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Project Runway: What The Clusterfuckery Is This, Tim Gunn?

Welcome back to Modelslips, in which our anonymous fashion week model Tatiana "slips" about what it's really like trying not to "slip" while starving herself down the runways of New York's inimitable Fashion Week. Today Tatiana has a big day at the tents...but earlier this week she learned some big bombshells at a not-so-impressive casting.


I know who wins the current season of Project Runway! Actually: I've got it narrowed down to three. Like hell I'm putting this before the jump! So...where did I come into this data? Well, on Monday I went to the biggest, most disorganized, piece-of-shit casting of my life. But first — do you like how we scooped Page Six about those models who got burned by the lighting at the Marc Bouwer casting? (P.S.: don't believe a word of this publicist bullshit about "Mr. Bouwer" himself seeing the worst of it; he wasn't the one in the fucking hospital.) All this and a Project Runway casting, after the jump.

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4:00 PM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Moe
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Donna Karan's Hideous Orange Fashion Week Bikes Set Free From Chains By Vigilante Jezebel Readers!!

Donna Karan does a lot of typically ridiculous fashion industry stuff in the name of not being the average typically ridiculous fashion industry person, but her orange bicycles take proverbial ayurvedic macrobiotic unitarian wedding cake. In the name of reducing our dependence on foreign oil/increasing our dependence on branded objects, DKNY's guerrilla marketing team chained these orange bikes all over Manhattan during Fashion Week. Yeah, chained. Meaning, the bikes were:
  • Locked up and therefore unusable
  • occupying valuable parking spaces that might otherwise be used by actual bicyclists
  • and/or chained illegally to trees
  • shamelessly/tastelessly aping the "Ghost Bike" phenomenon whereby bicyclists killed in the line of carbon footprint reduction are memorialized with decorative bikes chained near the intersections at which they died.
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2:00 PM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Moe
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Latest by n/a: Hey city riders, how do you deal with riding in the street? My tiny city has a ton of drivers but not so many pedestrians, so I generally stick to the sidewalks. I always feel like more »

It's been a month since Marc Jacobs showed his eponymous spring/summer 2008 collection in Manhattan and The New York Times Cathy Horyn will not stop talking about how brilliant he is. On her blog today, Horyn writes: "I wanted to see a designer suggest the experience of contemporary fashion—the extra-importance of the runway, the weird sensation of being the observer and the observed, the cultural ransacking, the shallowness—and not merely design a contemporary outfit. I felt that Jacobs made this leap..." We hope Horyn is getting some sweet kickbacks for all this ass-kissing; her colleague in fashion journalism, Dana Thomas, sure isn't! [NY Times]

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Miu Miu is supposed to be Prada-lite, Prada for the poor folk. In reality, it costs about the same as its big-sister label, but its design aesthetic? Decidedly different. While Prada is known for being anti-sexy and "intellectual" (because, uh, brains and beauty are mutually exclusive?), Miu Miu is a little more, well, slutty. But in a fun and playful way! This season's collection has a Lolita-like sensibility, with no-way-in-hell-can-you-sit-in-that short skirts and teeny tiny little bloomers underneath poofy, tiny confections. Little girl sizes on womanly bodies with red red lipstick? Humbert Humbert: Prepare yourself. Gallery begins below. (All images via AP)

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Since taking over the venerable French fashion house founded by Coco Chanel in 1909, "Krazy" Kraut Karl Lagerfeld has deconstructed and reconfigured iconic Chanel looks, adding a punk edge to shapes that would otherwise be, well, too classic. This is a label all about flaunting it — and flaunting it better than anyone else. The spring/summer 2008 collection, shown today in Paris, has a distinctly sporty edge to it. The day dresses are the kind that you aren't supposed to run around in, but of course totally could (and should); the footwear is ruggedly-shaped boots done up in metallics with macrame accents; and then... there were the denim bikinis. Gallery below. (All images via Getty.)

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Stella McCartney started to make a name for herself when she put out a collection several years ago that had bananas and pineapples where your breasts and vag are, barely sheathed under her clothes. Still best know, really, as being Sir Paul's kid and Gwyneth's BFF, Stella McCartney is a very competant designer. Her clothes are always sleek and hyperfeminine, all at the same time. This collection certainly isn't breaking any new boundaries, but it might provide you with some unique beachwear. Gallery below. (All images via Getty.)

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Even 55 years after its founding, the house of Givenchy still represents and puts forth a sort of extreme glamour, looks that are both conceptual but also outrageously beautiful in their high-artistry. This season's collection, designed by Ricardo Tisci and shown yesterday in Paris, looks like the wardrobe of a modern day WWII RAF pilot. 1940's silhouettes are revisited with unexpected anachronistic touches like gladiator boots and grommets. These are clothes to wear when you fight the law, but you win. Gallery begins below. (All images via Getty.)

