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february 12, 2012

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Purple In 3-D

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Stop Faking It

Following the CFDA and eBay’s first collaboration on one-of-a-kind designer tote bags promoting anti-counterfeiting, the two have partnered up once more for another “You Can’t Fake Fashion” campaign. After the first round of bags, designed by labels including Rodarte, The Row, and Rebecca Minkoff, sold out within hours, over 75 designers signed on to create [...]

February 8, 2012  11:30 am

Social intelligence

Talking Turkey

It’s hard to believe for those of us still shaking off the tumult of fashion week, but Thanksgiving is around the corner. It’s never too soon to start preparing—and this year, you can make the feast that designer Billy Reid does with his family down in Florence, Alabama. For the Thanksgiving issue of Bon Appétit, [...]

October 21, 2011  6:10 pm

Shopping alert

Billy Reid, Collab-Happy

Billy Reid was in New York last night to toast the debut of his new collection for J.Crew, the just deserts of his CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund win. That collection, including linen shirts, a chambray suit, a slouchy cotton cardigan, and a Grand Isle polo, is now available at JCrew.com. “It’s just so much synergy from [...]

April 21, 2011  5:23 pm

Social intelligence

Royal Wedding: The Backlash?

The world’s been anxiously counting down to the Royal Wedding (caps, please) of Kate Middleton and Prince William, dissecting every detail from the hen night (that’s bachelorette party, to you or me) to the going-away dress (apparently it’s what she’ll wear to leave her reception and head off to her honeymoon). But a quick canvass [...]

April 21, 2011  12:41 pm

Outside sources

January Heats Up; Anna Dello Russo: The Early Years; Gemma Ward At Sea; And More…

January Jones’ first campaign for Versace has leaked, and she’s no repressed housewife here. The woman best known as Mrs. Betty Draper Francis was shot by Mario Testino in nothing but a bag and a pair of shoes. “I am always on the lookout for the next Versace blonde,” Donatella Versace told WWD. “She is [...]

December 14, 2010  1:43 pm

Designer update

Checking In With Newly Minted Fashion Funder Billy Reid

His win last night at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards was a surprise to the crowds, but no one professed to be more shocked than designer Billy Reid himself. “Absolutely blown away,” he said by phone this morning. “We’re still in shock.”Reid took the top prize—$300,000 for his line, plus a bronze statue of a [...]

November 16, 2010  11:41 am

Outside sources

The Season’s Unlikely Style Icon, Fashion Week 2.0, Billy Reid For Levi’s Hits Stores, And More…

The floral dresses. The chunky shoes and woolly socks. The high-piled buns. Looks like another night at the Jane. Also looks like—Elaine Benes?! The NYT assesses the reruns and finds the season’s unlikely style icon. Bizarro! [NYT]Meet the new, technologically savvier fashion week—one with barcode-reading check-in kiosks, iPad-stored guest lists, Fashion GPS. [WSJ]The latest Levi’s [...]

August 19, 2010  12:10 pm

Designer update

Announcing This Year’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Finalists

Drumroll, please:Congratulations to Altuzarra’s Joseph Altuzarra, Christian Cota, Prabal Gurung, Robert Geller, Eddie Borgo, Oliver Helden and Paul Marlow of Loden Dager, Pamela Love, Moss Lipow, Gregory Parkinson, and Billy Reid, who are all in the running for a grand prize of up to $200,000 (runners-up get a cool $50K).

July 16, 2010  12:40 pm

Outside sources

Visionaire-y McQueen, Aggy’s Sister Act, And More…

The newest McQueen tribute comes courtesy of the Dean-Gan-Kaliardos trifecta, who are dedicating the next issue of Visionaire—out in June, with a preview on www.visionaireworld.com today—to the late designer. Expect real wildflowers, a case designed by the McQueen studio, and a roll call of fashion’s best and brightest contributors: Klein, Sorrenti, Meisel, Inez and Vinoodh, [...]

April 27, 2010  11:28 am

Designer update

Billy From ‘Bama

To the insular, New York-centric work of American fashion, Billy Reid is a bona fide Southern ambassador—he doesn’t need to get two words out in that molasses voice of his before you realize that he ain’t your average Seventh Avenue man. The twang—in tone and in clothes—is Reid’s calling card, but lest you might forget, [...]

February 16, 2010  2:18 pm