- And speaking of people selling out for the Kardashians, Vera Wang is selling knock-offs of the wedding dresses she created for the publicity stunt people refer to as Kim Kardashian‘s wedding, to be sold through her David’s Bridal diffusion line. [E!]

- Catherine Malandrino has cancelled her presentation this season, claiming that the brand is “in transition” and “refocusing.” [Page Six]

- Reportedly the only celebrities invited to the  Marc Jacobs runway show are longtime hag Sofia Coppola and campaign gurls, Elle and Dakota Fanning. I guess Tara Reid and I will both be standing outside in the cold this season. As usual. [Fashionista]

- According to his lawyer, John Galliano won’t be in court next week when the verdict in his racist rant case is handed down. [Fashionologie]

- Snooki‘s coming out with a fragrance and being the classy broad she is, she says it will be “flirty and bubbly, you know, like my personality, and obviously something DTF.” (for those out of the Jersey Shore loop, that’s “down to fuck”) So it will smell like a used hot tub, greasy hair extensions and stale lube? Aah, eau du Guidette. [Us]

Many of our favorite Indies were out last night including: Sir Ben Kingsley, Shenae Grimes, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Minkoff, Billy Burke, Scott Campbell, Arlenis Sosa, Genevieve Jones, Waris Ahluwalia, Lance Bass, & Sky Ferreira

The exhibition was itself  fantastic.  Some of the films included in the exhibtion were Taxi Driver, The Aviator, & Vertigo. Our personal favorite attraction happened to be costumes from Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. (Featured below)

The exhibition, which will be open to the public (FOR FREE!) starting today until June 19th 2011 at  Center 548 in New York City, celebrates the stories of obsessive craftsmanship behind some of cinema’s most iconic on-screen moments.  It takes 30 manual steps to create the perfect pair of Persol frames and  similarly this exhibit showcases how each instance of what appears on the silver screen  can take hours, weeks or even months of painstaking research and craftsmanship to develop and comes for a place of passion.

For some more art check out this video of Sam & I doing a wave in a flipbook we made at the event (below)

attends Persol Magnificent Obsessions: 30 Stories of Craftsmanship in Film at Center 548 on June 16, 2011 in New York City.

attends Persol Magnificent Obsessions: 30 Stories of Craftsmanship in Film at Center 548 on June 16, 2011 in New York City.

Winners

Womenswear Designer of the Year: Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Proenza Schouler

The kids, Jack and Laz

Menswear Designer of the Year: Michael Bastian

Bastian next to a surprisingly sexy Gerard Butler

Accessory Designer of the Year: Alexander Wang

Wang with fairy godmother, Iris Apfel

Prabal saddling up next to Alessandra Ambrosio

Super adorable pocket person Eddie Borgo with Guinevere Van Seenus

Gags

Rosie Rubenstein

Philo with BFF Kanye West

Sofia Coppola will present good friend and longtime fag to her hag, Marc Jacobs with the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award, amidst a roar of boos. Somehow Jessica Alba scored an invite and will hand over the Founders Award to Hal Rubenstein and sexy septuagenarian Grace Coddington will hurl the Board of Directors’ Special Tribute Award to an unsuspecting Arthur Elgort. Karolina Kurkova, not to be outdone, will present the three Swarovski Awards.

Meanwhile, Patrick Ervell dug up Kirsten Dunst for his date, Micahel Kors will be chaperoned by Ashley Greene and Calvin Klein‘s Francisco Costa by noted actress Kerry Washington. Liv Tyler forsake frequent gal-date Stella McCartney for the humpy Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler and last but not least, Chlöe Sevigny will stumble into the ceremony with MAC Cosmetics.

This should make the FiFis look…well, like the FiFis. [WWD]

Sofia Coppola and designer Marc Jacobs depart the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala "Superheroes: Fashion And Fantasy" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2008 in New York City. "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Departures The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY United States May 5, 2008 Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com To license this image (15782602), contact WireImage.com

Clueless (1995)- If this 90′s classic wasn’t already on your top 10 movies list of style and rich girl ways well then start jotting! Alicia Silverstone is the best prepster out there, and no matter how old we are or how many fashion trends pass by Clueless will always remain a fashion favorite… through knee-high socks, more than enough argyle to handle, feminine school girl blazzers and especially because Britney Murphy was in it too!

Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (1997)- A little on the dumb-ass side and I’m pretty sure no one would wear as much metallic and glitter as these two on screen best friends, but it’s still fun to watch their adventure in going back to their high school reunion and dominating the Madonna-inspired blasts from the pasts.

