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Erin Wasson and Blake Mycoskie Talk Collaboration at the 2009 ACE Awards Alongside Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, and More

PopSugar — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:22:31 -0800

The Accessories Council hosted their annual ACE Awards in NYC last night to honor the most influential movers and shakers in the industry. Tomas Maier was on hand to be celebrated as designer of the year for his work with Bottega Veneta, and Diane von Furstenberg smiled with a DvF-clad Molly Sims before heading in to accept the Accessory Visionary award. Hilary Rhoda took a turn down the carpet, while fellow model Agyness Deyn was there to pick up Burberry's Brand of the Year Award on behalf of her good friend Christopher Bailey.

We caught a moment with TOMS's Blake Mycoskie, who was honored with the year's Humanitarian Award. He posed for photos in a black velvet Dolce & Gabbana tux that he paired with a zebra-print pair of TOMS straight from his new holiday collection. Mycoskie arrived alongside a Victoria Beckham-wearing Erin Wasson, which got us thinking about a future Erin Wasson x TOMS collaboration. "Maybe!" Mycoskie said. "You know I need more and more talented people. I am running out of ideas." The pair apparently go way back after meeting in their native Texas a few years ago. "We're both from Texas," said Wasson. "I met him three years ago in Dallas during his first of his TOMS American tour. They were cruising around in an Airstream, going around store to store when they first were starting the company, and that's how we met."

Nine West's Fred Allard won the evening's Visionary Award, and he opened up about the trends he's sees being big this Winter - he finds the over-the-knee boots "very sexy" but thinks clogs are "not a major trend." Despite saying that celebrities like Halle Berry, Rihanna, and Eva Longoria are big fans of Nine West, Allard won't be hiring them for any ad campaigns in the near future. He said, "Celebrities are attached to a very strong personality. We decide to pick our models and change our models every two seasons and there is a reason behind that. I just don't want to be stuck with one vision of a woman. . . we are fashion shoes for the masses."

Lady Gaga, meanwhile, turned up over an hour late and quickly posed for the waiting cameras before heading in to accept the Stylemaker Award from Marc Jacobs. Other guests included Alexander Wang, Glenda Bailey, Christian Siriano, and a Zappos-friendly Betsey Johnson - click here to see the full list of winners.

New York 11/02/09. Getty and Pacific Coast News Online

Agyness Deyn on Fashion

FabSugar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:35:26 -0700

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You know, even though I’m in fashion, I don’t, like, do fashion. Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff. I just want to do whatever makes me happy . . . Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun . . . being a bit daft.

”Of the Moment, and Thinking Ahead, The New York Times

Fashion In 50 Seconds 05/18/09 Herchcovitch Takes The Helm & More

coutorture — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:00:00 -0700

Brazilian designer Alexandre Herchcovitch will take the creative director position at Rosa Cha.

Hilfiger and Hogan both launched downtown insider-y ad campaigns, leaving some audiences perplexed.

Move over Sienna, Leigh Lezark could be Matthew Williamson's newest muse.

Agyness Deyn is the new face of Uniqlo's high summer sports campaign.

A Drizzly Damp Spring 2009 for Burberry

coutorture — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:36:26 -0700

Christopher Bailey must really enjoy a rainy spring day as Burberry's Spring 2009 collection had a color palette as chipper as a raincloud. Gray frocks, gray pants, gray jackets, gray hats, even gray socks made us feel as if we were in some very glamorous Charles Dickens novel. Oliver Twist and some terrible porridge were not far from our mind. If it weren't for the bits of yellow here and there and a bit of dusty pink we might have despaired that this spring collection would ever lead us to summer.

And yet we simply loved the collection. Tough mix and match separates, slouchy silhouettes (but not too loosey goosey) and some fantastic accessories make this the best merchandised collection of Milan. The exotic leather squares that made up the necklaces on so many of the looks were a particular favorite and sure to be in every editorial round up of best spring accessories.

Bailey is clearly channeling some sort of drab climate, whether its physical or economic, and that acknowledgement of the situation is sure to make consumers feel understood. And that kind of understanding leads to the loosening of purse strings because after all Burberry knows things are tight, that we are sad, that we can't get it up for something frivolous. But spending on drab basics is totally OK even in the worst of times. Which makes this collection the best of times.