Posts for August 2012

Anna Wintour's Tennis Coach on the Editor's Game
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Anna Wintour's Tennis Game, Betsey Johnson's Vintage Hunt, and Azealia Banks's Banned Cover

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.
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Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • Anna Wintour's tennis coach, Byron Spence, has nothing but good things to say about the editor's game. "She's like a retriever," Spence says. "She's so fast. She'll chase down everything. She doesn't hit with a lot of spin, but she has an amazing cross-court forehand." [The New York Times]

  • Azealia Banks's September cover of Dazed & Confused magazine, which reportedly features the singer inflating a balloon that resembles a pink prophylactic, has been banned in seven countries. [The Cut]

  • Garance Dore's capsule collection for Kate Spade, which feature's the blogger's signature illustrations, is now available online. [SheFinds]

  • While the rest of the world oohed and aahed over Lady Gaga's Vogue cover, Marjorie Gubelmann was posting a picture of the singer wearing a wedding dress to her Instagram account. [SugarScape]

  • Betsey Johnson has asked her fans to send in vintage pieces she designed to be featured in her Spring 2013 retrospective show during New York Fashion Week. [Fashionista]

  • To cure the hangover he felt on his 21st birthday, male model River Viiperi had eggs, bread, and beer. "Beer has vitamin B12 in it," he says. [WWD]
Ferragamo Fall 2012 Collection Pre-Order
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Fall Fantasy: 10 Dreamy Picks From the Ferragamo Trunk Show

There's nothing like a little daydreaming — especially when it comes to planning the yearly Fall wardrobe refresh.
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Ferragamo Fall 2012 Collection Pre-Order

There's nothing like a little daydreaming — especially when it comes to planning the yearly Fall wardrobe refresh. New boots, capes, coats, jackets, and dresses? The mere mention of such wonders is enough to set the heart aflutter.

How perfect is it, then, that some of the dreamiest pieces from Ferragamo's Fall 2012 collection are now available for pre-order via the brand's latest endeavor, an online-only trunk show. Through the interactive platform, shoppers can mix and match looks straight from the runway and then place dibs on whatever their hearts desire — including accessories. That hand-crocheted wool dress in black? Those strappy, velvet lace-up sandals? All the goodies are there.

A peek at the top 10 pieces we're fantasizing about — as modeled by Lily Kwong — here, in the slideshow.

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Miranda Kerr's Naked Shoot For Harper's Bazaar September 2012
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Miranda Kerr Wears Boots (and Little Else) in Harper's Bazaar

Miranda Kerr posed nude — save for several pairs of knee-high boots — for her latest editorial in the Harper's Bazaar September issue.
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Miranda Kerr's Naked Shoot For Harper's Bazaar September 2012

Miranda Kerr posed nude — save for several pairs of knee-high boots — for her latest editorial in the Harper's Bazaar September issue.

The resulting black-and-white images, captured by Terry Richardson, depict a very confident Kerr wearing boots from Givenchy, Tom Ford, and Tod's, among other brands. And it's no wonder the model, known for her healthy lifestyle, looks so at home wearing so little in front of the camera. Kerr says she works out — even in her spare time.

"Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine, even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength," she says. "Then I'll do a few extra squats for my butt and thighs."

Hard work pays off. A glimpse behind the scenes of the shoot in the video below, and a look at the pictures here in the gallery.

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Lady Gaga on Vogue September 2012 cover
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Lady Gaga's Vogue September 2012 Cover, and More From the Biggest Magazine Yet

If you can peel your eyes away from the stunning cover — a Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott-lensed portrait of Lady Gaga wearing a gown by Marc Jacobs — there are 916 pages of fashion to behold in Vogue's September 2012 issue.
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Lady Gaga on Vogue September 2012 cover

If you can peel your eyes away from the stunning cover — a Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott-lensed portrait of Lady Gaga wearing a gown by Marc Jacobs — there are 916 pages of fashion to behold in Vogue's September 2012 issue.

