Carine Roitfeld resigns as editor of Vogue Paris
Above Vogue Paris’s December 2010 issue, with Tom Ford as guest editor. Roitfeld and Ford had worked together in the 1990s and were close collaborators. Carine Roitfeld, editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, yesterday announced that she will stand down from the role in January. The April 2011 issue will be her last. Roitfeld, 56, would […]
Julia Roberts, Fergie, Janet Jackson and others attend Glamour’s Women of the Year
Our friends over at Glamour held their 20th annual Women of the Year gala, and the celebrities came out on the red carpet for it: Julia Roberts, Cher, Kate Hudson, Fergie, Janet Jackson and Hilary Swank are among those captured in ITN’s newest Fashion 411 video. Oprah Winfrey, Donatella Versace, and Katie Couric—even royalty, in […]
Patrick Demarchelier shoots Miranda Kerr pregnant and nude for W
Patrick Demarchelier Australian model Miranda Kerr, best known to some as a Victoria’s Secret “Angel”, has posed nude for Patrick Demarchelier while six months pregnant with her and husband Orlando Bloom’s child. The photographs appear in the latest W. Kerr follows in the footsteps of numerous celebrities who have had nude portraits done […]
Richard Avedon exhibition opens at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Above Richard Avedon: Veruschka, Dress by Kimberly. New York 1967. Copyright ©2009 by the Richard Avedon Foundation. Photographer Richard Avedon continues to influence what defines fashion photography today, six years after his passing. In a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, entitled Avedon Fashion, 1944–2000, the photographer’s output is comprehensively examined, […]
Pregnant Claudia Schiffer appears nude on Deutsch Vogue cover
Karl Lagerfeld/Condé Nast A pregnant Claudia Schiffer appears on the June 2010 cover of Deutsch Vogue in the nude, photographed by Karl Lagerfeld. Supermodel Schiffer, 39, who has appeared on 11 covers of the magazine, is expected to give birth this month. This is her third child. Lagerfeld says he felt it important […]
Cheryl Cole is Britain’s best dressed, says poll
While one poll puts Cheryl Cole (left, in a L’Oréal promotional image) in second place after Kylie Minogue in terms of UK celebrity power, another has the Geordie songstress in first place: Condé Nast’s Glamour magazine’s UK edition poll on who is the best dressed. Cole, 26, beat fellow singer Rihanna, who came in […]
David Bailey selling exhibition to open at Bonhams in March
Above Jean Shrimpton, a.k.a. the Shrimp, as photographed by Bailey in British Vogue. A selling exhibition, Pure Sixties, Pure Bailey, of David Bailey’s iconic images of the 1960s will be hosted by Bonhams at 101 New Bond Street from March 7 to April 7, the company announced yesterday. In celebrating the 50th anniversary of […]
Lucire’s view: The September Issue
Above Stills from The September Issue. Vogue editor Anna Wintour is likened to the Pope in R. J. Cutler’s documentary The September Issue. With a divine omnipotence, a single-arched eyebrow reduces flamboyant designers to stuttering school boys. A flick of her bony, bangled wrist condemns a $50,000 photo shoot to the scrap heap. Her […]
American Express presents Diane von Fürstenberg—a special show for cardmembers
American Express presented a special show for cardmembers on Wednesday night that featured Diane von Fürstenberg’s spring 2009 Rock Goddess collection, plus five finalé items from her fall 2009 one. The show was hosted by André Leon Talley. American Express will donate proceeds from the sale of event invitations as part of its $250,000 […]
Ringing in Brides’ 75th anniversary
The biggest jewellery competition we managed to do was nearly NZ$20,000 for a necklace; Condé Nast’s Brides has gone one better with two rings valued at over US$18,000. In association with de Beers, the ring, named the Duo, commemorates the magazine’s 75th anniversary. It is ‘a platinum engagement ring and a wedding band in […]
