<![CDATA[Jezebel: horrible hagyness]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: horrible hagyness]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/horriblehagyness http://jezebel.com/tag/horriblehagyness <![CDATA[ I have no words to describe the horror that...]]> I have no words to describe the horror that is the video for the Hagyness-collaborated single "Who." Fortunately for me, Guardian fashion critic Hadley Freeman still has her wits about her as she fields a question from reader Martin Stam, who writes, "Can you please explain why the big fuss over that model Agyness Deyn? She's perfectly pretty but the excitement does seem disproportionate." RepliesFreeman: "Someone somewhere along the line decided that we need a new culture-by-way-of-fashion icon as a sort of generational figurehead... Don't get me wrong, I'm sure she's a lovely girl and, yes, a very pretty one. But with that peroxide crop and her love of DM boots and strange stretchy miniskirts, surely I'm not the only one baffled by all the adulation of this so-called "style maverick" when Roxette carved this niche with rather more aplomb almost 20 years ago? A little bit of overkill, yuhthink?" [Guardian, Fashionologie]

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<![CDATA[ Reason #482 why Agyness Deyn is not a style...]]> Reason #482 why Agyness Deyn is not a style icon: She cites the Queen as her personal style icon. "I love her Barbour jacket and welly thing when she goes out walking her dogs. Ladylike, but a bit quirky." Oh please — that's the most contrived, tired answer ever. Also, the dress she wore out last night to the Empire Awards is making our vertigo worse, not better. Which is not stylish, but cruel. [Times of London; FilmMagic]

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<![CDATA[The Style-Impaired Show Up For ELLE Style Awards]]> Last night in London ELLE UK hosted the ELLE Style Awards and you'd think that the people who turned up would be, you know, well dressed! But you'd have thought wrong. KT Tunstall, for example, seemed to mistake the event for a belated Halloween party and came clad as a sparkly bumblebee. Keira Knightley, also getting into the All Hallow's Eve spirit, came as a ghostly goth girl. And someone needs to stage an intervention with model (H)Agyness Deyn, who came in the best/awful 80's costume I've ever seen. Oh, and then there was Stella McCartney, featured at left with Kate Hudson (whose dress lost all shape once she removed the jacket), who I officially double-dare to turn up somewhere and not look totally fucking miserable. Smile, Stella. Please. The full good, bad, and ugly, after the jump.

The Good: ellestylekimberlystewart.jpgKimberley Stewart is shockingly ,the only one who got the memo about keeping things classy. ellestylekylieminogue.jpgGod bless Kylie Minogue: The woman only gets better with age. ellestylenaomiharris.jpgNaomi Harris looks gorgeous and glowing in orange. Love orange. ellestylejamesmcavoy.jpgAlso nom nom James McAvoy!

The Bad: ellestylelilyallen.jpgAnother day, another opinion: This morning I feel totally over Lily Allen's dopey florals. ellestylekellybrook.jpgKelly Brook is dressed for the prom? ellestylekatehudson.jpgI really want to like Kate Hudson's dress. But I can't.

The Ugly: ellestylekttunstall.jpgHey look! It's the girl from the Blind Melon music video! ellestylekeiraknightley.jpgHey look! It's Janice from Mean Girls! ellestyleagyness.jpgJust horrible, Hagyness.

[All photos via Bauer-Griffin.]

