Tue, 03/03/09 — 01:27:12 PM
>> Paris Fashion Week starts tomorrow, but fashion folk couldn't leave Milan without hitting up the Palazzo della Ragione last night for one last Milanese shindig, courtesy of Anna Wintour, Domenico Dolce, and Stefano Gabbana. The launch for the "Extreme Beauty in Vogue" exhibition — which Anna selected 89 images for — the party was likened to the Milanese equivalent of the Costume Institute Gala; in other words, the week's hottest ticket. Karl Lagerfeld made a beeline for the photos after mugging for a few cameras, while Anna was trailed by 60 Minutes's Morley Safer and Carine Roitfeld by CNN: “I am being followed round all the shows, and they are doing lots of interviews. But you won’t be seeing me naked.” Miuccia Prada sported one of her new Fall 2009 gladiatorial dresses, and rounding out the fashion wattage a troika of supermodels: two we see quite a bit of (Claudia Schiffer, Eva Herzigova) and one we do not (Nadja Auermann).
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Sat, 02/28/09 — 01:04:32 PM
>> IN THE LOOKING GLASS —The portfolio — and some outtakes — Ellen von Unwerth photographed in her makeshift studio backstage at couture last month is finally up. Moments like Tanya Dziahileva in Armani Prive standing next to Anna Piaggi or a fish face-pink braided topknot combination at Lacroix were captured just seconds before the models were whisked off by handlers, to be stripped down and taken to their next show. [The Moment, NYT]
Fri, 08/15/08 — 01:41:25 PM
>> INSIDER WIRE —Anna Piaggi's silhouette is as synonymous with hats as Isabella Blow's was. Every time she thinks, "Mamma mia! I have nothing to wear!" Stephen Jones will send her a sketch — if only that was the norm. But her favorite chapeau, at left, has been around, she admits: "I'm thinking of throwing it a 20th birthday party next year." [NYT T Magazine]
Tue, 06/24/08 — 02:34:30 PM
>> Tom Ford was never one for low-dollar apparel; As he introduced reporters to his new store in Milan yesterday, where suits
will sell for upwards of $3,800, he himself was wearing $10,000 boots.
Later, the man of the hour and his business partner through thick and thin, Domenico De Sole, celebrated the store opening at a Milanese palazzo with a chatty Anna Wintour,
Tom Ford campaign model (NSFW) Jon Kortajarena, and a camera shy Miuccia Prada. Full gallery of the festivities below.
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Mon, 06/23/08 — 11:09:29 AM
>> It's not often that photographers get photographed themselves, but that's just what happened at the
L'Uomo Vogue 40th Anniversary Celebration Party last night in Milan: Steven Klein stepped up for a photo op with Alexander McQueen and Natalia Vodianova!
A full gallery of the event below, including plenty of faces that are used to being in front of the camera: Anna Wintour, Naomi Campbell, Franca Sozzani . . .
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