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Posts for August 8th 2012

Alexander Wang Partners With Nars For New York Fashion Week
Heidi Klum

Alexander Wang's New Makeup, Pour La Victoire's First Campaign, and Stella McCartney's Uniform Envy

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.
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Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • After seasons of working with MAC Cosmetics, Alexander Wang will partner with Nars on his Spring 2013 show during New York Fashion Week. [Style.com]

  • For its debut ad campaign, accessories line Pour La Victoire enlisted Terry Richardson to photograph model Jessica Hart at a club in New York City. [WWD]

  • Just like her ready-to-wear, Stella McCartney's Olympic uniforms for Team Great Britain are the subject of envy and desire. "Everyone in the Olympic Village wants to trade with us," said gold medalist rower Pete Reed. "Lots of other nations look so plain and flat. Our kit is really something to be proud of." [Vogue UK]

  • ICB — the brand revived by Prabal Gurung — will debut its first American ad campaign in the September issue of Vogue. [The Cut]

  • Love Magazine partnered with artist Yayoi Kusama (who herself recently partnered with Louis Vuitton) on an iPad app that allows users to employ Kusama's favorite decoration: the dot. [Refinery29]

  • Heidi Klum has reprised her role as the face of Jordache Jeans. She first partnered with the brand in 2007 and designed a capsule collection for it in 2008. [Styleite]

Photo: Gisele Bundchen does her makeup backstage before Alexander Wang's Fall 2012 show.

House of Style Documentary Debuts on MTV
Cindy Crawford

Watch: MTV Reintroduces Us to House of Style

Some of today's greatest young models and musicians joined Cindy Crawford for a documentary about MTV's resurgent music and fashion program House of Style.
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Some of today's greatest young models and musicians joined Cindy Crawford for a documentary about MTV's resurgent music and fashion program House of Style.

The short film features interviews with Crawford — the show's original host — Coco Rocha, Karlie Kloss, Azealia Banks, and Theophilus London, among others, all of whom discuss what made the show so important. Not least among those reasons was how the show helped a new generation of people learn about the industry. "I feel like House of Style did start to make fashion more accessible to kids who can't afford high fashion," said Rebecca Romijn, who hosted the show from 1997 to 1999.

The documentary makes a strong case for why MTV should bring House of Style back as a part of its regularly scheduled programming, but the network's executives said when they announced its relaunch that the show will exist in a variety of forms across multiple media channels.

A look at the first new entry in the show's programming in the video below.

Riccardo Tisci on His Initial Uncertainty at Givenchy
Givenchy

Riccardo Tisci on His Initial Uncertainty at Givenchy

Though his work at Givenchy gets rave reviews and is credited with saving the house financially, Riccardo Tisci says he wasn't sure why he was selected for the job.
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Though his work at Givenchy gets rave reviews and is credited with saving the house financially, Riccardo Tisci says he wasn't sure why he was selected for the job.

In an interview with Stylist magazine, the press-shy designer explained that filling the position once occupied by Alexander McQueen and John Galliano was, initially, a daunting task.

"When you come after such genius, it's hard," he said. "For a very long time I didn't understand why they took me."

Tisci became the youngest designer entrusted with a couture house in 2005 when, at age 30, he replaced Julien Macdonald. Last year, he revealed that he only took the job to save his family from financial ruin.

"I was going to say no," he said. "But the week before, my mother called me and said to me, 'I am going to tell you something I haven't even told your sisters: I think I am going to sell our house because your sisters are struggling, they're having children, they need the money. I will go to a retirement home.' When I heard that it was like a knife in my heart. I felt like such a failure, that my mother had to sell the house of my father whom I don't remember. And then I went to Paris, and they showed me a contract with all these zeros on it, and it was like help from God. I thought 'If I sign this, my mother will never have to worry again.' So I signed it."

Photo: Rooney Mara and Riccardo Tisci walk the red carpet at the 2012 Met Gala.

Mara Hoffman, Pamela Love Bona Drag Bridal Collection
Editor's Pick

Mara Hoffman, Pamela Love, and More Team With Bona Drag For Bridal Collection

For those who cringe at the very mention of traditional wedding garb, now there's this.
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Mara Hoffman, Pamela Love Bona Drag Bridal Collection

For those who cringe at the very mention of traditional wedding garb, now there's this. Online boutique Bona Drag has partnered with indie favorites Mara Hoffman, Pamela Love, Lindsey Thornburg, Samantha Pleet, Anna Sheffield, Meredith Kahn, and more on what can only be described as the least fussy bridal collection around. Even the name, "Ceremonial Collection," underscores the capsule's unconventional nature.

"I've learned that when buying, a lot of customers take things very literally," Bona Drag founder Heather Wojner explained. "If it doesn't say 'bridal' then they assume it can't be just that. I wanted to help show our customers where they can bend the rules, and that they don't have to be a cookie-cutter bride."

To that end, the collection is filled with exclusive pieces that are pretty, yes, but also tinged with edge. A ring set from Unearthen, for example, comes adorned with raw quartz, while Anna Sheffield's solitaires are punctuated with pitch-black diamonds and onyx. Gowns, too, come in unexpected shapes and hues: there's a dress in gothic black lace from Lover, and Mara Hoffman (who recently designed pal Pamela Love's wedding dress) offers an intricately-beaded chiffon dress with a neckline so daringly low it would probably be considered quite le scandale in any regular church.

"It's only natural for my brand to collaborate with Bona Drag on exclusive ceremony gowns," Lindsey Thornburg — who created two reversible gowns for the collection — explained. "Bona Drag understands what our clientele wants to drape themselves in for all of life's cherished moments."

See the entire lookbook — photographed by Wojner and Mike Goelzer — here.

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End of Summer Street Style 2012
Street Style

Endless Summer: The Season's Best Street Style

It's not over till it's over.
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End of Summer Street Style 2012

It's not over till it's over. And though it might be over sooner than we'd like, take solace in this: there are nearly two more months until the autumnal equinox officially hits. That means there's still plenty of time for bare legs, bright hues, and strategically placed cutouts — if that's your thing.

So, in honor of the last long days of sun — and all the breezy ensembles still to come — here are 99 gorgeous warm-weather looks. Who knows? Some are so chic, they might even inspire a whole new season's worth of style.

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