With Memorial Day passed, Levi's is breaking out the white for fashion and progress alike. In New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago stores all of the mannequins are not only wearing white clothing, but also have the White Knots ribbon attached to their jeans symbolizing solidarity with the same-sex marriage movement. [NYT]
You know we've really hit the dregs of the recession when rap superstars can't afford their mega bling. [WSJ]
Rather than pen an autobiography, Kate Moss is writing a "fictional" story about "a young female model's life as she is plucked from obscurity and thrust into the A-list limelight." Rocker/writer Louise Brooks will help, naturally. [Sun UK]
Bruce Webber shot Rafael Nadal for Vogue and, thankfully, his fine, fine work is online. [Vogue.com]
Dolce & Gabbana are being accused again of tax evasion. [The Cut] via [WWD]
Apparently too tight jeans can cause a nerve condition called meralgia paresthetica. Hipsters beware. [NYDN]
Simon Doonan's TV show, Beautiful People, that mimics his life growing up in an English suburb debuted on Logo last night. [Racked]
Gossip Girl is inspiring a Bravo reality show. It's rumored to be called NY Prep and is currently filming on New York's Upper East Side. Feed the beast, Bravo, feed the beast. [WWD]
Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone might be adopting a baby girl while in Brazil. Suri and Shiloh would have no chance of out-dressing any daughter of Marc Jacobs. [Made in Brazil]
Speaking of Marc: his wheel rat is back at the Bleecker street store. [Racked]
House of Style has returned to MTV. Sadly, it's a big snooze. But Stam looks great! [Jezebel]
Something wicked this way comes for Project Runway!
Last week's season premiere of Project Runway left many people scratching (and shaking) their heads as the wackiest-yet-dullest cast yet flopped on their first challenge. After watching the show, I couldn't help but think something had gone horribly wrong with the show's usually successful formula of excessive product placement and diva homos!
Ever since the finale of the last season, things have gone awry! Project Runway announced it would move to Lifetime, Nina Garcia left Elle Magazine, the show revealed plans to relocate to Los Angeles... and things only got worse as the new season began.
Season five hit the airwaves with little to no promotion from Bravo—many of my friends didn't even know the new season was starting. Then viewers we're introduced to the strangest cast of characters yet with the tan-addicted alien with bad highlights and the bride of Chuckie winning the awards for most bizarre contestants. It seemed as though the producers, in an act of self-sabotage or acknowledgment that the old formula had become stale and needed a little shaking up, decided to pick the contestants based on their looks instead of their talent. Then, they rehashed a challenge from the first season instead of coming up with something new and exciting. At the end of the show, I didn't feel like any of the designers stood out quite the way the Christian Siriano or Jay McCarroll did from the get go in previous seasons. Everything felt phoned in, like the show's creators just wanted to get one more season in the can so they could move on.
I think there's more reality TV drama happening off the screen than on it! Could this be a sign of the Runway Apocalypse? The show's fall from grace? Is it a fashion curse? or is it like Heidi says: One day you're in and one day you're out!
While fall saw lady's neck lines creeping higher and higher (hide those girls, girls), men's necklines keep getting deeper and deeper. American Apparel has already begun preparations for sellouts. [Prim and proper]
Parent-less children were in a frenzy after Tom Ford mentioned in Fantastic Man that he wanted to adopt a child by the end of 2008. Turns out he was putting the cart before the horse. He's now saying he's got no plans to do so, and, when he does, he won't let our greedy little eyes see it. Bitch. [FWD]
I'm only mentioning this because Anya is one of my favorite girls in ANTM history--and, frankly, one of the few who deserves a modeling contract. I hope to see her during Fashion Week! [The Cut]
Morning eye candy: the top ten up-and-coming male models from the S/S 09 runways. [models.com]
It's hard to look chic and cool (we're talking temperature here, fellas) in the summer, but L.A. based label Lova has all those wonderfully tailored summer pieces that make you look great, even if you are a tad damp. [Urban Daddy]
Tonight being the launch party for Karl Lagerfeld's new photography book, Metamorphoses of an American, enjoy a tantalizing preview of Lagerfeld's photo diary of Brad Koeing, "the world's most sought after male model." [The Cut]
A growing number of studies are building a strong case for the reality of shopping addiction, claiming that, when enacted during certain emotional states, it functions in a similar manner as a drug. We did always seem to have the best nights out after a binge at Barneys.[The Wall Street Journal]
Now that Nina Garcia is poised to remain at ELLE until September 1st and finish out season 5 of Project Runway, an all out bitch-fight has broken out between Glamour, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar for sponsorship in the show's sixth season. Though this one will come down to dollar signs, if we had to pick a winner in a hypothetical personified match-up, we'd have to give it to Cosmo...that tramp would totally hide a shank in her hair. [WWD]
