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Keep Up With The Kardashians!

  • Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian are auctioning some stuff, including a Gucci tote, a Dior purse and an Herve Leger dress. A percentage goes to the Dream Foundation, which grants wishes to terminally-ill adults — but the price is high: As People ominously puts it, "Now you can look as good as Kim, Khloe and Kourtney." [People]
  • Capitalizing on the key fashionista/teenage boy demographic, Nintendo introduces POP CUTIE!, the "street-style" video game that lets you make like the sartorialist from your own home. "Players will buzz through virtual streets in Tokyo, New York, and Paris picking out their favorite 'trends.'" An insidious plan to force fashion types to put on weight?! [fashionista]
  • Finally women's education gets some serious funding: Victoria's Secret goes to college! "VS Pink Collegiate Collection," which cobrands with universities across the country, will carry sweatpants, hoodies, panties, T-shirts and totes and will retail in campus bookstores. [WWD]
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    Kate Moss For Top Shop: London Ladies Go Crazy

    • Ladies, start your engines: Kate Moss has a new Top Shop line! “Two hundred of the coveted red pansy dresses were sold in the first hour and a half,” writes the Telegraph's Hilary Alexander. For the love of God RUN, don’t walk, and buy everything you can right now. This is the 'Sex and the City' of clothes, people! [Telegraph]
    • Never a dull moment for Marc Jacobs, who is channeling Andy Warhol for an upcoming cover of Interview magazine. Page Six reports that he got Andy’s actual wig flown in for the occasion, as he should, because Marc Jacobs can do anything! He’s a superhero! [NY Post]
    • Jennifer Lopez and Ashley Olsen drooled at Francisco Costa; Donatella received a "Superstar Award" from Fashion Group International (they couldn’t think of a better name?) and Angelina Jolie loves Nike. [WWD]
    • This just in: Savannah, GA is awesome! Follow up to yesterday’s story about designer John Galliano calling in sick to SCAD’s graduation: As it turns out, designers the school and Galliano is often flaky. “Savannah is the physical jewel of the south,” adds Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley. [WWD]
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      Sarah Jessica Parker's Shoes Reveal That She's Fiercely Really Into Fashion

      • After much consideration I have decided that I do not care at all what the personal footwear choices of the Sex and the City stars say about their personalities. [LA Times]
      • Speaking of Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker says that her son only wears his older cousin's hand-me-downs and has never been given new clothes, other than shoes. [US Weekly]
      • Another day, more people fired from ELLE. This time, on the dot-com side. Maybe Nina will give them jobs over at Marie Claire? [WWD, 1st item]
      • Rachel Zoe does not want to talk about being disinvited from the Met Costume Institute Gala thankyouverymuch. [US Weekly]
      • In case you were wondering, Cindy Crawford will be celebrating Mother's Day with breakfast in bed. [Reuters]
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      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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      Christina Ricci Is Not The Face Of Louis Vuitton

      • How did Christina Ricci respond when someone from Interview magazine asked how she likes being the face of Louis Vuitton? "Well, I'm not anymore. I was one of four actresses that they used in a campaign once and it was really fun. I liked it. I would like to be the face of Louis Vuitton. I am not, however. You know who is? Scarlett Johansson is the face of Louis Vuitton. Wrong interview." Awkward. [WWD, 4th item]
      • Back in 2007, Harvey Weinstein said of NBC Universal top dog Jeff Zucker (who is, you know, now suing Weinstein for taking Project Runway from Bravo to Lifetime), "You can only have in your life five true friends, and I consider you one of my five friends." All together now, once more, with feeling: Awkward. [Page Six]
      • We're guessing that Nina Garcia is turning down that editor-at-large gig at Elle since she was seen eating lunch yesterday at Bergdorf Goodman. Working fashion editors don't eat. [Page Six]
      • How surprising: Prada isn't going public come June, as previously announced. (Actually, no one's surprised about this at all.) [NYT]
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      George Clooney Is Not A Fashion Designer

      • Holy fuck: George Clooney, fashion designer?! [WWD, sub req'd]
      • No: Just a prank pulled by some douchey Italians. [WWD, 1st item]
      • Says Clooney: "This is a hoax. I have no connection whatsoever with any clothing line bearing my name, and more specifically GC Exclusive by George Clooney." Ok,ay well now we know. [Vogue UK]
      • And how did Vivienne Westwood celebrate Easter? By marching for nuclear disarmament, of course. [Vogue UK]
      • Whoah: they serve cake every Friday at the H&M design offices?! [WWD]
      • The Banana Republic green line is, um, literally green. [Nylon]
      • Nicole Richie is starting a jewelry line. Which is only a bit less offensive than starting a handbag line. [Off The Rack]
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      BREAKING NEWS: Karl Lagerfeld Changes Clothes

