martes, 20 de julio de 2010

Lindsay Lohan Reports to Prison; Lands the Cover of Complex Mag and Another Guest Spot on Tonight’s Double Exposure” y 11 mas

Lindsay Lohan Reports to Prison; Lands the Cover of Complex Mag and Another Guest Spot on Tonight’s Double Exposure” y 11 mas

Lindsay Lohan Reports to Prison; Lands the Cover of Complex Mag and Another Guest Spot on Tonight’s Double Exposure

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Lindsay Lohan reports to prison today to serve out her 90-day sentence at Los Angeles County jail in Lynwood. Lohan seems to have a good sense of humor about her jail time, which will likely be shortened due to overcrowding. Just last night she tweeted, “the only ‘bookings’ that i’m familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that i’d be ‘booking’ into Jail… eeeks.”

“Eeeks” is right.

Excessive over-share-y twittering aside, Lohan has managed, against all odds, to get a lot of non-tabloid, non-prison related press lately. She recently steamed up the cover of German GQ in a floral bikini, and she’s covering Complex mag’s style and design issue which hit stands yesterday. Complex ran their cover, which features Lohan in, gasp, another skimpy bikini, set against a backdrop designed by artist KAWS, despite having never secured the interview.

“As we go to press, it’s late June—more than a month since we shot these pictures—and we still haven’t gotten our interview,” the mag says. “Emails have gone unanswered; the same for voicemails we left with her mom, Dina.” In lieu of a traditional cover story with interview, Complex just recounts Lohan’s recent troubles–starting with the controversy surrounding their cover shoot.

Fame-ball photogs Markus and Indrani shot Lohan’s Complex cover, and tonight’s episode of Double Exposure features the shoot. It will mark Lohan’s second appearance on the Bravo reality show. This is the infamous cover shoot that sparked rumors that Lohan and Indrani were lovers. Probably worth dvr-ing this one.

If you can’t wait until 11 p.m. when the show airs (which is super late for an air time), we’ve got the photos from the shoot. Thoughts?

Quote of the Day: Design VS. Fashion

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT

“I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy. I’d sit at dinner parties and people would say to me, ‘So what do you do?’ and I’d be like, oh design! When I fill passport forms I put ‘design.’ I don’t say fashion. But don’t get me wrong, I love my job!” Stella McCartney, on her chosen occupation, in the UK’s Observer.



Lilla P is Looking For Store Manager in NYC!

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Lilla P, a successful, dynamic, and fast growing women's apparel brand is looking for a store manager for its first boutique in NYC's Meatpacking District.

Responsibilities include:

* Sales performance and bottom-line profitability of the store.
* Ensure interior and exterior of store is maintained to company standards.
* Provide exceptional and friendly customer service and ensure the employees also provide the same level of service.
* Recruit, train and manage limited store employees.
* Resolve customer problems or complaints quickly and efficiently.
* Communicate store and inventory performance to management, ensuring optimal product availability and inventory turnover.
* Supervise all visual merchandising for the store.
* Communicate, execute, and manage store marketing programs, including in-store events, partnerships, mailers etc.
* Manage store revenue, including cash handling, deposit reconciliation and delivery of deposits to bank.
* Monitor loss prevention and shrink.
* Management of all store operational issues, including store housekeeping, store administrative duties, physical inventories, price changes, etc.

Requirements:

* Minimum 3 years of retail experience in a boutique environment. High end experience preferred.
* Management experience preferred but not mandatory
* Strong leadership and people management skills.
* Good merchandising skills and a flair for conceiving and implementing creative merchandising themes.
* Strong operations experience in receiving, stock and inventory as well as front-end management and office management.
* A friendly, outgoing demeanor, with a sales-oriented personality.
* Must be self motivated, entrepreneurial and dynamic.

Interested parties should email their resume and cover letter to shira@launchcollective.com.

What I Learned From Tila March Designer Tamara Tachman

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:00 PM PDT

The year 2006, accessories-wise, was all about the It Bag. As big as an Olsen, with enough hardware to overwhelm even the most dedicated Pilates-goer's biceps, the ubiquitous handbags were just not doing it for stylist Tamara Taichman. So the French Elle contributor did what any well-connected fashion gal does, and had a bag custom made for herself, just in time for Paris Fashion Week, where editors and buyers alike went gaga for the tote.

Colette's Sarah Lerfel placed an order on the spot, et alors, Tila March was born.

Four years later, Tila March is a full-blown accessories line that marks the launch of its e-commerce site today. The bags are simple without becoming boring—a well-placed pocket here, a little accent patent leather there, but nothing completely superfluous. Shoes were added in Spring 2009, in the same amazing colors as the bags (think coral, navy, violet—anything but the obvious), and in keeping with the logo-less but clearly distinctive look of the bags.

