Grace Jones is back…yes!
The iconic model/musician hasn’t done a music video in 19 years, but by the looks of the video for Corporate Cannibal, she still hasn’t lost her ability to be fierce and scare the shit out of people all at the same time.
Corporate Cannibal is her first single off her upcoming album, Hurricane, due out in October.
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Naomi Campbell and Stefano Pilati for ID Magazine
Crazy/beautiful supermodel Naomi Campbell is the new face of Yves Saint Laurent and she appears with designer Stefano Pilati on the cover of i-D Magazine (August).
The girl is batshit crazy, but you can’t deny she knows how to serve it in a photo.
Anyone who can make me love those YSL harem pants can hit me with a Blackberry any day.
Photo credit: TFS
The couture shows are over, but ’tis the season for getting hitched, so I decided to give you a second look at the haute couture brides.
The Chanel bride was probably my favorite. The look was marked by layers of tulle cascading from the veil and down the arms, but the gown itself was very sleek. The banded waist continued Lagerfeld’s tubular theme from the rest of the show and a cascade of beading led down the skirt and pooled into the train. Beautiful!
Gaultier’s bride was the most modern of the bunch with a body-con lace dress and his futuristic caging carrying over into a helmeted, cage-like veil.
Reem Acra is the master at evening and bridal gowns and his couture creation was very fanciful and fairytale-like.
Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2009
Can I be any more of a Facchinetti/Valtentino fangurl?
For the first time, Alessandra Facchinetti seemed less reverential and willing to experiment and step outside the Valentino house iconography. This is her first haute couture collection, but she has had a year to cut her teeth on resort and ready-to-wear and this collection showed that she was certainly ready to step out of the shadow of Valentino’s retirement.
Like a kid in the atelier candystore, she played with shape, texture, and for the first time, took Valentino in a very personal direction. Red dresses still made an appearance, but it was a more subtle nod to the past than in previous collections.
Where her previous collections were a bit of an homage to the departing master, this haute couture collection seemed totally Faccinetti.
Valentino purists will have to get used to the New Jack, but I love the way she’s shaking up the house a bit while still giving us the feminine shapes.
Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2009
Gaultier Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2009
All of my favorite models in one show — Jourdan Dunn, Chanel Iman, and Coco Rocha? Swoon!
The Gaultier haute couture show was certainly the most vibrant of the bunch. Models walked wearing colorful feathers and lattice cages over their slinky, Day-Glo gowns. Coco Rocha’s emerald gown with it’s matching feather shrug (here) was one of the most stunning dresses I’ve seen lately.
These might be tough economic times for the rest of us, but there was no shortage of luxury at Gaultier, with fur and leather on many pieces as well as an equestrian theme that gave us leather and suede jodhpurs and a brown fur coat with an overlay of saddle-inspired caging.
John Paul Gaultier’s revealed that his richly colored collection was influenced by ’80’s hacker flick Tron and said of his cage motif:
“Women feel so free nowadays that they are wearing cages again. It’s the ultimate stage in women’s liberation.”
Gaultier Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2009
