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A throwback to the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper look, this style of jacket is back in a huge way!
I found this version available for pre-order on FredFare.com designed by BB Dakota, one of our favorite designers. It comes in both black and white, and the look is favored by celebs like Beyonce and Rihanna, who have recently donned Balmain’s version. Their choices are fierce and also priced at about $6,000-$11,000.
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The style is so hot right now that I’m thinking of ordering one or two from FredFlare.com. But, be afraid when the almighty bustier makes a return. I for one will actually sit out on that one since I’ve already been there and done that. Just watch all the young’un’s frantically lace up and try the old hook and eye!
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L.A.’s Love Hate for ‘Persian Palaces’
Proving one man’s dream is another’s nightmare, real estate insiders from Bravo’s “Shahs of Sunset” explain the manses’ appeal — even if Beverly Hills once tried curbing the over-the-top emigre architecture.
Of all the flashy excess on display on the highly controversial new Ryan Seacrest-produced Bravo series Shahs of Sunset, about a group of 90210-residing Iranian-Americans — the clothing! the partying! the constant braggadocio about the clothing and the partying! — it might just be the super-steroidal Beverly Hills architecture, known both pejoratively and admiringly as "Persian palaces," that hits closest to home for viewers who live on L.A.'s Westside.
Looking Cool (And Feeling Hot) In Bonnaroo
Bonnaroo took Tennessee this past weekend, and forecasts of rompers, bandeaux, maxi dresses, and crop tops (as well as of 90-degree temperatures) were all amply fulfilled. On stage, Florence Welch looked chic in flowing, sheer black, as did Karen Elson in a peach-colored frock. On the dusty fields, the festivalgoers kept cool in bright tanks and boyfriend jeans, oversized striped sunhats, shades of all shapes, and cowboy boots (it was Tennessee, after all). Style.com rounded up the best of the fest; check out the full lineup here.
Photo: Heidi Jewell / Undertheguise.com
Letter From Dallas Jean Paul Gaultier, a Parisian in America
Decades owner Cameron Silver, a longtime friend of Jean Paul Gaultier, hit Dallas this week for the opening of JPG’s retrospective at the city’s Museum of Art. He checks in with an update, and a special preview—expect a Texan JPG collection coming soon. For more from Silver, follow him online at @CameronDecades.
This week, the doyennes of the Lone Star State put on their finest and welcomed the incomparable Jean Paul Gaultier for the U.S. exhibition premiere of The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk. Gaultier was on his first trip to Dallas for the vernissage of his retrospective, which began at Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts and is on view now through February 12 at the Dallas Museum of Art. The show features 130 ensembles from over 35 years of Gaultier collections, including everything from corsets worn by Madonna on her Blond Ambition tour to JPG’s childhood teddy bear, which he styled as only the original enfant terrible of fashion could—when he was an actual infant.
Dallas being Dallas, three parties and three outfit changes were required for the 24-hour trip. Tuesday evening, Deedie Rose welcomed Gaultier to her historic Highland Park Pump House with his first official pair of Leddy’s cowboy boots (embroidered with silver Eiffel Towers), and guests enjoyed a performance by the Kilgore Rangerettes while munching on Frito pies and sipping tequila. It was down to business on Wednesday, when the host committee got to preview the exhibition and get first dibs on the items from the gift shop (like the Alain Milki sunglasses, which sold out immediately). This was followed by a luncheon hosted by Brian Bolke of the noted boutique Forty Five Ten, where Gaultier-clad guests Ana Pettus, Christen Wilson, Patti Cruise, as well as Julie Macklowe (in town to launch her VBeauté It Kits at Forty Five Ten) and Lela Rose (in her own design) enjoyed everything from a “Mushroom Mohawk” to a dessert called “Feathers and Lace,” all inspired by Gaultier styles.
I took a brief respite before the large cocktail reception, for which Gaultier friend and fan Dita Von Teese (above left, with Gaultier) flew in from L.A. (The famous skeletal corset ensemble she wore down the designer’s Fall 2010 Couture runway is included in the show.) Ever the showman, Gaultier entertained the crowd with stories about his grandmother, a faith healer who would drink vinegar to contract her stomach in order to lace up her salmon satin corsets. He confessed to asking Madonna to marry him three times, and remarked that “fashion is there to show what’s happening in society.” And he had the influential Gaultier-dressed Dallas-ites like Couture-clad Cindy Rachofsky, vintage-clad Kelli Questrom, Mayor Mike Rawlings and his wife Micki, and director Maxwell Anderson and his stunning wife Jacqueline (wearing a Gaultier previously worn by Lady Gaga) in the palm of his hands when he announced “Everything can give me an idea…Dallas will inspire my next collection.” Wearing men’s Gaultier Couture, curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot reminded us that in January, JPG will show his 150th collection. Get ready for cowboy boots and hats, partner.
