Little Black Dresses and Sharp Black Trousers at the Armani Event
Last night in New York City at the Armani One Night Only event, famous folks gathered and wore a lot of black. A whole lot of black.
Armani Is Black & White & Sharp All Over
When you think "Giorgio Armani," do you think high contrast black and white? Do you think giant flower corsages? Do you think 1920s cloches and boaters? No? Well that's what he presented in Milan yesterday as part of his spring 2012 collection. Theere was an absence of color, but the clothes were super crisp, very fresh…
Gaga Seeks To Create The Most Beautiful Thing She's Ever Worn
- In concert with her MAC Viva Glam campaign, Lady Gaga is encouraging Little Monsters to contribute profile photos to be incorporated into "the most beautiful thing she's ever worn." The cause is great, but this sounds potentially ominous. [Viva Glam]
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- Along with other businesses, Tokyo's many fashion companies started…
The Best Of Haute Couture Week
Nilina Mason-Campbell ran around Paris to get a fresh look at couture. Not the runway-shot, brand-manicured take we always get. The street-skulking, exhilarating flash-and-grab honesty of the perennial non-ticket-holder! (It's not our fault we don't know any PRs in Paris.)
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]
Zooey Deschanel Sues Steve Madden
- Actress/grammatically creative indie songstress Zooey Deschanel is suing footwear knocker-offer/convicted felon Steve Madden for reneging on a $2 million contract. For that sum, Deschanel would have spent 13 days "designing" and promoting a line called "Zooey's Shoes And Accessories." [NYPost]
Gaultier Calls Out Gaga On Her Madonna Routine
- Jean-Paul Gaultier, on Lady Gaga: "I think she's talented and very inpolitically incorrect, which I love. But I also think that she read up on Madonna's life and learnt it like the Bible." [Telegraph]
Tom Ford Thinks A Lot About Fat Women And Their Rolls Of Fatty Fat
- Tom Ford, a man who immobilized his forehead with Botox, thinks people should go naked. Especially, well... "Fat women almost always look better without the constraint and lumpy pinching of clothes, all the straps and elastic squeezing and sucking." [ContactMusic]
Proof That Ladymags Cater To Designers Who Advertise
Here is an internal Harper's Bazaar document that lists the brands to feature in upcoming editorial spreads, ranked according to priority — and helpfully divided between "Advertisers" and "Non-Advertisers." This is how your ladymag sausage gets made.
In Defense of Cathy Horyn
Cathy Horyn is not sorry for what she wrote about Snooki
McQueen's New Designer: "I Can't Try And Pretend To Be Him"
"His ideas came from everywhere. It was never about, ‘Oh let's look at the Seventies,'" says Sarah Burton. (Why, whoever
Orlando Bloom And Charlize Theron Shill For Cheap Cashmere Blends
- Orlando Bloom and Charlize Theron are the new faces of Uniqlo. Bloom is practically as adept in front of the camera as his wife, while Theron drives an old Citroen and looks attractively wistful in her video. [Nicola Formichetti]
Lady Gaga In A Multi-Million-Dollar Deal With Armani
- Giorgio Armani has dressed Lady Gaga countless times, including for the Grammy Awards, and Armani even played Gaga's "Alejandro" video at its men's show, and both artistes profit. But despite this mutual admiration society, they've never actually met. [WSJ]
Chic White Armani Bikini Looks Great With A Tan
[Formentera, Spain, July 21: The ol' man has still got it. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]
The Best And Worst Of Paris Couture Week
Couture week, that four-day period when editors descend on Paris to venerate the fiction that enough people still buy $80,000 dresses to justify the expense and bother and fabulousness of the proceedings, is over. How'd everyone do?
Lindsay To Pose Nude For Fashion Line; Play About Isabella Blow…
- To promote her new accessories line for 6126 — the handbags cost $200-$600 — Lindsay Lohan plans to pose nude except for her SCRAM ankle bracelet. It might be airbrushed out, unless Lohan goes for that sexy-court-monitored-alcoholic look. [People]
Scarlett Laments Her "Schmoe" Look; Lady Gaga Makes Off With Priceless…
- "Working with these incredible hair and makeup teams, you go in looking like a schmoe, and you come out like a movie star," Scarlett Johansson tells V. "You're like this perfectly prepared sausage…no one ever sees what goes in." [People]
McQueen's Psychiatrist Testifies At Inquest; Pat Field Claims Credit…
- The inquest into Alexander McQueen's death has revealed that before he hanged himself, the designer took a lethal quantity of cocaine, as well as tranquilizers and sleeping pills. He also slit his wrists. He left a note, which read:
Eva And Posh Get Airbrushed To High Heaven; Rachel Bilson New Face Of…
- Eva Longoria Parker and Victoria Beckham are looking extraordinarily unlike themselves, even by the debased standards of airbrushed celebrity pictures, in these print ads for some LG phone. [SB]
Eva Joins Ranks Of Snuggie Lovers; Anna Wintour Lecture Bans Reporters
- Eva Mendes wore a Snuggie at a party for Flaunt magazine. [P6]
- According to one study, the luxury sector is projected to grow everywhere in the world this year, with the exception of Japan. [Independent]
Drew Atones For Past Fashion Sins; Vogue Says It's Been Printing…
- Drew Barrymore would like to apologize to Gucci for wearing that dress to the 2006 Golden Globes. "I felt so bad. I was like, 'I'm so sorry, Gucci. I have tarnished your name.'" [ContactMusic]
Coco Rocha Engaged; Cathy Horyn Slams Milan Fashion Week
- Model Coco Rocha, 21, has announced her engagement to boyfriend James Conran, a 29-year-old muralist and interior designer. We wish them the warmest congratulations. [OhSoCoco]
- Rocha's first ad for Rimmel is out. It involves...vibrant blue eyeshadow. [SB]
Giorgio Armani: "Woman As Tiger, Grr, Grr!"
According to the Telegraph, Giorgio Armani was backstage at his Milan fashion show today describing his collection as "Woman as tiger, grr, grrr." With bright orange and black velvet, he made this image come to life. Let's take a look:
Coke Dealer Fathers Supermodel's Baby; H&M Launching "Sustainable" Line
- Jourdan Dunn's boyfriend of four years — and the father of her 7-week-old son — was just sentenced to three years in prison for dealing cocaine. Weirdly, his name is Jordan. [The Sun]
Diaper Company Spoofs Beckham's Armani Ads; Lady Gaga's Grammy Dress…
- South Korean training pants brand Good-Nites released an ad that parodies David Beckham's turn for Armani. Because they are not just functional, but fashionable, kiddies! This makes us a little bit uncomfortable because Beckham is so sexxy. [Copyranter]
Haute Stuff
[Paris, January 25. Image via Getty]
Top Model Judge Slams Plus-Size Contestant; JWOWW Gets A Clothing Line
- An Australia's Next Top Model judge rejected a plus-size applicant who had made it to the second round of competition because "she would end up doing catalogues for Target." [NineMSN]
- Milla Jovovich might've booked the next Ann Taylor campaign. [P6]
Demi's New Photoshop Of Horrors; Lara Stone Is Not "The Larger…
- A wax doll impersonates Demi Moore in this latest Helena Rubinstein perfume ad, shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott (the same team behind her atrociously 'shopped W cover). Can't wait for the "before" shot, Demi! [PhotoshopDisasters]
Kate Moss Busts Out; Cindy Says She'd Never Make It As A Model Today
- Pictures of the new Kate Moss Topshop collection are out — and they prominently display the supermodel's breasts, which she just recently up and grew, like she's some kind of experimental woman built by science, or something. [Telegraph]