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August 30, 2011

Fashion News: Missoni & Target

I love Target.  And I especially love their designer collaborations.  Sept 13th (through Oct. 22), Target is launching their latest collaboration – this time with Missoni, the master of dizzying, vibrant prints.

I’m not a big fan of Missoni (I can only take the colorful zig zags in small doses) and for women’s fashions, I mostly think it is pattern overdose.  But I’m loving the home decor selection and think Missoni prints work really well within the kids division.

After seeing the lookbook though I must add “bike” to the category of Missoni items that I would consider purchasing.  Does anyone else also now have an uncontrollable need for this Missoni bike?
They just need to create a matching Missoni bike lock.  Lord knows us NY-ers would need one..or two…or three even with this fashionable, sure-to-be-coveted transportation device.

 

January 17, 2011

Fashion’s Newest Faces

Fashion is fickle.  It’s constantly changing and so the same goes for fashion’s faces.  Kate Moss who just turned 37 by the way, famously became the face of Calvin Klein, Burberry, Chanel, Dior, Topshop, Rimmel London and many more.  And with the change in times (and with Kate’s erratic behavior), brands have both run towards and away from her when carefully considering who would best represent them.

Kate Moss

The fashion front has some exciting updates.  Firstly, Leighton Meester is now officially one of the faces of Missoni.  Check out her adorable photo here proving once again that nerds are in vogue.

Though she is not the sole star of the campaign, ( Margherita Missoni, Camilla Al Fayed, Eugenie Niarchos, Tatiana Santo Domingo, Charlotte Dellal and Jacquetta Wheeler were also photographed for the ad campaign), she certainly looks like she is enjoying her model moment.

Another queen B from gossip girl that is the new face of fashion is Blake Lively.  Possibly, the luckiest of all fashion faces, she just got appointed as Chanel’s ambassador for their new Mademoiselle handbag! 

I think Karl made a fabulous choice.  She is as he praised, the “American Dream Girl” with her effortlessly sexy locks, model figure and charming smile.

Following the trend of using celebrities as the new faces for fashion, Ann Taylor, a brand that I’m currently intrigued with, chose Katie Holmes to debut their Spring 2011 collection.  I barely recognized those steely eyes in this photo.  And who would have guessed that figure came from a recent boy-jean wearing mom?

Lastly, I’m excited to see that finally, an Asian model has signed such a high-profile cosmetics contract with Estee Lauder.  This is sort of old news (2010) but I can’t help celebrating Liu Wen, who is the first-ever Asian to land the EL contract and also the first Asian to also walk the Victoria’s Secret runway.

Who is your favorite model of the moment or fresh face of fashion?

September 24, 2010

Christian Dior oversized purse

So my silly friend emails me to tell me that if I stop by 57th st that there would be a free Christian Dior purse for me to pick up.

Excitedly, I open the picture attachment already envisioning me winning this new purse at Bloomingdales where she works (also near 57th st).  Except I find this gigantic, 1.5 story mock-up fake purse in front of the construction site that is Christian Dior’s showroom and retail space.

I got such a kick out of the joke that I actually did go to 57th st (off Madison) to check it out in person.

No matter how hard I tried to steal the purse, it wasn’t moving.  So finally, I cursed my friend and left in defeat.

Thanks for nothing, Aria!  :)

September 9, 2010

Fashion’s Night Out

Filed under: Fashion,Fashion Week,News — Tags: , — fabgab @ 6:35 PM

I can hardly believe it.  Fashion Week is back in just a blink of an eye.  It feels like only yesterday when I started this blog last fashion week back in February with my first amateur entry on my fashion fixation. This year, instead of taking time off from work to attend a week of shows, I’m working fashion week with an emphasis on Fashion’s Night Out.

I’ve booked my models, figured out how to style them, planned for 18 raffles and about 15more gifts with purchase, planned the run of show, created signage, wrote marketing copy and ran a month of promotions and PR.  This is on top of having negotiated sponsorships of everything from open bar, to bar rental to DJ equipment, to 2 event photographers to cotton candy.  Needless to say, I’m exhausted but excited to bring FNO to Long Island where I’ve single-handedly initiated FNO at both our store and at the mall we’re connected to.  It’s always exciting to be able to create something out of nothing.  Here’s Anna Wintour talking about how she created FNO out of nothing and this year is expanding the event on a global level (there are over 1000 stores participating.)

Wish me luck!

August 15, 2010

Chanel fur suit

Filed under: Fashion,News — Tags: , — fabgab @ 7:38 PM

Karl Lagerfeld must have been watching re-runs of Star Wars when designing his fur suit.  Who knew Chanel would ever consider Chewbacca tres chic?

Joe Zee, Elle Magazine’s creative director and reality show star from The City recently climbed into one of these designer fur suits and pranced around Manhattan on a hot summer day.  I guess when you’re creative director of a fashion magazine having Karl lend you his most outrageous look is simply a perk of the job.  Joe must really be starving for attention.  Here he is heading to the zoo explaining to a bewildered passerby who wonders out loud how he can wear fur “When you’re wearing Chanel you’re always hot.”

Even more hilarious is when he spontaneously starts freaking Elmo

Joe, don’t you have better things to do like kiss Olivia Palermo’s ass while running a magazine perhaps?

July 13, 2010

Olivia Palermo (and me) in Japan

Filed under: News — Tags: , — fabgab @ 8:40 PM

Tonight’s the City episode’s funniest part was when the Japanese attendants at the Elle Magazine event couldn’t get over Olivia Palermo.  Olivia was surprised at how many Japanese fans she had.  I was most surprised by the Japanese fascination with the size of her face.  They were flabbergasted and had to come up for a closer look!  One even exclaimed that she couldn’t bear to take a photo next to her for fear that her her own face would look exponentially larger in comparison.  Olivia tried to laugh the first comment off by dismissing it quickly with “Oh you’re so funny.”  But when faced with continuous shrieks about the smallness of her face everywhere she turned, Olivia finally resorted to a meek “thank you.”  haha

Speaking of Japan, here are some pics of me (and my large face) from my trip to Japan!

June 2, 2010

A Week with Anna Wintour for $42,500

Filed under: Fashion,News — Tags: , , — fabgab @ 3:01 PM

Bidding started at $23,000 and soon ended at a startling $42,500 for a week with Anna Wintour in Vogue’s offices along with a fab fashion package including tickets to a fashion week runway show.  Charitybuzz.com, the site the auction was held on advertised the opportunity as “the opportunity of a lifetime.. just being near her will make you chic!”  Indeed.  In an earlier post, I listed the top 7 things on my to do list if I were to be the lucky recipient of such an opportunity.

How much would the opportunity to hang with the “Devil Wears Prada” mean to you?

I want to know who this mystery intern is and how this person plans to spend the week at Vogue.

On a side note, here’s a quote from Anna on her acceptance of  fashion bloggers.  Love her.

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