—Cameron Silver
Above: Nathalie Bondil, Thierry-Maxime Loriot, Tanel Bedrossiantz,Replica Ralph Lauren Kids, Michael Young, Sharon Young, and Cindy Rachofsky.
Photos: Courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art
Paris Fashion Week Rick Owens autumn winter 2012 - Telegraph
Flames,wholesale Burberry shoes, felt and some mean-looking beanies: Rick Owens preaches to his converts.
Rick Owens autumn/winter 2012 Photo: VLADIMIR POTOP
Paris Fashion Week: Rick Owens autumn/winter 2012
BY Luke Leitch | 01 March 2012
Rick Owens inspires a cultish slavishness in his clique of acolytes, most of whom were out at France’s Davis Cup tennis venue in all their wanly-pallored, flowingly-berobed glory this evening.
Only Miuccia Prada has started a show quite as late - 43 minutes - this season, but few here really minded: it gave the crowd more time to compare dreadlocks and sackcloth. When the show did begin it was with a baseline deep enough to perform minor surgery and two kerosine-soaked strips of material that were lit to give the catwalk backdrop a suitably Burning Man vibe.
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The clothes - all topped by knit beanies with web-like front panels pulled either right down over the face or two bridge of the nose - came in a variety of earth-toned sludge (sludgy reddish brown, sludgy pale green) with a passing whisper of pale peach (cheery for Owens) all framed by a constant undertow of black. There was a lot of feltily-wefted mohair and the odd patch of white fur.
Taken together, the outfits looked like costume design for a post-apocalyptic concept music video, but there were plenty of lovely, don’t-have-to-be-ostentatiously-depressive to wear it bits and pieces hidden under the styling. A sleeveless, oaty-coloured mohair jumper oozed perfectly south of the hip, black-collared overcoats and treated leather jackets were perfect mid-winter dog-walkers, and the Cossack-trousers-cum-skirts looked liberatingly free and easy to wear. The same could not be said of the narrow, cobblestone-grey, long skirt worn that was worn by one model that really didn’t get along with whatever long pair of boots lurked beneath it. She stumbled, hoiked, stumbled again, but stayed just about vertical.
PHOTO: VLADIMIR POTOP
BBC News - BBC defends Houston TV coverage
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The BBC has defended its coverage of Whitney Houston’s funeral on its News Channel following complaints from viewers about its duration.
The broadcaster received 118 complaints about the Channel’s coverage of the four-hour service on Saturday.
The corporation said it was “part of the News Channel function to be there when major stories take place”.
Another 34 complaints were received from people upset that the service had been interrupted.
Live coverage of the service began at 17:00 GMT and continued until just before 20:30 GMT, with the BBC continuing to report on the story afterwards.
“The News Channel’s coverage of Whitney Houston’s funeral reflected the significant interest in her sudden death as well as acknowledging the impact she had as a global recording artist,” said the corporation in a statement.
It acknowledged that “some people felt there was too much coverage” but said BBC One’s teatime bulletin, radio bulletins and other services had still given viewers “the best access to the day’s other news stories”.
Stevie Wonder,wholesale Iceberg, Alicia Keys and R Kelly performed at the service, which took place in Newark, New Jersey. Actor Kevin Costner, who starred with Houston in The Bodyguard, gave a eulogy.
The 48-year-old singer was found in a bath in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on 11 February.
The cause of her death will remain unclear until the results of the toxicology tests are announced.
Review X-Men First Class - UsMagazine.com
In Stores Now
This fashionable prequel features the backstories of the series’ longtime rivals, Professor X and Magneto. In 1962, the youth hotshots — then understood for Charles (James McAvoy) and Erik (a sensational Michael Fassbender) — connect forces apt stop a companion mutant from starting World War III. With brisk pacing and sly humor, it’s the best comic-book movie of the year. Still, January Jones, with her wooden delivery for villain Emma Frost, fails. Only her costumes are cool! (20th Century Fox, $30)
Us Rating: ***