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Gender-Benders This month a couple of interesting ads float up from the sea of heteronormativity that is the women's magazine. The new Marc by Marc Jacobs campaign, appearing in Lucky and elsewhere, features male model Cole Mohr in a variety of rather cute frocks. Missoni also plays with gender in its spread in this month's Elle — see it, and one unfortunately familiar pose, by clicking on the dude in the dress.

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Rag Trade

Kim Kardashian...Stylist?!

  • You, too, can look just like Kim Kardashian! The professional rich person, TV personality and cattle-driver is auctioning off a personal styling session to benefit Russell Simmons' Art for Life philanthropic event. Which is very laudable and all — but does nothing to explain why Kim's fashion savvy has already fetched a bid of $1,000! [LA Times]
  • Justin Timberlake, reluctant muse, didn't want to be the face of William Rast. Unless, you know, he was in character. Says a Rast creative director: "We came up with this idea for him to play a role as this guy named William Rast. So it isn't meant to be Justin, it's Justin playing a role, as an actor. When we explained the idea, he instantly loved it and got really into building the profile of this character." [WWD]
  • Correction! Kitson says that rumors that Victoria Beckham's men's denim line has been pushed back are 100% false and that the collection will appear at holiday time as originally scheduled. [New York Magazine]
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11:30 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By SadieStein
2,281 views, 24 comments

Latest by Lazy Line Painter Jane: Hey man, it was Kourtney Kardashian, not Kim who was a cattle driver. I would know this because I reviewed Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive for Gawker four summers ago when I was interning for them so I watched every episode more »

Rag Trade

Illmatic: Nas And Fila Barter; Kim Kardashian Sorta Smells

  • Rapper Nas is partnering with Fila. The company will pay for his tour and album, he'll wear their stuff and create a "late-80's"-inspired line. [Adage]
  • You will be relieved and delighted to hear that celebrity? socialite? sex-taper? Aha! television personality Kim Kardashian is launching a perfume. "It all started when my mom introduced me to famous perfumer Caroline Sabas from Gras, France. She and I have been working together to create a scent that is uniquely me that I can share with everyone!" [Official Kim Kardashian]
  • Renaissance woman, polymath and Strokes-dater Agyness Deyn can add "DJ" to her ever-lengthening resume (which one can only assume is printed on hot-pink paper and doesn't actually exist). [New York Magazine]
  • Tan television personality and alleged designer Michael Kors "dishes" on Condi Rice, Anna Wintour and that skintight black tee he always "sports." [Huffington Post]
  • Hey, you guys watch The Closer? Me either. Anyhoo, QVC's selling a replica of Kyra Sedgwick's purse. [UPI]

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11:30 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By SadieStein
2,264 views, 52 comments

Latest by spryte: Introducing the new fragrance from Kim Kardashian - Egotism. I can see the weird black-and-white commercials now, of people in leopard print with blank stares surrounded by mirrors. more »

Plaid is rad

To Splurge, Or To Steal? For Teen Vogue, There Is No Question

Pretty much every women's fashion magazine these days seems to have a Splurge vs. Steal feature, in which ensembles featured on the catwalks of Milan and New York are interpreted for the purposes of so-called "real life." But leave it to Teen Vogue to put its own special spin on this idea! See, for the readership of most magazines, "real life" does not involve having the disposable income to fund the actual D&G plaid coat! (Or, for that matter, the Marni fur backpack with which to dress it "down.") Not for Teen Vogue's readership — nothing less than "authentic" will do! After the jump, the magazine's August issue interprets fall fashions in ways that actual teenagers can emulate. More »

3:30 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Moe
10,288 views, 92 comments

Latest by Luxbot: Hey loooook, it's a black model! more »

leftovers

Posh's MJ Ads= Everything Wrong With Fashion? • $100 Undies Promise To Rip You Off

Are the Marc Jacobs ads with Victoria Beckham an example of everything that is wrong with fashion? Or has fashion "journalist" Liz Jones lost her sense of humor?• One more SATC analogy we don't need: HuffPo blogger calls for Obama and Clinton gals to "get on with it" (and "get it on"?). • "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Yes, yes it is. • Encyclopedia Britannica will now allow public contribution to internet entries because nothing ruins a credible reputation like copying Wikipedia! • Valentine Vester, an English woman who helped create one of the poshest hotels in Jerusalem, dies at 96. • French truckers protest high fuel prices with "operation escargot," joining similar protests across Europe and South Korea. • $100 underpants promise to take off inches without exercise through baloney "micro massage" faux-science beauty bullshit. • Doris Day's controlling third husband may have caused the actress her sanity and was abusive to her son. • Keira Knightley's mother insists her daughter doesn't have an eating disorder, noting her actor father was much thinner than Keira was. • The birthplace of Kate Moss launches its own fashion week, celebrating with celebrity look-alikes!

