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The New York Topshop hype: What the Brits have to say

By admin on March 31, 2009 0 Comments

Only one more day until Topshop opens its doors in Manhattan. But what do Londoners think about New Yorkers edging in on their style? 

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Name: Louisa Cottrell
Age: 21
Works as: Student
“In England, it’s where people go. If you love fashion, you love Topshop. It’s a staple. Without it I don’t know what we’d do. So yeah, New Yorkers should be hyped. I mean in the UK, we love Abercrombie & Fitch, so it’s only fair we share!”
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Name: Luis Gil
Age: 25
Works as: An employee at a credit card company 
“Well I went to University in New York four years ago and I didn’t see any good fashion on the street. Topshop will help bring out more cool people, not just the ones who are fashionable in a superficial way.” 
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Name: Noella Ndukwe
Age: 20
Works as: Student
“They need it! It’s a cool thing although New Yorkers might try and steal some of our style.” 
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Name: Jodi Bourke
Age: 21
Works as: Flight attendant
“Will it be cheaper for us British when we go to the States? I’m hoping that’s the case. Americans tend to wear a lot of British stuff anyway, so it’s almost a natural evolution. The Topshops in London are already filled with American people anyway!”
Interviews and photos by Romina McGuinness


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Preview: Gwyneth as designer (do you buy it?)

By admin on March 31, 2009 0 Comments
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Sure, Gwyneth Paltrow has been looking especially great lately, appearing on a few 2008 year-end best-dressed lists. And yes, she’s produced a few interesting (if not necessarily ground-breaking) musings about fashion in her glorified diary/newsletter GOOP. But do women trust her fashion chops enough to want to purchase her clothes? WWD just revealed a preview of her upcoming collection Zoe Tee’s Loves Gwyneth Paltrow, which she designed with the French label Zoe Tee’s. The jury’s still out on this one. 
Rather than the young, edgy, up-to-there looks she’s earned props for wearing this past year, the sketches reveal more conservative, covered-up fare. Even the mini-dress looks kind of staid. Kate Moss has managed to defy the laws of celebrity clothing lines with her hugely popular high street line, mostly because women the world over have imitated her personal style for decades now. And sister acts Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Sienna and Savannah Miller, have also managed to escape celebrity clothing line status with their respective brands The Row and Twenty8Twelve by producing solid collections that have a certain cool cred and appeal to everyday girls. For Gwyneth, the question will be if women find her lifestyle, so personally chronicled in GOOP, appealing enough to buy into. And if the answer’s  yes, why not produce a collection that looks as personal as the newsletter she’s earned such a large readership for? 
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A good look: Tulip bustier dresses for spring

By admin on March 30, 2009 0 Comments
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Lily Kitty strapless dress, Pixie Market
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Kate Moss for Topshop bustier dress, Topshop 
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Mark your calendars: New York finally gets a Topshop

By admin on March 30, 2009 0 Comments
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Phillip Green decided to stop toying with New Yorkers’ emotions and bestow the city with its own standalone Topshop store, which opens for business on April 2. It’s becoming Manhattan’s fashion event of the decade, with no less than 18 private dinners (what recession?) and umpteen Kate Moss appearances planned to celebrate its launch, not to mention the parties and street “ambassadors” handing out gift bags around town. Expect rounds of YouTube footage of girls and women stampeding the entrance for affordable goodies such as of-the-moment ethnic-inspired accessories, fringe ankle boots and Kate Moss-designed dresses which you can now get a sneak peek of here.   
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Wowzers: You can’t accuse Courtney of not taking risks

By admin on March 30, 2009 0 Comments
The fun (and scary) thing about Courtney Love is that you never know which Courtney you’re going to get on the red carpet — Grunge CL, Glam Courtney, Fresh Out of Detox Love, the list goes on. She should have red carpet action figures. At a benefit party in California last week, she showed up as “Posing Gone Wild Courtney,” which is not to be outdone by other notorious red carpet livewires such as “Pigeon Toed Leanback Paris” or “Shoulder Thrust Side Eye Lindsay.”  

