Britney Replaces Hayden At Candie's; Freida Pinto To Get Pretty For Estee Lauder?
- Candie’s decided to take a chance on Britney Spears, and her cohort of current fans. The singer is the latest face of the tween-friendly brand. [WWD]
- Hello, viral marketing! There’s already a “behind-the-scenes” vid of Ms. Spears shooting looks for the Candie’s campaign, but, slightly more interestingly, it includes rehearsal footage featuring Spears in what are presumably those DSquared costumes we just heard about. There’s a cool big-shouldered red jacket with swinging black fringe on the epaulettes. [PopSugar]
- Here’s some news to make it worth getting up in the morning: Tom Ford, who has said in the past that he wants to do women’s wear with his eponymous label, might be re-hiring Alessandra Facchinetti as head designer for the ladies’ stuff. Facchinetti was Ford’s women’s wear point person when he was at Gucci, and she succeeded him when he left the company. But Facchinetti was fired from her position after just two seasons, and she was unceremoniously dumped from her next position, as creative director at Valentino, after just a few months in charge as well. Facchinetti is a talented designer, but maybe it takes Ford to get the best work from her? Let’s hope this rumor proves true. [The Cut]
- Uniqlo had its fourth straight month of improving same-store sales, even in the midst of this recession. Same-store sales were up 4.2% in February, mainly on the back of increased patronage, since per-customer sales didn’t rise significantly. [WWD]
- Also demonstrating that retail isn’t entirely a scorched-earth zone these days, albeit more tentatively, is Claire’s. Although their fourth-quarter results are still bad, their same-store sales rose in January and crossed into positive numbers last month. [WWD]
- This month, Forever 21 is launching a new plus-size range, called Faith 21. (The company is run by weird fundamentalist Christians, which pretty much explains the name.) [LA Times]
- Chanel, on the other hand, is closing two of its Japanese stores, and Chopard is having layoffs. [WWD]
- Jennifer Connelly wears Balenciaga in her Revlon ads, shot at Milk studios in New York. In this video, she talks about beauty. [Style.com]
- Freida Pinto might be a pick for an Estée Lauder contract. [WWD]
- Pharrell Williams, whose fashion interests already include Ice Cream and the Billionaire Boys Club, bought an interest in an ecologically sensitive yarn company in December. Which W decided to write about, now. For some reason. [W]
- Marc Jacobs donated a signed iPod to charity and we might as well pretend for the fun of it that his song list offers unexpected insights into his personality. What kind of man mixes Leonard Cohen and Lady Gaga? And then polishes the lot off with “No Scrubs” by TLC? It’s fun to imagine Jacobs mouthing, “No, I don’t want your number/No, I don’t wanna give you mine/I don’t wanna meet you nowhere/I don’t want none of your time!” while sketching blouses for his collections or something. Oh, and for one last piece of Britney news: her iPod only fetched $801 at auction. [Unbeige]
- The difference between Anna Wintour, who has the dusty feel of a fashion institution these days, and Carine Roitfeld, who gives the impression she just might have a dust rag on or about her person, couldn’t be more aptly underscored by the difference in the camera crews they attract. Wintour, editor of American Vogue, is to be the subject of a 60 minutes piece by Morley Safer, who first came to acclaim for his Vietnam coverage. Roitfeld, editor of French Vogue, gets something on CNN Revealed, which will almost certainly be cooler, hipper, and better, since it’s cable and Carine and all. [The Cut]
- Katie Grand‘s Love magazine is either sold out of its 67,000 print run, and therefore fastest-selling debut magazine for Condé Nast UK ever, or it’s just a lot of creative hype and there are in fact copies all over the place in Britain, depending on whether you believe Love magazine, or a bunch of anonymous Fashionista commenters. [Fashionista]
- Ever flip through a J. Crew catalog and think, ‘Wow! These people clearly are a bunch of insurgent creatives, introducing mad art and design to chinos and pastels.’ The impression will only be confirmed by Alex Katz‘s turn as a model for their spring catalog and in-store displays. Katz, 81 years young, is a Big Deal in American painting. [Unbeige]
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