Arlenis, Chanel, Jourdan, Sessilee by Emma Summerton–let’s just say that every casting director in NY and in Europe wants to get their hands on these bright young things.

Last night there was a premier of Tarantino’s new film ‘Inglourious Basterds’ in NYC. In case you’re wondering, the title is misspelled on purpose and we have the picture of the soundtrack street ad to prove it (snapped it yesterday on the corner of Houston & Broadway, next to Crate & Barrel). The movie’s starring Brad Pitt (who’d allegedly running for a mayor of New Orleans) and we can’t wait for it to open because a) we heart a Tarantino style bloodfest, b) the hype sounds convincing

Besides, the 1940’s World War II style has always been our favorite. German label Hugo Boss permanently claimed their name to gestapo uniforms while American fighter pilots wore A2 flight jackets made by Eastman Leather Clothing. While going through some fashion catalogues, we’ve discovered historypreservation.com, which sells authentic army clothing from 1941. You might want to check it out and tell the boys.

USAAF, USN & USMC Leather Flight Jackets 1927 – 1947

Buzz Rickson’s x H. P. A.’s WWII Four-Needle, Loop-Wheeled Sweatshirt, Tank Destroyer Forces, 1930’s- 1940’s Four-Needle, Loop-Wheeled Sweatshirt U. S. Air Corps

Rough Wear Clothing Co. Type B-5 Winter Flying Helmet, USAAF Officers’ Khaki Crusher Cap

The much talked about Vogue documentary is coming out next week and the reviews have been scathing! The Post went as far as to call Anna Nero and point out her “daddy issues” . Meow

This peek inside the star chamber is juicy viewing on a number of levels. It’s a psychological portrait of Anna, powerful female executive, mother, daughter, perfectionist. It’s a front-row seat at how the albeit-impeccably-turned-out-but-sausage-nonetheless gets made at Vogue

Stay tuned for the Letterman interview coming up this week as well.

Okey this is a bit sentimental of me, but I’ve just noticed today that the iconic DKNY mural on the corner building at Houston and Broadway which for 20 years had been marking the entrance to Soho is now officially gone, finite, grayed out, pasted over…

Abercrombie & Fitch purchased the building, 600 Broadway, sometime last year. It is currently been prepped for a huge Hollister store opening later this summer, serving up the “flirty casual clothing for adventurous California lifestyle.” (Seems a bit misguided considering there’s a Uni Qlo and about 10 American Apparel stores within a stone’s throw away… but what do I know?? )

I really hope they use this opportunity to do something worth-while with the side of the building, maybe invite a few famous street artists and have them bomb it, beautifully, California style… if they do that, I might even give it a chance and walk in haha!

We here at f.a.d. love Alexander Wang’s look books, his team never misses a chance to make them look like a hip editorial (more designers should do that!). AW’s fall collection looks like something Riccardo Tisci would dream up for Givenchy, hard-edge, skin-tight leather pants, motorcycle jackets and bodysuits, but we’re ready to rock that look again and again!


Alexander Wang Fall 2009 Look Book

Tired of nudes and neutrals of last year? We are and we’re taking matters in our own hands–mastering the liquid liner, getting new jewelry, and wearing red plaid and tiny shorts! (Mmhmm, can’t let all the sit-ups we did last winter go to waste!)

There’s a lot of good blogs and twitterers out there but here’s a few that are consistently brilliant, and, dare we say, spot on:

Women’s Wear Daily twitter feed takes the number one slot — smart, sassy, and they have front row, VIP access to the most important fashion events… instant fashion gratification in a text message.

We’re also signed up for reporter Derek Blasberg’s updates from socialite fetes and fashion shows. He’s in Venice right now, tweeting in perfect prose:

Again, in bed before the night is over. Walking home as revelers only appear. I’m blaming jetlag, but the deeper fear is that I’m old. Tear.

If Truman Capote were to twitter, that’s how he’d do it …

Oh and if you ever want to read the adventures and random musings of a spoilt (but still somewhat genius) Russian girl about town (mostly Downtown) — just follow our tweets

Cheerio!

This blog’s been needing an injection of Mert & Marcus. Here they are, doing études with Naomi in lace, latex and furs. Bet that shoot went kind of like this

Ethnic prints, plaids and a knit hat – this is exactly how I’m going to dress this winter… (except with some sexier shoes of course).