You can learn a lot from a woman who styles cover shoots, manages a rapidly growing business, and travels the globe to open new boutiques (three in Japan and a Parisian flagship scheduled to open this fall). These are just a few of the lessons Tamara taught me over breakfast last week:

Marrying a Louis Vuitton exec has its perks.
Nicolas Berdugo, Tamara's business partner and husband, was a marketing executive at Louis Vuitton when they first met. He offered his resources to help Tamara create the first bag, and when it became clear she had really hit on something, encouraged her to launch the line. In fact, the name Tila March is a ridiculously sweet reference to their relationship: Tila is a combination of their first two names, and March is the month they met.

If you design an accessories line, you gotta do some black.
When it comes to their partnership, Tamara's strictly creative, and Nicolas sticks to the business side. Except when he can't help himself, as Tamara told me: "I don't really like black leather, which is completely mad for [someone designing] accessories. At the beginning I said to Nicolas, 'I don't want to do black leather.' He said to me 'What, are you crazy? We have to!' So now because of business I start to do black leather. This is the first season."

Those amazing colors are ’70s-inspired.
One of the details that sets Tila March apart in the sea of accessories is its colors: burgundy, mossy green, amethyst…shades you never realized you needed a clutch in until you laid eyes on one of Tila's. When I asked her about the unusual hues, Taichman told me it's her favorite part of design: "I love colors! First, I love the 70s. For me, the women were very chic, and at the same time, very cool… I'm very inspired by this period."

Running your own accessories line doesn't bar you from appreciating others.
Tamara came to breakfast carrying a gorgeous ponyhair shoulder bag in a very Tila-shade of auburn. The simple brushed metal clasp and square shape made me think the line was expanding into ponyhair for next season, but when I complimented the bag, the designer revealed it was in fact Chloe. As she puts it, "I buy a lot of amazing shoes, because I'm a fashion editor. I love Louboutin, Nicholas Kirkwood, I'm crazy about this kind of thing, and I think they're super-good and super-talented. But for Tila March, I think I have to do something else. I try to mix style with something easy to wear, everyday, all day long."

She might disagree with our Adventures in Copyright series.
For her spring line, Tamara made the perfect suede wedge in a rainbow of colors, including mustard yellow. A nearly identical pair—down to the skinny ankle strap—hit the runway a few months later in Celine's pre-fall show. When I asked the designer about it, she wrote it off as a symptom of the very small fashion community. "It's normal. In the fashion world, we're close…we see the same movie at the same time, we see the same exhibition." In short, similar inspiration=similar designs.

How I’m Making It: DANNIJO

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:30 PM PDT

For the second installment of our new feature, “How I’m Making It,” we present Jodie and Danielle Snyder, the sisters behind DANNIJO jewelry. Jodie, 28, and Danielle, 25, quit their jobs to launch their line in December 2007, and Bergdorf Goodman picked up DANNIJO in March of 2008. Today, DANNIJO is sold everywhere from Neiman Marcus, to to Henri Bendel’s to Harvey Nichols Hong Kong, and has found fans in Natalie Portman, Blake Lively and Beyonce.

Why jewelry?
Danielle: When my sister and I were teenagers we found our dad's medical tool kit and taught ourselves how to do wire work with them and started making jewelry for all our friends.

Jodie: When I was in college we had opened a boutique in Jacksonville, Florida–where we’re from–to sell our jewelry. We noticed that we had a following and that it was well received.

What's your fashion background?
Jodie: For Danielle's non-profit, LWALA, we did a capsule collection of our jewelry for their big fundraising gala. The capsule collection was really well received so we decided it was now or never–we had to quit our jobs and give it a try. I was running private label sales at Sam Edelman shoes and my sister was running private sales for a fine jewelry company. So we both worked in fashion and we were ambitious. We decided we'd give it six months to a year, and if it takes off great, if it doesn't at least we know we tried. There’s no harm in trying. The scariest thing was we were living in NYC, one of the most expensive cities in the world, and it's hard to have no job. But you have to put all your passion and energy into and luckily it worked.

What’s this non-profit, LWALA, and how did it turn into a jewelry business?
Danielle: In the summer of 2006, I went to Kenya during an internship I had with this women’s finance network called 85 Broads. Our project for the summer is to create a documentary that speaks to your generation. A friend of mine from Vanderbilt who was at the medical school had lost both his mother and father to AIDS. He was from this village called Lwala which is in western Kenya and I convinced my boss to send us to Kenya to do a documentary on women's initiatives and AIDS in Africa. We ultimately took the documentary back to the states and used it to fundraise for their first health facility. I came up with acronym – Live With A Lifelong Ambition – to represent the name of the village. The idea behind LWALA was to get young people to use their passion and talent to impact change. Since Jodie and I had had this past of jewelry design, we decided to design a capsule jewelry collection for our big fundraising gala and that was a huge success.

