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Phoebe Philo, Lara Stone Take Top Prizes at 2010 British Fashion Awards

fashionologie — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:14:29 PST

>> Phoebe Philo took this year's top prize - Designer of the Year - tonight at the British Fashion Awards over fellow nominees Erdem Moralioglu and Christopher Kane, while Lara Stone won the battle of the pretty faces, scoring Model of the Year over David Gandy and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

Popular vote determined Alexa Chung winner of the British Style Award, recognizing "an individual who embodies the spirit of London and is an international ambassador for London as a leading creative fashion capital.” And Sarah Burton - who designed two dresses for Special Recognition awardee Naomi Campbell (for a 25 year-long career) to choose from for the festivities - accepted the posthumously-awarded Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Design prize for Lee Alexander McQueen, noting, "We will always miss him."

The full list of 2010 winners (nominees can be seen here):

Designer of the Year: Phoebe Philo for Celine

BFC Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Design: Lee Alexander McQueen

Designer Brand of the Year: Mulberry

Accessory Designer of the Year: Nicholas Kirkwood

Menswear Designer of the Year: Patrick Grant for E.Tautz

Model of the Year: Lara Stone

Emerging Talent Award - Accessories: Husam El Odeh

Emerging Talent Award - Ready-to-Wear: Meadham Kirchhoff

Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator of the Year: Nicola Formichetti

British Style Award: Alexa Chung

Special Recognition Award: Naomi Campbell

Digital Innovation Award: Burberry

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Fashion in 50 Seconds 06/22/10 Miranda Kerr Engaged, Peter Phillips Reveals Fall's New Nail Color

coutorture — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:33:16 PDT

Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom make it official with an engagement after three years of dating.

Peter Phillips' fall makeup collection for Chanel is full of grays, plums, and khakis-including Paradoxal, the dark gray-violet nail color that debuted during Chanel's fall 2010 runway show.

For his guest-editorship of French paper Libération, Karl Lagerfeld chose to illustrate the entire 24-page issue and recreate the newspaper's logo.

Lily Cole reveals to Vogue.com UK that her days as a model might be numbered as she decides to pursue an acting career.

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Fashion in 50 Seconds 12/23/09 Lara Stone's Year in Review, British Vogue's Best Dressed

coutorture — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:48:38 PST

Year in review: 2009's leading women-Lara Stone.

British Vogue's best dressed list of 2009 includes Alexa Chung, Audrey Tautou, Emma Watson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lily Donaldson, Leighton Meester, Michelle Obama, Georgia May Jagger, Olivia Palermo, and Diane Kruger.

Stella McCartney and Chrissie Hynde collaborate on a commercial for Nude fragrance. Watch outtakes from the voice over session here.

Nick Knight shot an ad for Mercedes-Benz and enlisted Gareth Pugh to design armor-like leggings, a corset, and a shoulder piece in black patent leather for model Julia Stengner. The campaign will be all over New York in February during Fashion week.

Over thirty designers-including Bruno Pieters, Slow and Steady Wins the Race, and Andrea Crews-reinterpret the classic white tee shirt for charity.

Karl Lagerfeld, Charlotte Casiraghi, and Anna Mouglalis attend the Chanel-sponsored Centenary Gala of the Russian Ballet in Monaco.

Lady Gaga will star in Bravo's Launch My Line on January 6.

Lily Cole on acting with Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, and Colin Farrell and the future of her modeling career.

Catch up with Brian Wolk and Claude Morais of Ruffian in a video about their spring collection.

Fashion in 50 Seconds 12/11/09 Alber Elbaz Art Directs for Vogue Brazil, V Magazine Goes Plus Size

dannysf — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:18:52 PST

Alber Elbaz art directs Vogue Brazil's December '09 issue.

Anna Dello Russo travels with 90 outfits for Fashion Week. Here are some highlights.

V Magazine to devote January issue to plus-size models.

Alexander Wang adds gift-worthy items to his website, starting today.

Lily Cole and Lily Allen get in-touch with their inner design talents to support Elton John's AIDS foundation.

Naomi Campbell will act as guest editor for one of the Spring issues of Vogue Russia.

Heidi Klum, Rachel Zoe, and Amber Valletta fete Roland Mouret's new Net-a-Porter collection.

Julien MacDonald's Campy Christmas Tree

coutorture — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:59:40 PST

British designers Sir Paul Smith and Julien MacDonald have very different holiday decorating styles. According to WWD, Smith goes for a natural tree with just a few fairy lights and threatens to "tie and gag" the grandchildren if they add in any clashing colors. MacDonald, on the other hand, believes in a more festive look.

“I like to go for a camp tree, which I decorate with shells covered in glitter and fish dressed as drag queens with top hats and wigs," he told reporters at Tiffany's annual holiday party in London.