The issue marks Lady Gaga's second appearance on the cover (she also covered the March 2011 issue) and Vogue's 120th anniversary. It's also the biggest issue in the magazine's history, exceeding the previous record of 840 pages set in September 2007.

The issue will be on newsstands on Aug. 14, and promises a profile on Chelsea Clinton, a story that frames hair as the new makeup, and a look back at the last 120 years of Vogue's history. For now, a look at Gaga's cover — and the magazine's very first cover from 1892 — here in the gallery.

Photo courtesy of Vogue.

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Alexander Wang Partners With Nars For New York Fashion Week
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Alexander Wang's New Makeup, Pour La Victoire's First Campaign, and Stella McCartney's Uniform Envy

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.
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Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • After seasons of working with MAC Cosmetics, Alexander Wang will partner with Nars on his Spring 2013 show during New York Fashion Week. [Style.com]

  • For its debut ad campaign, accessories line Pour La Victoire enlisted Terry Richardson to photograph model Jessica Hart at a club in New York City. [WWD]

  • Just like her ready-to-wear, Stella McCartney's Olympic uniforms for Team Great Britain are the subject of envy and desire. "Everyone in the Olympic Village wants to trade with us," said gold medalist rower Pete Reed. "Lots of other nations look so plain and flat. Our kit is really something to be proud of." [Vogue UK]

  • ICB — the brand revived by Prabal Gurung — will debut its first American ad campaign in the September issue of Vogue. [The Cut]

  • Love Magazine partnered with artist Yayoi Kusama (who herself recently partnered with Louis Vuitton) on an iPad app that allows users to employ Kusama's favorite decoration: the dot. [Refinery29]

  • Heidi Klum has reprised her role as the face of Jordache Jeans. She first partnered with the brand in 2007 and designed a capsule collection for it in 2008. [Styleite]

Photo: Gisele Bundchen does her makeup backstage before Alexander Wang's Fall 2012 show.

House of Style Documentary Debuts on MTV
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Watch: MTV Reintroduces Us to House of Style

Some of today's greatest young models and musicians joined Cindy Crawford for a documentary about MTV's resurgent music and fashion program House of Style.
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Some of today's greatest young models and musicians joined Cindy Crawford for a documentary about MTV's resurgent music and fashion program House of Style.

The short film features interviews with Crawford — the show's original host — Coco Rocha, Karlie Kloss, Azealia Banks, and Theophilus London, among others, all of whom discuss what made the show so important. Not least among those reasons was how the show helped a new generation of people learn about the industry. "I feel like House of Style did start to make fashion more accessible to kids who can't afford high fashion," said Rebecca Romijn, who hosted the show from 1997 to 1999.

The documentary makes a strong case for why MTV should bring House of Style back as a part of its regularly scheduled programming, but the network's executives said when they announced its relaunch that the show will exist in a variety of forms across multiple media channels.

A look at the first new entry in the show's programming in the video below.

Riccardo Tisci on His Initial Uncertainty at Givenchy
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Riccardo Tisci on His Initial Uncertainty at Givenchy

Though his work at Givenchy gets rave reviews and is credited with saving the house financially, Riccardo Tisci says he wasn't sure why he was selected for the job.
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Though his work at Givenchy gets rave reviews and is credited with saving the house financially, Riccardo Tisci says he wasn't sure why he was selected for the job.

In an interview with Stylist magazine, the press-shy designer explained that filling the position once occupied by Alexander McQueen and John Galliano was, initially, a daunting task.

"When you come after such genius, it's hard," he said. "For a very long time I didn't understand why they took me."

Tisci became the youngest designer entrusted with a couture house in 2005 when, at age 30, he replaced Julien Macdonald. Last year, he revealed that he only took the job to save his family from financial ruin.

"I was going to say no," he said. "But the week before, my mother called me and said to me, 'I am going to tell you something I haven't even told your sisters: I think I am going to sell our house because your sisters are struggling, they're having children, they need the money. I will go to a retirement home.' When I heard that it was like a knife in my heart. I felt like such a failure, that my mother had to sell the house of my father whom I don't remember. And then I went to Paris, and they showed me a contract with all these zeros on it, and it was like help from God. I thought 'If I sign this, my mother will never have to worry again.' So I signed it."

