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Posts for November 4th 2010

Siri Tollerod Embodies Astrological Signs for Vogue UK December 2010; Alexandra Shulman Wants to Remain Editor Through 2016
Vogue UK

Siri Tollerod Embodies Astrological Signs for Vogue UK December 2010; Alexandra Shulman Wants to Remain Editor Through 2016

>> Leave it to British Vogue to come up with a whimsical editorial that doesn't look like every other editorial ever.
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>> Leave it to British Vogue to come up with a whimsical editorial that doesn't look like every other editorial ever. The spread, "Star Signs," shot by Tim Gutt in conjunction with stylist Kate Phelan and set designer Shona Heath, captures Siri Tollerod as each of the 12 astrological signs for the magazine's December 2010 issue.

Speaking of British Vogue, Alexandra Shulman is coming up on 20 years as editor of the magazine in 2012, and in preparation, she says she's planning to give the magazine a redesign in March to make the format less rigid. Although, she specifies: "I'm more interested in Vogue's 100th anniversary than my 20th," indicating that she plans to stick around until at least 2016.

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See — and Shop — Erin Fetherston's First Juicy Couture Collection, for Holiday 2010
Holiday

See — and Shop — Erin Fetherston's First Juicy Couture Collection, for Holiday 2010

>> Erin Fetherston is set to design for Juicy Couture until the end of 2011, and the first of the two collections she's contracted for, Holiday 2010, just hit.
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>> Erin Fetherston is set to design for Juicy Couture until the end of 2011, and the first of the two collections she's contracted for, Holiday 2010, just hit. The collection, which runs $55 for a headband to $378 for the floor-length gown Fetherston wore to the Costume Institute Gala in May and includes shoes, jewelry, and lots of velvet, is Fetherston's attempt to work a few elements of Juicy's signature look (wide waistbands, the velvet) into polished holiday dressing.

As the New York Times's Eric Wilson noted, "It is somewhat disconcerting to hear a hip-but-classy designer like Ms. Fetherston making remarks like, 'This is my take on the track jacket for evening and cocktail,' and, 'This is a great party dress in high-shine velour.'" But, he says, "Somehow it works."

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LVMH's Bernard Arnault Responds to Hermes — We're Not Going Anywhere
Hermes

LVMH's Bernard Arnault Responds to Hermes — We're Not Going Anywhere

>> Yesterday in Le Figaro, Patrick Thomas, CEO of Hermes, and Bertrand Puech, representative of the Hermes family, in not so many words, asked Bernard Arnault to sell LVMH's newly acquired stake in the company.
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>> Yesterday in Le Figaro, Patrick Thomas, CEO of Hermes, and Bertrand Puech, representative of the Hermes family, in not so many words, asked Bernard Arnault to sell LVMH's newly acquired stake in the company.

Today, in that same paper, Arnault responded: “I don’t see how the head of a publicly traded company is qualified to ask an investor to sell his shares." He continued: "We’ve taken a stake in Hermes for the long term . . . Our presence in the capital of Hermes presents no risk to society nor to family control. Quite the contrary . . . this operation is a completely amicable one, what’s hostile is the demand that we sell our shares!”

Arnault added that LVMH took stake in Hermes to provide "a certain amount of insurance that the brand will remain French." When it was pointed out that Hermes believes the move a clash of cultures, Arnault replied: "Our cultures are, I think, pretty close. LVMH is the world's leading manufacturer of high quality products. Vuitton trunks, dresses, haute couture from Dior, Dom Perignon, Chateau d'Yquem, among other examples . . . We have in the LVMH group a culture of handicrafts. And LVMH, like Hermes, is a family group. I am convinced that we, as a shareholder, could bring a number of advantages to Hermes."

As for Hermes's stance that its performance is better than LVMH, and it needs no help, Arnault said: "If you want to compare numbers, compare those of Hermes with Louis Vuitton. In this case of either growth or the result, the performance of Louis Vuitton is much better. That said, the figures of Hermes are excellent, too."

