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Tom Ford Wants To Take Barack Obama's Clothes Off
- "I think he's a great-looking guy but I think his suits don't fit him very well...I wouldn't say he's badly dressed, but he could sharpen up his look a little better." —Tom Ford on Barack Obama. [Vogue UK]
- Holy. Fucking. Shit. Comme des Garcons for H&M? Start lining up for this now. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Jude Law is set to be the face of a yet-to-launch men's fragrance from Dior. It will invariably smell douchey. [Cosmetics News]
- Your cell phone does not need its own pair of Crocs. [Sassybella]
maghag
Most Ladymags Continuing To Experience Whiteout Conditions
January is traditionally the month in which the fashion magazines are slimmer than usual. Not the models — the actual publications. In the post-holiday issues, advertising pages are down, and compared to December, it's a slow month in terms of projects, news and celebrities. So often, January is the month you'll find a person of color on the cover! And lo and behold, Rihanna is on Allure, looking gorgeous. (Christina Aguilera is on Marie Claire.) Our own Maria-Mercedes Lara did a tireless search through the January issues of W, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Marie Claire, Allure, Glamour, Lucky, Elle and Cosmopolitan, looking for women of color (she uses "ambiguous race" to describe models clearly not meant to be seen as "white.") Her tallies, after the jump. More »
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Nicole Miller Follows In Footsteps Of Anna Wintour, Pisses PETA Off
- PETA will be protesting outside of Nicole Miller's Fashion Week show because of her use of fur. And in a (failed) preemptive strike, Miller has issued a statement promising that only 12 of 150,000 pieces to be manufactured from the Spring/Summer 2008 collection being shown will contain fur trim. She also promises to be fur-free starting with her Fall/Winter 2008 collection to be shown in February. [WWD, sub req'd]
- MySpace continues its foray into fashionmania, partners with InStyle, airs release of Paris Hilton's clothing line at LA's Kitson. Oh yeah: This is definitely what the road to success looks like. [WWD, 2nd item]
- Paper magazine has hired thirteen developmentally-challenged artists to create a window display for Barneys interpreting the Fall/Winter 207 collections. [WWD, 2nd item]
- Crocs: The clothing line? Noooooooooooooooooooooo. [WSJ]
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'InStyle' Editor Charla Lawhon: Friendly, Outgoing, Fast Thinker!
Charla Lawhon was part of the original team of editors during InStyle's 1993 test period at Time Inc. She was later appointed deputy editor of InStyle in 1994, and became executive editor in December 1998. According to one Jezebel, who has worked for her, she is the nicest boss that Jezebel has ever had: down to earth, funny, decent. InStyle — EXCEPT FOR OUR POSTS ABOUT FORMER ACCESS. DIRECTOR ALICE KIM — does not have gossip or drama circulating around it, and for a reason: because it is a nice place to work, from the top down. But see what graphologist Sheila Kurtz says, after the jump! More »
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Terrence Howard Thinks Women Are Unclean And Dressed Like Whores
The new issue of Elle has an interview with Oscar-nominated actor Terrence Howard. Mr. Howard, of Hustle & Flow and Crash fame, is attractive, that goes without saying. But his thoughts and opinions? Not so much! Some snippets from Elle:"I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection."On his relationship philosophy:
"If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long. Now I'm completely chaste through a relationship unless I get married. I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away. There were some [past girlfriends] who pushed for sex, and sometimes they won. Afterward, I would feel unclean, like I'd compromised my own values. So I would have to let them go because they didn't help me to be a stronger person."More »
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Those 367 New Ways To Please A Man Have Clearly Rendered The Minds At 'Cosmo' Brainless
Breaking news! Cosmopolitan — not so creative! Which is why we're not even mildly shocked by the fact that the very magazine that, to the best of our cognitive abilities, presents identical cover lines and content to us month after month should also assume the recycling method when it comes to expanding its brand. The Hearst magazine's subsidiary title, Cosmopolitan Style & Beauty is nothing more than what the watered down version of what the bastard love child of UsWeekly, Life & Style and InStyle might look like. As the folks at Media Post's Magazine Rack put it:The thinking behind Cosmopolitan Style & Beauty seems to go something like this: Women like celebrities! Women like to look like the celebrities they like! Women like celebrities who look like celebrities and wear celebrity-like outfits!More »
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Lindsay Lohan On Cover Of September 'Elle': Way More Than 'Adequite'
The folks over at Women's Wear Daily are worried about Elle. The paper's media-gossip column 'Memo Pad' is concerned about what Lindsay Lohan's latest DUI arrest means for the Hachette fashion magazine, which is featuring the actress on the cover of its advertiser-heavy, September fashion extravaganza for the 2nd year in a row (last year's cover, above left).Elle readers seeking pages of fashion and style advice might be turned off by another Lohan arrest and pending court date, which will take place just days after the magazine hits newsstands... sources said Elle's interview and photo shoot took place prior to Lohan's stint in rehab, so it's likely the story doesn't include any discussion of her most recent run-in with the law.Uh, doesn't that make the upcoming issue even more tantalizing? Also, does no one remember Lohan's appearance on the cover of InStyle's November 2006 issue, which came out just as she was doing AA for the first time and telling director Robert Altman's widow to "be adequite" and all that shit? As far as we've heard, InStyle's issue sold pretty well. More »
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Are Alexander Payne And Misanthropic Fashionista Blogger Alice Kim A Pairing?
Former In Style Accessories Director and lead 'View From The Fourth Row' blogger suspect Alice Kim is leaving In Style for Omaha, Nebraska, in a development that probably involves internationally-acclaimed "spiritual healer" Dawn Christie and may also concern native Nebraskan and Korean-proclivitor Alexander Payne. (Yeah, that Alexander Payne! Guess we're all going to the wrong cocktail parties, huh?) If true, this sheds light on her mysterious decision, announced last month, to move to Nebraska to open a boutique targeting the white-hot Omaha fashionista population. Apparently the store is still happening, with some financial help from her parents — and also, so it happens, her co-workers! Late last week, an informer tells us, Alice held a little "cubicle sale" of all the free swag she raked in during her years "covering" the luxury leather goods industry. So here's an ethical question: how much of a markup do you charge the employees who suspect you of relentlessly anonymously trashing them on your bitchy fashion blog as you depart for a charmed new life with a Hollywood golden child? More »
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What Are 'Curves'? Jessica Alba Adds To The Confusion
Someone do us a big favor and explain exactly what starlets, editors, stylists and other assorted image-makers mean when they say a woman has "curves". According to People.com (via InStyle magazine) Jessica Alba is announcing that she "had womanly curves at a young age", which we take to mean that she once ate normally and exercised moderately. (We have it on good authority that Jessica's visible ribcage had to be airbrushed out of a recent fashion magazine spread — and it wasn't InStyle's). But women's magazines are so conflicted about the definition of the word "curves" that they use it to describe anyone from boobs-on-a-beanpole models like Gisele Bundchen to "normally"-sized starlets like Scarlett Johansson to plus-size ladies like Camryn Manheim now that she is more, well, minusly-plus-sized. More »
Compare & Contrast: 'Marie Claire' vs. 'InStyle'
(Left: Marie Claire, May 2007; Right: InStyle, October 2006)
Knock-off or inspiration? (Full disclosure: We probably noticed the similarities because we, well, wrote one of them).
(Left: Marie Claire, May 2007; Right: InStyle, October 2006)
Knock-off or inspiration? (Full disclosure: We probably noticed the similarities because we, well, wrote one of them).
