Our Editors Pick Their Favorite Fall Accessories
May 13, 2012 Baby Phat
Narrowing down more than 5,000 bags, shoes, and jewels—no easy feat. But then, it is our job. In the midst of compiling our Fall 2011 Accessories Index, we’ve all come across a few favorites we’re saving up for come September. Below, Style.com’s editors on the pieces they can’t wait to get their hands on.
“I’ve been on the lookout for a pair of light brown boots for a while. Phillip Lim’s will look great with all of my denim flares, and they have the added attraction of a friendly price point too.” —Nicole Phelps, executive editor
Photos: Courtesy Photo
“Let’s just say I am seriously considering a weekend job so I can kick it in these forest green/fuchsia Kirkwood pumps come Fall.” —Brittany Adams, associate fashion editor
“The shape of this Chloé bag reminds me of Coach’s old bucket bags—which I still stalk on eBay to this day. The patchwork of exotic skins also seems like it would go with every piece of outerwear I own, including my leopard swing coat—no small feat.” —Celia Ellenberg, senior beauty editor
“Wilfredo Rosado is my favorite new designer to watch. After years working with Mr. Armani, he’s launching a fine jewelry collection this fall; if you noticed Gwyneth Paltrow’s pink feather earrings at the Grammys this year, you’ve already seen his unique pieces in action. This pendant in one of my favorites—you have to look at it twice to notice that it’s not just your old classic cameo.” —Marina Larroude, senior market editor
Salvor Projects’ Desert Rose
May 1, 2012 Baby Phat
Photos: Keetja Allard / Courtesy of Salvor Projects
For Salvor Projects’ Ross Menuez, if it can’t be made nearby, he won’t make it. When the industrial designer-turned-fashion designer opened his Lower East Side shop earlier this year, he stocked it exclusively with pieces made at his nearby studio.
The local-is-better approach had always ruled out silk pieces from his womenswear collections; silks are more often than not made and printed in the Far East. “I’d wanted to do silk for a long time, and it’s been really frustrating,” he told Style.com. “Almost everyone does silk in Asia, but I feel so dissociated when it’s happening so far away.” But thanks to the discovery of an ink from Fuji—one not intended for fashion purposes, from the same Fuji that manufactures high-end camera equipment—he’s begun hand-printing silk pieces in New York. Mid-November, the first of these new pieces, a range of printed scarves, hits the floor at Barneys New York; this spring, tops and dresses will follow at the Salvor shop.
To celebrate the new addition, Menuez tapped Charlotte Free, the pink-haired model of the moment, for a lookbook. Free’s been enjoying a banner season, shooting editorials for Love and the upcoming issue of V and campaigns for Topshop and Pamela Love. Menuez explained that he met Free through his daughter, India. “We decided to do it with Charlotte before we had even made half of the prints,” he said. “All of those prints were designed specifically for the shoot with Charlotte in the desert.” The images were shot by Keetja Allard outside of Free’s home in Southern California’s Canyon County, where, as it happens, the sun-faded rocks matched the fade in Free’s hair. “She looked like this bizarre rainbow spirit ghost floating around in the desert,” Menuez remembered. “The whole crew was just staring at her.”
—Matthew Schneier
L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival goes for big laughs, big breaks
Apr 27, 2012 Baby Phat
Past festival winners have gone on to work for companies such as Fremantle, Disney and CTV, Williams said.
"I guarantee you, you're going to laugh," he said, "or I'm going to let you punch me in the throat. One or the other. It's a punch-in-the-throat guarantee I'm offering."
You might say the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles, was born amid tragedy. Co-founders Gary Anthony Williams and Jeannie Roshar, both actors and comedians, got the idea for the event while showing a humorous short at a surprisingly glum film festival in San Diego.
RELATED:
Williams, a comedy veteran who has written for "Malcolm in the Middle," acted on "Boston Legal" and done voice work on "The Boondocks," said one of the festival's initial goals was to encourage aspiring actors and comedians to create short films they could use as calling cards to show their skills. The festival's timing has also proved fortuitous as the popularity of short videos on the Web has exploded in recent years.
