You remember that fashion big names only come in large spaces? Well, the new Alexander McQueen Store from Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles has a 3,100-square-foot space filled with 70% air.

Of course the store looks clean and slick, a new sci-fi hospital where you get to cure your clothing urge, but it’s wasted space if you make a mathematical ratio between the merchandise quantity and the space available. You only get to even things out when the price label comes into the equation.

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So this is what the fuss is all about? One of the kitschiest things I’ve ever seen causes a stir just because it was featured in SATC the movie, worn been by none the other than Sarah Jessica Parker.

My style dilemma is not even challenged for I look at this ridiculously expensive $2,750 Timmy Woods Bag adorned with 6,300 Swarovski Crystals and ask myself what difference between this one and the sidewalk sold souvenirs from Paris. None? Crystals aside, the bag looks every inch the ordinary kitsch that it is. (without crystals it costs $400) And being chosen by Patricia Field and worn by Sarah Jessica Parker doesn’t make it less of a tasteless object. Does it?

(via telegraph, timmy woods)

If you’re a former supermodel still going strong, muse of Lagerfeld himself and leading a successful life, you’re not supposed to mingle.

Wonder if the Kaiser preached her his guidelines because for the Montblanc event in Geneva, Switzerland, Claudia Schiffer looked every inch the Karl apprentice. Black outfit? Check! Distant look? Check! Stiff stature? Check! High untouchable factor? Check! How hard can actually be to look alive?

(photos dailymail, celebutopia)

I’m sure we all have our moments when a bit of Anger Management would be necessary. For us or for the others.

No matter who’s in need now, it’s Friday Break and “I feel pretty”! I don’t imagine how someone could resist such a scene and such acting. So let it be! (in case you’re in a vintage mood, I also posted Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story original “I feel pretty”)

It’s a must! Forget about books, forget about your daily, weekly, monthly magazine routine! The interview from Prestige Magazine is so memorable, it could easily become a best seller hang-on-the-wall-word-of-wisdom.

I’ll post down some of the most interesting answers Lagerfeld gave:

“I hate the smell of cooking. (…) I don’t eat sweet things. I don’t eat greasy things. (…) Anorexia is nothing to do with fashion. (…)Let’s talk about the fat ones. (…)I hate all children. (…) I don’t want to have a social life. (…) It’s démodé. (…) I try to avoid charity. (…)I’m rich enough not to have to do that. (…) I am not a traveler. I hate it. I never look at my watch. (…)In all my contracts it says, if you want me, send a private jet. (…) I hate to be touched by strangers. It bores me to death. (…) I’m frustrated by nothing at all (…) I have no ambition. (…)I don’t want to be a teacher. (…) I’m the most selfish person in the world. (…) Never go one size ahead. Go down but not up. (…) I’m a computer by myself. (…) Love is a subject I don’t analyze publicly.”

The interview is just beyond words. It makes every other interview until and beyond so “démodé” and I refuse to comment it in any way. Instead I invite you most politely to tell me what you think.
(via jezebel)

How can you work your head around Hollywood for 25 years and still manage to turn all that glitzy stuff off and make a good wife and mum?

Julianne seems to have found her path. Married, two children, botoxfree. The interview she gave for this edition of Harper’s Bazaar brings to attention a normal woman, someone who balances work and family, fashion and passion.

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And another designer for a fast-fashion chain. And it’s a returning collaboration, en plus! Emma Cook worked a capsule printed collection for Topshop available in UK since yesterday.

My problem with this print is that I rather see it suited for nighttime use. Like when in need for some sleep, you begin to count down the zebras, the white, the stripy.

I remember a song named “Born Sleepy” – this the right name for this exquisite creation.

Undoubtedly tainted with most fashionable colors and basic enough to make a perfect seduction out of this little summer number, however, I don’t feel convinced.

Would you Cook-up your wardrobe with these zebras for the summer?

(via vogue)

I’m listening to the hipsters of the hipstishers DJs – Karl Lagerfeld. He can do it all, right? So here he is with his impeccable only by him understood accent airing the internet.

“The Fashion Apocalypse Has to be Remembered!” How about that? Of course we’re talking just a jingle played in loop, but however DJ Karl delights your fashionable ears with Disco Never Dies:

We’re keeping things moving here with the music that’s liberating us, taught us we are all the same, showed us that computers were our friends.

Next you know, DJ Karl will be officiating computer-marriages into the Fashion Apocalypse Dawn!

(via fwd)