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Another Roitfeld Rumor - Carine to Do Reality TV?

fashionologie — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:12:59 PDT

>> Lots of rumors are swirling this week about projects Carine Roitfeld may have up her sleeve. On Monday, it was suggested that she may be designing her own line, and now come rumors of a reality TV project.

Yesterday, Models.com's Wayne Sterling tweeted: "What do you do with hiss you can't seep! All I can say is . . . if you really wannabearoitfeld then your dream is abt to come true. Really true!" He then followed up with: "Which is to say 'doing windows' was a big smokescreen," making a reference to Roitfeld's upcoming gig staging the windows at Barneys' Manhattan flagship.

When Sterling was asked if he was referring to a reality TV show with the above tweets, he replied, "shhhhhh!"

Expect a Spring 2010 Season Full of "Safe" Ad Campaigns

fashionologie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:41:09 PDT

>> Fashion houses tended toward casting celebrities or established, "pretty" faces for their Fall 2009 campaigns, and it sounds like despite the fact that the Spring 2010 runways were flooded with new faces - because so many established models were sitting it out - Spring 2010 campaign season will bring more of the same. In an interview published today, Nick Knight tells the Independent UK:

"My aim has always been to push at the boundaries of what is and isn't beautiful. Instead of our perception of beauty opening up, it's becoming more narrow all the time. To make money, the industry is increasingly catering to the lowest common denominator and, as far as the people who run the big companies are concerned, anything even slightly out of the ordinary frightens people. But anyone with a brain knows that it is the quirkiness and imperfection in a person that attracts other people. That is completely obvious to human beings; it's just when it gets to a corporate level that it all falls apart."

So what of those new faces? »

Tom Ford Rumored to Be Looking for More Financing

fashionologie — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:14:59 PST

>> Tom Ford sold an Andy Warhol painting of his for a record $32.6 million last year to help finance his womenswear debut last Fall. Now, The Imagist is reporting a rumor that Ford is again in search of funding; with fragrance, menswear, and womenswear already well underway, what kind of expansion does he have in mind now? He doesn't seem like one to sell a stake in the brand. [The Imagist]

Daria Werbowy - Reportedly the Victoria's Secret Angel Who Almost Was

fashionologie — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:35:05 PST

>> Daria Werbowy has never appeared in a Victoria's Secret Fashion Show lineup, but it's not because Victoria's Secret didn't want her. According to The Imagist, back before Werbowy signed her Lancome contract in April 2005, Lancome and Victoria's Secret were in a bidding war over her: "It was down to the wire till the last moment. Two power clients bidding at the same time for the exclusive services of [Werbowy]. And then the negotiations swung the way of Lancome, and the rest is contract history." [The Imagist]

Dasha Zhukova Rumored to Be Launching a New Magazine

fashionologie — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:02:59 PDT

>> Since resigning as editor of POP last November, Dasha Zhukova's new endeavors have been primarily art focused. The day after she resigned, it was announced that Zhukova had invested in and was expected to be active in the business of online startup Art.sy, which aims to be a "Pandora for art," recommending pieces to potential buyers based on their taste.

And a couple of weeks ago, it was confirmed that "in a gesture designed to please" Zhukova, her partner Roman Abramovich will finance a state-of-the-art modern art gallery in Moscow's Gorky Park, part of a £1.25 billion ($2.04 billion) makeover of the location which will also include a London Eye-style Ferris wheel. The forthcoming gallery is expected to be curated and run by Zhukova, who also confirmed that she plans to move her Moscow-based Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture to Gorky Park after the renovations are complete.

Now, rumors are circulating that Zhukova plans to return to print. The Imagist reports: "Have you caught that whisper of a hiss that suggests that post-POP, the world's most glamorous art maven, Dasha Zhukova, is summoning her very own culture mag ? . . . We heard the suspected name, which makes perfect branding sense...But who's designing? Who's shooting for? London based? Paris? Moscow? Art driven or is [it] a fashion frenzy?"

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Today's Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2011 Campaign Shoot (Plus Gucci Campaign Rumors)

fashionologie — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:41:41 PDT

>> Stefano Gabbana tumblred images from the New York set of Dolce & Gabbana's Fall 2011 campaign today, showing a cast that includes Liu Wen , Maryna Linchuk, Constance Jablonski, Monika Jac Jagaciak, Isabeli Fontana, and Kate King. The girls are shown alternately dressed up as men and women, mirroring the label's Fall show. Jagaciak - who has her hair slicked back and is wearing a suit - tweeted a few hours ago that she "is Jac the dude today." Gabbana's photos in the gallery.

