Lady Gaga, Rihanna help sell Vogue

News flash:
Lady Gaga and Rihanna can sell magazines. Their covers appear to be part of the reason that for the first half of this year the only major U.S. fashion magazine with increased sales compared with last year was Vogue, which saw a jump of 12.7% for an average monthly circulation of 360,400. InStyle has a larger circulation (570,000), but dropped 8% compared with last year. Other women's fashion mags experienced an average decrease of 9.2 %, except for Allure, which remained flat.
Hilary Duff, Jenny McCarthy, Padma Lakshmi and Christie Brinkley are featured in new advertising for Danskin that launched Wednesday with the slogan "Move for Change." Besides the usual magazine ads and such, they are featured in videos on danskinmove.com, which will also offer monthly blogs. The four will use their own Twitter accounts to tweet about the campaign, which also involves Danskin making contributions to the celebrities' favorite charities.
More from the weight wars: British authorities ordered the e-commerce website Zazzle to remove T-shirts for children and teens emblazoned with a controversial quote from supermodel Kate Moss: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." The British Advertising Standards Authority had received complaints that the slogan could encourage eating disorders.

Target has reportedly decided to release all news about its Missoni line that's set to launch next month through the blog. Which seems to have been around only since April. Which is purportedly written by a doll that loves Missoni and Target. Which seems to be a promotional ploy  by Missoni/Target. And which seems more than a bit, um, limiting.
Who has the right to sell red-soled shoes? A federal judge in New York denied Christian Louboutin's request that Yves Saint Laurent be barred from selling red-soled shoes from its 2011 resort collection until Louboutin's trademark-infringement case against YSL is decided. Louboutin contends, of course, that the red-soled YSLs illegally copy Louboutin's very recognizable color scheme. In denying the request for a temporary injunction, the judge indicated that it is "unlikely" that Louboutin will be able to win the case
This is different: Everyone reportedly wore white to the Hamptons engagement party for Lauren Bush (granddaughter of the older President Bush, niece of the other) and David Lauren, son of designer Ralph. Guests included the entire Lauren family; Paris Hilton's parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton; Lauren Bush's mother, Sharon Bush; and designers Cynthia Rowley and Douglas Hannant.

Now we've really seen it ALL Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga leaves nothing to the imagination as she hits the dance floor in a sheer body suit

 

After accidentally exposing her nipples as she arrived at the CFDA Fashion Awards, Lady Gaga decided she may as well go the whole hog at the after-party.
The flamboyant singer ended up removing her custom-made Mugler gown to just the sheer bodysuit underneath, leaving nothing to the imagination.
The 25-year-old had just nipple covers and a G-string protecting what little modesty she had left as she danced at the bash at The Standard hotel in New York.
By Chris Johnson

Gaga gives thanks

It seems the fashion crowd, especially when fully decked out for the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards, can be pretty intimidating: CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said so, actress Naomi Watts said so, and even Lady Gaga said so.

On stage to accept her award as the year's top style icon, a soft-spoken, maybe even teary-eyed Gaga said she was nervous.

"All of you made me feel like a star before I was," she told the audience at Lincoln Center that boasted bold-faced names such as Marc Jacobs, Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, Donna Karan and Michael Kors.

She talked about how important fashion was in her life as a pathway to self-discovery, artistry and confidence.

As a teenager, she'd save her money to buy vintage Thierry Mugler from a neighbourhood thrift shop, checking in with the salesman regularly to make sure her favourite pieces hadn't sold while she was raising the cash.

She planned her outfits for Friday night parties as if she was going to the Oscars, she said.

"As much as this award means to me personally ... I just want you to know how much this means to young Americans," Gaga said.

But the music star and style risk-taker, wearing a corset get-up by Mugler, a label now helmed by her friend Nicola Formichetti, got her swagger back as she recalled getting the text message from Wintour that she was picked for the prize.

She said she thought the message was from a friend named Anna and replied with a bleep-worthy response. The text back from the Vogue editor-in-chief said, "How lovely".

That led to laughter - and so did Cooper's montage of his early days as a preteen model.

Cooper, a longtime friend of CFDA president von Furstenberg, said he decided to show his photos to prove his fashion cred since he was acting as master of ceremonies.

"There was no way you'd be critical," he joked, "or that's what Diane said, anyway."

Watts, dressed in a metallic T-shirt-style gown by Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein, presented the top womenswear honour to Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler.

