Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Victoria Beckham dismisses rumours she will pose nude for US Vogue
Pregnant fashion designer Victoria Beckham has denied internet rumours that she will pose nude for US Vogue magazine.
Now that Victoria Beckham has left her WAG roots behind and transformed herself into the darling of New York Fashion Week, there has been much chatter in fashion circles about when she will land her first solo American Vogue cover. Gossip reached fever pitch today amid internet rumours that the pregnant 36-year-old was set to pose 'Demi Moore style' for the cover of the US style bible, claiming editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was keen to depict Beckham at seven months pregnant with her fourth child - rumours which Victoria's people have now flaty denied, refusing to give any further comment any further on the claims.
Victoria Beckham's style evolution
Rarely pictured wearing anything but her own label these days, it seemed a long-shot that Beckham would pass up possibly the world's greatest piece of free advertising for it, but Star magazine earlier reported that it was all set to happen. A fashion insider told them: "Knowing Victoria, she'll do something completely unique with it. It's not a very Vogue thing to do, but the team can make it work and make it 'fashion'. Anna's apparently really keen on it. Everyone's expecting it to fly off the shelves. Victoria's a huge style icon. There's a real buzz going around about it. Although nothing's been officially signed yet, Victoria would want to be sure she's the sexiest pregnant woman to ever grace a magazine cover. It will be a huge boost to her career from a fashion point of view."
Victoria Beckham's spring/summer 2011 fashion collection
Now that Victoria Beckham has left her WAG roots behind and transformed herself into the darling of New York Fashion Week, there has been much chatter in fashion circles about when she will land her first solo American Vogue cover. Gossip reached fever pitch today amid internet rumours that the pregnant 36-year-old was set to pose 'Demi Moore style' for the cover of the US style bible, claiming editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was keen to depict Beckham at seven months pregnant with her fourth child - rumours which Victoria's people have now flaty denied, refusing to give any further comment any further on the claims.
Victoria Beckham's style evolution
Rarely pictured wearing anything but her own label these days, it seemed a long-shot that Beckham would pass up possibly the world's greatest piece of free advertising for it, but Star magazine earlier reported that it was all set to happen. A fashion insider told them: "Knowing Victoria, she'll do something completely unique with it. It's not a very Vogue thing to do, but the team can make it work and make it 'fashion'. Anna's apparently really keen on it. Everyone's expecting it to fly off the shelves. Victoria's a huge style icon. There's a real buzz going around about it. Although nothing's been officially signed yet, Victoria would want to be sure she's the sexiest pregnant woman to ever grace a magazine cover. It will be a huge boost to her career from a fashion point of view."
Victoria Beckham's spring/summer 2011 fashion collection
The former pop star, who is set to present her sixth ready-to-wear collection during New York Fashion Week this Sunday, has starred on several covers of Vogue internationally over the years. But she's only graced the US version of the Condé Nast style bible once back in 1997, alongside her Spice Girl band mates.
Ralph Lauren Debuts $2,000 Denim
via The Huffington Post
Now in the running for the most expensive jeans: Ralph Lauren Collection Denim -- skinny pants, jeggings and trenchcoats priced from $300 to $2,000, Women's Wear Daily reports. There will even be shirts, which are apparently a touchy subject. Lauren told the fashion newspaper, "When you will go into the shop, it's not going to be about a denim shirt. It's too iconic. I didn't want to do cowboys here. This is really about sophisticated dressing." He prefers to pair his new jeans with white shirts and turtlenecks, instead.
Take a look at Tuesday's cover of WWD, which features a photo of the new duds.
(Image by John Aquino/Women's Wear Daily)
Take a look at Tuesday's cover of WWD, which features a photo of the new duds.
(Image by John Aquino/Women's Wear Daily)
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Tila Tequila
Episode 12: Zach sits down with Tila Tequila who may become his new best friend and also welcomes another guest on the show who some people may recognize.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
“League of Two” Duckie Brown on VBS
“Duckie Brown is the internationally renowned duo of fashion designers made up of Steven Cox and Daniel Silver. Based out of New York City, the pair bounce around their West Village studio bickering, jesting, and designing menswear that keeps pace with the most important brands on the planet.”
Urban Nudes: Shane Perez' Stripped Industrial Decay
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Photographer Shane Perez has been documenting the abandoned crevices of New York for over a decade. Born in Miami, the Bronx-photographer draws his inspiration from the decaying, hulking ruins of the city and juxtaposes them with comparatively beautiful, fragile subjects -- nude women.
"Primarily the figures serve to add a narrative element to the images," Perez tells HuffPost, "giving them a bit more depth than just being derelict machines and buildings."
I recall one shoot where we inadvertently held up construction on a condo building about a block away for a good 30 minutes. We were shooting on some abandoned oil tanks and when I looked over the entire construction crew was on the roof passing around a pair of binoculars. The model waved to them and they all cheered. Eventually the boss showed up and made them go back to work.
"Primarily the figures serve to add a narrative element to the images," Perez tells HuffPost, "giving them a bit more depth than just being derelict machines and buildings."
