Paris Couture Fashion Week

Elie Saab Dress
http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/F2007CTR/runwayshows/index.html

Roberto Cavalli for H&M

Why H&M Is Teaming With Roberto Cavalli from BRANDWEEK

June 20, 2007

By Eric Newman

NEW YORK -- Move over Madge. For its latest design collaboration, H&M clothing is moving from pop-star designers such as Madonna to classic, Italianate know-how for its newest design partnership with Roberto Cavalli.

The Swedish cheap and chic fashion retailer announced today that it will debut the “Roberto Cavalli at H&M” collection—to consist of 20 men’s wear pieces, 25 women’s wear pieces and various accessories and lingerie styles—at 200 stores starting Nov. 8. The company currently operates 1,420 stores worldwide.

The latest in a series of successful, headline-grabbing partnerships including recent design collaborations with the aforementioned Madonna, designers Viktor & Rolf, Karl Lagerfeld and Stella McCartney, the Cavalli news comes on the heels of a 31% rise in profits for the second quarter, bringing in about $745 million at average exchange rates.

Sales for the period leapt to $2.91 billion overall, an 18% boost from last year, although the company noted that sales for the month of May had slipped 2% at comparable stores.

While the company was mum on marketing details for the Cavalli project, past efforts for similar collaborations have included outdoor and print ads in the U.S. market, with select TV spots in international markets.

The company spent $17 million in advertising for 2006, per Nielsen Monitor-Plus, and has already shelled out $8 million in ad and marketing initiatives through April 2007.

article in Vogue: http://www.vogue.co.uk/vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=45513

Takashi Murakami

Art Director for Kanye West's new album, due out this summer.

Kate Moss Top FLOP...

What a bloody f'in waste of my time. This sassy British hoe had me out
at 9:30am on B'way and 75th waiting on line for this fab white dress
that has been advertised all over the place. Once the doors open and the mad rush of young
women flock in they all swarm to one rack, one rack filled with crap. 1ugly flower dress, 1 overpriced black jacket and some horrible $40t-shirts.

For fucks sake I waited for this?

Then I'm informed that the 17th street location will be carrying my highly coveted white dress.
I zip downtown to find another small line of fahiony women waiting for the
doors to open at 11am. I'm at the back of this line and hear a murmuring
behind me, it happens to be the manager of that barney's co-op. Waisting
no time I ask her if they are going to be carrying said white dress. She
says, no its back ordered until June.

JUNE?!!!

Kate Moss Top Flop ... a fucking waste of my Wednesday morning, i did get a pair of jeans although, I think I'm having shoppers remorse.

In other Daily News: May 2nd, 2007

Kate Moss : TopShop dropped in Europe!
http://www.fashionwiredaily.com/first_word/news/article.weml?id=1121
http://showbiz.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1263539,00.html

Pete Wentz opened a bar in the Eat Village? ehh

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05012007/gossip/pagesix/loser_joint__bathroom_sex_pagesix_.htm

MisShapes DJ a building opening.. the buiding is cool casue Philippe Stark designed it.

http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Posh_on_23rd_Street/8317.html
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/04/jvanka_more_than_friends.html

http://gawker.com/news/gramercy/

http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/03/06/philippe_starcks_insanity_coming_to_gramercy.php

High Tech Hooker Shoes

Ok, Ok .. so i'm reading WWD that's women's wear daily, for those not in the "know". I get to the last page and come across the "Aphrodite Project". What is this Aphrodite Project you ask? It is only the latest in high tech hooker wear brought to you straight from the mean streets from Brooklyn. Now the hoes on Hunt's Point can protect themselves with 6" silver leather platforms which come fully equipt with a GPS technology that connects said hoe to emergency services and an online community. All jokes aside it's nice that someone cares about the saftey of the working girl but do these women read WWD or surf the web to find such safe gaurds, i'm just sayin. Check it out for yourself.
www.theaphroditeproject.tv