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Rings as wearable art in the words of another artist: Meet Valérie Egée

By admin on March 27, 2009 0 Comments
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Valérie Egée’s sculptural rings jumped out of a tiny little shop’s display window and grabbed me during a walk through the Marais in Paris earlier this month. She makes incredibly artful, one-of-a-kind pieces that are sold exclusively in a small handful of galleries and boutiques. So I decided to give my keyboard to my boyfriend, Matthew McGuinness, another artist, to give his first impressions of her work. 


“I would say they are entirely sculptural somewhat referencing architecture (for a finger’s scale). They are also organic and remind me of cocoons and spider eggs and larvae and insects of all kinds. The kind of three dimensional patterns found under bark on tree limbs. 
But it’s also science fiction. The pods in ‘Invaders From Mars’ come to mind and those funny creatures from ‘The Simpsons’ who make appearances on Halloween specials.” 

And there you have it.

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Trends: Blue is having a real moment

By admin on March 27, 2009 0 Comments
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1) I’ve been seeing Yves Klein Blue everywhere lately from a beautifully tailored men’s jacket on a random stranger in Paris to Matthew William’s sharp suit for H&M. So I thought the laws of attraction must have been at work today during Boudicca’s autumn press preview/spring press sale when the brand’s designer Zowie Broach began talking about the color with one of her clients. It’s a color that Zowie knows well, having used it throughout her spring/summer ‘09 collection and for her wearable perfume Wode. I tried on and loved a variation of the dress pictured above.

 
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New addictions: By Terry’s crack, er, mask

By admin on March 27, 2009 0 Comments
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“This is it,” my co-worker Michael said, plopping a small box on my desk. He looked like an addict who had just gotten a fix. In reality, he had just splurged on his new favorite face cream, By Terry Hydra-Replenishing Mask, during a shopping trip at Space NK. “You see results, instantly,” he said sounding as if the brand’s founder Terry de Gunzburg had personally called him up and offered him money to promote her goods. He sent me home with the little jar to test the cream out. 

I was skeptical, mostly because my experiences with moisture-boosting masks in the past have left my face feeling oily. But later that night, I washed my face, applied the cream, which actually feels more like a gel, and left it on for 15 minutes as the directions instructed. Slight tingling ensued. I’m assuming that prickly sensation was the combination of Cereus, a cactus extract, and various floral oils listed on the Web site doing its work. When I rinsed the mask off, I had to admit that Michael was right. My face felt smoother and my skin appeared matte and the slightest bit more even in tone, as if I’d just had a facial. Michael uses it two to three times a week but Terry’s site says you can apply it daily. I’m going to add it to my personal arsenal.
So, thank you Michael for getting me hooked on yet another expensive cream (it’s 72 EUR or $95 in the U.S., but kind of worth it in my opinion.) 
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Speaking of blue: Matthew Williamson for H&M

By admin on March 26, 2009 0 Comments

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I had taken a self-imposed sabbatical from all of the mass-market chain/high-end designer collaborations. They were coming too fast and furious, giving me capsule collection fatigue. But I’m genuinely excited about Matthew Williamson’s work for H&M, if for no other reason than this razor sharp pantsuit in International Klein Blue pictured above. And while Rei Kawakubo’s avant garde dresses, coats and sweaters (which I loved) didn’t exactly sell like Michael Jackson comeback tour tickets, I’m guessing Williamson’s colorful collection featuring some of his greatest graphic hits will fly off store racks.


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On the street: Some kind of blue

By admin on March 25, 2009 0 Comments


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Name: Aleksandra Doulopnoukova 

Spotted: On Vigo Street in London

Works as: A politics and philosophy writer

What she’s wearing: “I bought the shoes from Selfridges, my gray jacket is Topshop, my cardigan is Uniqlo and my shirt and bag are both from Spitalfields market.”

What she was thinking when she put it on: “I just wanted a clean shirt and I guess I was feeling a bit blue.”

If you could magically banish one trend from existence, what would it be? “Skinny jeans for me.”


Photo by Romina McGuinness


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