After a year-and-a-half hiatus, AMC's Mad Men will finally return to television next Sunday at 9pm with a 2-hour opener. Season 5 will find Don Draper and the gang well into the mid 60s, as reflected in the costumes showcased in promotional images. Not much has been revealed surrounding plot, but judging from the pictures, the fashion alone will warrant
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* Images courtesy of WWD
For Fall '12, the book “Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs” motivated Caroline Belhumeur, Club Monaco’s senior vice president of women’s design. Thus the chic collection she presented last week featured great bits of English-ness, along with refreshing pops of color and a rich pattern story. July deliveries leaned preppy with lots of striped knits and floral
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If you put things away in a too tidy way, then you will only find what you are looking for. You will never be surprised, nor delighted, by fortuitous discoveries.
Wise words from Karl Lagerfeld, although the designer's much-hyped new website Karl.com is far from a fortuitous discovery. Just launched, the site functions mainly as an online retailer, with assorted merchandise
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Last Thursday, we attended the ongoing "Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis" series at 92nd Street Y in New York. American designer Tommy Hilfiger was the focus of the second in an ongoing series of interviews which strive to take a "look at the inner workings and culture of fashion with the most prestigious and iconic fashion designers working today." This
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GANT Rugger unveiled its F/W 12 collection last week at an intimate dinner slash presentation at The Fat Radish, a favorite downtown eatery in New York City’s Lower East Side. The event launched a season celebrating food, eating out and entertaining. The collection is inspired by New York’s surging locavore, farm-to-table food scene: an approach to craftsmanship that GANT Rugger
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More than 70 years after the Mexican government launched the work of artists like Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco into the American consciousness via an exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the country is now setting its sights on arts of a more wearable nature. With the help of New York full-service PR and sales agency Melt
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The Oscars weren't the only celebrity-studded event going on over the weekend. Last Friday, the rich and (in)famous like Lindsay Lohan, Paz de la Huerta, James Franco, Tom Ford, Paris Hilton, Jeremy Scott and Ron Jeremy flocked to Los Angeles' OHWOW gallery for the opening of Terry Richardson's new solo show. Appropriately titled "Terrywood", the exhibit features a few dozen
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Following a distinguished list of collaborators that includes Alexander Wang, Vena Cava and Valentino, Gap enlisted a new crop of designers for a line of tees that may not be as well known with the help of DIY e-tailer, Threadless.
Founded in 2000, Threadless is a pioneer in the crowdsourcing movement, utilizing a system of design competitions and online voting to
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The F/W 12 edition of Jacket Required took place on February 12th and 13th at Victoria House in London's Bloomsbury Square. Increasing its vendor count from 38 for its first season to almost 100 this go around, the show is striving to fill a void in the world of UK menswear. Focusing on a mantra of ”quality of brands, diversity of offering
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GQ announced today the sixth annual Best New Menswear Designers in America. The project, established in 2007, has worked to advance and bring attention to up-and-coming American menswear designers. This year's group includes six highly regarded designers that were selected by GQ editor-in-chief Jim Nelson and creative director Jim Moore, along with the fashion editors of the magazine. As part
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Just this week, H&M finally released look book images from its highly-anticipated collaboration with Marni. The brand's founder and creative director, Consuelo Castiglioni, has created a print-heavy collection for both women and men which captures the essence of what the House is all about. Available on March 8th in 260 stores worldwide and online (only in Europe), the purpose of
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Adele is definitely having a moment; after taking home six awards at the Grammys earlier this month, the Brit singer is now featured front and center on the cover of Vogue's March 2012 issue. The plus-size trendsetter is also pictured inside donning ensembles that Anna Wintour had custom-created for the shoot, and she has never looked better. The pictorial's mood
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* Courtsey of the New York Post
Beloved club and fashion maven Zelda Kaplan died after collapsing in the front row at Fashion Week yesterday at age 95. Kaplan, New York’s oldest and most beloved night owl and the woman who could famously “out-party even Paris Hilton,” collapsed at the Joanna Mastroianni show at The Studio at Lincoln Center.
A statement released
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The Artist, a silent black-and-white movie about an actor past his peak, scooped seven prizes including best picture, director and actor at the British Academy Film Awards, or BAFTAs, on Sunday night.
Meryl Streep, also an Oscar nominee, collected the best- actress trophy for her portrayal of U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. On her way up the
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Mr Porter recently launched it’s Spring 12 campaign, which gives more than a slight nod to revered lineage. After last season's featured young heirs of style (Ed Stoppard, Bruno Senna, Isaac Ferry and John Hemmingway), the website puts forth a new set of young men who have inherited the sartorial style of their forefathers and who aptly represent the campaign’s
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