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Rachel Roy Fall 2010

I’m loving my flip camera at the moment as it helped me create this video of Rachel Roy’s Fall 2010 presentation which I saw yesterday evening.

I’m a huge fan of Rachel Roy’s ultra feminine, but not too girlie pieces. Her looks can go from a boardroom to a dinner party without tweaking nor accessorizing.

What I noticed from her Fall collection was a strong emphasis on evening wear, which Rachel doesn’t tend to focus on.

The finale gown was my favourite. The strapless beaded gown deserves a red carpet moment.

Apart from the gowns we were presented with pant suits, skirt suits, and tailored jackets – Roy’s staples.

The tailoring was impeccable as always on the skirt suits, and I loved the inclusion of a lot of metallic pieces.

The colour palette was a mix dark romantic colours like eggplant, dark grey and black to pops of fuchsia and aqua.

The shoes – which I zoomed in on during my video – are from Rachel Roy’s Manolo Blahnik collection, and the bags were by Nancy Gonzalez.

Guests included ex-husband Damon Dash, Miss J, Whitney Port and Keke Palmer who is interviewed at the end of my video.

Credit: Style.com

“Chloe” New York Premiere – Julianne Moore In Calvin Klein

Julianne Moore was also the “Chloe” New York premiere last night.

I feel hugely disappointed by this look from Julianne. Normally I get 100% from her, but last night I got about 20%.

Just because awards season is over, it doesn’t mean celebs should turn down the glam on the red carpet.

I’m only appreciating this look from the knees up.

I love her pink draped Calvin Klein dress as it’s such a divine colour on her, but tight black tights and grey suede ankle boots????

It’s like she just stuck a knife through my heart.

A Bulgari clutch completed her look.

Credit: Fame Pictures

Runway To “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” London Photocall- Emma Watson In Proenza Schouler

I haven’t wanted to talk much about Emma Watson’s red carpet appearances for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, because I’ve been worried about building the whole thing up only to be let down.

I shouldn’t have been worried because Emma looked cute but yet still grown up at the London photocall this afternoon wearing a drop-waist Proenza Schouler Resort 2010 dress paired with Giuseppe Zanotti platform gladiator sandals.

I absolutely love the  stunning jeweled neckline.

The look was modified from the runway version as Emma opted out of the striped top and the thin belt. She totally works the look to suit her style.

After many of you hated Emma’s recently editorials because of the make-up, you’ll be happy to see that she has kept her make-up light and fresh for this occasion.

I think this is a perfect look for her. She has set the bar high. Let’s see if she can keep it going.

What do you think of Emma’s look?

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Credit: Style.com & Getty

Olivia Palermo In Emporio Armani – Armani Hotel Milano Opening

Olivia Palermo and her boyfriend, model Johannes Huebl, showed off just how gorgeous they are at the Armani Hotel Milano opening in Italy last night.

He was devilishly handsome in navy Armani, whilst Olivia wore a black Emporio Armani Fall 2011 romper.

The half embellished, half crepe romper had an asymmetrical neckline and a gathered detail draping from the waist.

I’m surprised that Olivia didn’t add any colourful accessories, but she did add what’s fast becoming a signature: a feathered bag.

Silver embellished double-strap Zara sandals and a sweeping hairstyle completed her look.

Credit: Style.com & Courtesy of Giorgio Armani

artwalk co-chair alec baldwin won’t jinx election with champagne purchase

The tributee was Robert Rauschenberg, and the evening’s beneficiary was the Coalition for the Homeless, but at last night’s Richard Gere and Carey Lowell-hosted Artwalk auction, topic A on everyone’s mind was the election. Julie Gilhart, for example, had just returned from a canvassing mission in Ohio, and as for “honored guest” Alec Baldwin, (seen here with Kayce Freed Jennings) well, he has some famously strong opinions on the subject of who should be the next president, SNL hobnobbing with Sarah Palin aside. After the live auction slate of works by artists such as Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, and Dennis Oppenheim had passed the gavel, Baldwin confessed to wavering between optimism about the election’s outcome and calculated cynicism. “I haven’t bought any Champagne yet,” Baldwin noted. “I’m trying not to set myself up for disappointment. I mean, you just never know how these things are going to go.” Perhaps in an effort to keep his mind off matters political, Baldwin went ahead and bid on a couple of photographs. Not bidding, but considering doing so, was Emma Snowdon-Jones, and her cheerfully apolitical delight in Arne Svenson’s Stray #4 set a good example for all the attendees on pre-ballot tenterhooks. “I don’t know, I just like it,” she said of Svenson’s photo. “It’s like kitty porn. I think if I had that in my house, I’d just laugh every day.” No matter who’s president.