Nudity makes the figures vulnerable to both the elements and the environment. It forces a return to the world we inhabited before the invention of handrails and warning signs and all the other things we use to protect ourselves. Humans are fragile things and I'd like to think that my photos serve to illustrate that as well as our distance from our natural state.Perez says that finding and shooting at such spaces can be dicey, but that neither he nor the model have ever been in dangerous situations, and often find people who discover them quite agreeable.
I recall one shoot where we inadvertently held up construction on a condo building about a block away for a good 30 minutes. We were shooting on some abandoned oil tanks and when I looked over the entire construction crew was on the roof passing around a pair of binoculars. The model waved to them and they all cheered. Eventually the boss showed up and made them go back to work.
Paris Haute Couture: Karl Lagerfeld on Chanel's spring/summer 2011 collection
via The Telegraph
Hilary Alexander pays homage to Karl Lagerfeld's latest magical collection for Chanel.
Hilary Alexander pays homage to Karl Lagerfeld's latest magical collection for Chanel.
BY Hilary Alexander | 25 January 2011
There was magic in the air at the Chanel spring/summer haute couture show in Paris today.
It wasn't the stardust sprinkled by the constellation of front-row celebrities - including Vanessa Paradis, Diane Kruger, Pedro Almodóvar, and Jerry Hall. Nor was it just the enchanting, wearable appeal of the new dropped-waist silhouette with flat shoes; the modernist layering of crystal-strewn T-shirts and 'jeans' with the classic Chanel 'jacket' - now more than 90 years old, but still as fresh as a just-picked camellia - or the 'cloud' skirts, frothing below the knee in beaded silk tulle.
No, the magic was down to the unerring accuracy and delicacy with which the Chanel couturier, Karl Lagerfeld, gathers a million and more possible fleeting thoughts and references - before alighting on a theme which he then conjures into a spellbinding collection.
Video: Hilary Alexander interviews Karl Lagerfeld at Couture
Lagerfeld, now in his 70s, joined the house of Chanel in 1983, presenting his first haute couture collection for spring/summer in that year. That's 28 years and 56 couture collections alone. Lagerfeld told me not so long ago that he gets his best thoughts "almost by magic", in the few moments between sleep and waking. He keeps pencil and paper beside the bed to 'capture' them before they vanish.
In this case, some time in the last six months or so, he had a vision of Marie Laurencin, the French painter and muse of the poet, Guillaume Apollinaire. "Not so much the shape, or clothes she wore," he explained when I visited him at the Chanel atelier on Sunday, "more the colour, the fragility; soft, light."
Chanel spring/summer 2011 couture collection in pictures
I watched as he supervised a "dress parade" of the designs which would make up the 66 looks in the couture show. He sat at his desk on the fourth floor above the boutique which Mme Gabrielle Chanel opened in 1910. Behind him is a large, broad-brush impression of "Coco" by the German painter, Klaus Otto Paeffgen.
Nothing escapes his attention. Hawk-like, he spotted a silken ribbon choker; "too low, it should be up here," he pointed to his own throat, "and tied into the hair at the back."
"You see," he indicated the flat, triangle-toe shoes, fastened with almost invisible straps, on one of the models. "The proportion is new. It must be flat."
The embroidery - he called it "embroidery of light" - glistened like spiders' webs in the morning dew. Small, rounded sleeves caressed the shoulders; seams were detailed with shimmering beads and metallic threads.
Seen up close, the workmanship is astounding. Lagerfeld himself is still marveling, when we meet backstage before today's show.
"How do they have enough patience to do it?" he wonders about the hand-work of the 'petit-mains' who have laboured over these exquisite examples of the couture art and craft. "Some of these tops have 400,000 pearls and crystals. Can you imagine? I couldn't do it for five minutes."
The show opens with the aristocratic Scottish model, Stella Tennant - the granddaughter of the Duchess of Devonshire is now 40 and a mother of four. She shows the new silhouette: a short Chanel jacket with just a whisper of 'tailoring'. Detailed with gossamer embroidery, the jacket is teamed with a short skirt over gleaming, wet-look, crystal leggings, ruffled-up and zipped at the ankles.
It sets the fairytale mood of the entire show. Tweeds twinkle with crystals, collars and cuffs gleam with beads and sequins. Occasional flashes of jet-black, tangerine and a deep azure blue punctuate the dreamy palette of blush-pinks, ivory and a shadowy-grey. The use of feathers, mixed with pearls and crystals, is echoed in the web-like edges of the layered tulle ballgowns.
The veteran catwalk star, Kristen McMenamy, makes a surprise appearance as "the bride" (it is traditional for a bride to close couture shows). Wearing a pink crystal sleeveless top and trained skirt, embroidered with 'pom-poms' of feathers and crystals, it is a walk which brings back memories for her. "[It's] my second time," she says. "I wore Chanel when I got married in London 12 years ago - and Karl gave me away."
Lagerfeld, meanwhile, posed amidst the 47 models and preparing for the flurry of kisses and congratulations, is already pondering his next collection.
"I'm lucky, I touch wood, in that I can do things exactly the way I want to. I'm never pleased with what I do, anyway. I think I'm lazy, I could do better."
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