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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Tim Geithner Hideous-Tie Watch, Round Two
March 30, 2009 – 5:10 pm
About a month ago, the Obamas had Stevie Wonder over to the White House to perform, an event so special it prompted the president to break from his streak of red-and-blue neckwear for a tie in gleaming silver. The fashion risk-taker inside of him was emerging, just as the experts predicted! That silver tie paved the way for the finely patterned tie Barack wore today to tell the auto industry what it needs to do if it wants more bailout money. Classy, respectable — a good choice for a huge press conference. And then there’s Tim Geithner, who wore an orange-and-lavender striped tie. Orange. And lavender. Interesting how this guy makes his boldest fashion statements at the biggest press conferences. Perhaps he’s feeling emboldened now that the markets are reacting positively to him. Perhaps he’s getting a jump on Easter. But then, how would we explain the bright-orange tie he wore to that huge press conference a month ago? There’s only one answer: He’s an attention whore.
Earlier: Barack Obama Dabbles in Risky Neckwear, Tim Geithner Goes All Out
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Filed Under: barack obama, politics, risky business, tim geithner
Naomi Campbell Walks for Charity, Fails to Inspire Large Donations
March 30, 2009 – 4:50 pm
What — this doesn’t inspire you to fork over cash?
Naomi Campbell walked in a charity show at Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai on Friday. Designers like Anna Sui and Naeem Khan donated dresses for the event, to be auctioned on eBay to raise money for victims of the Mumbai attacks. At press time, many of the bids amounted to mere pennies.
Lakme Fashion Week [eBay]
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Filed Under: lakme fashion week, naomi campbell, photo op
Jay Manuel Explains His Silver Hair
March 30, 2009 – 4:20 pm
We’ve been wondering for a long time what the hell is up with Jay Manuel’s style. The clothes, the hair — it’s a lot to take in. So when we caught him at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday, we started small and just asked about the hair. Jay acknowledged that Sisqó went silver first, but the real reason for his silver coif? Tyra Banks. “I actually did it on a dare from Tyra,” he explained. “When we were shooting season one of Top Model, we were talking one night while Flash Gordon was on. I saw his white hair and said, ‘I would love to do my hair that color.’ And she goes, ‘Oh, you should do it right now.’ I said, ‘No, we’re in the middle of taping the show, how are we going to explain this? I promise you the day after we wrap I’ll do it.’ So a week later, after we wrapped the show, I colored my hair. I saw Tyra in L.A. and she said, ‘Ya did it, all right, now that’s your trademark.’” The genius behind the Flash Gordon pigment is New York–based stylist Oscar James, who does Tyra’s hair (or weave) as well. His services are very exclusive. “He actually doesn’t work at a salon,” explained Jay. “Because, you know, he works on Tyra, celebrities, blah blah blah.” Exactly.
View our Party Lines slideshow.
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Filed Under: america’s next top model, jay manuel, tyra banks
Kids’ Spa Days Are All the Rage; New Men’s Colognes Smell the Same
March 30, 2009 – 3:40 pm
The curls run amok.
MAKEUP
• Kids today are beauty-obsessed: “Five-year-olds have spa days and pedicure parties … teens get laser hair removal, the most common cosmetic procedure of that age group … By the time your 10-year-old is 50, she’ll have spent nearly $300,000 on just her hair and face.” [Newsweek]
• Castanea Partners, the company that owns Betsey Johnson, just bought a majority of the Urban Decay cosmetics brand. They like that it targets young people. [WWD]
HAIR
• Jonas brother Joe likes to wear his hair straight, but he showed up to the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards this weekend with curly hair. Travesty. Whoever lost his CHI iron should get fired. [Stylewatch/People]
• Jennifer Lopez debuted thinner, wispier bangs when she was in Tokyo. We approve. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]
FRAGRANCE
• New men’s spring fragrances, like Prada, Burberry, Gucci, John Varvatos, and more, all smell the same. [LAT]
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Filed Under: beauty, beauty marks, fragrance, hair, jennifer lopez, joe jonas, makeup
Madonna’s Baby-Adopting Uniform Costs $2,800
March 30, 2009 – 3:00 pm
Madonna has been jetting around trying to adopt a toddler from Malawi named Mercy. The tracksuit she wore for this activity is by Chanel. Similar styles currently in stores cost $2,800 ($1,600 for the pants and $1,200 for the top).The fedora she wore appears to be the same one she wore in 2006 when she went to Malawi to adopt David Banda. Because at least part of her outfit should alert her adoring public she’s in Africa without us having to read the article. [HP]
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Filed Under: babies, chanel, eff the recession, madonna
Julia Restoin-Roitfeld: ‘My Mum Told Me Always to Wear Heels’
March 30, 2009 – 2:15 pm
French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld’s daughter Julia Restoin-Roitfeld is everywhere these days. In ads for Mango, in a spread for British Harper’s Bazaar, getting her photo taken at countless swanky parties. Somewhere in there she fits in the day job she professes to have of freelance art director. And somehow she’s become what Marc Jacobs was to fashion media in 2008 — no publication is complete without a profile of her, even if she doesn’t say anything she hasn’t said before a hundred million times. But the recent profile in the Times of London is more about her mom than her. And it turns out growing up with Carine at the head of the table is just as much pressure as you’d expect.
