Monthly Archives: April 2009
Yea, Nay, Or Eh: The Prep School Blazer
Who better than a girl from Connecticut to transform a classic prep staple into a fashion must-have? Seeing Chloë Sevigny in a brass-buttoned blazer at Kiehl’s celebration for the Doe Fund last night reminded me I really have to buy that jacket instead of just talking about it. Our market editor recommends Brooks Brothers’ boys [...]
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Do Sales With Expiration Dates Work Retail Magic?
Being indecisive, I tend to avoid any form of stressful shopping, whether it’s a YSL sample sale or even a boutique with a pushy owner. But my interest was piqued yesterday when I found an e-mail from Neiman Marcus in my inbox touting its Midday Dash, an exclusive two-hour online sale with prices slashed in [...]
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Love At First Sight: Tucker and Alyssa Norton Belt
What: The belt is a collaboration between Tucker’s Gaby Basora and jewelry maker Alyssa Norton that makes the most of their unique talents. The former contributed the splashy silk prints and the latter braided them with matte and metallic threads in the style of her popular woven chains.
Why: It’ll look just as good cinching [...]
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Orange County Gets A New Hermès
Beginning on Sunday, Hermès’ state-of-the-art transportable screening room, H BOX, touches down at the Orange County Museum of Art as part of the spring exhibition Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection. With Chanel’s Zaha Hadid-designed Mobile Art Pod indefinitely grounded and Prada’s Rem Koolhaas-created Transformer still undergoing construction in Seoul, where it will [...]
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Blasblog From Moscow: Meet The City’s Other Chic Entrepreneur
It’s no secret that I’m a major fan of Dasha Zhukova, the Moscow-born, California-raised beauty who has founded a museum, launched a fashion label, and was recently named the new editor of Pop—all before the age of 28. Here in Moscow, I’ve met another Russian stunner who’s a master at multitasking (and, like Zhukova, has [...]
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Maiden Art’s Soft Touch
Leather was everywhere on the Fall runways—witness, to name a few trends, leather leggings, elbow-length leather gloves, over-the-knee leather boots, leather motorcycle jackets. That’s a lot of leather! But Maiden Art is dishing out the skins in smaller doses. The Italian brand’s latest jewelry collection has a leather leitmotif: The material shows up laser-cut and [...]
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Yea, Nay, Or Eh: Stirrup Pants Ride Again?
Let’s face it, everything looks good on Natalia Vodianova—seen here in Paris on her way to launch the lingerie line she designed for Etam—even stirrups, which haven’t been in since the model was back in Russia selling fruit. What do you think of the next big leg trend? Are you planning to go along for [...]
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Fripe Fripe
>>Coiffure, Free P Star, Frip'irium, King of Frip, Noir Kennedy, Fripes Star… a ton of fripery going on in the Marais in Paris but all I came out with was this EUR5 dress that is the only thing that is stopping me from falling into eternal moo-ness as the Easter Saturday here is so damn [...]
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Blasblog From Moscow: Where Trends Are Born?