I get it.

Gareth Pugh. What can ya say? You either love it or hate it. Actually I like to think you either GET it or you don't.

Kristen McMenamy gets it.

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Carine is Blacklisted!

Word on the street, or in the Tuileries, is that French Vogue was blacklisted from Balenciaga via Max Mara.

The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Carine Roitfeld, consults, or did consult, for the Italian brand. She allegedly asked Balenciaga for samples for an editorial shoot, and one of the coats ended up at Max Mara’s design studio where it was copied and then sent back to Paris.

Balenciaga’s notoriously strict with their samples — almost everyone has to promise they’ll shoot the head to toe runway look and samples are usually lent out for a day at a time — and when the French label heard about Max Mara, they lost it.

If fashion were a monarchy, Carine would be our queen, so we hate to think she deliberately sent Max Mara the coat, but our sources say it was no mistake.

We all love a good fashion scandal, it'll like Gossip Girl for the fashion elite.

XOXO
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via Fashionista

Alexander McQueen RTW 2010

It is all wonderful. Each piece, stunning. The tailoring and craftsmanship, flawless. It's Rome's Caesar meets a Caravaggio portrait. Devastating that this is the final showing.

Long Live McQueen

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Dame Westwood gets a bit Carried away

I definitely have to agree with Peyelo of KateLovesMe when he pointed out how all of the girls on Vivienne Westwood's runway had a bit of a Carrie Bradshaw tint to them. It's funny cause Westwood walked out of the Sex and the City Movie premiere because she said the fashion was uninspiring. Having said all there I did like the collection, the prints were stunning. What do you think?

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Gareth's Evolution

So when you hear the name Gareth Pugh the above image would be probably something that would come to mind. Exageration, volume, geometric shapes and while visually stunning all largely unwearable.

Pugh's latest Autumn/Winter collection shows the designers evolution. This could be due to the designer becoming more mature and straying away from his enfant terrible image, or it could have something to do with LVMH recently signing Pugh and funding his designer operations. Either way it is nice to see his style evolve but still keeping the Pugh astethic firmly in place.


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