Kate Moss x TopShop : For Sale at Barney's

May 9th
http://www.starmagazine.com/kate_moss_clothesbarneys_new_york/celebrity_news_gossip/entertainment/11784
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:starmagazine.com:20070417:tv-1042811784__ER:1

The Golden Hanger

The Golden Hanger: Pop up Shop :
featuring bijules lifestyle jewelry, rojas mens and womens, pretty shitty as imba, sir hayes babywear, still life hats, glad news womens, and christopher bevans menswear...
This saturday and sunday 12-7

20 clinton south of houston
credit cards will be accepted
drinks provided by carlo rossi

See my homegirl Renee and check out her first season of Secta Life.. Teasers Below.

Secta featured in WWD Fast Mag today..
www.sectalife.com
Bordeaux Jacket..

Just Another Friday Night

For the first time in a long time, I went out last night. I celebrated my friend Bevy's Birthday at this very exclusive super fabulous spot at a location I won't disclose. This spot was so "hip" it hadn't even registered on my radar until well, I was brought there. Shit, I thought I still was a step ahead of the game.

We arrive and it's' this sort of speak easy/coke den'esque kind of vibe with 15 year old models and those "beautiful" people who don't feel the need to shower and love, love buddy holly glasses and flannel shirts paired with a $1200 pair of louis vuitton loafers, fantastic. The downstairs has low ceilings and a west village kind of vibe while the upstairs was the epitome of a coke den.

On this night in we came in at the tail end of Editor in Chief Anna Wintours daughters birthday party. Hence the 15 yearolds at that hour.
We find ourselves in the back corner at a fab table, parked on the red leather couch watching the girls dancing in short voluminous dresses (all the rage this season) and the gay men that love them, awaiting the bottles of champagne to officially start off the birthday festivities.

Corks popped, glasses ching ching'in I start taking note the the faces I actually recognize from my fashion magazines. For fucks sake I see Zac Posen, I nearly teeter and topple over my 4inch patent leather heels. I send a woosh of whispers around our table regarding my discovery.
I'm now plotting and pondering how in the world can I;
A. Get him to realize I'm his next big muse
B. Get a discount, a bag, a leftover fabric swatch
C. a job.
..then I noticed Jessica Stam and distracted myself and continued to drink and party with my friends. Someone then asks me to come with them to the bar, I reluctantly go cause its so crowded and I feared getting singed by one of the thousands of flaming cigarettes ablaze in this small room. AS we make our way through the crowd who winds up directly in front of me... who .. who you ask?
ZAC mother fucking POSEN.. I'm like open your big mouth Sam. Say something this man is genius!
And naturally, I do. I said to him in that sultry way I do.
SH: "I don't know if this is inappropriate to say in this environment but I absolutely love your clothing and I think your a fucking genius."
ZP: "Thank you so much, it's certainly not inappropriate, I really appreciate that"
SH: *gushing* "I said please continue to make women look beautiful"
ZP: "My goal is to bring out a women's character and confidence. The clothing is such that it will bring it out even if they don't know it's in there."
SH: "That's quite inspirational"
ZP: "It's meant to be"
And then the fashion love of my life disappeared into the smokey sea.

More was said, but who can recall all the details. I would like to thank Bevy for having a birthday, for having fabulous friends because I had a blast and think I found a new hairdresser and job. And I would especially like to thank Ralph for forcing me to walk to the bar.

I came home smelling like a Marlboro factory, needing a shower and some food. All in all it was a great night!

www.zacposen.com

Jessica Stam: Go open every magazine in your house. She is in more add campaigns then Kate Moss. Vera Wang, Dolce & Gabbana, Anna Sui, BCBG, and Valentino. She became the face of Armani, Sonia Rykiel and Rochas.

Patrick Robinson for Target, Summer 2007

Patrick Robinson for Target, Summer 2007
I'm so excited for this!

