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february 10, 2010

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Postcard From Hong Kong: 48 Hours With Rare Vintage’s Juliana Cairone

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Rare Vintage owner Juliana Cairone (pictured) recently jetted off to Hong Kong to curate an...

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First Look: The YSL Manifesto Tote

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What Made Balenciaga Balenciaga, And Other Intricacies of Spanish Fashion

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An Evening Out With The Laurens

Like uncle, like nephew? The sartorial eye seems to run, no surprise, in the Lauren family. At Greg Lauren’s art installation Counter Couture at the French Institute, the L.A.-based designer and artist has mocked up a sort of combination workroom-showroom probably not too different from his famous uncle Ralph’s—the key difference being that all the [...]

February 4, 2010  5:45 pm

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Sundance: The Swag Report

In terms of swag, Sundance isn’t quite the treasure trove it was a few years ago, when Sienna Miller famously got busted for hoarding freebies and movie fans wore “Focus on Film” pins in protest of celebrity-gifting suites.Still, there’s no reason a product-toting Diesel publicist wouldn’t chase down Kristen Stewart’s publicist in broad daylight, as [...]

January 26, 2010  3:53 pm

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Ping-Pong For Haiti, And Other Adventures In Fashionable Do-Gooding

Emergency parties, disaster-relief socials—whatever you want to call them, there was no shortage of get-togethers in New York last night designed to raise much-needed money for Haiti’s devastated earthquake victims.Modelinia and SPiN teamed up to bring paying guests into the trendy Gramercy table tennis club, with proceeds benefiting Friends of the Orphans. “We’re watching it [...]

January 21, 2010  11:57 am

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Gossip Girl’s Secret Staple Revealed!

In his new book You Know You Want It, Gossip Girl costume designer Eric Daman goes boldly into some of the styling trade’s most intimate regions: “underwear and breasts and bras and things that can push and pull,” he explained last night at Henri Bendel, where Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester were co-hosting a launch [...]

January 13, 2010  10:12 am

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The Best Gig In Town

The Standard’s ultra-chic 18th-floor bar (which will likely be known as the Boom Boom Room until the day it dies) is now a live-music venue. Singer Sasha Lazard became the space’s first official performer last night when she turned a corner platform into a stage for herself and a handful of musical collaborators and treated [...]

December 10, 2009  4:53 pm

Designer update

Christian Louboutin, Ass Man?

Christian Louboutin has flown south for the winter and seems to be loving it. Last Friday, he opened a new shop in Miami’s Design District. (It’s a sort of fun-house space, with an enormous mirror by the entrance, cherry-red carpets, and a spiderweb installation by Dutch artist Madeleine Berkhemer that’s made out of torn nylons.) [...]

December 2, 2009  2:12 pm

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Art Appreciation Night At Fendi

Fendi’s Fifth Avenue boutique served as a virtual melting pot of the arts last night, hosting a launch party for a book about artist John Baldessari and a piano performance by rock-and-jazz fusionist Eric Lewis.
No mere coffee-table volume, Sharon Coplan Hurowitz’s The Prints of John Baldessari: A Catalogue Raisonne 1971-2007 is a definitive treatment, ten [...]

November 19, 2009  2:36 pm

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Open Mouth, Insert Crystal Stiletto

Steps away from his Meatpacking District boutique, Christian Louboutin’s high-end glassware experiment is now under way at the 18th-floor bar at the Standard formerly (well, still) known as the Boom Boom Room. It’s billed as Le Rituel and consists of the designer’s take on the traditional Champagne flute—a 5.5-inch crystal stiletto—accompanied by a bottle of [...]

November 16, 2009  11:27 am

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The Fashion Set Fêtes Precious

This year’s little movie that could is shaping up to be Precious, the inspirational tale of a supremely disadvantaged teenager in eighties Harlem. The curious crowd that dropped by last night’s Cinema Society screening for a preview included Donna Karan, Agyness Deyn, and Tommy Hilfiger, the evening’s sponsor.
Sure, it’s a big deal now. But before [...]

November 6, 2009  1:09 pm

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Waris Conquers All

At Phillips de Pury last night, Waris Ahluwalia debuted the second iteration of the avian-inspired Omnia Vincit Amor (”Love Conquers All”) collection from his House of Waris jewelry line. The new series is less literal than the first, with fewer birds on display. (The exception is a colorful batch of limited-edition enamel pendants inspired by [...]

October 29, 2009  4:07 pm