One of the co-founders of LWALA went to Harvard and was friends with Natalie Portman at Harvard. Natalie Portman signed on board to support the initiative, and at at our fundraising gala in November 2007 she wore the jewelry and mentioned it in New York magazine. That was the beginning.

What was your big break?
Jodie: We had personal savings and a little family loan and we started the company with about $35,000, which isn't a lot to start a company. We started the company out of our apartment on St. Mark's Place, so it was really grass roots and organic. I had a good friend who was an accountant and became our business mentor and helped us along the way. Having a sales background we knew that it's great to get buzz and press but until you have sales, nothing is going to drive your business or make it bigger. So Danielle and I put our focus on being really strategic with our sales plan and to start with a store that has a great reputation and where other people are going to look for up and coming designers and the newest trends. So we put our energy in to Bergdorf's as our first account.

Danielle: So straight from this meeting with our accountant after he told us, “Go out and make some sales,” I said, “OK we're going to Bergdorf's.” We had all of our jewelry on us because we brought it to show our accountant, so Jodie and I jumped in a cab and headed to Bergdorf's.

Jodie: This is where she's fearless.

Danielle: I called Bergdorf’s on our way over and I got the assistant buyer on the phone (we had already sent and email and we got the standard “We're not interested at this time” response) and I said, “It's Danielle from DANNIJO, we're just coming from a PR meeting, we'd love five minutes of your time to get your advice.” So she said fine. We know once we met with her, our product would speak for itself. It was definitely luck. But once we got the meeting she got us, our style, our personality, and she liked the basics of what she saw, she said it was just a little too edgy for the Bergdorf customer. So we strategized with her and asked if we could come back and show her a new collection. She said, “How soon?” We said, “Next week.” So we plugged away.

We're in New York and it's a rat race and we knew that you really have to be assertive to break down the doors and say “This is my brand, this is what I do.”

What's the ballsiest thing you've ever done for your career, after showing up at Bergdorf’s?
Jodie: Danielle met Milla Jovovich in the bathroom of the Bowery hotel and messengered her jewelry that night at 2 a.m. and she wore it the next morning on an interview.

Danielle: She liked my necklace and so it was an opportunity to say, “Oh you should wear it?” I still have that same mentality that when I see someone who I think would be a great fit for DANNIJO–and it's not everyone–I'll walk over and sacrifice myself looking like a tool. Because I don't care. It's not like I'm trying to get them to wear a fanny pack.

Jodie: I'm hiding in the corner when she does this.

A photo of Danielle and Jodie's mom in their studio

Who has helped you the most along the way?
Jodie: There's never just one person because there are so many things that go into starting a business. Our accountant was really helpful, obviously the buyer at Bergdorf's who picked up the line, the first who editors who wrote on us. It was a combination of people. And our parents were supportive–nervous–but supportive.

Danielle: Supportive once we got Bergdorf's!

What are your biggest challenges now?
Danielle: Now we're at the point where there are so many opportunities, it's knowing which ones to turn down and which ones to take advantage of because you can spread yourself too thin as a brand and not get anywhere. Knowing which partnerships to go with are challenges we face everyday.

Jodie: We've turned down working with designers that we didn't think was the right fit. Until DANNIJO is known as this lifestyle brand that's accessible luxury, you don't want to confuse your customer. Collaborations are so big and that's great but you have to make sure it's in line with your brand mission.

Where do you see yourself in five years?
Jodie: We started this company because we didn't see anything else out there that was this aesthetic–Danielle is more bohemian and rock and roll inspired and I'm a little more classic and conservative. We always ask everyone "What's your favorite fashion jewelry label?" and most women don't know how to answer that question. So I think that says something about the market place that we're in right now that there aren't brands that are known as a go-to accessory brand. So we're putting our efforts into being known as a go-to accessory brand.

And as an added bonus, here’s an exclusive behind the scenes video of DANNIJO’s Fall collection:

Racked Dealfeed: Dolce Vita, Lord & Taylor, Catherine Malandrino, and More

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:00 PM PDT

Beauty Crisis
Deal: 80% off vintage womenswear, costume jewelry, bags and shoes at this closing sale
When/Where: Thursday, July 8 through Tuesday, July 20. Daily 1pm—8pm. 97 1/2 E. 7th St between First and A, New York. (212-673-2917)

Dolce Vita
Deal: Summer sale up to 70% off
Where/When: Ongoing and online. Mon–Sat noon–8pm. Sun noon–7pm. 149 Ludlow St between Stanton and Rivington Sts., New York. (212-529-2111)

Lord & Taylor
Deal: Enter code EASY at checkout to get 20% off your order
Ends: July 19, 2010, Online-only!