Victoria Bartlett Will Get Unhinged in Milan

At the VPL show almost two weeks ago, many of the models came down the runway with abstract, hand-crocheted accessories by the young designer Aran Baik. Based on anatomical drawings, the accessories served to outline and extend the skeletal lines of the models’ bodies—ribcage, hip bone, shoulder blade. The pieces spoke to the collection’s theme, Atlas of Anatomy, but they also worked as an elegant summary of the obsessions VPL designer Victoria Bartlett has nurtured since she launched in 2003. Bartlett’s fascination with the body is frank. Her collections have often seemed like the product of a dialogue between a choreographer and an X-ray technician. Bartlett has opened that conversation up to a variety of collaborators. Baik was one of several designers who participated in VPL’s recent Spring show. And over the years, she has worked closely with many artists, most of whom delivered work to VPL UNHINGED, a retrospective opening on September 27 at the Dopolavaro Gallery in Milan. The show will feature new work from some—including Mark Borthwick, Jack Pierson, and Jessica Metrani—while others, like Steven Klein and Collier Schorr, are contributing iconic pieces from their archives. Here, Bartlett talks to Style.com about tap-dancing twins, time capsules, and exposing what lies beneath.—Maya Singer

VPL UNHINGED opens toward the end of fashion week in Milan. Was that timing coincidental, or did the gallery intend for the show to find a place on the calendar?

Actually, they invited me to do an exhibition in June, around the time of the men’s collections in Milan. But I was just too busy, so we pushed it back. The intention was never to be part of fashion week, but more like something at the edges of it. We also felt like the show couldn’t just be about clothes. This is more like a dialogue with VPL, in different mediums—photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film. We’re going to have a performance, too, the night of the opening. Everyone in the group will be wearing one-of-a-kind showpieces.What kind of performance?

Dance, dance. I’m obsessed with dance. I’ve incorporated it into many of my shows, too. And Jessica Metrani and I worked on a new video for the show. It’s hilarious—this one woman, she’s made to look like conjoined twins, attached at the underwear, tap dancing. You only see from the underwear down.I know that several artists are contributing new work to the show. What’s some of the archival stuff that will be there?

The most recognizable image is probably the print we have from Steven Klein, based on a photo he took of Yvonne Force Villareal for Vogue. It’s her, surrounded by models in underwear, like a Vanessa Beecroft installation. A very beautiful, cinematic image. And Collier Schorr is giving us an image from an old editorial, of boys in underwear, and Judith Eisler is giving us a painting. It’s like a film snippet of underwear. She’s actually done painting on clothing for me, and we discussed doing that, a new version. But this seemed more apt. It’s interesting, though, that so many people have wanted to come up with new work.What do you think it is about VPL that these artists like to grapple with?

Well, I have a deep fascination with bodies. I love looking at anatomical studies and all those sorts of things, and that fascination with body and flesh plays a huge role in VPL. Contouring the body, or revealing flesh, or exposing the underpinnings that cover part of the body—the peeling away of layers, you know? That’s the dialogue that’s most important to me. And I think, for an artist, it’s an interesting topic. I mean, none of this work is about “clothes.” I wanted to visit the different ways people represent studying the body.What is it about the body you find so fascinating?

God, all of it! I’m fascinated by movement, I’m fascinated by skin, I’m fascinated by the way we all ignore the fact that we have these complex machines inside us. I think that’s part of what interests me about injury. If you break something, if you bleed, you’re forced to become aware of these mysterious things going on under your surface. And it’s all so intricate. Our bodies, they’re almost like couture pieces. So many layers, so detailed. And so many things can go wrong…I suppose we are all made-to-measure.

I mean, we’ve all had it drummed into us that these medical things are sort of sick and dark, and they’re not. Life is beautiful. There’s even something beautiful about the fact that our bodies are mortal, you know? We’re time capsules. You’re born, this unique being, you live and you leave, passing something on. Spiritually, I find that comforting.This interview just got heavy. Let’s talk about the new collection.

Well, the collection is called the Atlas of Anatomy, and it’s based on these fourteenth-century diagrams. Their purpose was medical, but the men who made them were artists. At the time there was this association between art and medicine, which was lost until recently. You see the outer skin, and the flesh, and then the organs.Was this collection influenced by the fact that you were working on the Dopolavaro show at the same time that you were designing? I imagine that putting together a retrospective occasions some reflection.