Spice World (1997)- Victoria Beckham‘s style may be taking over the style headlines a lot more than the Spice Girls do now, but it doesn’t mean that we would ever forget baby spice, scary spice, ginger spice, posh spice, sporty spice, or any other spices that I’m forgetting in between!

Jawbreaker (1999)- Catty and backstabbing what other way would a girl like their movies, when you accidentally kill your best friend in your favorite pumps?

The Virgin Suicides (1999)- When it comes to Kristen Dunst’s careless ways she makes any film look awesome! Sofia Coppola (director) filmed the movie in an angelic sort of sunlight state, and with the simplicity of the style on the girls, from sundresses to school outfits, the obsession of five boys falling in love with mysterious sisters begins, and they watch them on the road to suicide.

Factory Girl (2006)- Starring Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick a muse of all muses for the New York City life style of Andy Warhol. Not to mention, Mary-Kate Olsen gets her five minutes of fame getting to rock the furs and the smoking glam of this crazy 1960′s fashion filled film.

500 Days of Summer (2009)- Zooey Deschanel would be the perfect heart breaking type girl, with her vintage dresses and humorous ways as she completes every girls dream to crush the boy who’s insanely in love with her in nonchalant ways.

Whip It (2009)- Ellen Page plays a rebellious small town girl who creates a wicked life for herself in Austin, TX. And along with Drew Barrymoore and Landon Pigg she rocks her indie-child style with combat boots, random skirts, and bizarre rock band tees!

The Runaways (2010)- When hearing the names Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart you don’t normally think of one on one girl make out sessions or drug addict… which in their case would be a good thing but luckily these two actresses rocked the hell out of bringing the Joan Jett and Cherie Curie’s wild child style to life!

Black Swan (2010)- Obviously what kind of timeline would this be without listing Natalie Portman’s surprise act of dealing with perfection and giving us a mental image of just how good Rodarte ballet wear could be!

At an age when many of us can’t even afford a couture gown let alone make one, Maxime Simoëns has joined the official Couture calendar. What’s even more impressive, he’s the first designer to do so without ever having staged a runway.  But before sending out his first painfully constructed garment down the Parisian runway this week, the young couturier shared his inspirations and insights with Style.com.

Your first interest was film. Why did you abandon it for fashion?

Starting from the age of five or six I was totally taken by James Dean, Charlie Chaplin, and Marilyn Monroe. Then I got to film school and found it too technical and scientific—all physics, math, chemistry. I wanted to express myself more concretely; I was thinking less about science and more about the narration of a heroine. Then came Madonna’s “Drowned” World Tour and I took one look at the costumes and silhouettes—and of course the corsets—by Jean Paul Gaultier, and I knew. I went home and started to draw. It totally threw my parents off because after ten years of talking about film I turned around and told them it was going to be fashion.

What happened once you arrived in Paris?

I attended the Chambre Syndicale, and I figured that since Gaultier was my inspiration my first internship should be there. It’s very complicated to get an internship there, so I knocked on all the doors I could, and then I hand-embroidered a letter on a corset that I made out of python and painted. It took my whole summer vacation—the corset, the packaging, everything. Mr. Gaultier never saw it, but his assistants did. It made the rounds in-house and that’s how I got my internship in the accessories department.

You also interned at Christian Dior and Balenciaga. What were the takeaways there?

I was an assistant stylist in the embroidery atelier at Dior. So much happens at the last minute that it was a lesson in working on a tight deadline. As an assistant stylist at Balenciaga I worked on inspirations and embroidery, especially prints. Once, two weeks before the show, we changed everything. It was sort of a liturgical theme, and then it was flowers. Working with Nicolas [Ghesquière] is great because he pushes everything to the limit.

How did the annual fashion and photography festival at Hyères become your launching pad?

Hyères is usually about a concept, but some journalists told me that my mini-collection of seven pieces had commercial potential. We presented at Hyères and found ourselves with orders for 600 pieces, which was enormous. I couldn’t work out of my apartment anymore; we had to really set up a house. Then, unexpectedly, the numbers doubled with the second collection. At the same time, Gossip Girl stylist Eric Daman was scouting for the Paris shoot and he liked the collection. It gave us great exposure, and we [Gossip Girl stars Blake Lively and Leighton Meester] hit it off.

Is that how the couture connection came about?

Didier Grumbach [president of the Fédération Française de la Couture] had encouraged me to participate in Couture week, but I wasn’t sure at first because couture seemed to me a bit old-fashioned. In the end I decided to do it because it wasn’t about aligning with an old image, it was about a new vision of couture. The timing is perfect because ready-to-wear arrives in stores a week later.

