The Elle creative director is looking for some style challenged boys to provide a little upgrade. Becks is totally considering sending me. Hell, free clothes? I’m there. You can submit entries to AtoZee@hfmus.com.

As per usual, Elle’s style editor and my idol, Kate Lanphear, was photographed looking absolutely kick ass! The high waisted leather skirt really compliments Lanphear’s glitzy, sheer top, opaque tights and leather lace-up platforms. As always, Lanphear leaves me green-eyed over her jewelry, wishing my wrists were shackled with silver studs and leather bands too. And is it just me, or is Lanphear growing out the front of her bleached do? If so, keep growing girl, I love it!

Thanks Rackk and Ruin!

Jaime King gets styled by Erin Wasson for the latest shoot for Elle Magazine. LOVE IT…

Apparently Vogue wouldn’t consider Posh for the cover for four months, so she jumped over to Elle for an immediate coverspot for the October issue. Hey Vogue… Ouch?

LINK LOVE: Daily Mail

Rumors surfaced in July that the former Spice Girl would appear on Vogue’s October cover, but Elle has announced that they’ve snatched her up for the ‘Personal Style’ issue. We hope David is on the cover too, with no clothes on.

LINK LOVE: NY Mag

Twilight meets Gossip Girl in this vampire friendly shoot for Elle.

It looks to me like the coolest party in town, second to Fashion Indie’s “For The Love of Marc” shindig, of course, was clothing and record label, April 77’s,  party at The Jane Hotel. With an appearance by the ever amazing Kate Lanphear, style director at Elle, and Fashion Indie’s own Desarae McCaffrey (that’s her, above right!)  landing a spot on Refinery 29, I’d say the bash, in all its fashionable downtown glory, was a total success! Wish I could have made it! 

GALLERY: LAST NIGHT’S (OTHER) PARTY: April 77 At Jane Hotel

Thanks Refinery 29!

Is it just me, or is Emma Watson everywhere these days?

SOURCE: Livejournal

Just in time for No Doubt’s comeback tour, Gwen Stefani covers the July 2009 issue of ELLE.

Her Louis Vuitton Fall 2009 outfit doesn’t go so well with the silver text. But I’m sure Gwen got styled wonderfully for her spread, in which she wears looks from Alexander McQueen, Rodarte, and Marc Jacobs.

The NY Post is reporting — according to one of those great, anonymous, yet somehow reliable sources — that during a recent photoshoot for ELLE, Britney Spears made quite an impression on her stylist.

“They dressed her in all these beautiful couture clothes — and, well, let’s just say she forgot what time of the month it was. It wasn’t pretty.”

Mm…Happy Friday!

Chloe Sevigny posed for an under-the-radar, but great editorial in the June 2009 issue of ELLE (Megan Fox cover).

While we’re all tired of reading that the secret to great style is mixing high and low, I always like seeing it in action, especially when Kate Lanphear is doing the styling.

Lanphear draws on a tamed-down ’80s supermodel aesthetic – in the Carrie-Bradshaw-wears-a-big-blazer-as-a-dress kind of way, and luckily not in a magenta spandex kind of way.  

Keeping the looks true to Chloe’s personal image, the spread mixes basics from American Apparel, The Gap, and Express, with pieces from Alexander Wang and 3.1 Phillip Lim.  Lanphear, typically heavy into accessorizing, decorates Chloe with luxury belts, detailed leather boots and bags, and statement jewelry.

GALLERY: Chloe Sevigny for ELLE, June 2009.

This seems like a weird move on ELLE’s part, but they’ve revealed Megan Fox as the covergirl for their June 2009 issue.

She hasn’t done what I would consider a “real” movie, and I think most of her tattoos are lame — but she sure does photograph well!  So it all makes sense, and I forgive ELLE.  The full spread should leak soon, I’m sure.

“Mix shades of cream and white for a pristine pairing”, their words not ours.

The problem with street style is that very few people who are chosen by magazines seem to have any. Case in point, this dude spotted by the folks at Elle.com. Aside from looking like Brandon Flowers long lost twin, this guy posses about as much “style” as mid-american preachers wife dressed down for soccer practice.

Please get your eye for fashion checked Elle.com cause you just failed to identity a failure, which makes you about as useful as Vogue.

Photo: Anne Ziegler

LINKAGE: Street Chic Man

A new, limited-edition recycled denim collection, arriving just in time for the Earth Day fuss, has united Alexander Wang, Bottega Veneta, Derek Lam, Rodarte, Rogan, Stella McCartney, Versace, and Ann Demeulemeester.

Last summer Barney’s New York collected recycled denim, which these top designers have fashioned into outfits. The exclusive designs, now in a window display at Barney’s, will go up for auction on eBay April 30, starting at 99 cents each.  All proceeds will benefit Oceana, “the largest international advocacy organization focused 100 percent on protecting and restoring the world’s oceans.”

ELLE has even chipped in with a David Armstrong-shot editorial in their May 2009 issue.

Project Blue is working on the stat that less than 2% of clothing thrown out in the US is actually worn out. Alternatives, of course, include buying and giving away used clothes, or re-fashioning and re-purposing old clothing, as these featured designers have done.

GALLERY: ELLE Lookbook.

The numbers are in from magazine land and we have our list of best selling and worst selling celebrities. Angelina Jolie, Victoria Beckham, and Lauren Conrad on the cover sold the most issues in 2008. Issues with Nicole Kidman, Carrie Underwood, and Rachel Weisz on the cover sold the least. So if you want to make cash, skip out on Kidman and give us more Conrad.

LINKAGE: Attention Cash-strapped Monthlies: Don’t Put Nicole Kidman on the Cover

It’s nice to see Anna Faris in clothes and looking like she has more than three brain cells. I don’t know who’s her agent but can someone tell them that the whole House Bunny, looking like a pin up in mens magazine thing is so not cool. Seriously, funny chicks make for bad fantazies cause you always think there’s gonna be a joke about body hair or pussy farts while your performing your nasty. Thank good someone is trying to mke this girl seem like she has some sense, fashion sense that is…

LINKAGE: Anna Faris in ELLE magazine April 2009

Elle tells us how to do it in two simple rules:

1) Keep color strong

2) Stick with simple lines and soft fabric

Bright colors make a statement, without a doubt, but the only ‘rule’ you need to know is to have enough confidence to make that statement. Wearing your clothes instead of letting them wear you will allow anyone to pull off this bold look without looking like their younger sister, or grandmother.

And another note, if you’re going to go for it, you’re going to have to think about it. Not every trend can be thrown together; it takes time to find the perfect grass green, daffodil yellow, or ocean blue piece to make a statement. Choose wisely, wear confidently.

Link: Elle

“Nothing is more important than the love you hold for yourself and for the people around you.” Maria Lucia Hohan believes in bringing out inner beauty, femininity, and the right to be noticed and admired. Every girl’s dream, right? Her flattering, feminine dresses, tops, and jackets are often accessorized with bows, and range from day to evening wear in a variety of prints, colors, and textures. Hohan started her own studio at 23 after attending design school in Paris, and her looks appear constantly in Elle, Cosmo, and Glamour. For the every day girly-girl, head over to New York to pick up this collection, as it remains the only US state currently selling MLH, but as her site claims, “at present time Maria is creating something especially for you!” Cheers to the overly girly individual.