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Balenciaga Aims to Go Thorougly Modern for Spring 2010

fashionologie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:52:58 PDT

>> For the second season in a row, Balenciaga showed at the Hotel Crillon - word is residents forced them to move from their previous location - and Nicolas Ghesquiere took his eye "back to the start again," as the show's soundtrack went, returning to his sporty, skinny pants roots. The leggings, vests, and dresses were collages of contrasting materials - "like toys," the designer noted - and his goal was to create an entirely modern collection, sans references to the past.

In his effort to think differently, Ghesquiere told the Wall Street Journal, he mused: “There are cocktail dresses everywhere. I am asking, who are these women who go to cocktails all the time?’’ He also had his runway shoe samples made it a number of different sizes (39-41) rather than the standard 39, to help prevent runway stumbles.

Anouck Lepere and Lily Cole were both front row this morning, but the big model surprise was Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr, who some see as Balenciaga's answer to Givenchy casting Adriana Lima last season.

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Kate Moss Caught Between Entertainment Ventures, Now That Simon Fuller Has Acquired Her Modeling Agency Storm

fashionologie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:42:40 PDT

>> Any hope that Sir Phillip Green and Simon Cowell may have had for Kate Moss to act as a judge on one of their shows in development may have just gone down the tubes: Simon Fuller, creator of American Idol, which helped Cowell rise to fame, just took a majority stake of 51 percent in Moss's model agency, Storm.

Fuller has been in talks with Storm's founders, Sarah Doukas and her brother Simon Chambers, for the past year and aims to “help create new joint entertainment platforms for its talent, as well as developing the Storm brand in new and exciting directions.” Doukas hopes the partnership "will provide Storm with the opportunity to work competitively, creatively and on an international level," and Fuller elaborated that the deal will allow them to “push the boundaries, blur the lines and redefine what a model agency should be in this fast moving world, where fashion is playing an increasingly important role in setting and reflecting cultures and tastes.”

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The Full Cast - and a Preview - of the 2010 Pirelli Calendar

fashionologie — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:40:40 PDT

>> We had a few clues as to who made the cut for Terry Richardson's 2010 Pirelli calendar when he shot it last month in Bahia, Brazil, but now Italian Vanity Fair has the details on the full cast, which includes Daisy Lowe, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Eniko Mihalik, Catherine McNeil, Lily Cole, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Miranda Kerr, Ana Beatriz Barros, Gracie Carvalho, Marloes Horst, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

Terry produced thousands of images from the shoot with the girls holding sloths, fruit, roosters, and holding hands while running through waves in little else than a bikini bottom. The goal this year was to use "no makeup, no reflectors - only the flash of the camera - no branded clothes or jewelry, no girls altered surgically," said Andrea Imperiali, manager of Pirelli on the set. Fifty images will make the final cut when the calendar is debuted Nov. 19 in London, but until then the gallery below - which is NSFW - and a video of the shoot will have to do.

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fashionologie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:25:46 PDT

>> THE MODELIZER -A couple of models turned up over the weekend sporting new, head-turning accessories: Alek Wek attended the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Classic on Saturday wearing a neon orange cast on her forearm - the result of a shoot gone wrong, perhaps - and Lily Cole was captured in London this morning, wearing a ring on her engagement finger - the Daily Mail has pictures. [Fashionista, Daily Mail]

Lily Cole Debuts First Major Movie Role in Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus at Cannes

fashionologie — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:33:49 PDT

>> Lily Cole's first film on the major stage, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which also happens to have been Heath Ledger's last film due to his untimely death, premiered today at the Cannes Film Festival. So far, the critical reaction has been less than flattering - the Guardian called the film "an awful mess," and Entertainmently Weekly agreed: "The plot's a mess of disconnected episodes, and the circus-y visual style adds to a feeling of . . . quiet desperation."

Some were more hopeful - Variety wrote that Gilliam "made a pretty good thing out of a very bad situation" and the Hollywood Reporter pointed out that "the combined star power involved [Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell] will generate a plentiful box office return but the film is not intelligent enough nor silly or grotesque enough to become a lasting favorite."

As for Cole's performance as 16-year-old love interest Valentina, Variety was positive - "Cole nicely hold necessarily caricatured work in check" and the Times UK effulgent: "The revelation is Lily Cole, who is mesmerising as the teenage siren, Valentina. It's her tangos with the various [men] that keep us focused on the romance."

At a press conference this morning, Lily described working with Depp, Law, and Farrell as replacement actors for Ledger as "weird and difficult. You're mourning somebody but at the same time you're immediately going back to work. It's such an unusual environment where you're presented with actors who are playing reminders of that character and that person."

Natasha Poly and Noemie Lenoir joined Lily at the premiere; The film does not yet have a US release date, but is scheduled to open in European theaters this Fall.

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