Looks on Campus: Marissa – Loyola Marymount University
Marissa and I are in the very same sorority pledge class and every single time I see her at an occasion, she usually looks so stylish and place together. Nowadays when I ran into her wearing this adorable and style forward ’90s-inspired outfit, I knew she would be best candidate to be featured for Looks on Campus.
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Betsey Johnson Throws A Bankruptcy Party
The flier for Johnson’s farewell party.
Yesterday, WWD announced that Betsey Johnson LLC had filed Chapter 11 and intended to lay off at least 350 staff as a residual effect. What was not made public is that her entire design team had already received their pink slips yesterday afternoon with CEO, Jon Friedman, formally resigning at a company-wide meeting inside the brand’s showroom, sending the team off “Irish wake style” with a flurry of cupcakes and champagne, reports a (now unemployed) member of Johnson’s runway design team, who wished to remain anonymous.
“As of two weeks ago we weren’t allowed to invest any money—we couldn’t buy trims, fabric, send out samples to be produced domestically or abroad. Factories weren’t sending us what we had ordered since they were worried about not becoming paid,” the supply explained. The layoffs actually started six weeks ago, when approximately fifteen freelancers and complete-time employees were let go. “Betsey was there and although everyone was trying to stay positive as investors had been nevertheless coming by means of, she stated. ‘I’m going to be actually upset when people who recognize me on the street start asking—Bestsey, what occurred, what went incorrect?’”
According to the source, at least three rounds of prospective investors had come by means of the offices in the past two months, leaving employees with an added sense of job security. ”We kept becoming told that factors would turn around, and the discussions with the investors seemed to final a extended time—they had been truly receptive to the ready-to-wear sector of the brand, but when it got down to licenses, every thing seemed to fall apart. They weren’t agreeing with Steve Madden’s vision for the brand, which was to take it down-market place at a lower price tag point than what’s sold in Macy’s now.”
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Spring To-Do List: 21 Fun Activities to Try this Semester
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The sun is beginning to peek through the clouds here in Oregon, and the temperature is almost high enough that I only want to wear a light jacket or cardigan! Spring is almost right here for very good and I’m currently producing a list of factors I want to do ahead of the semester is over.
Below, I’ve listed 21 fun methods to appreciate spring and make these subsequent couple months prior to summer break your greatest ever!
Kenzo Flew In Bakers from NYC’s Magnolia Bakery To Make the Cupcakes for Their Paris Show
At last night’s Kenzo show, rain-soaked guests had been treated to a small a thing sweet to consume, in addition to a great show. A Magnolia cupcake rested on every single guest’s seat. Much more were stacked up at the exit. It’s often so good when fashion shows feed the style men and women. We genuinely do consume and are typically hungry (properly, some of us, anyway).
But wait, Magnolia is in New York. Just ask Carrie Bradshaw and every person who goes on the Sex and the City tour. So how did they get to Paris? Well, rather than ship in hundreds of cupcakes from NYC, which would possibly have gotten stale on the way more than, Kenzo inventive directors Humberto Leon and Carol Lim imported a crew of bakers from Magnolia who whipped up the cupcakes the night before the show. The Opening Ceremony duo are based in NYC so a cupcake from Magnolia tends to make a hell of a lot a lot more sense than yet another macaron. Still, we’re very impressed.
Kenzo’s Paris Spectacular
The finale at Kenzo.
At this point in the season, everybody just desires to be wowed. After nearly a month of shows, there’s something to be mentioned for a bit of spectacle alongside the clothes and accessories the crowd’s truly come to see. So Carol Lim and Humberto Leon‘s Kenzo show, held at l’université Pierre et Marie Curie on the outskirts of Paris, was exactly what people wanted: fun—and cupcakes!
Tickets to the show were color coordinated to match every floor of the open interior, as well as the frosting on the cupcakes whipped up by Magnolia’s bakers (flown to Paris, from New York, just for the show). Every level of the university’s connected by diagonal escalators and staircases, so the models hopped on and off just before generating their way around the creating and assembling in a square formation at the bottom.
Hautelinks: Week of 2/9/12
We love the concept of A Pair + A Spare’s lace-lined mini skirt for Spring. Also enjoy the notion of switching out the liner for versatility! So cool.
Another cute DIY: FabSugar shows you how to make your personal striped clutch for a night out.
One far more: DIY Braided Headband, from P.S. I Produced This – would be so enjoyable to do in your school’s colors!
News: Jean Dujardin’s Racy New Film
Photo: The Hollywood Reporter
Jean Dujardin, America’s new preferred heartthrob and the star of The Artist, has a new movie coming out in France. At left, you can see the least controversial of its promotional posters. THR
Helena Christensen is the envy of ladies both young and old in Reebok’s new ad campaign, exactly where she flaunts her toned physique in lingerie, strappy bathing suits and sneakers Fashionista
Former ELLE writer, Irina Aleksander gets the Into the Gloss remedy and explains why she never washes her face Into The Gloss
Another win for bloggers! Estée Lauder hires Emily Schuman of Cupcakes and Cashmere
I always enjoy it when I hear of bloggers undertaking wonderful issues. Even though I have been blogging for some years now, news of bloggers undertaking well does go some way in validating for me just how extraordinary this whole factor can be. That is why I was delighted to hear of one particular of my favourite bloggers, Emily Schuman of Cupcakes and Cashmere, being recruited by Estée Lauder to be their social media and digital guest editor.
Starting subsequent Monday, Emily will generate posts for esteelauder.com in her own devoted section as well as offer content material for the brand’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts. Some of the attainable topics she could cover are her favourite merchandise and her upcoming April wedding.
