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Raquel Zimmermann Shows Off Razor Sharp Cheekbones for Giorgio Armani Fall 2009 Campaign

fashionologie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:32:40 PDT

>> Giorgio Armani has niece Roberta Armani increasingly stepping in for him in the public eye as a brand ambassador and just released the newest set of underwear ads featuring David Beckham this morning, but the brand face we're most interested in is Raquel Zimmermann, whose Fall 2009 ads for Armani - the first of many for her this season - are starting to pop up. The same team was used for Fall 2009 as for Spring 2009: stylist Katy England with Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, but Raquel replaces Sasha Pivovarova as the face of the brand.

Kate Moss Demonstrates Her British Style Genius

fashionologie — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:21:35 PDT

>> It's always a treat to see Kate Moss talk - since she doesn't log much on camera time, with the exception of all those Rimmel commercials - and it's even better when she's making silly faces, telling stories about catching girls in her Topshop line, and being all around cheeky. Last night, she did just that on the new BBC series British Style Genius, which for a few minutes follows Kate as she purrs and paws her way through Topshop meetings about her Fall 2008 line. If you're in the UK, you can watch the whole episode here, but we boiled all the good Kate parts into one for all below.

See Stylist and Street Style Favorite Katie Shillingford's Custom Gareth Pugh Wedding Dress

fashionologie — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:05:33 PDT

>> Gareth Pugh doesn't currently participate in couture, but he recently took a crack at a showstopping bridal gown - for his best friend and longtime collaborator, stylist Katie Shillingford, who was married last Friday. Shillingford wed Alex Dromgoole in the 1930s Art Deco-style Eltham Palace of Greenwich, England, wearing a custom pale grey slashed chiffon Pugh dress, complete with a trail that hung from her shoulders and a veil created by Stephen Jones.

Shillingford's bridesmaids - including Dazed & Confused and Another's Karen Langley, who helped design the wedding cake - wore black striped knitted dresses by Craig Lawrence, and Shillingford changed in a Fall 2011 Gareth Pugh gold dress and Fall 2011 Miu Miu shoes for the reception.

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David Bailey Joins Katie Grand, Peter Lindbergh in Reaction Against Airbrushing

fashionologie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:27:25 PDT

>> Last year, there was a huge push for more diversity in fashion, culminating in the publication of Vogue Italia's all-black July 2008 issue. Unfortunately, attention on that issue has waned this year, even though there is still much work to be done; now, the issue du jour seems to be what has become a common practice among fashion magazines: heavy retouching.

Katie Grand, who while at POP was a huge proponent of the "super glossy" look, has since reigned in her reliance on Photoshop. Of her first issue of LOVE, which came out in February, Katie told Interview, "It's not so retouched. I just wanted to take pictures of iconic people without redrawing them." And she's continuing the tradition for her second issue, out Sept. 1 - she had Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott (whose aesthetic generally lends itself to a good bit of retouching) photograph cover girl Coco Sumner as she walked in off the street, no hair or makeup. The Times UK wrote of that decision: "She is shrewdly tapping into the new spirit of the times - heavily airbrushed celebrities seem gauche and embarrassing during a recession."

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mcqueen lends a hand to topshop

philleif — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:37:00 PST

>> Not his own hand, of course, but that of his creative director. Kate Moss has hired McQueen creative director and Another Magazine fashion director and her dear friend (all one person) Katy England to help her out with her Topshop colloboration -- and by "help" I mean Katy will apparently design the collection for Kate. Katy is involved "in every stage of McQueen's process, from researching and picking trimmings, to working on the shows," according to SHOWstudio, so the Topshop line should be good. At least I'm looking forward to seeing the product.

England is pictured at right with her husband, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie.

LOVE Goes for "The Young and the Reckless," Two Covers with Second Issue

fashionologie — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:56:45 PDT

>> Turns out the preview that hit the web early this month featuring a David Sims shot of Alex Hartley, a bass player from Birmingham, England, who Katie Grand "found on the Internet," is one of LOVE's two covers for its second issue, after all. The second cover comes courtesy of Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, who did cover honors for LOVE the first time around, and features Coco Sumner, burgeoning it-girl and daughter of Sting.

Both cover stars are 18; in fact, most of the issue, which hits newsstands Aug. 24, is full of emerging celebrities and unknowns who are mostly under 21 - Allegra Beck Versace, Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Momsen among them. “The whole issue’s full of these kids, really, who are at that turning point of life when you’ve got no responsibilities, you’re quite free and everything’s exciting,” Grand told WWD.

Grand added "more words" to the issue, bringing on Isaac Lock as deputy editor because: “I always think visually, so it was really important that the words team was strengthened." As for how the magazine's holding up on the business end, there are 106 ad pages from advertisers like Louis Vuitton, Prada, and Chanel in the 296-page magazine. The magazine had 116 ad pages for its debut issue, but Grand said the issue had “exceeded the targets set” for advertising.

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Dasha Zhukova's POP Appointment Has Become a Fashion Taboo

fashionologie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:45:43 PST

>> It's no surprise that Dasha Zhukova's recent appointment as POP editor-in-chief is making waves - she has no editorial experience and is seen by many as just the socialite girlfriend of a Russian billionaire. Plus, there's that whole matter of her taking over from Katie Grand - apparently a number of other potential candidates were reluctant to head up a magazine so imbued with Grand's identity.

Dasha, who has been attending some shows in Milan, feels "like the elephant in the room." And rightly so - Derek Blasberg reports that one British fashion journalist snidely commented to him, “I’m going to be the next queen of England,” while another joked that Kylie Minogue was in line to be the next editor of Vogue. Apparently, Anna Dello Russo pinched Dasha's seat at Jil Sander, the same day that her new POP position was announced.

Even editorial board member Daphne Guinness is distancing herself »