Jezebel: steve and barry's

Ed Westwick: Actor, Designer, Renaissance Man?

Sadie — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Secret Englishman and Strokes friend Ed Westwick — yeah, Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl — is apparently in talks to design a line of clothing. [Fashionista]
The "Heidi Klum Index": "Klum's income for last year is estimated at $15 million for the year, making her the second-richest model, behind Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen but well ahead of Kate Moss." [The Street]
The presumably anti-pope NoToPope Coalition is holding an "annoying fashion parade" outside an Australian parliament building, sporting shirts with slogans like "Pope Go Homo" and "The Pope Is Wrong - Put a Condom On." The parade is a run-through for the Annoying Fashions' official premier, on World Youth Day. Oh yeah, the pope's coming. [Sydney Morning Herald]
Milla Jovovich on whose wardrobes she'd steal: "Marianne Faithfull's and Bianca Jagger's. And I'd also steal Isabel Archer's from The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. I'd steal everything from Edith Wharton's heroines, and from the little chimney sweeps from Dickens's novels. I'd love to go into David Bowie's wardrobe. I'd mix all the clothes from these wardrobes into one of my own." She'd also get neck-extension. And "knee-shrinkers." [Times Online]

Ruslana Korshunova's friends and family insist her apparent suicide is suspicious. "She didn't have a single reason to do this and 1,001 reasons to live," said her mother, calling on the NYPD to reopen the case. [Daily News]
Economic hardships cause "mainstream moms" to spend less on clothes. [WWD]
Style.com to launch a beauty offshoot. [Fashionista]
In a sorta cringe-worthy attempt to keep up with the kids, warhorse Lord & Taylor is putting graffiti artists in their windows. "The stunt is part of Art in Action, a program that brings the visual arts to unexpected locations and people, and features five artists from TATS CRU, the Bronx-based graffiti collective most famous (maybe) for a giant mural of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen that inexplicably showed up on Avenue A last year (it turned out to be a PR hype for E! television)."
[Nylon]
Gap clothes-folding tutorial! [Wall Street Journal.]
Levis profits drop sharply. [Reuters]
40's cover girl Dorian Leigh dies at 91. The model, "who combined pristine blue eyes, curling eyelashes, an arresting intelligence and intoxicating sexuality to become one of history’s most photographed models — perhaps the first to truly merit the adjective super — died Monday." [New York Times]
British retailer Mango to expand...to Iraq. [WWD]
Takeshi Kaneshiro, who will be the first Asian model to appear in an Armani campaigns. [VogueUK]
The Steve & Barry's death watch continues: the retailer chain is expected to file Chapter 11 any minute. [Reuters]
Wall-E producer takes fashion inspiration from animated robot. "Inspired by the sleek, white form of Eve, Ms. Collins wore a flowing white Oscar de la Renta gown to the film's wrap party." [Wall Street Journal]
"This morning 'Fashion DJ's' kicks off at Abbey Road studios, a star-studded, three day music event of musical performance and fashion exhibitionism." Basically, this seems to translate to Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss's baby daddy - DJ-ing. [ElleUK]
Cruise lines becoming an important market for fashion houses. "Gucci is one of a growing line of fashion houses showing off a "cruise wear" or pre-spring collection in addition to summer and winter wear, eyeing the line as an important niche to keep customer interest in a global economic downturn." [Reuters]
"When you figure out your suitcase, you figure out your life." (DVF, given to trite sartorial axioms. Wait, didn't she give this same quote to Harper's Bazaar earlier this year?) [Telegraph]
Australian Merino Woolmark Prize designed to aid wool producers, is way too hot to think about. [Fashion Week Daily]
A former Vogue writer dishes on Anna Wintour Sort of. "She came to represent a new archetype for a fashion editor: a master of the universe who wears her power as comfortably and impeccably as Chanel couture. It's an intimidating combination because it implies that she is a woman who is accomplished in the so-called masculine art of war and still knows how to use all the stereotypically feminine wiles. She is a double threat." [Washington Post]

