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This Week's Best Dressed

fashionologie — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:29:34 PST

>> Slits, cut-outs, and head-to-toe print looks - courtesy of the Resort collections - all got major play this week. See who went there - and who got two nods apiece - in the slideshow.

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Calvin Klein Pre-Fall 2012

fashionologie — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:31:28 PST

>> Nary a pant was in sight at Francisco Costa's Pre-Fall 2012 Calvin Klein show. Pleated skirts, emphasized shoulders, and nipped-in waists were painted in a palette of khaki, mahogany, and gray with a pop of orange.

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This Week's Best Dressed

fashionologie — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:34:06 PST

>> It's a week of double-timers: two Haider Ackermann looks, two Calvin Klein looks, and one model who appears twice. See who's wearing what - and where - in the slideshow.

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Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel Roll Out the Red Carpet at the 2011 MoMA Film Benefit

fashionologie — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:16:25 PST

>> Chanel and New York's Museum of Modern Art honored Pedro Almodovar last night at the museum's annual film benefit. “Everyone loves Pedro Almodóvar,” Karl Lagerfeld said of the lengthy guest list. “He is a genius.”

Many were thus dressed in Chanel - Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna Wintour, Elizabeth Olsen, Chloe Moretz - save a few: Lara Stone came in Calvin Klein, Joan Smalls in Tom Ford, Miranda Kerr in Peter Pilotto, and Karen Elson in Roberto Cavalli.

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Altuzarra Takes Home the Big Prize at the 2011 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards

fashionologie — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:17:43 PST

>> Last night at Skylight studios in New York, the 2011 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners were announced. Joseph Altuzarra, a favorite the past two years running, took home this year's prize - $300,000 and a year-long mentorship. But the impact of the award lasts much longer than a year, CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg explained: "Once you are in the Fashion Fund, we will protect you and continue to provide you with opportunities.” Pamela Love and Creature of the Wind's Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters were named runners-up, collecting $100,000 each.

Calvin Klein gave this year's keynote speech, focusing on his own days as a young designer. “I started out with less money than probably all of you nominees tonight,” he told the crowd. Of coming up in the '60s and ’70s, he noted: “I dealt with truck men, unions, and gangsters. I got a call from the Gambinos one day, telling me, ‘We are your truck men.’”

Altuzarra's friend and the 2008 Fashion Fund winner, Alexander Wang, told him to "just zone out" during Klein's speech, and just before Rooney Mara announced Altuzarra as winner, von Furstenberg went over to the designer's table, pinched his cheek, and asked him something in French. “She asked me if I went to pee,” Altuzarra told The New York Times. When the announcement finally came, Altuzarra told the audience, “I’m so grateful and humbled.” Love, while accepting her award, announced: “I didn’t prepare anything because I didn’t expect this - and I’m shaking!” before running backstage to hug her fiancé, Matthew Nelson. And Gabier said to the crowd, “You’ve made us really happy and we hope to make you really proud.”

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Christian Louboutin - and Friends - Fete 20 Years of Shoes with Barneys

fashionologie — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:38:59 PDT

>> Last night, Christian Louboutin joined up with Barneys to fete the launch of his eponymous book - as well as the 20th anniversary of his brand - in New York.

The designer's longtime friends (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen), collaborators (Marchesa's Keren Craig), and design peers (Calvin Klein, who left with an autographed copy of the tome) showed up in support. As did more than a few fans - sporting their Louboutin heels, of course. "I'm wearing my very first pair from 1997," Amanda Brooks told Style.com of her strappy red sandals. "He gave them to me as a thank you because I used to work at the Gagosian Gallery, across from the Carlyle, and he would call me on my lunch break to come over and model the shoes for him."

Blake Lively, who made headlines a year ago for carting 40 pairs of Louboutins away from the designer's sample sale, also stopped by: "My first pair was basic black, and after that, it was love - now I have hundreds." Clearly the feeling is mutual - Louboutin whisked her off her feet and carried her away after the event.

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Calvin Klein on Addiction, Underwear, and His Boyfriend

fashionologie — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:50:47 PDT

>> Calvin Klein, who rarely gives an interview these days, sat down last night at the 92nd Street Y in New York to give his thoughts on everything from addiction to the current state of the brand he founded.

Topics of discussion ranged from the serious to the humorous. Klein, who has struggled with addiction in the past, says that he doesn't believe the "excuse" that the fashion industry makes one more susceptible to addiction: “I don’t think addiction is caused by stress on the job. It has more to do with childhood issues or other things; people in the industry use their work, but it's not that.” He also regaled the audience with an anecdote about his daughter, Marci, who during an interview several years ago apparently joked, "‘Every time I go to bed with some guy I’m looking at my dad’s underwear.'" Klein's response? “I said to my psychiatrist at the time, ‘I don’t think that’s very funny.’ He said ‘lighten up.’”

When asked about checking off the contents of his bucket list, Klein referred to his on-off boyfriend, 21-year-old Nick Gruber, who was in the audience: “I fell in love with a wonderful young man, and we recently went paragliding off Aspen Mountain.”

And as for how feels about Calvin Klein the brand these days, he replied: "Sometimes when I see the visuals, I think if I were doing that I would do it differently - but I'm not. If I can't control it, why get upset about it?"

Giggles and Glamour - Backstage at Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and L'Wren Scott

fashionologie — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:04:30 PDT

>> New York Fashion Week has come to a close this season, but not without a little kick at the end. See Hanne Gaby Odiele flexing her muscles backstage at Calvin Klein while Julia Nobis makes faces with Suvi Koponen; and giggles go down amongst the '20s glamour at Ralph Lauren. More backstage snaps from those shows - and L'Wren Scott, too - in the slideshow.

Photo: Greg Kessler

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Calvin Klein Spring 2012

fashionologie — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:31:41 PDT

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See Lara Stone's New Calvin Klein Underwear Commercial

fashionologie — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:13:21 PDT

>> There's a new Lara Stone television commercial for Calvin Klein out - and this time, she's wearing less. In the new global advertising campaign - shot in black and white by Patrick Demarchelier - Stone is face of the Naked Glamour by Calvin Klein Underwear collection, which was designed "to make a woman look even sexier than naked," WWD reports.

“Lara Stone is one of the world’s top models and her distinct look and sex appeal resonates with our consumers and has synergized our branded lifestyle advertising campaigns around the world,” Tom Murry, president and CEO of Calvin Klein, said. Stone has also served as a face of the Calvin Klein Collection, ck Calvin Klein, Calvin Klein Jeans, and CK one brands.