Funny or Die on a mission to live large
"Now there are so many short-form comedy content providers on the Internet," Williams said, citing websites such as Fremantle Media's Atomic Wedgie, Yahoo Screen, and Funny or Die (a festival sponsor). "Everybody's looking for producers and writers and people who can make stuff really funny, really well and really fast."
Photo: Attendees at the 2011 L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival. Credit: L.A. Comedy Shorts
Williams and Roshar's other goal for the festival is to entertain audiences, and one of the benefits of screening shorts, according to Williams, is that viewers are bound to see something they like.
"Our little comedy was sandwiched between all these tragedies where literally in every one of them, somebody died," Williams said. "Nothing but death and destruction, and then there was our happy comedy."
– Oliver Gettell
Highlights from this year's schedule include Thursday's celebrity short film block with work by Margaret Cho, Michael Cera and David Alan Grier; a discussion Friday with screenwriter Buck Henry ("The Graduate," "Catch-22"); and a panel Saturday titled "Famous People Talking About S&*%." Daily screenings will be held at the Downtown Independent theater, and buses will shuttle attendees to nighttime events at venues such as the Conga Room, the Kyoto Grand Hotel and Exchange L.A.
KTLA previews L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival [video]
The incident inspired them to create the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the festival runs Thursday to Sunday and aims to showcase and foster comedic talent with screenings, panel discussions, a screenwriting competition, nightly parties and a closing awards ceremony.
Donatella Opens Up About Versace For H&M
Apr 9, 2012 Baby Phat
It’s a Versace moment. Donatella’s new collection for H&M, set to hit stores November 19, has sent the blogosphere into a near-unprecedented tizzy, and her Spring ‘12 collections (for women and men) were standouts of the season. In the first issue of Style.com/Print, Tim Blanks sits down with the designer to find out what’s behind the dramatic resurgence of the label and how she’s harnessed the Versace history for a new age. Spoiler alert: A new crew of young British collaborators (including Christopher Kane) and fans (like Lady Gaga) who revere the Versace classics of the eighties and nineties both play parts. With her fast-fashion collection, Donatella set out to revive those classics. “All these people reacting to what was in the archives—Gaga, the people in London, the young kids in the office—they’re 25 years old, they’re obsessed,” Versace told Blanks. “They don’t know. So we did a best of Versace for H&M, a greatest hits, from the beginning until now.”
CLICK FOR A SLIDESHOW of a few key looks from the Versace for H&M collection, with commentary from Donatella herself. Click below for an exclusive behind-the-scenes video from Versace’s Style.com/Print shoot. And to read Tim Blanks’ profile of Donatella Versace, order Issue 01 of Style.com/Print here.
—Matthew Schneier
Photo: Kacper Kasprzyk
Win it Olivia Wilde’s Fave Boyfriend Blazer!
Nov 29, 2011 Baby Phat
Some Boyfriend Blazer rules to live by:
- You can style this with boyfriend jeans. Just make sure you put a sexy high heel with it.
- Don’t borrow a man’s jacket. The fit won’t be as flattering.
- Mix it up with a romantic tank top with ruffles or something feminine.
- Turn up the cuffs if the lining is nice. If not, go to the tailor and have it fitted properly.
Open to residents of the United States age 18 and older, the contest runs from now until April 8 at 11:59 p.m./EST. To enter, email your name, address, daytime phone number and age, to giveaways@usmagazine.com. You must put “Boyfriend Blazer” in the subject line to be eligible. Please also include your blazer size and color preference.
Whats the one piece this very moment that can last forever in your closet and still always seem current and modern? Straight off your beau’s back — the Boyfriend Blazer!
This just in: 25 lucky winners will each receive one Boyfriend Blazer by XCVI (available in sizes extra-small, medium, large and extra-large and in color options of black, charcoal and cafe).
Limit one entry per person. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Restrictions may apply.
The Boyfriend Blazer by XCVI — which counts Olivia Wilde, Molly Sims and Glee’s Dianna Agron as fans — retails for $150 at Neiman Marcus, but it can be yours for, well, free!
I just love this look — not just because it covers up my tuchus but because it works with everything. You can wear it with trousers or a pencil skirt, over a sequined mini-dress or rocker tee and jeans. See?
By Sasha Charnin Morrison for UsMagazine.com. To read more of the Recessionista blog, click here.
Click here for official rules.