Sunday, May 31, 2009

Rachel Zoe to Launch Clothing Line















Here's news that could make even the grayest, most manic of Mondays feel like a Saturday morning stroll through the park: Rachel Zoe's working on "a full-range clothing line that won't break the bank," according to People StyleWatch. I don't think I'm alone here when I say...I DIE.





“It will be absolutely, 100% accessible fashion for sure — for everybody. There’s no reason for me to do a luxury-level design. That’s not who I am. I don’t think it’s what people want from me. I think that I would need to give people that fantasy becoming a reality. That’s my job,” Rachel told the magazine. Expect clothing, jewelry, handbags, and fragrances, all stamped with the signature Zoe fabulousness that's equal parts Blanche Devereaux and Nicole Richie.




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The gals over at The Cut did a bit more digging, and found out that the line will potentially be called, "I Die." (The lawyer of Christopher Suave, the artist Zoe sued for making that brilliant "I Die" T-shirt, thinks that was the reason behind the whole cease-and-desist thing). I won't lie, that seems a little far fetched to me. I'm still holding out for an iteration of my numero uno Zoe phrase of all time...SHUTTING IT DOWN.



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Singer Katy Perry has the fashion world abuzz












Designers have taken note of the up-and-coming pop sensation's quirky, vintage-heavy style and they like what they see.


Katy Perry is squatting over a big duffel bag, rifling through printed dresses, retro rompers, hats, turquoise suede heels and other anti-wallflower accessories, deciding what to wear for the second take of her photo shoot. She holds up a red straw hat with a brim the size of a truck tire, then fishes out a beaded red purse shaped like an apple. "See," Perry says, her huge blue eyes widening. "I love anything fruit."




The pop singer's quirky style and Varga Girl-meets-Joan Jett looks are why she's been on the fashion world's radar for months, though her debut album, "One of the Boys" -- featuring the cheeky, already ubiquitous pop single "I Kissed a Girl" -- is just being released this Tuesday.





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This past year, she's been busy vamping it up in fashion spreads for magazines like Nylon and Zink -- not to mention the cover of Women's Wear Daily -- and recently had her wardrobe dissected on "The Fit," a video series on MySpace Fashion.



Designers were calling before her first single even hit the Web, eager to get in early with a potential "it" girl. Perry caught the eye of Betsey Johnson after being snapped in one of the designer's dresses for WWD; soon after, Johnson was dressing the singer for various fall fashion shows in New York in February. "Betsey really likes Katy's appearance," says a spokesperson for the company. "She's very curvy and pinup looking -- a typical Betsey girl."







She's pals with zany T-shirt designer Johnny Cupcakes and dark-and-moody seamster Neil Barrett. Shoe designer Steve Madden has tapped the 23-year-old for an ad campaign in conjunction with her album release. Even Karl Lagerfeld's a fan. Perry attended Chanel's party for its new boutique in L.A. last month wearing a black cocktail dress given to her by the house (a true fashion fanatic, she breathlessly blogged about the gift on www.katyperry.com).

Though Perry's playfully sexy style is the stuff of pop culture gold, the Santa Barbara native wasn't allowed to listen to pop music throughout her childhood. Her parents -- both traveling ministers -- kept their kids on a strict diet of gospel music ("New Kids on the Block? They're still new to me," she jokes).





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And she may be singing about kissing girls, but God is first in the album's liner notes, where she writes, "I recognize that my talents are God-given gifts." Perry has "Jesus" tattooed on her wrist in '50s script, but gets shy for the first and only time when it's pointed out, covering it with her hand before reluctantly flashing it again.

Plenty of pop stars have tried to straddle the line between sexy and innocent (Mariah Carey's struggled for years), but with Perry, you get the sense that it's no act.





And it's no mystery why style-watchers have been chasing her down. It's a rare pop tart who comes out of the gate boasting such a bold, distinctive look; even Christina Aguilera flirted with seat-less chaps on her journey to her screen-siren style.

"I really like to look like a history book," says Perry, who talks with her hands -- tipped with short nails painted neon rainbow with leopard spots. "I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings."





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TUCKED into a chaise lounge at Bar Chloe in Santa Monica and clad in a vintage cardigan emblazoned with a bejeweled pineapple, a sunny yellow vintage onesie with a sweetheart neckline -- hair curled in fat ringlets, lips painted stop-sign red -- she resembles one of Slim Aarons' St. Tropez socialites.


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"There are definitely flavors of that 1940s pinup in how I dress," Perry says. But like most fashion-forward girls in their early 20s right now, she's also nutso for anything '80s -- big bows, strapless dresses and neon, neon, neon.





Perry's biggest influences, a list of trend-setting female pop-rockers including Cyndi Lauper, Garbage's Shirley Manson, Pat Benatar and Joan Jett, also play into her style. Those women still don't care, she says: "They came out with a vengeance."

