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Breaking News - Lady Gaga's Hairy Bedmate, Donatella Versace's Artful Heart and Elle Triumphs over Vogue

Filed under: Style in the News

DONATELLA GIVES THE GIFT OF ART
The platinum blonde and very tan namesake creative director of Versace -- known for her scandalous silhouettes and bold colors -- seen on stars including Jennifer Lopez, Madonna and Angelina Jolie -- will provide art supplies to underprivileged children in the U.S. and China for the "Art Unites" program in conjunction with NYC's Whitney Museum.
[WWD]

LACOSTE IS LEAPIN' FOR LIZARDS
While luxury brand Hermes is breeding crocs for Birkin bags, preppy sportswear brand Lacoste wants to save its alligators. The purveyors of timeless polos and apparel featuring the broad-snouted reptile is the first company to join the "Save Your Logo" campaign, which calls for businesses to aid animals and plants associated with their brands.
[Racked]

NO, HER FIRST NAME AIN'T "GWEN." IT'S "GAGA." "LADY GAGA," IF YOU'RE NASTY
Sasha Fierce may be the alter ego of Beyonce Knowles, but as for Lady Gaga, with her hair-made bow as a bed buddy and her great bosoms of fire, she insists her freaky and far out stage persona is who she really is.
[HuffingtonPost]

THE REAL COST OF BECOMING A ZOEBOT
With the second season of "The Rachel Zoe Project" airing soon, the celeb stylist reveals her fashion necessities on Entertainment Weekly. But, how much coinage will be needed if one must have her "must-haves"? Get the breakdown here.
[Jezebel]

WILL "ELLE" REPLACE "VOGUE" AS THE NEW FASHION BIBLE?
Readers of fashion glossies know to expect plenty of temptation from salacious celebrity ad campaigns such as Eva Mendes for Calvin Klein. And until now, Vogue has been a leader in selling page space for the lusty spreads. But, for the first time in 24 years, Elle has outsold them.
[Forbes]







Hermes to Breed Own Crocodiles

Filed under: Style in the News

Pricey purse! $129,000 Birkin bag from Hermes. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

An Hermes Birkin bag can cost you a pretty penny, but throw in exotic skins and you're talking college tuition.

To meet the demand for croc bags, 3,000 a year (Victoria Beckham alone?), instead of dealing with fickle suppliers, Hermes has made a bold business move: The company is going to breed its own crocodiles!

At the Reuters Global Luxury Summit in Paris, Hermes Joint Chief Executive Officer Patrick Thomas announced plans for an crocodile farm in Australia.

Breeding the toothy reptiles, though, is not exactly the safest or most glamorous Hermes position. The animals have to be housed individually so they don't bite each other (or the handler). Talk about fierce fashion!

Victoria Beckhams Birkin Bags

    Victoria Beckham shops with her son and, of course, a gorgeous blue Birkin, large enough to hold plenty of toys and snacks. Hey, if she's going to drop that kind of cash on a handbag, it should at least be useful, right?

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    Victoria Beckham arrives at Heathrow Airport wearing a polka dot Mac coat and basic black bag. You know, if an Hermes handbag can be considered basic.

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    England football players' wives and girlfriends depart to Cologne for England's match against Sweden on June 20, 2006. Is she wearing shorts? A skirt? Who cares? She's got it covered with her fabulous bag.

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    Victoria Beckham and youngest son Cruz leave their hotel in Paris. Posh's chic, layered look should fit right in with the city's style.

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    Victoria Beckham at the Farmer's Market on June 15, 2008. Because, you know, who doesn't take a ridiculously pricey designer bag to buy fresh cut flowers and veggies?

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    Victoria Beckham arrives to Heathrow airport dressed to impress. As always.

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    Victoria Beckham shops at Fred Segal in Santa Monice and then heads to the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood, where she meets Katie Holmes and daughter Suri for dinner at the Bungalow. Just another day in the life of Posh, and, of course, another Birkin.

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    Victoria Beckham uses her bag to brighten up an otherwise neutral ensemble at the airport.

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    Victoria Beckham, rocking a black tipped french manicure, arrives at Los Angeles International Airport to fly back to England with Melanie Brown (Mel B) to work on a new Spice Girls single and a television commercial. No surprise here -- the bag is a perfect match for the dress, but we can probably guess which cost more.

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    Posh sports a bright, 1960's-style dress while toting a hot pink ostrich Hermes Birkin purse. Victoria is trailed by several assistants who carry her luggage, block photographers, and escort her through security. Ever wonder what Mrs. Beckham carries in that expensive luggage of hers? Now we know: More expensive handbags.

