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This Week's Best-Dressed

fashionologie — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:16:55 PST

>> A lipstick-red slip dress, floor-sweeping fringe, demure yellow lace: see who's wearing them - and where - in the slideshow.

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Taylor Tomasi Hill, Roopal Patel to Join Moda Operandi

fashionologie — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:38:24 PST

>> Moda Operandi, the online trunk show site cofounded by Lauren Santo Domingo and Aslaug Magnusdottir, has added two new directors. Roopal Patel, a longtime executive at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, will join the site this month as fashion director overseeing merchandising, and Taylor Tomasi Hill, former style and accessories director at Marie Claire, will become artistic director focusing on the site's editorial. The site has been growing rapidly, according to Magnusdottir, and more so since September, when Conde Nast invested in the company. [NY Times]
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This Week's Best-Dressed

fashionologie — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:38:06 PDT

>> Architectural Donna Karan, oversized pearl stud earrings, and a statement hat: see who's wearing them - and where - in the slideshow.

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Lauren Santo Domingo On Her One Pregnancy Craving

fashionologie — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:51:47 PDT

>> As a Dolce-and-Gabbana-sporting Lauren Santo Domingo sat down to the three course lunch at yesterday's Veuve Clicquot-sponsored Governor’s Island Polo Classic in New York - which began with caviar - she noted, WWD reports (seven weeks after giving birth to her first son): “'The only thing I really, really craved during my pregnancy was caviar,' Santo Domingo said, daintily separating it with her fork from the fennel infused creme-fraiche custard below. 'I was Googling it constantly to see if it was something that, you know, you shouldn’t eat. Somehow, there were more people Googling ‘crack while pregnant’ than ‘caviar’ on most Web sites… But I asked Dasha [Zhukova], seeing as she’s Russian and a great mother, and she said it was OK.'" [WWD]

Lauren Santo Domingo's Moda Operandi Searching For Additional Funding

fashionologie — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:23:14 PDT

>> Launched in February during New York Fashion Week, Lauren Santo Domingo's online trunk show site, Moda Operandi, is now raising its second round of venture capital funding, co-founder and CEO Aslaug Magnusdottir confirmed yesterday. Magnusdottir declined to say how much was being raised, but noted that she had been approached by several investors as interest in online luxury retailers grows. "The recent successes of Gilt [Groupe], Rue La La, and Net-a-Porter being sold has really made this a much more interesting sector for a lot of investors," Magnusdottir said, referring to recent deals. MO received its first round of funding last year from Boston-based venture capital firm New Atlantic Ventures, and is expected to be profitable by the end of 2012, Magnusdottir said. She hopes that the site's membership will hit 100,000 by the end of this year, up from 15,000 now. [Reuters]

Lauren Santo Domingo Gave Birth

fashionologie — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:19:48 PDT

>> Yesterday afternoon, Lauren Santo Domingo and her husband, Andres, welcomed a healthy baby boy - their first child. The couple have been married since 2008, and last month Santo Domingo said her pregnancy was going smoothly: "I’m 8 ½ months pregnant and not much has changed - it’s been pretty easy, I haven’t had any sickness. . . . I’ve been really really lucky. In fact, my hair has grown two inches! I’m the same size, in everything that goes above or below the bump. I don’t really have cravings." [NY Post]

Fashion Week Chatter - Abbey Lee Kershaw Skipping New York Shows; A Bryanboy TV Pilot for Bravo?

