Daphne Guinness, Byrdie Bell, Julie Henderson, Lauren Remington Platt, Adrien Brody, Marc Jacobs, and Lorenzo Martone gathered at The Standard hotel in New York to join Valentino in celebrating the DVD launch of the documentary film Valentino: The Last Emperor. Madonna and Jesus Luz also attended the party, but avoided cameras by sneaking out a back exit post-event with Steven Klein.
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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
Karlie Kloss will appear in the spring 2010 Christian Dior advertising campaign.
Jerry Hall on writing poems and living with Mick Jagger's brood.
Anthropologie expands to Europe with London store debut.
Gucci launches iPhone app with a 24-hour music channel, travel tips, playlists and virtual turntables.
Marc Jacobs autographs bags to benefit Al Gore's nonprofit organization, The Climate Project.
Manolo Blahnik shows his colorful spring 2010 collection in London.
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More than a few designers must have hit Army Navy stores for inspiration this spring, as military detailing was used on everything from combat boot-style footwear (at Jean Paul Gaultier and Phi) to army fatique jackets (Rag & Bone, Marc Jacobs, Celine, and Louis Vuitton).
Since September we've been living in a now-sold-out military jacket we picked up from the Gap, but J.Crew has a great version, too, which is still available online.
Lingerie detailing and underwear-as-outerwear were two dominant themes during the spring 2010 fashion shows with designer like Jean Paul Gaultier, Marc Jacobs and Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana resurrecting famous nineties silhouettes and making what was once old, new again—think sculpted bra tops, bloomers, corsets, slips, ballerina tights, bustiers and see-through lace.
Madonna and Jesus Luz filled the celebrity quota at the Marc Jacobs spring 2010 show, as a tardy Lady GaGa looked on from the photographer pit, having arrived 20 looks into Marc's prompt 8:05 collection start.
As Marc Jacobs told Style.com's Nicole Phelps, he's over black leather and studs and, this season, wanted to show something more individual—inspired by "a trip to the theater, the ballet the opera." Jacobs' theatrical expression of romance translated into a mash-up of deconstructed, highly textured looks—ruffles on absolutely every part of the body, satin bras over knit tops, corsets over suit jackets, voluminous harem pants, and footless ballerina tights. Models—including Jessica Stam and Suvi Koponen making spring debuts—were made up like porcelain dolls in heavily powdered faces, thick black eyeliner and tight top knots.
There were more than a few must-own pieces shown in the collection—namely the aforementioned knitwear, as well as military coats, fringed handbags, and Japanese slippers—but, as Jacobs told WWD, "It's not just about selling clothes. It's about giving people things to dream of and romanticize about." Call us grateful.
According to makeup guru Francois Nars, the inspiration for Marc Jacobs's spring 2010 beauty look was "ballerina, caberet girl. . . broadway show meets opera meets Martha Graham. . . with a touch maybe of gothic". Nars used "tons of powder", liquid eyeliner, and two pairs of false eyelashes on each model. [NY Mag Video]
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