Christophe Decarnin recently invigorated Balmain's womenswear line with sex and energy--which makes us even more giddy to hear the rumor that he could do the same with a reported men's line from the French label. Trés chic. [WWD]
Drat. We just missed the win on that Murakami sculpture of the ripped anime dude slinging his sauce. All that practice on eBay for nothing. [Gawker]
Though his name mostly pops up in reference to his bedmates, his ceaseless flaunting of his body or—somtimes—his clothing, could you ever imagine hearing Marc Jacobs pared with real estate mogul? Yup, #63 to be exact on the The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate. [The Cut via NYO]
Up to this point, all the drag queens could get on TV was a one-time America's Next Top Model-esque competition on The Tyra Banks show. Not that we don't appreciate her effort, but RuPaul (pictured) is poised to out do her with Drag Race, which hopes to find "America's next superstar drag queen." [The Hollywood Reporter]
As we reported last week, Jessica Stam was set to DJ at the Down to Earth party last night. It turns our words were twisted and she was only attending the party with her DJ friends—who spun the party—in tow. Now that's music to our ears. [Fashion Week Daily]
Everyone (designers, stars, paparazzi, your Stylelist...wait, no) is off to the French Riviera this week for the Cannes Film Festival. Eyes are peeled for what's hot on the screen, who's going to be seen, and, most importantly, who they'll be seen in. [WWD]
If you're a fashion reality show junkie, get ready to add another show to your regular TiVo diet of Americas Next Top Model, Project Runway and Make Me a Supermodel. While ELLE is said to be in negotiations to keep its hold on Project Runway, the magazine isn't waiting around to stay on top of the reality TV world.
This fall on the CW, ELLE, Tyra Banks and the producers of Americas Next Top Model bring you Stylista, a competition where young fashionistas fight for a job at the magazine, a wardrobe from H&M and a paid one-year lease on an Manhattan apartment. It's The Devil Wears Prada meets The Apprentice.
After her cute but nonetheless paltry collaboration with Five O'Clock Heroes on the song "Who," Agyness Deyn is now commanding the spotlight in her own newly formed band with friends Alanna Materson and Jackson Pollis. This ball is rolling perhaps a little too fast. [British Vogue]
We're all admittedly a little tired of the hoopla going on between Nina Garcia and Project Runway, but, alas, it all readily determines the existence and survival of the greatest reality show on television. Turns out negotiations are still churning, and ELLE is putting up a bit of a fight with Marie Claire for sponsorship. En garde! [WWD]
Just announced: Josh Harnett will be the face of the new Armani men's fragrance Emporio Armani Diamonds for Men. Good to see he is getting some work these days. [Fashionista]
Dov Charney, Creative Director and entrepreneur of pseudo-pornographic obsessed label American Apparel, was just named Retailer of the Year. Considering the guy looks like the type who would roll up in a converter van and ask you to film a few tasteful scenes in the back, it's surprising the award has previously gone to the likes of Calvin Klein and Oscar de la Renta. [Gawker]
15 of the chicest spring bags for toting male. [Refinery29]
Victoria Beckham told The Sun (UK) that the only people that like her are the gays. Not so fast honey...[Towleroad] -- SETH PLATTNER
As reported yesterday, The Metropolitan Museum was prepping for the onslaught of glitterati that would descend upon the Costume Institute Gala for the opening of the exhibition "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." It was A-list all the way. We found our invitation buried under some magazines on the coffee table, but all the gay drama on Gossip Girl was way better. [WWD]
Though guaranteed to remain Project Runway's sponsor through season five (which premieres this summer), is ELLE in danger of being dethroned by Marie Claire in season six? After all, Nina Garcia was spotted leaving the Hearts building—which owns MC—last week.[The Cut]
We were all admittedly nervous when we heard Agnyess Deyn was set to make her debut in the music industry with a collaboration with hipster New York band Five O'Clock Horses. Well, their first single is out...and it's not that bad! [Perez Hilton]
After rolling out diffusion lines from Madonna, Stella McCartney and Roberto Cavalli, Donatella Versace told a crowd at The New York Times' TimesTalk that Versace will not collaborate with H&M for their own lower-priced line. Then she started talking about wearing leather, taking drugs and being lonely, and everyone got slightly uncomfortable. [The Cut]
Sarah Jessica Parker also gave her own, thankfully less awkward interview at the TimesTalk last Friday where she dished on, what else, the Sex and the City movie. Our appetites (and maybe our pants) are wet. [Fashionista] -- SETH PLATTNER
What if all of your favorite T.V. shows collided and became one big fashionable party? Well, this week's episode of Ugly Betty is just that. Project Runway's Christian Siriano and Nina Garcia stop by the Mode offices and all hell breaks loose.
It's like NY media gossip, Project Runway and Ugly Betty hopped into a blender, and turned into some strange tasting (but low calorie!) smoothie that you can't help but drink up.
The episode airs just a week after Nina left Elle, her Project Runway gig is uncertain and she's judging a contest to redesign birth control cases for YAZ. How hard they fall.
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