London’s runways were as exciting and diverse for the models as they were for the clothes. With a mix of fresh faces, rising stars, and the old guard (Naomi Campbell made her requisite appearance at Issa) hitting the runways, it was anyone’s game this week. Jamaican beauty Jeneil Williams opened for Paul Smith, while Ranya [...]
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Blumarine. You look like this on vacation, right?
FRAGRANCE
• Steven Klein shot Enrique Iglesias for the Azzaro Pour Homme fragrance campaign, which shows him getting groped by a faceless woman. [StyleWatch/People]
• Elie Saab is branching into fragrances. The designer just signed a ten-year deal with Beauté Prestige International, a division of Shiseido. [WWD
MAKEUP
• Makeup artist Lloyd [...]
Spring 2010 looks from left by Alexander Wang, Prada, Prada, and Duckie Brown.
One of the hottest items — in terms of popularity, not us thinking they’re something you should wear outside — for spring 2010 on the New York runways were bottoms that look like a hybrid of panties and diapers. Designers including Alexander Wang [...]
On Tuesday, The City returns for a second season on MTV. After season one’s breakups, emotional upheavals, catfights, and general difficulties of living life in a penthouse apartment in downtown Manhattan in your early twenties, “everything is different” in season two, according to a press release. Whitney Port returns to work for Kelly Cutrone at [...]
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Burberry Prorsum, Jonathan Saunders, and Twenty8Twelve.
Burberry Prorsum
Designer Christopher Bailey delivered an inventive, confident collection of modern-day trenches, wowing the critics. The collection “oozed luxury from the fabrics to the delightful twists of expert tailoring,” lauded The Wall Street Journal. British Vogue thought it was Bailey’s best collection ever, deeming the clothes “[p]oetic, fresh, and completely [...]
London Fashion Week, Spring 2010: Jeremy Scott New York designer Jeremy Scott opened the final day of London Fashion Week for Spring 2010. The line was heavily inspired by the stone age, or more specifically The Flintstones, with cartoonish animal prints, jagged hemlines, and a bright neon colour palette.
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Olivia Palermo revealed this week that she’s a jewelry designer now. The The City star collaborated with Roberta Freymann to design two necklace styles that will be sold in Freymann’s Upper East Side store. The socialite also said they are working on an “exclusive retail deal, probably in [Henri Bendel].” Another celebrity turned designer? Shocking. [...]
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EVENTS
• Craving a Fashion’s Night Out flashback? Head to Bleecker Street between Hudson and Seventh Ave. for the NYC Boutique Crawl. Stores will offer discounts, cocktails, and snacks, as well as a gift bag from Lucky magazine. Stylists from the Antonio Prieto Salon are providing complimentary blowouts at Cynthia Rowley. 376 Bleecker St., nr. Perry [...]
For the last eight years, Architectural Digest has had the unique pleasure of choosing a designer to design the green room for the Primetime Emmy Awards, which accommodates performers and speakers when they are not on stage. This year the magazine chose award-winning Los Angeles-based designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, who has worked for the likes of [...]
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A look from the Charlie Le Mindu show.
HAIR
• Wig designer Charlie Le Mindu created a lip-shaped wig for his new spring collection. We can see Lady Gaga putting in a preorder for this right now. [StyleList]
• Leigh Lezark signed on to become a brand ambassador for Charles Worthington’s new haircare line named Front Row. [Racked]
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Stella showed off her sharp street style in London today sporting an awesome dotted oversized blazer, slub tee, and skinny gray jeans. For extra pop, the designer – who will be showing at London Fashion Week – donned white booties and a coated cotton chain tote from her own collection. Classic Ray-Bans complete her simple, [...]
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EVENTS
• Head to ABC Carpet & Home for a special evening-shopping event. In addition to featuring discounts on apothecary products, apparel, jewelry, and home décor, the store is also treating customers to raffles, free gifts, drinks, and snacks. RSVP to rsvp@abchome.com. 881 Broadway, at 19th St. (212-473-3000); 6–8.
SALES
STARTING TOMORROW
• Domenico Vacca is hosting a [...]
After Isaac Mizrahi’s show, the designer ran around his Bryant Park set smiling, waving and blowing kisses and even Anna Wintour broke out into a toothy grin (seriously!).
There really couldn’t have been a better note on which to end New York Fashion Week than his theatrical production complete with studio lights and rain. [...]
Emanuel Ungaro president Mounir Mouffarige recently hired Lindsay Lohan to be artistic adviser to the label’s new designer, Estrella Archs. Apparently the talent pool he chose from for this esteemed new position included Madonna, Paris Hilton, and two other unidentified celebrities. He chose Lohan because she offers “something younger, more cool, with a different attitude.” [...]
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Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and 3.1 phillip lim.
Michael Kors
The critics disagreed on the success of Michael Kors’s pared-down, architectural collection. WWD saw “plenty of prettiness” and felt Kors’s take on sharp lines and strong shoulders was a “breath of fresh air.” British Vogue loved the pastel prints (which Cathy Horyn of the Times [...]
Blake Lively, Blake Lively’s legs, and Becki Newton.
There’s something to be said about heading into a fashion presentation and finding yourself in the middle of one of Harvey Weinstein’s conversations. Especially because we walked in on the following:
HARVEY: It’ll just be me, and all the women, right? [Harvey looks right at us, grins.]
Don’t worry, Harv [...]
