Do it yourself......

Vogue Homme Japan is going to be an amazing issue it has everyone I love in it. Here is another peek of Rob Devita styled by Shun Watanabe and photographed by Jeremy Kost.

birthday boy......

Celebrating their 20th birthday, Australian fashion label Calibre has beautiful Garrett Neff as their birthday boy. The label collaborated with Magnus Unnar to photograph Garrett celebrating the occasion in both a humorous and stylish way.”

Editorial Flashback.....

I know this shoot is like 5 months old but Brooke Shields got down in Australian Kurv magazine. The sizzling cover shoot was entitled ‘Duran does... Brooke’. Shields played cougar with the steamy and flawless Christopher Fawcett.

Uncle Karl's Peelable' WALLPAPER......

I need to get a copy of Uncle Karl’s latest cover of Wallpaper Magazine. My Love crush model Baptiste Giabiconi looks amazing in Dior Homme.... and even better out of Dior.

YSL Manifesto......

YSL Manifesto is hitting the streets Sept. 12, in the meantime a new behind the scenes / trailer video showed up, which you can check out below. If you are one of the first 2000 recipients you'll also get a Stefano Pilati designed YSL custom tote, featuring the star of YSL manifesto and the latest campaign Christy Turlington. Also the first one hundrer online subscribers at yslmanifesto.com, will get a copy of the Manifesto and the mentioned tote. I doub't these one hundred will last more than a minute, but get your copy of the manifesto if you're lucky.

New Star........

I showed you new images from the Vogue Homme Japan cover story by Steven Klein on wednesday, so to continue the bondage themed photos from this issue Lady GaGa fallows the trend. The new issue is shaping up to be a definite must have.The photography is by the legendary Nobuyoshi Araki, fashion direction by Nicola Formichetti, and styling by Shun Watanabe. In addition to the epic Steven Klein main editorial, The ‘New Star’ shows that..... when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun, fun!!!

Kate Moss for YSL.......

I love Kate's new sensual campaign for Yves saint Laurent Parisienne Autumn / Fall 2009.... It's a hot little commercial with brilliant background track, mood, lighting, and kate has more sexuality than Natasha Poly could even dream of.

THE NEW FACE OF COUTURE.....?

Emanuel Ungaro was a master and enjoyed the esteemed pedigree of being one of Balenciaga’s first assistants. His couture was of the best, and in the 80’s he exploded when, along with Lacroix, he defined the look of wealth, excess, and extravagance.
He retired in 2005 closing the couture business and leaving the RTW to his protégé Giambattista Valli. The young designer who shared Ungaro’s Italian heritage masterfully interpreted Ungaro’s Latin flair but clashed with the new owner Asim Abdullah (who had just purchased the brand from the Ferragamos) and left to start his own label. And since then the company has been in tumultuous flux, having gone through a series of design directors in only a few years (Vincent Darre, Peter Dundas, and now Esteban Cortazar have all come and gone). But the eyebrow raiser on this recent snafu is that at the source of their woes is a troubled, former child star with a penchant for theft, drug abuse, and DJ lovers — a Miss Lindsay Lohan.

To say that Lohan was the one that ousted Cortazar is not entirely fair although it is understood the designer is suing the company on the basis that they breached his contract when Ungaro hired Lohan to come on board as “artistic advisor.” Cortazar was never the savant the fashion industry had hoped for when at 18 he was showing his collection at NY fashion week. When it was announced that Cortazar was going to take over Ungaro the industry wished him luck but it was understood but never spoken that the designer had little chance to succeed where so many other and more gifted designers had failed.

The reviews of his three runway collections (a resort collection was shown just as shit hit the fan) were mediocre if not mortifying for the venerable house. The collections lacked the kind of design sophistication expected for Paris or even the young Latina customer that Cortazar seemed to be beckoning, Balmain’s Christophe Decarnin and Peter Dundas (now at Pucci) showed better fare for that customer.

Now Abdullah hopes that celebrity will give the brand the appeal it couldn’t get with a star designer (if faint and distant). They have hired on Estrella Archs, a veteran of Prada, Pucci, and Lacroix, to work with Lohan on the collection. The idea is simple; to tap into the newly revitalized archetype of the rich, vulgar, and sexy woman that Cavalli has been designing into for years but who Balmain has only now made chic and popular, managing to expand the genre far beyond its natural limits.

It’s a bold move and seemingly addled with more problems than a single blog post could list, but in these tough times it’s innovation that will prove successful. Their first collaboration will bow at Paris fashion week this October and while the industry should hold its verdict until the collection hits the runway, it is my gut feeling that this latest tangent in getting Ungaro back on track and out of the red will prove no more successful than any of the previous attempts. But good luck to the two of them, and we shall see.
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30th anniversary Vogue Deutsch.......

This time Baptiste is all dressed up for one of many editorials by Karl Lagerfeld this October. Now in Vogue Germany, celebrating it's 30th anniversary Vogue Deutsch. Bruce Weber, Peter Lindbergh and Karl Lagerfeld to each take upon a guest editor position, delivering each an October issue of their own. Here are the images from Karl's shoot with Baptiste and Freja Beha Erichsen.

Steven Klein’s Generation.....Slave to fashion!

New images from the Vogue Homme Japan cover story by Steven Klein, styled by Nicola Formichetti… All I can say is AMAZING! The 30 page spread is full of scantily clad Bondage Warriors.









Nicola Formichetti's blog

KATE & THE GYPSIES.....

I'm love these photos from the new V Magazine Issue #61 which hit newsstands September 1st. The supermodel lived with the gypsies over the 2-day shoot in Cornwall, England. Some of the pieces Kate wears in the photos are Isabel Marant, Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony, Kenzo, John Galliano, Stefanel and Dsquared, photographed by Iain McKell and styling by Karen Langley.