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Hello Lover: Tom Ford to open first London flagship store in 2013

By Sabrina on July 9, 2012 in Designers, Fashion, News

Few things perk me up on a Monday morning, and checking my email is definitely not one of them. Amid the flurry of press releases squawking about another another reality telly “star” wearing some random designer (really, you’d think that it’d cheapen your brand, non?) was the news that the designer that I’ve wanted to slip it to since I was a teenager in short unflattering trousers is opening his first London flagship on Sloane Street in 2013.

US designer Tom Ford will open his first flagship store in the UK on Sloane Street, reinforcing the street’s reputation as the leading luxury retail destination in the capital.

Tom Ford‘s new flagship store is going to be situated on the Cadogan Estate’s new 201-206 Sloane Street development. Luxury brands already on the street include Chanel, Gucci and Louis Vuitton, while Alberta Ferretti recently acquired a 6,000 sq ft unit within 201-206 Sloane Street for a new concept store.

Obviously it’s not like I can afford anything (or probably fit into) anything from Mr Ford but isn’t this exciting?? Myself and Jam and go skulk outside in the dream that Tom Ford will kick dust in our eyes. Oh to have the dust from Tom Ford’s heels kicked into my eyes while I get manhandled away by his security…

swoon

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Robbie Williams, launching your own clothing line? Who do you think you, Liam bloody Gallagher?*

By Sabrina on July 1, 2011 in Fashion, News

*SARCASM INTENDED

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It’s Vintage Value Time at Rokit!

By Sabrina on June 28, 2011 in Fashion, News

Are the sales happening earlier and earlier every year? Will I ever have money to go splurge on a beautiful Erdem dress? Will anyone be in a stupid enough sale mode to buy these? (they come in 4 colours!)

These are some questions I have no answer to. But I can tell you when the Rokit sale starts in a week, on the 5th July.

Because I’m poor and I like to assume everyone else likes to save money (however I once knew a girl who used to throw pennies away, and once I tried it, and I FELT awful) I’m gonna direct you over to the sale preview.

Ladies shuffle over here and fellas mosey on here. Keep an eye on the site, as hundreds of items are being added everyday including I hope, some good pussy bows (my boss likes me in them.)

BLAIR WALDORF, U R MY QUEEN.

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Versace x H&M – Donatella dips into the vintage archives for high street supremo

By Sabrina on June 21, 2011 in Collaborations, Fashion, News

So good ol’ trouty mouth dipped into the archives for GaGa and thought, what the hey, let’s reinterpret some vintage Versace for that harbinger of mass produced gloom, H&M!

(I jest, I like H&M, and Donatella reminds me of a more mature GaGa, so I know what to expect in on her next album cover.)

The internets has already been a flutter on the news. The collection will include ranges for women, men and selected pieces for the home and goes on sale on November 17 in 300 stores worldwide and online. In addition, Donatella Versace has also designed a pre-spring collection for H&M which will be exclusively available from January 19, 2012.

Archive prints are the big news, for me, and I’m kinda liking this studded leather jacket, mainly because I hope the extra weight will tone my biceps.

But I am more interested to see the men’s ranges, as this tuxedo already looks kinda BAUS.

via: Telegraph; Images via: Vogue UK

(I’m still holding out for the Tom Ford x H&M collab *grumble*)

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Dov Charney, You Did Not Just Compare Yourself To Martin Luther King

By Sabrina on March 9, 2011 in Fashion, News

Dr King is not amused.

…oh yes he did.

“It’s false testimony. There’s no credibility to that statement — I don’t feel that I’m a creep. You can’t defend it. Neither can Gawker. It’s not good for society. Martin Luther King was having affairs, but his work was too important so the media didn’t bring it up. They’re deploying sexual shame tactics — it dehumanizes the subject. Ideas are more important. I accuse you of being a creep. A large number of the plaintiffs stole from the company, or we had valid reason to want to remove them. If I’m a creep, they’re creeps. Provocative ad campaigns make sense. Who cares?”

I think Irene Morales, his alleged forced sex slave might.

Martin Luther King had a dream that called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. Dov Charney’s dream initially may have been a humanely produced clothing line, but that dream seems to be a flight of fancy unsuccessfully masking his attempt to get as much underage poon as possible (alledgedly).

via: The Village Voice

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Naomi Campbell Is Now A Serious Journalist Who Interviews World Dictators

By Sabrina on February 1, 2011 in Fashion, Magazines, News

Court perjurer and all around angry person, Naomi Campbell seems to be the latest er, ploy to lure readers to purchasing tomes of glossy paper. Who said print was dead?

Figuring that not just printing Miss Campbell in various nude poses was enough, GQ have also decided to foist her on us as a somewhat ‘intellectual’ and have her a feature where she meets and interviews world leaders; first Chávez back in 2008 which led me to believe that she no way thought up all of those questions, but instead came up with a couple of gems of her own, including:

Would you go topless like Vladimir Putin?
Why not? Touch my muscles!