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Luxe Brands Opening Pop-Up Shops

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Luxury shopping in Tokyo. Photo by Getty Images

Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Hermès have started a new trend in luxe retail -- The Pop-Up Shop. Once reserved for mass brands like Target and Levi's, high-end brands are now recognizing the value of these now you see us, now you don't stores.

A great way to make something special is to make it only available for a limited time. Maybe that's why there's a new kind of luxury boutique popping up -- the kind that swiftly disappears.

According to WWD:
"Europe's luxury players are suddenly enamored with more modest, temporary stores. ... Vuitton, which opened a temporary store in Tokyo last winter to showcase a collaboration with Comme des Garçons and its iconoclastic designer Rei Kawakubo, will open another time-limited retail venture in the Japanese capital later this month while the French brand awaits a permanent location at the new Seibu Ikebukuro department store in 2010. ... The temporary store will look the part: surrounded by scaffolding, wrapped in white mesh and with a raw interior with sections defined by stacked wooden crates (although the products themselves will sit on elegant, padded shelves)."

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Designers Drop Prices to Get Right with Your Wallet

Filed under: Style in the News, Steals and Deals

closeup of Lacoste alligatorWondering how you're going to afford your next piece of designer clothing? Good news, you might not have to donate plasma after all. Taking a cue from last year's brutal (for retailers) holiday season, designers like Lacoste, Coach and a host of others will be dropping their price points significantly. The idea is to avoid another winter of retailers marking their wares down 70% -- which is not so good for a designer's ego.

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Katie Holmes Spends $14 Million in Six Months!

Filed under: Celebrities with Style

Katie Holmes at Valkyrie partyKatie Holmes has basically built herself a whole new career out of being married to Tom Cruise -- well, that -- and shopping. In large part because of her habit, the actress has reportedly put about $14 million dollars back into our economy over the past six months.

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Hermes unveils a luxury edition Smart Car - Smart luxury?

Filed under: Green Fashion

For anyone who wants to shrink their carbon footprint, but still look totally fashionable while doing it -- while also dropping a boatload of cash on a car that barely seats two average humans -- Hermes has designed a set of ultra-fashionable micro cars to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Smart Fortwo. The cars, available in 10 colors including gold, indigo, and Hermes' trademark orange, made their debut last Thursday at Paris' Grand Palais.

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Heir to Hermes fortune shows his rowdy side

Filed under: Style in the News

Just because you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, doesn't mean you were born with manners. Case in point: 37-year-old Mathias Guerrand-Hermes, heir to the uber-luxurious Hermes empire. The "socialite" and "polo player" is charged with assaulting an Air France captain during a transatlantic flight from Paris to New York.

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Judith Leiber is the handbag of choice for the rich

Filed under: Handbags, Accessories

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Luxury handbags, how many of us own them? Not many this season if our unfortunate economic crisis has anything to do with. However, not everyone is cutting into their monthly Starbucks stipends to don the finer things in life.

According to the most recent Luxury Institute Survey, the rich are getting richer. And their accessory of choice? Judith Leiber handbags.

1,048 wealthy women, "wealthy" meaning they take in an average of $348k a year and have a average net-worth of $3.5 million, were asked which handbag brands the coveted the most. While Jimmy Choo, Hermes, and Tod's ranked fairly high on their lists, it was Judith Leiber's clutches that are the undisputed favorite amongst the bougie set.

As the survey espouses: "The Judith Leiber brand is rated as much for being a work of art as it is rated a luxury by the only pundits who count -wealthy consumers who can buy the brands. Our impartial surveys are based on the principle that highly educated, discerning luxury consumers have the ultimate expertise and trustworthiness in luxury consumption. The Luxury Institute conducts its research with independent panels, and uses third party analytical firms to tabulate the results so that the true voice of luxury consumers is amplified for the benefit of their peers and industry executives alike."

And now you know. So the next time you have a big red carpet event, choose Judith Leiber, darlings.

Poor people wearing Hermès - Provocative or downright wrong?

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If there's one thing Vogue is good for, it's stirring up a controversy. This time Vogue India has gone and done it with a photo shoot featuring lower income Indian families using accessories by exclusive -- read expensive -- designer brands.

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Hermes opens a men's store

Filed under: Style in the News, Men

If you like paying $125 for a pocket square, or $360 for a ball cap, you'll be glad to know that French boutique brand Hermes is opening a men's store across the street from the Madison Ave flagship next fall. Like most all of the boutique's shops around the world, the new 6,000 square foot space will be decked out by legendary interior designer Rena Dumas and her RDAI architectural firm from Paris.