Those white blouses are MINE! Hand’s off people!!

Вам конец! Rumor has it that S.I. Newhouse is unhappy with Vogue’s poor performance this month: Elle magazine beat them by 66 ad pages. There’s even talk of a successor for Anna Wintour her being none other than Aliona Doletskaya, the foxy editor-in-chief of Russian Vogue. What an unbelievable but welcome notion that would be, don’t you think?

Finally! No offense but Blair just wasn’t passing for an Upper East Side princess in J Crew. I honestly didn’t appreciate any of this until Serena’s costumes switched to Ralph Lauren. Now if only Nate and Chuck would make sweet man-love to each other already.

I’ll be in the gym today I think.

I’ve been wanting them since I was ten! I want mine in dark suede with a super high heel and worn with Vivienne Westwood-y cocoon plaid wool coat in colors of the fall. Now if only it was October already. uGHMM

from casting@projectrunway.tv

Hi, Would you be willing to post a notice for the new season of Project Runway?
There won’t be an open call this time, so we’re trying to get the word out any way we can!
The application (due July 9) consists of three (required) parts:
* A personal video
* A “virtual portfolio”
* A completed application questionnaire, available for download on our website
Cheers

Toodles

Now there’s a look you can’t carry on the subway…and I like it that way! I might have to shlep around Bowery in this and pretend I’m in Ipanema or something.

You’ve outdone everyone last night, doll-face. That red carpet however looks absolutely foul and needs an update ASAP.

Omg. I think I just found my new weekender to haul bikini and flip flops to the Hamptons this summer… It’s not exactly like the Prada fairy print bag we’ve been obsessing about but you have to be quite a fairy to carry it through Port Authority with a straight face, don’t you think??

Something tells us this marriage is going to last…

Mme Sarkozy in the nude. Give a gallic shrug!

Marc? You fox!

We just saw the copy of March 2008 Russian Vogue and it’s all about Natalia Vodianova. Photographed by everyone including Steven Meisel and Mario Testino, the lovely Mrs Portman appears to be hotter than ever… are you as thrilled as the Russians?

Sell sell sell Honey.

Faran from Nylon Magazine brings to our attention that Miuccia Prada now has her own personal Myspace page. First reaction: the Italian Godmother of all fashion fooling around on online networking sites? Is this for real?! And yet it’s possible — especially now after a Suzy Menkes expose ran in the International Herald Tribune on how fashion designers have zero Internet skills. Apparently everyone’s favorite Alber Elbaz and Nicolas Ghesquière don’t know how to use Internet and are proud of it.

It’s not unusual for people who are talented in one area to be completely backwards in other areas but, damn, don’t admit it. Anyway, as a matter of damage control all famous fashion designers should be getting on Facebook right now and naming bags after fashion’s #1 Internet fairy Bryan Boy. Marc Jacobs did it the other week… it’s true.

Wow what a strange feeling – waking up to a sight of pointy-toe shoes… it’s like 1990’s all over again!

we still have a load of these somewhere in the back of the closet..

My favorite woman.. she just doesn’t quit

That’s right. We have some exclusive food gossip from Lever House, one of New York’s poshest restaurants, where Victoria Beckham came to on Monday with three security guards.

If you love drag queens you have to love Posh Spice too. (Who doesn’t love drag queens?!?) Anyway, she continues to be the hotness because Marc Jacobs has some new skin cancer t-shirts featuring her likeness sans clothes. I already have a Naomi and a Christy Turlington and they go over really well at my gym. So I’m definitely getting this one–for kicks (and free workouts)
Get it while it’s hot–Marc Jacobs shop $35

One shirt’s YSL, the other’s Topshop but at this rate you can probably go DIY with some acrylic paint, a random white shirt and magic mushrooms.

That’s why our new favorite is the mysterious New York street artist Bast (Cooler than Banksy, newer than Basquiat) No one knows what Bast looks like – he coyly insists on hiding his identity. But what really counts is how amazing his work looks on a whitewashed exposed brick loft wall… Hot hot.

