." And of her early days as a pre-school teacher, she says:"My sympathies were with the kids. I could understand why they were naughty." And wait until you hear what she says about punk now: More »
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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 »
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If You Worked At Home, You'd Be Wearing Pajamas Too
Today's Women's Wear Daily asks the legitimately thought-provoking question: Just who do women dress for? Now, since I work from home, I dress for no one, meaning I am regularly clad in orange sweats, an old tank top, thick wool socks, and my glasses. If I thought anyone could see me, however, I'd probably put on a pair of darkwash jeans, my favorite rose-colored low cut silk blouse and maybe the Marc Jacobs brown patent leather granny shoes I blew my last paycheck on. (Also, I would brush my hair.) Which, I guess, makes me like Anne Hathaway, who tells WWD (and not entirely originally) that "Most women dress for their most fashionable friend." But the other famous folk WWD spoke to were actually fairly split on whether women dress for other women... or for men. More »
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