Karl Lagerfeld Has A Facebook In Gold

There’s hardly something more interesting, in fashion, than an interview with Karl Lagerfeld. Just like that monument of spoilitude, Cecilia Cassini said earlier, the Kaiser is a work of arrrt!

His ability to remain above the time and to keep it real all the time is stunning and most impressive. Karl Lagerfeld doesn’t use computers, he’s a computer in his own right and he doesn’t like ready made images, he has his imagination to do that for him. He only reads newspapers while all his assistants work with computers and all the new gadgets. The Kaiser, however, thinks the best about the new gadgets. He received all of them as gifts. He even has a Facebook made of gold! “A Flawless Object, like a Brancusi”! umm.. wait, what? (via)

Talking about Calvin Klein ad campaigns… I’m sure it would have been a pleasure for our future lawyers who felt deranged by the Diesel campaign to witness the shooting of this… crowded Holiday campaign for CK underwear.

At least they looked like having fun in that Diesel campaign! While the models in this new CK ad seem so angry and upset, I would think twice before buying CK lingerie. What if it makes me frown all the time? Seasons cheer, anyone? (via)

I was willing to let this story go and move along to more important matters. However, something drew me back: the designer, Reed Krakoff, justified the making of a $695 perfume by saying:

“What a lot of women want is something that not everyone can afford.”. And his un-affordable perfume comes with a handmade Murano bottle (available in four colors, 100 bottles made of each color). The bottle sells empty, with a funnel, engraved stopped and two refills of the perfume. Now I know this may sound interesting and while I haven’t actually smelled the perfume, I can’t cast the judgmental stone, however – what Reed Krakoff said plays in a loop in my head. Do we, women, really want what not everyone can afford? Isn’t that a bit too shallow, snobbish, vain and hopelessly, distastefully elitist even for a designer? (WWD via)

Or at least lawyers to be… There’s a rumor out there saying that Diesel recently shot an ad campaign at Brooklyn Law School’s library. There’s nothing wrong with that, is it?

It appears, however, that the campaign involved a handful of female models wearing lingerie and rubbing over the book racks and computers. Lawyer students were present during the shooting and they were allegedly scandalized by the happenings. I wonder what would have happened if it was one of the notoriously racy CK ads shooting… (NYpost via)

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A hospital isn’t the place you’d dream to wear a designer gown, however, you’ll be (at least) surprised to find out that the Cleveland Clinic’s hospital gowns were created by none the other but Diane von Fustenberg (also known as the “work of arrrrt”).

Designed with care and consideration, the new gown features a full back, much to the pleasure of patients who can walk around without embarrassingly showing their uncovered backs. Created in the legendary spirit of Diane von Furstenberg’s wrap dresses, the new hospital gown is boldly printed and already subject to redesign given that some men reclaimed the too-feminine garment. They should um… .like… consider the world’s youngest designer for the task. I’m sure the Cleveland Clinic’s patients won’t mind few bows here and there… (LA times via)

I was browsing the fashinterwebs and felt really overwhelmed with the artsy-ness and the preciousness and the priceless-ness of it all. So I thought you may feel like that too. From time to time.

Anyway, here’s what uplifted my mood today after too much fashbrowsing: a simple video made by some talented, good, good people. It’s refreshing, it’s hilarious and really interesting for movie loving people like us! Come, come, press play and do watch it! It’s my unfashionable guilty pleasure today! (via)

Not long back, Lea T made quite a buzz in the fashion world. Because beyond the heavy fashion door, the world outside isn’t all that ready to look on things with the same liberty of thought and complex like our aaahmazing designers love to.

Lea T, also formally known as Leandro Cerezo is a Brazilian born transgender also Ricardo Tisci’s muse and former assistant. Coming out in Givenchy’s ad campaign was, apparently, the beginning for Lea T who is now featured on the cover of the Autumn/Winter 2010 issue of Lurve magazine wearing, what else? Geevenchee! Beyond the pleasing aesthetics of a shallow look at this Lurve cover: are we ready to welcome Lea T as a normal happening in fashion magazines? And more? (via; more about Lea T here)

Wouldn’t it be like ummm aaahmazing if you could just tell what’s wrong with this girl in the two minutes you’ll be graced with her umm like aaahmaaazing musings?

I bet Karl Lagerfeld and Diane von Fustenberrrrgg, the works of art, would be umm like aaahmazed to find out that 10yo Cecilia Cassini, the world’s youngest designer thinks that every girl should have like umm a dress? Now if you’ll like to check out Cecilia’s designs, you’ll find out that all it takes, basically, to be a prodigy designer, it’s just a couple of bows here and there and loud prints and colors mixed together in a migraine-ish vision. Completely like.. umm.. aaahmaaazing? (Cecilia Cassini via)