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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55 Secret Street went backstage to talk makeup with MAC at Jason Wu’s Spring 2010 show during New York Fashion Week.
Stiletto Jungle shops the new Fall line from Liz Claiborne by Isaac Mizrahi.
Was Kanye West’s Taylor Swift interruption planned? Allie is Wired has the new theory.
Bag Bliss: Top 10 [...]
Jerry once told George on Seinfeld, “You know the message you’re sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You’re telling the world: ‘I give up. I can’t compete in normal society. I’m miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.’” Well that was 1993. Welcome, friends, to 2009, where sweatpants are the new dress [...]
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The season premiere of Gossip Girl had Blair Waldorf emoting Upper East Side sass in an ensemble that only a true fashionphile can appreciate. While stalking the NYC streets with the always dapper Chuck Bass, the high school graduate wore a decadent brocade dress with a chunky gold chain bracelet. She added a youthful touch [...]
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Christian Siriano’s shoes.
Christian Siriano debuted his Payless spring 2010 shoe line at his runway show yesterday, sending out talon-heeled footwear that could possibly double as weaponry. Booties, pumps, and Mary Janes came in varying shades of sand and blue and featured multiple buckles, straps, and sequins. And since one tall platform sent one [...]
From left, Altuzarra, Band of Outsiders, and Ohne Titel.
Alexander Wang showed open-toe leopard wedges and cutout knee-high socks in his new (and amazing) schoolgirl-inspired collection. Charlize Theron loaned her star power to the rag & bone front row. And Taylor Jacobson wore a psychedelic floral-print dress to a party for The Rachel Zoe Project. See [...]
Gwen Stefani took a break from her No Doubt tour to show her Spring ‘10 designs for L.A.M.B. at New York Fashion Week. She also found time to talk to PopSugar about her tour experience and motherhood.
But what we were most interested in is how she chose her outfits for the tour: “It was actually [...]
Gwen: Shape-shifter!
Several of the models at the L.A.M.B presentation this afternoon eschewed pants. But they could have been totally naked (or wearing barrels, or modeling gowns made from banana peels) for all that anyone paid any attention to them. Those poor hungry girls played distinctly second fiddle to what was happening in the audience.
We were [...]
Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock.
As we waited behind a camera crew to interview Vena Cava designers Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai at their presentation at Milk this afternoon, two tiny but very well-dressed older ladies — one with gray hair and one with a blonde bob — were waving anxiously at what appeared to be [...]
Dutton Architects transformed a West L.A. 50’s ranch into a modern dream house. They added living space as well as 2,500 sf gallery.
Check out that ceiling.
It’s hard to tell, but I’m guessing this is the before picture….?
Via.
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Katie Holmes has been ginning up outfits with her stylist Jeanne Yang for a little while now. The jumpsuit she wore at left late last year was perhaps the most memorable, if not necessarily in a good way. And now they’ll mass-produce their creations under the new Holmes & Yang label. The line will launch [...]
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Greg Armas at Assembly.
After building a career as a curator in L.A., Greg Armas turned his discerning eye to fashion, opening Scout in Los Angeles with partner Joey Grana. Last year, he set out on his own to launch Assembly on the Lower East Side, a well-edited stash of menswear, womenswear, accessories, and limited-edition collaborations. [...]
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• Scandal at Bare Escentuals: Michael Dadario, president of the retail division, resigned after it was revealed that he “misrepresented his academic credentials.” Lesson learned? Never lie on your résumé. [WWD]
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• Victoria Beckham has a personal spray-tan expert named Jimmy Coco on staff who claims to have saved her from being too orange: “When we [...]
Ten years after launching her fashion line, YaYa, Yael Aflalo decided she needed a change. So at the end of 2008, she and her partner, Chi Bui, opened a store in Los Angeles called the Reformation. This spring, just six months after the L.A. opening, the pair debuted a second location on the Lower East [...]
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Kira Plastinina’s Los Angeles–based clothing company filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. According to court papers, the company owed creditors $54.4 million. But, when you’re Kira Plastinina, a $54.4 million debt is only a small speed bump in overtaking the American clothing market. After closing her U.S. stores, Kira Plastinina has reopened two in L.A., [...]
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No, this is still not cute.
L.A. Fashion Week dissolved, but did it ever really have a fighting chance? After a month of shows in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, editors and buyers don’t feel like going all the way to L.A. for more shows. Especially when the most anticipated ones are staged by the [...]
