Celebrity Street Style of the Week: Jessica Alba, Carrie Underwood, & Christa B. Allen
Every week, I scour the web to find inspiring outfits on your preferred celebs and support you recreate their looks! This week, I was inspired by Jessica Alba, Carrie Underwood, and Christa B. Allen. Read on to see how you can get their looks for oneself.
Look 1: Jessica Alba’s Floral Bottoms
Incoming search terms:
- color trends spring 2013 sandals
Banana Republic Goes Slim Aarons
Coco Rocha for the Banana Republic Trina Turk collection. Photo: WWD
Freshly off her brightly-colored Met Ball turn in vintage Givenchy, Coco Rocha is slipping into one more, equally-vibrant dress, this time for Banana Republic.
Rocha is the face of the retailer’s upcoming restricted-edition collaboration with Trina Turk—60 dresses, accessories, sunglasses, swimsuits, and more, in Turk’s signature bold patterns, all inspired the Palm Springs lifestyle. Therefore, it’s only logical that the campaign would be photographed in just that locale—the Richard Neutra-developed Kaufmann Residence in Palm Springs—and inspired by a photographer known for his dreamy retro pictures of Palm Springs life: Slim Aarons. “The Slim Aarons photo of ladies getting drinks at the pool has been an inspiration for our brand,” Turk told WWD. The collection debuts June 7.
Incoming search terms:
- banana republic trina turk
- Chanel West Coast striped bikin
Loomstate’s Designers Bike Ride Drunk (for the Environment!), Convinced Winona Ryder To Stop Washing Her Jeans
Photo: BFA
Incoming search terms:
- jackie guerrido clothing
- jackie guerro in swimsute
- loomstate 321
- scott mackinlay hahn
What Everyone’s Saying About Kanye
Photo: Getty Pictures
Among the other topics dominating Paris Style Week—Jil Sander, Raf Simons, YSL, Dior—there was Kanye West. Would men and women go to his show? Would the clothes be any better? Would he keep on attempting?
The answer to all 3 was yes (even though there’s some debate on quantity two). A lot of folks went to both his 9:30PM show (late, even by Paris standards) and his afterparty. Each critical editors and buyers as nicely as West’s pals like Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, P Diddy. Rosario Dawson, Common and Mos Def sat front row. Conspicuously missing, however, had been the designers who so enthusiastically showed up to support West’s debut work final September: Azzedine Alaïa, Dean and Dan Caten, Olivier Theyskens, Jeremy Scott, Delfina Delettrez Fendi and the Olsens. As an alternative, there’s just a single other designer’s name becoming bandied about: Riccardo Tisci. Yesterday, the Post reported the spread of Parisian gossip about the rapper’s close friendship with the Givenchy designer. Tisci worked with West and Jay on last year’s Watch the Throne and has lately vacationed with West, but is he helping West design clothes? Most likely not. Tisci’s influence can be felt in almost every single collection that Phoebe Philo’s can’t.
As for the vital reviews of West’s fall collection, no one particular actually name checked Givenchy. Here’s a roundup of what they did say:
Olympia LeTan’s Strip Dance Party
Final night’s Olympia LeTan presentation.
PARIS—I was in tears when I landed at Olympia LeTan’s presentation final night, thanks to a wicked combination of fashion month exhaustion and the worst taxi driver in the history of the world, but the designer had me giggling just before they dried.
Upon arrival, guests were ushered into what looked like a working kitchen in the Musée Nissim de Camondo. Maids followed close behind, carrying massive wicker baskets and wearing traditional black and white shirt dresses. On the very first note of “Mickey and Sylvia,” a model emerged, dramatically reaching her arms around the door. One particular by 1 they popped out of a side door, dressed in LeTan’s debut prepared-to-put on collection. Peter Pan collar dresses, pastel pink coats, colorful knee-length skirts and flirty t-shirts printed with items like “Clever Girl” accompanied the designer’s signature book clutches.
As the models’ dancing became increasingly seductive, they started to take those oh-so-cute clothes off. And as they shimmied out in their black, high-waisted pantyhose and Page-like bras, the maids folded the clothes into the baskets, the man in front of me wiped his brow and the crowd cheered, “Bravo!”
Isabel Marant’s Greatest Hits Go West
From left to appropriate, spring 2011, fall 2012, fall 2011, fall 2012. Images: Imaxtree
If Isabel Marant‘s fall collection, which debuted in Paris yesterday, looks familiar, it’s because Marant’s not the designer who tries to reinvent herself every season. Perhaps far more desirable, particularly to the hundreds of buyers packed into the Couvents de Courdeliers, she just offers her buyers what they want.
So Marant took her tried and true favorites and turned up that western flair she loves so much. There was the pale pink and burgundy color palette that dominated her spring 2011 collection, the mini-dress-meets-boot silhouette that pops up year right after year and the suede fringe that created last fall’s collection so identifiable. Like Olivier Rousteing at Balmain, she utilised embroidered pink roses to invoke traditional cowboys. And to round it out, a slew of white boho tops and dresses for those nonetheless hankering for a slice of Sienna Miller’s style (circa 2004).
Incoming search terms:
- oscars best dressed 2012
- ivory and black dresses
- oscar gowns for 2012
- show oscar 2012
- 2012 fall fashion trends
- best oscar gowns 2012
- victoria victoria beckham s/s 12 emily strange
Rumor: Kanye West Taps Mark Fast for Fall
Kanye West & Co sitting front row at Mark Fast. Photo: Getty Images
Though Kanye West has been holed up in London working on his fall collection—and his new album—the rapper only made it to one London Fashion Week show on the last day: Mark Fast‘s. A far cry from the days he was spotted in nearly every front row from Christopher Kane to Vivienne Westwood, rumor has it the lone appearance is due to Fast’s new gig behind the scenes at West’s label. West’s debut collection, shown during Paris Fashion Week this past October, was designed with help from Louise Goldin, the Central St. Martin’s grad known for tight, bright knits and using surprising fabrics like lurex and metallics in otherwise traditional knitting patterns.
Fast, another St. Martin’s alum, first caused a splash three years ago when he sent plus size models down his runway wearing body-hugging knit dresses. Now they’re worn by it-girls from Julia Roitfeld to Rihanna, making him a solid choice for West’s design team. Sounds like we’ll have to wait until the designer shows his second collection in Paris (9:30 PM on March 6th) to find out if Fast really is involved—and what he can do for the brand.
Peter Pilotto to Launch Outerwear Collab
1 of the puffers at Peter Pilotto. Photo: Getty Images
Peter Pilotto’s already won more than the fashion critics—and they’re the hardest to please. So now, as designers Pilotto and Christopher De Vos Origin attempt to develop their brand, they’re making use of collaborations to obtain exposure.
For spring, they collaborated with Lisa Marie Fernandez on a line of printed swimsuits and yesterday, at their fall runway show, they debuted their new outerwear. The Brits teamed up with Schneiders, the Austrian outerwear brand renowned for its wool coats and Olympic uniforms, to create a collection of puffy quilted down jackets. They came cropped—and in vest form—in the exact same Asian inspired prints (the collection’s colors and prints were inspired by Japanese light trucks and Chinese opera mask makeup) as the cut-out dresses and slim pants, but they’re created out of metallic laminated wool.
Look for them in shops subsequent fall, but if you like your puffy jackets to be less colorful, do not worry—they’ve been everywhere. Burberry threw cropped down jackets more than men’s suits and complete skirts, J.W. Anderson supplied puffy pinstriped suit-like jackets and vests and even Tom Ford showed a fur-covered puffer. Here’s hoping, for their sake, that it is a bit colder next winter.