Archive for January, 2012

AARP’s best movie for grownups? "The Descendants" (Reuters)

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Reuters – Add another accolade to the pile already collected by “The Descendants” this awards season: the Alexander Payne/George Clooney collaboration has been named Best Movie by AARP: The Magazine’s 11th annual Movies for Grownups Awards.
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Luxury watches seek solace in glamour of bygone eras (Reuters)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Reuters – Simple elegance for debt-ridden Europe, glitzy diamonds and gold for booming Asia.
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Chinese haute-couture steps up at HK Fashion Week (Reuters)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Reuters – China at one time may have been better known for fashion knockoffs than catwalk creations, but Chinese haute-couture is now finding its feet on the international stage — even as it grows ever more popular with customers at home.
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Dandy financiers cut through gloom at Milan week (Reuters)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Reuters – Fashion designers brushed up capes, trench coats and pinstripe suits to enliven the wardrobes of businessmen who want to cut their way through the gloom.
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Gucci’s Poetically Fallen Angels (Fashion Wire Daily)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

FWD101  Model walks the runway at the Gucci show during Men Fall 2012 Fashion Week in Milan on Monday, January 16, 2012.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily – Poetry is not traditionally the best paid of trades, though poets were certainly dressed as the chicest of success stories in the fall 2012 menswear collection of Gucci, staged Monday, Jan. 16, in Milan.



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Hollywood Golden Age a hot look at Golden Globes (Reuters)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Reuters – Timeless elegance, fitted bodices and mermaid trains ruled the Golden Globes’ red carpet on Sunday as A-list celebrities channeled old-style Hollywood glamour.
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Jolie and Pitt grace the Globes in glamorous style (AP)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP – Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt fully dressed their part as a glamorous Hollywood power couple at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards: She in a body-hugging white strapless gown with a flash of red at the bustline by Atelier Versace that matched perfectly her lips and handbag, and he in a classic, bow-tie tuxedo by Salvatore Ferragamo.



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Prada’s Powerful Patrician Panache (Fashion Wire Daily)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

FWD101  Adrien Brody walks the runway at the Prada show during Men Fall 2012 Fashion Week in Milan on Sunday, January 15, 2012.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily – Entitled “Il Palazzo” and featuring a rarefied list of major league actors – Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, to name a few – the latest runway show by the house of Prada was a fashionable statement on the power of dressing, rather than just powerful dressing.



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Missoni’s Anglo Gent Restoration (Fashion Wire Daily)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

FWD101  Model walks the runway at the Missoni show during Men Fall 2012 Fashion Week in Milan on Sunday, January 15, 2012.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily – There are few more pointedly family businesses in Milan fashion than the house of Missoni, which staged its fall 2012 men’s collection on Sunday, Jan. 15, even if this season the fundamental influence was transparently not Italian, but British.



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Daisy Lowe, human blob cap Rio fashion week (AP)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

A model has her hair and nails done for the Andrea Marques show during Fashion Week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)AP – An It Girl and an orange spandex blob of writhing humanity capped Rio de Janeiro’s five-day-long fashion week Saturday, lending a gimmicky end to the city’s otherwise strong winter 2012 collections.



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Burberry’s Sartorial New Gentility (Fashion Wire Daily)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

FWD101  Model walks the runway at the Burberry Prorsum show during Men Fall 2012 Fashion Week in Milan on Saturday, January 14, 2012.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily – The true test of a design champion, like their equivalent in sports, is the ability to consistently turn out hit collections, fashion statements that both set a stylistic agenda and sell large numbers of clothes.



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Dolce & Gabbana: Bullion, Cashmere and Pajamas (Fashion Wire Daily)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

If you really wanted to get away from the global recession and economic blues then your best destination this month is surely a runway show by Dolce & Gabbana.Fashion Wire Daily – If you really wanted to get away from the global recession and economic blues then your best destination this month is surely a runway show by Dolce & Gabbana.



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Big Surprises at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (Fashion Wire Daily)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

There were some shocked faces at the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards held at the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, Jan. 12, and none more than that of Viola Davis, who took home the Best Actress prize for her fine work as a maid in Fashion Wire Daily – There were some shocked faces at the 17th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards held at the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, Jan. 12, and none more than that of Viola Davis, who took home the Best Actress prize for her fine work as a maid in “The Help.”



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Valentino’s New Rich Volumes (Fashion Wire Daily)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

FWD201  Model walks the runway at the Valentino Fall 2012 show during the Pitti fashion trade show in Florence on Wednesday, January 11, 2012.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily – Get ready for a new era of boom times in men’s fashion. A whole slew of high level brands are now investing huge sums in menswear; a major league bet based on the belief that a generation of millions of men in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) markets are about to spend large sums on building proper gentlemanly wardrobes.



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Favorite Stars Win Big at the People’s Choice Awards (Fashion Wire Daily)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

She's the People's Choice Award winner for Best Pop Artist, a fact that got Demi Lovato all choked up during the live awards show at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 11.Fashion Wire Daily – She’s the People’s Choice Award winner for Best Pop Artist, a fact that got Demi Lovato all choked up during the live awards show at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 11.



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`Frenemies’ take a fashion field trip in NYC (AP)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 photo, actresses Zendaya, right, and Bella Thorne shop at an H&M store in New York. A new Disney Channel movie with the name 'Frenemies' debuts Friday night, casting real-life fashion fans and best buds Bella Thorne and Zendaya as style watchers who want to turn their blog Geekly Chic into a magazine.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP – It goes with the teenage territory: Girls gush over their friends and each other’s wardrobes.



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Sober Herchcovitch show opens Rio fashion week (AP)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

A model wears a creation from the Herchcovitch fall-winter fashion collection during Fashion Rio 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP – Rio de Janeiro’s winter 2012 fashion week kicked off on a sober note Tuesday, with a utilitarian collection in industrial-strength denims from star designer Alexandre Herchcovitch.



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Simon Doonan dishes on French chicks, straight men (AP)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

This book cover image courtesy of Blue Rider Press shows the cover of 'Gay Men Don't Get Fat,' by Simon Doonan. Doonan was creative director at Barneys for 25 years. After a shake-up at the luxury retailer, he's now creative ambassador-at-large.   (AP Photo/Blue Rider Press)AP – Skinny French chicks and roly-poly straight men. Lesbian chic and the chaotic state of style. Nothing and nobody escapes the gaydar of the fabulously floral Simon Doonan in his new book, “Gay Men Don’t Get Fat.”



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Clout on the catwalk can come with tweeting (AP)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

AP – Social media is giving a voice to models who, for the most part, have built their careers as pretty, non-speaking faces.
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Inside Dasha Zhukova’s Garage, Clyfford Still Museum Preview, Fashion and Art Get It On, and the Week’s Other Top Art Stories (ARTINFO)

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

ARTINFO – The most-talked-about stories on ARTINFO, September 5-9:
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