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NEWS / January 18 2012 7:16 AM

Backpedalling with Prada: Brand Insists Miuccia’s Met Exhibit Comments “Taken Out of Context”

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The Elsa Schiaparelli-Miuccia Prada Costume Institute exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is still months away, but why not get the buzz rolling early on? Backstage after her celebrity-filled men’s show in Milan, Prada appeared not too enthused about the upcoming exhibit, saying: ”It’s too formal. They are focused on similarities, comparing feather with feather, ethnic with ethnic, but they are not taking into consideration that we are talking about two different eras, and that [Schiaparelli and I] are total opposite. I told them, but they don’t care.” Now, her namesake label claims these comments were “taken out of context.”

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FASHION / January 13 2012 2:36 PM

Designer Daily: Donna Distefano

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You like your jewelry handmade locally. You value the artist and the precious stones and gold as the natural and manifested wonder they are. Sadly much of the metals and jewels harvested for jewelry comes from suspect places. Places that send children into mines and practice unjust businesses have their product widespread. Which is why Donna Distefano is strictly conscious about where she sources her stones and metals. She gets her rubies and sapphires from community run mines Malawi; they are the finest. She found clean artisan diamonds in Botswana. The problem you run into with gold is that mercury naturally leeches gold out of the earth, causing awful effects to biodiversity. Instead, she only uses recycled gold, and she gives a far better price than those guys in the CASH FOR GOLD commercials. She learned the ancient goldsmith methods from her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and now she makes each piece in the same space she sells her work directly. 

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CULTURE, FASHION, NEWS / December 12 2011 2:00 PM

25 Top Fashion Moments of 2011

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‘Twas one hell of a year for fashion, 2011.  Alexander McQueen triumphed this year thanks to a pair of well-documented dresses and a bona fide cultural phenomenon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Christian Dior tried to rebound from a potential PR nightmare, to varying degrees of success. Diffusion lines easily out-shined their designer homes.  An editrix reinvented herself amidst a sea of rumors without losing a beat.  And underaged fashionistas grew up in front of our very eyes. Here are our picks for the 25 most memorable and stylish moments of 2011. 

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NEWS / November 2 2011 7:56 AM

Sarah Burton Couldn’t Even Tell Her Parents About the Kate Middleton Wedding Dress

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Keeping a secret in this day and age is pretty much unheard of, so the fact that the designer of Kate Middleton‘s wedding dress wasn’t revealed until the future Duchess of Cambridge elegantly alighted at Buckingham Palace was somewhat of a small miracle. But the Royal Family doesn’t eff around and had Alexander McQueen‘s creative head, Sarah Burton, sign a confidentiality agreement, meaning she couldn’t even tell her parents about the once in a lifetime opportunity. 

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