Next on her (GQ’s) list was Putin for the March 2011 issue. I have a feeling that Naomi may have been left to her own devices when she got the call for the interview. The glee at putting together an actual piece of work for a real life magazine must have given as much excitement as receiving those dirty little pebbles. But probably not the aftermath. I’ve got to give her props though, for turning what could have been a rather serious piece of journalism into an interview for a dating agency. Have a read via the link below. If anything, it’ll confuse enough to forget that you’re annoyed because a handsome hobo stole your danish.

(Note: Dylan Jones also wrote an article on Chávez which is more vom-inducing than the aforementioned interview. At least Nay kept it real.)

via: GQ

P.S. When you click on the link, look at the address bar after. Brings the lulz.

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So Carine was fired? Well it was pretty obvious…

By Sabrina on December 20, 2010 in Fashion, News

So the blogs a-buzzin about Ms Roitfeld’s sudden departure from Vogue Paris last Friday. No-one knew that she was leaving, hell even Tom Ford didn’t know.

Well that’s because she was fired. That’s what usually happens when people have no idea why someone’s left. Lord knows I know.

1. The Balenciaga/MaxMara scandal

It appears that the Conde Nast-Carine Roitfeld fall-out was a long time coming. Our sources tell us the magazine’s parent company was unhappy with all the bad press surrounding Roitfeld’s alleged pay-for-play scandals—this year, alone—demanding huge sums of money for extracurricular consulting gigs and the enormous, public embarrassment of being banned from Balenciaga last season for abusing her position at Vogue. In the latter case, Roitfeld allegedly borrowed Balenciaga preview pieces and sent them to her client, Max Mara, to copy—”It wasn’t the first time,” one source tells us. “One [Balenciaga] precollection ended up, in its entirety, at Max Mara.”

- Racked

If you hadn’t heard of this scandal, and you call yourself a fashionista, OMG KILL YOURSELF. Carine was blacklisted by Balenciaga for their AW10 show. Why? Well apparently They don’t advertise in the magazine or lend it samples anymore. But WHY? Fashionista heard a rumour that The Cut reported that Carine called in a Balenciaga sample, and then loaned it to MaxMara, a brand she consults for. MaxMara then made an eerily similar coat before the Balenciaga sample was returned to them, which upset Balenciaga and resulted in the ban, denying any requests for samples, requests for tickets to the runway show and cutting all advertising in the magazine. Tsk tsk.

2. Pay for Play

When Turkish designer Hakaan won the ANDAM 2010 prize, there was a lot of talk and backlash over the fact that Carine, chairman of the jury at ANDAM board had decided to descend on Hakaan’s show – how emerging is Hakaan actually?

An angry anonymous letter, which was circulated among French media this week, asked “how a Turkish designer out of nowhere books Natalia Vodianova, Maria Carla Boscono, Lara Stone or Natasha Poly for his show – models asking €15.000 min per show, and who aren’t really famous for their charity!”

Frustrated about the seemingly unfair appointment of Hakaan, who beat Paris-based designers such as Alexandre Vauthier who according to the author would have been in bigger need of the prize money to develop their businesses, the letter continues, asking “why Carine Roitfeld, Vogue France’s editor in chief, and chairman of this jury’s session at ANDAM, who never comes to first shows, contrarily to what she claims, is sitting first row, with Kate Moss, untouchable fashion icon [both excerpts translated from French].”

- Independant

Oh and the last straw? She pissed off LVMH Chairman and CEO (ho!) Bernard Arnault. You don’t mess with LVMH, they’ll sneakily purchase your stock and try and attempt a takeover. Allegedly Bernard also hated the Cadeaux editorial in the Tom Ford edited issue, and the lack of LVMH adverts.

LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault allegedly threatened Conde Nast International Chairman Jonathan Newhouse with the removal of all LVMH ads from the next issue of Vogue Paris. According to one source, Arnault hated the last issue—allegedly because it contained too few LVMH credits and because of the “poor taste” exercised in the young girls editorial—wherein the children are heavily made-up, “reclining on tiger-skins, or sprawled on beds,” wearing luxury adult garments, reports the Telegraph.

It’s us or her, he threatened. Guess who lost? Tut tut Carine, there is a thing as being too greedy. No-one’s untouchable in this business.

via: Fashion Copious

Image via Racked

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Carine, please don’t leave us with Ford and the baby prostitutes.

By Sabrina on December 17, 2010 in Designers, Fashion, Magazines, News

A LITTLE BACKSTORY

I may not worship at the altar of Vogue like many of my contemporaries (VOGUE IZ BIBEL) and before I get called out for Vogue bashing, Vogue is a great magazine, and there are a number of top publications out there. Is it my favourite? No. Do I have respect for it? Well I did.

