Fear and Selfie Loathing: What Celebs Did on Instagram This Week
Here's what the stars were doing this week as they turned the camera on themselves. Celebrity Instagrams, presented without comment. Enjoy.
Weird See-Through Gowns and Hideous Shoes at the CFDA Awards
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.
Karlie Kloss, Fine Feathered Friend
The Gatsby ripple effect.
The Wonderful, Wild and Vile Fashions of the Grammy Awards
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 pretty …
See-Through Dresses and Flesh on Display at the AmFar Gala
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.
Nicki Minaj Storms Off Idol Because Mariah's So Fucking Annoying
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…
Karlie Kloss Is Really Sorry About That Feathered Headdress, You Guys
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:
Victoria's Secret's Racist Garbage Is Just Asking for a Boycott
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
Karlie Kloss as a Half-Naked 'Indian' and Other Absurdities from the…
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.
Lanvin, for the Fierce, Up-All-Night Disco Partybot in You
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,…
Karlie Kloss Loses Her Ribs to Numéro's Photoshopping
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…
Karl Lagerfeld's Gold-Splattered Olympic Collection Debuts Tonight
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…
Huffy Editor Completely Irate That Crystal Renn Is Thin Now
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…
Vogue Italia Defends Those Weird Karlie Kloss Pictures
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 been…
Why Did Vogue Italia Nix An Image From Karlie Kloss's Nude Editorial?
In the December issue of Vogue Italia, Steven Meisel shot the 19-year-old American model Karlie Kloss for the cover — and an 18-page editorial inside. Titled "Body by Kloss," it featured Kloss's first-ever nude work
Karlie Kloss Just Posed Nude For The First Time [NSFW]
Karlie Kloss, the supermodel from St. Louis, has been working since she was 14. She's now 19, and recently, her work has become a little more, well, grown-up. And in modeling, that means one thing: Nudity. First, she showed under-boob, that gateway to further nekkidness, in a magazine editorial. She did the Victoria's…
The Dior Show Closed With Karlie Kloss's Naked Ass
The spring Christian Dior collection walked in Paris earlier today. Dior still has not replaced fired creative director John Galliano, who lost his job
What It's Like To Be 19-Year-Old Karlie Kloss
Photographer Gabrielle Revere followed 19-year-old model Karlie Kloss from Paris to New York to her home in St. Louis, and created a gorgeous gallery of images, detailing the energy, beauty, promise and ambition of a young woman whose life is full of contrasts. She wears couture for work, yet, according to Life, she…
Joe Jonas And Karlie Kloss Are Not Together
St. Louis-raised supermodel Karlie Kloss was asked by a tabloid reporter if she and Joe Jonas are indeed the couple we decided should be known as J.K. Klonas: "No, we're really not," she replied. The two recently attended a polo match in Los Angeles, and posed together for some photo booth pictures, which sparked rumors…
Lady Gaga Weeps While Judging Dance Show
Lady Gaga cried during her stint as a judge on So You Think You Can Dance. The kids named Marko and Allison moved everyone, and Gaga sobbed, "I'm just so proud of you." And: "There are so, so many things I did wrong when I was younger. And so many things I wish I could take back and I felt every moment of that through…
Dior Couture, For The 1950s Femme Fatale In You
The models in John Galliano's Christian Dior haute couture collection walked out of a piece of sculpture that looked kind of like a giant mid-century-modern-style lamp, or a hovering spacecraft. They wore dresses in keeping with that theme.
French Vogue's Sexy Kiddie Spread Is Misunderstood
One of the most uncomfortable truths about the fashion industry is that most models begin working when they are in their early teens or even tweens; they are children. In this editorial, Vogue Paris cuts right to the chase.
Emmanuelle Alt May Be Carine Roitfeld's Successor At French Vogue
- Stylist Emmanuelle Alt, Carine Roitfeld's longtime right-hand-lady, is said to be leading the field of candidates to take over as editor-in-chief, while editor/novelist Virginie Mouzat may still be under consideration. (We previously looked at
both candidates in more depth.) [WWD]
Gaultier Calls Out Gaga On Her Madonna Routine
- Jean-Paul Gaultier, on Lady Gaga: "I think she's talented and very inpolitically incorrect, which I love. But I also think that she read up on Madonna's life and learnt it like the Bible." [Telegraph]
12-Year-Old Designer Is Proof Our Culture Has Gone Very, Very Wrong
- Precocious-in-the-bad
-way tween "designer" Cecilia Cassini, who sells $500 dresses, says she took "like, three" sewing classes, but quit because her teacher was "like, rude." We have a feeling one day soon Cassini will be horribly embarrassed of all this.
Somehow Blake Lively Is Vogue's Best-Dressed
- Blake Lively has gotten the cover of Vogue's best-dressed issue. Really?
Celebrities Make PETA Cry
At the 7th Annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards, the entire animal kingdom was on display. Fur-frowners will have plenty to complain about, but believe us, amongst this star-studded gang there was something to offend — and please — everyone!
Calvin Klein, For The Wealthy White Minimalist In You
A Calvin Klein collection under creative director Francisco Costa's watch has a certain familiar rhythm. There are the black clothes, and the white clothes. There is the blank minimalist rigor. There is exactly the one black model.
Lady Gaga And Marc Jacobs Share The Cover Of V
- A dejected, underwear-clad Lady Liberty-Gaga and a tuxedoed Marc Jacobs, shot by Mario Testino, cover V's newest issue. [NYDN]
- Lanvin for H&M is happening! The men's and women's collections will hit over 200 stores worldwide on November 23. [WWD]