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Keith Richards For Louis Vuitton: Old And Leathery
- Keith Richards for Louis Vuitton = Awesome. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Amy Winehouse played a Fendi party in Paris and talked about her mumps onstage before offering some gratitude to, like, someone: "Thanks for asking me to play. Whoever asked me to play." [WWD, sub req'd]
- Meta Kate Olsen came dressed as Karl Lagerfeld for the Chanel show Friday. [WWD, 4th item]
- Miss J (Alexander of Top Model) to WaPo fashion critic Robin Givhan on a Nina Ricci model: "She has that hungry walk. She's mad because she's so hungry!" [Off the Runway]
- Formerly anorexic model Crystal Renn on why a girl's gotta eat: "How can you be happy if you're working out for five hours a day? People want to hire happy models. You need fat to think!" Um, modeling requires thought? [Telegraph]
- Who is the man who would wear Juicy Couture cologne? [BellaSugar]
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Golden Globes Cancelled? Fashion Mockery Can Still Continue
As everyone knows by now, the Golden Globes, scheduled for Sunday evening, have been called off because of the writer's strike. Besides the entertainers who won't get to drunkenly hog the spotlight, and the designers, whose wares won't be worn, there is us — the common folk — who won't get a chance to referee the fashions from the comfort of our armchairs. Or will we? Over the weekend, we'll be mentally dressing the female nominees in the fashions we think they should have worn. But we could use your help. Check out the list of GG nominees after the jump and let us know: Are you thinking classic red carpet, like Marchesa or Rodarte? Traditional glamour, like Armani or Nina Ricci? Or something a little more unusual like Vena Cava, Proenza Schouler or Marc Jacobs? Give us a guess. And, oh yeah, feel free to go ahead and guess the winners, too. More »
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Just What The World Needs: 'Sex And The City' Panties
- Oh, Christ. There is going to be a Sex and the City lingerie line by Cosabella as a tie-in with the movie. Predictably, there will be four mini-lines, named after each of the four main characters on the show, meaning the "Samantha" line will be for the transgendered? Excellent. [WWD, 1st item]
- How did we not know that Nina Ricci designer Olivier Theyskens once collaborated with the Smashing Pumpkins? [Vogue UK]
- "I collect vintage jewelry and I'm lucky enough to be married to a rich man who can buy it for me." So says Iman. Um, so like, all that modeling you've been doing over the past few decades has been pro bono? How nice. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Mark your Chanukadvent calendars! Isaac Mizrahi is appearing on Martha Stewart's show on Dec. 18! We can't wait to see those two queens frost cookies together. [Fashion Week Daily]
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Halloween Hagyness Looks Just Like Misshapes Hagyness!
- Model Agyness Deyn and designer Henry Holland went as Mr. and Mrs. Beetlejuice for Halloween. They did their own makeup. [Vogue UK]
- Jennifer Hudson on Vogue editor-at-large/hideous capelet advocate Andre Leon Talley: "I was like André, you don't have a cell phone? André, you don't e-mail? He's like, 'I don't e-mail honey, I don't do that,' I was like, 'No, no, no, we have to get that together." [Fashion Week Daily]
- Jacob "Jacob the Jeweler" Arabov has pleaded guilty to the charges of falsifying records and lying to a federal agent during a drug investigation. We hope all that ice can buy a man a carton of cigarettes in the big house. [WWD, sub req'd]
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Posh Gets Glamour Editor Cindi Leive Thrown Out Of Boutique
- Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive learned what it really feels like to be "just like us" when she got booted out of Parisian boutique Colette because Victoria Beckham had arrived to shop. And uh, Leive was in the middle of getting changed in the dressing room. Ouch. [Fashion Week Daily]
- Memo to models: It does not make us like you any more when you say things like, "But my whole family is tall and pretty!". [Fashion Week Daily]
- Olivier Theyskens is going to restage his S/S 2008 Nina Ricci show in interior designer/cracked out Top Design judge Kelly Wearstler's backyard in Beverly Hills. For breast cancer awareness, naturally. [Fashion Week Daily]
- Speaking of cancer: Marc Jacobs will be reissuing his skin cancer awareness T-shirts with all our favorite naked (and we assume, lily-white and sunspot-free) tushes from last year — Winona Ryder, Julianne Moore, etc. [WWD, 1st item]
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McQueen, Chloe, Galliano, Nina Ricci: The Critics Speak
Worried that Alexander McQueen's show, a tribute to his friend and champion, Isabella Blow, was going to be bathed in bathos? Well it turns out that McQueen, who showed in Paris over the weekend, had the collection of the season, or so sayeth the critics. Those same critics were less kind to Nina Ricci and Chloe - except for Suzy Menkes, who seems to love everyone except sworn enemy Marc Jacobs. Below, the major fashion critics take on McQueen, Ricci, Chloe and John Galliano.
McQueen:"McQueen seemed to almost dare anyone to match him for know-how and imagination" "command performance" "you could [not] take your eyes off the clothes" "alluringly severe dresses" "he pushed his modern identity and cutting out ahead of those forms, lightening them, softening them. It made for thrilling fashion" —Cathy Horyn, The New York Times More »
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Michael Jackson Back In Fashion
- Holy fucking shit: Bruce Weber shot Michael Jackson for the upcoming issue of L'Uomo Vogue. (The combination works because their taste in boys is totally different) It's the first time Jackson has been formally photographed in 16 years, so he makes up for all the lost time with a 20-page spread. All to celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Thriller." This is going to be some freak shit. [WWD, 1st item]
- The upcoming exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute to include a "blog bar." Um. [WWD, sub req'd]
- In a poll of specially targeted "young adults" regarding their feelings about buying American-made versus foreign-made products, one respondent said, "American Apparel is a good example of a Los Angeles company that doesn't use sweatshop labor." We couldn't find a joke the Onion didn't already use. [WWD, sub req'd]
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Molly Sims Doesn't Think Before She Speaks
- Ooh, awkward! Alice+Olivia designer Stacey Bendet flew Molly Sims out to walk in her show today. Simms told New York magazine that the models at Alice+Olivia are underfed, in response to the magazine's statement that high-end shows have well-fed girls and low-end shows do not. Stacey Bendet = Pissed. Molly Sims = Stupid. [NY Post]
- Do not fuck with Anna Sui. In the goody bags at her show yesterday, attendees were gifted with t-shirts which read: "Forever Wanted: Don Cassidy & The Sundance Jin, Reward $21,000. Thou shalt not steal; Exodus 20:15," a reference to Sui's current lawsuit against Forever 21 owners Don and Jin Chang and their hardcore Christianity. [WWD, 1st item]
- Now Reese Witherspoon thinks she's a fashion designer too. The maybe-girlfriend of Jake Gyllenhaal is claiming to have played an integral part in designing Olivier Theyskens most recent collection for Nina Ricci. Delusional much? [Sassybella]
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Anna Wintour Looks Like She's Being Eaten By A Shiny Reptile (How We Wish It Were True!)
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala last night, event doyenne/Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour wore Chanel couture. It looked like a weird reptile with a thing for epaulettes tried to jump her. Not helping the situation is the fact that Wintour's daughter, and Columbia undergrad, Bee Shaffer looked prom-ready in Nina Ricci... and not in a good way. Olivier Theyskens best not do juniors. More »
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