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Well, you can’t win ‘em all. Sarah Burton‘s wedding dress for the Duchess of Cambridge and Alexander McQueen‘s Savage Beauty exhibit had to take a backseat at the 2012 Design of the Year Awards as The Olympic Torch burned down the competition to take home the top prize.
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Is it really that time again for the biggest prize in American fashion? Yup! The nominees and honorees have been announced for the 2012 CFDA Awards and it’s a full house. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have graduated from the Swarovski Emerging Talent pool to be nominated for womenswear designer of the year for The Row along with last year’s winners Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCullough of Proenza Schouler and perennial favorite Marc Jacobs. Full list of nominees after the jump!
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
LOOKBOOKS contributor Stacey Cunningham helms the regular feature, Kit & Kaboodle, taking a look at what makes stylists tick and keeps them sane. This week she profiled one of the busiest and most successful stylists in the industry, one Ms. Mary Alice Stephenson:
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Time is a-ticking closer to the one day a year when it is socially appropriate to stuff our faces and gorge our bodies with salty, buttery, meaty, buttery, delicious, salty, carbaceous foodstuffs. The spread is beautiful but the aftermath is less so; the words “bloated” and “food baby” come to mind. Which is why you need a specific kind of outfit to cope with such matters. Here are some options for hiding the tummy stretch that happens on Thanksgiving. Or make like present-day Karl Lagerfeld and his bevy of models and just smell the food…
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Pocket hottie Joseph Altuzarra of eponymous line Altuzarra beat out nine other designers to be named the grand prize winner of this year’s Council of Fashion Designers/Vogue Fashion Fund at Skyhigh Soho last night.
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Miss Piggy, like any true diva, is having a major comeback. And she didn’t even go to rehab…so she claims. The upcoming The Muppets has once again turned the spotlight on the cloven-hoofed heroine and she’s soaking it up like a pig in…well, anyway, for the November issue of InStyle, eight designers got the opportunity of a lifetime to dress La Piggy in their own creations: Jason Wu, Prabal Gurung, Opening Ceremony, Suno, Brian Atwood and Giles & Brother.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
That fall chill is in the air once again, and we’re glad to take our leather jackets and trench coats out of the closet. As the nights begin to get colder with each passing week, it’s almost time to break out our fall coats. Though we’re not quite ready for the heavier outerwear to come out in full force, these 25 fantastic coats just might change our minds.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Anna Wintour and her flock of the fabulous have meticulously the selected 10 designers (and design duos) in the running for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award. Last year, Billy Reid took the top prize of $300,000, a year of mentorship and a bronze trophy. The two runners-up Prabal Gurung and Eddie Borgo each took home $100,000 and a year of mentoring. This year, the judges are Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough of Proenza Schouler (who join the committee for the first time this year), Mark Holgate of Vogue, Jeffrey Kalinsky of Jeffrey and Nordstrom, Steven Kolb of the CFDA, Reed Krakoff of Coach, Jenna Lyons of J.Crew, Andrew Rosen of Theory, Diane von Furstenberg of the CFDA, and of course the Queen herself, Anna Wintour of Vogue.
See all the of nominees here:
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Opening Ceremony is know for traveling the globe for it’s yearly collection of designers. Well, next year it seems the Soho staple is heading to Africa. Suno is one brand which is set to make their collection debut at OC this spring.
The Kenyan sourced brand headed by indie Max Osterweis is a new label which faces it’s own share of problems including “routine power outages, overturned buses and the occasional wayward snake.”
According to WWD the first collection will consist of 1,0000 one-of-a-kind pieces and the second will be double that. Retail prices for the new line will be about $160 for a tank and $600 for a dress.
Expect Suno to join of slew of other African designers this spring at Opening Ceremony.
Thanks to WWD for the heads up.
