C’Mon, Get Happy
Cat-ear caps. Pompom pumps. Mink sunglasses. No doubt about it: ‘Tis the season of the out-there accessory. The latest designer to join the odder-is-better mix is Londoner Louise Gray, whose new collaborative jewelry line with Asos—under the umbrella of the e-tailer’s Asos Inc. incubator program—goes on sale this week.
Retailer/designer collaborations are a dime a dozen, but Asos sets its apart by allowing designers the opportunity to create categories that aren’t already part of their lines. Its first Asos Inc. designer, Thomas Tait,wholesale Tiffany jewelry, created his first bags; Gray used the chance to launch jewelry, which will also be styled into her upcoming show. Her pieces are all smiles—not to mention googly eyes.
“The jewelry I wanted to make was fun pieces that could be layered up or worn alone,” Gray told Style.com. “They have a carnival feel to them, like the duck whistle earrings, the large scale packets of fries, and the sun earring wearing sunglasses. They’re definitely for enjoying.”
The Gray pieces, which include pendants, earrings, studs, and even a working bell, are plated in 22-karat gold. They retail for between $60 and $295 on www.asos.com.
—Matthew Schneier
Photo: Courtesy of Asos
Uggie is Golden Collar nominations’ top dog
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) In a move somewhat akin to having George Clooney announce the Oscar nominations, Uggie the dog announced on Wednesday that the top nominee for the first Golden Collar Awards, which honor canine performances in film and television, is — Uggie the dog.
Uggie, the much-celebrated star of “The Artist,” received a pair of nominations in the marquee category of Best Dog in a Theatrical Film - one for “The Artist,” and the other for his performance as Queenie in “Water for Elephants.”
He’ll be going up against Cosmo, Denver and Hummer, who were nominated for their roles in “Beginners,” “50/50″ and “Young Adult, respectively.
Uggie was on hand to help with the nominations announcement, which was made with the help of his human co-star in “The Artist,” Penelope Ann Miller.
The most interesting race in the other four categories in clearly the impending dogfight in the Best Dog in a Reality Television Series category, where three nominees from “Real Housewives” shows (Giggy and Jackpot from Beverly Hills and Millou from New York City) are expected to make mincemeat of Spartacus from “Ice Loves Coco” and Hercules from “Pit Boss” before turning their claws on each other.
And while Aki Kaurismaki’s “Le Havre” was surprisingly left off the shortlist in the Oscar Foreign-Language category, the Finnish director can no doubt console himself with the knowledge that his canine lead, Laika, is up for Best Dog in a Foreign Film.
The Golden Collar Awards are the creation of the online magazine Dog News Daily, and will take place on Monday, February 13 at the dog-friendly Hotel Palomar in Los Angeles. Proceeds will benefit L.A.-area dog rescue shelters and organizations.
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One To Watch Yang Li
Yang Li counts Helmut Lang for a private hero and spent 3 seasons in Antwerp interning for Raf Simons, so neither the monastically severe lines of his debut accumulation nor a penchant for quoting Jenny Holzer should come for a wonder.
The 22-year-old Central Saint Martins grad namely based in London merely determined instead to show his namesake collection in a microscopic third arrondissement space in Paris. “I equitable don’t feel interlocked to London,” he tells Style.com. “Not in a wrong access; I average, I’ve learned everything there.” To be fair, he’s not exactly forsaking home. Li comes to London through Beijing, where he was born, and Perth, Australia, where he grew up—a life itinerary that makes for a genteel and melodic emphasize.
His laser-focused range recasts masculine and utilitarian criteria with sharp lines, all in very traditional, double-faced fleece produced in 1 of the few Italian factories in the earth namely works with the fabric. His versed shapes—what he phones “youth codes”—like hoodies, T-shirts, flight jackets, and wide-legged pants, go behind to the Holzer truism he cites: “Use what’s dominant in a mores to change it.”
—Meenal Mistry
Photo: Courtesy of Yang Li
Irene Neuwirth Debuts Diamonds With Michelle Williams, Busy Philipps, And A Few Famous Friend-Loves
—Matthew Schneier
Photo: Joe Schildhorn / BFAnyc.com
Irene Neuwirth namely known as her chromatic, slightly bohemian gems, but every girl—even those who live, favor she does, on the beach in Venice—need apt go full-throttle upscale immediately and anew. So when Barneys, one of her premier supporters, came knocking with a request as a diamond accumulation, Neuwirth obliged. The Barneys chips represent her 1st foray into nice jewelry, a migrate the designer describes for a natural next tread. “I’ve been charting jewelry because ten annuals,” she annotated last night by a personal bash at the retailer’s Madison Avenue flagship. “All of my clients who had been collecting chips over and over, I felt they needed someone another and a little bit finer. I feel like there was a aperture in the mall fhardly evermething youthful.” The collection mixes diamonds with Neuwirth’s antique favorite stones, like chrysophase, Rose of France, and Peruvian opal. Prices begin at $15,000 and go up to $200,000—the Weinstein range, you might say. And there was Harvey, schmoozing in the turn.
The California linkage may have aided account for his presence and entire of the star power collected at Barneys’ eighth-floor penthouse. Michelle Williams (in orange and black striped Prada) and Lake Bell also stopped by, and the evening was hosted at Cougar Town’s Busy Philipps and musician Joanna Newsom, who had her boyfriend, Andy Samberg, in tow. Philipps (on, with Neuwirth and Williams) has been a big Neuwirth supporter: The actress wore Neuwirth’s pieces to this year’s Oscars and Golden Globes. “I’ve known Irene a relatively short time,” Philipps confessed, but “it’s been a attach to that’s blossomed to its full potential quite fast. We fell into instant friend-love.” Williams, her longtime friend—devotees may remember they either starred on Dawson’s Creek—was sitting alongside her. “I wasn’t jealous,” she deadpanned.