The Derek Blasberg apologias are trickling in — hardly surprising considering Blasberg, for his 27 years, is wealthy and well-connected. But in asking for money from a company he intended to write about, Blasberg may have jeopardized his job.
So much of the African American experience is stashed in basements and attics. So writes fashion journalist Robin Givhan in her recent article about the Black Fashion Museum Collection's move to the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
Derek Blasberg, the ubiquitous man-about-town social arbiter, covers parties for Condé Nast's Style.com. Last Friday, he wrote about a fun little shindig Yves Saint Laurent threw. Thing is, a credible source tells us he asked for $2500 from the brand.
Today, the Gap is unveiling a very beige trio of capsule collections from the winners of this year's Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund awards. So how did Patrik Ervell, Sophie Théallet, and jewelry designer Monique Péan do?
In an unguarded moment, Bryan Grey-Yambao (better known as BryanBoy) attempted to live-Tweet a sexual encounter with two strapping Swedes. He's since deleted the tweets, but at least he thoughtfully took the time to mention one paramour wore Lanvin. [@BryanBoy]
A reader sent in a link to a post at Tom & Lorenzo about a fashion spread in the May 2010 issue of Interview magazine.
Meg R. noticed something funny at Woman Within, a website that sells clothing sizes 12w to 44w. All of the models were very thin, thus not representative of the intended customer base at all.
What's Naomi going to talk about on Oprah today? Apparently, her closet, her love of ballet, and her habit of throwing phones at the little people in her life. Oh, and the small matter of that blood diamond.
Something is lacking in the current push to include plus-size models in mainstream fashion publications (or "separate-but-equal" media outlets such as Vogue Italia's "Vogue Curvy").
This is a video of Naomi Campbell refusing to answer questions about her relationship with the notorious Liberian warlord/president Charles Taylor, and about a large blood diamond Taylor allegedly gave the supermodel in South Africa in 1997.
It's hard to know what to make of Tamara Mellon. On the surface, she's a cunning businesswoman with the savvy to serve simultaneously as a brand figurehead. Or, possibly, a cunning brand figurehead with the ability to appear business-savvy.
For years, designers and editors have focused on a specific demographic of thin women, overlooking the many big and beautiful fashionistas. If there's anything we've learned from magazines, it's that the fashion world can be out of touch with reality.
Adrienne at Native Appropriations has collected an impressive amount of evidence of the trend (still going strong) of wearing clothes and accessories that reference American Indians.
Are you following Jezebel's Jenna Sauers as she Tweets about Fashion Week? You should be, especially for behind-the-scenes pictures like this one of Jenna and fellow model and writer Crystal Renn. [Twitter]
"It's really annoying," Tavi says. "People complain that my generation is stupid, but when I show that I have a brain, they call me a fake." If fame gets old, she may "go J.D. Salinger on everyone." [Chicago Tribune, Earlier]
Be thankful if you still have a job: After the hell year that was 2009, a lot of fashion people don't. Many designers were fired, some were hired, and plenty lost their businesses altogether. An overview of the tumult:
Consider the cruel plight of model Lara Stone. Although she wears, at most, a U.S. size 4, the fact that she has breasts means that — well, nobody in fashion calls her 'fat' exactly, but...
On the current cover of Flaunt is a David LaChapelle photograph of Naomi Campbell, entitled "The Rape Of Africa." The fold-out cover features black boys playing with M16 rifles and grenade launchers while a white male model slumbers.
Anne Slowey is no longer sure about any of what she told New York about Tavi Gevinson. "I don't recall ever saying she had a 'Tavi team,'" writes Slowey, who had compared Gevinson to fake author JT Leroy. [Elle]
Vogue contributor and children's author Lesley M. M. Blume wrote us today to distance herself from some of her reported comments about 13-year-old writer Tavi Gevinson, whom she thrice called "a novelty."