Working on this exhibition definitely made me go back to the inception of VPL, and the ideas it came out of. It’s nice to do that. In the fashion world things move so fast that it’s hard to sit back and look at what you’ve made and reflect on it. This collection, I really went back to the body. That’s always where I start, but this time, the inspiration is really quite direct. In some ways, I’ve cycled back to my very first VPL collection. That one had a lot to do with surgical implements and cutting. And as I said, the diagrams I was looking at this time show the body flayed open.VPL stands for “visible panty line.” And all along, you’ve really pushed the idea that the difference between underwear and, you know, regular clothes is fungible. So, I have to ask—what do you make of the “pants optional” trend we’re seeing right now? Of course there’s Lady Gaga but there was even a VPL moment at the Spring 2010 Alexander Wang show.

It’s interesting, because before VPL, when I started working at Miu Miu, my first interest was doing the whole visible-underpinning thing. And in the last year or so, that’s been realized more. Whether that has anything to do with me, I can’t say. I mean, it’s happened before, people bring bringing underpinnings into outer-world. Rudi Gernreich did it, for example, partly just as a result of the fact that he began using fabrics that were generally associated with underwear. My reasons are more philosophical. I like to show what’s hidden.

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Victoria Bartlett Will Get Unhinged in Milan

At the VPL show almost two weeks ago, many of the models came down the runway with abstract, hand-crocheted accessories by the young designer Aran Baik. Based on anatomical drawings, the accessories served to outline and extend the skeletal lines of the models’ bodies—ribcage, hip bone, shoulder blade. The pieces spoke to the collection’s theme, Atlas of Anatomy, but they also worked as an elegant summary of the obsessions VPL designer Victoria Bartlett has nurtured since she launched in 2003. Bartlett’s fascination with the body is frank. Her collections have often seemed like the product of a dialogue between a choreographer and an X-ray technician. Bartlett has opened that conversation up to a variety of collaborators. Baik was one of several designers who participated in VPL’s recent Spring show. And over the years, she has worked closely with many artists, most of whom delivered work to VPL UNHINGED, a retrospective opening on September 27 at the Dopolavaro Gallery in Milan. The show will feature new work from some—including Mark Borthwick, Jack Pierson, and Jessica Metrani—while others, like Steven Klein and Collier Schorr, are contributing iconic pieces from their archives. Here, Bartlett talks to Style.com about tap-dancing twins, time capsules, and exposing what lies beneath.—Maya Singer

VPL UNHINGED opens toward the end of fashion week in Milan. Was that timing coincidental, or did the gallery intend for the show to find a place on the calendar?

Actually, they invited me to do an exhibition in June, around the time of the men’s collections in Milan. But I was just too busy, so we pushed it back. The intention was never to be part of fashion week, but more like something at the edges of it. We also felt like the show couldn’t just be about clothes. This is more like a dialogue with VPL, in different mediums—photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film. We’re going to have a performance, too, the night of the opening. Everyone in the group will be wearing one-of-a-kind showpieces.What kind of performance?

Dance, dance. I’m obsessed with dance. I’ve incorporated it into many of my shows, too. And Jessica Metrani and I worked on a new video for the show. It’s hilarious—this one woman, she’s made to look like conjoined twins, attached at the underwear, tap dancing. You only see from the underwear down.I know that several artists are contributing new work to the show. What’s some of the archival stuff that will be there?

The most recognizable image is probably the print we have from Steven Klein, based on a photo he took of Yvonne Force Villareal for Vogue. It’s her, surrounded by models in underwear, like a Vanessa Beecroft installation. A very beautiful, cinematic image. And Collier Schorr is giving us an image from an old editorial, of boys in underwear, and Judith Eisler is giving us a painting. It’s like a film snippet of underwear. She’s actually done painting on clothing for me, and we discussed doing that, a new version. But this seemed more apt. It’s interesting, though, that so many people have wanted to come up with new work.What do you think it is about VPL that these artists like to grapple with?

Well, I have a deep fascination with bodies. I love looking at anatomical studies and all those sorts of things, and that fascination with body and flesh plays a huge role in VPL. Contouring the body, or revealing flesh, or exposing the underpinnings that cover part of the body—the peeling away of layers, you know? That’s the dialogue that’s most important to me. And I think, for an artist, it’s an interesting topic. I mean, none of this work is about “clothes.” I wanted to visit the different ways people represent studying the body.What is it about the body you find so fascinating?

