Posts for August 29th 2012

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70 New Bags to Get Excited About This Fall

They say there's a style for every mood and a mood for every season.
Best New Bags Fall 2012

They say there's a style for every mood and a mood for every season. Luckily, it just so happens that this season there are plenty of moods to choose from — especially when it comes to the latest crop of bags. Feeling sweet? Jason Wu's Daphne frame clutch, with its hand-embellished beading, may be just the thing. Craving something a little more rugged? Rag & Bone's cargo pocketed Pilot tote in whiskey-hued leather is sure to satisfy. And for those who just want something lovely to tote from point A to point B (and everywhere in between), there's a bevy of satchels, carryalls, and shoulder bags ready to do the bidding.
Photo: Greg Kessler

Nicole Richie

Dossier's Fall Cover, Mariacarla Boscono's New Addition, and Brad Goreski's Second Season

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.



Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • Lily Donaldson covers the 10th issue of Dossier magazine, photographed by Skye Parrott and styled by Donaldson's best friend, Emilie Kareh. The issue will be on newsstands next week. [Fashionologie Inbox]

  • Congratulations are in order for model Mariacarla Boscono, who gave birth to a baby girl named Marialucas this week. [Vogue UK]

  • Brad Goreski is back. Bravo announced today that it's given the green light for a second season of his hit reality show It's a Brad Brad World. [Fashionista]

  • New season, new designer, new public relations director. Diesel has hired Simone Delfino to oversee its US PR. She was previously director of public relations and events at Club Monaco. [@JimShi809]

  • Sadly, model Jessica White has had to give up the six-foot python she used to call a pet. "I loved my snake, Jessie, but I had to give him up because he kept attacking and biting guys who came to my apartment," she says. "I guess he was jealous." [Page Six]

  • Bambi Northwood Blyth, Sean O'Pry, and one very emotional guitar star in the black-and-white Fall 2012 campaign video for Armani Jeans, which was directed by Takai Takemoto. [Design Scene]

  • Nicole Richie's line for Macy's Impulse was inspired in part by the music she listens to. "I do have a wide range of tastes in music," she says in a video interview. "And I do think that probably affects the way I design as well. I like to have a little mixture of everything in my designs." [Lucky]

  • The Webster, which recently signed on to do a collaboration with the Shops at Target, is now also one of the retailers included on Farfetch.com. Laure Heriard Dubreuil, who founded The Webster, describes her store as "a wonderful experience that I'd like to share with everybody." [Fashionologie Inbox]
Barneys

Disney Goes Designer For Barneys Holiday 2012

Executives at Barneys knew their Holiday 2011 retail extravaganza Gaga's Workshop would be a tough act to follow, so this year they got someone even bigger: Disney.
Barneys Holiday 2012 Disney Partnership

Executives at Barneys knew their Holiday 2011 retail extravaganza Gaga's Workshop would be a tough act to follow, so this year they got someone even bigger: Disney. For Holiday 2012, the store and the brand collaborated on products, window installations, a short film, and a 3D light show as part of a retail concept dubbed Electric Holiday. The full scope of the project will be unveiled on Nov. 14.

The centerpiece of the collaboration is a short film that will be screened in the windows at Barneys' Madison Avenue flagship store in New York City. In it, Minnie Mouse realizes her dream of modeling in Paris, and ends up walking a runway dressed in Lanvin alongside model-sized versions of Goofy (in Balmain) Daisy Duck (in Dolce & Gabbana) and Mickey Mouse (in Balenciaga).

Products from the partnership marry the fashion world with the Disney experience, too. L'Wren Scott and Rag & Bone designed Mickey Mouse ears that will be sold in select Barneys stores around the holidays, and Diane von Furstenberg and Paul Smith created Mickey Mouse-shaped vinyl figurines.

Barneys CEO Mark Lee called the Disney collaboration a good fit. "The legendary characters and world created by Disney live in the active mind and memory of virtually every citizen of the world," he said. A look at how those characters were reimagined for Electric Holiday in the gallery.

Karl Lagerfeld

Choupette on Set: Karl's Kitten Visits His Net-a-Porter Shoot

What does Karl Lagerfeld's world look like from his cat Choupette's point of view?

What does Karl Lagerfeld's world look like from his cat Choupette's point of view? That's the question this behind-the-scenes video from the designer's recent photo shoot with Net-a-Porter answers. In it, Choupette arrives for hair and makeup, then slinks her way onto the set where the clothes from Lagerfeld's second masstige collection are being photographed. She's pampered and petted by models, photographers, and everyone on the scene before being packed into a cat carrier and shipped back to the loving arms of the Kaiser himself. A look at a fabulous day in the life of Choupette, below.

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Moves Like Rocha: Coco Dances With Herself in New WHBM Video

Coco Rocha has reprised her role as the tabletop dancer in White House Black Market's Fall 2012 commercial, but this time she's joined by someone new: her own alter ego.

Coco Rocha has reprised her role as the tabletop dancer in White House Black Market's Fall 2012 commercial, but this time she's joined by someone new: her own alter ego. Rocha just begins to sashay when a carbon copy of herself cuts in. The duo then make 12 work-appropriate costume changes in 30 seconds — and the clothes look all the more elegant thanks to Rocha's graceful, precise movements.


Mulberry

Watch: Mulberry Workers Listen to Lana Del Rey When Making the Del Rey Bag

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Mulberry's Del Rey bag reveals that the company's factory workers listen to Lana Del Rey's music while they produce her namesake tote.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Mulberry's Del Rey bag reveals that the company's factory workers listen to Lana Del Rey's music while they produce her namesake tote. The singer's hit "Summertime Sadness" plays in the background of the video below, which shows artisans painstakingly sewing together the bag. But it's also what's playing in the headphones of the Mulberry employee who performs one of the bag's final checks. A bag named after a singer actually infused with one of her songs? Now that's branding. A look at the process below.