Christian Louboutin to extend its brand into beauty as JV announced
Christian Louboutin will extend its brand into beauty, it was announced today, in a joint venture with Batallure Beauty LLC. Batallure is a brand and business-development company that has a number of clients including Abercrombie & Fitch, Macy’s, and Sephora. The plan is to take the iconic shoe brand into the luxury beauty […]
We have two more videos from Paris Fashion Week—Isabel Marant and Sonia Rykiel—and one from Christian Louboutin’s show at the Crazy Horse cabaret. Isabel Marant’s cowboy shirts and bright jeans made the American frontier very feminine, complemented by suede trousers, satin shirts, lace blouses and cowboy boots. Pink, red, navy and gold kept the […]
Beth Ditto and MAC; Jane Iredale feels alive; and two New Zealand shopping experiences
Top Beth Ditto with John Demsey, Group President, the Estée Lauder Companies Inc., in Paris. Above The Feeling Alive collection from Jane Iredale. Beth Ditto is MAC’s latest collaborator, with her collection to be released in June. Along with Vanessa Paradis, Catherine Deneuve, Dita von Teese, Christian Louboutin, Juliette Binoche and Grace Jones, Ditto attended […]
Keira Knightley wonders if the English like spanking, as A Dangerous Method premières
Keira Knightley’s question: do the British like spanking? We already mentioned the sado-masochistic scenes in her new movie, A Dangerous Method, back in October. According to the actress, spanking was never mentioned after the original première, and only slightly at the Toronto Film Festival. But, now with A Dangerous Method having a gala première […]
Royal Wedding recap: the Beckhams and Carole Middleton arrive
Now that the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is over, we thought we’d recap some of the arrivals from earlier in the day. From our fashion point-of-view, the hope we had that Kate Middleton’s wedding dress was from Alexander McQueen’s Sarah Burton was fulfilled. Also from the fashion perspective, […]
Glimpses from Paris: Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Valentino, Anna dello Russo and Christian Loubotin
While Paris editor Lola Saab went Stateside to help our New York Fashion Week coverage, our new correspondent Léona d’Huy popped in to the Jean-Charles de Castelbajac autumn–winter 2011–12 show, entitled Woman/Ray, for Lucire at the Place de la Concorde. Her report from the events of March 8 follow, translated from the French. Photographers take […]