Catherine Malandrino
Deal: 40% to 75% off spring and summer. For example, dresses originally $700.00 now $278.00; tops as low as $80
When/Where: Sale is at both Sunset Plaza (8644 Sunset) and Melrose Place (651 La Cienega) locations

New Online Magazine The Wild Launches

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 01:30 PM PDT

As editorial jobs rapidly move online, those on the production and creative side of things–the photographers, stylists, shoot coordinators–have been slower to transition.

Why? Well, words look the same on a computer and a page; images do not.

But slickly-produced, web-only magazines like Contributing Editor are trying to prove that high-concept editorials can be just be just as compelling online as they are on paper.

Contributing Editor–launched in September 2008 by former magazine editor Matthew Edelstein and creative director Ryan Schmidt–certainly paved the way for newer renditions of the new medium, like DIS, and even more recently The Wild, which launched on Friday.

The Wild is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based photographer Giovanna Badilla and friends. Other contributors include illustrator Cecilia Carlstedt, art director Jeremy Hu, creative director Susanna Widlund, and illustrator Sarah Singh.

The magazine content will be updated quarterly, but of course there’s a blog to keep you occupied in between issues. Right now, we’re particularly enjoying the Neil Gilks-illustrated “Empty Boy Stare,” a portfolio of pensive expressions. “Threads of Empowerment,” a feature on Brooklyn design team A Peace Treaty, is also a must-read.

Good luck to Badilla and The Wild staff! We’re rooting for you!

Caption This: Terry’s Vuitton Bong(s)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:30 PM PDT

Wow, we never thought the phrase “haute high” would be applicable to anything. Ever. Luckily, these Louis Vuitton bongs (surely a trademark infringement?) were captured by Terry Richardson for his diary.



Street Style: Jazz Age Edition

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 11:30 AM PDT

This weekend Governors Island went back in time to the 1920s for one of its annual Jazz Age Lawn Parties. Michael Arnalla and his Dreamland Orchestra provided the soundtrack, and experts and amateurs alike took to the dance floor to dance the Charleston. Ladies and gents (and even tots) really committed to their Gatsby-esque looks, and we even spotted some seamed stockings despite the sweltering heat. Those ladies get bonus points.

If you missed this weekend’s fete (or were just too hot to put on seamed stockings, t-strapped heels and a cloche), browse through our gallery from your air-conditioned office.

**All photos by Ashley Jahncke.



Erin Wasson x RVCA is Over and Done With

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 10:35 AM PDT

Surf and skate brand RVCA seems to have ended its collaboration with model-turned-stylist Erin Wasson, according to sources close to the matter.

The contract has ended–whether there will be one more collection, or none at all, we’ve yet to be able to confirm.

Last week, RVCA–which bigger skate/surf brands (like Quiksilver) have been trying to acquire for years–was bought for an undisclosed amount by Billabong.

We doubt that has anything to do with the end of the collaboration, though. While Wasson’s first few collections were well-received, the Fall 2010 runway show got bad reviews from several publications, including ours.

Right now, the Spring 2010 collection is deeply discounted on Opening Ceremony’s e-commerce site. (OC was the first retailer to pick up the label.) We’re guessing that all means sales for Fall 2010 weren’t as plentiful as the brand may have hoped.

As of late, Wasson has been heavily promoting her Low Luv jewelry line, but not the RVCA collection. We’ve contacted the public relations firm repping Erin Wasson x RVCA, but we’ve yet to hear back from them. We’ll keep updating this space as we learn more.



Fashion News Roundup: The Same Miu Miu Dress Lands Three August Covers, Ghesquière Named Superstar, and Vena Cava Collabs With Bloomingdale’s Aqua

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 09:26 AM PDT

Ghesquière Superstar: The Fashion Group International has named Balenciaga’s Nicolas Ghesquière their newest “Superstar.” {Vogue UK}

Too too Miu Mui: Oops. The same version of an appliqued Miu Miu dress is on the covers of the August editions of British Vogue, Elle UK, and W. Guess the fashion world isn’t as small as we thought? {The Guardian}

(More) Affordable Vena Cava: Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava have teamed up with Bloomingdales for a limited-edition collection for the department store’s in house line, Aqua. Vena Cava for Aqua is set to launch late August. {Elle.com}

Rent the Runway, Runaway Success: Rent the Runway, the site starting by two Harvard B-School grads last year that rents out designer dresses and accessories, has raised a over $15 million combined from Bain Capital and Highland Capital. {WWD, subscription required}

Of Mice And Missoni: Fashion Inspired by Our Favorite Novels

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 08:00 AM PDT

Holden Caulfield swore by his red hunting hat–and we all know where that got him. But that doesn't mean all literary characters are hopeless in the style department.

Here, we pick our favorite styles based on our favorite novels. Even if you slept through most of high school English class, you'll still want to sit up and pay attention.



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