Fashion First
Lady Gaga made her runway debut at Thierry Mugler‘s Fall/Winter 2011 womenwear fashion show under her stylist, Nicola Formichetti’s creative direction. Formichetti also informed Style.com that his biggest fan has already “bought the entire collection in every color.” I can see Gaga in every piece from the collection.
Minor observation: Lady Gaga was wearing 12 inch heels… I mean seriously?! They even had the two guys at the end holding her up ! LOL !! Gotta love her though 🙂
IT’S ALL BRIGHT COLORS AND COLOR BLOCKING FOR SPRING 2011. LOVE THE POPS OF COLOR! FROM FUSHCIA TO ORANGE, ELECTRIC BLUE TO A BEAUTIFULLY COMPLIMENTING OLIVE GREEN. I CAN’T WAIT TO SHOP THESE LOOKS… THOSE CAMO PANTS HAVE MY NAME ALL OVER THEM. 😉
London’s Sunday Times is reporting that Kate Middleton will wed in Alexander McQueen on April 29.
Middleton will also have some input regarding the design of the dress. Sources tell the Telegraph “the design of the dress will be a combination of Miss Middleton’s own ideas and Mrs Burton’s quirky interpretation of high fashion.” The paper also reports that Sarah Burton was “chosen for the discretion afforded by her relatively low profile, as well as for her alternative take on elegance.”
The Sunday Times, the first outlet to report that McQueen had landed the coveted job of designing Middlton’s wedding dress, is sticking to their story despite the fact that McQueen’s camp has denied the report to CNN. As for Prince William’s office, they told CNN “We’re saying nothing.”
Though McQueen has to deny the report, even if it’s true. “Royal protocol means that even if it is McQueen, they will have to deny until Clarence House makes an announcement one way or the other,” Brit fashion writer Sasha Wilkins, aka Liberty London Girl, says.
And she isn’t surprised to hear McQueen’s name emerge. “Up until now the media have made relatively little of the fact that the fashion writer Sara Buys who is connected to Harper’s Bazaar, and who married in Alexander McQueen, is Prince Williams’s step-sister…she’s got to be influencing the decision in some way.”
Fingers crossed the rumor is true. Kate Middleton always looks gorgeous (because she is), but her sartorial choices have always been conservative and safe–often too safe.
Wilkins thinks Sarah Burton for McQueen would be an excellent choice for Middlton too. “The house of Alexander McQueen manages to be wholly original, whilst still understanding the glorious heritage of English fashion and costume, but never resorting to pastiche,” she says. “They also operate to what are essentially couture standards in their runway collections and a dress of this type has to be rigorously made.”
I L-O-V-E this watch… But the price tag isn’t quite in my range as of yet. It definitely doesn’t hurt to look at it though…. JUST BREATH TAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL…
Following several allegations made against John Galliano for verbal abuse and the release of a cell phone video showing Galliano making anti-Semitic slurs, Dior has just announced that they have fired their creative director, effective immediately (as in, within 24 hours, we hear), calling his statements and conduct “deeply offensive.”
“We unequivocally condemn the statements made by John Galliano which are total contradiction to the longstanding core values of Christian Dior,” Dior’s president and chief executive officer Sidney Toledano said in a statement.
Dior’s ousting comes after a drama-filled week in which two separate claims of verbal abuse laden with anti-Semitism were filed against Galliano, and most recently, the release of a shocking video of Galliano on an anti-Semitic rant. “I love Hitler,” he says in the video, allegedly filmed at the same Paris cafe that was the site of the two other incidences. “People like you would be dead,” he says to a nearby patron, “Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f**king gassed.”
The Sun, the Brit tabloid that originally published the incriminating video, did not report when the video was taken. Suspicious? Pehaps.
Now we’re hearing rumors that the video was from October and released this week because Dior has wanted Galliano out for some time. It’s true, the timing of all this does seem suspect–the quickness with which Dior put Galliano on suspension, and the subsequent allegation that followed, capped by the release of the video, the final nail in Galliano’s coffin. Word is Galliano’s alcoholism (he was often reported to be seen drunk at La Perle) and bigotry had been problems for some time.
According to WWD, Dior still plans to show this Friday.
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