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Lourdes is still blogging to promote Madonna’s Macy’s Material Girl Line. “I’m not the designer of the line but my mom and I inspired it and do the styling and the putting together, staying on trend, yadayadayaaaahh,” she confesses. “No but for rizzle, it’s a great line and if you guys like it that that is FABNOSITY.” Further down she discusses boys and writes: “um my brother went to Camden market to go buy shoes or something and came back with a GAS MASK and handcuffs. DON’T ASK.” [Material Girl Collection]

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Cameras have been trolling the halls of the W offices filming a documentary of the making of the magazine’s September issue under new editor-in-chief Stefano Tonchi. The magazine’s redesign will debut for September, which is, traditionally, any fashion magazine’s biggest issue of the year. A rep for the magazine tells us the release date for the film will be “around late October,” but wouldn’t provide many more details. So it’s unclear if this will be anywhere near as big as Vogue‘s documentary about its September issue, directed by R.J. Cutler. Of course, the bad thing about being the second magazine to do this kind of thing is that the most obvious title — The September Issue — has already been taken.

But this being the second documentary about a magazine’s September issue within a couple of years, one wonders if documentaries about fashion magazines are the new reality-TV shows about fashion magazines. Most titles can’t seem to come up with a good idea for one of those anymore, so maybe the more purist documentary approach is a good idea, though it might not hold as much mass interest for the general public.

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Filed Under: w watch, movie, september issue, stefano tonchi, vogue, w

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And what would she say of Ramona?

British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman: “I defy anyone claiming there should be an age limit on bikini wearing. Certainly with the loss of muscle tone and wear and tear that women’s bodies suffer as time passes, the bikini becomes an increasingly difficult option the older we become. But as in so many things, the divide between one-piece and bikini wearers is less to do with age than attitude.” [Daily Mail UK]

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Filed Under: bathing suit season, alexandra shulman, british vogue, quotables

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When you are a super-famous, superstar designer, leading a bi-continental life between Paris and New York, designing for two of the world’s most influential and adored labels, you learn to appreciate life’s simplest pleasures, Marc Jacobs tells Hal Rubenstein in the August issue of InStyle. Things as simple as sitting, staring.

Designing for two houses doesn’t leave you with a lot of free time. So what do you do when you aren’t working?
I’ve come to covet doing nothing. I am happy to sit in my garden in Paris, which is surrounded by jasmine hedges, or walk my dogs in the park around the Eiffel Tower. Frankly, I love to take naps. I don’t sleep really. I just stare at the wall and kind of drift off. And then, of course, there’s the gym.

But Jacobs also appreciates things even more simple than sitting in a fragrant garden and taking his pets to mark their territory at one of the world’s great monuments. He also appreciates mankind at its most baseline, gorillalike, pre-evolutionary nature, as Jersey Shore so brilliantly documents.

No guilty pleasure? No vice? No cheesy reality TV you must see?
OK, recently I watched every episode of Jersey Shore’s first season. I don’t know if it was any good and I certainly didn’t learn anything, but it was definitely hypnotic and it gave my brain a vacation. As for music, I know everyone associates me with edgy rock, but there are times when I just want to hear Britney Spears singing ‘Womanizer, Womanizer…’ over and over. I know, I know, it’s Britney! But I told you. I love imperfection.”

How brilliantly summarized: a brain vacation. Or, in these recessionary times, one could look at it as a great way of examining Darwinian theory without going all the way to the Galápagos.

On His Marc [InStyle, not online, via DFR]

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Filed Under: appreciating gorillas with hair gel, designers, jersey shore, marc jacobs

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Never mind the people on the covers of magazines — it’s the clothes that got them there. Without the clothes there would be no fashion magazines and no covers for them to pout their pretty lips on. And at least one dress by Miu Miu, ranging in price from $2,300, to $4,900, has become a celebrity in its own right this season, appearing on the covers of three summer magazines: Eva Mendes wore it on the July cover of W, Lily Allen wore it on the August cover of British Elle, and Freja Beha wore it on the August cover of British Vogue. The Guardian notes that while celebrities may book multiple covers in a month or a period of two or three, this is unusual for clothes. And while magazines like British Elle routinely share cover people, editor Lorraine Candy told the Guardian she didn’t really like sharing her August cover dress. “Obviously I’d rather it wasn’t on a major rival,” she said.

But every season has a few iconic looks that are shot over and over again, such as the Balmain dress Demi Moore wore so famously on the cover of W. But maybe this Miu Miu dress that has encased all these famous breasts can serve as a reminder that before there were celebrities there were clothes, and that they — not people — are the true stars of this business.

How did the same dress get on the covers of W, Elle and Vogue? [Guardian UK]

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Filed Under: repeats, british elle, british vogue, designers, eva mendes, fall 2010, freja beha erichson, lily allen, lorraine candy, miu miu, w

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CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fun finalist Eddie Borgo cast an editor from rival magazine Elle for a new online campaign. Style director Kate Lanphear wears Borgo’s stripes-inspired fall collection in the new images. Borgo calls Kate, whose regular appearances on street-style blogs have won her an online cult following, the “epitome of the modern-day punk.” She looks pretty amazing in the new ads.

Photo: Courtesy of Eddie Borgo

If anyone needed more face time on The City, it’s this woman. Then again, her elusiveness is one of the things that makes her so cool.

Eddie Borgo Shows His Teeth [Style File/Style]

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Filed Under: girl crushes, cfda vogue fashion fund, designers, eddie borgo, elle, kate lanphear

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Princess Stephanie of Monaco went to the Annual FightAIDS Monaco Gala Press Conference today wearing a satiny printed dress with a handkerchief hem, of which you could probably easily find a similar version in a store like Forever 21.

What do you think of the style?

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Rodarte for MAC.

Rodarte’s MAC collection, which launches on September 15, is inspired by Mexico’s colors and culture, and the products are named accordingly. For example, one pink blush is called Quinceañera, while a sheer white lipstick is called Ghost Town. However, the frosty pink nail polish called Juarez isn’t sitting well with blogger the Frisky, who finds it “tasteless”:

Why’s it tasteless? Juarez is an impoverished Mexican factory town notorious for the number of women between the ages of 12 and 22 who have been raped and murdered with little or no response from police.

Most of the young women are employees at the border town’s factories, called maquiladoras, and disappeared on the way to or from work. Activists have been applying constant pressure on Mexican police, who have shown little response to properly investigating the murders, allegedly because the victims are poor women. The crime channel TruTV even called Juarez a “serial killers’ playground”! And it’s not like the Juarez murders are some big secret: Jennifer Lopez even starred in a film,“Bordertown,” playing a reporter who writes about the rapes and murders.

However, plenty of blogs haven’t made this same connection politicizing the nail polish, and are just plain excited about the line. We’ve reached out to MAC for a comment and will update when that comes through.

MAC/Rodarte Makeup Collaboration Names Nail Polish After Impoverished, Murdered Women [Frisky]

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Filed Under: beauty marks, beauty, designers, mac, makeup, rodarte

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