you better work!

You better believe this fierce hot tranny mess is going to ride the fame train as far as it will take him: Project Runway's Christian Siriano is designing for Puma now.


Evidently, the hot tranny mess on Christian's arm is a musician named Estelle, and she's wearing his work: a dress made from three deconstructed Puma tanks. Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of Mr. Siriano - I think he's incredibly talented and totally deserving of the win.

However, I think this Puma thing is a joke. And that dress? Hot tranny mess. Hot mess. Tranny.

coachella fashion

ELLE.com, Style.com, and every street style blog that ever existed is at Coachella, which apparently is the new fashion capital OF THE WORLD. Let me sum it up for you:


A lot of colorful wayfarers (groundbreaking!).
A lot of gladiator sandals (shocking!).
Agyness Deyn (DUH! Oh, also now she's a singer?).
A lot of really offensive jumpsuits (see Anouck Lepere above).

Yeah, that's about it.

I'm sorry I'm such a jerk. It's just that every time I hear someone praise all these ridiculous hipsters for their incredibly original style, it makes me die a little bit inside. I feel like Mugatu, from Zoolander. I can't possibly be the only one that notices that they all look the same, can I?

ninawatch 2008

Nina Garcia spotted at the Hearst building!

Quel scandale!

giorgio the great

So I just heard that Giorgio Armani will be awarded the Legion of Honor this summer, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be the one to give it to him. Pretty fancy, Mr. Armani!

Two questions:
1. What will Carla wear to the ceremony??
2. Remember how I kissed Giorgio Armani in Paris one time??

the cutest thing since caroline trentini:

trouble in paradise?

ELLEgirl's Heatherette story may have just gone up yesterday (I assisted on this shoot!), but for weeks, rumors have been swirling that the boys' magical world of glitter and unicorns may not be as picture-perfect as it seems...



Macky, their technical designer, broke off to start his own line. Lysee, their publicist, got a job at Paper. Someone said Traver was moving to LA. Richie is putting out an album (??). Now, the Daily News is reporting that Richie is starting a solo line, and that Traver "can't deal with Richie anymore."

Harsh (if it's true), but potentially understandable. That guy is absolutely like a cartoon character - watch ELLEgirl's video if you don't believe me. But though I doubt anyone would consider their breakup a devastating loss to the high fashion industry, if you've ever been to a Heatherette show, you'll understand that it is sort of the end of an era.

If it's true, that is...

happy friday!

Charlotte Gainsbourg for French ELLE.

pro-dress

ELLE's Anne Slowey says the dress is dead.

Barneys' Julie Gilhart disagrees: "Certainly [the dress is] much more efficient. 'Instead of spending days thinking about your wardrobe,' she said, 'you can concentrate on who you’re voting for for president.'”


Above: The dress I wore nearly every day last summer.

Me? I love a dress. You'll have a hard time getting me into a pair of pants in the summer, and for now, I don't care what Slowey says about fall. But Julie: are you serious about that whole thinking-you'll-concentrate-more-on-the-election-if-you're-saving-
time-by-wearing-a-dress thing?

costume institute watch 2008

Diane Kruger will be wearing Alberta Ferretti. Yeah, I asked her.

preppy, please

With words like "grunge" and "boho" (both words that strike fear into my little preppy heart) being thrown around all over the place for spring, I'm on a mission to find the classic details in even the trendiest looks:



Top: Chris Benz, spring 2008. Bottom, Alexander Wang: spring 2008.

So what am I taking from these looks? I actually do love Benz's yellow pants, but I wouldn't touch Wang's crop top with a ten foot pole. I'll be wearing, with my little blazers and skirts, these:

Above: Cole Haan.

hm.

Exhibit A (below): New York Times T Style Magazine:


Exhibit B (below): Stam in some spread (Italian Vogue, maybe? I don't know):



Exhibit C (below): Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony:



So this means that we're supposed to be wearing socks (with bare legs and cute shoes) now?

I'm not sure how I feel about this, but I think my generalization is going to be that if they're Prada socks (as in exhibit B), I'll let it slide. Otherwise, save it for middle school.

oh luxury, up yours

Below: Angry music fans protesting the opening on Thursday of the new John Varvatos store on the Bowery - in the space previously occupied by CBGB.


In case you can't read the signs, they say : "$800 PANTS KILL MUSIC IN NYC," "ONE 'SMALL' LOSS OF A MUSIC SPACE, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR PANTS," "$1600 USED JACKETS DESTROY COMMUNITY," "SAVE THE MUSIC, BOYCOTT HIGH RENTS," "OH LUXURY, UP YOURS," etc.

I mean, I'm pretty bummed too that a place as epic as CBGBs went under because they couldn't pay rent. It was truly the end of an era, and a really tragic event for a lot of people. However: John Varvatos didn't put anyone out of business, he simply moved into a space that was available. Also, from what I hear, he's worked hard to preserve the history of the original space, leaving up walls and keeping a general rock and roll vibe to the place.

As far as the absurdity of the luxury industry: well, I can't really disagree that $800 pants and all that are a little nuts. But maybe I'm just having a hard time making the connection between said pants and the killing of the music industry.

Thoughts?

currently channeling:

Today was another gorgeous day, and I decided that I want to look like this about every day this spring:

Thakoon, spring 2008.

NOOOO

Recognize this?
(Marc Jacobs, fall 2008)

Please, please, tell me this is not the new turban.

irritated, rather than riveted.

"But how can he be both a messiah and a mess? How can an industry titan, the most important person in fashion, be so fragile? Or is the fragility endemic to the success, the very thing that keeps us so riveted?"

Lucy Kaylin on Marc Jacobs, for GQ