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Hope You Have Fun at Homecoming, Karlie!” y 11 mas

Hope You Have Fun at Homecoming, Karlie!” y 11 mas

Hope You Have Fun at Homecoming, Karlie!

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 05:00 PM PST



Karlie Kloss may be the prettiest teenager to ever go to homecoming. Via her twitter: “high school homecoming dance tonight with the girls! :) decked out in my gorg odlr gown..so excited!” We may have added the sash and crown ourselves, but honestly, how could she not be queen? We definitely did not wear Oscar to our homecoming.



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Andrea Linett Launches a New Site Based On Former Lucky Back Page

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 04:30 PM PST

If you, like us, flipped through the December issue of Lucky magazine and missed former Creative Director Andrea Linett's illustrated Fashion Babble page, get excited. Linett has brought the page back to life on the web.

I Want to Be Her launched yesterday and it will feature a few stylish women each week drawn by Anne Johnston Albert, illustrator and designer of Martin Clothes, who drew Linett for Lucky each month. Similar to Fashion Babble, every piece in the illustration is attached to real product, but unlike the magazine page, you can now click to buy.

The first subject, “Transitional SoHo Girl,” wears what Linett calls the perfect outfit for that "half-chilly/half-warm time of year." It’s a good mix of high and low–Linett features a $24.50 L.L. Bean flannel shirt with a $850 Muska bag–and it makes me wonder why Lucky never published the page online while Linett was still on staff.

Whatever the answer, the site is a great idea and comes at a time when Lucky die-hards might be pining for what was.



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Street Style: Ashley Hardly Wears Anything New

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

Name: Ashley

Age: 25

Occupation: Intern at The Guggenheim

What was the last good exhibition you went to? I loved the Monet exhibition at Gagosian.

How would you describe your style? Mix and match, I wear a lot of second-hand clothing. I hardly ever wear anything new.

What are the most prominent colors in your wardrobe? I just did laundry yesterday, and there was mostly black, white, gray and blue.

What are you listening to? A band called Twin Shadow

What are you wearing? A vintage Issey Miyake coat, Vince cardigan and Citizens of Humanity jeans”

What is your favorite dessert? Pecan pie

**All photos by Ashley Jahncke.

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Last Night’s Party: Lexus and CFDA Award the Three Most Eco-Friendly Designers

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:30 PM PST

We're not sure whose idea this was, but the collaboration between the CFDA and Lexus is certainly a bizarre one. Regardless, their goal is definitely one we can get behind. They established the inaugural Eco Fashion Challenge as a platform to recognize and support the industry's leaders in sustainable design. From the press release:

"To qualify as a finalist, each designer had to demonstrate a commitment to ecologically responsible design and production practices, with a minimum of 25% of their collection being produced in an environmentally friendly manner. The judges selected the three honorees based on design credibility, business acumen, and eco-commitment, with attention paid to eco fabrics, materials, processes, and packaging."

Last night, the winners were announced at a packed event dj'd by Fabrizio Moretti of the Strokes. Congrats to Costello Tagliapietra, Maria Cornejo and jewelry designer Monique Péan, who won amongst some pretty stiff competition: Behnaz Sarafpour, Marcia Patmos, Organic by John Patrick, Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Subversive, and Rogan. All ten finalists' work was shown in gallery style displays with blurbs about what they do to keep their design process eco-friendly.

We also got a chance to congratulate winners Monique Péan, Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra and ask them about the challenge. "This was a really exciting challenge because it really required me to think a little bit outside the box. We are inherently are an eco-friendly company and this made me think about how can we be more eco-friendly. Thinking sustainability and slow design is really important to me," said Péan. She also told me about her newly-launched atelier line of custom and bespoke bridal–an issue that she can relate to. "I'm actually getting married on New Year's Eve and found there weren't enough options out there for brides who wanted to be sustainable and wanted to have a ring that they can feel really good about on their finger."

