Award season is upon us and with it, the flurry of emails telling me “who wore what” are currently burying my mailbox.
I attempt to declutter while scanning for the messages that answer the questions I really care about, like “Who gave Kate Hudson her award night Botox?”
It’s hard for a hardened fashionite to admit love to a single publication, being that there are sooo many options, and no mere mortal has the time, or the bank account, to purchase and privy all the amazing editorials produced each month in lesser known titles like Acne Paper or Purple Mag, which is why it’s refreshing for me to be able to admit that Harper’s is my hands down, favorite big box, kind of the equivalent of Walmart to Dazed & Confused‘s mom & pop, fashion glossy.
Every wonder how your favorite celebrities always look flawless? From red carpet appearances to being photographed leaving Starbucks, they all somehow manage to look effortlessly fabulous. So we uncovered the beauty secrets of 10 Hollywood stars so you too can look amazing.
And she didn’t even over-accessorize. Jennifer Lopez brought her adorable 4 year-old daughter Emme Anthony to the Chanel Spring 2013 show last Tuesday and Us Weekley is reporting she was wearing $2,410 worth of accessories for the show.
In this edition of Red Carpet Report Card, Jennifer Lopez will be graded on her Bec & Bridge SS 12/13 look worn to her world tour pre-party at Wet Republic at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. See how she looked after the jump.
Indie Newsroom is brought to you by Andrej’s new reality, America’s Olympic China pattern and Teen Vogue‘s tantrum.
The all-important September issue is usually a fashion pub’s biggest and bestselling of the year — so mag’s are not messing around with their cover girls. As you know, Lady Gaga is set for the seminal Vogue cover, but after the jump take a look at who else the top titles have in store, as well as stats on their last cover appearance, sales performance and the reasoning behind their selection.
Famous for his red carpet gowns and the dress Michelle Obama wore the night her husband was elected president, Narciso Rodriguez will bring some of that glamour to a capsule collection for Kohl’s, launching this fall.
The best bits you have missed on FashionIndie this week, including tributes to Whitney Houston and Donna Summer, god-awful musician tattoos, the most chic penis leggings you’ll (hopefully) ever see and dressing for your drug use.
- Clearly mistaking the German premiere of Men in Black III for the Las Vegas premiere of Men in the Back IV, alleged model Micaela Schaefer trashed it up in a dress seemingly made of recycled VHS tape. [Huff Po]
- Martha Stewart giving Veronica Lake realness, courtesy of the late makeup maestro Kevyn Aucoin. [Tumblr via Paper]
- In what has to be regarded as one of the greatest — and most inexplicable — comebacks in recent memory, Jennifer Lopez tops the Forbes annual Celebrity 100 list for the first time, unseating Lady Gaga who falls to a respectable fifth place behind perennial power player Oprah, and fellow poptarts Justin Bieber and Rihanna. [Forbes]
Celebrity sex tape pioneer Paris Hilton is still hanging around after over a decade of dubious distinction and is about to start handing out DJs. Not content to go quietly into that obscure light, the heiress will soon add another credit to her ever-increasing curricuum vitae: disc jockey.
- The CW has officially picked up The Carrie Diaries, thus ensuring you’ll get your fill of cheap puns and over-the-top fashion come fall. [Deadline]
- Chanel staged its 2012 Cruise collection at the Palace at Versailles with guests Tilda Swinton, Haider Ackermann and Karl Lagerfeld‘s plaid vest. [Grazia]
- Olympian hotties Hope Solo, Ryan Lochte and Serena Williams grace the June issue of Vogue. [Styleite]
- Always one to turn lemons into overpriced lemonade, Marc Jacobs is now selling T-shirts bearing his graffitied storefront for $689, to the chagrin of the graffiti artist, Kidult. [The Cut]
- Jessica Simpson can barely give her baby photos away. The new mother has sold them for a mere $800,000 to People, a paltry pittance compared to Jennifer Lopez‘s $6 million and even Matthew McCounaghey‘s $3 million. It’s a sad day when you can’t even pull that Wooderson dough. [WWD]
- Who needs someone to put a ring on it when you look this damn good? Male model and lithe lady Andrej Pejic graced the Rosa Clara runway during Barcelona Bridal Week, thus upstaging every other biological woman. [Styleite]
Happy Birthday Botox! It has been 10 years since the FDA approved the use of Botox as a cosmetic (and 10 years since Martin Scorsese complained that it made it impossible for actors to express emotion). We thought we’d say happy birthday with a gallery of Hollywood Botox jobs. From flawless Cindy Crawford to…. well, Carrot Top, here are the top five best and worst celebrities botox jobs.
