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December 20, 2010
This weekend, The Standard in New York opened its latest attraction—one that’s a draw during daylight hours, too. The hotel’s new 3,000-square-foot ice rink is now up and running, and for $12 admission (plus $3 for skates if you don’t have your own), you can spin on 13th Street—not to mention sip an “après-skate” bourbon-laced hot chocolate. It’s open through the winter, from 10 a.m. straight through until midnight, all the better to perfect your figure 8 before heading upstairs.
tags: The Boom Boom Room, The Standard
That’s A Wrap
December 20, 2010
Seeing as C-day is less than a week off, odds are you have your gift-buying taken care of. (And in case you haven’t, we’ll be chiming in throughout the week with a few last-minute ideas.) But assuming your goods are gotten, then there’s the pesky next step: How to wrap them?
Our go-to for the best papers in New York has long been Kate’s Paperie, an NYC institution. They stock an enormous selection of papers year-round, but for the holidays, we especially like this very Erdem pink floral version ($3.59 at KatesPaperie.com) and Cavallini’s vintage dessert-illustration sheets ($4.50 at KatesPaperie.com). Or if you’re after a more masculine look, we love the new “newspaper” by English documentary photographer Janette Beckman. Beckman shot the emerging music scenes in New York and London through the seventies and eighties—think punks and rappers—and Arkitip has printed her work on 11×17″ newsprint, which would be perfect for most small boxes ($7.50, Arkitip.com). To close it all up, you could use clear tape, but we love the multicolored rolls made of Japanese dashi paper, sold exclusively at the MoMA Design Store (ten rolls for $30, MoMAstore.org). All are available for online ordering if you’re not close enough to buy them in person. That takes care of supplies. If you need a little help with the nuts and bolts, click here for a handy step-by-step guide from Opening Ceremony’s Carol Lim.
tags: Arkitip, Janette Beckman, Kate's Paperie, Opening Ceremony
Roitfeld Speaks, Raf In Motion,
The Outlook On Androgyny, And More…
December 20, 2010
Carine Roitfeld gives her first long interview to WWD, where the outgoing Paris Vogue editrix reveals her most memorable moments (putting bearded transsexual Andre J. on the cover), her feelings about U.S. Vogue (”I think I would be too rock ‘n’ roll for American Vogue“), and what she knows about her successor (according to her, nothing). She also states: “I don’t do any consulting work or advertising.” [WWD]
The latest in fashion film: 15 years of Raf Simons’ menswear, shot by Pierre Debusschere and styled by Robbie Spencer for Dazed & Confused. [Dazed Digital]
The gender-bending trend continues this spring: Androgynous Australian/Serbian male model Andrej Pejic (left) will front Marc by Marc Jacobs (alongside Ginta Lapina) and Jean Paul Gaultier (alongside Karolina Kurkova). [WWD]
And some sad news on the male model front, too: RIP Charles Devoe, who appeared in V, Numéro Homme, and ads for Hickey Freeman and Stefanel. [V]
tags: Andrej Pejic, Carine Roitfeld, Charles Devoe, Paris Vogue, Pierre Debusschere, Raf Simons, Robbie Spencer
Tommy Ton’s Best-Dressed Of 2010
December 20, 2010
The year in style from the year’s best street-style chronicler. Below, Tommy Ton’s favorite subjects this year. Click here to check out TT’s snaps, and see below for our handy gloss on who’s who.
Giovanna Battaglia: Stylist, honorary Roitfeld (dates Carine’s son, Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld).
Leigh Lezark: DJ, Misshape, Chanel beauty ambassador.
Vika Gazinskaya (left): Designer of Vika Gazinskaya.
Emmanuelle Alt: Runway stylist for Balmain and Isabel Marant, rédatrice en chef mode (and possible successor to Carine Roitfeld) at Paris Vogue.
Michelle Harper: New York party fixture, muse to designer Victor de Souza.
Yasmin Sewell: Creative consultant, formerly of Liberty of London.
Miroslava Duma: Russian fashion editor, formerly of Harper’s Bazaar Russia.
Milan Vukmirovic: Creative director of Trussardi 1911, co-owner of Miami’s The Webster.
Anya Ziourova: Stylist.
Susan Cernek: Fashion and beauty editor at Glamour.com.
Viviana Volpicella: Assistant to Anna Dello Russo.
Aurora Sansone: Assistant to Anna Dello Russo.
Caroline Sieber: Stylist, Chanel beauty ambassador.
Marina Munoz: Argentine stylist, brow naturalist.
Nickelson Wooster: Men’s fashion director at Neiman Marcus.
Taylor Tomasi Hill: Style and accessories director at Marie Claire.
Vanessa Traina: Downtown fixture, muse to Joseph Altuzarra, contributing fashion editor at T.
Hanne Gaby Odiele: Model.
Guerre: Street-style blogger at Swagger360.blogspot.com.
Shala Monroque: Pop contributor, Miuccia Prada confidante, unofficial first lady of the art world (dates gallerist Larry Gagosian).