"We actually discovered it through Jeffrey's insomnia," Robert Tagliapietra told me of how the duo found out about the challenge. "He was trolling around the internet one night and he found it and we thought it was so amazing because it was a way to introduce eco-friendly ideas into our brand. We've been doing this stuff for so many years. We never wanted it to be a branding tool necessarily, but it's just something we do."

Click through for pics of the winners holding up their big $25,000 checks.

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Beauty Site Birchbox Celebrates Its Growth With A Proper Party

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:00 PM PST

We've been watching beauty sample and e-commerce site Birchbox with great interest since its inception this past September. In case this is the first time you're hearing about it, the site offers a box of deluxe beauty samples for $10/month. You can then purchase the full size products directly from Birchbox. The site itself is rounded out with beauty stories and a loyalty point system that gives you discounts on purchases.

To celebrate a recent infusion of $1.4 million into the company, thus ensuing new growth, Birchbox threw a party last night at Lani Kai in NYC. Its founders were on hand to dish about the company and their new challenges.

Katia Beauchamp, one of the site's co-founders, told us that they now have about 2,700 paid subscribers, and were on track to double again. Their November box has sold out. Right now her biggest concern is trying to make sure they can meet demand. Good news: Customized boxes (based on hair color, skin type, etc) will definitely be coming in December.

Customer feedback and product evaluation are a huge part of the site, and Katia said it’s been robust. One of the biggest customer requests is to offer more color samples. Many brands don't offer samples of say, different eye shadow palettes, but Katia is working with the brand partners to actually develop more of these samples to meet the demand.

Mollie Chen, the site's director of content, explained how the beauty coverage on the site is curated. They imagine that they're writing for their "best friends who want to learn about beauty but don't want to spend too much time on it." And in case you're wondering, Mollie is testing orange lipsticks now, right on-trend. Early tip: she loves Guerlain Fruity Orange.

New employees include a dedicated customer service representative, a brand relations person (they currently work with over 20 brands, but anticipate this number reaching the hundreds), and a strategic operations person.

And our biggest question: Who packs all those boxes? While the founders used to pack boxes in their dorm rooms, they now have a third party logistics company to do this.

Congratulations and good luck to Birchbox as they continue blazing trails through beauty e-commerce.



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Anja Rubik Reveals New Plans for 25, Moves Operations to New York

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:30 PM PST

This afternoon I caught up with model-turned-fashion editor Anja Rubik as she prepped for tonight’s Victoria’s Secret runway show. Of course most of the discussion focused on angel wings and body glitter, but I did manage to sneak in a couple of questions regarding 25, the magazine she launched with her boyfriend earlier this year.

According to Rubik, they’ve moved the operations from Vienna to New York, and plan on publishing the next issue within the year. “We really wanted to have it for September fashion week, but there’s just too much to do,” she told me after her face makeup session. Apparently, the response was so great that the mag has transformed from a side project into a full-blown operation. Oh, and they’re hiring. “We’re still assembling our team.”



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Exposure Needs Interns!

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:05 PM PST

Want to intern at a high-profile PR and marketing agency? Now’s your chance. Exposure is a creative agency working with brands to generate good solid ideas. They believe in sparking conversations. Conversations that are shared. With offices in New York, San Francisco and London they work across a wide range of media and disciplines to deliver the good news.

The agency is made up of exceptionally creative, enthusiastic, passionate and energetic people who know their brands inside out. They’re looking for applicants who are enthusiastic to learn, to work, and to immerse themselves in a creative pr/fashion focused showroom.

Some responsibilities include monthly press reporting, setting up meetings, and reaching out to contacts on behalf of the company, etc.

You will work in cooperation with the Showroom Coordinator as well as working independently. You must have excellent phone manner along with outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must be computer and internet savvy.

If interested, contact Jessica Chou at Jessica.Chou@exposure.net.



