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fashionologie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:05:54 -0800

>> First Look: Benjamin Bundchen Brady -Gisele Bundchen stepped out for her first photoshoot on January 25, but refused to show reporters a picture of her son Benjamin, born December 8, 2009, saying, "Someday you’ll see him . . ." A couple of days later on Jan. 27, she took two month old Benjamin out for his first car ride - and Brazilian gossip magazine Quem has the pictures. [Made in Brazil, Quem]

fashionologie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:22:11 -0800

>> Hamish Bowles Is a Former Fashion Show Crasher -In the Guardian's weekend article highlighting Central Saint Martins' Louise Wilson - who is responsible for cultivating talents like Gareth Pugh and Christopher Kane - Hamish Bowles recalls his time at the school: "When I started, John Galliano was in his graduating year, and he had an incredibly potent effect on myself and all my contemporaries. The denizens of the fashion department always had, I'd say, something of a superior attitude. It was also a great time for clubs. Cha Cha's was there; Leigh Bowery was emerging on the scene. Saint Martins students were heavily involved in that. You'd stay up all night creating the latest look for Taboo, not eat for days, then have a cake at Patisserie Valerie. You'd go to Paris Fashion Week and see how many shows you could get into. Pretend to be the make-up artist. That was actually a class project!" [Guardian]

Abbey Lee Kershaw on the Pressure to Be Thin and Those Alexander McQueen Shoes

fashionologie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:12:30 -0800

>> Not all models seem to have a problem with the physical requirements of their job. Yesterday, the Daily Beast quoted an anonymous ex-model, who apparently in her heyday walked for Tom Ford and John Galliano, on the pressure to be super skinny: "Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim?"

Abbey Lee Kershaw, in an interview posted today with Australian nightly television show Today Tonight, seems to feel similarly when asked what she thinks about the pressure to be ultra-thin: "That's like asking a bodybuilder how they feel about the pressures to be incredibly muscly. An elite performer is always put under some sort of extreme pressure that the rest of society can argue, might not quite understand."

Those McQueen shoes, on the other hand »

fashionologie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:09:20 -0800

>> Diane von Furstenberg on Her Marriage, Living in Separate Homes-Diane von Furstenberg's marriage to Barry Diller has been the subject of much scrutiny, but she sums it up as thus in Thursday's Page Six Magazine: "Barry has loved me unconditionally for 34 years. I did leave him, and I went with other men, but they always ended up being jealous of Barry and not the other way around. At the end, he got me, and I'm happy he got me. He's the pillar of our family." On the subject of her and Diller having separate homes: "In New York, we don't sleep together. I like it this way. It's my decision. Eventually, we'll get a place in the city together." [NY Post]

Is a Marc Jacobs Movie Project in the Works?

fashionologie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:48:37 -0800

>> Marc Jacobs's longtime business partner Robert Duffy joined Twitter on January 29 - catch him while you can, he says he's only Twittering until Feb. 16 after the Marc by Marc Jacobs show. In the week or so he's been on the social network, however, Duffy has shed a lot of light on upcoming projects at the company - as well as his business philosophy. For instance:

Duffy went to Los Angeles last week to work on an undisclosed movie project.

"Working on a movie project in LA. Also helping to edit a photo book about all the people that work with us. It's amazing! . . . The kids I work with all over the world are the most inspiring ever! So a book is being done on them. Working title 'the men and women of mj.'"

Will Marc join Twitter again? »

fashionologie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:47:46 -0800

>> Devi Kroell and Lanvin Now Share an Investor -The Bartel family, founders of Travelzoo, who last November took a 12.5 percent stake in Lanvin's parent company, has been revealed as Devi Kroell's silent investor. Bartel quietly took a stake in Kroell in 2008, allowing the designer to open boutiques and expand her product range; she's also holding her first runway show Feb. 15 during New York Fashion Week. Bartel reportedly doesn't have the intention of building a fashion conglomerate, but has looked at investment opportunities in Christian Lacroix and Jil Sander in recent years. [WWD]

Andre Leon Talley Has 13 Custom-Made Capes and a Catchphrase for His First Judging Season on America's Next Top Model

fashionologie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:48:07 -0800

>> Tyra Banks first approached Andre Leon Talley to be on America's Next Top Model eight years ago. “At that point," he told WWD, "I said no because it was the beginning. I was thinking I wanted to see where it goes.” Fast forward to 2010 and cycle 14 of the show, which premieres March 10 on The CW, with Talley on the judging panel:

I felt maybe I could contribute something to it that had not been on the show. I just felt that it was a way to step out of the box and associate myself with a very important American success story, a very important brand - Tyra Banks.

How does Anna Wintour feel about all this? »

fashionologie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:13:52 -0800

>> Burberry Fall 2010 to Be Streamed in 3-D -Avatar influenced the couture designs of Jean Paul Gaultier and Valentino a couple of weeks ago, but it was the technology - not the aesthetic - of the film which affected Christopher Bailey. While the rest of London Fashion Week is being streamed in 2-D, Burberry will become the first brand to livestream its show in 3-D - to select guests in New York, Paris, Dubai, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, who will view the show in custom screening spaces designed by Bailey himself. For at-home viewers, the Feb. 23 show will also be projected in 2-D via live.burberry.com.

Donna Karan on the Current Fashion System: "We're Killing Our Own Industry"

fashionologie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:10:39 -0800

>> Last night, in honor of two new graduate degrees at Parsons which she helped initiate, Donna Karan sat down with FIT's Valerie Steele for a little chat before a sold-out audience in the school's auditorium. Karan, who has also been a major proponent of updating the fashion schedule, explained how she proposes the changes be made:

It's very simple, we just stop. It is not nuclear science, it's really simple. We deliver Fall clothes in August like back-to-school, we change the calendar, we go to stores and say, 'Okay, no more getting Fall clothes in July or June so they're on sale in September when the weather hasn't changed. We have to go into a system where we're talking in-season. It's the way we eat, it's the way we dress, it's the way we think. We've conditioned the consumer to buy on sale - I don't want to buy it full price because I can buy it on sale . . . We've turned our business into the white sale business.

"We have to learn restriction »

fashionologie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:24:04 -0800

>> Olivier Theyskens No Longer In Talks with Christopher Burch, Exploring Other Options -There had been speculation that Olivier Theyskens was working with Tory Burch's ex-husband Christopher Burch on a new retail concept, but it sounds like the deal is no longer an option - the talks reportedly ended last month and Burch's company confirmed that they are no longer in discussion. In the meantime, Olivier will be making an appearance in New York next Thursday for the Barneys-hosted launch of his The Other Side of the Picture book with Assouline; he's also said to be in talks with several different unspecified groups about a hopefully impending comeback. [WWD]