Posts for February 7th 2013

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Check Out How POPSUGAR Is Changing!

At POPSUGAR, we have a blast sharing everything we all love across all the topics we're so passionate about.

At POPSUGAR, we have a blast sharing everything we all love across all the topics we're so passionate about. We've gushed over our favorite products and the most amazing celebrity images and videos; we've shopped the up-and-coming trends and discovered designers with ShopStyle; we've even watched some of you become moms. And we've grown to create unparalleled original videos about all the things you care about. Today, we're making a big change. We're bringing all of our content and shopping together under one home: the new POPSUGAR.
 

Over the next few weeks, there will be some exciting innovations here, and while we'll be adding to the editorial and video content you love, we won't be losing anything. We're making it easier to find and shop. We'll continue to deliver the biggest moments, the hottest trends, and the best tips in entertainment, fashion, beauty, fitness, and food — and the ability to shop for it all.
 
POPSUGAR and our companion site names now reflect a unified place as your leading entertainment and lifestyle content and shopping destination. We also got a bit of a face-lift. We're bringing you new, easy-to-navigate categories across the top of the site. Click through to find everything you love in fashion, beauty, fitness, moms, living, entertainment, celebrity, sex and culture, and so much more!
 
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fashion week

Marc Jacobs Reschedules Both Fashion Week Shows

Apparently even big designers have trouble getting their stuff through customs.

Apparently even big designers have trouble getting their stuff through customs. Thanks to delivery delays, Marc Jacobs has had to reschedule its show from Monday, Feb. 11 to Thursday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. "We're missing bags, shoes, and two fabrics," brand President Robert Duffy told WWD.

And it's not just the mainline show that's been affected; the Marc by Marc Jacobs showtime has been changed as well. That show will now take place at the Lincoln Center tents on Monday at 8 p.m. — the Collection's original spot on the schedule — because the set for the Marc Jacobs show is already being built at the Lexington Armory.

"Marc and I are extremely sorry for this inconvenience. We just want to have the best show possible and show all the product that our design team has been working on so hard for the last six months. We completely understand if people have to get on a plane to go to London," Duffy explained. "We're not expecting people to change those plans or other plans just for us. We are live-streaming the show. Still, we recognize the significant inconvenience and are very sorry about the situation."

Later the brand tweeted, "Sorry everyone, we just want to make it right," before tweeting a formal apology note.

Accessories

The Tabitha Simmons Resort 2013 Video Features Some Pretty Fancy Footwork

Dreary Winter weather got you down?

Dreary Winter weather got you down? This Tabitha Simmons video might just be the perfect pick-me-up. Featuring three cute-as-can-be shoe styles from the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner's Resort 2013 line and some pretty fancy footwork in the form of a major double Dutch session, it's got plenty to make you smile. Watch now and you'll see why.

Video by Craig McDean and Pascal Dangin, music by John Gosling. Shoes available at tabithasimmons.com.

fashion week

Tanya Taylor Fall 2013

"I like to get things done with," Tanya Taylor told us during her Fall 2013 presentation at the Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday evening, one of the earliest slots on this season's schedule.

"I like to get things done with," Tanya Taylor told us during her Fall 2013 presentation at the Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday evening, one of the earliest slots on this season's schedule. "I like to be ready and then kind of sit back and watch everyone else's shows."

Taylor's show — her third — preserved the '60s bent that we've seen from her in past efforts, this time filtered through the lens of artist Jean Pierre Raynaud. "He used a lot of grids. He was an architect and a horticulturalist to begin with," she said — which explains her use of plaid and floral prints. But there wasn't anything frilly here: a check coat couldn't prevent the black leather dress underneath it from looking tough, and the pointy metal cap-toes on some of Taylor's pumps could have looked a little lethal if they hadn't been paired with straight-legged orange trousers or little black socks.

Now that her own presentation is over, the designer plans to go to Alexander Wang and Honor ("Friends' shows," she said), and after Fashion Week there's the small matter of her April wedding in Barbados to attend to.

"I'm going on my bachelorette party," she said. "Big bachelorette party with 13 of my girlfriends next Friday, so that's a good way to unwind." The wedding itself will be in Barbados, and Taylor has known what she's going to wear for some time. "The dress is Elie Saab Haute Couture from the Fall collection that he's designing for me. I'm very excited."

Who wouldn't be? A look at Taylor's Fall 2013 wares here in the gallery.

Source: FirstVIEW

fashion news

Is New York Getting a Men's Fashion Week?

These stories and more here, in our daily news roundup.


    These stories and more here, in our daily news roundup.

