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The Search For Ideal Luggage Continues: V Australia's 'Perfect Bag'
It's one of the oldest moneymaking games in the book: convince tourists that the bags they're traveling with aren't safe enough, or convenient enough, or stylish enough, and sell them a more jaunt-friendly bag. Very very soon however, all this could be put to rest by the release of the fruit of the labors of a fashion designer-airline combination.
Whether you're of the type that prefers the sixteen zippered pockets and multitude of snaps, or the type that wants only a simplistic tote, V Australia is asking you to help them design "the perfect bag for the perfect trip."
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A Sad Day For The Jet Set As Diane Von Furstenberg Is Robbed In Madrid
Irony! Just when we vouched for the safety of travelers in Madrid last week with our "Bad Rap Cities: Madrid" story, a high-profile woman fell victim over the weekend to the city's thieves who prey on tourists.
It all went down on yesterday evening in front of the Thyssen Museum in Madrid, when beloved fashion designer, contemporary of Andy Warhol, and legend in her own right Diane von Furstenberg twittered:
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YSL Will Send You To Paris For New Years, If You Prove 'Parisienne'
Ahh, New Years in Paris, what a fantasy trip that would be. Although we got the dream New Years vacation out of the way a few years ago in Venice, it doesn't mean that we can't lust after the combination of fashion and free travel that the new contest from Yves Saint Laurent offers.
Here's the details, for all you wannabe holiday jetsetters: YSL is launching a new fragrance called Parisienne and they've devoted a mini-site to it, complete with a blog of Paris travel tips. To win a trip for two to Paris for New Years, you must also share a story and photos, specifically "about how you have experienced the spirit of Parisienne in your own life." There's also a chance of winning a YSL handbag and Beaute products, but we'll just take the trip thanks.
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The Original Street Style Photographer, Irving Penn, Hits LA's Getty Center
The courtyard at The Getty Center, Los Angeles
Today, street style dominates the blogosphere and the foremost fashion websites. We're a culture of voyeurs: If it's being worn by Anna Wintour or a MOD (that's insider-speak for Model Off Duty), or photographed paparazzi-style, then we'll sit, stare, and come back for more. But before The Sartorialist and Bill Cunningham were all the rage, a different kind of street style was of interest: real people, wearing layman's clothing, photographed against a neutral backdrop rather than the hustle and bustle of a big city.
Los Angeles' Getty Center is currently celebrating photography vanguard Irving Penn, who recently passed away after a storied career working for magazines including Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Irving Penn: Small Trades is an exhibition of Penn's photographs from the early 1950s featuring men and women in their work attire. A milkman with a checked shirt and pants riding high, a steel mill firefighter in full protective regalia, and prim and proper ballroom dancing team are just a few of the highlights from Small Trades.
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Yes, Virginia, Los Angeles Does Have A Fashion Week
Just like dineLA's recently extended Restaurant Week, Los Angeles Fashion Week has turned into more of a Fashion Month. We're the first to admit that Los Angeles is no New York when it comes to carrying fashion heft, but there's talent floating around the 405, especially in the Downtown Fashion District. Since early October, various shopping events, trunk shows, previews, and the like, have been taking place around town in celebration of the city's well-known and emerging designers.
Edgy denim label Rock & Republic recently held a collaboration launch party with Essie, and former Robertson Boulevard super-boutiques Madison and Diavolina celebrated their West Third flagship store launch last Thursday with stylists and respected denim designers Emily Current and Merritt Elliott of Current/Elliott. But as Los Angeles is all about what's new and what's next, one of the more anticipated events coming up this month is Gen Art's Fresh Faces in Fashion show on Thursday, October 29th from 7:00 to 11:00 PM.
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The Top Five Paris Tourist Sites Affected By Fashion Week
The City of Lights will become the City of Photographer Flash Strobes in the next 24 hours as Paris Fashion Week officially begins tomorrow and runs through Thursday, October 8. Although this means that Paris will be on its best behavior with gleaming-clean upscale restaurants, the best window displays, and serious eye candy walking down the street, it also means that private parties and fashion shows will possibly clog up some of the sights that tourists regularly hit.
Since we want you to get the most out of Paris in the autumn, with a dash of the glamor of the Fashion Week thrown in, we'll let you in on the places to either hit or skip—depending on how much you love big crowds of pretentious people—in Paris for the next ten days:
Top 5 Paris tourist sites affected by Fashion Week, after the jump
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The Top Three Hot Spots To Avoid During NYC's Fashion Week
It's that time of the year again, when, in New York, the models come out the play and everyone shines off their fancy shoes for the biannual Fashion Week. Since this is the last season for the shows in the temporary tents at Bryant Park (which this season have a travel theme), expect there to be all kinds of hubbub in Midtown, but other bits of the city as well.
