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• Men’s underwear getting a little extra attention
  (AP)
  Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:33:23

  AP - Some things are fashion, and some are necessity. Where do men’s undergarments fall? Increasingly, right in the middle.

  
  

 

• Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars
  (AP)
  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:39:50

  AP - The final day of Paris’s spring-summer haute couture week saw Jean Paul Gaultier serve up a cigarettes-and-all homage to late singer Amy Winehouse and Valentino show off the dazzling couture work of seamstresses who toiled for thousands of hours to create a lavish white collection.

  
  

 

• Glee’s Lea Michele fills closet with Candie’s
  (AP)
  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:51:08

  AP - Lea Michele is moving from a locker to a much bigger closet. She’s the star of the new Candie’s ad campaign, dubbed “Hanging at Home,” shot at a private mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. The images show her poolside, in the kitchen, in a bed with satin sheets and in a walk-in closet, wearing a new outfit and pair of shoes in each one.

  
  

 

• Gaultier fetes Winehouse, Givenchy goes futuristic
  (Reuters)
  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:41:42
  Reuters - Jean Paul Gaultier delivered an ode to Amy Winehouse at his spring/summer 2012 haute couture show in Paris on Wednesday. The late pop singer’s musical spirit and bad girl fashion sense were all over the runway.

 

• Chanel aims sky-high, and Armani courts A-list
  (AP)
  Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:01:56

  AP - On day two of Paris’s frantic three days of haute couture collections, Chanel took the fashion crowd to the skies and highlights included super-sexy, celebrity-filled Armani Prive.

  
  

 

• French brand Courreges takes retro fashion online
  (Reuters)
  Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:26:16
  Reuters - Courreges, the futuristic fashion brand of the 1960s, is poised to bring its vinyl boots and A-line mini-dresses back into vogue, relaunching the French name online.

 

• Look of old Hollywood glamour is a modern favorite
  (AP)
  Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:23:14
  AP - In the Hollywood landscape of new, new, new, what really stands out is that today’s starlets still emulate the looks of classic screen beauties, including Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth, who ruled the red carpet in the 1950s.

 

• Dior shrugs off rumors at Paris Haute Couture show
  (Reuters)
  Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:50:14
  Reuters - Christian Dior shrugged off talk about who might succeed John Galliano as the fallen star designer’s stand-in enjoyed a well-received Spring/Summer Haute Couture show on Monday and seen roaring sales in spite of the global economic malaise.

 

• Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture
  (AP)
  Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:16:50

  AP - France may have lost an A in its credit rating, but fashion seems to have won it back with a flourishing start to haute couture week — from the A-list celebrities to Dior’s 1950s A-line silhouettes.

  
  

 

• Power of Europe’s boardrooms captured in new book
  (Reuters)
  Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:38:15
  Reuters - For 15 years, New York-based Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been making her mark with global art projects, covering subjects as diverse as Haute Couture fitting rooms in Paris, the gardens of Kyoto and the boardrooms of Europe’s leading corporations.

 

Designer und Models - Fashion Shows

• Makeup Bag Confessions Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00
  

  

 

• Style Squared Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00
  
  —Brittany Adams
  

  

 

• Sole Man Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00

  “The last time I was at a Louboutin party, I almost broke my foot,” a woman said as she rode the escalator to the second floor at Bergdorf Goodman last night.

  Things didn’t get quite that rowdy at the retailer’s red-themed 20th anniversary fête for the shoe maestro. Except, that is, when the man of the hour made his grand entrance. As guests tried to get a photo or an autograph of Louboutin—not easy, what with his pack of bodyguards—even industry insiders admitted that meeting the designer is a thrill. “In May, I had lunch with him in Budapest. I know it sounds name drop-y, but I’m from the Midwest, so it was pretty exciting,” said Paper magazine’s Mickey Boardman.

  Bergdorf’s Linda Fargo was on the same page—she decked herself out in confetti for the occasion. Just how did she manage to attach it to her skin? “I used lots of fake eyelash glue,” she told Style.com. “Originally, I went to the store to get those gold star stickers, like the ones they used to put on your papers in school when you did well, and they looked at me like I was crazy!”

  
  —Kristin Studeman

  

  

 

• Fashion Speak Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:00
  

  

 

• Kopp Land Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00

  Sandro Kopp paints his portraits differently: namely, via Skype from Scotland. And perhaps for that reason, his New York friends and famous sitters (often one and the same) have been overjoyed to have the 33-year-old artist in town—although it doesn’t hurt, of course, that his plus-one is Tilda Swinton. “It’s been, like, Sandro week. I think all of his friends have been throwing him parties,” David Maupin said on Saturday night, where his gallery, Lehmann Maupin, hosted a dinner in celebration of Kopp’s new exhibition, There You Are, at its Chrystie Street space.

  “I think part of it is an extension of his charm and his personality and being an artist—to do this type of work, you have to kind of relate and open up some kind of conversation with your subject,” Maupin mused, as Michael Stipe (who’d thrown Kopp a dinner party of his own the night before) arrived with gold, letter-shaped balloons that spelled out K-O-P-P. Meanwhile, Frances McDormand was taking her co-hosting duties seriously: “I’m the hostess; do what I say,” the actress said, cutting a swath through the cocktail area. “We’re moving to the back room. My name’s Fran.”

  Singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf had flown in from London and serenaded dinner guests before they took their seats underneath enormous rice paper lanterns. (The proceedings were sponsored by Belvedere, Pomellato, and Istanbul ‘74, the Turkish culture-importing outfit behind the annual Istancool festival.) Kopp, looking very much the man of the hour in a velvet YSL dinner jacket, declared himself not just over the moon—”I’m over Mars,” he said. As McDormand started packing up kale salad for the road, the crowd headed off to the after-party at Pulqueria. The balloons didn’t make the trip, but Kopp and Swinton did, and stayed until 2 a.m.—which makes the actress’ luminous appearance at the SAG Awards in L.A. the following evening all the more remarkable.

   

  
  —Darrell Hartman

  

  

 

• Heart Skipped a Beat Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00
  
  —Marina Larroude
  

  

 

• And The Actor Goes To Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00

  The 18th Annual SAG Awards ceremony was almost like watching the Globes all
  over again. Same A-list nominees, same A-list winners, save for upsets in
  the Best Actor and Actress categories. Only this time around the festivities
  included a drinking game courtesy of the Bridesmaids crew. Kristen Wiig and company’s onstage antics echoed the action on the red carpet: For the most part, the vibe tonight was cooler, looser, and more fun—and better for it.

  That’s not to say the glam factor went missing. Natalie Portman and Zoe
  Saldana both nabbed looks fresh from the Paris haute couture shows that
  wrapped last Wednesday; the former chose a strapless Giambattista Valli in a
  deep shade of bordeaux, and the latter wore Look 17 from Givenchy. Minus the
  nose ring, that is—things weren’t quite that loose.

  Still, there was plenty to like: Emma Stone’s black Alexander McQueen,
  Michelle Williams‘ lacy red Valentino, Jessica Chastain’s royal-blue gown
  from Calvin Klein Collection. We’ll be looking forward to seeing what those
  three choose for the Oscars. Gretchen Mol’s white and gold L’Wren Scott
  column dress also made a big impact.

  White and gold also proved lucky for a Marchesa-clad Viola Davis. After winning
  Best Actress for her role in The Help, she was back on stage again for the Best Ensemble prize.

  
  —Nicole Phelps

  

  

 

• Fête Majeur Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00

  For ten years, the Sidaction gala has closed the spring Couture season in Paris. The evening has evolved into a highly successful fundraiser for AIDS education, research, and treatment, but the personality of the actual event is contingent on a couple of other features. One, it’s something of a fashion showcase, not quite to the extent of New York’s Met ball, but designers do make the scene with a “muse,” like Giambattista Valli arriving with Bianca Brandolini d’Adda, Peter Copping dressing Clémence Poésy, or Dita Von Teese sporting Alexis Mabille on her bod and Alexis Mabille on her arm. Jean Paul Gaultier and Grace Jones also made a logical pair, even if she was actually with The Other JPG (Jean-Paul Goude).

  Another characteristic of the gala is the lengthy speechifying that precedes dinner. Not, in itself, unusual at such things, but it’s always seemed a little off that they’re not somehow translated for the non-French speakers in the audience. A shame, when the information being imparted is so worthy. Plus, Sidaction’s work is international. Plus, the gala comes at the end of a fashion semi-week, when Paris is awash with out-of-towners. I seemed to be surrounded by people who’d quickly stretched their bilingualism to the max. Oh, well, there was always a special postprandial edition of Club Sandwich, where the Anglophones whose French had been tested and found wanting could blow off some nonverbal steam.

  
  —Tim Blanks

  

  

 

• Haute Joaillerie Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00
  

  

 

• “It’s a New Mix” Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:00:00

  Karl Lagerfeld understands decor as well as he knows fashion. The premises for his new signature collection Karl are an opulently minimal series of salons in an hôtel particulier on the Left Bank, so it made sense that the food for the dinner party he hosted on Wednesday night to launch the line should also focus on the bare opulent essentials: caviar, foie gras, and lobster, with a logo-fied iPad as a takeaway. One of the T-shirts in his Karl range features a fanciful self-portrait with the handwritten message “I Love Gossip.” Plenty of that in a room full of fashion people, though I spent much of the night talking about obscure Eastern European films with the encyclopedically informed Anja Rubik. How often do you get the chance to have a real talk with anyone about Dusan Makavejev’s scatological Sweet Movie? Especially while chunks of foie gras are drifting back and forth under your nose.