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Why should you like Dries Van Noten? Because the man does not believe in advertising. So is the shit expensive? Well sure. But this member of breakaway, brilliant Belgian designers known as the Antwerp Six ain't gonna hustle for your hard-earned dollars. Love. We also love his fantastic eye for textiles and proportions. This season has particularly sensational prints, colors, draping, and shapes. In our bohemian fantasies, this is what we're wearing. Gallery below. (All images via AP.)

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Picky-eater and tight-jeans-loving Kraut Karl Lagerfeld is a design legend: He revitalized the house of Chanel, is now designing Fendi, and has launched labels of his own that have folded and come back almost as frequently as Lohan goes in and out of rehab. Designs for his eponymous label, which always reflects some sort of Ivana Trump-meets-punk rock celebration of 80's culture, were shown earlier today in Paris, set mainly in black and white, and shown on a rainbow runway. How subtle of him! Gallery below. (All images via AP.)

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The boys who believe that "fashion is an antidote to reality," Viktor & Rolf, presented a rather musical collection today, with violins either decorating or becoming the garments themselves On the other end of the spectrum were their harlequin dresses, shown in soft peaches and nudes, accented with the softest skirts, the lightest touch of lace, and the slightest ruffle. Gallery below. (All images via AP.)

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Designer Junya Watanabe studied in the school of Commes des Garcons before branching out to design his own label, and his spring/summer 2008 collection — shown today in Paris — both reflects this and his own colorful, playful bent. There's something almost clownish in the too-big jackets, the neon, hyper-draped dresses on display. And while we don't exactly approve of the balloon short-shorts, whenever did we meet a chapeau we didn't like? Gallery below. (All images via AP.)

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Vivienne Westwood might want us to stop shopping, but that didn't stop her from showing today at Paris Fashion Week. Known for her punk aesthetic, which has increasingly become one of perverted Victorian proportions, replete with much pinning and layering and nipped waists and full skirts, Westwood has produced yet another collection that celebrates the femme fatale. Fabric is swaddled wide across hips, low across the bust. These might not be particularly revolutionary looks for Westwood, but considering the male-designed androgyny elsewhere, they're kinda refreshing. Gallery below. (All images via AP.)

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The New York Times' Cathy Horyn is banned from Dolce & Gabbana. Which is too bad, really, because we'd love to hear what she would say about the design team's collection of totally gigantic dresses (and one unfortunate pantsuit). And although we'd never wear anything like them (we don't really have occasions that warrant gowns with circumferences greater than that of our apartments), we're kind of intrigued. Gallery below. (All images via AP)

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Alberta Ferretti's spring/summer '08 show was full of beautiful goddess gowns, delicately draped. Loose shift dresses with pretty details; garments seemingly spun from gold. Particularly innovative? No, not at all. In fact we've seen most of these shapes over and over again, particularly in the past two seasons. (And don't the shorter dresses sort of look like Marni knock-offs?) But very, very pretty? Certainly.

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Whoa: Is it just us or does the Ferragamo spring/summer 2008 ready-to-wear collection look straight out of 1989? Which, if we're not mistaken, was the last time Ferragamo was a big deal? Gallery below. (Images via AP.)

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The 'Glamour' Malaria Party: Full Of Fashion Icons, None Of Whom We've Heard Of

Glamour held a party last night called "Fashion Gives Back" which I attended with accomplished photojournalist Nikola Tamindzic. The idea of the party was some complicated financial arrangement whereby victims of malaria are somehow benefited by victims of fashion. (Limited-edition cures for the maximum killer of women and children!) We were panic-stricken by the sea of prominently cheekboned, indeterminately familiar faces until we saw one person we knew: Cory Kennedy! She's just got one more year of high school left. I asked if she was taking, like, trigonometry this year or what. "No, just math." She expressed sympathy. "I don't know who anyone is either," she said. "Though Tara Subkoff just left." Not that I would have recognized her! Anyhow, because Nikola doesn't retain boldface names and I never knew any to begin with, I got to tap dozens of bronzed shoulders (and tanorexia=v. hot right now) and inquire, "Who are you?" Which almost everyone was charmingly good-natured about...
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1:30 PM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Moe
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'Vogue' Editor Anna Wintour To See Sunlight, Breathe Real Air

  • New York Fashion Week and the showing of the Spring/Summer 2008 Ready-to-Wear collections start today. Expect us to be increasingly tired and irritable as the week goes on. Unless we see Vogue's Anna Wintour, in which case we will perk up momentarily, grab our BlackBerrys, and then go back to being tired and irritable. [Vogue UK]
  • Models who were dancers say that their dance backgrounds give them a leg up in the industry because they are already well-versed in performance. We say that models who were dancers have a leg up in the industry because they've had years of practice starving themselves. [NYT]
  • Those close to Oscar de la Renta say that "None of the girls who just show up to places to get their pictures taken were invited. Oscar thinks they are tacky and is only interested in the women who actually support his work and, you know, buy the clothes." [NY Post]
  • Marc Jacobs, however, seems to totally dig those kind of girls, and has invited Lauren Conrad to participate in his show. [NY Post]
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10:40 AM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Jennifer
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Latest by nadarine: correction: Anna will not breathe real air. She insists on Diet Air. more »