Faux isn't cheating if it looks this good. With a giant flapped collar, and silky inner cuffs to squeeze inside your gloves, this jacket is rad, and is only available in real life at the store.

This faux zips up the front like an oversized bomber. To give you a frame of reference, I'm 5'8", 6'1" with the shoes; this is a small and it's this long. Super cool.

Inside a sliver of a store, packed with terrific trinkets and bursting with good buys, sits a mustard faux jacket, reversible to reveal the nylon stripes beneath.

Loree Rodkin is the jewelry design rockstar in question. Her creation sits on Lanphear’s ring finger above and below, and blurs the line between medieval and and modern. Rodkin’s designs will be joining the permanent collection at the Smithsonian, not for the fact that they seem from another era, it is because Michelle Obama wore Loree Rodkins to the Inaugural address.

As conversation jumped from jewelry to boutiques, I asked her to let us in on her store crush of the moment:

“I shop in the east village. Anywhere I can go where things aren’t picked through.” [AKA we're never going to find out where she shops unless we see it with our own eyes. She doesn't want us picking through first.] “But it’s hard, I dont really want to shop on the weekends. On a Saturday I’d rather go to a bakery and eat pie, put some whiskey in my coffee.”

This brings us to pondering transformable clothing, that it means even if two people have the same thing, it will look entirely different. It’s not only the accessories you put with it, it’s where you wear it on your body; trying new silhouettes by wearing something not exactly as it’s meant to be worn. Like her interns at Elle.

“I love when interns come to work with sweaters wrapped around their head.”

Which thus led to ruminations on New York being the best city for self expression.

“Back in Virginia they dont think outside the box. That’s why I had to be here.”

And we’re so grateful made it here.

“I thought [W] could be a very strong general-interest publication for our generation [ages 30 to 50], in the way that Vanity Fair is for a different generation.”

– Stefano Tonchi [Editor in Chief, W] on his vision for W, LA Times

Some of the pieces were made exclusively for Elle and are available for purchase on the mag’s website from June 14th through July 14th, while supplies last.

Theyskens, for his part, couldn’t be happier at how it all turned out: “Its great to see how each stylist mixed everything up. It’s like they went to a vintage store and discovered all these cool finds.  They gave me some great ideas for the brand.” [WWD, Elle]

We here at FashionIndie have an unnatural love for Elle editor Kate Lanphear. We knew we weren’t crazy in our secret crushing.

According to a former intern, Kate Lanphear is the nicest editor at Elle. She tells the Post, “All the interns wanted to be her and probably still do.” The editor also treated her underlings like real, sustenance-needing human beings: “She is honestly one of the nicest people that I’ve met in the industry … She kept us really late one night, so she brought us in pizza and sodas. Most other editors merely just stare at you or don’t acknowledge your existence at all.”

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I personally consider myself a fashion editor. Sure, it probably isn’t as difficult to be me than Kate Lanphear, but the work I do and the reach our site has can easily be compared. Swide.com has asked the question ‘Are bloggers considered fashion editors?’  to the likes of Hilary Alexander, Fracana Sozzani, Kate Lanphear, Zanna Roberts and Nina Garcia. Here are their responses.

Hilary Alexander, Telegraph

“I think we’ll always want a magazine because digital is fleeting. I think somehow it’s more personal. You feel it’s part of you.”

Kate Lanphear, Style Director, American Elle

“I’m obsessed with the blog, I think it’s such an amazing thing but I think there is a sisterhood between the internet and a magazine”

More quotes and video on SassyBella

Oh Kate, if you only knew how much we all love you!!! Loving that she braved the cold and wore open toed shoes…

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Perhaps we weren’t as intuitive this season, but did anyone else see Lanphear at any other shows? I’m worried.

Since it’s Doppelganger week on Facebook, I felt it completely necessary to point out a little look-alike action in the Fashion Indie family. Hillary Frazier, style editor here at Fashion Indie, totally resembles Elle’s Style Director, Kate Lanphear. From the blonde locks to the skinny physique and the chain jewelry to the attitude, I think this may be the best doppelganger of all time!

Work was not easy on Friday after we all partied the night away at the Soho Grand Hotel the night before. If you weren’t aware, Fashion Indie co hosts a party every Thursday night at the hotel that’s organized by Niko Liakaris. We’re also lucky enough to team up with DJ Lindsay Luv, Jon Daly, Gabi Richmond and Against Nature as well.

This week we had a few special guests from CFE (Centre for Fashion Enterprise) and guest DJ Allan Bendy, along with Kate Lanphear and some friends from NYLON magazine all in attendance. Belvedere was kind enough to provide the party with way more than enough vodka, and like all of Niko’s parties, we didn’t let any of that go to waste.

Thanks to all of you who made it out this week, and for those of you who couldn’t make it, hopefully we’ll see you next time. I also want to thank Mike Mabes for these amazing photos!

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!

Thanks Blay Report!

Seriously Kate, never ever change. We heart you just the way you are.

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Kate Lanphear looks casually chic as she struts down the streets in Paris.

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2) Demeulemeester leather pant (shout out to my friend Marcel!)

3) Neneh Cherry redux at Gaultier

Love all three of these looks..how about you guys?

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Dress and headdressing by Gareth Pugh on Karlie Kloss

Multi-Chain Necklace by Gareth Pugh 

Wifebeater and mens undies look by Rochas

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I just got back from the G-Star Raw Spring 2010 show, and while I should be left with impressions of the clothing, I can’t help but wonder why Kate Lanphear, style director of Elle Magazine, was seated behind celebrities Juliette Lewis, Kat Von D, Eric Balfour and Leonor Varela, let alone on the side runway (yep, that’s her in the upper left corner!) I admire Lanphear’s support of fashion, as I’ve seen her at numerous shows and throughout the tents this past week, and I feel like her influence is far more important than an actor’s or tattoo artist’s.

If I learned one thing during this season’s fashion week, it’s this: DAMN PUBLIC RELATIONS PEOPLE NEED TO GET THEIR SHIT TOGETHER.

Image Via Zimbio!

Last night, the fashion people gathered at SoHo Grand to preview the new collection by Rad Hourani. Hourani told Style.com that this unisex line isn’t necessarily a diffusion line (priced from $100-400), but that “this is just more relaxed and easier to wear in cotton and jerseys.”  The line will be available in November online and in stores, perfect timing for these pieces, which include a lot of jackets, vests, super skinny jeans, t shirts, and perfectly draped shorts.  

Judging from the runway and all of the fashionable people there, must-haves for fall:

-guys in heels

-platforms

-destroyed tees

-partially shaved heads (for guys and girls)

-black, black, black

We had the pleasure of seeing the man himself, who was looking fabulous as to be expected.  Other sightings, Kelly Cutrone (who told us that she works out in her cowboy boots), Kate Lanphear, Malcom Harris.

See our photos of the runway show, and a few fashion people on Cult

(photo up top by Jak and Jil)

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!

From the androgyny to the hair, and the skeletal physique to the baggy clothing, the resemblance is frightening. 

Thanks to The Sartorialist!

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.