But she seemed to find the awkward walk across a long stage intimidating in her high heels. "That was easy," she said as she reached the podium. "Fun doing it in a room full of supermodels."

Top models Doutzen Kroes, Karlie Kloss, Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio and Chanel Iman were indeed in the house, on the arms of their favourite designers. Karolina Kurkova, in a striking hooded jumpsuit made of green sequins, read the names of the winners in the Swarovski emerging-talent categories: Eddie Borgo for accessories, Robert Geller for menswear and Prabal Gurung for womenswear.
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Kurkova took a moment to sing for Gaga - "I'm your biggest fan," she said - and then Gurung asked during his speech if he could pose with Gaga. "That will make me the coolest uncle," he boasted.

But it was the nod from his fellow designers as well as retailers, stylists and editors that the rest of his family would find impressive, Gurung said. "I'm just a guy from Nepal. I will call my mother and say, 'It's okay. I turned out fine.'"

The two standing ovations of the night went to photographer Arthur Elgort and designer Marc Jacobs, who was there for his "half-lifetime achievement award," according to presenter Sofia Coppola.

"This achievement is born of love, passion, creativity ... and a hell of a lot of hard work," said Jacobs, who is 48.

He added, "I believe we all know and feel the greatest reward is the process itself."

Miranda Kerr Hits the Runway in Sexy Swimsuit

For the first time since giving birth to her son Flynn, now seven months old, Miranda Kerr returned to her native Australia for the David Jones Spring/Summer 2011 season launch at the Royal Hall of Industries in Sydney on Wednesday.

The model took to the catwalk and showcased off an impressive collection of brightly-colored trends for the season

Kardashian 2011 Collection

It is natural and usually thing that a new fashion break the previous records but this time Kardashian’s sister collection not just break the previous records but it also loved by everyone. People were waiting for this collection launch from a long time but now it is in market for sale.

Now it is available online with a discount of 30 % on every sale. Whether there is no any need of this discount coz this collection don’t need any promitive works. These are already much hit but Kardashian sisters just want to celebrate launch of the collection before launch. Whether at 25th of August 2011, whole collection which includes outfits, footwear, jewelry and accessories will launch at 400 famous and well known stores of U.S.A.


Whole collecton includes sky high heel shoes, tight fitting dresses and awesome accessories whether most special thing for Kardashian sister’s fans is that every collection have the signatures of Kim, Khloe and Kourtney’s on it.

Price range of this collection is from 20 $ to 100 $. So as this is not much expensive collection. This collection inludes from a ring to outfits as well lingeries. Sisters sadi in an interview that this was their dream and now they are feeling that they fulfil their dream

This collection is for every type and size of girl and lady. Khloe interview to a show that her and her all sisters have different body shapes and sizes. So they designed their collection according to our sizes. The fabric use in it is much fine, soft and easy to wear

Lights Up Again At The Bryant Park Tents

When the lights at New York fashion week’s Bryant Park tents were set to go out in February 2010, a light in filmmaker James Belzer’s head went on. Since the Tents were pitched in 1993, they had become a launch pad for New York designers and a symbol of American fashion. They also served as the setting for some of the most memorable (some groundbreaking, some horrifying) shows the industry had ever witnessed. As the designers and editors prepared to make a bittersweet departure for Lincoln Center, Belzer went to work documenting the legacy of the Bryant Park era with the help of several prominent industry figures, including Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Suzy Menkes, and Isaac Mizrahi.

Last month, Belzer screened his documentary The Tents for the first time at New York’s NewFest, in what he hopes will be a prequel to its debut during New York fashion week this September at Lincoln Center. (Belzer and his sales company are still searching for a backer and distributors.) “Fashion is just like any other art, and it needs to be preserved,” says the filmmaker, who is now working on another documentary, about the preservation of New York’s Garment District. “That’s what I’m trying to do with my film—tell 18 years of fashion history in just 72 minutes.” Here, he speaks with Style.com about his ode to the Tents.

—Kristin Studeman

What prompted you to make this film?
I had been in ad sales forever, with Fairchild and Harper’s Bazaar and such—I had seen the business side of the fashion and magazine industry for a really long time. When Bryant Park was coming to a close, I had already aligned myself with Marcus K. Jones, who was the fashion cinematographer for the project. After I met him, we started our first movie project and by January 2010, I had already thrown myself into this project. We started filming the second to last season at Bryant Park, while I was still at Harper’s Bazaar. We are a four-person operation—most interviews were shot on the red. It wasn’t secret by any means, but we didn’t really put the project out there until very recently.