  • Following the success of a dedicated London Fashion Week for menswear, the CFDA is considering the same for New York. "We are looking at the potential of a men's week and how that might fit into the global men's calendar," CFDA CEO Steven Kolb commented. [Vogue UK]

  • Meanwhile, the CFDA has also launched a hub on its website with KCD to provide easy access to the top international reviews of the New York Fashion Week shows. [Fashionologie Inbox]

  • The custom vanity plates created by industry insiders such as Derek Blasberg and Hilary Rhoda for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week have gone on display at Lincoln Center. Karlie Kloss's fashion plate says LONGLEGS. [Elle]

  • Rachel Roy says she opted for a digital fashion show this season to make New York Fashion Week a little less stressful: "Editors and buyers have such a hectic schedule," the designer said. "So the idea of making it convenient, of having an editor literally just open a book, press play, and watch a little video screen…felt very modern." [Styleite]

  • Net-A-Porter's online magazine, The Edit, launches today. A print version of the publication is slated for release later this year. [WWD]

  • Sandra Choi has been named the sole creative director of Jimmy Choo after Simon Holloway, her former codirector, left the company. [Daily Front Row]

  • Miu Miu's The Women's Tales video series finds a fifth installment in The Door, a short film with a political slant by Ava DuVernay. [Harper's Bazaar]

  • The Victoria's Secret Angels decode what women really mean when they say things like, "I'll be five minutes" in the brand's new Valentine's Day commercial. [Telegraph]

fashion week

Creatures of the Wind Fall 2013

For Creatures of the Wind's Fall 2013 collection, designers Chris Peters and Shane Gabier showed an eclectic mix of geometric and painterly prints, checks, plaids, and bold stripes of color that were sometimes mashed together in colorful patchworks.
Creatures of the Wind Review | Fashion Week Fall 2013

For Creatures of the Wind's Fall 2013 collection, designers Chris Peters and Shane Gabier showed an eclectic mix of geometric and painterly prints, checks, plaids, and bold stripes of color that were sometimes mashed together in colorful patchworks. But this show, their second on the runway, also drew on clean-lined menswear staples. More than one model walked out wearing a notch-lapel topcoat or a white dress shirt with stripes of vinyl on the sleeves. The combination of the quirky ideas that have gotten them so much attention — and made them runners up for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2011 — with the need to make clothing a wider audience can relate to made for the duo's most polished collection yet.

Marchesa

Marchesa Is Launching a Contemporary Line

The fantastical princess gowns created by Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig for Marchesa are by now the stuff of red-carpet legend.

The fantastical princess gowns created by Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig for Marchesa are by now the stuff of red-carpet legend. With their layers of beaded tulle, gilded embroidery, and intricate lace they're the very embodiment of romance, glamour, and fairy-tale dreams. But what happens when the clock strikes midnight and it's time to head back to reality? What, prey tell, does the Marchesa woman wear then? Surely not raggedy sweatpants.

With the introduction of new contemporary line Marchesa Voyage, Chapman and Craig aim to solve that issue. Priced from $150 to $750, the new line consists of daywear separates meant to sit alongside the likes of Alexander Wang and 3.1 Phillip Lim, but with a decidedly fancier, classic Marchesa spin. That means shift dresses, silk tops, harem pants, and collarless jackets come all dressed up thanks to the addition of sparkling embroidery, lush fur, and scarf-inspired prints.

"We felt like we needed it to have a personality," Chapman said of the line, which also includes 45 styles of embellished shoes. "There would have to be a reason for someone to buy it."

Look for Marchesa Voyage to launch in late 2013.
At left, a look from Marchesa's Spring 2013 main line.

T Magazine

Bold-Faced Move: Deborah Needleman Changes T Magazine Logo

Deborah Needleman has made some bold changes to T Magazine, the most noticeable of which is its brand-new logo.



Deborah Needleman has made some bold changes to T Magazine, the most noticeable of which is its brand-new logo.

Gone is the Gothic capital T that used to reside on the magazine's cover, and in its place is a sleeker sans serif T custom-designed by the magazine's creative director Patrick Li.

"I feel the Times is such a strong brand that it can handle under its umbrella a kind of distinctive magazine and that it doesn't need to typographically reference the Gothic type," Needleman said in an interview with WWD.

Speaking of strength, the magazine is now also physically bigger and printed on heavier paper. The thicker pages will provide support for her fashion-themed first issue, which will debut on Feb. 17. The issue features a cover story on front-row staple Lee Radziwill that Needleman started working on while she was still at the helm of WSJ. Magazine and a new front-of-book op-ed that examines "something in the zeitgeist." (For this issue, Suzy Menkes will ruminate on fashion bloggers; the cover teases the story with the line "the circus that is fashion.")

Photo via T Magazine