Self Service, LOVE Previews: The Latter Goes with "New Blood" for Second Issue

fashionologie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:57:53 PDT

>> Last week we had a first peek at the inaugural issue of POP, rebooted with Dasha Zhukova at the helm, and now, courtesy of an ad run in the just-released September 2009 issue of Vogue UK (with Kate Moss on the cover), we have a little preview at the second issue of Katie Grand's new baby, LOVE.

They took the same tactic for the first issue - so the image at left isn't the cover, but rather from an editorial within - but the theme seems to be "New Blood: The Young and the Reckless," with some inclusions listed that have been raising eyebrows - Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers, for instance. Also making the teaser: 13 year-old Style Rookie blogger Tavi.

Also playing the preview game: Self Service »

the hauteur of couture

philleif — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:16:00 PDT

>> The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on the state of haute couture today - and it was not the stock "couture is dying/dead" article.

Well, I take it back, there was a little bit of that, but the writer, Christina Binkley, took an angle that hasn't been covered over and over before. She interviewed Didier Grumbach, the president of the Fédération Française de la Couture, who had some decidedly interesting things to say.

I, for one, was surprised at how readily M. Grumbach shrugged and admitted that at lot of what is shown during the couture shows is ready-to-wear - considering the strict rules of couture that his organization exists to enforce (all clothes are made by hand from a pattern customized to the buyer in a Parisian atelier employing at least 20 seamstresses).

But the best part of the article?

Today, designers Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, and Vanessa Seward of Azzaro all have the haute couture "savoir faire," Mr. Grumbach said, wishing they would apply to join the federation. "We are snobbish -- they must ask," he noted.

There's that French fashion hauteur I know and love. Too bad Azzaro's chief executive said she has no interest in doing couture and Nicolas recently echoed the same sentiment.