The name Candy Pratts Price won't be familiar to the average person in the street, but the executive fashion director of Style.com has been one of the most important people in the fashion biz for several years now, as the hyperbolic testimonies gathered by the Transom at the party for her book American Fashion…
♦ Zac Posen posted a 15-second video online urging people to vote for Obama. Also: He'd really like you to dress for the occasion. "I think blue obviously is the color of choice, and red is a good accent color." Duly noted! [WWD]
♦ Anna Wintour choked up? We can't contemplate the thought. [Unbeige]
♦ Bravo has no…
Fashion star Zac Posen celebrates his 28th birthday today. Actor Kevin Kline is 61. Law & Order's B.D. Wong is 48. R&B singer Monica is turning 28. Shenae Grimes of 90210 is 19. Your favorite bisexual MTV personality, Tila Tequila, is 27. And Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich celebrates his 42nd birthday today.…
♦ André Leon Talley has joined the chorus of disapproval over Sarah Palin's wardrobe budget: "Wal-Mart hockey moms would never spend $150,000 on clothing." Then again, he's not so unhappy with what he's seen so far: "I thought that she was totally pro-Jackie in that knit suit." [The Cut]
♦ Meanwhile, that Louis…
After using Maggie Gyllenhaal in last year's ads, British sexy underwear label Agent Provocateur are again looking at New Yorkers for this fall's campaign: Helena Christensen and Paz de la Huerta are in the running. Modeling lingerie would be an appropriate gig for the occasional actress and Zac Posen muse,…
The precocious and exceedingly ambitious Posen has been a fashion star since the tender age of 21. The son of a painter (dad) and a mergers and acquisitions attorney (mom), Posen grew up in New York as an early-blossoming socialite amid a heady art and finance crowd. He attended the prestigious Saint Ann's School in…
You read Us Weekly for the articles. You can't help but be interested in what Lindsay Lohan snorted, ran her car into or slept with this week. But, you went to college, you read the new Chabons and Lethems as soon as they come out! You're not a vapid person! Good news: Celebrity is not only a major driver of the…
You read Us Weekly for the articles. You can't help but be interested in what Lindsay Lohan snorted, ran her car into or slept with this week. But, you went to college, you read the new Chabons and Lethems as soon as they come out! You're not a vapid person! Good news: Celebrity is not only a major driver of the…
All the very hottest models came out for fashion darling Zac Posen's show, which Gawker photographer Nikola Tamindzic graciously shot for us. Nikola's full gallery is here.
From the Times feature on scenester/designer Zac Posen's West Village rental, which he shares with his boyfriend, an interior shot:
Gawker's sibling blog, Gizmodo, reports that fashion and technology are once again attempting an awkward, fumbling hookup. The end result is a company called Inclosia that allows gadget makers to accessorize their products with any type of fabric. Guess that means we'll be seeing iPaqs in bright (!) Zac Posen (!)…
The NYT's Guy Trebay writes, "After years of bad gags about black being the new black, the streets are unexpectedly populated with people wearing trippy stripes, flowered graphics or clothes the colors of Bazooka or the walls of the playhouse where Pee-wee Herman held court." An unofficial poll indicates that this…
As mentioned earlier, we've decided to change our corporate motto from "if you can't say anything nice about people, start your own weblog" to "everyone is happy, pretty, and smart in their own special way." I know the similarity is confusing, as the differences are quite subtle. On that note"Random Nice Things About…
Sexy young naked people on the Lower East Side, a show at the Whitney, and Zac Posen at the afterparty: Ryan McGinley's photographs have everything.
Photographs [Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art]
First Exposure: The Kids Are Alright [Whitney Museum]
Liked the show, loved the afterparty [NYT]
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· Stuff Editor Greg Gutfeld arrived at the Phat Farm show on Thursday wearing a bearskin cape complete with head, claws, eyes and teeth. Said Gutfeld, the bear's name was "Skittles . . . and he lived and died for fashion." [Page Six]
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