Photo: Rooney Mara and Riccardo Tisci walk the red carpet at the 2012 Met Gala.

Mara Hoffman, Pamela Love Bona Drag Bridal Collection
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Mara Hoffman, Pamela Love, and More Team With Bona Drag For Bridal Collection

For those who cringe at the very mention of traditional wedding garb, now there's this.
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Mara Hoffman, Pamela Love Bona Drag Bridal Collection

For those who cringe at the very mention of traditional wedding garb, now there's this. Online boutique Bona Drag has partnered with indie favorites Mara Hoffman, Pamela Love, Lindsey Thornburg, Samantha Pleet, Anna Sheffield, Meredith Kahn, and more on what can only be described as the least fussy bridal collection around. Even the name, "Ceremonial Collection," underscores the capsule's unconventional nature.

"I've learned that when buying, a lot of customers take things very literally," Bona Drag founder Heather Wojner explained. "If it doesn't say 'bridal' then they assume it can't be just that. I wanted to help show our customers where they can bend the rules, and that they don't have to be a cookie-cutter bride."

To that end, the collection is filled with exclusive pieces that are pretty, yes, but also tinged with edge. A ring set from Unearthen, for example, comes adorned with raw quartz, while Anna Sheffield's solitaires are punctuated with pitch-black diamonds and onyx. Gowns, too, come in unexpected shapes and hues: there's a dress in gothic black lace from Lover, and Mara Hoffman (who recently designed pal Pamela Love's wedding dress) offers an intricately-beaded chiffon dress with a neckline so daringly low it would probably be considered quite le scandale in any regular church.

"It's only natural for my brand to collaborate with Bona Drag on exclusive ceremony gowns," Lindsey Thornburg — who created two reversible gowns for the collection — explained. "Bona Drag understands what our clientele wants to drape themselves in for all of life's cherished moments."

See the entire lookbook — photographed by Wojner and Mike Goelzer — here.

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End of Summer Street Style 2012
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Endless Summer: The Season's Best Street Style

It's not over till it's over.
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End of Summer Street Style 2012

It's not over till it's over. And though it might be over sooner than we'd like, take solace in this: there are nearly two more months until the autumnal equinox officially hits. That means there's still plenty of time for bare legs, bright hues, and strategically placed cutouts — if that's your thing.

So, in honor of the last long days of sun — and all the breezy ensembles still to come — here are 99 gorgeous warm-weather looks. Who knows? Some are so chic, they might even inspire a whole new season's worth of style.

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Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery in Harper's Bazaar September 2012
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Bergdorf Goodman's Birthday, Downton's Leading Lady, and Azealia Banks's September Cover

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.
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Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • Bergdorf Goodman will celebrate its 111th birthday this year with window installations, an in-store pop-up shop, and special merchandise created by over 100 designers "for every single division and floor in the women's and men's stores." [Racked]

  • Venus Williams doesn't know yet where she'll stage the presentation for her sportswear line EleVen during New York Fashion Week. "I'm not sure of the exact location because I just got back from the Olympics," she said. "I'm still getting updated. Who am I? Where am I? Why?" [The Cut]

  • Michelle Dockery says she's nothing like her Downton Abbey character, the infinitely imperious Lady Mary Crawley. But she does acknowledge that "it's amazing, really, how [the show] has affected fashion." [Harper's Bazaar]

  • Industry darling Azealia Banks has landed her very own September cover. [Spin]

  • Tyra Banks (no relation to the aforementioned Banks) has started documenting her life with GIFs she created for the photo-sharing site Cinemagram. [BuzzFeed]

  • The image of a swimsuit-clad Michael Phelps sitting in a bathtub that was originally believed to be part of a campaign for Louis Vuitton "is not an official Louis Vuitton image," according to a spokesman for the company. [The Daily Mail]

Photo: Michelle Dockery photographed by Benjamin A. Huseby for the September 2012 issue of Harper's Bazaar.