Excerpt from the Article:

Mr. Robinson began working with Target last May, when he sketched out a collection of about 150 pieces -- dresses, skirts, tops, pants, bathing suits, evening dress and handbags and scarves. Inspired by ancient Greek goddesses and the "essence of summer," he had all kinds of ideas for signature prints, with faded medallions and gold coin embellishments. He combed through Target's library of fabrics, and when he didn't find the fabrics he wanted, Target came through three days later with suitable alternatives from its extensive sourcing network in Asia. One cotton eyelet fabric from China, in particular, he says was "as good as what I would get in Italy."

http://www.fashionista.com/2007/04/mass_hysteria.php#more

Teaser: http://pressroom.target.com/pr/news/fashion/go-international/album.aspx?id=4504

White on White Chocolate AF1s

+41 are bringing in the Air Force 25th Anniversary in a different way via these mini Air Force 1 white chocolates. Originally this product was only available to certain individuals within the Nike corporation but this product has now become available to the general public. 30 € (approximately $40 USD) will yield you 3 pack of chocolates that are sure to give any white on white AF1’s a run for their money.

http://www.plus41.ch/

New Hue in Polish

Blue Polish.. Kinda feeling the navy blues...
1. Sephora nail polish in 56 electric blue, $4. At Sephora stores.
2. and 6. Color club polish in all in and in jewel tone blue, $5 each. At Ray Beauty Supply, 721 Eighth Avenue.
3. and 7. Essie polish in St. Barths blue and in aruba blue, $8 each. Go to www.essie.com.
4. Opi polish in Lincoln Park at Midnight, $7.50. Go to www.opi.com.
5. Orly manicure miniatures polish in blue collar, $3.50. Go to www.orlybeauty.com.

Nike Court Force Sakura “Ueno”

Some shoes I want...

Streetwear by Steven Vogel

Streetwear by Steven Vogel

Published by Thames & Hudson available May 9th

Info on the Author

http://www.hypebeast.com/stevenvogel/2007/03/26/streetwear-the-book/

Interview with Kix Files

http://www.kix-files.com/feature/2007/03/interview-with-steven-vogel-about-street-wear

Interview with The Shadow Conspiracy

http://www.theshadowconspiracy.com/

..still not sure what they have against shadows.

12oz Prophet

http://www.12ozprophet.com/?p=47

Miguelina

Miguelina :
347 Bleeker Street
212.400.3100
www.miguelina.com
Super cute summer dresses and tops... check out her website.

Tom Ford : To Open this Tursday in Manhattan

Article from WWD... Located on Madison Avenue at 71st Street
http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/114741?page=0

Kate Moss x TopShop : Featured in the April UK Vogue

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5363414.stm
http://www.vogue.co.uk/vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=43367TopShop Blog
http://www.topshop.com/blog/2007/03/Mar_06.html

Cole Haan x Nike Lab = Comfy Shoes

http://www.colehaan.com/colehaan/catalog/category.jsp?categoryId=300239

Madonna x H&M = on sale tomorrow

Madonna .. strike a pose, la isla bonita H&M clothes go on sale tomorrow..
The clothing will be available at all of the shops in the city.
Check out your local H&M .. use the link below to find one near you. http://www.hm.com/us/stores__storelocatorhtml.nhtml?country=US&city=3f817714-f0f2-4ac6-a424-40fe358159fc&step=4

Buy A T-Shirt, Help A Woman : Galmour Magazine x ShopBop.com

These Six Designers created these exclusive t-shirts for Glamour Magazine to benefit their favorite causes. 30% of your retail purchase price will go to the charity chosen by the designer. Check out the March 2007 issue of Glamour for more information.

Direct Link to Purchase
http://www.shopbop.com/shop/product_browse.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302043503

Vena Cava
benefiting the American Refugee Committee's Darfur Relief Effort

Thread Social
benefiting Women in Need
Sari Gueron
benefiting Free Arts NYC

Rodarte
benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis SocietyRachel Roy
benefiting Children's Hope India
Jenni Kaye
benefiting the Rape Treatment Center at Santa-Monica UCLA