What were some of the challenges you faced in putting this together?
The challenge we had as filmmakers was fitting all of these stories and moments into one. So many historic things happened during the times there, like September 11 (which shut the tents down), and the same with McQueen, which was during the last season at NYFW, but we wanted to handle those moments delicately without losing sight of the focus of our story we were trying to tell. We had the help, though, of so many amazing people, like Donna, Tommy, and Hal [Rubenstein].

I know you have a lot of strong relationships within the industry, but how did you compel so many great people to get involved?
We pitched the key designers, most of whom entertained or granted us access. Going into this, I knew I needed a mix of designers, backstage people, editors, PR people, and all of the people that made fashion week what it was back then. We wanted to include what we called “The Trifecta”: Calvin, Ralph, and Donna—the people who put New York fashion on the map. It was pretty exciting because you know you have really arrived when Donna agrees to do something. She was very candid and we got an amazing interview. Also, Tommy Hilfiger closed the top of his flagship store for a shoot with us. It was the most amazing moment for me. When that interview was done, I went out on the balcony and thought, “How did this happen?”


For the designers involved in this film and who showed at the Tents, what is that story exactly? Is it the chaotic beauty of the whole experience that you are trying to share?
The real story here with the Tents was that the New York fashion industry came into its own during this period as a global fashion capital, on par with Paris, Milan, and London. The legacy of the Tents really continues now with Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center—with fashion now aligned [with] all the performing arts as a top cultural destination and experience that takes place twice a year.

Did you feel that the different designers felt similarly about Bryant Park and the Tents, or did you find they latched on to different aspects of it?
Yes, for the most part, there was a clear consensus among the designers that organizing the Tents in Bryant Park was an important movement to unify the New York fashion business. Their heart and souls were in Bryant Park. There’s a sentimental take because Bryant Park is so intimately connected to the Garment Center. For example, Tommy’s office was on 39th Street right around the corner from the tents for years. They like to promote the idea of fashion week being here for the indefinite future. It was split down the middle, to be honest. There was one key designer that wasn’t keen on the tents at first and said so in the interview.

You screened the movie recently in New York. What was the response to that and what do you hope comes next?
It was fabulous, beyond my wildest expectations. You don’t really know how you are doing until you show it to people, in this case about 200 [people]. We are pushing to show it at Lincoln Center during this September during New York fashion week; it would be quite fitting.

From Missoni Flutters For Fall Campaign

It might pass on first look for an art-house music video, but the short debuting above is actually from Missoni’s Fall 2011 campaign. But then again, the label has a history of blurring the lines between art, music, and sound for their creative—this is a house that tapped legendary alt-filmmaker Kenneth Anger to make the last one, after all. “The main influence was the fluidity of the clothes,” explains director Mel Bles, who worked closely with Missoni in Venice to create the dance-inspired piece. “To do that, we looked at dance films from the 1920’s, featuring Martha Graham and Loie Fuller—that was really the starting point for this.”





And it’s true that the sinuous lines and exaggerated lengths that Angela Missoni sent down the runway for her Fall collection lend themselves perfectly to modern movement. Rather than using dancers, however, they enlisted “biker, True Romance girls” like models Kinga Rajzak, Valerija Kelava, Kristina Salinovic, and Katlin Aas to embrace their inner Grahams.
—Kristin Studeman

Fashion photos of the week

Top fashion images from the runways of the world: This week, highlights from the Berlin fashion week spring-summer 2012 collections

A model walks the catwalk at the Dimitri spring/summer 2012 show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on July 6, 2011 in Berlin

A model walks the runway at the A.F. Vandevorst show during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin spring/summer 2012 shows at the Brandenburg Gate on July 9, 2011 in Berlin.

A model works the runway at the Frida Weyer show during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin spring/summer 2012 collections at the Brandenburg Gate on July 8, 2011 in Berlin.
 
A model presents a creation by Frida Weyer during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin spring/summer 2012 shows at the Brandenburg Gate on July 8, 2011 in Berlin.



A model walks the runway at the Basler show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin spring/summer 2012 collections at the Brandenburg Gate on July 6, 2011 in Berlin.


A model walks the runway at the Basler show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin spring/summer 2012 collections at the Brandenburg Gate on July 6, 2011 in Berlin.


A model walks the runway during the spring/summer 2012 Minx by Eva Lutz show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on July 9, 2011 in Berlin.



