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PhotoShop Of Horrors
Look, Clive Owen is great. Awesome, even. And hot! He's not exactly craggy or jowly but he is NOT the smooth, baby-faced manbot seen in this Lancôme ad. Found in the "Hommes International" issue of Paris Vogue, this ad renders Clive positively poreless. Isn't his rugged, wizened mug what you like about him? At least they put his name on the photo, so you know who the hell he is. (Click to for a larger view.)
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Anna Wintour: 1; Rachel Zoe: 0
- OMG: Rachel Zoe has been disinvited from the Anna Wintour-hosted Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala, taking place Monday night in New York. This is what you get when you tempt the gods and proclaim yourself more important than Vogue. [Fashion Week Daily]
- Also, Wintour has instructed Vogue staffers that they may only wear white, silver, or other "pale shades." Just like the colors of faces that she likes to see on her magazine's cover! [Fashion Week Daily]
- French Vogue editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld and designer/Chanel creative director "Krazy" Karl Lagerfeld were both named to the Time 100 List, as influential members of the fashion community. Something about the way they both made fashion about "the street" or something. [Vogue UK]
- Gisele Bundchen is still the top-paid model, according to Forbes. Heidi Klum is the second. Take that, Moss. [Sassybella]
Vive La Difference!
Forty-seven-year-old actress Julianne Moore is on the cover of the May issue of American Harper's Bazaar and the May issue of French Vogue. She's wholesome and peaches-and-cream on one; provocatively dressed in a plunging blouse and leopard print underwear on the other. Are the French just edgier? Or more likely to see the sex appeal in an older woman? Or would Americans rather not see the crotch of an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress on their magazine covers? (Click picture for a larger view.)
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Kate Moss In French Vogue: Biker Chic(k)
Well, we've posted a couple of photo shoots from the April issue of French Vogue, but we haven't really discussed the cover story starring Kate Moss. The shoot, by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, is titled "Sur La Route," or "On The Road" and it's clearly inspired by the 1968 film Girl On A Motorcycle, starring Marianne Faithfull. A lovably weird, psychedelic romp, the plot involves Rebecca (Faithfull) receiving a motorcycle as a wedding present from her lover. Then she gets herself a leather jumpsuit and (wearing nothing underneath), leaves her husband and drives to see said lover, having crazy trippy daydreams as she rides. They say the flick inspired the more-famous Easy Rider, which came out the next year. In any case: Check out the sleazy trailer for the film and the Vogue shots of Kate Moss, after the jump. More »
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I Can Has Jeetann? C'est LOLVogue En Faux Français
You already know that the April issue of Vogue Paris is pretty inside, but did you know that one photo shoot was also perfect for a LOLcat treatment? And so. The black and white "Simplement Couture" shots, by Hedi Slimane, get some incredibly stoopid faux Français text. We're puttin werds on ur moddles, after the jump. More »
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French Vogue: The Wind Beneath Our Wings
Despite all the stupid stuff that gets published in women's magazines, sometimes what's found on the printed page can be unexpectedly enjoyable. Just open the April issue of Vogue Paris, and check out the "Dans Le Vent" (in the wind) shoot by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Bright blue sky, fluttering dresses, sunshine! Inspiration! A breath of fresh air! Poetry in motion! It will take all of your will power not to drop everything and move to the Mediterranean to take modern dance. Some images from the shoot — paired with the poetry of Emily Dickinson (it just seemed like a good idea) — after the jump. More »
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Anna Wintour And Carine Roitfeld: It Is So On
- Anna Wintour on being called a "puppet" by French Vogue editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld in New York Magazine: "Maybe you should ask Carine. I have no comment." [Frillr]
- But you should ask her about it if you happen to be at Oxford University today, where La Wintour will be speaking about her "media career and extensive charity work." If you are there please email us with details from her chat! [Vogue UK]
- "Ashley was surprised. The women were really chic. A lot of them had such great style. And we didn't expect there to be so many women like that." That's Rae Miles, commercial director of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's clothing line, The Row, about her and Ashley's visit to Dallas to promote the line. Because clearly no one outside L.A. or New York knows how to dress themselves! [WWD, sub req'd]
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Giorgio Armani Insults Anna Wintour To Her Face
- Georgio Armani is co-chairing a dinner to celebrate a Vogue-sponsored Costume Institute exhibit called "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Which is why he gave a press conference during which he professed to be "indifferent" to Anna Wintour while standing next to her. We assume he'll be too dead to make it to dinner. [NY Mag]
- Then again: the shocking new garment industry tell-all Gomorrah says Italian fashion is really just the Mafia so maybe Georgio knows what he's doing. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Model Gemma Ward's film debut The Black Balloon takes top prize at he Berlin Festival. [Sassybella]
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French Vogue Editor Carine Roitfeld Is Such A Terribly Deep Person
If your brain is anything like mine when it comes to absorbing pointless crap, you probably know Carine Roitfeld edits French Vogue! And chances are you also know that French Vogue is like, more French than our Vogue. The cliches are true! They are much edgier than Americans. And thinner! And more fashion-y! Does any of this make her an interesting person? This week's New York magazine finds out: not really! Here's Carine on politics: "For us [Carla Bruni's romance with French President Nicholas Sarkozy] is good. She is very glamour. She can fit in the clothes." She once held the job of "muse"! "I was just looking the way I was looking, sitting the way I was sitting. Making the girls look like me." But you'll be relieved to know a rumor about her making her staffers weigh in on her office scale every day is false. And that if not large, she contains multitudes! "She lists beauty and jewelry as evidence that the job as editor-in-chief has expanded her range of interests." Though she doesn't know how to use a computer! Oh for Chrissakes, surely there is something slightly deeper about this woman...oh here! She just returned from a meditation retreat in Thailand. More »
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Dear Diane: Sorry, But You Can't Claim To "Show The Soul Of A Woman" On The Same Day You Sue Target
- "With so many magazine images that are so completely retouched, we've gone in the opposite direction, showing the soul of a woman." That's artist Francois-Marie Banier, on this Diane von Furstenberg ad starring Natalia Vodianova. Which makes us wonder, if that is the "opposite direction" of the retouching trend, we sort of wonder what that trend would look like "taken to its hyperbolic extreme." [Vogue UK]
- And in other DVF news, Diane is suing Target over a wrapdress. Wait, you're telling us Target didn't invent the wrapdress? [Reuters]
- Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell are appearing on the February cover of French Vogue together — with Naomi appearing sans hair extensions. What would Tyra say? [Fashion Week Daily]
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Bon Joor, C'est Paris LOLVogue Encore!
