>> Former Prada Model Nick Snider Offers Police Oral Sex For Release After Arrest —After yesterday's Fashion Week-crashing scandal courtesy of two high school-aged hackers who added their names to the list for Alexander Wang's show (and who have been successful in the past at shows like Derek Lam, where one sat front row next to Suzy Menkes), here's another doozy for you. 21-year-old former Prada model Nick Snider was arrested in Arkansas Monday morning for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct; when deputies approached the intoxicated Snider, he stated, "I am a very famous model." After his arrest, Snider offered the deputies and jailer oral sex in trade for his release. [The Smoking Gun]
Thu, 02/04/10 — 09:58:38 AM
Zac Posen, As a Non-Advertiser, Would Have Had to Pose with a Muppet to be Featured in Harper's Bazaar
Thu, 02/04/10 — 09:25:30 AM
>> Last April at a dinner celebrating Cartier's 100th Anniversary, Zac Posen took a seat next to Harper's Bazaar editor and the evening's hostess, Glenda Bailey. Posen, offended that Bazaar, which rarely featured his clothes, had asked him to appear in a spread next to Sesame Street Muppet The Count, confronted Bailey in front of her guests. “I didn’t want to model with the Count,” Mr. Posen told the New York Times this week. “She said that was the only way my clothes could be in the magazine as a non-advertiser. I think she was surprised I wouldn’t take the part, but I stood my ground and I still do.” Last September, Glenda Bailey did not attend Posen's show, although a Bazaar spokeswoman said the magazine had always supported Posen.
Thu, 02/04/10 — 07:15:11 AM
>> First Look: Dasha Zhukova's Second POP Issue —If your idea of a good time is Abbey Lee Kershaw on a motorcycle, then you're in luck — POP just released a peek at the upcoming issue: their first ever video segment featuring a windblown Abbey Lee. The issue comes out next week. [POP, POP]
Would Allegra Beck Sell Her Stake to Help Restore Versace?
Wed, 02/03/10 — 04:51:57 PM
>> In 2004, Wall Street Journal's Deborah Ball reports in her just-published book House of Versace, Donatella Versace told her daughter Allegra Versace Beck she has until she is 24 to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. If Allegra didn't succeed by then, she had to come work for Versace. Allegra, who owns a majority stake in the company, turns 24 in June of this year.
The declaration could have changed by now — although in media interviews, Donatella still expresses hope that Allegra will join the company at some point. Allegra lives in New York and attends Versace board meetings; she was involved in replacing Versace's chief executive last May with current chief executive Gian Giacomo Ferraris. And at the beginning of 2009, she began spending more time in Milan and now has a desk in Donatella's atelier.
Wed, 02/03/10 — 04:04:08 PM
>> First Look: Catherine Holstein for Evisu —After Paper, Denim & Cloth and Earnest Sewn co-founder Scott Morrison was brought in as creative director to revamp Japanese denim brand Evisu, he in turn asked Catherine Holstein to oversee a new range of Evisu women's apparel for Fall 2010. Alongside the requisite denim, Holstein created slouchy sweatshirts, oversized button-downs, and cozy scarves. Fashionista has a peek at the lookbook. [Style File, Fashionista]
Jason Wu Does Sunglasses, Tse, Scents, and Soon, Shoes
Wed, 02/03/10 — 01:38:49 PM
>> Jason Wu has a new, 9,000-square foot office in Manhattan's Garment District, sales of his just-launched Pre-Fall collection are already 45 percent over initial projections, and his new sunglasses collection, priced at $275 a pair, just hit stores. “There are four styles: the Mia, which is very Sixties looking; the Jett, an Eighties, Wayfarer style; the Earhart, my version of the aviator, and the Seberg, which is my take on the cat eye with a metal brow on top," he told WWD. "Jean Seberg has actually been my invisible muse for the longest time.”
The designer already has plans to enter footwear by 2011, but first comes his capsule collection with Tse Cashmere (preliminary sketch below), which will debut during New York Fashion Week on Feb. 16: “The inspiration was about artist Robert Ryman as well as Geoffrey Beene and his controlled femininity . . . I wound up rendering [fox fur] in these loopy, metallic-yarn knits. It’s almost like a thesis. How do you showcase the material in different ways in one collection? This Tse collaboration has really been about expanding my horizons and bringing my aesthetic to a brand that’s very different from my own."