A model walks the catwalk at the Hien Le spring/summer 2012 show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on July 6, 2011 in Berlin.


A model walks the catwalk at the Hien Le spring/summer 2012 show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on July 6, 2011 in Berlin.


A model walks the catwalk at the HTW spring/summer 2012 show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on July 6, 2011 in Berlin



Models walk the catwalk at the HTW spring/summer 2012 show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on July 6, 2011 in Berlin


Models work the runway at the spring/summer 2012 Hugo show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin at the Forum Museumsinsel on July 7, 2011 in Berlin.

With this frock

From busy and bejewelled meringues to stripped-down stunners, the bride brings with her a frisson of excitement. Weighed down by somethings old, new, borrowed and blue, the history of marital fashion is heavy with symbolism. As the ultimate wedding party comes to Bendigo, an enduring fairytale is set in train.                       

THERE is a moment on every bride's wedding day when she slips out of her old life and into The Dress. The moment's symbolism is fleeting, dissolving into the fuss and stress of a hundred more pressing moments as she is laced, buttoned, coiffed, fluffed and perfumed by a cluster of maids and women relatives but, one day, perhaps years after she feels that slither and scratch of a new life's fabric moving across her skin, the weight of its symbolism will return. She will look back and see her wedding dress as a potent marker in her life; who she was, how and where she fitted in to that place and that time. In broad terms, her dress will also be a sartorial snapshot of her demographic and culture. And it will be as eloquent whether she chose an extravagant meringue-puff of sugar-white silk or a slithery column of Hollywood-bombshell ivory satin.

Every "gown", whatever its composition, heaves with the history of its bride and her time. It is our general fascination with that history behind the exhibition, The White Wedding Dress: Two Hundred Years of Wedding Fashions.

It was  curated from London's Victoria and Albert Museum but will have its world premiere at the Bendigo Art Gallery on August1 with a specially curated local component. The Australian Aesthetic will include historic gowns and several contemporary designs by couturiers Toni Maticevski, Martin Grant, Gwendolynne Burkin, Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald of MaterialByProduct, Akira Isogawa, and Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales of Romance Was Born. The core exhibition will travel on to NewZealand in December and back for a home-town debut at the V&A in 2013.  More than 40 complete bridal ensembles were shipped from Britain on upright, dressed mannequins.

A selection of veils, shoes, purses and wedding paraphernalia, including grooms' outfits, dating  to the 19th century, will be presented with them. "It's international in its scope," says the London-based curator of textiles and fashion at the V&A, Edwina Ehrman. "But also, very British in its focus."

 The exhibition follows a distinctly Anglo-Saxon style and timeline and includes many gowns that are not white. British designer Vivienne Westwood's voluminous shot-silk ballgown for burlesque star Dita Von Teese's marriage to rock-goth Marilyn Manson in 2005  glistens purple with flashes of vivid pink. Rock star Gwen Stefani's gown by John Galliano is closer to classic; white from head to hips but has a dramatic ombre (light to dark) lake of pink bleeding up from its puddled satin train towards the waist.

The White Wedding Dress is firmly in the league of Bendigo Art Gallery's other record-breaking V&A fashion event, The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-57 in 2008-09. The difference is this show's unique distillation of real women's tastes, hopes, personality and reality.

"We did a lot of research," Ehrman says, "to find out actually who these women were; where they were from, where they married, what religion, descriptions of their wedding, even who threw flowers." The  research by Ehrman's and Bendigo Art Gallery's staff will be mounted as rare photographs, text plates and looped newsreels of such whimsical blips in history as English socialite Margaret Whigham's 1933 London wedding to the  Irish American, Charles Sweeny. The divine Miss Whigham, later the notorious divorcee the Duchess of Argyll, wore a draped and clingy bell-sleeved cream satin gown by  the British couturier, Norman Hartnell. It was spangled with star-like embroidered flowers and a four-metre train dragged elegantly behind her.

Kim Kardashian has psoriasis:

New Delhi: Socialite Kim Kardashian has been diagnosed with psoriasis, say media reports.

Being a socialite and in perpetual media glare, the red marks on her skin sent gossips flying. The Life and Style Weekly called it the skin condition called psoriasis.

The skin condition is marked by red or white patches on the skin which are often flaky. The condition is not contagious.

According to the report, Kim’s mother Kris Jenner also suffers from the condition, which is characterized by dry skin. Kardashian said to the media that she has heard of the skin condition because her mother has always had it, but she did not have red flaky dots all over.

