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Vogue Italia Put Three Plus-Size Models on Its June 2011 Cover

fashionologie — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:59:43 PDT

>> Franca Sozzani is putting her money where her mouth is with Vogue Italia's June 2011 cover. After devoting a special section to "curvy" women on the magazine's website (of those highlighted she recently said: "Why should these women slim down? Many of the women who have a few extra kilos are especially beautiful and also more feminine"), Sozzani has cast a trio of plus-size models for the magazine's latest cover. No Crystal Renn, the current "plus-size" model du jour, in sight - instead, Steven Meisel shot Tara Lynn, Candice Huffine, and Robyn Lawley in black and white, marking the first time plus-size models have graced the magazine's cover since the days of Sophie Dahl, circa 2000. [Models.com]

fashionologie — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:19:19 PDT

>> Sophie Dahl Is Pregnant -Sophie Dahl is expecting her first child with husband Jamie Callum, they confirmed via statement today: ''In response to a number of recent inquiries, Jamie Cullum and Sophie Dahl are delighted to confirm that Sophie is four months pregnant. There will be no further comment at this time.'' Cullum, 31, and Dahl, 32, were married in January. [Telegraph UK]

Marc Jacobs Sings Backup for Donna Summer, Talks Hair Transplant at Louis Vuitton Store Opening

fashionologie — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:37:36 PDT

>> Marc Jacobs has taken the stage for many a reason in the past - usually it involves accepting an award - but last night, it was to sing backup to Donna Summer at the opening of Louis Vuitton's new store on Bond Street in London. “It was fun - but I think I’ll stick to my day job,” he quipped.

Jacobs celebrated with the likes of Stella Tennant, Bernard Arnault, Carine Roitfeld, and Natalia Vodianova, and opened up about his recent hair transplant, which had him avoiding press and cameras at the Costume Institute Gala earlier this month. "I was starting to thin on top. I can’t dye it for a while, so this is my natural colour.”

He also hinted that the Louis Vuitton logo that he has helped make so ubiquitous almost got squelched way back when he first started at the brand: "When I arrived at Louis Vuitton 12 years ago, and I was figuring out how to create a new tier of Vuitton for a different customer, I thought it would be clever to hide that monogram, which was very stupid of me. That logo is part of what makes the Vuitton so desirable. It allows people to become members of an aspirational club."

Logos are to be expected, but not Louis Vuitton couture - Jacobs says he has no desire to launch such a collection. “Some of what we already do at ready-to-wear is pretty much at couture level, anyway."

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fashionologie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:12:05 PST

>> Wedding Bells: Catherine McNeil, Maggie Rizer Engaged; Sophie Dahl Married -Catherine McNeil, who's set to make a runway return next month, is reportedly engaged to Australian MTV presenter Ruby Rose - the two are apparently looking into a legal wedding in Canada. Details are a little fuzzy - but not so with Maggie Rizer, who also got engaged recently - to real estate developer Alex Mehran on her birthday Saturday. As for Sophie Dahl, she and fiance, British jazz singer Jamie Cullum, married Saturday in England at a country mansion. The bride wore a bespoke Temperley London dress. [Daily Telegraph, @maggierizer, Modelinia, Daily Mail, Vogue UK]

Louis Vuitton Spring 2010: All Clogs, Raccoon Tails, and Massive Fros

fashionologie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:02:24 PDT

>> Louis Vuitton started exactly on time this afternoon, leaving more than a few editors shut out and half the front row empty; of those who did make it inside in time, some were still on the runway when the show commenced, leaving opener Patricia Van der Vliet to barge right through. Every single girl had on a sky-high afros, each made from five smaller wigs sewn together, which bobbed "up and down like big pom pom balls" as they walked; Grace Coddington apparently "whooped with delight" at the first sight of them.

A flurry of models were front row - Sophie Dahl and her fiance Jamie Cullum, Natalia Vodianova, Daisy Lowe - but Georgia May Jagger was a surprise on the catwalk. The show, inspired by the '80s and '90s New Age traveller and “street clothes, embracing the hippie-cyber, tribal-punk world,” according to Marc Jacobs, included everything from kitten-heeled clogs to bags with raccoon tails - straight from Williamsburg hipsters - to bike shorts and glitter anoraks. And Jacobs himself wore a pair of the furry clogs for the finale.

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Sophie Dahl Lands a Cooking Show to Go with Her Cookbook

fashionologie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:03:42 PDT

>> 2009 has been a big year of change for Sophie Dahl - she got engaged to jazz musician Jamie Cullum in March, and now the rumors that she is getting her own cooking show have been confirmed. Dahl published her first cookbook, Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights: Guilt-free Eating with Abandon, last year; her upcoming show, which is as-yet-untitled, will air next year on BBC Two in the UK, featuring a mix of recipes from the book and Sophie revisiting "treasured and nostalgic" places which relate to the recipes.

The show, which will consist of six episodes, each with a different theme, is being produced by Jamie Oliver's television company. “Cooking often serves as an emotional barometer, and with this show we will run the gamut - from a solo dinner that suits melancholy to a homecoming feast for 20,” Dahl elucidated. “It’s cooking with an anecdotal thread - irreverent, unpredictable and not without flaw.”

Isabella Blow Gets Two Biographies in 2010

fashionologie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:37:29 PDT

>> Isabella Blow, discoverer of Stella Tennant, Sophie Dahl, Hussein Chalayan, Philip Treacy, Alexander McQueen - and muse to the latter two - passed away at 48 a little over two years ago after ingesting weedkiller. The motive was suspected to be a recent ovarian cancer diagnosis; Blow had a history of at least two suicide attempts, one involving her throwing herself from the elevated Hammersmith Flyover road in London.

Needless to say, there's a story to be told, and two different biographies, both scheduled for 2010, are in the works, reports the New York Observer. The first, Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow, is co-written by Isabella's husband of 18 years, Detmar Blow, and author Tom Sykes, who first met Isabella when he was 20 and his sister Plum Sykes was her assistant at Vogue.

Anna Wintour will be interviewed »

fashionologie — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:16:44 PDT

>> THE MODELIZER -The Kate Moss cookbook claims turned out to be false, but another model actually published her own ode to "voluptuous delights" last November: Sophie Dahl. Despite her recent engagement, Sophie is rumored to be taking that new path even further - she's said to be close to landing her own cooking show. [Fashionista]