Fashion in 50 Second 05/07/10 First Look Givenchy Fall 2010 Campaign, Plus-Size Models Protest May 7, 2010 8:04 am Riccardo Tisci casts longtime personal assistant, former fit model, and transgender friend, Lea T., along with models Mariacarla Boscono, Joan Smalls, Ming Xi, Catherine McNeil, and Malgosia Bela for his fall 2010 Givenchy campaign.
Rodarte's Laura and Kate Mulleavy Spent a Year Watching Four Horror Movies a Day June 11, 2009 12:35 pm >> Laura and Kate Mulleavy produce about 100 special-order Rodarte dresses a year and spent weeks perfecting the dyeing technique for their early "blood" dresses, ensuring that the red wouldn't leach into the white, but as for their own clothes, they don't aim to personify their brand: When they talked to the Times UK, Laura was wearing a striped shirt she though could be Russian, but it, like all her others, came from a flea market.The designers have a well-documented film fetish, and spent a year watching horror movies, sometimes four a day, from the Japanese films that inspired their Fall 2008 collection to Hitchcock's oeuvre, fast-forwarding when it got boring.