  Rubik stars in the commercial that Trey Laird made for the launch of Karl. It was pre-loaded on the iPad. Sui He is also in the ad. She spoke no English when she arrived in New York a year ago but now sounds as politely precise as an elocutionist. On the day of the shoot, Sui was intimidated by the ease of the more experienced models. “It was like a competition,” she said. Everyone’s a winner in the finished product, which premiered at the dinner, but Sui seemed a little taken aback at how persuasive she was as a minx.

  “It’s a new mix,” murmured Lagerfeld to the camera at the end of his film. Right on cue, Azealia Banks appeared to perform. The neighborhood is “nice,” so she didn’t get to play more than two songs, but a ruckus was duly raised, and the hair of the haute bourgeoisie peering down into the yard from their windows was surely curled (presuming they could understand her four-letter wordplay). From caviar to c-you-know-what…It may have been a new mix, but it was the same old polymath Karl.

  
  —Tim Blanks

  

  

 

Allgemeine Infos - Fashion Shows

• Dragon Tattoo Leaves Its Mark On Stockholm Fashion Week
  It was Stockholm’s unlikely style icon Lisbeth Salander, or rather the first actress to bring her to life in the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo film series, Noomi Rapace (pictured), who kicked off the city’s fashion week Monday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Rapace attended shows throughout the …
  

  

 

• All About Annabelle
  For her debut capsule collection for French brand Faith Connexion, Annabelle Dexter-Jones didn’t have to look far for inspiration—she dug through old family photos of she and her siblings wearing their private school uniforms. “They are all clothes that you didn’t want to wear as a child, but you want …
  

  

 

• Bosworth Moonlights For Bruno
  For the last short film she shot for designer Vanessa Bruno, Kate Bosworth bent over backwards—literally. She scaled 40-foot fir trees, rode horses, and did backflips, all in the name of Lov (that’s the short’s title, naturally). For their latest collaboration, Moonlight, directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto (who also did …
  

  

 

• Giorgio Armani Designing For Mumbai, Princess Diana Exhibit Opening In Mall Of America, A Tribute To Eiko Ishoika, And More…
  Giorgio Armani has signed on to design and furnish apartments for the World Towers residential complex, set to be unveiled in 2012, in Mumbai. The upscale complex (complete with custom Armani Casa furniture) will reportedly include a 117-story skyscraper, making it the largest residential tower in the world. [WWD]Before the …
  

  

 

• Carine’s Calendar Girls
  Carine Roitfeld stuck to using “real people” (as opposed to models) for her guest-edited issue of Vman, due out February 14. The exception: the bonus pinup girl calendar, shot by Willy Vandeperre, featuring “supermodels and Victoria’s Secret Angels, 12 of the planet’s most celebrated creatures.” Roitfeld dressed the girls, including …
  

  

 

• Wu Hits The Streets
  Come Monday, watch out for Jason Wu all over lower Manhattan. The designer is set to paper downtown guerrilla-style with his Willy Vanderperre-photographed images, starring Julia Frauche wearing his fifties couture-inspired shapes from his Spring ‘12 collection. Before you spot them on the street, Style.com has the exclusive first look …
  

  

 

• Michael Bastian’s Barneys Collection, Ralph Rucci Cancels His Runway Show, DVF’s Spring Campaign, And More…
  CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year Michael Bastian has collaborated with Barneys on a fully outfitted suit collection. The line will feature slim, modern tailoring ideal for an emerging market of young professionals who want to avoid an “anonymous baggy ‘going to work’ suit.” Pieces, available online and in Barneys …
  

  

 

• A New World Of Filson
  Filson’s fashion moment just got extended—the 115-year-old outdoor clothing company from Seattle, known among the style set for its canvas and leather totes, has tapped Richard Chai as its new creative director.”As a young designer in New York, we get approached with so many opportunities to collaborate, and sometimes they …
  

  

 

• Pretty In Purple
  Many people did a double take when Prabal Gurung’s Spring ‘12 campaign, featuring a barely recognizable Candice Swanepoel, made the rounds earlier this week. Gurung’s go-to team, stylist Tiina Laakkonen and makeup artist Hannah Murray, transformed the South African model for the sensual shoot with photographer Daniel Jackson, showing off …
  

  

 

• Who Doesn’t Love A Two-For-One Deal?
  With Valentine’s Day approaching, we’ve been reflecting on our favorite fashion couples. Because when it comes to dressing, a pair of style aces is always better than one. Naturally, power duos like Brangelina or Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom made the cut; those genetic jackpot winners could make even burlap …