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What Does the Celine Show Cancellation Have to Do With Galliano?

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:48:14 +0000

Earlier this week, LVMH announced that they are canceling this season’s Celine show simply because of designer Phoebe Philo’s pregnancy (they’ll mount some sort of presentation rather). Philo will be eight months pregnant with her third child by that time, and has been identified to fiercely safeguard her family members life in the past: She took a handful of years off right after resigning from Chloé (2006, 2007, and most of 2008) to invest time with her 1st youngster and give birth to her second.

Though it seems obvious that the fashion industry — which, following all, caters largely to ladies — would be open to something so commonplace as maternity leave, Philo is actually the 1st major designer to have taken it (in 2005, although she was at Chloé), according to the FT‘s Vanessa Friedman. Moreover, Friedman suggests that LVMH’s unusual sensitivity to Philo’s maternity requirements may possibly have some thing to do with the Galliano debacle. This is an intriguing believed: It takes a main public meltdown from Galliano for fashion executives to understand they must be respectful of their employees’ standard maternity requirements?

The Celine move marks a conscious selection to choose the designer more than achievable marketing returns from the runway photos (front row, celebs, backstage) that advantage brands each season, and is the 1st time I can remember that an LVMH residence has done anything like this. Even after John Galliano’s fall, they continued to have major shows for Dior, refusing to miss a season.

Friedman reached out to Marco Gobbetti, Celine’s CEO, to ask him why they are suddenly prepared to sacrifice the publicity and hoopla surrounding a main runway show so that Philo can make certain her personal wholesome pregnancy (the nerve!). His response: “We could miss some advertising opportunities, even so we do not think it would represent a considerable impact in the scope and term of our project. In the end, all we do is created by individuals by means of their talent and abilities. It is all about humans, isn’t it?”

This is a perfectly logical outlook on nurturing one’s top rated staffers: Be excellent to them, and they’ll do a great job. It really is also an thought that may well be increasingly embraced in the wake of best designers buckling beneath pressure (Galliano, Balmain’s Christophe Decarnin), according to Friedman:

Is this a subtle effort to shift the LVMH corporate image from 1 of large executives putting outsize pressures on designers to one particular of cuddly-wuddly executives who sympathise with designers? Will it have a domino impact on the market, as most brands are just waiting for somebody else (someone big) to lead the way toward alter in what has turn into an inefficient and unworkable runway schedule?

Galliano and inefficient scheduling aside, one particular hopes that girls in today’s operating world (or guys, for that matter!) ought to feel perfectly entitled to scale back on their day jobs for maternity (or paternity) factors. LVMH’s decision to accommodate Philo’s requirements is a step — nonetheless belabored, or belated — in the appropriate direction.

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Elie Saab Couture S/S 2012 – Oscar dresses get minted

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:40:57 +0000

If Elie Saab‘s latest couture collection is something to go by, we can expect to see a thing other than the predictable black and nude on the red carpet at the Oscars. The Lebanese designer – who’s dressed dozens of winners, nominees and presenters in the last couple of years – showed a dreamy couture collection bursting with attainable Oscar frocks. Our money’s on one particular of the amazing mint green numbers, snapped backstage during the show, possibly worn by ‘The Artist’ star Berenice Bejo, who sat in the front row for the show.

There were also peach, cream and a profusion of pale pink gowns, producing up an ice-cream hued collection of heavily embellished and textured dresses and gowns. Though there were some structured suits and shorter dresses, Saab is not a designer you look to for daywear. He’s all about romantic glamour and severe attention to detail, this season through a generous use of tiny crystals on soft, fairytale fabrics fit for a princess.

[Backstage photo through Elie Saab twitter. Catwalk pictures: Getty]

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Front row at the Couture shows: Anna Wintour, Cameron Diaz, Diane Kruger and more

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:40:36 +0000

At Haute Couture Week in Paris, it is pretty hard to upstage the clothes on the runways. That does not cease these chic Paris Fashion Week regulars from attempting. Here’s what you wear to the most exclusive fashion week in the globe.

We’ll commence with queen chicette Anna Wintour at the Dior Haute Couture show at the designer’s salon. She wears an ikat print with a characteristic fur – but no sunglasses!

Poppy Delevigne looks a bit subdued in a full-length gown and cropped moto jacket at the Chanel Haute Couture show at the Grand Palais.

What a gaggle of gorgeous at Dior! Cameron Diaz might command the most clout on the red carpet, but she’s flanked by some fashion heavy hitters in Bar Rafaeli and Karli Kloss.

Clemence Poesy kept it casual at Chanel with a pop of color in her red bag.

No Paris fashion week would be complete without having Diane Kruger, noticed right here arriving at Versace Haute Couture.

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All Aboard Chanel Airlines: FIRST LOOK At Karl Lagerfeld’s Couture Show!