The disease has a largely genetic component involved in it. The condition, as doctors say – is manageable with a variety of treatments available. If properly taken care of doctors say that psoriasis patients have a perfectly normal life.

Kim’s thoughts on the condition will be featured in an upcoming episode of her reality show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians’. With her wedding around the corner, it would be interesting to know how she deals with the diagnosis.

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The area to watch

Written by Daniel P Dykes on 22.03.2011

If there's one area of fashion trends, both for men and women, that you should be keeping an eye on, it's trousers. After years of low-rise, skin tight jeans and trousers being the predominant, 'in' style we fashionisers are gradually experimenting more and more with new styles. Hence you have the rise of wide leg pants for women and flared jeans for both sexes.
That experimentation gives birth to look such as this: bow belted, pin stripe trousers that sit somewhere between being wide legged pants and bell bottoms.

Experimenting with trousers

Written by Daniel P Dykes on 29.03.2011

If we had to make a definite statement about women's fashion in the last decade we'd say that skinny jeans and pants influenced the its silhouettes more then any other look. Women wanted skinnies, and most everything else was cut to work with them. Styles get tired however and while we might still all love our skinnies, there's an undercurrent of experimentation amongst the fashion forward collective, each of them looking for something else, each of them looking for what's next.
Hence, when it comes to this decade's emerging fashion trends so many of them are experimenting with the 'standard' silhouette of pants. As a result we have emerging, neo-trends in the return of bell bottoms and wide legged pants. There's one more style we're certain will join that list, however, making it something of a trend trinity: pleats.

Amaya Arzuaga's architectural curiosities

Wearable geometry of urban designs is the main signature of famous Spanish designer Amaya Arzuaga. Her latest collection for the fall 2011 season presented in Paris fashion week; the designer's hallmark architectural fascinations presenting the new definition of chic looks with sculptural femininity. The palette of the collection is saturated with bloody red, turquoise, orange, stone and grey colours accompanied with black or showcased solo. The selection of merino wool, felt, silk, knit, stretch leather and transparent jersey composes the modern vision of woman with the DNA of Amaya Arzuaga. The collection is predominantly inspired by fashion mathematics of shapes, curves and surfaces ranging from linear pieces defining the silhouette, osseous structures, ovoid and elliptical profiles, and wavy pleated figures to butterfly volumes and outfits resembling the delicate structure of an Arthropod shell. The designs amaze with the discreet fusion of practicality and a futuristic touch.

Candice Swanepoel outside Dior

At this point, we're all used to seeing Candice Swanepoel in next to nothing. So why is it that when she was photographed outside Christian Dior fall 2011, she was even more provocative than when donning the standard Victoria's Secret uniform of bra and panty? Perhaps this is due to the fervor incited in us by her crocheted black bra top with diamond webbing wrapping up the decolletage, layered underneath a simply perfect sheer seamed black shirt with raw edge sleeves. Carrying what looked to be an equally lush fur coat, Swanepoel’s upper half left little to the imagination, but much to be coveted.

Louis Vuitton men's reborn

The aesthetics of Louis Vuitton's menswear past offerings have often sat uneasy with me. They've had their place, but that place seldom felt like it should have been under the moniker of a luxury fashion house with such pedigree. To be certain the quality was there, but the overall look could come off a little too rough-and-ready, a little too casual for my liking.For Spring 2011 Louis Vuitton promised something new, not the least because designer Kim Jones would taking the reigns as the house's menswear Style Director. Young and well travelled, Jones has a good background having previously been the Creative Director for Alfred Dunhill; a directorship that saw Dunhill reborn.
It would appear that he's done it again.

Victoria’s Secret Lingerie Bombshell Summer 2011 Collection

Victoria’s Secret Bombshell hot and sexy summer 2011 lingerie collection. Models Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel and Erin Heatherton.

At The Lake and Stars

 

Renato Campora's hands move quickly; and in mere seconds a model walks away with a side ponytail of perfect barrel curls. We're backstage at the New York fashion week American Express presents CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Cardmember Only Show and Renato, lead stylist for Frederick Fekkai, is making the night's softly glamorous hairstyle look almost too easy to create.

The desired effect, Renato explains, is a look that's both young and effortless, but also sexy - with a deep side-part that frames the face, and the hair swept aside at the back showing off the nape of the neck, a sensual body part Renato reminds us.
Below you can find some how-to instructions of how to recreate this hairstyle for yourself, along with photos from backstage of the Frederick Fekkai team at work.