Heels are mandatory in the house of Carine.
“My mum told me always to wear heels. If I’m not wearing heels, she says, ‘What? You’re in flats?’ So whenever I see her, I make sure I have heels with me.”
Carine used her kids as props.
“We didn’t have a full-time babysitter,” Julia recalls, “so on the weekends [my mum] would take me to the shows — which I hated — and she would use us in the shoots she was styling for French Elle or Vogue Bambini. But I wasn’t into it at all and I used to fall asleep on set all the time.”
Julia didn’t choose fashion, fashion chose her.
“I don’t want to sound spoilt, and it was an exciting time, but I don’t think it was the fashion that made it like that. It was more the travelling with my parents that I enjoyed; they were open-minded and fun. But they were very pushy — my mum would force me to do internships at different magazines in the holidays. I was 15 and I didn’t want to work, although now I am grateful for it — she transmitted her work ethic to us.”
Maybe Carine took her on photo shoots so she’d absorb a sense of style.
“I went through different periods when I was younger. The worst was when I went a bit grungy, with red and purple hair and Doc Martens, but I wasn’t very interested in fashion until I moved to the States six years ago.”
When your mother edits Vogue [Times UK]
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Filed Under: carine roitfeld, cult of personality, french vogue, julia restoin roitfeld
Hey, Who Ordered ‘Gigli’?
March 30, 2009 – 2:13 pm
With a nation in recession and households cutting back on nights out at the movies, Netflix has thrived, but it is creating a new battleground for relationships.
What’s New in the World of Sean ‘Puckface’ Avery
March 30, 2009 – 1:30 pm
Oh, day jobs …
We can probably all agree that hockey player Sean Avery has been out of the non-sports-sections of the news for too long. Leave it to the New York Times‘ “Sunday Styles” section to fill that void. What’s new with our favorite — and possibly the wealthiest and oldest — ex-Vogue-intern of all time? He’s taken up meditating to manage his anger. (In 2007 he was voted “most hated” player on the ice; his antics during game play inspired a new rule; and you probably remember when he called ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert “sloppy seconds,” which resulted in his suspension.)* He took his ex-co-workers from Vogue to an American Museum of Natural History benefit last Thursday. And the movie based on him inspired by his internship at Vogue now has a working title: Puckface.
And now that his suspension is over and he’s back playing for the New York Rangers after a stint with the Dallas Stars, he’s getting fashion people into hockey. He sits front row at fashion shows, they sit, well, somewhere at the ice rink. “He’s made me a big fan of hockey now,” Narciso Rodriguez told the Times. Guests at last Sunday’s game included Narciso, Kirsten Dunst, Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles, and Beatrice Inn owner Matt Abramcyk. Interesting! The Vogue pack was absent. Not that we can blame them — we avoid sports at all costs, too (with the rare exception made based on hotness of the players, but even so that’s usually at the gym when we can’t change the channel and have no choice but to either stare at soccer or Rachel Ray).
Avery says he wants to launch a line of designer athleticwear one day. “’There’s a few that do it like Y-3 and obviously Stella McCartney,” he said, “but I think there’s maybe a gap in there I could get into.’” Of course there’s always room for Seany in the fashion world! Anything to keep Kanye West’s ego in check.
The Demon on His Shoulder [NYT]
*Let this in no way imply we are in any way knowledgeable about hockey, or sports in general.
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Filed Under: celebrinterns, designers, industry players, joanna coles, kirsten dunst, narciso rodriguez, puckface, sean avery, vogue
Personal Best: It’s Time to Make a Coffee Run
March 30, 2009 – 12:49 pm
Caffeine is one of the few performance enhancers that are not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and studies have proved that it does work in athletes’ favor.