The CFDA in partnership with Vogue awarded Joseph Altuzurra, the winner of its fund prize last week and lots of fashion folks turned out for the event. Above in a study of contrasts is actress Rooney Mara and CFDA presidente, Diane Von Furstenberg.
After the flip see additional images of Vera Wang, Tory Burch, Zac Posen, Rachel Roy, Francisco Costa, Olivier Theyskens, Alexander Wang, Billy Reid, Jason Wu, Kate & Laura Mulleavy, Brooklyn Decker, Liya Kebede, Zoe Kravitz, Anna Wintour and tons more.
It’s been quite the popcorn-muncher post Kanye West’s Dw runway show, held during Paris Fashion Week over this past weekend. Besides mixed reviews, which seemed to be most focused on ill-fitting clothes (which, btw, happens all the time on runways–even with designers with years of experience but is rarely pointed out in reviews) and him cursing during the toast at his own (private) party, the ripples kept coming from his debut show four days later.
First there was Anna Dello Russo (above) wearing head-to-toe Dw to the Alexander McQueen show, then Susie Bubble weighing in and relating back to her own experiences as an outsider (”Walking into a show and having eyes stare at you wondering why you’re even there is something that I’m well used to and on a universally larger scale, before even having put a stitch out, the jury was already out on West’s collection judging by the numerous malicious comments.”), followed by Anna Wintour saying “Ask someone else,” when interviewed about the show and our most favorite yet in terms of high school levels of entertainment value, a NY Times columnist dressing down West for sitting one of the Olsen sisters too near to Lindsay Lohan ’cause the Olsens have somehow paid their dues in fashion while Lindsay almost caused the collapse of Ungaro. Too funny or rather, #seriously?
This image pretty much burned up the fashion internets yesterday. It’s Nicki Minaj and Anna Wintour, front row at Caroline Herrera. (What wasn’t mentioned much was that Minaj was also sitting next to W editor-in-chief, Stefano Tanchi. ) I saw that Fashionista titled its post “Ann Wintour Forced To Sit Next To Nicki Minaj At Caroline Herrera,” and I thought about titling this post “Anna Wintour Continues Relevancy Tour By Rubbing Shoulders With Rappers,” but whatever, it’s a new day and I’m not sure how I even feel about Minaj’s fashion choices for this event and in general lately so not feeling so inspired to rush to her defense.
On another note, looks like that’s her boyfriend, Sarafee Samuels, sitting behind her and he’s next to Lynn Yaeger, formerly the fashion editor for the Village Voice.
Carolina Herrera and Anna Wintour (love how she’s working the white fur, like it’s a spring fur, which I didn’t even know existed!) attended the American Ballet Theatre Spring Gala last night in New York. This gala is so poshy-posh that even if you live in New York City and get invited to all sorts of neat things, this is one event that seemingly exisst in some secret zone in Manhattan, which you may not enter with a salary of less than a kajillion dollars a year…and the correct connections, too.
See Tory Burch (still with Lyor!), Caroline Kennedy, Michelle Harper, Alexandra Kerry and others on the next page.
CFDA held a party celebrating the 2010 award recipients last week and Ann Wintour (also in the image above are Eddie Borg, Billy Reid and Prabal Grunung) was in attendance, wearing a Prada skirt featuring the highly-celebrated banana print that has taken the fashion world by storm. The party took place at J.Crew, which will be collaborating with Billy Reid, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award winner, on a capsule collection.
A couple more images on the next page of fashion favorites Kate Lanphear, plus Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez.
There have been a number of Tribeca Film Festival events this past week in New York, and quite a few celebrities have been in attendance, ranging from fashion heavy hitters like Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld (who showed a Magnum Ice Cream commerical he directed, featuring Rachel Bilson) to professional party attenders and names from days gone by like Susanna Hoffs and Debbi Peterson of the Bangles. We culled through the images and picked our faves–some we know well and others we are clueless on, but whatever, their fashion choices caught our eye and a lot of the time that is all that matters. That’s Ashley and MK above of course–a little prezzy for SGP, who is an admirer of their styles choices, and as it happens in this instance we were in agreement.
More on the next page, including Leigh Lezark, Lauren Hutten, Zoe Karvitz, Susanna Hoffs & Debbi Peterson, Crystal Renn, Christy Turlington, Rachel Bilson, Christy Turlington, Karolina Kurkova, Jay Choi, Sky Ferreira and a few more.
Anna Wintour will be profiled on “Bloomberg Game Changers,” at 8pm est tonight. Interesting how Wintour has been spending a lot more energy raising her profile it seems ever since The Devil Wore Prada. Perhaps she looked around the landscape and concluded that being a celebrity is a part of doing business these days. If you want to watch, it’s being shown on Bloomberg Televsion, which, as much reality TV, basketball games and various and sundry other junk I watch, can’t say that channel rings any bell so good luck with that. To be honest, based on the preview it doesn’t look all that juicy, with canned comments like, “Anna is the single most influential person in the world of fashion, etc, blah blah.” A lot of people mindlessly repeat that line, but really? Is she? She’s the editor of one magazine that receives very mixed reviews in the fashion world so I’m not so sure that’s accurate. Via Racked.
Chanel presented its Autumn 2011 ready-to-wear collection for Paris Fashion Week today and as always the arrivals were as entertaining as the runway presentation itself. Karl’s girls always go all out, many of them wearing Chanel head to toe or at the very least carrying a quilted bag or clutch. Above is major girl of the moment, Alexa Chung, on the next page Lily Allen, Anna Wintour, Duffy, Emma Roberts, Leigh Lezark, plus a few more.
We have a post-Vogue-Paris-break-up photo of Carine Roitfeld (that’s her with Diane Von Furstenberg above), spotted in Givenchy in New York last night at the Amfar Gala, which raises funds for AIDS research. Perhaps not coincidentally, we read on Fashioncopious this morning of more rumors on her departure from Vogue. The latest version, which comes from Cathy Horyn at the NY Times, is that there were complaints about her lack of presence as a manager (a la Nina Garcia and Elle) and Roitfeld offered in a threatening sort of way to resign….like, oh, you don’t like it, then fine, I’ll leave! And much to her surprise, the response was, great, don’t let the door hit on your way out! And part of the fallout was that Roitfeld and Emmanuelle Alt, who nabbed the editor in chief spot, are no longer speaking. Quelle novella!
After the flip, a better view of Roitfeld’s dress, plus images of Iman, Anna Wintour and her bestie Blake Lively, Donna Karan, Karen Elson performing, and Olivier Theyskens.
