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12 Steps LiLo
Must Take to
Save Her Career

no. 3: lose the leggings

Feb 15, 2010 9:24 AM CST

12 Steps LiLo Must Take to Save Her Career

Lose the fake tan, the blond dye job, and the leggings for a start

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan’s bad publicity parade marches on, but all hope is not lost: Tracey Harrington McCoy fully backs a LiLo career comeback, and she outlines a 12-step program on PopEater :

No more fake tanning: It’s one thing to promote your line of spray tanner. It’s another to

...

McQueen's Ex: Enough
With the Fake Crying

Feb 15, 2010 6:58 AM CST

McQueen's Ex: Enough With the Fake Crying

Here's looking at you, Rachel Zoe and Patti Smith

(Newser) - Just days after celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe was too “distraught” over Alexander McQueen’s death to attend a Project Runway fashion show, the designer’s ex-partner called out fashion world “hangers-on” for their meaningless condolences. “It's been fashion, fashion, fashion,” George Forsyth tells the Daily Mail...

Fashion World
Mourns
Alexander
McQueen

APPRECIATIONS

Feb 11, 2010 1:59 PM CST

Fashion World Mourns Alexander McQueen

The 'brash boy' was hailed as a genius for his designs

(Newser) - The apparent suicide of 40-year-old British designer Alexander McQueen has stunned the fashion world.

"I found him about as complex and beguiling as any human,' writes fashion journalist Cathy Horyn in the New York Times . "He was enormously creative and intelligent—and funny and rude and fearless.

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Alexander
McQueen
Dead at 40,
Apparent Suicide

Feb 11, 2010 10:08 AM CST

Alexander McQueen Dead at 40, Apparent Suicide

Fashion designer found in apparent suicide

(Newser) - British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, 40, is dead of an apparent suicide just weeks before the unveiling of his Fashion Week show in Paris. He is believed to have been found hanged in his London apartment, the Mail reports. His Twitter feed, which has since been removed, included a post...

Finally, a Hospital Gown
That Covers Your ...

Feb 10, 2010 10:56 AM CST

Finally, a Hospital Gown That Covers Your ...

Fashion designer makes modest and 'fabulous' garment for England

(Newser) - A fashion designer has completed a noble project for England’s National Health Service by building a better—and less revealing—hospital gown. The “aspirational” garment will debut in 2011 and features modest “entrance points” instead of an open back. Ben de Lisi clearly understood the problem. “...

LiLo Expands
Fashion Line

acting is for chumps

Dec 31, 2009 10:33 AM CST

LiLo Expands Fashion Line

6126 is not just for leggings anymore

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan may not be doing much acting nowadays, but her fashion universe continues to expand. Her once leggings-only label, 6126, is set to launch a full apparel line in fall 2010, Women’s Wear Daily reports. In typical Lilo fashion, she tweeted the news: “i need MORE followers...

Rodarte
Deal With
Target a
Mistake

OPINION

Dec 11, 2009 12:00 PM CST

Rodarte Deal With Target a Mistake

What happened to the Mulleavy sisters' commitment to authenticity?

(Newser) - Rodarte, which has become synonymous with handcrafted, authentic, extremely well-made clothes, was the last line Erika Kawalek ever expected to do a Target collection. The looks aren’t bad—some, like the leopard-print dress and blue tulle blouse, are rather nice—“but if you turn off your acquisitiveness for...

Brangelina's Next Role:
Jewelry Designer

First babes, now BAUBLES

Nov 16, 2009 10:49 AM CST

Brangelina's Next Role: Jewelry Designer

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie devise a snake-inspired line for Asprey

(Newser) - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have joined the celebrity designer ranks with a new jewelry line for Asprey inspired by—somewhere, Jennifer Aniston is chuckling—the snake. Pieces include gold and diamond rings, bracelets, pendants, earrings, silver baby spoons, tooth boxes, and picture frames; all feature serpents, an animal Jolie...

Ann Taylor Finally Gets Good

CINTRA WILSON

Oct 22, 2009 12:08 PM CDT

Ann Taylor Finally Gets Good

Cintra Wilson finds the retailer infused with sophisticated details, for less

(Newser) - After a game of fashion musical chairs brought Ann Taylor a new designer, Cintra Wilson decided it was time to reexamine the label—long a "corporate office submissive" look designed to "attract a nice tax attorney husband." She ate her words after checking out the new line...

Gaultier Designing
Collection for Target

Oct 21, 2009 3:19 PM CDT

Gaultier Designing Collection for Target

It debuts in March, probably inspired by Madonna

(Newser) - Lovers of cheap chic, rejoice: Jean Paul Gaultier is designing a collection for Target that will hit stores March 7, reports Women’s Wear Daily. Gaultier is third in the chain’s Designer Collaborations series, following Alexander McQueen (collection inspiration: Leila Moss) and Anna Sui (collection inspiration: Gossip Girl). This...