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<![CDATA[Marc Jacobs: Blue Hair Is Not As Bad As A Bribery Scandal]]>

  • Poor Marc Jacobs. First the world calls him crazy, now he's caught up in a bribery scandal. Turns out that the superintendent of NYC's 69th Regiment Armory, where Jacobs' shows are held each season, demanded little cash prezzies upwards of $30,000 from Marc et al in order for him to grant them permission to show there. KCD, the PR firm that handles Marc Jacobs, is allegedly responsible for making the pay-offs. [WWD]
  • Meanwhile, Marc has invited K-Fed to sit front row at his show tomorrow night! [WWD, 2nd item]
  • Happy Birthday, Horrible Hagyness. [WWD, 5th item]
  • Fashion Week is bad for Chloe Sevigny's self-esteem, "Fashion week makes me feel very self-critical. Like I'm not wearing the right thing or looking the right way. It's stressful." [WWD, 9th item]
  • Samsonite creative director Quentin Mackay on why the company has tapped Chloe to collaborate on the design for the company's Black Label collection: "She has that vintage attitude. Her films are always off-the-cuff so it fits perfectly with the vintage modern feel. Design is always one step backwards, two steps forward." We think he meant that as a compliment, and yet... [Fashion Week Daily]
  • What do male models do when they're no longer male models? Why, they do quickie sketches of fashion shows, of course. Former model Blue Logan (and yes, we keep reading that as Blue Lagoon, too) sits in the front row and draws the crowds and as many of the looks as he can while the show goes on. Also, he owns a night club. [Vogue UK]
  • Ooh Amy Adams on the March cover of ELLE: Love. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Actress Lindsay Price on why she loves Cosmo: "My parents never taught us about the birds and the bees. They sat us down to watch Blue Lagoon and assumed that would be how we learned about sex, but Cosmo came to the rescue." [Fashion Week Daily]
  • "I don't know anything cool that's going on!": Julia Restoin Roitfeld. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Seriously, how is "Would you change your style for a man?" even a legit question to ask? [FabSugar]
  • Mazel Tov to Tommy Hilfiger on his engagement to girlfriend Dee Ocleppo. [Page Six]
  • Also to Alex von Furstenberg (son of Diane), who is engaged to firmly-legal girlfriend Ali Kay. [Page Six]
  • Victoria's Secret model Karolina Kurkova will be starring in the live-action movie of G.I. Joe. [Page Six]
  • First John Deere made tractors, now it's making jeans. [BrandWeek]
  • What a shocker: Children's sweatshirts made in China have been shown to have a defective pullstring that has been known to strangle children. [UPI]
  • Nicole Kidman's bathing suit: Now feeding entire impoverished villages. [NYT]
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<![CDATA[Karl Lagerfeld: Now Pocket Sized]]>

