Dolce & Gabbana has always been the label that puts the beast in sexy so a book full of portraits featuring smoking hot soccer players is right in sync with its image. Titled “Milan Fashion Soccer Player Portraits,” it’s packed with black and white images of soccer studs from the world championship Milan team, dressed in looks ranging from formal to casual, often with chests and legs on display. The label held a party in its Milan store recently celebrating the book and the Milan team’s victory, according to Wwd, and just about the entire team showed up wearing grey pinstrips. Can you imagine?? More delicious than a hot-fudge Sundae!
That’s midfielder Rodney Strasser above. See more sexy beasts on the next page and even more here.
To celebrate its 90th anniversary Gucci launches a special collection titled “1921,” the year Guccio Gucci founded the illustrious leather goods house. The “1921″ collection includes four slick leather “G-frame” styles for women and two styles of the “Coupe” silhouette for men designed by Frida Giannini. Glamorous and classic, the kind of watch you will want to wear for a very long time.
In my PG version of Kreayshawn it’s not about needing the double Gs to look fly, but more about an appreciation for an icon who time and time again provides the hotness. On the next page a look at the men’s styles.For more information visit Gucci’s timepieces microsite Gucci Timeless.
Blush toned footwear have more than ever become a necessary staple color in a well edited footwear wardrobe solving the problem of what to wear with white and pastels.Or creating a mod-ish look. Camilla Skovegaard adapts her geometric modern style to these flawless booties we cannot help but fiend for. Available at net-a-porter.
“Rap beast” Kreayshawn gives us her take on the current state of style in a song titled “Gucci Gucci,” whose chorus states: “Gucci, Gucci, Louis, Louis, Fendi, Fendi, Prada….the basic bitches wear that shit so I don’t even bother,” and concludes, “All you basic-ass hoes out there, man, I got rooms full of bad bitches, they don’t need Gucci, they don’t need Louis, they swaggin’….aaay.” Truer words.
The latest collaboration between Kelly Dooley’s Body Rock and Knight & Hammer jewellery is a fun and very glamorous sports bra with gold studs and removable gold skulls, decadent next level available here.
While Christian Louboutin was in Dublin promoting his recently opened store, Graziafashion caught up with him and conducted a quick yet thorough interview, hitting on everything from who he chooses to collaborate with to his thoughts on John Galliano’s firing. Here’s what he has to say on Galliano:
I feel sad for him, it must be very hard for John because your name is your identity. When your label is your own name you defend it as a brand but also as yourself. It’s part of who you are and, physically, you are very involved-the two cannot be separated. Being sacked from a (design) house where you’ve been working for a long time is hard but having your name taken away is like ripping off the Band Aid. I would hate to lose my identity like that.
That seems like the sensible reponse–show sympathy without attempting to speculate why Galliano did or said what he did. Find more here.
The above “Ailoi Spike” bootie is part of Louboutin’s Autumn collection. It delivers mid-June and is available for presale, though alas, it’s already sold out.
If you read interviews with Carine Roitfeld, they inevitably seem to include one comment addressing her distaste for handbags. In part it seems she finds toting around your personal belongings in a sack vulgar (and in a way it is!), but also there are hints she felt forced as the editor of Vogue to promote them in her shoots, no doubt as a “thank you” for the many ad dollars spent adveritising them in her magazine.
Now that she’s left Vogue, it seems her position on bags has begun to soften, in part because she no longer has an office to store all her junk, but perhaps also because they no longer represent what had to have been one of the more odious parts of her job–being forced to make something artful out of items she felt completely uninspired by. Here is her recent, more upbeat on handbags:
“I have discovered how useful it is to carry a book, perfume, agenda,” she laughs, glancing at her capacious black leather Alexander McQueen bag by the table. “It’s a new life.” –Financialtimes, May 2011
And here are a collection of her more angry views on handbags, dating back five years:
“I don’t change my handbag every season. I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover’s hand. She doesn’t need a bag.” –Spiegel, April 2011
Q: What do you always have in your handbag?
Roitfeld: I do not wear bags. BlackBerry in my pocket, spare glasses at work, or cosmetics, or comb. Even makeup has never corrected. –Russian Vogue, December 2009
“Right now I think that fashion in the world becomes a bit boring. There is so much money, and I feel a bit when you go to shows they want to sell so many handbags, and for me, well, I do not like handbags. I do not wear handbags. It is not a nice look, to carry a handbag.” –Nymag, February 2008
“Handbags? You can wear a completely transparent shirt and show all the breasts, I don’t care. But I prefer to have my hands in my pocket than to have a nice little bag. So I am not good for all these fashions. They have to sell bags, bags, bags, bags, bags, bags. I hate handbags.” –Telegraph, November 2005
In the image above from a recent Cannes event, note Roitfeld carrying the smallest of clutches. One more image of Roitfeld carrying what appears to be another micro purse–though it’s so small it might be a keychain–on the next page.
Luxirare’s newest items include this cage purse adorned with seven genuine mink tails. It also includes two shoulder straps–one long and one short so you can customize depending on your mood. More looks on the next page. Available at Shopluxirare. If you prefer the bags sans mink that option is available, too.
The Billboard Music Awards took place last night in Las Vegas, and some of our style faves were there, including Beyonce, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj. Here is fascinating shot of Rihanna with Jay Z, a pair whose exact relationship has always had an air of mystery to it, like, hmmm….
On the next page, red carpet plus performance images from all of the above, plus Fergie, Britney Spears, Keri Hilson, Kelly Rowland, Mary J and a couple more.