Many of their stores carry a limited selection of men's ties and silk accessories, but this one's going all-out with custom and made-to-measure menswear. It'll be the first men's specific store for the company. We always thought of Hermes as brand that mostly sold to women, but supposedly 45% of Hermes' sales come from the men's department. Guess they sell a lot of ties.

[via HauteConcept]

China: wealth is super-trendy

Filed under: Style in the News


While retail sales in the US and Europe are slumping, China's consumer class is just hitting the scene -- and they're willing to shell out some serious money on fashion. Designers like Prada, Armani, and Louis Vuitton are having a bonanza with newly rich Chinese who are hungry for the status symbols of conspicuous consumption. Yet, there's also a rising demand for $10,000 cocktail dresses and brands like Hermes from the growing ultra-rich class.

Traditionally, the Chinese market has been mostly dominated by accessories because of the limited space in China's crammed shopping malls -- which has led to the ridiculous level of knock-offs and forgeries. But that trend is starting to shift as retailers are steadily getting access to space where they can branch out. Coach is planning to open 50 retail stores in the mainland this over the next few years and tons of others are on the same kind of track. As you can imagine, renting a prime location for you flagship store in Shanghai is a royal rip -- but apparently it's paying off big time.

Make your own Hermes bag... or how about a DIY bikini?

Filed under: Handbags, Accessories, Clothing, Swimwear and Lingerie


Well, it beats spending time on a decades-long waiting list for an iconic Kelly, doesn't it?

New York blogger Karyn Bosnak drew our attention to a new feature on the Hermes website which shows you how to make your own Hermes bag, just like the real thing. The only downside? You have to make it out of paper... a fun craft project, perhaps, but not likely to withstand the first rainy day of summer.

If you'd like to make something a little more substantial (but only a little more substantial), why not try your hand at making a bikini?

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Forbes makes their "It" bag picks

Filed under: Handbags, Accessories


hermes kelly bagRecession, schmession. We're not tightening our belts for any looming economic downturn.

Er, rather, we're not tightening the straps on our handbags.

When it comes to handbags, some of us seem to live in an alternate universe where there is no such thing as "budget." Forbes has picked out this (and next) season's "It" bags - those bags for which we won't be shy about taking out a second mortgage on our homes.

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How else are you going to carry your apple?

Filed under: Handbags, Accessories, Style in the News


Honestly, if we had a dime for every time we scoured the earth for the perfect way to carry one of our favorite snacks, we'd have ... well, like, a dime. But still, don't you love apples? And wouldn't you love a cute, handy way to carry your apples?

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Stop! That bag is carrying Katie Holmes

Filed under: Style in the News, Celebrities with Style

katie holmesIt took me a few days to realize that this photo was not a photo-shopped image torn from the pages of The Sun but a real actual photograph a gigantic Hermes Birkin bag from outer space carrying Katie Holmes down the street.

I know Katie Holmes has been entering bobble head territory with her recent weight loss but I think it's safe to say that Katie is the normal sized one here and it's the bag that has the problems. Perhaps she used her hocus pocus Scientology skills to make an average sized Hermes Birkin bag turn into a super-sized version of itself.

Well, enough of my conspiracy theories, do you think Katie's bag is super-chic or a super-sized fashion don't?

See the bag in all it's glory here>

How You Voted

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    Do these ads belong in the U.S.?
    StyleList readers were nearly evenly divided on this, with 52% thinking that they should run in the States, and 48% finding them inappropriate. Get the full story here.

    Inzemove and Fred & Farid

    Curly or Straight?
    While 30% of you think she's so beautiful that her hair doesn't even matter, 49% of you prefer her curls. Get the full story here.

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    Just over 50% of StyleList readers said they weren't offended by this shirt, but didn't know if it was totally appropriate to wear in public. Unfortunately, that wasn't the opinion in Dubai. Get the full story here.

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    Strapless dresses on 13-year-olds
    StyleList readers think strapless dresses should be saved for older girls -- 41% of you think the look is too mature. Get the full story here.

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    Is Megan the new Angelina?
    Half of you think Megan needs to get her own identity and quit copying Angie, but more than a quarter said Jolie doesn't stand a chance against this Fox. Get the full story here.

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    Did Calvin Klein respond to public's outcry?
    The controversial "threesome" billboard in Soho has been replaced with this one, but 51% of you believe it was just to keep people talking about the brand, not because CK caved. Get the full story here.

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    Calvin Klein's Racy Ad
    Is it art or practically pornography? About 40% of StyleList readers found this billboard obscene. Get the full story.

    Maggie Coughlan, AOL

    Palin's Pedi
    Do you think Sarah Palin's funky pedicure was appropriate? If so, you're in good company -- 68% of you said it was fun and fabulous. Get the full story.

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