  • Karl Lagerfeld has designed a lead figurine of himself, to be sold as a limited edition (1,000 units only) for $300 at Paris boutique Colette. Perfect for teaching etiquette, nutrition, and brand-expansion strategy to your Homies! [WWD, 3rd item]
  • Agyness Deyn has replaced Drew Barrymore as the face of English designer Giles Deacon's diffusion line, Gold. Anyway, if they were looking for someone less overexposed than Drew Barrymore, they failed. [Vogue UK]
  • Aw, gender equality! Male models are getting freakishly thin, too. [NY Mag]
  • Diane von Furstenberg: "Is it clothes that make you glamorous? I don't think so! Glamour is shine, glamour is having an aura, and that is not just about clothes or makeup — I am very often without makeup, and I always look for comfortable clothes. For me, it's important to be who you are, or — even better—to be who you want to be." This doesn't exactly make sense, but at least it seems sincere! [BlackBook]
  • The couture shows start in Paris on Monday. And are the suits behind the labels worried about the sucky economy and the fact that, uh, no one can afford couture? Nah, they're just worried it might rain. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Stupid celebrities attending the upcoming couture shows: Ellen Pompeo will be attending Armani "exclusively" (well, excuse us!) and Gossip Girl star Blake Lively is being taken by Vanity Fair to Chanel, Valentino, and Gauliter. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Oh the anticipation, it kills us. A documentary entitled Valentino: The Last Emperor (made by Vanity Fair correspondent Matt Tyrnauer) makes its debut in May at Cannes. [Vogue UK]
  • Heidi Klum will be wearing a custom-made John Galliano to the Oscars in February (um, presuming the Oscars actually happen this year), which is somehow supposed to raise awareness for Diet Coke's Heart Truth campaign to educate women about heart disease. Yeah, we don't get it either. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Badgley Mischka are on Martha Stewart today showing bridal looks. Must watch. [Chic Report]
  • Okay, not gonna lie: I actually really do want to learn how to get Blake "Serena van der Woodsen" Lively's make-up look. [BellaSugar]
  • Barneys New York: Now in Vegas. The store was designed to look a little trashy to, y'know, match the Vegas aesthetic. "There's more glitter here," says Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Home Shopping Network is debuting a line of products by Dr. David Watts, which he claims will delay customers' inevitable need for plastic surgery. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • American Eagle is starting a line of children's clothing called 77kids, aimed at 2-10-year olds. Just in case you were worried that your kids weren't emblazoned in logos at a young enough age. [WWD, sub req'd]
  • It Bag-makers Mulberry just announced that they're going to start doing shoes, also. And today they announced they'll be adding eyewear as well. Way to diffuse the brand, guys. [WWD, 5th item]
  • Designer Monique Lhullier's new Bel-Air home is featured on the cover of ELLE Decor this month. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Sass & Bide is doing a diffusion line called Vie that is supposedly reasonably priced. [Okay, note to self: Ask Jen what a "diffusion line" is. Is it like a "bridge" line, only with more particles? -Moe] Pieces range from $63-$260. Your call whether that's reasonably priced or not. [FabSugar]
  • Yay for the Gap for making their new CFO a woman. We wish Sabrina Simmons well in her new position. [The Street]
  • Vanessa Williams on her retail therapy: "It's much more fun buying shoes at night, after dinner and a few drinks. It just doesn't hurt as much." Note to self: Always get drunk before Prada. [Fashion Week Daily]
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<![CDATA[Donatella And McDreamy, Sitting In A Tree...]]>

  • In an unprecedented gesture, Donatella Versace has named Patrick Dempsey the face of the Versace men's line for not one but two consecutive seasons. Perhaps she's impressed by his track record on the whole "gets hotter every year OMG" front? [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Speaking of Donatella, Tom Ford agrees with her that Russians are totally hot right now. "Russians are hardwired to appreciate the fine things in life. They have been denied nice things for years." Um, tell that to Boris Berezovsky's mistresses Tom! [Vogue UK]
  • Victoria's Secret is holding competitions for college-aged women to model in their runway shows alongside the "real" models. This is a bid to get more college-aged students to buy their slave labor manufactured lingerie, and given what we know of college-aged girls, it will probably work. [WSJ]
  • Kate Hudson: "I'm trying not to shop anymore. I've gotten in the habit of making phone calls when I see something and saying, 'Please, when that comes in, can you send it?'" How quaint! [WWD, 1st item]
  • Kathy and Rick Hilton are maybe going to buy recently-bankrupted French shoe company Charles Jourdan, and talks are already in the works about a Kathy Hilton for Charles Jourdan shoe line, which is a good thing because there is such a dearth of consumer products currently available that can boast to being endorsed by someone named "Hilton," you know? [WWD, sub req'd]
  • Says Roger Vivier designer Bruno Frisoni: "I wasn't comfortable doing accessories before I met Christian Lacroix. He taught me to have fun in fashion and to be 'désinvolte' — to not be afraid of bad taste, which is especially important in fashion because sometimes if you have bad taste, it's good." Dude, totally. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • Kate Moss: Now officially a member of Who's Who! [Vogue UK]
  • Estee Lauder is being sued by fellow cosmetics company Nefeli, which is a Chinese, herb-based line. Nefeli had signed a secret pact with Lauder where it would allow them to sneak a peaks at samples of their products and technology. But, uh, then the Lauder folks just reverse-engineered that shit and sold it under their Origins brand. Um, so what did you think they were going to do with that intellectual property you were selling them, guys? [WWD, 2nd item]
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