God, all of it! I’m fascinated by movement, I’m fascinated by skin, I’m fascinated by the way we all ignore the fact that we have these complex machines inside us. I think that’s part of what interests me about injury. If you break something, if you bleed, you’re forced to become aware of these mysterious things going on under your surface. And it’s all so intricate. Our bodies, they’re almost like couture pieces. So many layers, so detailed. And so many things can go wrong…I suppose we are all made-to-measure.

I mean, we’ve all had it drummed into us that these medical things are sort of sick and dark, and they’re not. Life is beautiful. There’s even something beautiful about the fact that our bodies are mortal, you know? We’re time capsules. You’re born, this unique being, you live and you leave, passing something on. Spiritually, I find that comforting.This interview just got heavy. Let’s talk about the new collection.

Well, the collection is called the Atlas of Anatomy, and it’s based on these fourteenth-century diagrams. Their purpose was medical, but the men who made them were artists. At the time there was this association between art and medicine, which was lost until recently. You see the outer skin, and the flesh, and then the organs.Was this collection influenced by the fact that you were working on the Dopolavaro show at the same time that you were designing? I imagine that putting together a retrospective occasions some reflection.

Working on this exhibition definitely made me go back to the inception of VPL, and the ideas it came out of. It’s nice to do that. In the fashion world things move so fast that it’s hard to sit back and look at what you’ve made and reflect on it. This collection, I really went back to the body. That’s always where I start, but this time, the inspiration is really quite direct. In some ways, I’ve cycled back to my very first VPL collection. That one had a lot to do with surgical implements and cutting. And as I said, the diagrams I was looking at this time show the body flayed open.VPL stands for “visible panty line.” And all along, you’ve really pushed the idea that the difference between underwear and, you know, regular clothes is fungible. So, I have to ask—what do you make of the “pants optional” trend we’re seeing right now? Of course there’s Lady Gaga but there was even a VPL moment at the Spring 2010 Alexander Wang show.

It’s interesting, because before VPL, when I started working at Miu Miu, my first interest was doing the whole visible-underpinning thing. And in the last year or so, that’s been realized more. Whether that has anything to do with me, I can’t say. I mean, it’s happened before, people bring bringing underpinnings into outer-world. Rudi Gernreich did it, for example, partly just as a result of the fact that he began using fabrics that were generally associated with underwear. My reasons are more philosophical. I like to show what’s hidden.

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Runway To “Gossip Girl” – Leighton Meester In Victoria Beckham Collection

Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester were spotted on the Upper East side of Manhattan filming scenes for “Gossip Girl” yesterday.

In this scene Ed aka Chuck Bass, kisses Leighton aka Blair Waldorf which sent the watching fans wild with excitement.

Leighton looked gorgeous on set – as always – wearing a claret red Victoria Beckham Fall 2009 sleeveless ‘Carmontelle’ dress with a peplum at the waist.

She Blair-fied the dress with a trademark headband and pearls, whilst carrying a crocodile Birkin-esqe bag which could be a nod to the designer known for her fabulous – vast – collection of Birkin bags.

Victoria’s second collection has a much younger feel to her debut collection, so it’s not a surprise to see Leighton’s character wearing this dress.

The dress is sharp in it’s tailoring, very refined and ladylike – just like Blair.

The classically-inspired dress has a Audrey Hepburn and Rita Hayworth feel which makes it timeless.

This collection is due to go on sale at Net-A-Porter any day now and this Carmontelle dress will retail at £1,595.

I predict this collection will sell out as instantly as the first.

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Credit: Style.com, Flynet & Zuma Press

Who Wore Marc Jacobs Better? Anna Wintour or Kelly Chen

Anna Wintour chose this Marc Jacobs Fall 2011 ensemble to attend the 2011 CFDA Fashion Awards back in June.

The editor-in-chief wore an ivory satin top with a forest green embroidered pencil skirt that has black oversized pockets with beaded details.

Anna didn’t stray too far from the runway look, adding her favourite pair of nude strappy Manolo Blahnik heels and a simple black clutch.

Her signature bob and a slick of pretty pink lipstick completed her look.

Asian singer and actress Kelly Chen wore the same look, although with a black skirt, to attend Marc Jacobs’ Hong Kong Fashion Show last week.

Kelly accessorized with a black and white polka dot Marc Jacobs hat, chic patent leather pointed-toe heels and a burgundy clutch.

She finished her look by wearing her glossy hair down and opted for kohl-rimmed eyes.

My vote is going to Kelly on this one as I adore her accessories, especially her quirky hat and sophisticated shoes. Although I love the forest green version of the skirt on Anna, I much prefer the way Kelly styled the entire look.

Credit: Style.com, Sina & Fame Pictures