Anna Dello Russo: Editor at large at Vogue Nippon, blogger, gift recommender, all-around phenomenon.
tags: Anna dello Russo, Anya Ziorouva, Aurora Sansone, Caroline Sieber, Emmanuelle Alt, Giovanna Battaglia, Guerre, Hanne Gaby Odiele, Leigh Lezark, Marina Munoz, Michelle Harper, Milan Vukmirovic, Miroslava Duma, Nickelson Wooster, Shala Monroque, Susan Cernek, Taylor Tomasi Hill, Tommy Ton, Vanessa Traina, Vika Gazinskaya, Viviana Volpicella, Yasmin Sewell
From Our Mailbag
December 20, 2010
It’s the holidays, and we’ve been receiving some beautiful cards with wishes of the season here at the Style.com offices. But our favorites yet are actually blank: They’re the new stationery from Tibi. Designer Amy Smilovic created a special line of cards with fashion sketches from her collection, and added to the top of the stack sent to our executive editor, Nicole Phelps, were a few personalized sketches of her own greatest outfits, pulled from street-style blogs. (Nicole wears, left to right, a Prabal Gurung dress; a Marni cape and Helmut Lang jeans; and a Calvin Klein jacket, J.Crew top, and Stella McCartney for H&M cargos.) You’ll have to catch Smilovic’s eye to get your own personalized versions, but her standard cards are available now at Tibi stores and Tibi.com.
tags: Amy Smilovic, Tibi
The Girls Who Bleach Together, Hang Together
December 17, 2010
It may have been the era of returning supermodels—Kristen McMenamy and Stella Tennant had banner years—but the breakout stars of 2010 got a pretty good foothold, too. At a cocktail event for the beauty blog Into the Gloss last night, we caught a few of the most sought-after sipping wine and basking in the stares of ogling fellow partygoers. Britt Maren and Arizona Muse—two of our top new finds of Spring 2011, though technically, Muse is a returning champ—shot the breeze with Maren’s fellow “Balenciaga blonde” Jana Knauerova at Tribeca’s Weather Up. (So, by the way, did plenty of editors and well-wishers, including co-hostesses Sally Singer and stylist Elissa Santisi.) For 2011: a few well-placed campaigns, perhaps? Muse recently scored a spot in the Steven Meisel-shot Spring ‘11 Prada ads, alongside Mariacarla Boscono, Zuzanna Bijoch, Kinga Razjak, and Tati Cotliar. Maren—who, we increasingly notice, bears a striking resemblance to the young Mia Farrow—looks likely to be up next.
tags: Arizona Muse, Britt Maren, Jana Knauerova
The Roth Revival
December 17, 2010
It wasn’t just records—whatever Kurt Cobain wore won cult status. (Just think of the generation of kids he introduced to Daniel Johnston with his famous “Hi, How Are You” T-shirt.) And now, for those who missed them the first time around, Jordan Silver of the excellent Silver Lining Vintage—Jay-Z’s preferred vintage-sunglass dealer, not to mention Bergdorf Goodman’s—is reissuing the Christian Roth specs that Cobain made famous, in a new collaboration with Opening Ceremony. Silver supplied deadstock Roth frames (including the cat-eyes the Nirvana frontman preferred) kitted out with new lenses, in tortoise-print and violet-lensed versions ($450, available at OpeningCeremony.us). Kurt wears his (left) alongside some woman you may recognize if you hit a party or two in 2010.
tags: Christian Roth, Courtney Love, Jordan Silver, Kurt Cobain, Opening Ceremony, Silver Lining Vintage
On The Hunt For The Next Carine, Everything’s Better In Bali, And More…
December 17, 2010
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a day after Carine Roitfeld announced she’s stepping down from her post at Paris Vogue, London’s Telegraph has rounded up a few candidates who might replace her. Their picks range from the likely (Roitfeld’s second-in-command, Emmanuelle Alt, left) to the less likely (Anna Dello Russo) to the well-actually-that’s-kind-of-inspired (Hedi Slimane). [Telegraph]
Models tend to have good travel tips—they get flown around the world for a living, after all—and Carolyn Murphy’s no exception. The nineties supe chats with the Huffington Post about her favorite global spots, like Bali. [HuffPo]
And speaking of Indonesian hotspots, another one—Jakarta—is playing host to the very first John Hardy store. (The company was founded in Bali.) More stores are planned for Hong Kong, Moscow, and, eventually, the U.S. [WWD]
tags: Anna dello Russo, Bali, Carine Roitfeld, Carolyn Murphy, Emanuelle Alt, Hedi Slimane, Jakarta, John Hardy
A Queen Of The Runway Channels
The Queen Of The Nile
December 17, 2010
“Erin has an incredible body and face, and she understands better than anyone the idea behind her designs. The clothes were not necessary!” So says photographer Paola Kudacki of her collaboration with Erin Wasson on the new lookbook for Wasson’s Low Luv jewelry line.
For her Spring/Holiday collection, exclusively seen here first, Wasson drew on symbolism from various cultures, from Native American (in a thunderbird pendant and necklace) to Middle Eastern (Evil Eye stacked rings and bangles, which, according to Erin, “mean many different things according to how and which culture you look at”). “I usually design what I find interesting and powerful,” she said simply. “I want pieces that look intense and have meaning.” Music played a part in her process, too, especially the late Egyptian-born singer Oum Kalthoum, the so-called Star of the East. “Once the music references start popping up, I wanted to portrait her like a goddess, like Nefertiti,” Kudacki added. Wasson’s hammered rings, chandelier earrings, and crosses studded with rough crystals and black agates are flashy enough for the ruler of an empire—or, paired with Wasson’s usual outfit of cutoffs and vintage tees, for a catwalker off duty.
tags: Erin Wasson, Low Luv, Paola Kudacki
Au Revoir, Carine
December 17, 2010
The headline this morning on Vogue.fr: “Carine Roitfeld Quitte Vogue Paris.” After a decade at the helm of the French glossy, Carine Roitfeld—the editrix who, as much as anyone else, inaugurated the cult of the editor—is stepping down to pursue new projects. What are they? At present, no one’s saying. She’s got “a few weeks” left at the magazine, which may or may not include the Fall ‘11 collections. Will she give up her front-row seat, whatever comes next? Not likely, we’d say—but just in case, we’ve rounded up a few our favorite moments at the shows. (And there’s plenty more where that came from.)
tags: Carine Roitfeld, Paris Vogue
