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Posts made in January, 2009
Last week we told you about Nicole Trunfio taking over from Niki Taylor as co-host of Make me a Supermodel Season 2 with Tyson Beckford (and the new judging panel) where each of the contestants will be vying for $100,000, a fashion pictorial in Cosmopolitan and a modeling contract with New York Model Management.
Well the list...
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Joining husband David Beckham as a face of Emporio Armani underwear is Victoria Beckham – and we’re seeing more of the former Spice Girl than we ever thought.
“Great underwear is alluring and provocative, so I wanted to work with someone who would make a real impression,” said Giorgio Armani of his model...
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Katie Holmes smolders in the first released image of the Miu Miu Spring 2009 advertising campaign.
Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott last month in New York, the former Dawson’s Creek star sports thick eye liner and a graffiti splattered dress in front of a background reminiscent of the saturated and sun-drenched...
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- There’s a certain sneering swagger about the four ominously handsome members of ultra-hip Scottish outfit Franz Ferdinand that lends itself very well to high-end menswear. With their glowering, angular features, dagger-sharp wit, and penchant for ensembles as sharp and stylized as their hyperkinetic guitars, they are as...
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In less than a month, New York Fall 2009 Fashion Week kicks off, yet if you’re anything like us, you still have no idea what the hell is going on. The locations, times, parties, even a cohesive list of participants are M.I.A.; the Fashion Week schedule remains disturbingly ambiguous.
Yet, every single day, more news...
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Kanye West is said to be due front row Paris next Thursday to watch his sneaker collection go down the runway for Louis Vuitton at Men’s Fashion Week but he’s given the world a close up peek at one of the shoes on his official blog.
“Time to crash your internet server,” West wrote. “Here’s 1 of...
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As you may have heard, one of our favorite online retailers, eLuxury.com, is going the way of Obedient Daughters, Searle, and Imitation of Christ. Well, kind of — technically eLuxury.com will exist as a sort of sophisticated PR blog for the LVMH empire, but by June, you will no longer be able to purchase anything from...
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Even after nearly an entire decade, one pop cultural handicap remains unchanged: we still haven’t gotten over the 90s. And without any definitive or decade-specific iconography, big names, or trends to call our own, the millennial fashion community is particularly starved for a zeitgeist and a guru to helm it. But until...
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We’ve always had a soft spot for US gold medal gymnast Nastia Liukin. When the graceful 18 year old soared at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, so did our spirits. And while it was Shawn Johnson who warmed the hearts of middle America, it was elegant, long-legged Nastia who captured the imaginations of the fashion’s...
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Stephen Sprouse was a downtown NYC media artist whose day-glo graffiti aesthetic touched the lives and street style sensibilities of everyone from Debbie Harry to Gwen Stefani to Marc Jacobs. He tragically died from lung cancer in 2004, but 5 years later, the Gotham art, fashion, and media crowd commemorate Sprouse’s...
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