5:30 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Maria
1,575 views, 32 comments

Latest by Jan74: Liz Jones had her own boobs removed - not because of a breast cancer risk, just so she wouldn't have boobs. Not reduced either, removed to a prepubescent state. She has issues. more »

rag trade

Paris Hilton's Fashion Will Embarrass Us All

  • The New York Times claims that if you put Paris Hilton in a fashion time capsule, the future members of our planet will eventually open it up and WTF? their asses off. [NY Times]

  • Fashionista reports that for the next Marc Jacobs ad campaign, celebs like Posh Spice and Dakota Fanning are out and regular models are in. I’m sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see who the chosen, Juergen Teller-approved will be. [Fashionista]

  • LL Cool J is set to design a line of “hip-hop clothing” for Sears, which seems appropriate for some reason. Maybe it’s because LL Cool J knows fashion like, uh, Sears knows rap music? [WWD]
  • “They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is,” says designer Roberto Cavalli. Riiiiight. Read more to find out how much he dislikes Kate Moss’ clothes and how he wants undesirable women who wear his clothes to “give them back.” [Telegraph]

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12:30 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By lesleyarfin
3,374 views, 71 comments

rag trade

Vivica A. Fox Puts Her "Useful Styling Skills" To Work

  • Vivica A. Fox is going to be the host of a new VH1 series called Glam God, in which the actress, who is known for her amazing style (??), will be searching for the next celebrity stylist. I can’t wait to see another reality show winner do absolutely nothing while everyone else on the show tries to one up Jerry Springer factor. I hope there’s a really good gay man or at least someone with a weave to yank on. [ConcreteLoop]
  • Getting Gay With Bags is Here! Marc Jacobs completes his special handbag for twink-blogger Bryanboy (the bag is called “the BB”) and Bryanboy gets really excited and…whips himself? [Gawker]
  • Designer Claudia Escobar has made a luxury clothing line out of salmon skin. "Many people who lived near rivers and oceans have used fish throughout history. It's not my original idea," she says. [Reuters]
  • Mischa Barton’s created a line of handbags, coming to London’s John Lewis, Debenhams and Fenwicks stores on July 2nd. Why not make handbags for the United States, Mischa? Is the dollar too weak, or is it that we just don't give a shit? [FabSugar]
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12:30 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By lesleyarfin
2,044 views, 47 comments

Latest by Marscinema: I love how the article about the chipped nail polish says it's cool, but only if you are perfectly groomed in every other way, or have a $5,000 purse. Cuz overpriced accessories and chipped nail polish screams "I don't care." more »

rag trade

Perez Hilton For Hot Topic Leaves Us Kinda Cold

  • “There so many celebrity clothing lines out there that just really suck!” says Perez Hilton in this new video about his collaboration with Hot Topic. Thanks Perez, now there’s gonna be one more! [YouTube]

  • Fashion iconoclast and actress Chloe Sevigny is teaming up with the designers at Opening Ceremony again, this time to do a men’s line. The cool thing, and this shit has “cool” written all over it, is that the men’s clothing will be for women too. "Not only did I want to do something for the guys in my life, but a lot of my girlfriends prefer to wear men's stuff," Chloe says. Why hasn’t someone thought of doing this before? [fashionologie]
  • More Sex and the City fashion news! It never ends! The Notorious P.A.T. (that’s Patricia Field) has been tapped to create a line for England’s own Marks & Spencer (aka “Marks and Sparks” to London city-dwellers) this coming fall. [Telegraph]
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11:30 AM on Wed May 21 2008
By lesleyarfin
4,411 views, 105 comments

here's to you, mrs. robinson

Survey: Over 30% Of Moms Are Getting Some On The Side

Most modern wives and mothers would fail this 1939 Marital rating scale that you guys can't stop sending us. The scale is broken into "merits" and "demerits"; the former include playing an instrument, putting the children to bed personally, and being religious, while the demerits involve wearing red nail polish, applying face cream "over-liberally", and flirting with other men in restaurants. According to a new survey from AOL and Cookie many of today's moms are doing a lot more than flirting with other men. In fact, 36% of women who took the survey say they've had an affair since becoming mothers. And although those affairs may be retaliatory — 46% of women suspect their husbands are screwing around — the survey isn't entirely bleak. More »

12:00 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Jessica
9,554 views, 113 comments

