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Coco Chanel Posed Naked for an Anti-Semitic Cartoon
Over at The Gloss, Jennifer Wright has a fascinating round-up of Coco Chanel's activities in support of Nazism and fascism prior, during, and after World War II. Fascinating but also harrowing. And now...
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WTF: Chris Brown Wants to Be a Model
Chris Brown has signed a modeling contract with Wilhelmina. The agency describes Brown, a convicted felon and British GQ's Worst-Dressed Man of 2012, as a "multifaceted artist with a unique take on...
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Holiday Gift Guide: What Would You Get A Crafty DIY-er?
The season of gift giving and receiving is almost upon us, and I'm compiling a gift guide for crafty people. You know: folks who Do It Themselves. Are you a crafty person? A sewer, a knitter, an...
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Vogue's Best-Dressed List Skews Young, White, And Actress-y
Vogue released its annual best-dressed list of best-dressed ladies. The top spot went to Emma Stone, followed by Rooney Mara, Leelee Sobieski, Zoë Saldana, Lauren Santo Domingo, Solange Knowles,...
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Marion Cotillard, A Life-Sized Toy Soldier, And A Lot of Red Latex Star In...
Marion Cotillard stars in a dark, trippy, red-latex-filled Tim Walker editorial for W magazine. It's brilliantly bent. Cotillard is promoting her new movie Rust and Bone, but the human forms moving...
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Grace Coddington Thinks Young Designers Need More Hardship In Their Lives
Grace Coddington says that young designers could stand to have "a few things going wrong in their life. I mean, I hate to say it, but it teaches you a hell of a lot, you know." Coddington continues, "I...
View ArticleWatch an Adorable New Animated Short With Heart Transplants, Interspecies...
I Have Your Heart is a four-minute stop-motion animation film that took illustrator Molly Crabapple, animator Jim Batt, and musician Kim Boekbinder nearly two years to produce. Boekbinder and...
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Chinese Grandpa Becomes Fashion Sensation By Modeling Girls' Clothing
A 72-year-old Chinese man named Liu Xianping is getting the world's attention today for his work as a model. A model for his granddaughter's boutique. Which sells clothes for teenage girls. After his...
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Customers Protest Donald Trump by Cutting Up Their Macy's Credit Cards
The organizers of the "Dump Trump" petition — so far signed by over 660,000 people who agree that Macy's should distance itself from its public face, the politically conscious toupee Donald Trump —...
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The Ultimate Gift Guide for Crafty DIY-ers
Got some crafty people on your holiday gift list? Fear not — a present like one of these is bound to please even the pickiest of Do It Yourselfers. (And — self-interested bonus! — it virtually...
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Protests Erupt After Wal-Mart Factory Fire Kills 124 Workers
Workers in Bangladesh have taken to the streets to demonstrate after yesterday's deadly garment factory fire. The death toll from the blaze at Tazreen Fashions Ltd., a supplier for Wal-Mart and the...
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Makeup Ad Features Super Blackface-y Blackface
To promote some kind of holiday sales promotion with a hashtag, the cosmetics company Illamasqua apparently decided the best thing to do was to produce this charming image of a model in blackface. The...
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Brad Pitt 'Kind of Liked' Starring in That Ridiculous Chanel Perfume Ad
Brad Pitt says of starring in his Chanel No. 5 ad, "I kind of liked it." Kind of! You know, it wasn't, like, the highlight of his day or anything. But it was fine. Pitt was paid a reported $7 million...
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Cosmetics Brand Pulls, Then Reinstates, Weird Blackface Ad
After Illamasqua posted this clearly blackface-inspired holiday makeup ad to the company's Australian Facebook page it promptly attracted dozens upon dozens of critical comments. After we blogged about...
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New Vogue Documentary to Really Get to the Bottom of That Whole Styling Business
Here's the trailer for the upcoming HBO documentary about some of Vogue's top fashion editors over the last 50 years, including Grace Coddington, Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, Camilla Nickerson, and the...
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Yoko Ono Would Like to Sell You a Light-Up Bra for Men and Pants With a Butt...
Yoko Ono's men's clothing line hit the Internet today. Many words come to mind. Conservative. Wearable. Classic. The kind of clothes a man can wear and feel good in while making a presentation to a new...
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Is Alexander Wang Taking Over at Balenciaga?
The Nouvel Observateur and Cathy Horyn at the New York Times are reporting that Alexander Wang is a leading candidate to take over the creative directorship of Balenciaga. Horyn reports that "an...
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Zara Commits to Taking the Toxic Chemicals Out of Its Clothes — By 2020
In the wake of a Greenpeace report that found potentially dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in garments for sale at retailers including Levi's, Victoria's Secret, and Zara, the Spanish fast-fashion...
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The Five Best Ways To Have A Dinner Party
Certain people — etiquette experts, event planners, and some old, rich people who sound for all the world like they haven't personally cooked a dinner party in years — think the dinner party is dead....
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Alexander Wang's Friendship With Liberty Ross Might Make Working With Kristen...
It's official: Balenciaga confirmed this morning (via Twitter) that Alexander Wang will be its new creative director, replacing the widely acclaimed Nicolas Ghesquière. "Alexander Wang has...
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