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Posts for September 2010

Paris Fashion Week Street Style — The Sophisticate
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Paris Fashion Week Street Style — The Sophisticate

Black trousers are an easy Fall staple, as exemplified by this simple, yet refined street style look from day one at Paris Fashion Week.
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Black trousers are an easy Fall staple, as exemplified by this simple, yet refined street style look from day one at Paris Fashion Week. Notice how the light-colored tee is tucked in to accentuate a high-waist cut — and long legs —while a long printed cardigan and platform sandals complete the play with proportion. Replicate the ensemble with a pair of pleated trousers from Vanessa Bruno, an abstract print cardigan from RACHEL Rachel Roy, and Marni platforms.




Left to right: Vanessa Bruno Pleated Pants ($152, originally $506), Mulberry Alexa Clutch ($817), Urban Outfitters Double Wrap Belt ($28), Marni Copper Leaf Necklace ($510), Marni Platform Sandals ($425), RACHEL Rachel Roy Skinny Cardi ($79), Zoe Tees T-Shirt ($57)

Photos: Greg Kessler

Spring 2011 Paris Fashion Week: Balenciaga
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Nicolas Ghesquiere, Sick of Clone Models, Cast Gisele, Carolyn Murphy, and Pregnant Miranda Kerr for Balenciaga Spring 2011

>> Nicolas Ghesquiere's Spring 2011 model cast grabbed as much attention — if not more — than the clothes; and it seems that he devoted just as much time curating his model troupe as designing this season.
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Spring 2011 Paris Fashion Week: Balenciaga

>> Nicolas Ghesquiere's Spring 2011 model cast grabbed as much attention — if not more — than the clothes; and it seems that he devoted just as much time curating his model troupe as designing this season.

In June, the Balenciaga team started a street casting tour: in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Belgium, and Australia, eventually turning up seven girls — Ghesquiere called them "characters" — a dancer, an artist . . . all willing to have their hair bleached or dyed black and cut into a punky crop specifically for the show. Alongside those girls — among them was Alexander Wang opener Britt Maren — the cast included a parade of notables: Stella Tennant, Amber Valletta, Carolyn Murphy, a pregnant Miranda Kerr, with Gisele Bündchen closing. "I was sick of the clone-model thing," the designer offered as explanation, adding: "It's about individuality."

The show also explored “bringing out the man that is in every woman,” according to the designer, who sourced the collection's houndstooth pattern from a 1965 Cristobal Balenciaga silk column dress. Also featured: in his first time since joining Balenciaga, Ghesquiere did flats, creeper-style.

 

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Photos of Crystal Renn by Terry Richardson for Vogue Paris's 90th Anniversary October 2010 Issue
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Carine Roitfeld Finds It "More and More Difficult" To Keep an "Un-Politically Correct" Attitude About Vogue Paris

>> Vogue Paris is celebrating its 90th Anniversary issue with a masquerade ball tonight in Paris — an marquee event of the week — but also garnering attention: Terry Richardson's editorial, "Festin," styled by Carine Roitfeld, in the issue, of Crystal Renn stuffing an entire squid in her mouth in one photo and dribbling herself in steak juice in another.
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>> Vogue Paris is celebrating its 90th Anniversary issue with a masquerade ball tonight in Paris — an marquee event of the week — but also garnering attention: Terry Richardson's editorial, "Festin," styled by Carine Roitfeld, in the issue, of Crystal Renn stuffing an entire squid in her mouth in one photo and dribbling herself in steak juice in another.

Roitfeld said the shoot was inspired by the 1973 movie "La Grande Bouffe," about a group of men who retire to a villa to eat themselves to death, and that she thinks it's the job of fashion magazines to continue to push boundaries and provoke, even in the face of attacks on their judgment: "In 90 years, we haven’t changed the mood of the magazine. It’s still very audacious. It’s still about beauty. It’s still about excess. It’s still very avant-garde . . . We try to be sophisticated, while a little on the edge all the time."

She continues: "What I can see is that now, the censoring is bigger than it was 20, 30, or 40 years ago. I think we have less freedom. Today some pictures [from past issues of Vogue Paris] would not even be publishable. It’s not just about the nudity, but when you talk about things politically, the military, kids, it would all be politically incorrect and not publishable today. We have to fight to keep this un-politically correct attitude of French Vogue, but it’s more and more difficult to be able do that. You cannot smoke, you cannot show arms, you cannot show little girls, because everyone now is very anxious not to have problems with the law. Everything we do now is like walking in high heels on the ice, but we keep trying to do it."

On a more personal note, Roitfeld did a video with Hilary Alexander in which she talks about designing her silk shirt with Charvet and exclaims, "F*ck yoga, it makes me crazy!"

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Paris Fashion Week Street Style — Knots and Knits
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Paris Fashion Week Street Style — Knots and Knits

Knots and knits never looked so good with this street style snap from day one of Paris Fashion Week.
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Knots and knits never looked so good with this street style snap from day one of Paris Fashion Week. We can't stop lusting over this Fashion Week attendee's cozy navy knit sweater, knotted skirt, and colorblocked suede platforms from Pierre Hardy. Evoke the layered look with the exact Pierre Shoes shoes, plus a similar cable knit sweater from J.Crew and elegantly knotted skirt from Jason Wu.




Left to right: J.Crew Cambridge Cable Ribbed Sweater ($98), Alexander McQueen Skull Wallet Clutch ($450), Mawi Jade Ring ($340), Pierre Hardy Thick Platform Sandal ($1,280), Jason Wu Knot Skirt ($1,490)

Photo: Greg Kessler

Photos from Roberto Cavalli's 40th Anniversary Party During Spring 2011 Paris Fashion Week
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Roberto Cavalli Admits He's Not the Party Animal He Used to Be at His $2 Million 40th Anniversary Bash

>> Roberto Cavalli reportedly spent about $2 million on his 40th anniversary bash held last night at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris — and that doesn't include the budget allotted to bringing Natalia Vodianova (and perhaps some of the other 1,200 attendees) to the party.
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>> Roberto Cavalli reportedly spent about $2 million on his 40th anniversary bash held last night at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris — and that doesn't include the budget allotted to bringing Natalia Vodianova (and perhaps some of the other 1,200 attendees) to the party. As the New York Times's Eric Wilson wrote: "It was one of those fashion parties that felt like another era, when it was possible to enjoy such extravagance without wondering how a designer could possibly be selling enough animal-printed evening gowns and exuberantly distressed denim to afford it all."

Kylie Minogue performed, the walls were lined with Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott's images of models in Cavalli, and Heidi Klum introduced the designer as a four-tier, 10-foot birthday cake covered in sparklers was wheeled onto the stage. But even through all that, Cavalli, almost 70, admitted he's not the party animal he used to be: “Don’t say it, don’t say it, please, because the people should still dream with me,” he said. “The young should think that, instead of sparkling water, I drink Krug, or that I still smoke 10 Cuban cigars every day.”

 

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