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Posts for July 7th 2011

Azzedine Alaia Fall 2011 Couture
Vogue

Azzedine Alaia Fall 2011 Couture

>> After eight years of eschewing the runway, Azzedine Alaia closed out the Fall 2011 couture season.
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>> After eight years of eschewing the runway, Azzedine Alaia closed out the Fall 2011 couture season. Models in velvet gowns and Mongolian lamb coats stomped out to Josephine Baker singing “Je suis snob” and Beyonce's "Girls Who Run the World," as guests Sofia Coppola (with daughter Romy Mars), Kanye West, and Donatella Versace looked on; no one from Vogue was said to be in attendance.

It took a 10-minute standing ovation and French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand dragging Alaia shyly from backstage for the designer to take a finale bow. Afterwards, Versace rushed backstage to congratulate the "master" designer: “It was amazing. I’m so glad I’m here. I wanna steal the boots actually, but I better not.” When asked why Mitterrand chose to attend only Alaia's show during couture, he replied: “Designers all have a world — but Alaia has a universe.”

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Fall 2011 Paris Couture Street Style [Pictures]
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Our Favorite Street Style from the Fall 2011 Couture Shows

>> Couture season has come and gone once again, and although we have a great appreciation for the runway pieces painstakingly hand-embroidered, hand-sequined, and hand-pieced by each atelier's petites mains, we also love the fresh dose of street style that the shows bring.
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>> Couture season has come and gone once again, and although we have a great appreciation for the runway pieces painstakingly hand-embroidered, hand-sequined, and hand-pieced by each atelier's petites mains, we also love the fresh dose of street style that the shows bring. Roitfelds and cat eye sunglasses galore — we've distilled our favorite street style snaps from the Fall 2011 Paris couture season in the slideshow.

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What To Wear Them With Shorts | Summer 2011 Trends
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Summer-Perfect Shorts . . . And What To Wear Them With

>> Super hot Summer weather calls for super cool Summer outfits.
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What To Wear Them With Shorts | Summer 2011 Trends

>> Super hot Summer weather calls for super cool Summer outfits. Enter one of the season's most versatile pieces: shorts. Whether tailored and cuffed or A-line and drapey, they're the perfect item to take you from day to night — if you style them right. Click through for inspiration on what to wear with 18 of the cutest little shorts around.

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Natalia Vodianova's 2011 Love Ball Fashion [Pictures,Video]
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See (and Watch) Scenes from Natalia Vodianova's Fairy Tale-Themed Love Ball Bash

>> To close out the Fall 2011 couture season, Natalia Vodianova invited a who's who of fashion to her White Fairy Tale Love Ball last night, hosted at Valentino Garavani's Chateau de Wideville estate on the outskirts of Paris.
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>> To close out the Fall 2011 couture season, Natalia Vodianova invited a who's who of fashion to her White Fairy Tale Love Ball last night, hosted at Valentino Garavani's Chateau de Wideville estate on the outskirts of Paris. Her goal? To raise money for her Naked Heart Foundation, which has already built 60 playgrounds in 44 Russian cities.

She succeeded in pulling in 2.3 million euros ($3.3 million) from the night, which included a fashion show featuring 45 custom dresses created by Olivier Theyskens, Alexander Wang, Stella McCartney, and every designer in between. Although the night's dress code called for white or silver gowns, Vodianova, for her part, wore a scarlet Little Red Riding Hood-inspired confection by Garavani himself — the first dress he has made since retiring in 2008. “I always wear red to my events,” Vodianova explained.

A video from the festivities, below.

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