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The September issues of women's magazines are historically the thickest and most anticipated of the year, filled with a particularly frenzied orgy of materialism. WWD has the scoop on the covergirls for those issues, which will hit newsstands in late August. Keira Knightley will grace the cover of Vogue for the second time in under two years — the fourth time in total — even though her last cover from June '07 (pictured) didn't sell well. Glamour has Penélope Cruz, W is featuring Kate Hudson, In Style will highlight Uma Thurman, Allure has Carrie Underwood, Teen Vogue has Vanessa Hudgens, Elle has Jessica Simpson, and finally, Cosmo will show Blake Lively. (The teen queen's presence in Cosmo confirms our suspicion that the magazine is not actually geared towards grown women). [WWD, sub. req.]
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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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There Are Five Types Of "Extreme Shoppers," And They're All Horrifying
Today's Women's Wear Daily bemoans the five types of dysfunctional "extreme shoppers." These women live where conspicuous consumption and pathology meet. You know them, surely — or, at least, you've seen them: They demand attention. They cry in the dressing room. They cry outside of the dressing room. They cry outside of the dressing room while still undressed. They attempt to get poor unsuspecting sales clerks naked in a dressing room with them. Thing is, has anyone ever met one of these types? Will anyone admit to being one? After the jump, the categories of terror. More »
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Five Quirky Quips From Wonderfully Wacky Simon Doonan
Barneys creative director Simon Doonan is profiled in WWD today. He's got a new book, Eccentric Glamour (one chapter is called "Say No to Ho"), and his interview is chock full of amusing witticisms and quippy bon mots, especially if you recall that he says it all in a crisp British accent. Of convincing Donatella Versace to stand in the window of Barneys New York for ten minutes, Simon says: "I told her it would be like an aquarium." He claims he came out of the womb totally and obviously gay: "I was flitting around the house like a Russian ballerina. I think my parents were just glad I wasn't a schizophrenic." On Hillary Clinton and her wardrobe: "She looks entirely appropriate. I don't want a politician who is going to wear a backless Dior gown. I don't want a politician who's thinking about fashion for even one millisecond. It's the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in a Comme des Garçons humpback dress giving me a colonoscopy is just not groovy." More »
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If You Worked At Home, You'd Be Wearing Pajamas Too
Today's Women's Wear Daily asks the legitimately thought-provoking question: Just who do women dress for? Now, since I work from home, I dress for no one, meaning I am regularly clad in orange sweats, an old tank top, thick wool socks, and my glasses. If I thought anyone could see me, however, I'd probably put on a pair of darkwash jeans, my favorite rose-colored low cut silk blouse and maybe the Marc Jacobs brown patent leather granny shoes I blew my last paycheck on. (Also, I would brush my hair.) Which, I guess, makes me like Anne Hathaway, who tells WWD (and not entirely originally) that "Most women dress for their most fashionable friend." But the other famous folk WWD spoke to were actually fairly split on whether women dress for other women... or for men. More »
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Dear Diane: Sorry, But You Can't Claim To "Show The Soul Of A Woman" On The Same Day You Sue Target
- "With so many magazine images that are so completely retouched, we've gone in the opposite direction, showing the soul of a woman." That's artist Francois-Marie Banier, on this Diane von Furstenberg ad starring Natalia Vodianova. Which makes us wonder, if that is the "opposite direction" of the retouching trend, we sort of wonder what that trend would look like "taken to its hyperbolic extreme." [Vogue UK]
- And in other DVF news, Diane is suing Target over a wrapdress. Wait, you're telling us Target didn't invent the wrapdress? [Reuters]
- Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell are appearing on the February cover of French Vogue together — with Naomi appearing sans hair extensions. What would Tyra say? [Fashion Week Daily]
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Miuccia Prada Really Understands What Men Want
- Whoah. Prada Fall 2008 Menswear: Now featuring skirts! Oh yes, this is something guys would totally buy. [Chic Report]
- RIP Miu Miu menswear: The line will be discontinued as of the Spring 2008 collection. What, Miuccia just couldn't top skirts for men? [WWD, 1st item]
- WWD headline on Isaac Mizrahi's move from Target to Claiborne is: "Will He Hit Or Miz?" [WWD, sub req'd]
- And in other Claiborne news, the company is rumored to be in talks to license of its Dana Buchman label to Kohl's. [WSJ]
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Lily Allen May Be Pregnant, But She's No Fan Of Maternity-Wear
- Pregnant singer Lily Allen has announced that she has turned down multiple offers to design a maternity line, given that so many of her fans are tween girls and feels that attaching her name to getting knocked up just "wouldn't be suitable." Jaime-Lynn, are you listening? [BBC]
- Lily also opened the Harrods sale today, clad in a very non-maternity backless black dress. She told shoppers: "Unfortunately I did come in earlier for a bit of a preview so there's not much left." Oh the rich: They're so funny! [The Mirror]
- Wednesday, Giorgio Armani himself took a little stroll through his SoHo Armani Exchange store while customers were busy shopping. It's not difficult to imagine him entering and musing proudly, arms outstretched, "These are my lands." [Page Six]
- Estee Lauder, Inc: Friend to farmers! [WSJ]