The new issue of Paris Vogue, with trés belle actress Charlotte Gainsbourg on the cover, features a white-on-white photo shoot, complete with lion cub. (OMG bebe wildlife!) Of course we had to give it a touch of ze LOL. In the spirit of cheezburger-loving felines all over the internets: Butchered French and kitteh speak, after the jump. More »
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Kim Cattrall Reverses Position On Killing Animals
- Despite toiling for so many years educating Americans on the merits of croc-skin bags on a certain premium cable TV show, Kim Cattrall says she has seen the PETA light: she's donating all the furs she wore in making the SATC movie to the animal rights organization so they can be donated to homeless people who no one will ever mistake for trendsetting style icons. There's just one flaw in that plan, and we think you might know what it is. [Page Six]
- Spanx is getting into the business of making bras. Shudder. [FabSugar]
- Gisele is the latest model to think she's a fashion designer. Ms. Bundchen's collection will be in stores in March 2008, but she didn't do it alone (surprise, surprise) — she's partnered with an obscure little duo known as Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. [Vogue UK]
- Gucci will release a limited edition collection in honor of the Beijing Olympics. Wonder if anyone will follow up with a "Genocide Olympics" line? Yeah, probably not. [WWD, sub req'd]
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Venus Williams Thinks Fashion Design Is Actually About Design
- Venus Williams was awarded with an associate's degree in fashion design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale over the weekend, becoming the first celebrity "designer" to ever get a degree in fashion design. She even got a prize for the "Best Sportswear Collection" and a 3.5 GPA. Also, she has a collection for Steve & Barry's. [Sassybella]
- Mango takes a nod from Pedro Almodovar, keeps Penelope Cruz as the face of its brand for a second consecutive season. Now if she could only find a boyfriend with the same devotion! [WWD, 3rd item]
- Italian director Franco Zeffirelli wants to give the Pope a makeover. But would the Pope approve of all the gratuitous tit scenes in Romeo & Juliet? [Sassybella]
- French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld is in New York for her lesser-known spawn Vladmir's 23rd birthday. [Fashion Week Daily]
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What's The Message Behind A Black Man In Heels On The Cover Of Vogue?
The New York Times interviewed our favorite muse, André J., for the Sunday Styles section, and we've learned all kinds of interesting things about André! André was born in Newark, N.J, does not consider himself a cross dresser ("I'm just expressing myself and not hurting anyone and taking myself to a place where I want to be, a place where the world is beautiful") and keeps a journal. He was raised in a "loving single-mother household in a housing project" and then moved to L.A. for "the sex and the fame." A stylist recommended that Bruce Weber shoot André, and André traveled to the photographer's Montauk compound from Manhattan via bus. But André didn't know he would be on the cover: A friend called and broke the news when André was on his way home from church one Sunday. French Vogue editor in chief Carine Roitfeld swears: "There is not a special message in the cover, I just loved it." But we've been thinking: Is the cover sending the message, "It's fabulous to be yourself!" Or is it saying,"If a black model wants to land the cover of Vogue, she'd better grow a beard" ? More »
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French Vogue: Now With More Bearded Drag Queens
French Vogue is better than American Vogue in so many ways, but never has it been more obvious: U.S. Vogue needs more bearded drag queens! For instance, André J. He's a muse who used to work at the Patricia Field store and graced New York Magazine's look book. And now he's posing with Carolyn Murphy on the cover of an influential fashion magazine! Would Anna Wintour ever allow such a thing? Check out his adorable pix, after the jump. Plus: Carolyn Murphy and a teenage boy with his pants down!More »
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Marc Jacobs To Host Aladdin-Themed Halloween Party
- Those invited to Marc Jacobs' annual holiday costume party (aka - not us) need to start preparing their costumes now. The theme has finally been announced! "Arabian Nights." We double-dare someone to go as Edward Said. [WWD, 2nd item]
- The most important movie of all time, the Sex and the City movie, shot at the offices of the most important magazine of all time, Vogue. My god, how did the world not combust when these two forces joined powers? Also, Anna Wintour will not be appearing in the movie. But Andre Leon Talley will! And we hope that Jennifer Hudson, who is playing Carrie Bradshaw's assistant in the movie, manages to restrain herself re: that whole idiotic bolero-from-Mars thingy he made her wear to the Oscars. [WWD, 1st item]
- Why we love Barneys New York's Creative Director Simon Doonan, reason #482: "Everyone in the music industry looks like a hooker. Let's call it porno-chic. It seems to me nowadays that Janis Joplin wouldn't be able to get her clog in the door without a full makeover!" [Fashion Week Daily]
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