Wed, 10/01/08 — 05:18:07 PM
>> Keep the hard-edged black leather, trade in the religious iconography of Fall for cowboy couture, and you've got Riccardo Tisci's vision of Spring. The collection already has at least one early adopter in the form of Carine Roitfeld, and she's not the only top brass taking note: at least four LVMH executives sat front row, indicating that Givenchy may be moving on up in importance for the group. So will the bondage tops, denim and leather chaps, and peekaboo dresses catch on? With most of the fashion crowd, for sure — except maybe Cathy Horyn, who called the collection "gluttonous" and a "mess."
Wed, 10/01/08 — 03:37:01 PM
>> INSIDER WIRE —Carine Roitfeld is often known to wear pieces right after they've been on the runway, but as the fashion cycle gets faster and faster, so does her turnaround rate. This past February during Paris Fashion Week, she got to wear the much-coveted Fall 2008 Yves Saint Laurent boots before they debuted on the runway, and this morning, she did it again, showing up to Karl Lagerfeld in a Spring 2009 Givenchy cape that debuted on the runway this evening. [Jak & Jil, Vogue.fr Twitter]
Wed, 10/01/08 — 02:55:36 PM
>> There are various Coco Chanel films and a Gucci movie in the works for 2010 — but fashion can never get enough of film, and it looks like the feeling is mutual.
That Vivienne Westwood biopic that has been bandied about for two years? The rumors have been reignited — the designer's managing director was supposedly overheard a couple of days ago telling guests at the Westwood Gold Label show that Kate Winslet is lined up to play Viv from the '70s to present day.
And here's a new one: a Kate Moss movie. Supposedly, a team of Hollywood types is interested in London's Primrose Hill and the crowd who hangs out there — Sienna Miller, Rhys Ifans, Sadie Frost . . . and Kate Moss.
Neither film is anywhere close to being confirmed, but interesting, nonetheless.
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Wed, 10/01/08 — 01:50:09 PM
>> THE MODELIZER —Yesterday, Coco Rocha did a little dance at Jean Paul Gaultier — but it wasn't of the Irish dancing persuasion like last time. Think more contemporary — a trio of modern dancers opened the leotard-riddled show and Coco joined them "for a few Martha Graham flourishes" before opening the runway. No video or pictures yet, but I'm still on the lookout. [Style.com]
Wed, 10/01/08 — 12:36:13 PM
>> After a couple of seasons of prints aplenty — including last Spring's floral explosion — Dries Van Noten's newest outing seems calm in comparison. Not that he completely did away with prints — when you're Dries van Noten, that just won't do — checks and squares worked out on a computer and dip-dyed in a gradient rainbow replaced the feminine florals with graphic flair. Between the new direction and the show's setting — a tent around the Pol Bury silver ball fountains — the critics were pleased. Cathy Horyn called the collection "wonderful," Suzy Menkes found it "lovely" and Christina Passariello of The Wall Street Journal thought it "perfect for Parisian dressing."
Wed, 10/01/08 — 11:36:57 AM
>> THE MODELIZER — The abrupt closure of Jovovich-Hawk was a surprise, but according to Milla Jovovich, all is good in the hood. She's hardly done with designing: "Now I’m here in Paris meeting with bigger houses about doing designing for them. Unfortunately, Carmen [Hawk]’s not working with me anymore — she’s taking pictures — but I am definitely going to keep designing." Now if we could just get Jane Mayle squared away . . . [Chic Report]
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Wed, 10/01/08 — 11:24:05 AM
>> Although Marc Jacobs hinted that he might be putting a hold on all the Louis Vuitton collaborations a couple of months ago, it looks like he's not ready to follow through with that just yet. The brand is moving from its last collaboration — the avant-garde designs of Rei Kawakubo — to work with someone on a whole different plane: Marc's close friend Sofia Coppola.
Sofia will be working on a range of shoes and handbags — to be sold worldwide — for the brand, putting that design experience she earned interning at Chanel and starting up Japanese line Milk Fed to good use.
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Wed, 10/01/08 — 10:54:19 AM
>> THE MODELIZER —Lily Donaldson seems to have put Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld and those Michael Phelps rumors behind her. Now the buzz places her hand in the hand of Gabriele Corto Moltedo, 31-year-old handbag designer and son of Bottega Veneta founders Laura and Vittorio Moltedo. [Grazia]
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Wed, 10/01/08 — 10:21:14 AM
>> Katie Grand may be in the midst of styling Spring 2009 shows, but she's got another exciting project in the works. As rumored, she is leaving POP — which she founded in 2000 — to start up a new biannual high-end fashion magazine for Conde Nast UK.
Though the magazine is untitled and much is still to be decided, Grand promises the move is a good one: "I can't wait to get started. I feel the time is ready for a new magazine, a new arena for new ideas. This time we'll have a larger format, bigger budgets and broader horizons than ever before." The bigger budget may have been the main reason for the move — Katie has said in the past that for POP shoots, "Often the photographers are using their own money."
Nonetheless, she has plenty of experience founding a magazine — she helped launch Dazed & Confused and Another Magazine before POP. The new title hits newsstands in March, and as for the future of POP . . . no one has spoken to that.
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