fashionologie — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:18:41 PST

Joseph Altuzarra has paired with denim duo Current/Elliott for six denim styles, set to debut on his Fall 2011 runway - and Vogue has a preview (left) [Vogue.com]
New Barneys fashion director Amanda Brooks was mum last night on the subject of her new position, saying that it was only her second day, but she has started Twittering for Barneys and says she plans to attend as many New York fashion shows as she can [Harper's Bazaar]
Zac Posen is keeping his Z Spoke collection appointments very low key this season: "Last season was for the media. This one is for the customers and retailers" [@meenalmistry]
Jason Wu is livestreaming his Feb. 11 show on Bergdorf Goodman's website, where some Fall items will be for sale as pre-orders on Feb. 16 [Christina Binkley]
Marc Jacobs is forgoing a Fashion Week party, instead feting the 10th anniversary of Marc by Marc Jacobs with a Valentine's Day "semiformal" [@jimshi809]
Peep Lauren Santo Domingo on the March 2011 cover of Town & Country, attended by the headline: "Meet the next Mrs. Astor" [@jimshi809]
Bryanboy has done videos of his fashion escapades before, but this fashion week, he's doing a 24-hour livestream of himself for Kanon Organic Vodka, which promises to "give viewers a first hand look into what it’s like to rub elbows with fashion’s elite." He's got a video preview up on his site, and it goes live beginning at 9 am on Feb. 16 at kanonvodka.com [Bryanboy]
There are also reports that Bryanboy is shooting a pilot during New York Fashion Week with the producers of America's Next Top Model that "Bravo is supposedly very interested in" [The Cut]
Tumblr is putting 24 bloggers up in a hotel for New York Fashion Week, has secured invites for them to more than a dozen shows - including big shows like Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta - and set up events for them like breakfast with Nina Garcia, a private brunch at Lucky editor Brandon Holley's apartment, and a meeting with Oscar de la Renta prior to his show to talk his new collection [WSJ, The Cut]
Abbey Lee Kershaw is reportedly skipping New York Fashion Week, for a "personal music project" in London with "my band" - Our Mountain, the band of Kershaw's boyfriend, Matthew Hutchinson, which she's performed with before. She is, however, set to head to Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks [Frockwriter]
Alexander Wang cut his front row seats in half this season, thanks to a new seating configuration; he's also hosting an intimate party on Feb. 15 to mark his store's opening [@meenalmistry, @jimshi809]

See Inside Lauren Santo Domingo's Manhattan Loft

fashionologie — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:08:24 PST

>> Lauren Santo Domingo, who is expecting her first child with husband Andres Santo Domingo in April, opened up their Flatiron loft to be photographed by Vogue.com. Inside, there's a neon pink stump stool in the living room - "which I bought because my friend Amanda Brooks told me that every house has to have a 'wart,' or one really ugly piece," she explains; a room that is her "husband’s domain" - "I am not even allowed to touch anything in it"; and a guest bedroom she uses as a closet/office and guest bath that she's taken over as her own - "separate baths are a great luxury." See more at the link. [Vogue.com]

More Details on Lauren Santo Domingo's Online Trunk Show Venture, Moda Operandi

fashionologie — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:30:40 PST

>> Print editors are starting to invest in online ventures - literally, like Nina Garcia, who recently sunk money into Fashism, and in the case of Lauren Santo Domingo, whose online trunk show venture was first reported in August.

Details of Santo Domingo's site have finally emerged: it's called Moda Operandi, or modaoperandi.com, and will launch during New York Fashion Week in February as members-only (although members can invite friends). The idea, which was conceived a year ago by founder Aslaug Magnusdottir, who used to head up merchandising for Gilt Noir, the private website for top spenders at Gilt Groupe, is to enable members to place orders from design houses in New York, London, Milan and Paris (including Thakoon, Proenza Schouler, Prabal Gurung, Narciso Rodriguez, Vera Wang, Alexander Wang, and Giambattista Valli) within 48 hours of their runway show.

Shoppers will put down a 50 percent deposit on their orders, which they will receive in roughly four months, versus the six month lag it usually takes for designer goods to hit retail. Clothes that don't fit can be returned.

For starters, Moda Operandi will be offering four women's collections a year - for Spring, Resort, Fall, and Pre-Fall - from about 50 designers, and in the downtime between collections, it will sell jewelry and accessories. There will also be editorial content like backstage interviews and stylist recommendations.

Lauren Santo Domingo Is Pregnant

fashionologie — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:39:38 PDT

>> When Lauren Santo Domingo tweeted last week, "It's been exactly six months since I quit smoking! And by 'quit' I mean wanting to smoke every minute of everyday but not," some were left wondering if it might be. But now there's confirmation. Peter Davis reports that she and her husband Andres Santo Domingo, who married in January 2008, are expecting their first child. The two were snapped out at Purple's Halloween bash at The Standard Hotel over the weekend. [Avenue]