Chic French boutique Colette is teaming with the Gap to bring a pop up store to Midtown Manhattan. Colette's new digs will be open from September 6 to October 5 next to the Gap's Fifth Avenue flagship at 54th Street.
On the style blogs, some of the clotheshorse crowd already seems upset that the high fashion brand would collaborate with a mass market retailer like the Gap, but plans for the pop up store seem tailor-made to silence the non-believers.
The temporary project is called "styledesignartfood," so expect all types of high end goodies to be on sale including several items that will be exclusive to the location. The interior of the pop up shop also promises to impress: It's designed by luxe store specialist Masamichi Katayama who previously created high concept spaces for Bape and Uniqlo.
Being the host of a reality show can obviously be a tedious job: Traveling around the world week-to-week and dealing with checked baggage fees is downright criminal. Luckily The New York Times is around to spotlight the infinite packing wisdom of "The Amazing Race" host Phil Keoghan.
Phil tells writer Michelle Higgins that he drags around one large suitcase and a backpack to carry all his expedition-ready-to-wear. For the rugged multi-tasker in all of us, Keoghan offers his key to success: He takes pictures of all the different outfits that he wears on set. (He refers to the pictures as "idiot shots.")
It's hard to think of messing up jeans and a T-shirt or even a button down every week, but this is quite the look into the mind of celebrity. And we'll all know if he's giving the production crew grief when we see him in Tangiers wearing a Mickey Mouse ringer T-shirt and a tiara.
Paris' famed Rue Saint-Honore will be a catwalk of condolences today as fashion's elite gather at the Église Saint-Roch to pay tribute to the late Yves Saint Laurent. Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano and Valentino have RSVP'd to the invite-only funeral service along with celeb friends Claudia Schiffer and model-turned-first-lady, Carla Bruni.
Notably absent will be Karl Lagerfeld who is conveniently "away on business," presumably still underlining the errors in Alice Drake's recent joint biography of Lagerfeld and YSL.
There are plenty of offensive things one can wear on a plane--a too-short skirt, for example, or a political message for the President. Add Optimus Prime to that list: A British IT consultant was not allowed to board his British Airways flight because of his "Transformers" T-shirt.
Brad Jayakody has a cool enough job that on a business trip to Dusseldorf, he was allowed to dress down for the plane. But after one of his colleagues was searched, he was pulled aside and told his shirt was inappropriate.
So a silk-screened gun is the same as a real gun now? We've just got to be more careful with our T-shirt selection. But the real person in danger? Shia LaBeouf. After all, he's a known associate of Mr. Prime.
D.B.A Brooklyn is a boutique specializing in the holy trinity of casual fashion essentials: t-shirts, jeans and sneakers. Opened a little over two weeks ago by a trio of New York natives, it's a small space that's packed with wares and boasts a bold, eye-catching design.
The walls are lined with an impressive stock of exclusive designer kicks ranging from neon New Balances and Nikes to dressy Spring Courts to all-leather Converse. Further inside, there are t-shirts, art books and vinyl figurines.
On weekends, D.B.A plays host to hip hop DJs, and people hang out on the stoop outside. The atmosphere is laid back and the wares are treated like works of art. D.B.A has Lucite cases holding ultra-rare Nikes while vinyl figurines from the owners' private collection and sneakers with high-three-figure price tags line the upper shelves.
Blackbook has put together a clever little photo shoot about this season's must-have accessories for both fashionistas and Jason Pomeranc wannabes. And the inspiration was that oh-so-sexy, consistently glamorous, trend-setting hot spot... The TSA Security Checkpoint.
Yes, that's right. X-ray machines are the new wind machines. Blackbook dropped pricey accessories into the all-too-familiar TSA bins for this shoot, including a $1,150 striped Prada bag, a $8,550 Gucci bracelet, $1,675 Giorgio Armani Messenger Bag and a $399 Apple iPod Touch. We wonder, if we posed in the bins, would we look as glamorous?
We also think that if luxe wear like this was really dropped into the gray bins on a daily basis, we imagine those reports of TSA employees stealing would skyrocket. But for the record, if we owned that $1,150 Prada bag, we would never let it near a grubby conveyor belt. Quelle horreur!
Montreal isn't exactly known as a center of haute couture, but beginning May 29 all the fashionistas will be packing their all-black ensembles to attend a new retrospective on the career of French designer Yves Saint-Laurent at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Saint-Laurent revolutionized fashion in his Paris studio by making pieces from his runway shows available pret-a-porter, or available for purchase without a custom order. The designer officially retired in 2002 but you can see over 100 of his fully accessorized outfits on display all summer long.
This show--and a copy of Alicia Drake's book The Beautiful Fall, about Saint-Laurent and competitor Karl Lagerfeld--ought to tide you over till Fashion Week.
Bad hair flight? Take a tip from Lindsay Lohan and throw it all back with an all-purpose hairband--that doubles as an eyeshade.
The actress recently sported this teal wonder when passing between LA and NYC to work on a song R&B sensation--and karaoke enthusiast--Ne-Yo wrote for her.
Personally, we think this is a don't, but how annoying is it when you don't have any way to get hair out of your face during a flight? The first airline to package up a set of hairbands and sell them for $1 in flight along with the free beverage service will get our money, and happily.
