We’ll Take Manhattan: the impact of David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton revisited
Bailey, copyright ©1965 by the Condé Nast Publications (UK) BBC/Kudos Compare the pair. Top Jean Shrimpton, as she appeared in Vogue shot by Bailey in 1965. Above Karen Gillan and Aneurin Barnard as Jean Shrimpton and David Bailey in a publicity shot for We’ll Take Manhattan, which aired last week on BBC4. The visitor stats […]
Steffi Graf opens Longines’ NYC flagship store
Longines has opened a store in New York, with brand ambassador, tennis star Stefanie Graf—better known to us as Steffi Graf—doing the ribbon-cutting on January 24. The shop, inside leading US watch retailer Tourneau, includes the latest Longines watches, including the Longines Master Collection Retrograde Moon Phases, the DolceVita, and the Column-Wheel Chronograph. […]
BBC releases first pic of Karen Gillan as Jean Shrimpton in new bio-pic
BBC/Kudos The BBC has released its first official image of Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) playing Jean Shrimpton, in the BBC Four bio-pic, We’ll Take Manhattan. Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard stars alongside Gillan as photographer David Bailey. We’ll Take Manhattan focuses on a Vogue photo shoot in New York in 1962 and how iconic […]
Daniel Craig never called the Kardashians ‘idiots’: media continue to fuel the story
In another media “he said, she said”, Daniel Craig has denied ever calling the Kardashians ‘idiots’, in a brief red-carpet Q&A with our colleagues at ITN. The actor, promoting the remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, wonders how he could have ever given them a label, considering he has never seen their […]
Kim Kardashian and X Factor dominate Glamour awards’ red-carpet chatter
Reality star Kim Kardashian proved to be the talked-about celebrity at the Glamour awards in London, with a figure-hugging strapless, floor-length black dress. The newly engaged Kardashian, wearing her $2 million 20·5 ct engagement ring, says she will keep her maiden name. She intends to have a long discussion with her fiancé shortly to […]
Lady Gaga shocks with massive platform heels at CFDA awards
David X. Prutting/Billy Farrell Agency Lady Gaga loves to shock, and she did so again at the CFDA awards at the Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York on Monday night. Donning a turquoise wig and enormous platform heels—which made it so hard to walk she literally needed support—Gaga accepted the Fashion Icon Award […]
Naomi Campbell, Karolína Kurková headline de Grisogono party at Cannes
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images The de Grisogono party, in association with Maybach, wasn’t as big a headliner as 2010’s (which managed to get more press on account of Britain’s sweetheart, Cheryl Cole, performing), though there were still some huge names. How about supermodel Naomi Campbell? Or Czech model Karolína Kurková? De Grisogono founder and […]
Harvey Nichols shows Alexander McQueen to coincide with Costume Institute exhibition
Harvey Nichols is offering its London customers a chance to feel a part of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, with its McQueen-themed windows. The Harvey Nichols windows feature pieces that could not make it to New York due to customs’ regulations, according to Janet Wardley, […]
British Vogue editor discusses Kate Middleton as see-through dress reaches £78,000
British Vogue editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman comments on Kate Middleton. This is one of the few intelligent commentaries on Middleton’s fashion, taking a bigger-picture view than the usual tabloid reporting on William and Kate. Shulman discusses the nature of fame and how the public looks for new people who can be in the limelight, in […]
Emmanuelle Alt confirmed as editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris
Above Vogue Paris’s December 2010 issue, which turned out to be one of Carine Roitfeld’s last as editor-in-chief. As predicted several weeks ago, Condé Nast has named Emmanuelle Alt as the editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, succeeding Carine Roitfeld. Alt, formerly fashion director at the magazine, will begin her new role on February 1 with […]
