America's most upscale tabloid People held its annual awards show last night, acknowledging the most influential people of its 2014 or whatever-whatever. People being People, its red carpet attracted quite the coterie of A-listers, wearing a range of ensembles from wonderful to disastrous, and a nice little preview as…
The annual Victoria's Secret runway show aired Tuesday night, and it was the typical procession of lingerie'd models, impossibly tall and lean, marching like pegasus-gazelles, emboldened by gold-encrusted wings. Fly, fly away, beautiful models. Be free.
Last Saturday, The Mail on Sunday reported that pop-country singer Taylor Swift was secretly shacking up with 22-year-old supermodel and close friend Karlie Kloss in Swift’s Beverly Hills mansion. But was there more to the Mail’s sapphic insinuations?
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Model Karlie Kloss has a fancy new New York apartment and she let Vogue stop by to hang out. She admitted that she wasn’t too well-versed in design before she bought her new home but life is an adventure right?
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Fashionista has put together "The Year In Vogue," a data-centric analysis of all of Vogue's 2013 covers — including the international editions. Doutzen Kroes had the most covers, followed by Karlie Kloss; the average age of cover models was 28; and cover models were over 75% white.
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Here's what the stars were doing this week as they turned the camera on themselves. Celebrity Instagrams, presented without comment. Enjoy.
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Last night at the Council of Fashion Designers of America, designers and celebrities hit the red carpet in ensembles both incredibly fashionable and incredibly ugly.
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The Gatsby ripple effect.
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In this video, 22-year-old Jourdan Dunn and 20-year-old Karlie Kloss make vegetable curry and cookies. Here are some thoughts:
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Despite the fact that CBS issued a memo warning not to show off breasts, buttocks, or any "puffy" bare skin, celebrities attending the 55th annual Grammy Awards last night embraced sheer fabrics, exposed breast curvature and even displayed nipples. That said, it wasn't a very exciting night for fashion; there were…
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It was around 26° last night when the amfAR New York Gala kicked off Fall 2013 Fashion Week. For some attendees, it was important to be somewhat weather-appropriate. Other folks just went right ahead and wore sheer dresses and showed plenty of skin, hypothermia (and good taste) be damned.
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After an adolescence spent singing Toby Keith covers at block parties and anxiously folding over the waistband of her Soffe shorts in the mirror every morning before school, just wishing she could wake up and be somebody, poor 20-year-old Georgia ingenue Summer Cunningham's big break on American Idol was…
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Victoria's Secret has apologized for the warbonnet-and-bikini outfit it gave Karlie Kloss to wear during its lingerie fashion show. The company will not feature the look in the televised broadcast:
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Last week, the 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion show was held in New York, recorded to air on network television on December 4. During the show, model Karlie Kloss wore a Native American headdress. Outrage at the offensive costume was immediate; over the weekend, Victoria's Secret apologized and said the televised…
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Last night, the 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was held in New York, and it was a delightfully absurd smorgasbord of flesh, wings, and lingerie. One of the most shocking get-ups? Twenty-year-old Karlie Kloss in "Native" garb.
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Paris Fashion Week continues! What did Alber Elbaz cook up for the Spring 2013 collection? Dark heavy metal partybot asymmetrical jumpsuits. Jewel-tone satins. Aggressively square shoulders. Cowboy boots with stiletto heels. Blade Runner-esque raincoats cinched with obi sashes. The makeup was described as being very,…
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Numéro magazine has a new cover editorial starring top model Karlie Kloss. The largely nude spread was shot in black and white by photographer Greg Kadel. But there are some stark differences between the photographs released by Kadel and those that appear in the magazine. Numéro, it seems, liked that Kloss was so thin…
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Tonight is the night: Karl Lagerfeld will personally unveil his Olympic-themed collection at Selfridges in London. Although the items celebrate the games, don't expect any sporty Spandex or ventilated mesh. A preview of the items reveals a motorcycle jacket flecked with gold, skinny jeans splattered with gold, and…
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Crystal Renn is no longer a plus-sized model, like she used to be, and people are freaking the fuck out. Specifically PLUS Model magazine Editor-in-Chief Madeline Jones, who says: "Everyone rallied around her and now she's turned against us… We have been betrayed by her." Bullshit. While it is fair game to discuss her…
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Franca Sozzani has finally spoken out about Vogue Italia's decision to pull one picture of Karlie Kloss in a twisty-pretzel pose from its web site. She says that she was wrong to un-publish the photo. "I believed I could avoid a pointless debate. I made a mistake," she admits. Sozzani now believes she it would have…
