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The best bits you have missed on FashionIndie this week including the most stylish cartoon bands, the most and least stylish girl groups, Britney and Mimi’s style evolutions and packing Memorial Day weekend essentials.
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- Lara Stone goes intergalactic in the music video for Hot Chips‘ music video, “Night and Day.” [Fashionologie]
- Carine Roitfeld staged her all-black runway show during the amfAR Gala featuring models Lindsey Wixson, Karolina Kurkova and Lily Donaldson in looks by Chanel, Balenciaga and Versace. [Styleite]
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It’s Britney, bitch. The lady Spears shimmied along in 1998, following in the syncopated dancesteps of Janet and Madonna to become a pop culture icon in her own right. Like those enterprising queens, Brit employed a series of reinventions throughout her career and suffered a few bumps along the way, but she’s back and still churning out the hits nearly 15 years later. Let’s take a tour of Britney Spears’ greatest — and most questionable — video looks.
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Whether its supermodels posing on the sleeve, renowned photographers behind the lens or just rock stars banging anything that catwalks, music and fashion have long been intimate bedfellows. Here, 30 iconic album covers with a delightfully high fashion twist.
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- Baby hit me 15 million times. Britney Spears is reportedly in talks to serve as a judge on the next season of American Idol The Voice X Factor for $15 million. [Huff Po]
- Beyoncé posted a super sweet letter she wrote — by hand, no less — to fellow HBIC Michelle Obama on her Tumblr in which she praised the FLOTUS for her grace, humility and sincerity. And she ended it with a smiley face period, just like Barack Obama does in his letters to Congress. [Refinery29]
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- ”People have never looked so ugly… We are so conformist, nobody is thinking. I’m a fashion designer and people think ‘what do I know?’ but I’m talking about all this disposable crap. So I’m saying buy less, choose well, make it last.” — delightful harridan Vivienne Westwood. [Guardian]
- Speaking of delightful harridans, these paper dolls of Dame Maggie Smith‘s sublime Dowager Countess from Downton Abbey are everything. Ever. [Vulture]
- America’s Next Top Model is still happening. Now in its 18th cycle, this time around it’s a “British Invasion” with seven British models versus seven American models. Sort of like a 21st century Revolutionary War with bikinis and smizing. [The Cut]
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LOOKBOOKS contributor explores the fantastical tattooed world of artist Stuart Pearson Wright. Check out the gallery of weirdly cool portraits below.
If there’s anything that separates a celebrity from the proletariat, its his or her ability to turn on the megawatt smile at the mere suggestion of a flash bulb. Artist Stuart Pearson Wright has built a small exhibition of portraits around the idea of capturing this automated response and the ensuing awkwardness and ambiguity that results in simply asking people to say cheese.
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Ever wonder how your favorite singer or rapper keeps everything together? Well they usually have awesome teams. In the latest issue of V Magazine, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and Drake show off their support systems.
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Turns out it’s been a good month for TV. Admittedly, I don’t have cable in my apartment, so the only reference I’ll understand is the Glee/Adele mashup at regionals because I made the bar I was at change channels. I should probably just get one of those sweet DIRECTV deals, to be a good blogger and know what’s happening to all of the Kardashians, and Snooki (is that still going on?), and the Real Housewives of Wherever. But until I do, here’s what I’m kind of sad I missed in 2011 by not having DirecTV (and only know because of FashionIndie).
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- Sales of nail polish and champagne are among leading indicators of the economy, because the more money Americans have, the more likely they are to pop bottles and less likely to do their own damn nails. [NYT]
