Alberta Ferretti has added an online store to its website at albertaferretti.com. The online store lets you zoom in close on its dresses, shoes and handbags. Each item listing also includes suggestions for other products that you could wear with the item you are considering buying. The site also includes an online store for the brand's Philosophy label. Both of the online stores are powered by Yoox.
Designer Alberta Ferretti said, "The online store offers new and stimulating opportunities in terms of immediacy, fun, freedom and interactivity. I am very excited about this new project that we are launching."
Vogue UKreports that Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher wants to expand his Pretty Green fashion label to include women's clothing. A date for the women's line has not been announced. Based on a comment Gallagher made it sounds like he doesn't want to start a women's line until the men's line is completely sold out.
Vogue UK reports that Gallagher said, "A lot of girls are asking if we will be doing a range for them and the answer to that is yes, once we have got rid of all the lads' stuff."
New York Magazine did a great round up of Andre Leon Talley's best moments during his debut as a judge on America's Next Top Model. Andre introduces his new word "dreckitude" and generally completely intimidates the other judges with his fabulosity and knowledge. This show just got so much better. Love it. Take a look:
Christophe Decarnin opened his fall 2010 ready to wear show for Balmain with Prince's classic song "Let's Go Crazy." That was a signal for the party clothes to come which were inspired by Louis XIV, the Sun King. Decarnin kept many of his bestselling themes: military style, stylized shoulders and lots of gold and embellishments. The cocktail dresses were short and sparkly, and the leather pants were slim cut. Velvet brocade jackets featured long tails. Black, gold and purple were key in this full-on rockstar glam collection. We loved it and feel sure that Beyonce has already placed her orders. Alas, the music from the show isn't in this clip:
For the Christian Dior fall 2010 ready to wear collection shown in Paris earlier this month, John Galliano said he was inspired by the "lusty, 17th century libertine, the 2nd Earl of Rochester." He also said that he was inspired by Mr. Dior's beloved English riding tweeds, so the equestrian theme was also quite evident. There were thigh high leather boots, lots of floaty, flirty dresses, jodhpurs and riding jackets. Take a look:
Christopher Kane, Zandra Rhodes and Twiggy were among the guests invited to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace. The event honored British fashion and also included an exhibition of fashions from current students. We love how the Queen never loses her cool -- she doesn't even bat an eyelash while chatting with Zandra Rhodes, who is wearing enough makeup for entire cast of a Lady
Gaga video and a hot pink wig. Zandra was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1997. Take a look:
The Danbury Mint is selling a porcelain collector doll of First Lady Michelle Obama wearing the Jason Wu gown and jewelry that she wore to the Inaugural Balls. We were thinking how unusually pretty the face on the doll is (you know how awful some of these celebrity dolls are), when we read the fine print. This is just an artist's
rendering of the doll. The actual doll "will vary in appearance." Yikes.
All of Gap Inc.'s website, including Gap.com and OldNavy.com, where down for about three and half hours on Wednesday reportsInternet Retailer. The websites showed a variety of errror messages during the late afternoon outage.
Reasons for the crash were unclear. "At first the site started responding with the HTTP error code 500, which means 'internal server error,'" says Peter Alguacil, an analyst with web monitoring firm Pingdom. "Then a bit later it switched to responding with HTTP error code 503, which means 'service unavailable.' This indicates their problem wasn't related to their Internet connection, but rather that they had internal server issues on their end."
3 hours is a long time for a major online retailer to be down. It doesn't appear to have been the result of heavy traffic from any promotion Gap Inc. was running.
ITNreports that Rihanna spends about half a million pounds - about $760,000 $U.S. - on looking good. This includes clothing, hair, makeup, a personal trainer and a personal chef. The money Rihanna spends includes $1,500 per day for her personal trainer and about $750 for her personal chef. A year ago we learned that singer Lily Allen spent $143,000 on clothes and jewelry in 2008. We would like to know what Lady Gaga spends. Take a look:
The City star Olivia Palermo is launching a jewelry line with Roberta Freymann. The collection will be called the Roberta Freymann by Olivia Palermo Collection. WWDreports that the inspiration for the collection is Olivia's favorite cities. The collection will launch this spring at Roberta Freymann boutiques and select retailers. Prices for the pieces will range from $175 to $300.
Forty of the Philippine's designers have created Barbie dolls for a special Ballet Barbie auction. These dolls are being auctioned for the benefit of Ballet Philippines' scholars. The Barbies above were designed by James Reyes. His inspiration was the black swan Odile in Swan Lake. The Barbies below were inspired by the four elements and designed by Rajo Laurel. You can see all of the designer Barbie dolls here.
Chanel has created skis for the fashionable skier. Chanel says the skis are from its Fall-Winter 2010/11 collection. They are Swiss hand-crafted skis, in compressed cherrywood with azure staining. Chanel has other winter sports items here include ski goggles and snowboards.
Chanel has been getting sporty lately. Chanel also designed basketballs, soccer balls and tennis rackets.
The New York Timesreports that Karl Lagerfeld will be collaborating with Tod's Diego Della Valle for a collection for Tod's Hogan brand.
Mr. Lagerfeld, 76, described Hogan as a "contemporary brand" and said in a statement that he liked "the idea of collaborating" with Diego Della Valle, the founder, president and chief executive of Tod's.
Mr. Della Valle is looking to globalize the reach of Hogan, founded in 1988. It has been developed by his son Emanuele as a creative and inventive provider of technosport and urban footwear and leather goods.
Not much is known about the future collection other than that it will include clothing, shoes and accessories and will debut in spring 2011. It will likely be a one-time only collaboration.
E! chatted with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning at the premiere for The Runaways. Kristen wore wearing a Pucci strapless minidress, with her hair in an updo and fuchsia lipstick. She looked fantastic. Kristen says she always has to have several wardrobe options before an event and she goes with what she feels. Kristen has had a difficult time with all the photoshoots, but she's getting more used to it, she says. She says she chose the Pucci dress because it's "funner," then laughed and quickly corrected herself to say it's "more fun." Oh relax, Kristen, we knew what you meant. She then had to give her very low-cut dress a good yank to make sure she didn't have a wardrobe malfunction. Take a look:
Georgia May Jagger is back for another revealing Hudson Jeans campaign. She posed topless for a Hudson campaign last year. Since that campaign she has been named as one of Rimmel London's new faces and she is the face of the Spring 2010 Versace campaign.
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