Perry gets a regular assist in the wardrobe department from celebrity stylist Johnny Wujek, who's been working with her since 2005. Wujek, who also works with Lake Bell and Kate Mara, says the relationship is pure collaboration -- the pair were good friends even before they started working together. "It just worked out perfectly that I'm a stylist and she's a rock star," Wujek says. "Katy loves to push the boundaries and be her own colorful self. She once told me she wanted to look like an ice cream cone, so I got her a Jeremy Scott dress that's actually an ice cream cone."





Perry credits Wujek with "regularly blowing my mind." For the Nylon shoot, "He made me a headband with my name spelled out in Legos," she says. Though Perry is generally up for anything, she recalls an instance when Wujek took the zaniness too far. "He showed up with a Chiquita banana headdress once, and I was like, 'That's a bit much.' "

Wujek helped pack the bag of sartorial surprises the singer lugged in for this photo shoot, but Perry put herself together that day: test-driving earrings, debating whether to wear a flower in her hair, pulling out reams of belts to pick from.

"I Kissed a Girl" was the No. 2 single on iTunes as of Tuesday, and Perry will be belting it out to thousands this summer as part of the hot-and-sweaty Vans Warped Tour, kicking off at the Fairplex Park in Pomona on Friday. While in hair and makeup for the photo shoot for this article, her publicist showed her a Fox News segment on how local mothers are scandalized by the lyrics ("I kissed a girl and I liked it / the taste of her cherry ChapStick"), prompting Perry to cry, "Yes! My dream is to take on Bill O'Reilly!"




Of course, she's already been anointed by high priestess of pop (and original right-wing instigator) Madonna, who called Perry's sendup of metrosexual men, "Ur So Gay," her favorite song in a recent interview. "I'm still floored by that," Perry says. "It's like, you're Madonna -- you don't have time to be listening to my songs!"


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Friday, May 29, 2009

Celebrity Fragrance Awards







Paris Hilton, Sean John among top fragrances nominated at FiFi awards.


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The sweet smell of success permeated the red carpet at The 37th annual Fragrance Foundation Awards. Hollywood A-listers including Sean "Diddy" Combs and Paris Hilton turned out sporting their favourite scents to what some call the "Oscars of fragrance."

Hilton was honoured for her perfume, Fairy Dust. She attended the event with her mother Kathy and boyfriend Doug Reinhardt.




"I've been doing the fragrance business for a very long time and mine is one of the most successful," says the socialite and reality TV vixen. "Tonight I'm winning celebrity fragrance of the year so it's such a huge honour."

Hilton’s other fragrances include Just Me, Heir, Heiress, Paris Hilton for Men and Can.

Diddy was nominated for his men's fragrance I Am King. Under his Sean John fashion label the hip-hop mogul has also created Unforgivable for men and women.



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He says designing fragrances is similar to designing clothes: it's all in the details.




"Just like you know how you feel the fabrics you have to smell the different notes," said Combs. "It's really about the details and having patience and making something that's unique. It's almost like a fit, you know making a unique fit."






Designer Marc Jacobs agreed that both clothing and perfumes require a similar creative process:

"For me creation is the same no matter what it is. So it's a series of choosing, editing and trying to conjure up a mood and a spirit and trying to transmit some visual reference," says Jacobs.




Mary J. Blige was also at the event. She posed for photographs with a bottle of her signature fragrance created with Brooklyn-based beauty company ‘Carol's Daughter’.




"It's beautiful," says Blige. "It smells like me. I took a lot of time thinking about this. And everyone always asks me what I'm wearing. Everyone, so I just want all the women to wear what I'm wearing. And it smells like Mary. It smells like every woman. It's strong. It's soft. It's everything. It's beautiful."

Actor Dustin Hoffman accompanied his wife Lisa who was nominated for a FiFi Award for her skincare line.




He appeared to enjoy giving up the spotlight.




"This is wonderful," said Hoffman. "I wish they (red carpets) were all for my wife and not for me. And I'd worry less."

This year's awards were hosted by Samantha Harris. The "Dancing with the Stars" starlet wore an orange Alice and Olivia dress.






"I figure this is a really good dress for summer and being that it is the Fragrance Awards, the FiFi Awards, it reminds me of a fancy bottle of perfume.

I'm just going to pop out the top apparently," says Harris.

Professional polo player and face of Ralph Lauren's Polo-brand fragrances Ignacio "Nacho" Figueras was excited to talk sports.





He's preparing for Prince Harry's upcoming visit to New York.

"I'm the reason that he's here - one of the reasons. I invited him," says Figueras. "And Blackwatch, my team is going to play against Sentebale, which is his charity, which is a great thing because we will be able to raise money for his charity."

The Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic will take place on Governor's Island Saturday, 30 May.





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