What is your take on couture?

For me it’s not about made-to-measure. It’s more about normalized sizing with French creativity and quality. There’s a whole French generation emerging that’s interested in preserving that tradition. Since we took over Lacroix’s old atelier, we have artisanal know-how to back us up and the capacity to deliver quickly. Those two factors make [creating couture] feasible. The idea with our atelier is to support the young coalition and help consolidate the new generation of French couture.

Who are this season’s heroines?

There’s a Sofia Coppola inspiration for both parts of the collection. The first, which I call “Cherry Blossom Girl,” is dedicated to sacrificial heroines like the teenage ones in Virgin Suicides, but with glamour, geometry, and elegance. The second part is called “This, Madame, Is Paris,” which is inspired by Marie Antoinette. For my first Couture show I wanted a theme that was very French, so I chose the absolute icon.

How do you render an icon of excess in neo-minimalist times?

Instead of panniers and frills I worked a lot on fabric, in mille-feuilles and prints. One print is black marble; another is lace transformed into jacquard that is slightly industrial; and another is a pixelated version of a painting the Queen commissioned for the Petit Trianon. Then you get to a heavier jacquard that I created from droplets of blood Photoshopped and reworked in color, thread by thread. But even if her end was somber, we focused on the lighter, iconic side of things—handmade flowers in leather, white gowns embroidered with stones. And there’s a chain theme to invoke the idea of being chained to one’s destiny.

Has Sofia Coppola seen the collection?

No, but she’s invited!

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Not only did Portman score print ads for Dior, but her television commercials for the brand, directed by Sofia Coppola, are coming out this March. What do you think of her sexy, ultra-girlie ad?

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I only know of Stephen Dorff from that Britney video where he’s her boyfriend and she drowns in the bathtub. What was it again? Oh, right, Oops! I Did It Again.

Anygay, his new film directed by Sofia Coppola, Somwehere, already won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, so I’ expecting to see a lot more of Mr. Dorff.

This is a good place to start:

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Not to mention, the ad campaign is just as chic and delightful as her line.

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The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola is my favorite movie, so I obviously NEED to get this AWESOME Spring/Summer ‘Virgin’ issue by Dujour, a bi-montly indie fashion and lifestyle publication dedicated exclusively to emerging designers and artists and costs $24.95. More photos after the jump…

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This is the sexiest Louis Vuitton bag I’ve seen in quite awhile. The Academy Award-winning director Sofia Coppola designed a limited-edition line of bags for the label. Constructed of the loveliest, deepest navy blue leather I’ve ever seen, this bag would be perfect to fit everything I cram into my current, almost-too-small purse.

Via Jak & Jil

From 2006′s Vogue US “Teen Queen” on Sofia Coppola’s then released “Marie Antoinette” about the ultimate big spender.

GALLERY: Cult

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Louis Vuitton decided to donate 15 percent of all sales from its U.S. Web site that day to The Climate Project, the non-profit organization founded by Al Gore.

They first partnered with The Climate Project in 2007, when it started
making donations on behalf of some of the personalities in Vuitton’s
Core Values advertising campaign.

The campaign has featured the
likes of Catherine Deneuve, Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi, Sean Connery,
Keith Richards and Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola.

“Over the
past few years Louis Vuitton has voluntarily made efforts to reduce the
impact of its activities on the environment,” Daniel Lalonde, president
and chief executive officer of Louis Vuitton North America said. “In
addition we are proud to be able to support The Climate Project.”

LINKAGE: WWD

Scarlett Johansson arrives to the Louis Vuitton LOVE party for Oxfam America with Daniel Lalonde, president and CEO of Louis Vuitton North America, in New York, Thursday, May, 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)

Sofia Coppola’s collection for luxury giant Louis Vuitton is finally hitting the web. The collaboration will be celebrated this Friday nightat Château Restaurant Joël Robuchon in Tokyo.

“To start with I wanted to make a bag for myself and then we talked about making a little capsule collection,” she told WWD. “My friends and I are always searching for the perfect day bag. It fits all your things but isn’t too big and isn’t too heavy.”

Sofia’s choice was to go for practical rather than over the top,  “I wanted a bag that I could use every day that was coming from the heritage of Louis Vuitton’s great leather goods, not connected to the fashion side of the brand,” Coppola said, “We went through a lot of prototypes but it was fun. It was always exciting to get a new one and I would try them out and add things.”

The SC Bag, comes in four versions: one in dark gray suede, two in calf leather in dark blue and burgundy and one in LV’s signature monogram canvas.

