The trailer for The September Issue is out and it shows why editors have taken to bootlegging elusive screener copies. The film looks just as amazing as they say, with a healthy dose of Devil Wears Prada flavor, mostly evident in the graphics. This is the real Devil Wears Prada — and probably everything Anna wished that movie had been. She’s portrayed as fashion’s most powerful force, an ethereal being, a hurricane of fabulousness. Everyone around her seems terrified of her, yet thrilled to pieces they get to be in her presence. "Anna is like Madonna," Thakoon Panichgul says with a glint in his eye. And Anna’s one-liners are the best! "This type is so large and pretentious. It looks like it’s for blind people." And: "She looks pregnant." She even tells a shrinking Oscar de la Renta, "I personally would not put this one in the show. The other things you’ve shown us are more exciting." André Leon Talley also appears, sitting at a desk wearing sunglasses and a fur shawl and loudly bemoaning the "FAMINE IN BEAUTY." Amazing!
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Photo: Courtesy of Calvin Klein
They may not design Calvin Klein Jeans, but the men behind Calvin Klein’s menswear and womenswear lines are quick to defend — indeed, crow about — Steven Meisel’s racy new CK Jeans "threesome" billboard currently scandalizing Soho stroller-pushers. "It’s my favorite campaign ever!" said Italo Zucchelli at the CFDAs, where he later won Menswear Designer of the Year. "I think it is a fantastic campaign. That is what Calvin Klein Jeans is supposed to be. Everyone needs to be scandalized and screaming. That is what we want." Zucchelli said he hoped the controversial nature of the ads would shock some viewers into spending. “I hope they’re going to be, ‘Ooooh, what is that?’ And then they buy our jeans. In the best tradition of Calvin Klein.”
Zucchelli’s date, Bradley Cooper, hadn’t seen the ad, but wanted to know what he was missing. “It’s like, two girls and guy, like, kind of making out,” Zucchelli explained. (Actually, it’s two guys and a girl, but who’s keeping track?) “Does the guy kind of look like a girl?” Cooper asked. “No, he looks like a guy,” Zucchelli explained. “I love it!” said Cooper. “I’ve got to see that!”
Womenswear designer Francisco Costa, too, loves the ad, and is upset he even has to defend it. “Please!” he said. “It’s so, like, old news. Don’t you think we should be a little ashamed for even having to discuss? I mean, it’s great for us. So if you want to talk about it, let’s talk about it. But there was no intention of making that controversial. Just make beautiful ads. And they’re beautiful ads. And I think, you know, we’re such a forward society, but we tend to be a little prudish sometimes. It’s New York City! It’s the 21st century! Honey, we have to move on! We have to move on.” As for the charge that viewing the ads might scar innocent tourists for life, Costa cautioned that most tourists aren’t as sheltered as New Yorkers like to think. “I think it’s great for tourists,” he said. “I think they’ll see that and walk right into our store. I think tourists have great sensibility. That’s why they’re tourists. They’re voyeurs.” Huh. So maybe we’re the prudes.
Related: See a slideshow of all the winners and looks at last night’s CFDA Awards.
Earlier: Calvin Klein’s Hot Three-Way Action Makes Soho Blush
Watch the slideshowPhoto: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
The image that leaked last week of Madonna’s second Louis Vuitton campaign appears to be the real thing. More images like it have hit the Internet. And they look even more artificial than last week’s teaser! Madonna basically wears five different versions of her Met-gala costume and figures just as prominently into each image as a Louis handbag. She has also been Photoshopped to glow in a psychedelic fashion, which seems to be compensating for something, like the guy who spends $10,000 at the Box for no apparent reason and still goes home alone. Madonna may look like she belongs in a brothel in these photos, but alas, that’s just a leather chair she’s sitting in. But is she going home alone? Eh, it probably doesn’t matter when you own one of those bags. See the shots in the slideshow.
Scarlett JohanssonPhoto: Getty Images
Scarlett Johansson was in Madrid, Spain, today to kick off her official debut as the new face of Mango. She wore a blue top and high-waisted black skirt with a black sash by the label.
Does her look inspire you to wear Mango?