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The Isabella Blow Book War Rages On

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 01:58 PM PST

Two competing biographies of Isabella Blow, widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and creative forces in fashion, hit shelves this week. There’s Blow by Blow, Detmar Blow’s biography of his late wife coauthored by Tom Sykes, and there’s Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion by veteran fashion writer Lauren Goldstein Crowe. Crowe’s is being optioned for a movie. Detmar’s bio is the required reading for our first Fashionista book club (virtual) meeting.

There’s a lot of bad blood between the two books. At the New York launch party for Blow by Blow, Detmar told WWD that he had “no interest” in Crowe’s book. Following the London launch party for Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion, Crowe wrote to tell Racked.com: “Personally I thought it more interesting that Detmar’s sister and cousin were there as were both Isabella’s sisters and her step-mother and a variety of cousins. Also Philip Treacy and Lucy Ferry who didn’t attend Detmar’s launch. But hey, that’s the world we live in.”

And now Tom Sykes, coauthor of Blow by Blow (and brother of Plum and Lucy) is fighting back. He sent us a long, angry email to comment on what he called the “outrageous slur that has been made today on our book by Ms Crowe on the fashion blog racked.com.”

Here it is in full (we’ve bolded the best bits):

‘Hey, that’s the world we live in’? What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Lauren Golsdstein Crowe’s outrageous insinuation seems to be that somehow her book is the ‘approved version’ because Issie’s sisters came to her book launch. This cannot go unchallenged. Lavinia, Isabella’s beloved youngest sister, came to the launch of our book in London, and was an honored guest at the dinner afterwards at Annabels. Freddie, Lavinia’s son and one of Issie’s cousins, was also at our launch in New York. And, for God’s sake, DETMAR WAS ISSIE’S HUSBAND FOR ALMOST TWENTY YEARS!!!!

Isabella loathed her step mother and frequently referred to her (in her own inimitable style) as “a creature my father met on a bus in Hong Kong” so I would not take her presence at a book’s launch party to be a particularly powerful endorsement of its integrity.
I bumped into Lauren Goldstein Crowe at a party a few months go and she told me she was so sick of working on Isabella’s story that she was giving up writing to become a ‘consultant’! I have to say, judging from the only excerpt I have read, she’d be well advised to do so. It was an excerpt on Business of Fashion, about whether or not ‘fashion killed’ Issie and it was so childish I struggled to get past the opening paragraphs in which Ms Crowe went on about how she was the daughter of a psychologist. Does she seriously believes her parent’s job gives her some unique insight into other people’s minds?

Anna Wintour came to our launch in London, and has supported our book by mentioning it in the editor’s letter in this month’s issue of Vogue.

I wouldn’t be saying all this if Crowe had not launched this snide and underhand attack on Detmar, but now, I’m breaking my silence. Detmar, as the racked.com review correctly notes, is a bereaved husband, and to attack him like this is disgusting of Ms Crowe. He is putting on a brave face, and although he is very upset by personal attacks on him, he has made it clear to me that he wants to maintain a dignified silence. However, I’m a journalist, and if people attack the book by attacking Detmar in this disgusting, personal fashion, I WILL fight back on his behalf. I’m not saying people shouldn’t feel free to pass judgement on the book – of course not, any writer welcomes reviews – but I am saying that personal attacks on my friend Detmar are unacceptable.

Them’s are fightin’ words. Et tu Ms. Crowe?



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Breaking: Dasha Zhukova Resigns from Pop

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:52 PM PST

Dasha Zhukova, who replaced Katie Grand as the editor of Pop nearly two years ago, has resigned from the magazine, according to Telegraph fashion editor Hilary Alexander.

Pop was Katie Grand’s baby and Zhukova–a Russia gallery girl, Kova & T designer, and partner of billionaire Roman Abramovich–was given a lot of crap when she entered the role. Owned by Bauer–yes, the publisher who runs Life & Style–Pop has taken on a less-fashion-y, more artsy vibe during Zhukova’s reign.

Whether or not Zhukova was unceremoniously canned or simply decided she’d had enough is yet to be determined. Know anything? Email us on tips@fashionista.com.



