Golddiggers! Kanye West Designs Shoe With Louis Vuitton

Sadie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Rapper and fashionisto Kanye West announced from the men's shows of Milan that he is, indeed, teaming up with LV to design some kind of shoe. To which we say: okay. [WWD via Perez Hilton]
Personally, we'll hold out for the new Obama Air Nikes! [BlackBook]
Now "Love Triangle" rumors are flying in the wake of model Ruslana Korshunova's suicide. Well, at least at the New York Post. [New York Post]
Presses officially stopped. Anna Wintour wears same dress thrice in a week. [This Is London]
Why do they persist in talking?! Brazilian model Isabela Fontana: "I wouldn't want one of my sons to be gay. It just a minimum amount of prejudice. I have many friends who are gay, and I love them to death, but I wouldn't want to have a son turn out to be gay." [Made in Brazil]

Wal-Mart to pay 6.5 million in workers' comp. [WWD]
Apparently "the bitchy one" has won Australia's Next Top Model. [News.com.au]
Is this in poor taste in an election year? Not sure: JFK-inspired togs. [BlackBook]
Gucci CEO weighs in on market challenges. [Business Week]
Anorexic model makes happy recovery. [Telegraph]
Is Sierra Leone the next fashion capital? [Good Magazine]
No doy (ooh, let's bring that back!): YSL worth more now that he's dead. "The death of Yves Saint Laurent and the fact that he is not creating any more collections will definitely change some things," Didier Ludot, owner of the highly esteemed eponymous vintage boutique in Paris, told us. "It's very rare a lady would sell her vintage haute couture YSL — it's a good time to buy such pieces." [New York Magazine]
In an apparent attempt to not sell clothes, TopShop rips off Chloe Sevigny's clothing line. [fashionista]
Lacoste partners with Australian Open. "Lacoste is going to be part of the upcoming Australian Open. They’ll provide us with over 1000 uniforms and be the apparel of the Australian Open. It will be for our officials, linespeople and the Aviva ballkids,” Says my boyfriend: "I want to be one of those models, floating on air." [sassybella]
Cavalli boosts menswear with licensing deal. [WWD]
"Well, duh! Everyone cries at McQueen!" [fashionista]
Michael Kors swimwear will be "integral to his design philosophy." [VogueUK]
Retailers are abandoning boomer market for "millennials.' [WWD]
Carla Bruni: model, pop singer, first lady, muse, fashion savior. [IHT]

Proenza Schouler Designers Want To Be Just Like Us

Jennifer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:30:00 EST

We don't think we can design clothes, so why do clothing designers think they can blog? The Proenza Schouler boys, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, will be blogging for the New York Times's T: Style magazine's new site all this week. Says T's online editor, "One of the things I'm trying to avoid is solipsistic navel-gazing." Um, good luck with that! [Fashion Week Daily]
What would you do with $15 million? If you're Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana, you use it to give your New York flagship store a little make-over! [WWD, sub req'd]
And apparently it took $15 fucking million for Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana to haul their Italian booties here to New York. The designers will be back in New York for the first time in two years to celebrate the re-opening of their store at a private dinner tomorrow night. No, we weren't invited. [NYP]
Say what you will about Sarah Jessica Parker, but at least she understands decorum. Of super low-rise jeans she says, "There is not going to be any inappropriate midriff showing, regardless of age," she says. "It's provocative in a way that I just don't feel comfortable with." Also? Kind of 5 years ago. [Daily Express]

Prepare yourselves, people: Snowjoggers are the new Uggs. Just as ugly, and worn by Lohan too! [Independent]
Stop the madness! Fashion houses are now hiring meteorologists as consultants to help them best predict the upcoming weather patterns and what kinda clothes folks are going to want to wear given the climate. Ridiculous? Or inspired? [NYT]
The new apartment building in New York designed by Zac Posen's boyfriend is being shot by Elle international creative director Gilles Bensimon for an "advertorial" for Elle Decor. Follow? No? The lesson here is: It's all about who you're fucking. [Fashion Week Daily]
Claire Danes walked as a model for Cynthia Rowley when she was 16. And waved to the other model going the opposite direction. Thank God this bitch isn't always so perfect! [Sassybella]
Teen Vogue continues its strange dance between "art" and life as senior editor Kimball Hastings leaves the Condé Nast title to become the head of celebrity dressing for Polo Ralph Lauren. First: That's an actual job? Second: Apparently now Hastings himself is a "celebrity" because, uh, he's been on The Hills. [WWD, 1st item]
The Wilhemina modeling agency is 40 years old! Mazel tov, models. [WWD, 5th item]
Luxury markets? Not doing so well. Our guess? People are over expensive shit. [WWD, sub req'd]
You've heard of a shaman — Rupert Sanderson is a shoe man. And when he sees a woman on the street in a pair of his handcrafted shoes, he has been known to "hurr[y] along behind her checking the balance and the line of the shoe, to see whether she [is] comfortable walking in them. [Then I] realise that I [am] getting a bit close though so I ha[ve] to cross the road in order not to appear like a stalker. But I got a better perspective on the shoes from the other side anyway." [Vogue UK]
Burberry designer Christopher Bailey not only won Menswear Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards last week, but he also took home the Bambi Award for Fashion on Thursday and an honorary degree on Friday. All these people giving him accolades do know that he designs for Burberry, right? [Vogue UK]
OMG cutest thing ever: A website where you can try to find your glove's lost mate! [Sassybella]

Jezebel: rupert sanderson

Golddiggers! Kanye West Designs Shoe With Louis Vuitton

Proenza Schouler Designers Want To Be Just Like Us