Bally Loses Its CEO; Target Splits From Ad Agency
• Bally’s CEO Berndt Hauptkorn has left the company. [WWD]
• Target has split from its longtime ad agency Wieden & Kennedy. [AdAge]
• Drew Barrymore covers InStyle‘s February matter, and talks to the magazine about her new engagement. Woo! [InStyle]
• Tommy Hilfiger will move his fall fashion shows to the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street. [WWD]
• During the month of November alone, consumers put $ 20 billion on their credit cards. [NYP]
Top 10 fashion trends of 2011
In 2011, fashion was much more accessible than ever prior to. The world’s newest fashion icon and royal, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, was photographed shopping at affordable chain stores. Designers talked directly to fans on TV and Twitter, and sold cheap chic collections on EBay, at H&M, Target and Macy’s. There was so significantly information and so a lot of opinions out there about fashion, that at occasions, it was difficult to find any consensus, significantly less a trend. But here are my picks:
1) Hot hues. Bright color is a trend that we saw simultaneously on the red carpet (Emma Stone, best left, in that pink-and-red Giambattista Valli dress at the “Friends With Benefits” premiere) on the runways (at Jil Sander, 3.1 Philip Lim, Prabal Gurung, Roksanda Ilincic) and on the streets, or rather, the fields at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, where neon reigned supreme. And it is only going to get stronger for spring 2012.
two) Dip-dyed hair. Kate Bosworth, Katy Perry and Lauren Conrad are just a few of the celebs who sported rainbow-colored suggestions this year. But I knew it was officially a trend when the 10-year-old boy sitting next to me at Sally Hershberger was getting a (extremely costly) blue streak put in his tresses. Only in L.A.
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YES! Nicole Richie To Launch an Affordable Fashion Line With QVC!
11 November 2011 at 16:24
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Good news Nicole Richie wannabes. The style icon turned fashion designer is reportedly expanding her fashion empire with an affordable range for QVC. Hurrah!
Aside from her enviable personal style, Nicole has proved her credentials with two fashion lines under her embellished belt. First came House of Harlow with oodles of gorgeous jewellery, followed by a beautiful Seventies-inspired clothing line for Winter Kate and earlier this year, a range of handbags was introduced to her growing lifestyle collection. Yep, this is no Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton flash in the fash pan, folks. So we’re expecting heaps of Nicole’s trademark bohoness from the shopping network collab – think billowing maxi dresses, printed kimonos, skinny jeans, oversize sunglasses, aztec bangles and hippy handbags.
L.A. designer to know: Amber Sakai
L.A.-based designer Amber Sakai has come up with an idea for the woman who hates to check luggage: the Weekend capsule collection, with eight easy pieces to pack and go.
But don’t expect shapeless, packable jersey dresses a la Travel Smith. Sakai has parlayed her experience designing lingerie into pieces ($ 70 to $ 500) that are as seductive as they are practical, including a black lace T-shirt and bra, white long-sleeve T-shirt and button down, black ponte knit dress and leggings, faux leather mini skirt and lace overcoat.
Sakai grew up in Santa Barbara and moved to L.A. to work in fashion, first as a model, then a designer for the lingerie company Brighdie, and the surf brand Four Girls. She launched her own eponymous label in the spring of 2009, with items such as lace-back sweaters, lace shrugs, bodysuits and loose T-shirt dresses with attached bow-ties.
Back To School Fashion on a Budget
I never knew how hard it was to find affordable, age appropriate clothing for children until I became an aunt. Why is it next to impossible to find a cute, non-hoochified dress for a girl for under $ 50. Is it too much to ask to pay less for a boys suit than I pay for a suit for my husband?
This back to school season, there’s several great places to find the style they want for the price you want to pay. Read on for our back to school fashion tips (please add your own below…we’re always looking for new tips)
Dressing Girls
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Amare Stoudemire, Rachel Roy discuss upcoming collaboration
When Amare Stoudemire and Rachel Roy hit a Hollywood Hills basketball court for a small one-on-one final week, the New York Knick was dripping with sweat, talking trash and baring his teeth in intimidation.
The fashion designer, on the other hand, was the model of calm, cool collectedness, clad in sweat pants, a T-shirt and flip flops, breaking her poise only at the last minute to throw a properly-placed elbow that sent Stoudemire player reeling off balance.
It was all for the benefit of a video crew that had decamped to Stoudemire’s rented house in the hills to film footage promoting the duo’s collaboration on a women’s clothing collection. Some of that video is slated to appear on in-taxi video ads in New York City beginning Sept. 8, when the fall and winter 2011 collection hits retail (which just happens to be the date of this year’s shop-stravaganza Fashion’s Night Out).
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Mulberry Carter comes calling
Written by Adele Booth
Mulberry bags never ever bomb, as we are already acutely conscious. The Bayswater, the Alexa…all of these girls nonetheless hold up as properly-designed, excellent seeking handbags. The newest release by Emma Hill is the Carter- a significantly much more masculine sounding fella, and a bag that is maybe far more clinical than it is squidgier predecessors.
The Carter Camera bag utilizes my favourite letter to alliterated effect (can’t resist a ‘c’ name!), but admittedly that’s mere petty and obscure approval this end. The bag looks high-priced, Really pricey, which is what you want genuinely- and croc impact with chain straps definitely works as far as texture is concerned.
My only be concerned is that this version is tiny, and the upgraded size is nowhere near as lustworthy.
From 9 to 5: CC Skye
Photo: CC Skye
Ever wonder what a designer does all day? We asked CC Skye to fill us in on her LA life.
7:30AM
I wake up at my residence in Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway just in time to check in via phone and e-mail with our overseas factories prior to they close for the day in Asia. I need to have to make sure production is on deadline. On my terrace I drink my morning energy tea—some sort of bitter concoction created for me by a naturopath in Santa Barbara—and make a mental note to cease via Thailand and Bali on my next trip for inspiration (and a lot required relaxation).
8AM
Check in for my weekly phone session with a hypnotherapist who gets me mentally realigned. I am embarrassed to say that following 15 years of being a devout student of Kundalini yoga, the visitors to see Guru Singh on Robertson each week has produced me resort to phone sessions with hypnotists and healers. Speak about “The Lazy Girls Guide to Yoga and Spiritual Realignment!”