Expect Sofia’s perfect little baggies and shoes to hit stores in March.

Thanks to WWD for picking up the story.

Fresh on the heels of a collaboration with Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons, Louis Vuitton is rumored to be teaming up with director Sofia Coppola for a line of handbags and shoes.

With her eye for the obscure and history in film I’m really excited to see what will be the result from this highly unpredictable collabo. 

So what do you think indies, is Sofia the next great designer?  Or should the woman behind Marie Antionette stick to doing what she does best filming fashion behind the camera?

Source WWD

This feature is reserved for those who rock a certain look, but fall several steps short of chic. I will dissect the look like it’s 9th grade science and then show how the outfit could work. Everyone has a style, however most times it just doesn’t work out.

For our inaugural edition we have Rumer Willis trying to rock the art-girl look.

The ‘art-girl’ look is hard to pull off because most people think you can just put what whatever you want together as an outfit and it’s artsy. Oh no! The truly chic ‘art girl’ knows it’s a delicate balance between quirkiness and polish. It’s so easy to look like Bjork’s twin when trying to rock this look.

Where to start? See the analysis, art-girl icons, and the look done right under the cut

The Rundown:

Silhouette: The staple of any good artsy girl is the high waisted bottom. When doing this you should rarely have a top not tucked into the bottom. Her skirt is actually nice but it’s the black slouchy top that kills the quirkiness of the skirt.

Accessories: Half-tights really? What are you Corey Kennedy? The only thing worse than being trendy, is still wearing that trend a year later. It’s summer and it’s hot as hell. So ditch the tights. And ditch the 1970′s-Grandma glasses. Geek some cool geek glasses that’s what all the cool kids are wearing!

Hair and Makeup: This girl can’t seem to find a hair cut that looks good on her, can she? The bob is a perfect hair cut for the artsy-girl. However there’s nothing chic about stringy hair.

The Verdict: Looks like Urban Outfitters had their way with her! Her look is unfortunate but not completely lost.

The Icons

Sofia Coppola: Coppola is the perennial art girl. As a former student at Cal Arts and intern at Chanel-she knows a thing or two about art girl chic. She breaks the perceived rules of fashion by rocking flats on the red carpet. As she has entered her thirties she has streamlined her arty-girl look into polished quirkiness.

Zooey Deschanel: Still in her twenties, Deschanel has come out as the as the actress fashion people can stand. She doesn’t relay on a stylist and her instincts in fashion are never wrong. She has a respect for the past and incorporates that into every look. The secret to her success is in unexpected accessories that tie the look together.

The Look Done Right: polished basics + quirky accessories= art-girl chic

PARIS - OCTOBER 7: Sofia Coppola leaves the Louis Vuitton fashion show during the Sping/ Summer 08 fashion week on October 7, 2007 in Paris, France. (Photo by Julien Hekimian /Getty Images)

Francis and Sofia kicking it in Napa for the new “Life-is-great-because-we’re-rich-and-have-LV-luggage” Louis Vuitton Ads

Over the last couple of seasons Louis Vuitton has taken an interesting direction with their ad campaigns…by putting interesting public figures in their ads. Instead of putting the hottest celeb of the moment like a Shia Labeouf or a Eva Longoria, they decided to feature people like Andre Agassi and Catherine Deneuve.

Antoine Arnaud, son of Bernard Arnaud, chief executive of LVMH said of the new direction: “We needed something special to remind people about the romance of travel. People said we were crazy to even contemplate Gorbachev or Clinton, but eventually Gorbachev said if we could put him in with the Berlin Wall we were on…”

Well get ready for the next set of ads with none other than Oscar-winning father-daughter Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola. This isn’t the first time Sofia has been featured in an ad for her buddy Marc Jacobs. You can still find her as the face of Marc Jacobs orginal fragence in magazines.

The normally camera-shy and super ‘indie’ Coppola explained to the Times why she would do something so corporate: “I liked the ad Annie shot with Keith Richards. It was flattering to be asked. Plus I’ve known Marc Jacobs since I was 18. We had mutual friends and started hanging out together. I remember asking my mom to take me to see Perry Ellis when he was designing there. I still have a box of clothes from that grunge collection somewhere. It’s great to work with Annie – she did a good portfolio on the set of Marie Antoinette. She just selects one picture and then shows it to you. But I think that’s good. My dad and I were both like, yeah, whatever you want, this is your shoot. On your own set you want it exactly your own way, but we can get with someone else’s vision too.”

[The Times, I Heart Sofia]