Buying Things Is Hurting You, Says Store Selling Things
British department store Harvey Nichols has issued a warning to its customers about the dangers of doing exactly what they want you to do at their store: shop a lot.
Homophobes Offended by 'Lesbian' Images of Women Kissing Themselves
London department store Harvey Nichols got into a bit of hot water with homophobes for their 2012 "love thyself" beauty campaign. The ads show women who are about to make out with their own reflections. The idea being, "you'll love your new look so much, you'll go to town on yourself!" It's cute and harmless; I dig…
Advertising Standards Authority Says There's No Shame in 'Walk of Shame' Ad
There's no shame in the one night stand, says the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which ruled that a Harvey Nichols video advertisement depicting skimpily-dressed women blinking in the morning daylight as they slink by construction workers, eat street food, and stumble in heels "did not reinforce…
Major Retailer Offers Style Tips For Slutty Singles
Ah, the festive season, a solid month of parties with fancy finger food, free booze and ample opportunity to make your move on that hot guy from accounting. Though the downside is that the next day can leave us strumpets looking a little less than fresh. Noticing a gap in the market, UK retailer Harvey Nichols are…
Jonathan Adler: "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels"
- Designer (and husband of Barneys creative director/fashion sage Simon Doonan) Jonathan Adler is selling a needlepoint pillow emblazoned with the pro-ana proverb "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." Which, as Adler should know, is pretty much anorexia's catchphrase. [Racked]
Lady Gaga May Not Have A Penis, But She Makes An Attractive Man
- Is Lady Gaga getting her butch on modeling for Vogue Hommes Japan under the pseudonym "Jo Calderone"? Nicola Formichetti styled — he works with Gaga regularly — and Nick Knight — ditto — published the pictures online. So. [ONTD]
Gisele's Legs Still Glued Together On Mag Covers; More Met Ball Gossip
- For the May Vogue Mexico cover, Gisele Bündchen pulled virtually the same pose that was captured on the April cover of American Vogue. [DesignScene]
- Miley Cyrus wears a silver corset that costs $25,000 in her latest music video. [Us]
The Lady In Red
[London, March 18. Image via Getty]
Spin Cycle
[London, March 18. Image via Getty]
Carine Doesn't Seem To Read French Vogue As Often As We Do
- Carine Roitfeld: "You know it's easier to look great in a dress when you are skinny. But I like a bit of curves and I like to do stories with different kinds of women...
Wallace & Gromit Go High Fashion • Afghan Prez Pardons Bayonet Gang-Rapists
Posh UK department store Harvey Nichols has
launched an ad campaign starring Wallace, Gromit, and Wallace's love interest Lady Campanula. • The of rural Australian women moving to urban areas to peruse education and better jobs has lead to a "gender imbalance" all over the country. • The are in full swing in Hong…
English high-end retailer Harvey Nicks is doing, uh, absolutely nothing to reverse gender stereotypes. Their latest advert (as they call it on that side of the pond) features a graph that makes a connection between the height of a woman's heels and the attractiveness of the sort of man she can land. Let us say from…
Ralph Lauren Is Really F'ing Rich, And Not Particularly Embarrassed About It!
- Everyone's favorite self-hating Jew, Ralph Lifshitz, is the highest-paid "vendor" (what they call "manufacturers" that don't really manufacture) in apparel. No really, it's not just a fantasy image he uses to get you to buy those horrid Big Pony shirts: dude is loaded. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Reese Witherspoon is the new…
What's In Store(s) For Sienna Miller
- Sienna and Savannah Miller's Twenty8Twelve by s.miller clothing line is going high-end. In addition to a pop-up store coming to London's Notting Hill in September, the line will also be sold at Harvey Nichols in the UK, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman in the U.S., and Holt Renfrew in Canada. [WWD, 3rd item]
- OMG!…