Latest by goldengirl11: @onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: I took the whole thing too. I got an 18! I am the same religion as my potential husband, but, we're atheists, so um I'm not sure that's what they meant. Still! Fail. more »

long goodbyes

What We Talk About When We Talk About Fashion

Sitting down to write my "goodbye" post to you all was really tricky: What to say? What is there to say? I found no easy answers. But the last time I tried to do some meaning-making about my time at Jezebel, I didn't have the opportunity to share it with you all, so I thought I would take this opportunity now to do just that. Back in late March I was invited to speak at my alma mater, Tufts University, as part of a symposium they were hosting on the topic "Fashion And Its Discontents." My talk was, primarily, about you all, our readers, and what I think are the questions we have tried to ask — in particularly about how we choose to dress ourselves — together and what that process has led me to conclude. Starting below, I've posted excerpts from my speech (which was, I hope you will be proud to know, entitled: "'Victoria Motherfucking Beckham Is Here' And Other Stories I Never Thought I Would Write.' I was told by the symposium's organizer, a former professor of mine, that I am the first person to have used the word "motherfucking" in an academic lecture on the Tufts campus). I hope that maybe some parts of it will ring true for you, and that you will continue to share your feedback with me. It's you all who have made this experience so wildly unique and wildly incredible. More »

6:00 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Jennifer
7,551 views, 52 comments

Latest by MissusTufnel: @AbbyNormal: I'm a native Arcatan and his my copies of Vogue for years and years. Many people are still unaware of my fashion proclivities since I dress down so much living here. Then the see my closet and ask more »

rag trade

Pray For Marc Jacobs

  • "It's out of control. There's always a different boy and everyone is worried he's going to pull a Halston." That's an anonymous friend of Marc Jacobs on the increasingly-erratic fashion designer. [Page Six]
  • Ouch: David Lauren was not invited to his girlfriend (of three years) Lauren Bush's cousin Jenna's wedding. You know, Jenna Bush: Daughter of the POTUS. Apparently the Bush clan think David is too old for Lauren. Oh, and also too Jewish? Awkward. [Rush & Molloy]
  • Kristin Davis is pissed about the injustices she faced making the Sex and the City movie: "It's in the contract that we get to keep our outfits, which is a fantastic thing, except that, for me, all of my outfits were samples. I kept my running pants, which I love and wear them a lot, but I was like, Where are my clothes?" [E!]
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11:30 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Jennifer
4,920 views, 68 comments

Latest by n/a: @Lazy Line Painter Jane: When I was in college, the QB's first and last name were the same as my first and middle name. I would've been shannon Kelly Kelly.... more »

critical mass

It's A Bird! It's A Plane! No, It's Anna Wintour's Dress

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's annual gala: Oh, it happened all right. And though you now know who made it into the the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly category of "fashion's Oscars," we know you're just dying to know what the media themselves had to say about the yearly orgy of fashion and fame. (At the very last you're dying to know what hoity-toity critic-types had to say about Anna Wintour's Princess Amadala outfit, right? Right.) The best of the press' bon mots, after the jump. More »

2:20 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Jennifer
6,134 views, 53 comments

Latest by random_play: @lanouvelleheloise: Illustrator James Jean has indeed designed prints and ads for Prada, as well as plenty of comic book covers and commercial art for Time Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, ESPN, Atlantic Records, Target, Playboy, and Knopf. more »

rag trade

Stella McCartney Is Eager To Dress ScarJo In Virginal White

  • Stella McCartney calls dibs on bride-to-be Scarlett Johansson: "I'm definitely doing her wedding dress. She doesn't know it yet." Awkward. [People]
  • Says Marc Jacobs on the bride-to-be, "I'm really happy for her. She's a great girl. I just think Scarlett is great and I hope she is very, very happy. She's super funny. I love a smart, ballsy, New Yorker and that's what she is. I wish her the best." And by "the best" he clearly means, "Do why didn't that bitch ask me to design her wedding dress?" [Vogue UK]
  • Chris "Mr. Big" Noth has some strong feelings about Victoria's Secret, "I'm not into Victoria's Secret so much. I find it over the top. I like subtlety and I like elegance. I think their things are gaudy and they are really trying too hard. If I could make a fashion statement, I think that Victoria's Secret looks to me like somebody who is putting on too much make-up. It's too gaudy, man. I mean, come on take it easy, you don't have to have a fuckin' bouquet of flowers on your underwear. Sorry Victoria's Secret; I hope they're not one of our sponsors!" [Oh No They Didn't]
  • "You can get diamonds cheap," says Heidi Klum, which is why she's going to start sewing them into the pockets of her Jordache jeans line. Clearly, she has not seen Blood Diamond. [WWD, 9th item]
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11:30 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Jennifer
3,544 views, 87 comments

Latest by whateverhappened: Thank you Mr. Big. I never "got" Victoria Secret, or Bebe for that matter. more »

rag trade

Is Marie Claire Taking Over Elle's Sloppy Project Runway Seconds?

