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In the past ten years, in no particular order, Karl Lagerfeld’s designed collections for Chanel, Fendi, Hogan and Lagerfeld, capsule collections for Macy’s and H&M, worked campaigns for Volvo, Magnum Ice Cream and Diet Coke, directed short films for Chanel, designed crystal for Orrefors and a $1500 teddy bear for Steiff, provided voice overs for Grand Theft Auto, sketched wine labels and launched K by Karl Lagerfeld, a short lived collection of men’s and women’s contemporary clothing. But now, he’s getting serious. The prolific designer announced his newest project—which sounds more like a comprehensive empire—called Karl, this morning.
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WGSN is arguably one of the world’s largest trend forecasting agency with satellite offices worldwide, and its Global Fashion Awards, held last night, represented the company’s monstrous size with a sprawling ceremony held at the baroque Gotham Hall. “It’s an establishment that truly stands on its own,” said Lincoln Center’s Fashion Director, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. In agreement was one of the evening’s sponsors, Nadja Swarovski who added that the company “is such an important commercial platform.” Post-dinner, guests watched as awards were granted to some of the fashion community’s most important trailblazers, like cult Swedish label Acne. The duo who accepted the award on behalf of the brand’s creative director, Jonny Johansson, said of the brand’s evolution, “We’ve definitely become more chic and more grown-up, but we’re not losing our base.” Backstage, global style icon award presenter Brad Goreski (clad in an adorable over-sized bowtie) told us that his personal fashion icons range, “from Danny Zucco to Peewee Herman, Tom Ford to Thom Browne.” It’s a good thing that he has a wad of inspiration to pull from, because the stylist-cum-reality-star is on the verge of launching his own book and television series. Though he’s been thrown a handful a negative comments by his old boss, Rachel Zoe, Goreski only has lovely things to say her: “My three years with Rachel were incredible—she’s a great boss and a great teacher.” Anna Sui presented the evening’s final award—given to Biba’s Barbara Hulanicki for her outstanding contribution to fashion. Perhaps one of the coolest industry vets around (she’s 75 and still rocking matte black nail polish), the swinging 60’s designer explained that her fashion days pre-dated trend agencies, “it was very raw, I got my inspiration from the movies. There was no one to copy except Greta Garbo.” In an all-black ensemble (sunglasses to boot) it seems that was exactly what Hulanicki was going for—though not without that undone Biba-girl glamour.
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Fashion loves a controversy, but the recent trend of major brands using kids to front their luxury products morphed into a more international topic of conversation. Newspapers devoted a surprising number of words to research and opinion wondering what it all means, my parents asked why fashion was obsessed with children and a few influential women publicly wondered, “Why would I buy a $2500 dress from a twelve-year-old?” But, like trends on a runway, it took just a season for the tide to turn. Miu Miu, which probably caused more excitement than uproar for hiring fourteen-year-old Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld to front their fall campaign, just released their resort ads. This time, thirty-four-year old Guinevere Van Seenus is in front of the camera. Van Seenus, though by no means old in real life, is at the very far end of the modeling age spectrum (at least for those still modeling and not mogul-ing). Though it may be tempting—especially for anyone who’s anti-Fanning/Moretz/Steinfeld—to grant the move added significance, chances are that Miu Miu, like any brand, is anxious to appeal to all its customers while projecting a fresh image each season. They’re doing so by mixing models with actresses, young and, well, a little less young, and Bruce Weber’s Americana with Mert & Marcus’ high fashion shots. After all, if the ads looked the same every season, who would care?
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Doo.Ri Chung’s had quite a week. The designer made headlines this weekend when the First Lady, Michelle Obama, wore a purple gown from her spring collection to the White House’s state dinner for South Korea and today, Macy’s announced she’d be the next designer to design a collection for Impulse. Chung is the latest of five designers that Macy’s has asked to collaborate with their Impulse department, hoping to attract a younger, design-hungry customer. First was Kinder Aggugini, then Matthew Williamson and Karl Lagerfeld. Giambattista Valli’s cocktail dresses hit stores next week and in February, Chung’s designs will take center stage. The collection includes plenty of jersey and draping—Chung’s specialties—as well as leggings, trench coats and blouses and it’ll range in price from $39 to $159. Chung told WWD, “The customer is very different from whom we’ve catered to before, but I really didn’t have to adapt. Macy’s wanted to keep the design level high. I didn’t feel the challenge was very different.”