      • Breaking news! Karl Lagerfeld changed his uniform. He's now rocking a gray suit and a bow tie, in contrast to the black suit and a skinny tie of yore. This is akin to the time Jay-Z announced he had stopped wearing sports jerseys, and you can expect its effects to be felt on the Karl Lagerfeld figurine industry and the Karl Lagerfeld party impersonator industry soonest. [FabSugar UK]
      • "I told them, 'I'll only do it if you make me a guitar case with the logo on it,' " says Keith Richards, of what made him agree to be the new face of Louis Vuitton. Way to haggle, Keith! [USA Today]
      • Barneys Creative Director/general master of awesomeness Simon Doonan's memoir of his childhood, Nasty is being turned into a TV show called Beautiful People thanks to the producer of The Office and Asbolutely Fabulous. "It's a low-rent Madame Bovary," he says. We may just be watching this. [WWD, 2nd item]
      • Speaking of which, says Donatella Versace of Doonan, after their stint parading in the Barneys windows together: "I think Simon actually wants to be a mannequin." [WWD, sub req'd]
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      Kate Moss For Topshop Is Bland & Boring

      The fifth installment of the Kate Moss collection for Topshop is being pretty universally recognized as... an utter disaster. Writes the paper we love to hate, the Daily Mail, writes, "What a difference a year makes." Ahtough a year ago customers were banging down the doors to get their grubby pawn on Kate garb, now, most could care less. Why? For starters, the stuff is ugly. Like, really ugly. After the jump, the dresses from this season's collection, for your review. More »

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      OMG: More Clothes Are Coming From Kate Moss!

      • Kate Moss's fifth collection for Topshop launches today. It's inspired by "travel." Oh, bite me. [Vogue UK]
      • Spanx bras — to flatten your back fat, of course — in stores now! [WWD, sub req'd]
      • You will be so proud of Eva Mendes! She overcame that whole nasty rehab debacle to be chosen as the face of Calvin Klein underwear. Yay Eva! And yay Calvin Klein for taking a chance on a star who is trying to overcome adversity. [WWD, sub req'd]
      • Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin has extended her evil empire to include a lingerie line (entitled, sickeningly, "Pussycat Dolls...shhh") and a costume jewelry line. [WWD, 3rd item]
      • Nicole Richie doing a maternity line? Why, God, why? [LATimes]
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      Agyness Deyn's Mother Reveals The Reason Her Daughter Is So Fat

      • Agyness Deyn's mom Lorraine Collins is as amazed as we are that someone as FAT as Agyness could ever make it in fashion: "She has wonderful curves and a bit of meat on her. When she's home, she eats everything." [Mirror]
      • Poor chivalrous BF-of-Marc-Jacobs Jason Preston! When he tried to stand up for a girl who got a drink thrown at her at a club, Preston got something worse thrown at him: a punch in the face. $10 says Marc incorporates a black eye makeup look into the Spring 2009 collection. [Page Six]
      • Richard Chai is the latest designer to do a Target collection! [Who is Richard Chai? I asked Jennie. He's "very respected." And Asian. Okay. -Moe] [Nylon]
      • But even more exciting: Alice McCall is designing for Topshop. [Who is...meh, forget it. I'm not the one reading the fashion news roundup.] [Sassybella]
      • While we buy that Barack would smell like bergamot and musk, no way in hell is Hillary Clinton a "delicate floral." [BellaSugar]
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      Mad Dogs & Englishmen Take Over British Topshop

      At the Topshop in Oxford Circus, London on Saturday, store managers experienced their biggest shopping day of the year and the Times of London was there to document the debacle: 50,000 shoppers. 100,000 square feet of floorspace. 120 cash registers. 300 salespeople. Here's what the shoppers had to say:"My friend heard about Topshop and we thought we'd check it out. It's not my kind of thing. It's too much stuff . . . too many clothes." And:"Too much!" And: "I want diamonds. Big diamonds!" (Diamonds? At Topshop?)
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      Egomaniac Movie Mogul & Marchesa Designer Say "I Do"