For the first time, another Fashion Week has risen up to challenge the dominance of the IMG Fashion/Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, which is the one held in Bryant Park. This new contender is MAC and Milk Fashion Week; MAC being a cosmetics company and Milk a collection of event spaces on the edge of the Meatpacking District. Thus, with all of the venues scattered about town, we thought we'd help those of you who'd rather go about your week without models, or with models if that's your thing.
Here we go; The Top Three NYC Places To Avoid During Fashion Week...
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Dress Your Family In Eurostar Remnants and Virgin Hot Air Balloons
A couple years ago, we were all able to live our greatest dream of wearing repurposed airline seat covers, thanks to Worn Again, which turned worn-out covers from Virgin Atlantic planes into bags and accessories.
This year, they've taken the collaboration several steps further by branching out from Virgin to include Eurostar, and hiring UK designer Christopher Raeburn to create the products. And for the first time, all of the products are completely made in the UK.
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'Runway Fashion' Means Something Totally Different To Gatwick Airport
We love photoshopping sunglasses onto an airplane just as much as the next travel dork, but really—the above ad campaign from London-Gatwick Airport is taking it a bit too far.
Looking to promote Gatwick as a shopping destination, and not just for last-minute trashy paperback books or inflatable neck pillows, the airport placed this faux fashion spread into a British LGBT magazine, Attitude, and—we guess—hopes that the gay population og southern England comes running to buy chains and leather boots duty-free.
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Celebrities Strut Their Stuff in Hollywood to Help Neglected Animals
Every year in Hollywood, celebrities lend their time and talent by hitting the catwalk for charity, raising funds and awareness for animal rescues. This year's Celebrity Catwalk Fashion Show will held on Thursday, August 27th at The Highlands and will be hosted by Hugh Hefner's former girlfriend and the host of "Bridget's Sexiest Beaches," Bridget Marquardt.
Stephanie Pratt of "The Hills," Loretta Devine of “Grey's Anatomy,” Kimberly Caldwell of “P-Diddy’s Starmaker,” Pamela and Hayley Hasselhoff, Kim Coles from “Pay it Off," KayCee Stroh from “High School Musical 3-Senior Year,” Megan Hauserman of “Megan Wants a Millionaire," and Carolyn Hennessy of “General Hospital” will all walk the catwalk in clothes from Heather Mills' line Be@1, Lane Bryant, Rocawear and Puma.
Proceeds from the event will benefit two charities: Noah's Ark Animal Foundation, a no-kill shelter whose mission is to rescue, protect and find loving homes for stray and neglected dogs and cats, and Almost Home Dachshund Rescue, a nationwide organization of volunteers that seeks to rescue abandoned, abused, neglected, and unwanted dachshunds.
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Vogue To The Music: NYC's First 'Fashion's Night Out' Going Global
There is always something happening in New York City, whether its food-related like Restaurant Week, movie-related like the Tribeca Film Festival or any of the movies filming on the street, or just plain old party-related for the heck of throwing a good time. Come this September, NYC's crowded social calendar gets yet another doozy of an event added: Fashion's Night Out.
Only, this night of fashion designers and culture arbiters mixing with shoppers won't be restricted to the Big Apple; it's going global with simultaneous events all around Europe, in Brazil, Russia, China, India, Japan and Taiwan. Stores will stay open until 11pm for the revelry.
To be frank, we're pretty damn excited for this to go down on September 10, which is also the eve of New York's Fashion Week. It's also the day before September 11, and Fashion's Night Out is paying respect to this by donating all proceeds from the sale of their T-shirts to the 9/11 Memorial Fund.
Now onto the parties and events...
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Jaunted's Three Favorite Vintage Shops In Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the epicenter of all things trendy and Californian. You need not look any further than Robertson Boulevard—a street reviled by some fashion lovers, but embraced by a sect of label-centric shoppers—for proof positive. Yet the city breeds vastly different identities, and by extension, expressions of what is en vogue.
Balenciaga and Balmain may rule in Beverly Hills, but down Melrose Avenue and further eastbound you'll find that style is influenced by throwbacks to decades long gone, and some still fresh in recent memory. (Hello, '90s grunge revival in Echo Park.) If, like us, you have a penchant for '70s boho-wear and clothing that comes at a price point that won't afflict you with sticker shock, then vintage shopping is where your well-earned money should go.
Jaunted's Top Vintage Shops In Los Angeles:
