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Boy. by Band of Outsiders Pre-Fall 2012

fashionologie — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:26:17 PST

>> Woody Allen’s Manhattan and Diane Keaton in the '70s were Scott Sternberg's starting points for Boy. by Band of Outsiders Pre-Fall 2012. "I was re-watching Manhattan for, like, the 15th time, and that way of dressing that you see in Diane Keaton's character - corduroy suits, button-ups, a certain type of plaid, a high neck-just seemed really fresh, or close to it," Sternberg explained. "Certainly in need of an update, but the nice start of an idea about dressing for the fall." A ladybug print borrowed from a '40s archival piece was placed on a boiler suit, and the plaid dress at left was given a raw-edged hem.

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Scott Sternberg on the Power of Living in LA and the Expansion of His Women's Collection

coutorture — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:00:07 PDT

Scott Sternberg left his job as a Hollywood talent agent to start Band of Outsiders seven years ago, and in 2007 launched Boy., his menswear-inspired women's collection. The 35-year-old LA-based designer has no plans to stop growing - he aims to increase his business from $12 million to $40 million over the next few years through expanding Boy. (from two collections per year to four) and launching girl., a lower-priced, more feminine line.

Despite his fast rise through the fashion ranks (in 2009 he tied with Calvin Klein's Italo Zucchelli for the CFDA menswear designer of the year award), Sternberg is happy to skip out on New York's fashion scene in favor of living in Los Angeles, where he keeps out of the fray:

"If I was here in New York in this mix influenced by the same thing all these people are influenced by, the edge would be gone," he told the WSJ. "This [LA] bubble is vital to being able to do something that is not informed by fashion."

See the fall 2010 Band of Outsiders/Boy. collection images here.

Source: Getty

Scott Sternberg Has a Lower-Priced Women's Line in the Works

fashionologie — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:17:23 PDT

>> Seven years since quitting his job as a Hollywood agent at CAA to launch Band of Outsiders, Scott Sternberg is ready to transform his $12 million business into a $40 million one in the next three years.

To do that, he's in the midst of expanding Boy., his menswear-inspired women's collection launched in 2007, and he has a second women's collection, girl., a less expensive, more feminine line, in the works. He's also increasing the number of women's collections produced from two to four per year.

He's looking for investors, too »

Fashion in 50 Seconds 02/10/10 Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper For MAC, Oscar de la Renta Beauty

coutorture — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:19:32 PST

Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper become spokeswomen for the MAC AIDS fund, celebrate at Lucky Chang's in Manhattan.

Marc Jacobs filed a copyright infringement complaint against Ed Hardy's quilted tote with stitched block print, which bears resemblance to a Marc by Marc Jacobs bag-save for the Ed Hardy tattoo-print fish splashed on the side.

Tom Ford on what separates his fashion imagery from his directorial debut: "My fashion career has been very much about full frontal male and female nudity and sex. For me, A Single Man is about love and romance, and had there been a need for that kind of nudity, then sure - but there wasn't."

Oscar de la Renta might be working on a beauty deal to expand his brand into skin care and color cosmetics.

Leslie Mann appears in Scott Sternberg's spring 2010 look book as "cougar with two younger dudes."

Optimism continues to grow with luxury retail executives, as the focus turns towards luring back aspirational shoppers.

New York Fashion Week: Band of Outsiders/Boy Spring 2010

coutorture — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:22:09 PDT

New York 09/12/09. Getty Images

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Scott Sternberg Turns His Polaroid Lens on Marisa Tomei for Boy Fall 2009

fashionologie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:37:06 PDT

>> Every season, Scott Sternberg produces his lookbook with an impromptu shoot - no hair, no makeup, no lights - and an old Polaroid camera. In the past, he's photographed Michelle Williams, Kirsten Dunst, and Sarah Silverman, but for Fall 2009, he photographed Marisa Tomei last Thursday at the Chateau Marmont and Bar Marmont in Los Angeles, sneaking into the kitchen for a taste of the food and chatting on the telephone.

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fashionologie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:42:46 PDT

>> INSIDER WIRE -Scott Sternberg has photographed his Boy lookbook with Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams in the past; for Spring 2009, the Polaroids feature Sarah Silverman in Canter's Deli in LA, posing in fedora and coat with "really big buckets of pickles" or shirtdress and pumps with "vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting and rainbow sprinkles." Sternberg chose Silverman because she's "completely different from Kirsten Dunst. We thought it would be a good way to show how versatile the Boy pieces are." [Boy, The Moment]

New York Fashion Week: Band Of Outsiders/Boy Fall 2009

coutorture — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:35:22 PST

New York 02/15/09. Photos by Chris Moore/Getty Images.

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Boy and Band of Outsiders Fall 2009 Full of Insiders

fashionologie — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:37:31 PST

>> After two seasons of videos, Scott Sternberg decided to take his Boy and Band of Outsiders show live, creating tableaux vivants of models in classroom, by a lamppost, resting on a park bench, or reading a book on a bed - "I want to use the groupings, or vignettes, to create microcosms within this vast space." Props to the man for being one of the first, if not the first this week to rent a space big enough to hold his presentation and all the guests invited comfortably. Kanye West hit up this show too, and Jason Wu, who shares the same stylist with Sternberg, Tina Chai.

The sportwear label clearly has some major fans - Meredith Melling Burke was running around, camera out - which I've never seen her do - and got up close and personal with the brightly-colored, ankle-tied high heel bowling shoes that Boy collaborated with Manolo Blahnik on; they did look outstanding against the contrasting tights with color-tipped toes.
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Fall 2009 Fashion Week: Still Necessary, Just with Less of Everything

fashionologie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:14:17 PST

>> Designers may be pulling their belt tighter this Fashion Week, but hardly any are pulling out of the rat race altogether - the attention is too valuable. "You kill a thousand birds with one stone, because you get that many people there in an hour and you're getting one message across to them," says Scott Sternberg of Boy and Band of Outsiders. "They're writers and photographers and culturally indulgent people with loud mouths."

Instead, designers are saving by hosting presentations instead of runway shows (Monique Lhuillier, Temperley London, and Carmen Marc Valvo), inviting fewer guests (Marc Jacobs and DKNY, who's slicing her usual 1,000 down to 400), sending email invites instead of by mail (nearly everyone), or showing fewer looks to save on fabric and sample-making costs.

Two models, 15 looks, and a free space to show it in »