Emily the strange as Victoria Beckham alter ego? Not so strange if you go back to the Victoria “posh spice” period, some definite kindredness there…no doubt. Continue reading “Beckham channels Emily the Strange, Smurfette does Harper’s” »
“Beauty Culture” at the Annenberg Space for Photography looks at both sides of the beauty industry.
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The Women’s Tennis Association’s new campaign uses slow-motion video to play up players’ grace and their power.
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The promotion came within….Olivier Rousteing Named New Designer at Balmain Olivier was in charge of women’s wear at the Hosuse…. “The new era at Paris’s sex-charged fashion house Balmain is beginning to take shape, with Olivier Rousteing being tapped as the label’s new designer. Rousteing, who joined Balmain in 2009 and is currently in charge of women’s wear.” Savile Row tailors on dressing the royal groom [...] Been so good looking doesn’t hurt either…I am sure they will eat him up alive! read more: BoF – The Business of Fashion
Inès de la Fressange, businesswoman and former model, wrote a best-selling book of tips on how to look Parisian.
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Department stores are changing their approach to make the fragrance counter more welcoming.
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The popularity in beauty vouchers has helped drive the growth of Web sites like Groupon and Gilt City.
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Balmain Exit (Vogue UK) “Christophe Decarnin is leaving Balmain after spending five years as creative director. A successor has not yet been appointed…. Decarnin joined the French fashion house in 2005 as a designer before being made the creative director in November 2007. He is largely credited for introducing the rock and military-inspired look… that [...] 
made the house a lot of money, but what next is Chris a one trick pony? Not likely maybe DIOR…..next
or Ralph Lauren
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Spring fashion shows featured a more sophisticated, slicked-back hairstyle reminiscent of the look favored by Helmut Lang in the 1990s. 
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Mugler’s Digital World (WWD) “‘My job says Nicola Formichetti was to resurrect the brand, and to pump it up and bring it to the new decade… I had this amazing history and archive but there was nothing for me to work with to make it contemporary. For me, it was taking those amazing historical ideas and transforming them [...]
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Rodarte Steps Up to a Widening World www.rodarte.net “Over the past year the fashion brand, created in 2005 by the sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, made headlines not only for its distinctive ready-to-wear collections but also for its first foray into costume design… [Now] they have announced that they have been invited by Pitti W, [...] 
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In our second installment of The Business of Blogging, we speak to the uber-talented Tommy Ton, founder of Jak & Jil (one of our fave blogs look it up on our blogroll) and streetstyle photographer for Style.com and GQ.com PARIS, France — “It was the summer of 1997 and I was 13 years old,” recalls Tommy Ton, now 27, describing the moment when a self-professed comic [...] 
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