No images from the Gucci Fall 2011 campaign set, meanwhile, but the end product is rumored to feature four girls - two who Gucci has cast before and two who are newcomers to the label, including "that one stunning Top 10 Newcomer who all the key clients had to have," The Imagist reports.

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Kanye West Said To Be Showing at Paris Fashion Week, Working with Major Stylist

fashionologie — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:23:46 PDT

>> When reports of Kanye West's womenswear collection first surfaced in July, rumors went around that he would show at New York Fashion Week. Now, it sounds like Paris will host the line's debut, instead. West, who is reportedly collaborating with designer Louise Goldin and stylist Christine Centenera on the collection, and Giuseppe Zanotti on shoes, is said to be working with a major stylist for the show, The Imagist reports: "Hiss hiss. Which ultra-power stylist is now playing in Kayne's camp for his blue chip Paris showing. And it IS a Paris showing kids!" West is also said to have begun model casting for the show at the end of last month. [@hisssquad, @hisssquad]

Three Unnamed Designers Rumored to Be Shifting Houses

fashionologie — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:03:35 PDT

>> Over the weekend, The Imagist had tongues wagging with a rumor involving three designers shifting their current placement (or lack thereof): "Should it come true, would mean two major fashion houses are in line for a serious re-alignment. The three part scoop involves...(A.) one of fashion's most major designer retiring from a venerable house, making room for that complex and talented countryman of his (B....) jumping from his current house to the vacant throne. Which (C) then leaves another of fashion's most legendary brands open for a certain star talent to come out of the wilderness back into the luxury fold."

In response, a Fashin commenter posted: "If the 2nd blind item is the same one that has been floating around (Which I think it is), the keyword for it is 'Italian'..." And the Imagist commenters posited: "Armani retires. Pilati replaces him. Slimane to YSL. ?!?" This is all speculation, but Stefano Pilati's situation at Saint Laurent has been rumored to be tenuous.

See Carine Roitfeld's Second to Last Vogue Paris Cover, Just Out; What Does She Do Next?

fashionologie — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:37:32 PST

>> In less than two weeks, Carine Roitfeld is headed out the door at Vogue Paris, with Emmanuelle Alt set to take over on Feb. 1. Roitfeld's last issue will be for March, and although there's been no intel on who might feature on that cover - her last for the magazine - her second to last cover choice, for February 2011, is Lara Stone, captured by Mario Sorrenti (left).

So what, beyond these last few days in her current role, does Roitfeld have on her plate? There's still her biography, Carine Roitfeld: Album of a Woman of Fashion, that Olivier Zahm has been working on for over a year, which is supposed to come out in the Fall. Apparently she recently read the Keith Richards biography, Life, and has since been wanting to try shepherd's pie, Harper's Bazaar UK editor Lucy Yeomans tweets: "Just seen [British chef] Mark Hix sending shepherds pie to Carine Roitfeld in Paris.She has wanted to try one since reading SPscene in Keith Richards biog!" And now there's speculation that Roitfeld might look into launching her own brand. As The Imagist points out: "I mean if [Anna Dello Russo] can have her own fragrance, why shouldn't the masses be able to buy a little bit of le style Roitfeld?"

fashionologie — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:06:19 PDT

>> Tonchi: New W to Be More Accessible; Suggested T Editor Possibilities?- W's new editor Stefano Tonchi acknowledged earlier today that he aims to make the magazine more accessible, “probably to just make it more of a general-interest style magazine, and less of a fashion-obsessed publication.” Even before Tonchi was confirmed today, rumors were circling this weekend that W will be moving further away from its current "high art/high fashion/high society/token celebrity" cachet, as The Imagist puts it, and "swerving closer to the In Style magazine model. Or in other words, 'In Style Deluxe.'" Meanwhile, suggestions are already being made for T's currently empty editor-in-chief position: The Imagist suggests T features director Horacia Silva, while The Daily is leaning toward former Elle creative director Gilles Bensimon, former Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, Interview's editorial director Fabien Baron, Elle's fashion news director Anne Slowey, or T's fashion director Anne Christensen. [TI, FWD]