Happy 2012 dear readers! I'm writing this post on the long train ride back to NYC, looking out the window at a sea of white snow and reminiscing about the holidays. I hope you're all doing well, and I wish you all the best in the new year!
Gael García Bernal in Flaunt #98
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Eden Jacket; Gypsy Rose Vest; Harlow Leather Jacket; Clementine Cami; Jasmine Cardy
Singer22 has the new Winter Kate collection by Nicole Richie available for pre-order! I'm loving it all so far, but I thought this line was supposed to be "affordable"? Oh well, I'll be saving my pennies for one of the jackets - the Jasmine Cardy has my name on it. Nicole Richie can do no wrong!
1. Costume Dept. Signs Shirt Dress
2. Leonard St. Oversize Braided Sweater
3. Alice+Olivia for Payless Madison Biker Boot
4. Urban Outfitters O'Sullivan Blazer
5. Free People Oxford Wedge
Me craving cold temperatures? I never thought this day would come! But evidently I am, based off of my current cravings. Sweaters, blazers, and boots? Ok, I guess I'm finally ready for Fall! And just because, I posted the new video for "Run This Town" featuring Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye. I'm obsessed. Who is gonna run this town tonight?
Work it! Ashley Olsen posed for the camera and chatted with Marc Jacobs for the latest issue of V MAN - check out just a few quotes from the interview below:
On doing a "celebrity line": "The way I look at it, I had a career as a child. I had a career in an industry in which the media kind of... they're obsessed with the young girl thing. But when I turned 18, I moved to New York, and I haven't really done anything to be a celebrity. I've been transitioning from acting as a kid to doing something that I'm choosing for myself - to be a part of the fashion industry... the outside perception is very different because you do have celebrity brands, people like Jessica Simpson and Kimora Lee Simmons, and those are celebrity brands because they have their names on them."
On working with Mary-Kate: "The Row is really something that I'm doing while my sister still wants to focus on acting. She's my partner in The Row, but she trusts me with the every day. I mean, I see her like ten times a day."
On being different from her twin sister: "When I was 14, 15, 16, 17, it was harder because the two of us were still very similar. We had to work through what's special about us, and then the media had to work through it... I've never been one to engage the media to say that I'm different. I actually did the opposite and I totally went internal. I was like, "See y'all!" I want to be behind the scenes, and I don't want people to know anything about my personal life. I have a job, I take it very seriously, and I work really hard."
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I didn't plan to have two Mary-Kate Olsen posts in a row, but that's how things work out sometimes. And this picture is so lovely, I just had to share it with you all. Mary-Kate will be the cover girl for Interview Magazine's March 2009 issue, and is seen here wearing a stunning Balenciaga design. Here's just a little snippet from the article:
The Mary-Kate that most of us don't know is a very thoughtful, intelligent woman with a blistering sense of humor and an enterprise that makes even hard-working friends feel like they aren't doing enough with their days. She walks quietly into rooms and gives you her full attention when you talk to her. And you always leave kind of wishing you'd hugged her more. Lately, she's been focusing on acting, and won kudos for her delightful performance as a weed-smoking Phish fan in last year's love letter to New York in the '90s, The Wackness. She and her sister are also hard at work on their two clothing lines, the higher end The Row and the more contemporary Elizabeth & James (the latter named after their other two siblings), and they are launching both shoe and men's collections later this year. The two even teamed up to publish a book of interviews last fall called Influence (Razorbill), in which they interviewed other artists and designers who have inspired them.You can read more of the article and check out a few more (equally lovely) pictures, as well as watch a behind-the-scenes video, at Interview Magazine. And of course, if you're interested, be sure to check out the March 2009 issue of Interview for more!
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Blake Lively, star of Gossip Girl and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, is on the cover of February's Vogue in an old-school Hollywood glamour shoot. The article mostly talks about Gossip Girl fashion and why the show has become such a hit. She's a great choice for a cover girl because she is the star of a show that is built on fashion, and she is just as beautiful and photogenic as any model I've seen! But maybe I'm biased, because I find her to be the most adorable person ever, and I'm a huge Gossip Girl fan. Check out a snippet from the interview below:"The fashion is just unbelievable. You can watch our show on mute and be entertained," Lively says. And she's not overstating it. The characters wear designer clothes that teeter between unattainable chic and self-parody, be it Bass's wearing a tuxedo covered with paillettes that shimmer like a matador's suit or Blair's attending the dean's party at Yale with an Alice-in-Plunderland pewter-colored satin bow in her hair. For her part, Lively is entranced by Serena's authentically local look. "Just being here, walking around, you pick it up really quickly," she explains. "In New York, you put on skinny jeans and riding boots and a leather coat and handbag, and you take on that posture and character," Lively says. "It becomes very natural." Lively's natural style? Costume National boots, dark Rag & Bone trousers, and a Joie cashmere vest over a Ports 1961 white pointelle cashmere sweater, punctuated by Chanel earrings, a Chanel handbag, and a Jeri Cohen diamond bracelet. ("They let me borrow it, and now I can't take it off," Lively says mischievously.)
Check out the entire interview in February's Vogue, and check out some more pictures from the mag below!
The Joie vest is a second-season development. Lively said that one day she showed up for work wearing hers, and discovered that the wardrobe crew had picked the exact same one for Serena. This tickled the star. "The more they work with me and see my style, and the more I learn about fashion, the more input I have," she explains. "It's more collaborative now than it was in the beginning because then I had no idea what I was doing."
Lively often jokingly refers to her California fashion pedigree as "sweatpants and UGGs," but actually, she has always had an interest in clothes, inspired by her mother, a former model from Georgia, who sews and used to take Lively as a child to boutiques and vintage stores and tailor adult clothes to fit her. "She just did that because she was so creative and because she didn't want me to be dressed in big T-shirts cinched with a plastic clip like all the rest of the kids." Ironically, it was fashion that gave Lively a taste of how cruel girls can be. When she entered a private school in Los Angeles in second grade, for the first and only time in her life she did not fit in. "It was the only school where people were just downright mean to me," she recalls. "They would make fun of my clothes because I dressed differently than the other kids." (Vogue)
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Sequin Blazer: D&G Spring 09
