Madonna and Lourdes Design a Collection

Madonna and her 13-year-old daughter Lourdes have designed collection for Macy’s called Material Girl which will be sold exclusively at Macy’s and on macys.com and hits shelves August 3rd.

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Willow Smith at the red carpet premiere of 'The Karate Kid' in Los Angeles last Monday. Ms. Smith, who turns 10 in October, channels Janelle Monet with a fun post-punk mohawk.
Also on hand to celebrate was Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, along with older brothers Trey and Jaden, 11, who is the star of the film. {Huffington Post}

Lady Gaga’s ‘Alejandro’ music video, directed by Steven Klein!

Stella McCartney Resort 2011

In an interview with Stella McCartney at her Spring 2011 presentation last Wednesday, New York fashion director Harriet Mays Powell discovered the designer's hatred for the word 'resort'.“How unsexy is that word? Does anyone even use the word 'resort'?" the designer asked the editrix. "Even people that have resorts. We call it spring.”

McCartney describes her new collection as “hopeful and uplifting." "[We were] trying to keep the same language we had in the show with all the flowers and all the whites, just to make it really pure and sharp.”

Check out the video below to see the looks and watch Stella's models dance and play chess. Ooh that's so resort--err, spring-like.

Aurélie Bidermann for Jason Wu

Inspired by Irving Penn, Jason Wu's Fall 2010 collection will be a gilded tribute to the legendary lensman known for blending elegance and minimalism into his work, making him one of the most influential photographers of the century.

This upcoming season, look out for sunglasses, scarves, and jewelry by Aurélie Bidermann, featuring whimsical pieces literally captured from nature with real butterflies, ivy, and ginkgo leaves dipped in yellow and black gold. Get ready golden girl.

Dazed & Confused Magazine's Rankin Shoots M.I.A

A Girl on Film: An A. F. Vandevorst Movie by Zach Gold

Vogue.com: The film you’re about to watch, an impressionistic, dreamlike interpretation of the spring 2010 collection from Belgian duo A.F. Vandevorst, worn by model Evelina Mambetova, was created by video artist Zach Gold and stylist David Dumas, and art-directed by Michael Sturgeon.

Marion Cotillard, David Lynch and John Galliano Does Dior in Lady Blue Shanghai

Nice Rack

I don't know how I feel about the new Nordstrom Rack opening in Union Square but I do know that I was brought up to love a good deal. My father, a Lacoste searsucker suit wearing clotheshorse, loves a sale. "They are just giving everything away!" my father would boast after New Jersey mall shopping day.

I'm more apt to check out a sample sale for deep discounted finds as opposed to visiting a discount retailer.

Will you shop at Nordstrom Rack?

Limelight's alright but where's the party?

I had a great time tonight partying at the sneak preview of Limelight Marketplace. Celebrities included Jill and Bobby Zarin of Real Housewives of NYC, Richie Rich of Heatherette, Bill Widdicombe (NY Daily News' Gatecrasher fame), Michael Musto, Andrew (Kelly Cutrone's assistant) from People's Revolution and Bravo's "Kell on Earth" and some chick from "MTV's The City."

The entire venue reminded me of a sterilized Henri Bendel's which I guess was the ultimate intention--bringing Upper East Side "flavor" to Chelsea.

Brocade was beautiful but difficult to find.


After having visited the Brocade showroom, a reporter from Budget Travel asked me for directions to the showroom. I had no idea how to direct her--I was that confused.

Despite the fact that I lamented over nightlife's time past, missing the New York City of my teen-aged years, the original stained glass was a nice reminder of what used to be.

Planning the Party of the Year

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Amanda Seyfried working it a back-to-front Bodyamr fall 2010 frock this past Monday night at the red carpet premiere of "Mother and Child". Smart move, Amanda, wearing the dress backwards because the burgundy sheen photographs better and is more complimentary to your skin tone. Plus on a PR angle, the stylish stunt is sure to get gossipers going until the next faux pas.

I like it but opinions are mixed:

The Cut: "Turning a dress around isn't that crazy or inventive — it's just awkward. If stars really want to get wild, they should turn things upside down and put their legs through the arm holes."

Ouch!

Soft Served

Sneak peek from “The Wearable Lightness of Being” shoot in the May issue of Canada's Fashion mag. The pretty pastel is pretty persuasive, don't you think?

Amusements

I guess Derek Blasberg is living the secret.

Ingredients for those at home: Mix an attitude of gratitude with knowing exactly what you want and you've got a attractive magnet force strapped to your ass, catapulting you to a social stratosphere where Burberry hooks you up with loafers and Barbara Bush Jr toasts you at an event in Dallas.

Eric Wilson of New York Times sums it up: "Derek Blasberg reports on the socially important while becoming, it seems, one of them."



Chloë Sevigny and a few other notable socials were hosts of a party at Barneys last week for his book, Classy. I cracked up laughing when I read that André Balazs complimented Mr. Blasberg on his book by saying, “I love the paper stock.” Was he hating on Blasberg or was he masking the fact that he thought the book was stupid?

But I guess it was essentially a compliment.

Which I guess is what Blasberg is all about--finding the hotness in something that is not. "He won’t write anything bad about anyone, which helps to explain why so many companies are eager to court his favor," reports Wilson.

“It would be easier to write that all the girls were smoking in the bathroom, or to say that everyone was bored or social climbing,” Blasberg tells Wilson. “But I don’t think anyone wins from those kinds of stories.”

whatever, dude.

Strike A Pose (at a high school fashion show)

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Last night, sixty-nine students from the Quincy High School’s clothing classes and fashion club hit the runway to show off their creations.

Terry Richardson

Before you start professing that you are knocking 'em dead

After party following Film Premiere

Wore a short, skimpy frock and my mother's 1970s shit-brown Shaft coat that made all the boys go "eww". But a young woman really loved my pink and gold unicorn necklace.

Yummicoco: thanks! its from Boutique F21 (forever 21. shush!).

young woman: really?! it reminds of "The Last Unicorn". Do you remember that story?

no.

Then I talked to a man that hated working with Christine Vachon, my idol who drinks her coffee black and like cats and poll-o string cheese.

Man: I sat in a car with her while she bad-mouthed Todd Haynes! You don't do that to one of your directors!

yes, you do. or maybe I am just used to being abused at any place that I work?

As a stood close to a man chatting with his good filmmaker friend, I stuffed my mouth with crudites and overheard him talking about someone who was "adorable". Drunk off persecco, I leaned over to him suggesting that "he should go for it".

His response?

A wink.

I later realized that he was talking about a little girl that was silently reading her book while she waited for her media parent to stop networking.

Later, I summed up the movie that we saw to another person.

yummicoco: I guess everyone needs a daddy.