Now that a Richard Prince print goes for $180,000 at Sotheby’s in London a Louis Vuitton bag with the artist print seems like steal at mere $2,720. In fact, if used GENTLY, it’ll probably cost $5000 the year after… hint hint

But Nicky Hilton looks like the hotter sister now… She even reminds me of Giselle–at a certain angle and in sunglasses, mind you, but still–this valley girl actually looks, dare we say, a little “fashion”…

There are many things that are wrong about the Hilton sisters but one thing that gets us is that you never see them wearing anything really nice. If you were 5′10” and a Hilton heiress would you really show up at events in Ya Ya and Ella Moss? or would you rather wear Rodarte and Pierre Hardy?

Paradis is a French men’s magazine but it is worth looking into even for the ladies. The mag’s’ latest issue also includes a big article on Alaia by none other than the New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn, an interview with the contemporary art poster boy Damien Hirst and a nude portfolio of a pregnant Eva Herzigova. It’s a keeper.

Take it from people who actually have some imagination (no offense Anna Wintour & Co)

#1 Karlie Kloss, #2 Ali Stephens

#3 Taryn Davidson, #4 Franziska Drude

#5 Masha Tyelna, #6 Egle Tvirbutaite

#7 Kori Richardson, #8 Toni Garrin

#9 Flo Gennaro, #10 Adina Forinz

Guess who we ran into yesterday? The notoriously naughty Ukrainian model Lera Sheremeta! And my how things have changed since the days of the Odessa throwback puppy purse. Lera was strutting down E17th street in a pair of black suede 6-inch stiletto Louboutins and a black fitted ankle-length coat (looked like something Galliano would dream up ) — the effect was dazzling considering the girl’s already almost 6 feet tall. Whoever Lera was going to see is guaranteed to be blown away.

We seriously need to get a job… in Bollywood maybe?

The New York Times Too Much Style Magazine

One thing they don’t tell you about fashion is how tedious fashion people can be. You know that sour, disaffected look Anna Wintour has? Well, her little helpers can be even worse: too-trivial subject matters and waaay too much good taste. Stepford nightmare. That’s why we always liked Stephen Gan, the editor-in-chief of V and V Man–Gan’s got a wild side and he’s letting it show. Just look at those Brad covers!

New V (left), Stephen Gan at Mario Testino/V Magazine party (right)

And they carry a cat.

Did we tell you that models are crawling the streets of Manhattan right now??? They are.

Body armor is apparently the chicest thing right now – everyone is doing it. We’re not even showing up at the tents unless we source a harness somewhere. And that leaves us only one day! (OMG) Apart from that, our outfits are coordinated to the state of fine art and our body mass index is downright illegal in Madrid. So, we’re ready – let the Games begin!
Dolce & Gabbana on Numero Feb 07 (left), V Mag ed by David Sims (right) – models.com

Who are you looking forward to? Narciso and Francisco? Marc? Peter Som and Philip Lim? Doo Ri? The intrigue is unbearable, isn’t it?

It doesn’t get more Downtown than that. RSVP Here
In other news, Marni’s showing leggings for men and we hear the look is going to be all the rage. So what should we call them:

Megs?
Meggings?
Mantyhose?

Look at who we have here… Santino and what’s-her-name from America’s Next Top Model!

Webcam pics are our territory anyway…
Nom De Guerre hoodie, American Apparel bikini top

We’ll help you:
1) Carine Roitfeld – Anna Wintour
2) Lanvin mini dress – Random v-neck sweater
3) Doutzen avec Gaspard – Bridget Jones-woman with what looks like a rabbit coming out of her ass …

*And don’t even mention words Beatrix Potter or we’ll explode.

Steven Meisel confirms our life-long conviction that fashion photographers deep inside (sometimes not so deep) really wish they could be pornographers. January 2007 issue of Vogue Italia features “horny teens” Sasha, Coco, Jessica, Hilary and Agyness pretending to get it on in front of webcams while wearing the latest Balenciaga. (You won’t be seeing that on PornoTube….)




There’s more on www.voguevanity.it – if you can deal with all that epileptic flash animation.

Fashion weeks are coming … They give me acid reflux.

Best of Paris S/S 2007? – Lanvin, as far as I’m concerned.

Well. The good news is it looks nothing like her.

The new Dolce & Gabbana ed…. it’s sick how good it is. Too good for a magazine almost.



Dolce Vita | Steven Klein | W Feb 2007 … to be continued … brace yourselves, looks like the bush is back

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