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Phillip Lim, Proenza Schouler and Prabal Gurung Don’t Have to Advertise to Get Into Magazine Editorials

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:30 PM PST

Today Racked National published a label list for a magazine shoot that recently took place in Los Angeles. The magazine is unnamed, but we can pretty much guarantee it’s not Vogue. (Our sources tell us as much, but it’s also obvious–we’re guessing any mag just working on a minimal shoot right now is more likely to be a women’s pub, not a high fashion book.)

Anyway, the list includes advertisers that must be included (the usual: Armani, Celine, Michael Kors, Reed Krakoff) and labels they’d like to include even though they don’t advertise.

To us, it’s the second list that’s way more interesting. It features Phillip Lim, Proenza Schouler and Prabal Gurung, as well as Helmut Lang and Narciso Rodriguez.

So while we love Proenza‘s first advertising campaign, this pretty much proves that they don’t necessarily need one.



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Now’s Your Chance To Get Hypnotized By An Alaïa Model

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:30 AM PST

Maeva the model/hypnotists in a music video.

Ever wonder what models do after they stop stomping the catwalks (aka after they gain a few pounds and turn 25)?

Acting? Designing? DJing? Too obvious. Former runway model Maeva Althaus, 29, became a hypnotist, and recently launched her own hypnosis salon out of her SoHo studio called Hypnosis by Maeva.

For the last ten years, Althaus worked as a high fashion model. She was scouted by Ford in Paris at 17, worked as a fit and runway model for Alaïa, walked for Givenchy, Isabel Marant, Burberry, you name it. She did editorials for Vogue Italia, Numéro, and i-D.

“I felt the superficiality of fashion and I wanted to do something more,” says Althaus. After living the hectic, uprooting life of a model for a decade, Althaus, who says she’s always been into holistic medicine and meditation, decided to settle in the states. But, since you can’t smoke anywhere in the US, Althaus had to quit smoking (a habit most models find hard to kick). So she turned to hypnosis, and it worked. After hypnosis helped her to quit smoking, she got curious about it and “started to learn all the ways it can help people.”

Hypnosis is worlds apart from modeling, but Althaus is happy to be done with that part of her life. “At some point you have to find a home and ground yourself,” Althaus says. “What i do now is not as glamorous but the rewards of being able to help people go through their issues are really great.”

Getting hypnotized by a former French runway model seems like a pretty nice way to try to deal with your issues. Althaus is taking appointments at 347-217-0299.



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Come to Our First Panel Discussion Featuring Rebecca Minkoff, Shipley & Halmos, Timo Weiland, and More!!!

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:45 AM PST

Our series “How I’m Making It,” which profiles up-and-coming fashion pioneers as they climb the industry ranks, has inspired and informed you. Especially those of you looking to break into fashion.

So we’re bringing it to life. “How I’m Making It: What It Takes To Be Successful In Fashion” will take place on December 6, 2010 from 7pm-9pm in the Cantor Film Center at NYU.

Co-hosted by Fashionista and Farfetch.com, the panel includes over half a dozen of the industry’s most influential up-and-comers, including:

Michael Mente, Owner of Farfetch.com
Nellie Partow, Designer
Paul Birardi and Eddy Chai, Owners of Odin/Pas De Deux/Odin Fragrances
Rebecca Minkoff, Designer
Shipley & Halmos, Designers
Timo Weiland, Designers

Moderated by us–Fashionista editors Lauren Sherman and Leah Chernikoff–we’ll be asking these rising fashion stars how they broke into the business, and how they’re making it now. There will also be an audience Q&A, so we can pretty much guarantee your questions will be answered. (As long as it’s not, you know, super weird or inappropriate.)

Tickets to this one-time-only event are $24.99. Every guest will also receive a surprise goody bag. Sign up here now, as quantity is limited. We can’t wait to meet you and talk fashion! Here are the details again:

How I’m Making It: What It Takes To Be Successful In Fashion
December 6, 2010
7-9pm
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street
New York, NY 10003



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