How many different ways can one wear suit separates? If you ask Jean Paul Gaultier, he’d probably tell you the options are limitless. He certainly showed it in his offerings for Fall 2012 couture, kicking off the show with a parade of tailored black suiting pieces, each imagined and re-imagined into a new beast. Three-piece Continue Reading
• Early Friday morning around 3:30am, three bandits broke into Bergdorf Goodman‘s famous Fifth avenue and 57th street store, making off with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fine jewelry. Amongst the stolen items were pieces from jewelry designer Paul Morelli. Jon Winkler, luxury retail manager for the designer’s Philadelphia store, said “That thief Continue Reading
• Liya Kebede‘s apparel line, Lemlem, is branching out into exorbitantly priced home wares. Prices will range from $125 for a pillow to $325 for a hand woven cotton blanket. (ELLE) • Hermès was awarded $100 million in damages after winning their case against 34 impostor websites claiming to sell discount Birkin bags. The sites Continue Reading
• Nicki Minaj and house music king David Guetta are set to release their music video for “Turn Me On” this Tuesday, but for now, the two give us a little amuse bouche of sorts with this sneak peek. In the clip, Minaj brandishes a hatchet, and Guetta sports some strange head contraption. Either way, Continue Reading
Jackie O, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn. Several now-deceased style icons have inspired designers. Some have been used ad nauseam (read: Marilyn Monroe). But Jean Paul Gaultier looked to Amy Winehouse as the muse for his spring couture collection.With a barbershop quartet singing her hits in the background, Gaultier opened his show with a signature Winehouse Continue Reading
• Glamour magazine conducted a survey, and found that only 7% of women say they love their hair. Even with such a paltry percentage of women feeling their tresses, black women (in true form) were more likely to vote in the affirmative, with 14% of us reporting that yes, we are quite content with what Continue Reading
• Viola Davis is featured in ELLE Magazine‘s “Women in Hollywood” issue, as the lone black woman working in Hollywood. (ELLE) • Jean Paul Gaultier wishes we would leave poor John Galliano alone! “I think it is completely sad that he doesn’t have his own label anymore. I think it’s bad. There are some people who Continue Reading
• This month, Nyasha Matonhodze will pay her cell phone bill on time because she is werkin’ it in these new Topshop promos! (Beauty is Diverse) • Finally, the Kardashian‘s relatively underwhelming nail polish collection with OPI has been revealed. This holiday season, you too will be able to purchase dupes of colors you already Continue Reading
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