FAST FORWARD TO THE PRESENT
I don’t tend to buy a lot of magazines, even though I love them, because it does get expensive, and I can get quite a few of them free. Most of the time I just want to look at editorials not flick through 200 pages of ads (I’m looking at you, W). When I heard that Tom Ford was guest editing Vogue Paris for their December 2010 issue, I yay-ered and went on a hunt to get it. Tom Ford is my number 1 gay that I wish wasn’t gay, but even though he is, I’d still be beardy for him. However…

After a fruitless couple of days, I finally procured a copy in the tube station. From initially not caring too much, I became frenzied in my quest to spend a fiver on some pretty glossy paper. And it does look fantastic.

Tom Ford and Daphne Groeneveld, shot by Mert and Marcus.

I WAS excited to curl up with my new Vogue, I was going to make a cup of tea (in the microwave – no kitchen at the moment) and sit down and devour some fashion without being distracted by any electronics. I knew Terry Richardson had shot some editorials for it which I wasn’t too jazzed about, but I wasn’t expecting this editorial, which actually had nothing to do with Terry Richardson either.

These girls are all six year olds.

Wow. Wasn’t expecting tiny pretty little girls with their faces caked in slap and baring a bit of leg. Granted, a lot of young ‘uns do like to play with make-up, but this is not a young girl playing in her mother’s or sister’s make up bag. The editorial goes on for about 16 pages of … embarrassment? Shock? Disdain? A bit of all three, as well and dismay and disgust. There are more pictures I was going to put in this post but I’ve chosen not to, as they are creepy as hell. With the addition of vests and t-shirts from French brand Petit Bateau, the girls avoid showing too much flesh on top (mostly), but opening a magazine and seeing a kid pout seductively at you – is not something I think is wholly appropriate.

The girl on the left reminds me of those child American beauty pageant queens, specifically those pictures of JonBenet Ramsey.

When looking for more information on this shoot, I found out that Daphne Groeneveld, cover of this issue, and touted as one of the top 50 models (according to models.com) is 15. I for one, first thought the cover was Lara Stone, and then finding out, thought I’d look into more of the work she’s done. In Paris, Milan, New York and London, there is a ban on under 16 models on the catwalk. But not enforced particularly well since she walked for Jil Sander, Givenchy, Gucci and opened Calvin Klein SS11 this year. When you know the right people, rules and guidelines don’t matter.

Mr Ford, please stick to designing clothes. I haven’t even touched on your shoots with Terry Richardson, but I’m not going to. I adore you (but maybe respect you a little less), but please Carine, don’t leave Vogue Paris come back!

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Tom Ford to design next for H&M – SAYWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

By Sabrina on November 24, 2010 in Fashion, News

Just days after there was news that Lanvin is going to hit the H&M collection, there is also news that another French-themed install is going to come out through the retail chain. This is going to a limited-edition collection from Tom Ford. It is the same edition that appeared in the December-January issue of French Vogue.

SAYWHAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT??? Principle or no principle, I WILL BE CAMPING OUT LIKE A MOTHERLOVER.

via: French Tribune

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Move over Alber, Valentino for Gap is in town.

By Sabrina on November 22, 2010 in Fashion, News

From left parka, £149.95, skirt, £69.95, cropped jacket, £89.95, and cargo pants, £99.95, all Valentino for Gap. Roll necks in grey, burgundy and cream, £37.50 each, and leather skirts, £129, all Gap

Unlike many of my peers I will not be camping outside H&M in Oxford Street tonight/tomorrow morning to grasp frantically at Lanvin’s pretty party dresses for the high street. It is a matter of principle. The principle being that I have no need to be up that early and I also have no money. And there is only one thing I want from that collection, and it costs £15. I’ll stick to e-commerce thx.

Through sisterly love, I queued for Jimmy Choo x H&M at Bluewater at 5am. Someone snatched a dress right out of my hand and I was too bewildered to flail violently in their direction. However we made friends in the queue who bought us doughnuts which was nice.

Cropped Jacket, £89.95 and Short ruffle jacket, £119.95, both valentino for Gap. Cream roll neck, £37.50, Gap

Valentino for Gap, having not subject to the huge marketing campaign for Lanvin for H&M will be rolling out this Friday 27th November from 9.30am in Gap’s new Milan store, Colette in Paris, and, in London, Gap’s flagship store in Oxford Street and at Dover Street Market, from 11am. The collection which previously has been veiled in mystery, has just had the pictures released, and I am sharing them with you with in all their glory.

Cargo pants, £99.95, Valentino for Gap. Cream roll neck, £37.50, Gap

Thoughts? Valentino for Gap has gone for the luxury basic range, with a range of khaki separates with Valentino’s signature ruffles peeking out on collars and waistlines, but it’s all rather blah really. The only item I think is passable is the khaki ruffled skirt. Or perhaps I’ll like it better in person. I’m still not going to camp overnight for this however.