  • More rumored changes for The Greatest Show On Earth, Project Runway: Season 6 of the show, the first to be broadcast on Lifetime, may feature "More Than A Pretty Face" magazine Marie Claire in lieu of Elle as the affiliated fashion magazine sponsor. [WWD, 1st item]
  • Whoah: Are New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn and Skeletor/stylist Rachel Zoe more similar than we could have ever imagined? Possibly, if it's true that Cathy Horyn was also mysteriously not invited to the dinner and dancing portion of tonight's Costume Institute festivities. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • And what does legendary costume designer Bob Mackie not like about the fashion industry? "Doing a fashion show that's on for 20 minutes and then it's over and everybody runs to the next one. Nobody sings, nobody dances, nobody tells jokes. I found it quite unsatisfying." I second that emotion. [WWD, sub req'd]
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11:30 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Jennifer
2,309 views, 48 comments

Latest by n/a: @tokyomonamour: She's French, so it's pronounced like "Klem-once Poe-es-ey" and there are a couple of accents on there, too. more »

it's fundamental

Fundamentalist Fashion: Not So Different Than High Design

The question that keeps coming up again and again with regards to the Eldorado, Texas branch of the FLDS isn't "Where are all the men?" or even "Where's Sarah?" but rather, "Have you noticed what the women are wearing?" The media has even dubbed the phenomenon, somewhat crassly, "polygamist fashion", and the stories have multiplied in such a way that we figured we should take a look. What we learned is that there actually isn't anything that odd about the sect's sartorial choices — we've seen weirder on the runways of Gaultier. And speaking of high-minded fashion, a few designers (most notably Marc Jacobs) seem to have anticipated (or rather, copied) the FLDS aesthetic. After the jump, selected looks from various designers whose recent wares look most similar (in modest silhouette and tonal palette) to that of the FLDS females. More »

5:00 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Jennifer
8,215 views, 42 comments

Latest by deweydecimated: I'm guessing there's Jell-O involved in that hair, just like in the salad.... more »

fashion victims

Marc Jacobs Isn't Crazy -- He Just Has Issues

"Why is there this division all of a sudden between people in support of me and people against me? How did this happen? I haven't done anything to anybody! I look at Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano—everybody has their shtick. And just because this wasn't my shtick two years ago, it's a problem."
Marc Jacobs is upset. He is also really buff, debatably character-disordered, and, at present, unusually sober. He's practically a psychological case study: A lost little boy with an aching, damaged soul, living in the public eye. (With diamond studs in his ears, to boot.) At least, that's the angle Marie Claire executive editor Lucy Kaylin takes, as she profiles America's Most Important Fashion Designer in this month's issue of GQ. More »

4:00 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Jennifer
3,866 views, 49 comments

Latest by whateverhappened: I like dthe doc on him. Esp. when he meet the dots artist. They were so into each other. more »

rag trade

Harvey Weinstein's Out To Get Nina Garcia, But In A Good Way

  • "We'll get her," says Harvey Weinstein of ELLE's Nina Garcia (Weinstein) is being sued for breach of contract for taking Project Runway from Bravo to Lifetime. While Weinstein is probably the first person to say anything about wanting to continue to work with Garcia, we find his statement more creepy than encouraging. [WWD, 2nd item]
  • "I am fine alone now, but not when I'll be 90," says Giorgio Armani of having a private equity firm get involved in his business. [WWD, 2nd item]
  • "Buying vintage or revamping clothes and making things myself is my take on helping the environment." Oh bite me, Zooey Deschanel. [Fashion Week Daily]
  • "I used to consider myself Italian, but now I feel very European." —Margherita Missoni. [Fashion Week Daily]
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11:30 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Jennifer
2,013 views, 50 comments

Latest by krismry: @krismry: oh nevermind, I was so wrong. Margherita's new job is entirely just as much imbued with meaning as her last. more »

fashion victims

Feminist Thinks Women Should Boycott Marc Jacobs

The "Fashion & Style" section of Today's New York Times features a story about the Juergen Teller photographs Marc Jacobs uses for advertising purposes. The ads are unlike ordinary fashion ads because the photographs are raw, overexposed and kind of mysterious. Cathy Horyn writes, "Buying something from Marc Jacobs is like joining a club. Of course, that can be a turnoff to some people, but that would matter only if Mr. Jacobs sought a justification for the ads, one beyond their ability to inspire and provoke. And since some of the ads barely show the clothes, clearly he is not." Of the new ads starring Victoria Beckham, Horyn says "Instead of looking like a glamorous celebrity, she has been rendered as an abstraction, a living doll." Fun, right? Over on Feministing, Courtney E. Martin finds those ads severely troubling. In fact, she suggests that we all boycott Marc Jacobs. More »

3:00 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Dodai
6,731 views, 155 comments

Latest by n/a: Take a look at these ads, and tell me that Marc truly objectifies women: [fashionintelligentsia.wordpress.com] more »

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