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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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Oscar de la Renta Pre-Fall 2012

fashionologie — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:18:23 PST

>> Oscar de la Renta launched a full-scale production for his robust Pre-Fall 2012 collection. All 58 looks - tinged with a hint of Russian bourgeois - were highlighted with a Park Avenue-hosted runway show.

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This Week's Best Dressed

fashionologie — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:52:45 PST

>> Ivory, black, and nude reigned queen amongst this week's best looks. See who's wearing which - and where - in the slideshow.

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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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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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Loulou de la Falaise, Yves Saint Laurent Muse and Collaborator, Has Passed Away; A Visual Tribute

fashionologie — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:34:12 PST

>> Loulou de Falaise, who collaborated with and inspired Yves Saint Laurent for over three decades, died Saturday at her country house in Boury-en-Vexin, northwest of Paris. She was 63.

The Pierre Berge-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation announced her passing, citing an unspecified "long illness" as the cause of death. WWD's sources report that de la Falaise was diagnosed with cancer last June but wanted to keep her health a private matter. She is survived by her husband, Thadee Klossowski - who she married in 1977 in a Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche turban and harem pants - and their daughter, Anna.

De la Falaise met Saint Laurent at 1968, when she was 21, at a tea party given by the designer Fernando Sanchez. She began working for YSL in 1972, designing jewelry and hats for his couture and ready-to-wear collections and producing up to 2,000 pieces of jewelry a year until 2002, when he retired. Later, she collaborated with Oscar de la Renta on his jewelry collections. Her final designs - a line of costume jewelry she created over the Summer - go on sale next month in the shop at the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech.

A few of our favorite Loulou snaps, in the slideshow (NSFW).

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Andre Leon Talley Gets a Museum Gallery of His Own, Wants It Perfumed

fashionologie — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:18:05 PDT

>> Savannah College of Art and Design, of which Andre Leon Talley is a board member, will as of Saturday have an Andre Leon Talley Gallery in its new museum of art.

Talley has been helping the museum build a costume collection out of his own archives and donations from friends. The first exhibit will include the black gown Penelope Cruz wore to the most recent Costume Institute Gala, sent by Oscar de la Renta; a black sequined wrap dress, sent by Diane von Furstenberg; a Fall 2007 Prada coat trimmed with plastic fringe and feathers; a column dress trimmed with natural string from Tom Ford's debut womenswear show; and the blue satin Manolo Blahniks featured in the Sex and the City movie.

"The only thing I haven't thrust upon them yet is that I want fragrance wafting through the ventilation system," Talley said. "Either Oscar de la Renta's Live in Love, or Diane von Furstenberg's Diane."

It sounds like he might get his wish. Paula Wallace, president and a founder of the college, said of the perfume idea: "He has not mentioned that to me, but if Andre wants it, he gets it. The multisensory concept is so important. We learn, we feel, we think, we smell. Actually, I think it's a grand idea."

Hair Flipping and Spray Painting Backstage at Rodarte, Narciso Rodriguez, Oscar de la Renta, Sophie Theallet, Theyskens' Theory

fashionologie — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:29:32 PDT

>> Tuesday's snap-worthy backstage moments? Fei Fei Sun whipping her hair at Theyskens' Theory (plus a close-up at the show's tortuously vertiginous heels), Hanne Gaby Odiele getting her hair spray-painted blue at Narciso Rodriguez, plus: Carola Remer throwing a peace sign backstage at Sophie Theallet. Those moments and more - captured backstage at Oscar de la Renta and Rodarte - in the slideshow.

Photo: Greg Kessler

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Oscar de la Renta Spring 2012

fashionologie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:16:42 PDT

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Ladylike Pearls Get a Makeover

Christina Perez — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:41:36 PDT

>> Heavy chains, neon hues, oversized spikes - these aren't your grandmother's pearls. Here, 15 tough-chic statement necklace that walk the line between prim and punk, guaranteed to add a little edge to even the most demure of outfits. Click through to shop them all - including tough-chic pieces from Lanvin, Fenton/Fallon, Assad Mounser, Lulu Frost, and more.

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