Posts with tag wwd

It sounds like we might see a forty-something, realistically shaped, African American woman on the cover of Vogue. Pinch us, we must be dreaming.

Victoria Spice, the hardest working Spice Girl, has yet another gig. WWD just announced that Posh is the new face body celebrity star of Emporio Armani's international ad campaign for their underwear line.

Another sign that our economy is in real trouble? Cashmere is no longer in demand. Cashmere producers and designers are scaling back on the luxury knit as manufacturing prices rise and consumers shy away from spending on luxury products.

Jeremy Scott has signed on to design his own line for Adidas' "Originals by Originals" collection, following streetwear designers Alyasha Owerka-Moore and Kazuki.

Scott, an American designer known for his punk-rock aesthetic and avant-garde silhouettes, will create both footwear and clothing for the athletic-wear giant. The line will be available in February 2009.

"It was proposed to me as complete freedom, to really do what I wanted," Scott told WWD. If that's the case, brace yourselves--one-legged track pants may be in our future.

"It's yellow, it's ugly, it doesn't go with anything, but it could save your life."

This is the tag line on France's new road-safety campaign for summer, which they've asked their super iconic countryman, Karl Lagerfeld, to star in.

Fashion shows are always late. But what happens when fashionably late becomes disrespectfully late?

For one thing, it gets ugly. Just ask Marc Jacobs, who has had the unfortunate luck of being the guy who pushed the fashion timetable just a little too far.

When I first heard about this story, I kind of felt sorry for Jacobs. I'm usually running late, so I can sympathize with slight delays. But Readers, Jacobs was not just a few minutes late; it was TWO HOURS LATE!

The worst part of the story is Marc Jacob's excuse for the late start. He complained to WWD that the delay was due to the fact that Fashion Week was way too early. (Instead of falling in late September, the fall shows took place in early September to avoid the Jewish High Holidays.)

My guess is that Marc's cocktail hour ran a little late, and he just assumed (wrongly) that everyone loved him enough to wait around for his collection. But it turns out that the Marc Jacobs-pandering media can only take so much. As Suzy Menkes put it: "I would like to murder him with my bare hands and never see another Marc Jacobs show as long as I live."

As a fashionista, you make yourself over all the time; facials, waxing, new clothes, hair salon visits, manicures, pedicures ... but what about your career?

There are only a few days left to enter WWD's Win a Career Makeover Kit. What is a career makeover kit you ask? It is a massive kit of must haves to get your career moving along in the fashion industry. And as someone who went to fashion school and felt the struggles of finding an industry job, this is a kit that you want to win.

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Women's Wear Daily is fashion equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary. Until recently, the online nexus of this major fashion publication was about as clunky and ugly as the free websites you used to be create with a Geocities account.

Thanks to massive face-lift, WWD.com has finally joined the rest of us in Web 2.0 -- or is this 3.0? I can never remember.

What has changed on the website?

1. The black background is now white/creme.
2. The fonts are readable and appealing.
3. Columns are clearly delineated.
4. The photographs are larger.
5. Ads are unobtrusive.

Good work, WWD.com! And you thought no one would notice...

Life can be brutal for aging supermodels -- she's too old for editorial work. She's a little too aged to do beauty beauty shots. Even companies like Eileen Fischer and St. John's, which are typically geared towards the older woman have now started to use models under 30 in their campaigns.

Past the age of 35, a model pretty much has to take what she can get to pay the bills and just hope that as you fade into obscurity everyone else will remember you best for what you did in your early career. A case in point is Cindy Crawford's latest ad campaign for the Turkish Leather Industry, which was printed in yesterday's WWD.


Don't worry, Cindy. I'll always remember you for the Diet Coke commercial.