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INDIE NEWSROOM: Carine’s Got a Crush on Kanye…Voguing 101 with Conde Nast…Lucy in the Sky with a Giant Ass Diamond

Lester Brathwaite — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:46:16 +0000

- Kanye West‘s debut womenswear collection is scheduled to show during Paris Fashion Week at 9:30 pm on Sunday, October1. And Carine Roitfeld is so excited about it she’s practically ready to set him up with a professorship at Central Saint Martins. [The Cut]

- Speaking of schooling the children, Condé Nast UK is opening up the Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design in London come next September. I’m hoping André Leon Talley will teach a class on haberdashery and great-capes.[Styleite]

- Hey tranny, it’s tranny. Andrej Pejic channels famous Warholian tranny Candy Darling in Chris Benz‘s spring 2012 collection. [Fashionista]

- While everyone was consumed with whatever was happening on Tuesday in and around the Tents — days have just blended together by this point — Michelle Obama was holding court at the White House for the 2011 National Design Awards. [Telegraph]

- Scientists recently discovered a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats. I’m thinking of a platinum setting. [BBC]

- And it’s a sad day in retail. Borders is closing. #fuckoffkindle [Racked]

Tatler Doesn’t Want to Get Slapped

Lester Brathwaite — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:18:44 +0000

Tatler‘s new editor Kate Reardon wants to create a world wherein “everybody’s got beautiful manners, and quite a lot of them are in gowns, and everyone has got great skin, and is really enthusiastic, and writes thank you letters,” by remaking the 300-plus-year-old British mag into “the most fun girl at the party, not the rich girl you want to slap.” Clearly someone didn’t take into account that the rich girl at the party usually has the coke…I’m just sayin’.

Enter cover girl Pippa Middleton. Kate‘s younger, saucier, more bootylicious sister. Reardon finds the sisters Middleton to be the perfect embodiment of Tatler for despite their constant exposure to the media, the sisters “always look cheerful and grateful and enthusiastic.”

Reardon has especial admiration for Pippa whom she thinks “has a much more complicated situation than Kate” being without “advice on how to deal with the media, or protection from the media.”

The reinvention of Tatler will not only feature less snark and snobbery — how it will continue to call itself British I have no clue — but also a hunting, shooting and fishing supplement, which Reardon claims “no other glossy magazine on the planet would touch.”

And for good reason. But Reardon, an avid fox huntress herself, wants to perpetuate this world of beautiful manners and brilliant society, even while admitting that it’s not particularly realistic:

“It might not really exist, but then again I think the world of American Vogue doesn’t really exist. I mean, it is a lovely, soothing, entertaining fantasy.” Yes, but that fantasy at least involves couture and never fly-fishing. [WWD]

Katie Grand Takes Love to the Next Level

Andy Wass — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:30:11 +0000

Katie Grand’s Love, is getting serious: the new Conde Nast UK publication now has a logo (above) and an official launch date of February 19, 2009.

Grand has taken two creative directors and a fashion editor from POP with her on the Love journey, as well as ex-i-D and -Heat editors.

Thanks, Fashionologie.