      • Miramax mogul Harvey Weinstein and Marchesa co-designer Georgina Chapman got hitched on Saturday night at Weinstein's home in Westport, CT. The bride wore Marchesa, the groom Tom Ford, the Gypsy Kings gave a private concert and even Vogue's Anna Wintour attended. Also there: Model Natalia Vodianova, celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, Renée Zellweger, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz (all of whom, sadly, need no further introduction). [WWD, 1st item]
      • Chapman designed not one but two gowns for her wedding: One for the ceremony and one for the reception. Modest! [GlamChic]
      • This year's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fun big winner Rogan Gregory is rumored to be the next designer to do a collection for Target, thus confirming Moe's theory that designers go straight from Vogue to the red bullseye, lovingly guided by Anna Wintour herself. [WWD, 2nd item]
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      Vivienne Westwood: Yup, Still Nuts

      • Designer Vivienne Westwood is switching party allegiances from the (liberal) Labour to the (conservative) Tory, and will even be the keynote speaker at her new political party's Christmas party. Warns Westwood: "I'm going to take the opportunity to put them right on a few things. They're not going to get what they bargained for." [Vogue UK]
      • "Russians have started to learn that less bling is better, that more sophistication is in. The women here learn this slower than the rest of world, but they're learning for sure." Donatella Versace, folks. [WWD, sub req'd]
      • Heidi Montag of The Hills is designing clothing line for the label Anchor Blue. See, it happened in one of those brainstorming sessions where an Anchor Blue executive was like, "Who can we get that would actually be less qualified to design a clothing line than L.C. from The Hills?" [Sassybella]
      • Cory Kennedy is the new face of Urban Decay. Which is kind of cute, because she's the age we were when we thought Urban Decay — the nail polish, the societal phenomenon, etc.— were cool. [Fashionista]
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      Is Kate Moss The Most Important Model Ever?

      We can't help but be in awe of Kate Moss even though we know way better. (In case you need a refresher on why you should hate her: She is "too short" to be a model at only 5'7", made "heroin chic" cool, dated Pete Doherty, and launched into the most successful period of her life after being photographed doing coke.) Yes, it should be easy to hate Kate Moss. But my God: How can you? She's an amazing model. Just look at the the history of her magazine covers. She is living proof that there is an art to modeling. Everyone from America's Next Top Model contestants to the reigning look-alike Estonian girls on the runways can suck it. Behold some of Kate's finest, after the jump. More »

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

      • 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]
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      Kate Moss For Topshop: Still Annoying, But Much More Stylish

      The 3rd installment of Kate Moss's attempt to play "fashion designer" hits Topshop stores and the Internet on October 25 and Ms. Moss debuted the line with one of those repulsive star-studded clusterfucks last night in London. And God help us: The stuff is actually really nice. Moss went for a strange Donna Summers-meets-Daisy Buchanan look for the Christmas season collection and as much as the meeting of those two style concepts seems impossible, based on what we can see it actually works. These are garments much more sophisticated, glamorous and well-conceived than those in Ms. Moss' first go-round (skinny jeans and wife beaters do not high-design make). There's even a hint of naughty, but the best kind of naughty: the kind that's implied when you keep your business covered up and leave everyone else wondering what you've got going on underneath.
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      Anne Hathaway For Lancome; Jennifer Connelly For Balenciaga

      • Anne Hathaway: Possible next face of Lancome, a brand already endorsed by "such luminaries as" Kate Winslet and Clive Owen. Wait, Clive Owen? Why can't they splash him all over our perfume advertisements? [WWD, 1st item]
      • And in other face-of-campaign news, Jennifer Connelly will be fronting Balenciaga for spring and the rumor mill is already going that Victoria Beckham is to be the face of Marc Jacobs. But Marc has already worked so tirelessly to alienate himself to the fashion community! [WWD, 1st item]
      • Speaking of Posh, did you think we were done hearing about Victoria Beckham's denim line, dVb? Ha ha ha, not a chance! For spring we have glitter denim headed our way! [WWD, 2nd item]
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      Spice Girls, Victoria's Secret In Classiest Music-Fashion Collaboration Of All Time

      • Holy shit! It's a match made in both gay and straight man Heaven: The Spice Girls will play the Victoria's Secret show in Los Angeles. [Fashion Week Daily]
      • 15-year old Mick & Jerryspawn Georgia Jagger becomes (shock!) a model. And by shock we mean what exactly took her so long? [Sassybella]
      • Israeli model/DiCaprio girlfriend Bar Rafeli swears she didn't talk shit about Israel and get married to get out of her military service. [WWD, 2nd item]
      • Does Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour not have air conditioning in her NYC townhouse? Her guests apparently panted and sweated through the party she threw for this year's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund nominees. [WWD, sub req'd]
      • Harper's Bazaar is 140 this year and wants us to believe that it's more relevant and important than ever. LOL! [WWD, sub req'd]
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