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Posts made in August, 2009
You could call him vain, but in these difficult financial times you can’t blame Tom Ford for wanting to save a dime or two by modeling in his Tom Ford Grey Vetiver Fall 2009/10 advertising campaign, photographing himself and no doubt styling himself. It sounds like a fabulous idea but who do you blame when it all goes pear...
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We told you in December 2007 that Van Cleef & Arpels was suing Heidi Klum over her clover shaped jewelry line for Mouawad that resembled their Alhambra line. Late last year the law suit was dismissed as Klum and Mouawad has settled out of court with VC&A with the details undisclosed. But it was only a matter of time before...
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Gucci’s lawyers are hard at work, after winning a lawsuit against the former wife of Paolo Gucci, Gucci America have now taken aim at ‘several credit card processing companies for trademark infringement’. They claim that these company facilitated the sale of counterfeit Gucci bags on the Internet and that buy...
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Christie’s is preparing to auction off a second lot of Yves Saint Laurent‘s belonging this November. The auction will include YSL’s Mercedes Benz, Hermes luggage, paintings, furniture, sculptures, textiles and the Paris residence of YSL and Pierre Berge. Reports of the number of items up for auction varies from...
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The fashion world hardly blinks and eye when British model Agyness Deyn takes off her kit for photoshoots; i-D magazine’s nude photoshoot and the Ruth Hogbenis Peace film come to mind. But it seems mother dearest, the one who changed darling Laura Hollins name on the advice of a numerology expert , is not a fan of her latest...
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We’ve seen Lady Gaga sashay her way around the world with no pants on, so how would you like to see her in even less? She recently told Ryan Searest that she doesn’t wear fur because she hates it, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals jumped at the opportunity to utilize her cult-following and have the pop star...
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Models can be more than just a pretty face, a perfect example is Lily Cole, who has been studying at Cambridge. But who spent some time hitting the books? Christy Turlington has a degree from Columbia, Sasha Pivovarova went to the St Petersburg art institute, Cindy Crawford studied chemical engineering at Northwestern Univerity and...
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Another ad campaign, another 90s supermodel. This time it’s Linda Evangelista who took the cake, well the John Galliano advertising campaign for fall winter 2009/10.
Word’s that come to mind are: so frenchy, so chic. So Galliano by John Galliano? The ladies over at The Fashion Spot couldn’t seem to agree over...
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Ossie Clark chose Manolo Blahnik‘s footwear for his 1972 runway show at The Royal Court Theatre in London, it was a move that he thought would end his career. “I thought it was going to end my career,” he told British Marie Claire. “The shoes I made for the show had a sole made of rubber and the heels...
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Jennifer and Gemma Gucci, ex-wife and daughter of Paolo Gucci, former Gucci chief designer and Gucci heir, cannot use their names commercially in the United States without trademark approval a judge has ruled. The mother-daughter pair had developed a line which included coffee, housewares, cosmetics, hosiery and handbags which bore...
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