Archive for the ‘Style’ Category
WATCH: Alexander McQueen’s Final Collection Presented in Paris
While collections from the world’s most famous design houses are shown during Paris Fashion Week, none will be more memorable than Alexander McQueen’s. The late designer, who took his own life just weeks ago, reduced the glamorous fashion crowd to tears with his final collection of signature...
March 11th, 2010 | Style | Read More
Kate Gosselin’s Hair Switch-Up: Short Today, But Long Tomorrow?
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Lately, Kate Gosselin’s hair has experienced as many ups and downs as the reality show star herself. This week, the 34-year-old mother of eight stepped out with a cropped bob — a stark contrast to the shoulder-length extensions she’d been sporting courtesy of...
March 11th, 2010 | Style | Read More
Elie Saab
Elie Saab scored some major red-carpet coups at the Oscars on Sunday, putting nominee Anna Kendrick in a blush pink gown and Rachel McAdams in a pastel floral number—both dresses from his January couture collection and both unapologetically pretty. For Fall, he took a much darker view, focusing...
March 11th, 2010 | Style | Read More
Hermès
Lily Cole as a black-leather catsuit-ed Emma Peel in the Hermès remake of the sixties British TV series The Avengers. Pourquoi? Actually, in a tongue-in-cheek way, it made a kind of sense for this bastion of French values. First, it gave Jean Paul Gaultier the license to hook in a spoofy power-woman...
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Amy Winehouse Focuses on Fashion with New Line for Fred Perry
Flynet
When you think of Amy Winehouse, impeccable personal style might not be the first thought that pops into your mind. The singer, 26, is often seen in scruffy ballet shoes and jeans, along with her signature beehive — a look that has brought her regular mentions in the worst dressed lists....
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No Drinks Included: ‘Mad Men’ Stars Immortalized as Barbies
Courtesy Mattel, Inc.
Mad Men’s Don and Betty Draper, Roger Sterling and Joan Holloway will become the latest screen stars to turn plastic. Mattel, Inc. will release a Barbie Collector line of dolls modeled after the award-winning show’s leading characters. Each doll will be made from Silkstone,...
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Miu Miu
If her Prada collection, with its emphasis on the bust, was a sexual come-on, Miuccia Prada’s Miu Miu show was about romance—at least on its pre-Summer of Love sixties surface. The narrow, short silhouette made an erogenous zone of twiggy legs elongated by square-toed pumps. Sleeveless shifts...
March 11th, 2010 | Style | Read More
Cerruti
Cerruti, the French tailoring label, hasn’t had much of a profile in womenswear for several seasons, but on October 1 last year, the company signed the London-based Australian designer Richard Nicoll to revive its credibility. In the short time he’s been there (while shuttling to and fro...
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Congressional pranks: Eric Massa wasn’t only one rolling with laughter on Hill
To hear Eric Massa tell it, the latest scandal to cost a congressperson his job turns on the following question: Can’t a boss engage in a little friendly tickling with his co-workers now and again?
March 11th, 2010 | Style | Read More
Hillary Rodham Clinton widens her circle at the State Department
Hillary Rodham Clinton ran a presidential campaign notoriously insular and unhappy, managing a group of egos and backstabbers whose dysfunction may have cost her the White House. Understandably, people wondered what kind of management style she would bring to the State Department.
March 11th, 2010 | Style | Read More
