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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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Mariah Carey is a lot of things. A diva, first and foremost. A loon. A mother to dem babies. A Jenny Craig spokeswoman. A Home Shopping Networker. But a fashion icon? Eh. When she first whistle-registered her way onto the music scene in 1990, she was fresh-faced, curly-haired and — style-wise — pretty boring. As the 90s went on, she shed her good girl image and most of her clothes to become the scantily-clad chanteuse we know and love today. For this edition of Videography, we emancipate Mimi’s style evolution through her best and most iconic music videos.
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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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- Seven for All Mankind has renewed its love affair with James Franco, hiring the multi-hyphenate slacker to film and photograph its fall campaign. [WWD]
- Marchesa is launching a lower priced contemporary line with prices ranging from $150 to $750. [Styleite]
- Now that her body is allegedly back, Mariah Carey has turned to legendary bod-con designer Azzedine Alaïa to design an exclusive wardrobe for Mimi’s upcoming events. But for Mariah, an event can mean anything from an awards show to a trip to the laundo. Either way, she’ll be doing it in style. [Vogue.it]
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- American Apparel continues to lose money while pervy CEO Dov Charney continues to rake it in with a $10 million paycheck. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. And for AA, that’s apparently herpes. [The Cut]
- Taiwan’s Eva Airlines allows you to fly in style, that is if you have the style of a 13-year-old Japanese schoolgirl. Eva’s line of Hello Kitty-branded airplanes is basically JetBlue on a potent combination of acid, ketamine and adorable. [Buzzfeed]
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Bieber Fever has rendered the FashionIndie office completely incapacitated on several occasions since the mop-topped pop tot two-stepped his way into the cultural zeitgeist. Another such attack overtook us yesterday and the result was a shot-for-shot recreation of Justin Bieber‘s V Magazine shoot by celebrated lens duo, Inez and Vinoodh – starring yours truly as the model in question. ‘Twas a success, though my body still feels ravaged by the effects of the Fever and I’ll need a conspicuously inappropriate shopping trip with Mariah Carey just to recover. Photos after the jump!
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QVC and HSN, once the domain of Marie Osmond‘s creepy fetishistic dolls and the legendary Joan Rivers Classics Collection has gotten a recent injection of diva with Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey taking to the air to hock their perfumes, clothing lines and pregnancy stories. For its first issue of the year, Vogue Italia, perhaps sensing a trend, tapped Steven Meisel and Karl Templer for this brilliant send-up of the home shopping networks featuring leggy ladies Joan Smalls, Karlie Kloss, Sigrid Agren, Caroline Trentini, Gertrud Hegelund, Daria Strokous and Natasha Poly. And if that weren’t enough to get your collective hearts beating in anticipation, there’s a…video. Listen closely and you can almost here Joan screaming from beyond (L.A.) about the only things these skinny bitches are eating up is her goddamn screentime. Video and gallery after the jump!
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- Equinox is stirring up some controversy with its latest slutty ad campaign shot by the Helmut Lang of Trash, Terry Richardson. I know what you’re thinking — “duh” — but the controversy stems from the models being too thin, not too skanky. What a twist! [Huffington Post]
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It’s Christmas Eve meaning that you only have two more days of Christmas songs blaring at you from every window, store front and drunken hobo. But who are you kidding? You love it. Because you have to — there’s no use in fighting the spirit of the season because it’s an unstoppable juggernaut of good cheer. So succumb to the holidays with these 12 timeless Christmas classics from yesteryear.
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- David Yurman thinks Kate Moss‘ recent ads for Fred are “embarrassingly similar” to the Peter Lindbergh-shot campaign she stripped down for over a year ago. Meanwhile, Kate is posing topless all the way to the bank. [Page Six]