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:23:29 +0000

The invite for today’s Chanel Couture show was a hint of the spectacle that was to come. A view from Chanel Air, we cried, how chic! And the show more than lived up to our expectations…

As we reported yesterday, this week’s Couture shows are more extravagant than ever, and the fashion pack were in a flurry thanks to limited seating at the Chanel show. Why? Because of the dramatic set that rivals any of Karl Lagerfeld’s other creations. And this morning, we discovered just how dramatic it is.

Image courtesy of @franburnslondon

We were ushered into a space designed as the inside of an oh-so-chic jumbo jet – yes, really! – complete with a bar cart. The aisle was the catwalk, lined with grey aeroplane seats. We kid you not.

Image courtesy of @MOJEH_Magazine

As we prepared for takeoff, the air hostesses models glided past us, trussed up in pastel blue chiffon gowns covered in sparkling details and complete with pockets. They sported hair-raising quiffs and sultry dark eyes. Well, we’ve never seen such glam trolley dollies.

Image courtesy of Poppy Delevingne

‘Joining the fashion mile high club with Chanel’, Poppy Delevingne tweeted along with the image above of the show’s finale. What a ride!

Image courtesy of @Dan_Dhombres

And here’s a snap of Poppy’s little sister, Cara Delevingne, who was working her magic on the catwalk. Doesn’t she look magnificent? We say yes!

Stay tuned to Grazia Daily and @Grazia_Live as we bring you more from the front row LIVE from Couture week…

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News: Ivanka Trump’s Shoe Not a Copy?

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:11:02 +0000

Ivanka Trump, Getty

The plot has thickened for Derek Lam and Ivanka Trump—a representative for Marc Fisher, the licensing business in charge of Trump’s shoe label, told WWD that there is “nothing iconic” about Lam’s style, and as a result all is fair game. Every day Front Row

Here are 40 created-for-Television Christmas moments in two minutes. NY Mag

The publisher of Jackie Magazine doesn’t very recognize all this controversy surrounding their use of the ‘N’-word to describe Rihanna, claiming that there’s “nothing wrong” with it. Fashionista

If you feel the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center is extraordinary, check out this gallery of unbelievable trees that may possibly just blow New York’s finest out of the water. The Everyday Beast

Dolce &amp Gabbana’s Spring campaign, starring Monica Bellucci has dropped, and it is filled with all the farm-fresh designs that paraded down their runway in September. Racked

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Maria Sharapova Interviewed Herself About Christmas

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:48:31 +0000

It really is that nutty time of year when normally sane folks start muttering to themselves on sidewalks or grocery retailers or, in Maria Sharapova’s case, on the Net. She conducted her own interview (yes, of herself) about holiday issues like presents, food, and Christmas morning for Day-to-day Front Row. At least now you know you’re not the only 1.

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Florence Welch In Zuhair Murad – Good Morning America

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:17:18 +0000

November 23rd, 2011

Florence Welch was in New York City yesterday for a guest appearance on ‘Good Morning America’ with her band Florence and the Machine.

The band performed ‘Shake it Out’ from their new album ‘Ceremonials’.

Florence looked divine wearing a Zuhair Murad Resort 2012 gown.

This long-sleeve floral-print silk-chiffon gown fits her performance aesthetic perfectly as it’s roomy, floaty, eye-catching and colourful with draped details for dramatic effect.

You may remember that Carrie Underwood also wore this same floral print whilst presenting the 2011 CMA Awards earlier this month.

Credit: ZuhairMurad.com

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Filipa Fino Tells Us Why Her New Online Mag Fino File Won’t Be Like Vogue

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:42:24 +0000

Photo: Marko MacPherson

After 11 years at Vogue, most recently serving as the mag’s senior accessories editor, Filipa Fino is leaving the glossy world behind for digital, or, as she describes it, ‘the wild wild west.’ While the circumstances surrounding Fino’s departure from Vogue last June made headlines for the wrong reasons (was she fired? WWD insinuated there was “inappropriate behavior” while Fino denied any rumors of her firing to Page Six), her newest venture, an online mag devoted to accessories, should eclipse that bad buzz. Fino is one of the first, as she would say ‘old-school,’ glossy vets (from Vogue no less) to break off to compete with blogs and fashion sites run by relative newbies. And that makes us sit up straight and take notice.

Fino File will be a monthly online magazine with an e-commerce component that is set to launch before the fall shows in February. There will also be a weekly newsletter of sorts (it’s in the works) emailed out to subscribers featuring shopping tips and things that catch Fino’s eye. But she’s releasing a holiday gift guide on November 28 as a teaser of what’s to come–it will feature wish lists from Tory Burch, Narciso Rodriguez and Prabal Gurung as well as Fino’s own expertly curated gift picks. We got on the phone with Fino who was refreshingly candid about why she decided to make the jump to digital and why Vogue can’t keep up.

Fashionista: Why go online?
Filipa Fino: Around two years ago I started directing the accessories content of Vogue.com, which was completely new and foreign to me. I’m old school, I’ve been working in fashion since I was 23, which back then was 1995. I’m from the era of no emails, no cell phones when we traveled, everything was faxed.

