Patriotic Thread… Lagerfeld Gets Around… Belloni Cashes In…
Fashion houses, from Alberta Ferretti to Missoni, help celebrate the 150th birthday of Italy’s flag by redesigning it.
What I bought this week: leather
It’s sleek and it’s indispensable: slip into a smooth second skinI’ve gone goth. Quite dramatically and most unexpectedly. Also in a quite untimely manner given that Halloween was a week ago; and that I’m clinging on tight to the scrag end of my late-30s with very slippy hands. (While goth is an age-positive, age-tolerant fashion [...]
Dressed to disappoint | Annalisa Barbieri
Globalisation makes me feel sad, jaded and duped of sartorial choice. What on earth happened to fashion?Ten years ago an online fashion retailer called Asos – As Seen On Screen – was launched. The idea was that you could buy fashions inspired by celebrities, which was handy as I’m not actually sure what we did [...]
Jogging With the Elites
I went for a run Friday morning with Deena Kastor and Ryan Hall….
Buy of the day
Kate Carter recommends a little something to brighten up every day of the week. Check back each day for the next suggestionMondaySkin rescue oil, £33, from the Organic PharmacyThis lovely, gentle nourishing oil, containing extracts of chickweed and evening primrose is designed specifically for very dry skin. Unfortunately now that is officially British Winter Time [...]
Hot Legs: Malin Akerman Went Out In West Hollywood In A Skin-Tight Dress
Blonde beauty Malin Akerman enjoyed a night out at Chateau Marmont on Thursday night and showed off her long legs in a skin-tight black dress with a couple of interesting looking cutouts at the top…
PCPC Reviews Salon Chemical Reports
The Personal Care Products Council is addressing reports from consumers and hairstylists regarding reactions to certain professional hair-smoothing products.
Defining Moments: Step In Time
Just when you thought runway music couldn’t get any more diverse, in pops a smattering of doo-wop to freshen up the sounds of the spring runways.
Spring 2011 Trend: Serpent Time
The runways offered a whole new take on snakeskin—colored, metallic, studded, even woven—with chic scales aplenty.
Defining Moments: Remembering McQueen
Some 1,200 of McQueen’s friends, family and colleagues gathered at a “service of thanksgiving” for the designer.
Spring 2011 Trend:New Year’s Yves
Designers went mad for Yves Saint Laurent’s Seventies style—peasant dresses, bold colors, jumpsuits and all.
Fashion Fail: Steven Tyler In Leopard Print Shirt And Sandals With Socks
There was once a time when we all thought Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler might have been the coolest person on the planet. Tyler went from fronting one of the most prolific Rock & Roll bands of…
Coming on the air tonight
A grown woman owning a celebrity perfume is an obvious sign that things aren’t quite right, but there are plenty of other style disasters to set the alarm bells ringingA friend of mine recently went home with a young woman after a party. However, before he, you know, got down to business, he went to [...]
Nicky Haslam: five things I know about style
The designer on three-quarter-length trousers, English boys, and the ostrich feathers in his room in Eton1) My mother took me to Paris in 1948. She bought a black dress with big buttons that ran on a bias up the back. People should stop going on about Audrey Hepburn inventing the LBD – it was around [...]
Emma Watson casts a new spell as the perfect pin-up of fashion’s new guard
A Vogue photoshoot has shown a new side to the girl who played Hermione Granger. But with the premiere on Thursday of the final Harry Potter saga, what’s next for Miss Sensible?When Emma Watson unveiled her new hairstyle in July, there was wild speculation about the gamine crop. Did it show she was having a [...]