Word is Wu is working with Samantha and Dawn Goldworm, the sisters who created the scent diffused during Rodarte's show last season, for a custom-made scent to diffuse at his own Fall 2010 show next week.
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Wed, 02/03/10 — 12:24:58 PM
>> Alexander McQueen's Mother, Joyce, Has Passed Away —Alexander McQueen announced on Twitter today of his mother, Joyce McQueen: "i'm letting my followers know the my mother passed away yesterday if it she had not me nor would you RIP mum xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx." He then added, "but life must go on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" This may put a damper on the possibility that he show up at New York Fashion Week for the Spring 2010 McQ presentation at Milk Studios. [@McQueenWorld, @McQueenWorld, Fashionista]
Kate Moss on the Possibility of Moving and Making Movies, Bags, and Shoes
Wed, 02/03/10 — 10:41:18 AM
>> In the March 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar, Glenn O'Brien asks cover girl Kate Moss about her fashion design career. "Um . . . I'm not really a fashion designer," she retorts. "I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf."
O'Brien responds, "Well, that's what lots of famous designers do. They find great old clothes in stores and copy them. Most designers today are really stylists. How many do you think can really sketch?" Kate replies, "Lee McQueen doesn't do that! [John] Galliano doesn't do that! There are lots of them who don't. Stella [McCartney] is a proper designer!"
Kate may not consider herself a designer, but she's got a clothing line with Topshop and a new handbag line with Longchamp — whose company's chief executive John Cassegrain is clearly thrilled with the outcome: "We have not really made a plan or a budget for Kate — but she is known worldwide, everybody likes her and she has already given us more visibility." And she's not done — she wants a jewelry collection, she tells the International Herald Tribune, “to get out my jewelry and say ‘this necklace’ and ‘this bracelet.”’
She continues: “Not shoes. I’ll leave that to the professional craftsmanship. And I wouldn’t do a sneaker — I would do a ballet pump. I bought sneakers thinking they would be good for working out in Ibiza, and I looked down and thought ‘That’s not my foot!”’ Kate says there's no "master plan" for her career, but you won't catch in a movie. “I couldn’t sit on set — sitting in a caravan for six months.”
Finally, all those rumors of moving to Paris aren't true — she would never live anywhere else. “I’m so British. I just like going home. I like the bus stops; I just do. I love the country. I like being able to get in my car and drive myself.”
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Wed, 02/03/10 — 10:02:58 AM
>> At 15, Lindsey Wixson Not Ready to Bare All —Lindsey Wixson, who is the current face of Miu Miu after being hand selected by Steven Meisel for a Vogue Italia shoot, asked for a bra to put under her see-through top on a recent W shoot. W points out: "A lot of other models wouldn't have done that." Wixson's response? "I'm 15 and even though I freaked a little, I know for a fact that my mom would freak ten times as much. I just couldn't be flashing everyone out there." [W]
Deborah Ball's House of Versace Recounts Tales of Drug Addiction, Heavy Spending, and Even a Little Megalomania
Wed, 02/03/10 — 08:54:24 AM
>> Yesterday, Deborah Ball, Milan correspondent for the Wall Street Journal since 1997, published House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival, after conducting 220 interviews with the likes of Donatella Versace, her brother Santo Versace, Gianni Versace's partner Antonio D'Amico, Anna Wintour, Joe McKenna, Brana Wolf, and Francois Nars. In fact, the only person to decline Ball an interview was Allegra Beck Versace, who has never had a predilection for talking to press. House of Versace is the first book to chronicle the ups and downs of the Versace family in English, and it's also the first book written for which the Versaces granted help.
Ball touches on Donatella's long battle with drug addiction, the Versaces' heavy spending habits, Allegra's anorexia, why Gianni left his 50 percent stake in the company to Allegra, and more.
Among the tidbits we learned while perusing the book's contents »
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