But all of a sudden the scenario of fashion changed. These bloggers started appearing and they were sitting front row next to Anna. All of a sudden people wanted to know what I was wearing. I would put a shoe up [on Vogue.com] and the guy at Barneys would call me and say it sold out. I was amazed by the power of this and the power of my personal authority and taste to the outside world–not just the fashion world. I was reaching out to the masses and it was incredible to me. So I said, this is my next move.

What will Fino File bring to the already crowded fashion space online?
I felt there was no real editor’s voice. There are a lot of young kids doing a lot of great blogs, and I learn from them, but there was no filtered, editor’s point of view. [These bloggers] are 24, they haven’t had that experience. Like when I say something is ‘so Calvin’ I mean Calvin from when Calvin was there. Accessories have always been my expertise, it’s what I’ve been focused on for the last 11 years, and I think it’s a market of its own and there was really not a voice there and that’s what I hope to fill.

Do you think we’ll see more editors from traditional print backgrounds bringing their experience and expertise–and contacts–online?
I think so. Time is unfortunately the biggest enemy of print. What’s happening–and this is a frustration already at Vogue.com–is that you hold the best content for your print magazine; we were always proud at Vogue to be the first to have a story. But what started happening was that it takes three months to publish a magazine, so by the time we held information for the magazine to actually get produced, the news was out. The bloggers had it and it became viral and it was on Twitter and Facebook and people were still waiting for us to translate it three months later. And it’s like, unless Grace Coddington is styling it, there’s not that much interest for us in saying it so late. So it became this full battle: what do we hold back, what do we put online? Of course the magazine, being from that school, always won and we had to do our best to expose stories in a different way so they could be seen differently. But at the end of the day it was information that most people already knew. I mean, three months is a season these days. The speed of all this information that’s available to everyone is going to change every editor’s role in the publishing world. Most editors are going to have to change their tune and their vision.

What parts of your experience at Vogue will translate to Fino File? What lessons did you learn from your time at Vogue?
I feel more than anything the aesthetics is what I’ll take from Vogue and my Bazaar days. Things being visually pleasing is very important to me. I also think that Anna was fantastic in really getting the essence of the time we’re living in every issue. Even with fashion as a point of view you knew what was going on in politics and in society and in the environment; she was able to grasp that scope with a fashion point of view. I hope to do that with an accessories point of view.

By the same token, fashion is much faster; people want it to be shop-able and they want options. Yes, the creativity in Vogue is fantastic but it’s not always realistic. And I think women are looking for that bridge of something that’s really beautiful but that you can still wear. The strength of the mass market is huge–true style is mixing a Chanel jacket with a Zara shirt. It’s universal fashion. That’s why you’re seeing Lagerfeld at Macy’s and Versace at H&M. It’s time to explore that [fashion for the masses] and I don’t think Vogue has gotten to that point yet.

What’s your vision for the magazine?
I feel accessories are my authority and I want to stick to that. But I want to have fashion seen through the eyes of accessories, which means that while most people will start with a look and complement it with a shoe, a bag, etc., I want to start with the earring and tell you what goes with it. It will reach out to fashion, entertainment and what’s happening in the world but with an accessories point of view. The other thing is making it shop-able. I shop on Net-a-Porter and Amazon and the more I can get online the better–why lug it from a store? But I still think those models [on e-tail sites] are very generic; they just rotate and are badly styled and don’t entice you into buying anything. I still want that Vogue picture. But I want to be able to shop it. So my magazine will have styled editorial shoots. There’s also a huge disconnect between what magazines are showing and what women are actually shopping for at that time–I picked up Elle recently and there was a picture of a model in a bikini on the October issue! The earliest I’ll show fall is August and the earliest I’ll show spring in February.

Will you be flipping through the online pages come February? We know we will…

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The dates for MBFWA

admin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:48:59 +0000

written by Allan Barger

No news on who’ll be appearing just yet, but the dates you’ll need to know for Australian fashion week have just landed in our inbox. If plan on attending you better make certain that you have April 30th till May 4th clear in your calendar.

We also have had our a first peek into the new branding for the event, with Mercedes-Benz retaking the reigns as principal sponsor.

The fashionising.com team will be reporting from the front row to the backstage, you can check out the coverage from last year’s Australia fashion week at that link.

Filipa Fino’s Forthcoming Magazine to Be Called Fino File

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:56:39 +0000

Filipa Fino’s new venture, an online magazine called Fino File, will debut in February and be published every month. Fino, Vogue‘s longtime senior accessories editor prior to her abrupt departure this past June, said she’s been working on the magazine for two years. And there’ll be a taste of what’s to come in a special holiday gift guide, a mini-issue of sorts, which will include designers’ wish lists and Fino’s own “ultimate finds.” (There’ll also be a section for teen/tween readers, curated by her daughter.) E-commerce links will be peppered throughout, perfect for the Cyber Monday debut. [Daily Front Row]

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