Lilo: I Didn't Know
About the Pasties

Oct 15, 2009 10:19 AM CDT

Lilo: I Didn't Know About the Pasties

Lohan claims lack of time, experience to blame for sad state of Ungaro show

(Newser) - How in the world can Lindsay Lohan justify the inclusion of pasties in her fashion line for Ungaro? Easy. “I wasn’t aware of the nipple tassels on the girls until they were walking out,” she tells People. As for the general disaster that was the rest of...

Lagerfeld Slams 'Fat Mummies'

Oct 12, 2009 10:53 AM CDT

Lagerfeld Slams 'Fat Mummies'

Karl Lagerfeld won't be joining the real women revolution anytime soon...

(Newser) - Karl Lagerfeld is not a fan of Brigitte magazine’s recent decision to stop using models in its pages. The 71-year-old designer tells Focus magazine the decision is “absurd” and “no one wants to see round women,” the Guardian reports. The women who complain about models, Lagerfeld...

Paris Fashion Week
Plays it Safe

SLIDESHOW

Oct 8, 2009 12:30 PM CDT

Paris Fashion Week Plays it Safe

Designers are tamed by recession fears

(Newser) - Thanks to the recession, “disciplined good taste” reigned on the Paris runways this week, leading Bloomingdale’s fashion director to dub the season “terrific, from a commercial point of view, but not so much so that it’s safe and boring.” Guy Trebay begs to differ. “...

The Latest
From Paris:
12-Inch Heels

SLIDESHOW

Oct 8, 2009 10:54 AM CDT

The Latest From Paris: 12-Inch Heels

Alexander McQueen creates a stir with his towering shoes

(Newser) - Alexander McQueen’s collection, inspired by Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species, had quite a few avant garde elements when it was unveiled last night in Paris—think shaved eyebrows, gills painted on temples, and devil-horn-shaped hair—but the shoes took the cake. The crystal-studded creations, part shoe and...

LiLo's Fashion Line
a Triumph for the Masses

OPINION

Oct 7, 2009 4:13 PM CDT

LiLo's Fashion Line a Triumph for the Masses

Sure, Lindsay Lohan's collection was dissed—but really, this is how fashion should be

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan’s fashion debut was “widely panned,” which came as “no surprise, of course.” But though “the looks were inelegant, off-trend, and styled with about as much je ne sais quois as a drunk teen let loose inside a Forever 21,” Erika Kawalek...

Fashion People
'Heartless':
Stella McCartney

SLIDESHOW

Oct 5, 2009 10:59 AM CDT

Fashion People 'Heartless': Stella McCartney

Designer wonders why the rest of the industry is still using fur and leather

(Newser) - One of fashion’s most famous vegetarians, Stella McCartney talks—a little bit about her rise from “nervous” young designer to successful businesswoman, but mostly about the fashion industry’s lack of eco-consciousness—to the Guardian on the heels of her Paris show. “I think people in fashion...

LiLo's Fashion Debut Slammed

SLIDESHOW

Oct 5, 2009 9:58 AM CDT

LiLo's Fashion Debut Slammed

Lindsay Lohan's collection for Emanuel Ungaro has few fans, to say the least

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan made her fashion debut yesterday at the Emanuel Ungaro show, and the fact that her acting got the better review shows just how awful it was: “We love Lindsay Lohan—as an actress. Period,” one art director tells the New York Times. “Call the fashion...

Best and Worst
of Milan Fashion Week

SLIDESHOW

Sep 29, 2009 10:48 AM CDT

Best and Worst of Milan Fashion Week

Some collections reflect current industry inertia, but a few rise above

(Newser) - With economic stresses making it more difficult for designers to be creative—and the growing trend of manufacturing being outsourced to other countries—the Italian spring collections in Milan were somewhat “joyless,” but still offered a few standouts, writes Cathy Horyn for the New York Times. The good:...

Coco Before
Chanel Is
'Beautifully
Woven'

movie review

Sep 25, 2009 12:26 PM CDT

Coco Before Chanel Is 'Beautifully Woven'

Reviewers mostly positive on biopic of French designer

(Newser) - Coco Before Chanel gets mostly positive reviews for its portrayal of the legendary designer in the days before her rise to fame.

“The most obvious credit goes to the strong, sure performance of Audrey Tautou,” writes Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times. “Tautou not only resembles

...

No One Really Wears This Stuff

Sep 16, 2009 1:41 PM CDT

No One Really Wears This Stuff

Except Madonna, and even she looks 'ridiculous' in runway fashions

(Newser) - For everyone who’s ever looked at runway fashions and wondered, “Would anybody really wear that?” Claire Suddath has the answer: No. New York Fashion Week's over-the-top designs, from clothes befitting a 19th-century French prostitute to “outfits that literally have no armholes” are “a form of wearable...