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You Pay For What You Get!
VERSUS
Let the hate mail flow, but buckle your seatbelts because we’re doing this anyway. We recently reported on the woman who is boycotting Old Navy for charging her more shipping for a plus-sized clothing order. Well, I actually tip my hat to Old Navy for that. So many corners are cut these days in the retail world that just inflate the cost of clothes for everyone. I feel like this woman deserves to pay more because obviously her clothes are going to weigh more if they are significantly larger. She may call it profiling, but I call it fairness.
If Old Navy were to charge one standard shipping cost for all items the extra cost would be tacked on to the regular cost of the clothing, thus making it more expensive for the rest of the customers. I have come up with a little plan of my own. Think of the last time you went to the fabric store. You pay by the amount of material you are using. I feel that the smaller the clothing article, the cheaper the cost. There is no reason why this couldn’t be put in place. Why should a size 0 waist have to inherit the cost of a size 22 waist? Do they get the extra material? This would also encourage weight loss and exercise. Don’t feel like paying $250 for your size 20 jeans? Lose weight so you you only have to pay $200 for a size 8. It’s simple and fair.
This also may help to cloth homeless people because they tend to be very skinny, and their jeans won’t be as expensive. Oh what a wonderful place the world would be. If anyone reading this is a designer or boutique owner, and you decide to use this mentality Fashion Indie wants to know about it!
Rumor Willis Or Selma Blair? You Tell Me
Selma Blair
Rumor Willis:
When all else fails try to look like someone who doesn’t get made fun of on a regular basis. Rumor Willis has been ripping off our girl Selma Blair lately, and she has been doing a pretty good job. Unfortunately for Rumor, clothes can’t change her not so flattering bone structure. Whose team are you on Indies? Team Rumor or Team Selma?
Gracias Just Jared for the picture of Rumor!
Ally Hilfiger I Heart You
Cutting out early friends, have a good weekend. Here’s a little treat for you to start the weekend right.
Remember the MTV reality show Rich Girls? If you don’t the title pretty much says it all. It was the orginal: ‘Just because I’m rich doesn’t mean I don’t have problems too.’ The show revolved around Ally Hilfiger (daughter of Tommy, yes he’s straight apparently) and her BFF at the time Jaime Gleicher as they pondered what to do with their lives after high school. They mused about each others existential crisis during various shopping trips and weekend excursion to their parents various summer homes. We have these two girls to thank for shows like The Simple Life and the juggernaut that is The Hills.
Well I did some Google-stalking to see what Ally has been up to, as the broad concept of the show Rich Girls was about these two girls ‘finding themselves’. And it turns out I’m not the only one who’s smitten, she is a favorite subject of Gawker and NY Mag’s blog. She says is no longer a shallow-rich girl but a serious artist. She even wears glasses now, geek-glasses no less!
She said of her work in Page SIx Magazine: “I do a lot of different versions of the number 8″. She went on to say: “You know what’s cool? I don’t have to work, because I saved a lot of money from summer jobs and from the MTV show” Yes I’m sure the money from her summer jobs is paying the mortgage at the house she has in the Hampton’s.
Wow do I want to hate on her so badly, but I can’t. Everything she says, shows how much she lacks perspective about the world around her, and you have to feel sad for her. Also she’s good material. In that regard I hope she never changes.
On that note, and to further prove my point, here is my favorite breakdown of hers from Rich Girls: Where Ally sobs to her father (although I imagine at some point he handed the phone off to an assistant) about the lack of direction in her life and the lack of food in the Hampton’s house with equal importance. Something she has evidently been dealing with all her life….
Shit on a Stick!
(Mischa Barton in ??? via Celebtopia)
Sorry for the inarticulate title, but there’s no other way to describe the 2008 Met Costume Ball. I pretty much knew from the moment the theme was announced that it was going to be a proverbial shit show. Superheroes and fashion? Really??? I know the gala has been pandering to Hollywood for years now, but why don’t you just cut the crap and make next year’s theme Hooray for Hollywood? That way you won’t confuse these celebrities and get something that is neither star-studded nor fashionable.
I had vain hopes that the guests would have a sense of humor about the obtuse theme and maybe run with it. But I forgot….celebrities don’t have a sense of humor nor are they creative-that’s why they have stylists! Well it seems like everyone’s stylists took the night off, that or somebody’s out of job tomorrow!
I truly didn’t think things could get any more hideous than 2004’s ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ themed gala. Which resulted in people wearing things like this….
But boy was I wrong….
Enter at your own risk. More after the jump…
The Begining of the End for Ms. Zoe
(photo credit: Andrew Durham for the NYT)
There are a few fashion rules every good fashionista knows:
1. Black is the new Black
2. 0 is the new 2
3. And above all you don’t fuck with Anna Wintour. EVER! If she wants your first born, you better believe you’re going to give her your first born.
See what Oprah is to the entertainment community, Anna Wintour is to the fashion community. She can make you and just like that she can break you!
News comes today that Rachel Zoe’s has been dis-invited to the MET Costume Institute Gala a.k.a the Oscars of fashion. Zoe was originally an invited guests of designer Brian Atwood of Bailey’s-but now she says she was never planning to make the gala on Monday because of filming for her new reality show. She is either lying to make herself look better and thereby digging a bigger hole for herself with Anna Wintour. OR. If this is the truth, and she never planned to attend the biggest night in fashion, she is the stupider than I thought. Either way she’s about one bad outfit away from being booted from the fashion inner-circle.
Why might la Wintour be so peeved with Zoe? For making Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan fashion icons? No. It might have to do with this quote Zoe said in the New York Times Magazine last September:
“Anna Wintour is one of my heroes, but they say that I’m more influential. As great as it is, Vogue won’t change a designer’s business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week. When I worked with Nicole [Richie], there were things that she wore that designers had to remake for another season because there was such demand.’’
This is the fashion equivalent of the Beatles saying they were bigger than Jesus. Although what Zoe said may be true in a matter of moving clothing in retail, your not supposed to say that aloud. Because for the foreseeable future Anna Wintour is the most powerful person in fashion-regardless if this is a fact or more of a myth built by the media. Hopefully this incident will alert the fashion community that Zoe is has lost her magic touch.
( Ed. note: Although I pray for her demise, I look forward for her reality show on BRAVO. I’m sure her celebrity cilents will be thrilled that she is whoring them out for the cameras for her own self gain. Shouldn’t it be the other way around!? )