See Julia Restoin-Roitfeld's First Lancome Ad; Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld Says His Mom Carine Roitfeld "Has a Tiny Wardrobe"
Lancome

See Julia Restoin-Roitfeld's First Lancome Ad; Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld Says His Mom Carine Roitfeld "Has a Tiny Wardrobe"

>> Julia Restoin-Roitfeld was recently named a Lancome face, and now her first ad — for the brand's Ultra Lavande Spring 2011 color collection — is out.
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>> Julia Restoin-Roitfeld was recently named a Lancome face, and now her first ad — for the brand's Ultra Lavande Spring 2011 color collection — is out. She also has an upcoming campaign in Asia, for the Lancome Blanc Expert line, set to debut next year.


As for her brother, Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld, he's still doing the promoter thing; when asked recently about marrying his girlfriend Giovanna Battaglia, who he's been dating just over a year, he replied: "I'm very much in love, but my parents never got married and they have been together for 31 years. If you don't get married, you can't get divorced."

And speaking of his parents, Vladimir admitted that despite her position, his mother Carine Roitfeld doesn't have a closet bursting with free clothes: "Actually, my mum has never had a lot of clothes, and she has a tiny wardrobe. She knows exactly what she likes to wear. There's one long cupboard in her bedroom, and you never see shoes lying about anywhere else. I've got more clothes than she has."

See the First Photos of the 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Costumes; Plus, More Models Confirmed
Victoria's Secret

See the First Photos of the 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Costumes; Plus, More Models Confirmed

>> The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show has come a long way in 15 years — see the very first show, sans any wings, here — and this year, the theme is "A Night of a Thousand Fantasies."
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>> The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show has come a long way in 15 years — see the very first show, sans any wings, here — and this year, the theme is "A Night of a Thousand Fantasies." The first few costume images have popped up (Lily Aldridge's two looks can be seen here), and we've got a few confirmed names to add to the list: among them, Selita Ebanks, Katsia Damenkova, Anne Vyalitsyna (who's getting her first wings this year), Constance Jablonski, Gracie Carvalho, Lily Donaldson, and Lais Ribeiro.

There's also a new casting video out, and Ed Razek, chief marketing officer of Limited Brands, parent company of Victoria's Secret, admits of the process: "I hate castings, because I’m basically a softy and I hate the broken hearts and I hate saying no . . . What people don’t realize is that [those who fit the parameters of a Victoria's Secret model are] rarer by far than superstar athletes. The numbers of people who can do this are probably under 100 in the world. And in the show, it’s only [33] girls.”

And the castings — which Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou and Dan May of Harper’s Bazaar UK and 10 Magazine have a say in as stylists — are tough. Maryna Linchuk had to audition again this year, despite walking in the show in the past, because bodies change, Monica Mitro, executive producer of the show, said. “You don’t see them for a minute, and . . . ” she added, holding her hands wide to gesture for broad hips. But some faults are more forgivable than others — when Caroline Winberg walked in to casting, with hair described by the New York Times as "frazzled by styling until it was the texture of wood shavings," Mitro stated: “Never mind the hair . . . we can always do something about the hair."

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Zac Posen Rumored to Design Kristen Stewart's Twilight: Breaking Dawn Wedding Dress
Zac Posen

Zac Posen to Design Kristen Stewart's Twilight Wedding Dress?

>> Zac Posen has done his share of wedding designs — bridal gowns for Coco Rocha and Portia de Rossi, a wedding suit for Ellen DeGeneres — and now it's rumored that he has another up his sleeve, this time to hit the big screen.
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>> Zac Posen has done his share of wedding designs — bridal gowns for Coco Rocha and Portia de Rossi, a wedding suit for Ellen DeGeneres — and now it's rumored that he has another up his sleeve, this time to hit the big screen. Posen is said to have been tapped to create Kristen Stewart's wedding dress for the upcoming Twilight: Breaking Dawn film. In the book, Stephenie Meyer illustrates the gown as an early 1900s design that's just "stepped out of a [Jane] Austen movie." Although, when Stewart was interviewed a couple of weeks ago about the wedding dress, she confirmed that she had some fittings but hadn't found "the one" yet. [ETOnline]