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Attention Aspiring Designers…Opportunity Knocks…Again!

What: The 2^nd Supima Emerging Designer Competition. If you are an aspiring fashion designer and you want runway exposure as well as support from big shots in the business, this is your chance! The contest is modeled after the legendary 1954 Wool Secretariat competition that launched the careers of the then-teenaged Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld. You could very well be next! 

Where: The Thompson Hotel in SoHo

When: November 20 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Nov. 21 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m

What to Bring: Bring a women’s evening wear sketch, portfolio, résumé, and garment that you have designed and sewn. And please people, this is an open call…lots of people, lots of talent…you want to look good…learn from the fashion mistakes of the Rodarte girls! 

Claudia Schiffer’s Stepping in for Naomi

Word has it Naomi Campbell is being replaced by Claudia Schiffer for Yves Saint Laurent! Though the ads are currently running with Naomi across the scene, heading into Spring 09 campaigns, it’s sure to be Claudia’s face that we see.

Screw Bondage! Lets Go Pinup!

Timothy White recently rounded up a star studded group of models to photograph for his new book Hollywood Pinup. The shot are sexy, old fashioned and awesome! Some of my favorite people were in the shoot too. Michelle Trachtenberg, One of the Olsen Twins (don’t know which one), Elisha Cuthbert and Kate Hudson. I’m not one who reads much of anything besides blogs (loser I know), but I might actually have to buy this book strickly for coffee table purposes to keep my YSL and Louis Vuitton books company.

Thanks Egotastic for the images.

TrendSpark: Spooky Chic

Just because it’s Halloween doesn’t mean you have to wear a trashy witch costume, drench your body in fake blood or rekindle your youth by dressing like a baby. Now it’s all about the gothic spooky chic! No need for skanky pleather, chains and piercings galore, several designers for their Fall 2008/Spring 2009 collections have got soft gothic spooky chic down pat:

Givenchy

Yves Saint Laurent

Chanel

Viktor & Rolf

Roksanda Ilincic

Giles

Rodarte

Thanks Vogue!

Fashion Quotable: Stefano Pilati

YSL head designer Stefano Pilati said Tom Ford was nothing compared to the late great YSL himself. Pilati served directly under him at the time as his design deputy. He tells Lynn Hirschberg in The New York Times Magazine coming out this Sunday:

“Tom had a very precise vision of the company that didn’t challenge women … Tom is talented but not gifted. That’s the way he managed the business. Tom would say: ‘We can’t do this silhouette because she looks fat.’ Or, ‘Oh, no — women don’t like this fabric; we can’t use it.’ That mentality was something to learn but was so far from my way of thinking. Why do you want to be safe? I’m more like: Why don’t you wear gray flannel for an evening dress? I find that fantastic! Not Tom, never.”

Thanks NY Mag

Glossies: Vogue Italia YSL Tribute

Vogue Italia can do no wrong. Here they pay tribute to dearly departed fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent the only acceptable way-in a really beautiful, decadent photo shoot.

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