51 posts tagged "Gwyneth Paltrow"
It’s In The Jeans
Some people choose jeans based on what they do for their backside. Others select denim based on its backstory. If you belong to the latter camp, you may have already heard about Carrie and Matt Eddmenson’s Nashville-based brand Imogene + Willie. Born in 2009, after Carrie’s family shuttered a decades-old company that developed washes and finishes for some of the biggest names in the business—Levi’s, Double RL—I+W specializes in hand-sewn selvedge jeans and a semi-custom fit policy at its 12th Avenue South store courtesy of an in-house “denim whisperer” named Rhett.
Gwyneth Paltrow, who discovered the shop while filming Country Strong, put Imogene + Willie on the global map when she mentioned the label on Goop. But the Eddmensons weren’t in a rush to capitalize on the good press. “We strategically didn’t wholesale until now because we wanted to have physical contact with every person, and therefore every jean, that was purchased during our first two years,” Carrie told Style.com. “Those first 10,000 people were super-special because they helped us develop our fits.”
Some of those 10,000 folks can be seen in Love Fades, a new limited-edition book by the photographer Joshua Black Wilkins. The portraits, which were taken over the course of four sessions outside the 12 Avenue South store, feature fans of the brand wearing their I+W denim. As you can tell by the pics, these jeans are definitely good for your backside, too.
Imogene + Willie denim is now available at Steven Alan in New York and on www.imogeneandwillie.com. Signed and numbered copies of Love Fades can be preordered for $150. See Lovefadesiw.tumblr.com for more information.
Baby Beyoncé Was Born, Cynthia Rowley And Olaf Breuning Collaborate On A Damien Hirst Dress, Tom Ford’s Spring ’12 Campaign, And More…
Beyoncé finally gave birth to a baby girl over the weekend at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital. There have been numerous names floating around, but Gwyneth Paltrow confirmed the name is Blue Ivy Carter. [Styelite]
In her new book, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch, Sally Bedell Smith reveals a completely different side to Her Royal Highness than most are familiar with. The book, in stores Tuesday, includes stories of the Queen blowing bubbles at a birthday party, using a toolkit to decorate diamond tiaras, and crawling on her stomach to stalk stags in the Scottish Highlands. [WWD]
In celebration of the Damien Hirst retrospective, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, which opens January 12 at all 11 Gagosian galleries, Cynthia Rowley and artist Olaf Breuning created a Damien Hirst-inspired dress. The silk jersey T-shirt dress, available exclusively at Colette, has a screen-printed image of a nude figure with Hirst’s signature colorful spots, which Breuning portrayed in his recent exhibition The Art Freaks. [@Cynthia_Rowley]
Tom Ford decided to get behind the camera again to shoot models Mirte Maas and Mathias Bergh in Palms Springs for his Spring 2012 ad campaign. The “playful, ubeat images” will be in magazines in March. [WWD]
One Designer, Two Starlets—Who Wore It Best?
We haven’t even bought our winter coat yet, but celebrities have been racking up Spring dress credits since the shows wrapped last month. See: Gwyneth Paltrow displaying her finely tuned thigh muscles in a one-sleeved Stella McCartney mini not all that unlike the long version that Nicole Kidman wore a week earlier to the Country Music Awards, or Tilda Swinton and Elisa Sednaoui, both in vibrant silk pants ensembles from Haider Ackermann’s latest lineup, at the Prix de la Moda awards last week in Madrid. Carey Mulligan and Miranda Kerr worked Peter Pilotto‘s peplumed scuba dresses to perfection on The Late Late Show and at the MoMA gala for Pedro Almodóvar, respectively, but we’re guessing that you have a favorite.
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Farmville For An Evening At Gwyneth’s London Arts Club
In terms of celeb cred, it doesn’t get hotter than the members-only Arts Club on Dover Street. Founded in 1863 by London’s original It boy, Charles Dickens, it’s recently reopened after an extravagant renovation. Gwyneth Paltrow is an investor, on the membership committee, and has acted as design consultant; Mark Ronson is its music director. Despite its relatively nascent stages, it’s already hosted some legendary parties, like last month’s still talked-about affair where Mrs. Chris Martin took to the stage and sang to the Duke of Edinburgh, and two weeks ago, where Ron Wood, Damien Hirst, and Flea rocked out for a near-hysterical crowd. Last night, the Club shared a little of its hard-earned mojo with one of the oldest established celeb haunts: Switzerland’s Verbier Farm Club, which arrived for a one-night-only “pop-up” at the London space. (There have been plenty of pop-up shops in recent years, but this may be London’s first pop-up club—and what’s more, a pop-up club within a club. Think of them as the Russian Dolls of the party world.)
Giuseppi and Serafino Berardi’s establishment has been the Verbier’s premier après-ski club for 41 years, infamous for its “no last call” policy and for being the club where people like David Bowie and Diana Ross went straight from the dance floor at 6:00 a.m. to the first ski of the day. Princess Diana and the Duchess of York were Verbier Farm Club regulars, and now so are their sons and daughters, similarly titled ilk, Posh and Becks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jemima Khan, and so forth. All this ski debauchery was brought to the Arts Club last night, where the Champagne and vodka flowed freely in what amounted to a hat tip from the old-school legend to the newbie hot spot. It served as a thank-you of sorts from the Swiss club to its London faithful, and as importantly, a way to induct new It Brits into the Verbier world. Spotted in the crowd were such next-generation partiers as Cara Delevingne and Otis Ferry, alongside Elizabeth Saltzman Walker and model Adwoa Aboah. The approach seemed to be working. “I haven’t been to the Verbier Farm Club before,” Delevingne said, surveying the scene approvingly. “But I guess now I am going to have to check it out.”
Never Too Many Women
At last night’s Too Many Women fundraiser for Breakthrough Cancer, a dinner with Scarlett Johanssen pulled in a whopping £13,000. That ultimately proved to be even more costly than a cooking lesson given by Gwyneth Paltrow in her London home. These were just some of the prizes on offer last night at the charity auction held at the quintessentially English Petersham Nurseries in Richmond.
Pippa Middleton, Sienna Miller, Lily Donaldson, Gemma Arterton, Ronnie Wood, and Poppy Delevingne all showed up with charity on their mind—over £130,500 was raised last night. And for some it was personal, many guests citing family members with breast cancer as a reason for attending the event. And what brought Wood in? “The pretty girls, man,” he said. “Plus, breast cancer—it’s not cool at all.”