ElleGirl- Imagine writing a script and having your favorite TV and film actors perform your work. Then, imagine doing this before leaving elementary school! The Young Storytellers Foundation (YSF) mentors students in schools with no funding for Arts Education. Every year, the organization puts on a star-studded event called “The Biggest Show” and thus, shows off the students’ talents. This year’s show raised the bar. Stars like Raven Symoné from That’s So Raven, Glee’s Cory Monteith, and Diary of A Wimpy Kid’s Devon Bostick all turned out to give a rare live performance—in an elementary school gymnasium—acting out screenplays written by YSF students. For the lucky YSF mentees, the show was a big encouragement to keep their creativity flowing. Bostick—who’s kinder than his character Rodrick Heffley—told one YSF mentee, Dominique Cojuangco, “If you need a guy to do your movie, I’m your guy.” We chatted with Bostick about curing acting jitters and how he got started in Hollywood.
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Photo: Raquel Allegra
Ever wonder what a designer does all day? We asked Raquel Allegra what it’s like coming back to the office—and back to reality—after her recent trip to Paris.
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Hollywood’s taking another shot at Les Miserables—the classic Victor Hugo story set during the 19th century June Rebellion (not the French Revolution!). Though the story’s probably better known in the States for its Broadway version than as a French novel, it’s been interpreted on screen without the songs, most recently in 1998. That version, starring Liam Neeson, Uma Thurman, Geoffrey Rush and Claire Danes, wasn’t quite a box office smash. But this time around the story’s getting an all-star writer to match its cast. Tom Hooper, who wrote The King’s Speech (and dates Imitation’s Tara Subkoff) is penning the script. Russel Crowe is playing Inspector Javert, Hugh Jackman is Jean Valjean and Anne Hathaway‘s just signed on to play Fantine. Unlike the 1998 version this one’s a musical, and a musical led by the beloved Jackman. It’s Hathaway’s first musical, and a big change from The Dark Knight. Meanwhile, IMDB lists Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush as Madame and Monsieur Thenardier, the inn-keepers, which would inject the perfect amount of fun into the otherwise pretty depressing story. Who do you think should play Cosette?
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Congrats to Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra who tied the knot in NYC yesterday. The two met at Parsons in 1994 and have been together ever since—both personally and professionally. They debuted their line, Costello Tagliapietra, at New York Fashion Week in 2005. Last month, Michael Kors wed his longtime love Lance LePere, also at Manhattan’s City Hall. So, who’s next?!
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A few of the black dresses in Vera Wang's bridal collection. Photos: WWD
Sarah Jessica Parker‘s offered a few different reasons for wearing a black dress to her 1997 wedding to Matthew Broderick—to fool the press, because she was embarrassed to be a bride—but the one thing that never changes? That she regrets doing so. She’s repeatedly mentioned that she wishes she’d worn white, and that were she and Broderick to ever renew their vows, she’d, “White it up.” But Vera Wang’s counting on someone to wear black. The designer, whose name is synonymous with ‘bride,’ sent out half a dozen black wedding dresses at her bridal show this weekend. While her colleagues—Oscar de la Renta, Monique Lhuillier, Reem Acra—stuck to white, she offered the opposite. Whether she drew inspiration from Parker (a bit late) or the upcoming Twilight nuptials, Wang was obviously thinking about the darker side of marriage. The dresses are, of course, gorgeous, but would you actually wear black on your big day?
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Stacy Keibler follows a long line of women who’ve finally had to man up and admit to the world, “Yes, I’m dating George Clooney.” Of course, none of them actually say it, they just step onto the red carpet, elbows locked with the greatest movie star of our time, and smile. We can’t imagine the stress that goes into it—how do you decide what to wear? What would you wear? But we can imagine picking something slightly less, well, revealing? When Keibler made her debut at last night’s premiere of The Descendants she wore the long black dress above, with dangerously placed sheer panels and a slit up to there. What do you think? We’re with George on this one.
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