It's been a long-time coming but, just like death, no matter the circumstances surrounding it, the blow is never dulled: WWD is reporting that Valentino will be resigning from his eponymous fashion house after designing one more ready-to-wear and one more couture collection. (Which we think makes him, like, the Barbra Streisand of designers — who else would announce a retirement and then continue to perform?) [WWD]
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Starvation Is Always In Style
Things we have come to expect from Women's Wear Daily: The fetishism of Ralph Lauren, the continued saga of Valentino's not-retirement, magazine editors saying cringe-worthy things. What we don't expect? Service journalism . But lo and behold, in this morning's edition of the trade paper, was a full-on diet feature pegged to a book called The Little Black Dress Diet, which guarantees the loss of 7 lbs in 7 days: Can your Ex-Lax/black coffee/enema regime do that? Probably. But for those who want the same results via purely herbal means, this is the fennel/dill/parsley diet you've been looking for. The full regime — with helpful translations by us! — after the jump. More »
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On Friday night, 20/20 ran an interview with Peter Braunstein, the former Women's Wear Daily writer who, in the fall of 2005 assaulted and tied up a former female colleague, threatened to kill Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, and is now serving 18-years-to-life in prison, accessorized in unflattering orange jumpsuit and close-cropped haircut. But a meds-addled Braunstein hasn't really changed during his time in prison; in fact, he is still railing against the major players in fashion industry (they think Manhattan is like Versailles! Which might be true!) and their eating habits, which make it really difficult for him to stay, you know, nourished when he decides to, you know, hold them hostage. More »
Scary Psycho Peter Braunstein Confirms That Manhattan Fashion Magazine Editors Are Drunk On Power, Cristal
On Friday night, 20/20 ran an interview with Peter Braunstein, the former Women's Wear Daily writer who, in the fall of 2005 assaulted and tied up a former female colleague, threatened to kill Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, and is now serving 18-years-to-life in prison, accessorized in unflattering orange jumpsuit and close-cropped haircut. But a meds-addled Braunstein hasn't really changed during his time in prison; in fact, he is still railing against the major players in fashion industry (they think Manhattan is like Versailles! Which might be true!) and their eating habits, which make it really difficult for him to stay, you know, nourished when he decides to, you know, hold them hostage. More »
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Bonnaroo: Bastard Fashion Music Festival Stepchild Or Tastemaking Trend Capital?
Music festivals and fashion statements go together like Peter, Bjorn and John and Pete and Kate! But fashion-wise, not all music festivals are created equal. As Donna Karan spokeswoman told the LA Times last year re the Lohan-Diaz-Kim Stewart music-famewhore clusterfuck that is Coachella: "We've done Coachella for three years now, but we wouldn't necessarily do Bonnaroo. It's all about the energy here. Let's face it, it's not everybody who gets in — it's tastemakers. We're associating ourselves with people who set the trends. They tell the stories we want to tell." So what stories to Bonnarroo attendees tell, pray tell? The intrepid style studiers at Women's Wear Daily went to find out, and returned with an entire gallery showcasing the Nashville music festival's hottest "hipsters." So who's right? The PR bitches? Or the fourth estate? Judge for yourself by checking out the aforementioned gallery, after the jump. More »
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Kate Winslet Wears It Well
We'd been waiting for an excuse to run this picture and here it is: One of our favorite actresses, Kate Winslet, may be the next face of L'Oreal. Click through to see Kate in all her white-gloved glory. More »
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Omaha, Nebraska: Underground Fashion Capital
- Indie pop band Tilly and the Wall announces Nebraskan style-revolution from the stage of the Coachella Music Festival, saying of their home state: "...you don't really have anywhere to buy clothes except for thrift stores so you just create it yourself, which has led to a ton of crazy style in Omaha." [WWD]
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Rag Trade: P. Diddy Says You've Been A Bad, Bad Girl... And Smell Like It Too
- Having convinced men that they smell Unforgivable, Sean "P.Diddy" Combs takes on the women's fragrance market. His new scent, which smells like a pina colada, will be supported by an ad campaign depicting Diddy forcibly taking a woman from behind. Ah, we love the smell of debatably consensual sex in the morning! [WWD]
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Blogosphere's Collective Brain Explodes Over Sarah Jessica Parker's Clothes For People Who Do Not Read Blogs
Sometime last month someone announced the news that Sarah Jessica Parker is "designing", by which we mean, "profiting from the sale of," a line of clothes for poor people. And not you-and-me poor, but the type of poor that is targeted by the "Layaway" section at my corner Dollar Store - basically you and me if we had a few kids and no laptops poor. The line is being sold at Steve & Barry's, a chain of discount sporting goods stores - we love how WWD keeps calling it a "sportswear" store! as if you can buy Ackris in there!! - that according to this Business Week story is known for undercutting Wal-Mart prices by as much as 40%. (And if that doesn't scream "Kathie Lee Gifford" to you, you definitely did not take econ alongside upstanding young capitalists like Steve & Barry.) (Who incidentally, started the chain that would conract the "designing skills" of SJP, after graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, from which Jezzy #2 dropped out after realizing we would pretty much never not be too poor to pay for it.) More »
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