Jezebel: los angeles fashion week

A Few Hills, Mostly Valleys At Lauren Conrad's Fashion Show

Sadie — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Another day, another undistinguished offering from "designer" Lauren Conrad. Her Los Angeles Fashion Week show brought the shoddy craftsmanship, boring designs and Dov Charney-like predilection for jersey we've come to expect from the reality star. It's not all bad — there are certainly a few numbers you'd pick up at Target if they were, like, under $20. But given that they're gonna be a lot more than that, and that they're neither really basic nor particularly fun, I'm guessing you'll pass. That said! Some of the runway styling choices were fiercely awesome: think amusing chapeaux, enormous flowers, and a bunch of other stuff that I'm sure you can't actually buy. After the jump, natch.

(Click on any image to begin the gallery)

LA Fashion Week's 'Fashionably Natural' Show Brings Out Naturally Horrible Fashion

Sadie — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:00 EDT

L.A. fashion week is the poor bastard step-child of the global Fashion Week world. It kicked off last night with a 'Fashionably Natural' runway show at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Although hosted by the unassailably awesome Maggie Gyllenhaal — and, yes, some of the actual clothes on the runway were cute — the fashionistas did not represent. Think short, tight, shiny, the fastest way to look cheap. Think pirate chic. Think, a little Good, a lotta Bad, and some serious Fugly — after the jump!

The Good:
I hate purple. And frankly I can live without this grosgrain-y taffeta. But Krysten Ritter looks pretty in this simple shift.

While the shoes are kind of horrible in that Italian dowdy-chic way, I'm also struck by Maggie's daring in the face of so much satin conformity!

Rather cutesy, wrinkly and purple for my tastes, but Rachel Smith looks cute.

The Bad:
Katja Decker-Sadowski does not heed Nina Garcia. Which as we know is rank folly.

Nor does Bridgetta Tomarchio!

Willa Holland 's nightgown looks comfy, at least.

Andrea Fellers' boots take her nightie from night to...fug.

With the jacket fastened, Natasha Alam's brocade is merely bad...

The Ugly:
But open it, and the full piratical horror is revealed!

[Images via Getty]

Entertainment Weekly is reporting "exclusively"...

Jennifer — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:20:00 EDT

Entertainment Weekly is reporting "exclusively" that "two well-placed sources" have informed the magazine that The Greatest Show On Earth (i.e. Project Runway) the show will leave New York for Los Angeles in its sixth season. Honestly, could Lifetime do anything else to fuck this show up? Actually, yes! Replace Tim Gunn with Rachel Zoe. [Entertainment Weekly]

Nicky Hilton has a clothing line. Actually,...

Jennifer — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:45:00 EDT

Nicky Hilton has a clothing line. Actually, make that two clothing lines. 'Cause we sat through Nicholai by Nicky Hilton back in September. Yesterday she showed her Chick by Nicky Hilton line at Los Angeles Fashion Week. The surprising news: There is nothing bad about it. It's just not anything you haven't seen before. (And occasionally at your local Old Navy.) That said, it is a little creepy that the models are styled to look like oversexualized young girls. But this is the Hilton family we're talking about, so it's not really that out of character! Gallery begins below. (Images via Getty.)

Seriously, Will Project Runway Start Already?

Jennifer — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:00:00 EDT

Warning, Project Runway spoilers! Contestants will design for Sarah Jessica Parker and Jon Bon Jovi. One contestant who gets kicked off is HIV-positive. [NY Daily News]
To celebrate Pete Doherty's engagement to another model, Kate Moss got a trim and bangs. [Vogue UK]
Mary-Kate Olsen: "I love how you can totally change your look by changing your shoes. Or maybe you don't look different, and nobody else thinks you look different, but I feel different, anyway." File this one under "shit that sounds better in your head than it does aloud." [Vogue UK]
Model Coco Rocha is going to help save the world will be teaching Irish dance to children in Harlem? The lessons go down Oct. 20 and yeah we are going. [Vogue UK]

Oy gevalt! For the love of Judy Garland, which evil hotel could this be, this horrid place "where all the top editors stay" in Europe that is both anti-Semitic and hates the gays?! Start snitchin'! [NY Daily News]
Los Angeles Fashion Week has started. But take heart: no one gives a shit! [Fashion Week Daily]
Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati is designing T-shirts for a charitable cause, which is a really popular thing to do now because people who actually want to donate money to charitable causes don't have enough money to buy handbags and crap like that. Stefano's T-shirt will fund France's Institute for cerebral and medullary disorders. [Fashion Week Daily]
Vanessa Williams has inked a $20 million deal with Proactiv, because she and Rick Fox are low on cash. And she'll be starting a Proactiv cosmetics line, because the world is low on cosmetic lines. [NY Post]
American Eagle is trying to reach out and touch some college students. They're setting up some sort of crazy promotion thingy at big state school football games, where they'll be interviewing kids for on-ine videos about how they get ready for a big game (Um, I'm guessing they just drink? And paint themselves their school colors once drunk enough to not care?) and hiring students at the schools they visit to give out $25 gift certificates to fellow students they see wearing American Eagle. Ah, grassroots marketing. [WWD, sub req'd]
The New York Rangers love Alexander McQueen? [WWD, sub req'd]