'Mystery' Surrounds Model Ruslana Korshunova's Death

Sadie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Conspiracy theories swirl around young model Ruslana Korshunova's apparent suicide. Yes, the Russian Mafia has been invoked. [BlackBook]
Fox News, meanwhile, has apologized for Geraldo showing Korshunova's body. [Media Bistro]
Landmark knockoff ruling against eBay garners 61.3 million for LVMH. [WWD]
eBay to appeal. [Financial Times]
Mischa Barton's 'vintage-inspired' bag line hits the stores. The brown clutch is actually - gulp - kinda cute. [ElleUK]

Madonna, fashion fickle mistresses. [fashionista]
Naomi Campbell for YSL. [Models.com]
An unprecedentedly powerful fashion alliance at a new Tokyo pop-up shop: Comme des Garcons and Louis Vuitton! "Comme des Garçons and Louis Vuitton will open a store together for three months starting in September, where they'll offer six bags designed by Rei Kawakubo in Vuitton's signature monogram pattern. Kawakubo approached Louis Vuitton about the collaboration, and they obviously were into it; Louis Vuitton's chairman and chief executive, Yves Carcelle, sees the partnership as a great way to celebrate Vuitton's 30th anniversary in Japan." [New York Magazine]
Steve and Barry's hits the skids, hard. [Wall Street Journal]
It seems the discount chain now owes money to college papers. Even we don't do that.[USNews]
Compulsive shopping: good for economy, bad for bank account, mental health. [Washington Post]
Because who doesn't want to take hygiene inspiration from the Middle Ages? Perfumed clothing to mask b.o.! "Researchers in Portugal have developed a way to insert "microcapsules," which are small shells measuring between 1 and 100 micrometers (the latter is slightly longer than the width of a human hair) into fabrics. Fragrances can be injected into the shells, which can then be used in products from scratch-and-sniff stickers to peel-apart perfume samples in magazines." [Live Science]
Retailers threatened by bill that would tighten restrictions on China [WWD]
"King of the Catwalk," photog Chris Moore, holds forth on occupational hazards: "Some spots can be very high up. I recently fell off a podium at a Royal College of Art show two weeks ago and I don't know how it happened, but I fell very well, so no injuries. I keep telling everyone I'm good at falling: I keep my head out of the way and keep the camera up." [The Independent]
The inevitable man-leggings. [New York Magazine]
Major Trade show D&A goes green. [WWD]
SATC knockoffs double store's profits. [Guardian]
"Fussy Pants" fashionista survives the muds of Glastonbury. [Daily Mail]

Did Paris Swipe An Ensemble From The Victoria's Secret Show?

Jennifer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:00:00 EST

Paris Hilton showed up at the Victoria's Secret fashion show earlier this month and demanded to be cast in the show, according to model Miranda Kerr. And then — and here's where it gets really classy — she stole an outfit from the show to wear herself. [Sassybella]
On being asked who designed the dress she wore to a party for actor Ewan MacGregor's new book, Helena Bonham Carter replied, "I can't remember, I can't remember anything." [WWD, 9th item]
Venus Williams is inspired "as an athlete and as a designer" by Madonna. [WSJ]
Model Gemma Ward: "surprisingly impressive" in her acting debut. [Sassybella]

Adidas is partnering with Diesel to do a denim line, because what the world needs now is... that's right! Another denim line. [Vogue UK]
Fresh from their H&M collection, Viktor & Rolf are designing a line of luggage for Samsonite. [IHT]
Pierre Hardy for Gap shoes: Coming stateside soon! [WWD, 4th item]
Model Natalia Vodianova and a bunch of "celebrities" we've never heard of are designing t-shirts for the Buddhist Punk label to benefit Al Gore's The Climate Project. And I guess it's understandable for Al to be tired of winning awards and ready to just party with models for once, but seriously, I am tired of the whole "designing" T-shirts for charity trend. [Vogue UK]
Steve and Barry's is really (really!) a helluva lot more than just the place to buy Sarah Jessica Parker's "Bitten" line. Did you know they bought 3.5 million square feet of retails space in U.S. malls last year? We're not even sure what 3.5 million square feet looks like. [Business Week]
Topshop is going to China! OMG just like this cycle's contestants on America's Next Top Model! We hope to see Heather at the first store opening. [Reuters]