February 24, 2009
Chloe Sevigny described her new collection for Opening Ceremony, which she showed on Sunday as part of London Fashion Week, as “gay lumberjack,� James Dean, preppy New England and English punk. [WWD] Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles says that she found the reality TV crews that came to the magaz...
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Chloe Sevigny described her new collection for Opening Ceremony, which she showed on Sunday as part of London Fashion Week, as “gay lumberjack,� James Dean, preppy New England and English punk. [WWD] Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles says that she found the reality TV crews that came to the magaz...
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February 17, 2009
At Diane von Furstenberg ’s afternoon show on Sunday, Feb. 15, the front-row guests simply would not settle down—but perhaps everyone was simply thrilled they didn’t have to put their sad faces on in sympathy for the economy. “We need this!� said Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn , glancing a...
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The guests who crowded into the Collective Hardware space on the Bowery on Tuesday night, Feb. 17, were mostly slender, tall, attractive, long-haired men and women, talking in a variety of European accents. They were there to toast Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld, the 24-year-old son of French Vogue edito...
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When the Daily Transom spotted a groggy-looking Anne Slowey (of Elle and the CW reality show Stylista) in the front row of Carolina Herrera yesterday morning, we realized that we hadn't seen Ms. Slowey at any shows all weekend--though we'd spotted her colleagues, Elle editor in chief Robbie Myers a...
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February 15, 2009
Elise Overland's presentation on Valentine's Day was not exactly a presentation in the traditional sense. The models, wearing mini dresses, leather gloves and colorful lambskin blazers, spent time standing on a platform, but also took three walks down a runway throughout the course of the hour and a...
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February 12, 2009
We weren't quite sure whether to believe the "Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore are engaged" rumor yesterday afternoon when it surfaced on the blogs. But now that Page Six and Us Weekly are reporting it—Ms. Moore's rep confirmed it and everything—it must be fact. We suppose we owe Mr. Adams a...
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February 10, 2009
On Saturday, Feb. 7, the charmingly loopy socialite Arden Wohl was sitting cross-legged on the floor of the closet-size Art Production Fund space on Wooster Street, surveying the dimly lit crowd of attractive people who had packed in to check out her 20-minute film, Two Other Dreams. On a screen, th...
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February 09, 2009
Shortly after Merrill Lynch was purchased by Bank of America, CEO John Thain was publicly demonized for requesting a $10 million bonus and spending $1.2 million on office renovations while his company faced a $15.3 billion loss in the fourth quarter. It's both better and worse than the demon-hunters...
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February 06, 2009
On Thursday, Feb. 5, the spacious lobby of Barry Diller's IAC iceberg building along the West Side Highway was filled with shaggy-haired 20-something guys in ill-fitting suits and 20-something tattooed girls in H&M dresses, who were there to celebrate the premiere of MTV's The College Humor Show...
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