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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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Calvin Klein Designers Love the Racy Billboard, So Get Over It

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

 
Posted in Travel Fashion
Oct
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Photo: 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.

 
Posted in Travel Fashion
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Scarlett Johansson

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?

Posted in Travel Fashion
Oct
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Ally Hilfiger.

Ally Hilfiger.Photo: Patrick McMullan

Last night, Ally Hilfiger showed up to Woody Allen’s Whatever Works after-party at the River Café wearing a pair of bell bottoms. We’d love to know what shoes she wore, but alas, that super-long hem covers everything.

Do you think it’s time for a seventies-inspired–denim revival?

Posted in Travel Fashion
Oct
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Emanuel Ungaro Wants Lindsay Lohan to Be a Creative Consultant?

Photo: Getty Images

Lindsay Lohan is reportedly in talks to assume the role of creative consultant for Emanuel Ungaro. The rumor sounds too bad to be true, but "Page Six" reports that Ungaro designer Esteban Cortazar is threatening to leave with his team if Lindsay signs on. Ungaro and Cortazar haven’t commented on these reports. So.

Now maybe this chatter isn’t so far-fetched — perhaps Ungaro is actually interested in having Lindsay work behind the scenes at the label as a creative force. Lindsay is a fashionista in her own right, after all. Her style has evolved from the innocent baby dolls of her Freaky Friday days (memories!) to brushes with pantslessness to her current taste for minuscule party frocks and billowing, sail-like plaid things. Yet she is also a creator, one who has introduced to the world the joys of $132 padded leggings and $35 self-tanning mist by the name of misspelled numbers Sevin Nyne. And let’s not forget the spectacular choreography she executed in her commercial for Italian lifestyle brand Fornarina, for which she is spokeswoman. So yeah, maybe the film industry doesn’t take her seriously. We can’t imagine what fashion’s problem is.

 
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Chris Benz.

Chris Benz.Photo: Getty Images

MAKEUP
• Lancôme signed Chris Benz to collaborate on a new lip color for the Pout-à-Porter series, which will debut at his spring 2010 fashion show in September. As a bonus, you have the chance to name the new hue by offering suggestions on Benz’s Facebook fan page.

• Sephora introduced a service called Beauty Studio this summer, which offers free tutorials led by company aestheticians.

• Jessica Stam’s new Dior campaign just came out.

HAIR
• Hairstylist Orlando Pita did the hair at the Christian Dior couture show yesterday, while Pat McGrath did the makeup.

SKIN
• Model Julie Henderson: "It’s okay to actually invest in, like, your skin and your face because that’s what you look at, that’s what people look at, that’s who you are, basically."

 
Posted in Travel Fashion
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First of all, a big THANKS to Wishpot Weddings for giving me this award! It is my very first award so I am so over the moon excited (REALLY…the music is going to start soon and you are gonna have to kick me off my own post!) It truly made my day to be acknowledged as a blog with great attitude and/or gratitude! And to be put in the company of such amazing inspirational bloggers, I am just absolutely thrilled!

So now it is my turn to return the favor and nominate 10 blogs that I think show great attitude and/or gratitude…

This is how it works:
1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show GREAT ATTITUDE and/or GRATITUDE!
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received the award.

The Bridal Inquirer Blog Nominees are (I too, had to go over ten…there are so many fab bloggers out there)…

1. Weddings Unveiled

2. Momental Designs

3. Amanda Lynn Photography

4.Relentless Bride

5.?Wedding Chicks

6. StoryboardLife

7.The Wedding Workroom

8.Globetrotting Bride

9.My Personal Artist

10. Adam & Eve Wedding Consultants

11. 10,000 Wedding

12. The Broke-Ass Bride

13.It’s a Jaime Thing

Each one of these bloggers has inspired me! YOU are appreciated! Blog it Forward!

P.S. I was also just nominated by The Vegas Wedding Planner!!! Thank you SO much! I LOVE the BLOG LOVE!

Posted in Travel Fashion
Oct
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Real Housewife Teresa Guidice and her (gulp) family.

Real Housewife Teresa Guidice and her (gulp) family.Photo: www.bestfordress.com

Major breaking news: Anna Wintour took her sunglasses off during the Jason Wu resort show yesterday. André Leon Talley, meanwhile, looked "violently mismatched."

• Heidi Klum guest edited 140 pages of the new German Vogue. [Off the Rack/People]

• Teresa Giudice of the Real Housewives of New Jersey launched a line of clothing and accessories that say things like "Delicious" and "Happy Wife, Happy Life." She thinks she has fans who are clamoring for products with her catchphrases.

Teen Vogue shot some models on the set of a Victoria’s Secret underwear shoot. Ironically, this footage seems perfectly suited to a men’s magazine. [Teen Vogue]

• Just so you know, Hermès boxer shorts cost $340.

• Ex-Hills chick Audrina Patridge is the new face of the Carl’s Jr. fast-food chain, a role once occupied by Paris Hilton.

 
Posted in Travel Fashion
Oct
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Dior Couture Leaves Critics Beside Themselves

Photo: Imaxtree

When the Christian Dior collection walked yesterday, the first thing that struck us was the lack of pants, occasional absence of top, and see-through skirts. Lady Gaga’s pantsless fashions had become high fashion — haute couture fashion. With shirtlessness also in full force, the trend had managed to migrate above the waist. It was a melding of the past and future. We’ve seen underwear as outerwear on the runways before. Galliano has also made jackets the focal point of past Dior couture collections. Pretty soon, we thought, we won’t even be wearing clothes. We’ll just walk out the door naked with only a few strategically placed items of foliage. It would be the ultimate in retro fashions — a return to our Neanderthal roots. PETA will become PETAAP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and Plants). Shop-A-Matic editor Diana Tsui will have to compile "Plants: And Where You Can Scavenge Them." Perhaps we’ve thought too much about this, but so have the critics.

• Cathy Horyn loved the collection. She called the jackets "the strong part of the collection." She especially liked the long-sleeve red silk coat dress, and found the hats by Stephen Jones "marvelous." And as for the long, massive tulle skirts at the end, she wrote, "longer lengths now seem as annoying as Rapunzel’s hair. Oh, just chop it off."

• Sarah Mower felt relieved the show took place in Dior’s headquarters in the Avenue Montaigne, which prevented Galliano from using "deafening music" and "extravagant sets." She was not bothered that the show was yet another rehash of Dior’s New Look: "Nothing particularly novel, or even mildly shocking, but Galliano turned that to his advantage. It’s a moment when reemphasizing house values is a wise tactical move."

WWD also applauded Galliano’s ability to reel in his signature extravagance in These Times, dubbing the collection "both controversy-free and superb in its own right." The bottomless and topless looks "allowed him to show off the craft of couture-building via the most intricate, exquisite undies imaginable." Couture. Undies.

• The underwear also left Hilary Alexander breathless. "Not since Jean Paul Gaultier put Madonna into a rocket-cone bra, has a couturier been so enamoured of corsetry, nor designed such underwear that positively demands to be on show," she writes in the Telegraph. She notes that Dior’s couture clients will be able to purchase matching skirts and jackets for the looks that appear to be missing pieces, and have the transparent skirts lined.