Fashionista Story of the Week – Whoa: Hedi Slimane Writes Open Letter to Cathy Horyn, Calls Her a ‘Schoolyard Bully’

The anti-Cathy Horyn club has an official new member: Hedi Slimane. Following Horyn’s piece in today’s New York Times in which she slammed Hedi Slimane’s debut ready-to-wear collection for Saint Laurent and claimed that she had not been invited to his show because of an eight-year-old grudge the designer was holding against her, Slimane took […]

Fashionista Story of the Week – Famous People Looking Miserable in The Front Row

Celebrities may know how to turn it on for the red carpet, but when they’re sitting down, enjoying (or maybe not enjoying) a fashion show, they often forget that they’re still surrounded by cameras. Thus, fashion week provides great opportunities to see celebrities when they’re not controlling what their faces are doing. And often, that […]

Fashionista Story of the Week – A Dispatch from the Fashion Week Bathrooms (Really, We Went There)

Fashion Week does a beautiful job of being beautiful. On the runway fantasy becomes reality because reality is ugly. But for just a sliver of the week, we wanted to get real. That’s why we headed to the one place where even fashionistas can’t pretend–the ladies’ room. So we eavesdropped from the stalls of Fashion […]

Fashionista Story of the Week – The PR Girl Who Got Bitch Slapped at the Zac Posen Show Is Suing for $1 Million

Well, that didn’t take long. Lynn Tesoro, the PR girl who got a slap in the face at the Zac Posen show earlier this week is suing. According to the New York Daily News, Tesoro is suing Jalouse editor Jennifer Eymere, who slapped Tesoro (and admitted it proudly to WWD) after things escalated while Tesoro […]

Fashionista Story of the Week – Michelle Obama’s DNC Nail Polish Revealed

By now you’ve probably heard about Michelle Obama’s inspiring, tear-jerking, “mom-in-chief” speech at the DNC last night and ooh’ed and aah’ed over her pink Tracy Reese/J.Crew ensemble. But until a few minutes ago, there was one style mystery that no one had yet solved: What color is that nail polish she’s wearing? Many sites speculated […]

Fashionista Story of the Week – First Look: An Actual Dress from the Maison Martin Margiela x H&M Collection!

Remember the big news back in June that H&M was doing a collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela? Well, in our sun-addled summer state, we’d sort of forgotten about it–until our memories were jogged by this PICTURE OF AN ACTUAL DRESS FROM THE COLLECTION! Someone over at the Fashion Spot found this image that a blogger […]

Fashionista Story of the Week – The Ultimate Fall 2012 Nail Polish Guide: 20 Collections to Crave

Yes it’s still August, but the days are already shorter and the nights a bit cooler. You know what that means: It’s time for the fall nail polish collections to drop! Getting sick to death of neons and soft nudes? If so, you are going to love fall. There are a lot of rich jewel […]

Fashionista Story of the Week – From Basic to Bedazzled, a Look Back at the Evolution of Gymnastics Style

Last night as we were watching our amazing US women’s gymnastics team win the gold medal, we couldn’t help but notice how absolutely ferocious those ladies looked. I’m not talking about their muscular quads and killer dismounts either–I’m talking about their LOOK. The metallic leotard, strong eye and piles of Swarovski crystals sent as much […]

Fashionista Story of the Week – Meet Lanvin’s Other Senior Campaign Star (and Advanced Style Regular) 62-Year-Old Tziporah Salamon

Lanvin’s latest ad campaign has created a decent amount of buzz, and with good reason–Alber’s models aren’t models at all. They’re ordinary women (and men) whose ages fall somewhere between 18 and 82. We’ve already fallen in love with the woman at the latter end of the spectrum–Jacquie “Tajah” Murdock, a former Apollo dancer whose […]

Fashionista Story of the Week – Is Kate Upton Too Fat? Too Skinny? Why This Model of the Moment Just Can’t Win

Earlier this month Skinny Gossip, a site which bills itself as “pro-skinny” (read: pro-ana) wrote a pretty hate-filled post detailing all the ways in which Kate Upton is fat. Yes, you read that right. Kate Upton, the inescapable supermodel, man magnet, and fashion’s latest it-girl is, according to the site, too fat (which is even […]