If there's one item sure to punch up festive holiday attire, it's a decadent piece of costume jewelry. Miu Miu's new cocktail baubles, appropriately and simply called The Jewels, turn the volume up on festive sparkle by layering gold-colored hardware with Swarovski crystals, Plexiglas, enamel, and pearls together — sometimes all in the same piece. But the real beauty of this collection is that its optimistic color palette and floral elements mean it'll still look fresh when Spring rolls around.
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Photo via Lemlem.
Say it ain't so: Robin Givhan has been let go from her position as the special correspondent for style and culture at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She'll leave the company at the end of the year.
Daily Intel reports that Givhan is among the employees of The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company laid off on the second day of its ongoing staff reductions. The layoffs come after Newsweek announced that it would stop printing and merge with the Beast's online platform.
"I plan to work on my book about the 1973 Versailles fashion show and look for a new job," Givhan said.
She joined Newsweek at the end of 2010 and had previously been the fashion editor of The Washington Post. In 2006, Givhan became the first and only fashion journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize "for her witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism."
Photo via Givhan's Facebook page.
Raf Simons says he's working on turning Dior into a brand that everyone in the world will recognize as soon as they see it — sort of like Chanel.
"The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see, I smell her from round the corner, but I don't recognize the Dior woman," Simons said in an interview for the January issue of Vogue UK. "I want to work on that fast. Chanel has the deux-pièces with the pockets, or the bouclé, but what is it for Dior nowadays? I can't say."
Eventually, Simons wants Dior to be something that appeals to a wide variety of people.
"Dior's ultimate obsession is that he wanted [the public] to wear it. I want them to wear it on the street," he said. "If it doesn't relate to the outside, then it would be very theatrical for me."
That mission — to make serious and wearable clothing for Dior — has guided Simons's short tenure at the French fashion house, and even extends to his couture collections.
"I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture, or for a single moment on the red carpet," he said in an interview with Vogue Australia last month. "I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and a relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted. In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theater."
Photo: Simons photographed by David Sims for the December issue of Vogue.
Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady are the new parents of a baby girl. The supermodel announced Friday morning that she gave birth to a daughter, named Vivian Lake, earlier this week.
"We feel so lucky to have been able to experience the miracle of birth once again and are forever grateful for the opportunity to be the parents of another little angel," Bündchen wrote in a Facebook post, including a picture of her holding Vivian's hand. "Vivian Lake was born at home on December 5. She is healthy and full of life. Thank you all for your support and well wishes. We wish you and your families many blessings."
Bündchen confirmed that she was having another child in August, but rumors that she was pregnant for a second time circulated shortly after the Met Gala in May. The model was said to have asked Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci to make her dress for the gala with room enough for two.
Vivian Lake is Bündchen's second child with Brady; their son, Benjamin, was born in December 2009. Brady had another son, John, with actress Bridget Moynahan in August 2007.
Photo: Bündchen photographed by Daniele Duella and Iango Henzi for the Fall 2012 issue of i-D Magazine.
