Chic In Review | A Used Ford?

All the fashion news of the week that’s fit to reprint.

Brando, Tuki
Marlon Brando’s grandson landed a campaign with watch brand TechnoMarine.

Bush, Lauren
Will wear Ralph Lauren to marry David Lauren. Say that three times in a row.

Cassini, Oleg
Will be added to the Fashion Walk of Fame on Seventh Avenue this summer along with Ralph Rucci.

Coddington, Grace
Turned 70 in style with a party at Indochine. Will she ever retire?

Dello Russo, Anna
Was made into a Barbie doll. Of course the Barbie wore custom made Dolce & Gabbana.

Deny, Agyness
Ran the London marathon with the designer Henry Holland. Aggy called it a powerful experience; Holland tweeted “NEVER AGAIN!”

Ferre, Gianfranco
Might be replacing designers Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi with…John Galliano?

Ford, Tom
Somehow made it into an ad for a used car company in Canada. Hopefully this was an accident.
Made it onto this year’s Time 100 list. That one makes more sense.

Gurung, Prabal
Will be designing a resort collection this year. We’re sure Michelle Obama will love this.

Hurley, Chad
The YouTube co-founder is expanding his clothing like, Hlaska, into women’s wear. Thanks for thinking of us!

Kerr, Miranda
Rocked a bikini only three months after giving birth. Is that Victoria’s Secret?

Lagerfeld, Karl
Designing a perfume in collaboration with Steidl that smells like books. It’s called Paper Passion.

Lindvall, Angela
Collaborating on a jewelry line with John Hardy called Hijau Dau.

MacGibbon, Hannah
Just signed on for another year at Chloé. Way to prove those haters wrong!

MANnequin
A man in England dressed up as a mannequin to hide in a women’s restroom and take photos of feet. Because a male mannequin would have seemed a bit out of place in a ladies room?

Marcille, Eva
The third winner of ANTM is the new host of Hair Battle Spectacular. Unbeweavable.

Middleton, Kate
Received a family coat of arms by the College of Arms in the City of London. Cla$$y.
Went shopping at Banana Republic, proving that she is a Princess of the people, even if she has a family crest.
Ranked higher than Princess Diana in a poll of the most beautiful royals. Maybe it’s the hair.

Pakzad, Bijan
The luxury-obsessed designer passed away from a stroke at 67. The ’80s are officially over.

Paltrow, Gwyneth
Is rumored to be the new face of Coach? Really?

Plus Size
Italian researchers declare that plus size models will make women fat. Did Donatella conduct this study?

Rimes, LeAnn
Sent one of her followers on Twitter some shoes from her closet. How many new followers do you think she has gained since?

Simmons, Laurie
The artist was the latest guest star on “Gossip Girl.” As if anyone who watches “Gossip Girl” knows who she is.

Spears, Britney
Auctioning off an outfit she wore in 1999. If you can call a sports bra and cargo pants an “outfit.”

Sunglasses
Mary Kate and Ashley plan on expanding their empire to include an optical line.
Nicole Richie declared she owns over 200 pairs of sunglasses. How many by MK&A will she buy?

Treacy, Philip
Designing hats for the royal wedding. Who knew the queen had so much in common with Lady Gaga?

West, Kanye
Wore Céline to perform at Coachella. I guess he is really serious about this whole fashion thing.

Wixson, Lindsey
Wore custom Jason Wu to prom. Toto, I don’t think we are in Kansas anymore.


Look of the Moment | Sienna Miller

Splash News

The Look: A no-brainer – minimal makeup, tousled hair, the perfect LBD and a shoe with some spunk. It all adds up.

The Girl: Sienna Miller, who stars in the West End production of “Flare Path,” exiting the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

The Details: Azzedine Alaïa dress and Tabitha Simmons “Dusty” shoe.

Archives: Look of the Moment >>


Master Mind

Paul Jasmin

David Lynch is best known as a director, but it was the paintings he made in Philadelphia as a young art student that gave him the idea to make his first film. The work he is showing nearly 50 years later at the William Griffin Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif., straddles both genres — illuminated light bulbs protrude from the canvases, and abstract figures dance across them. The installation includes eerie watercolors and a number of lamplike sculptures. Lynch’s proclivity for “shape and light” drew him to another project, Silencio, a nightclub set to open this summer at 142 rue Montmartre in Paris, for which he designed the interiors and the furniture. “I enjoy how architecture and design create mood,” he says. The club was named for the spooky theater in “Mulholland Drive,” so no telling what that mood will be.


Milan Report | The Wrap-Up, Part II

After a week’s reflection, The Moment ends its coverage of Milan’s design week with a look at a few more of our favorite things. At the “Poetry Happens” exhibition in Ventura Lambrate, Maria Volokhova, an artist born in Ukraine and based in Berlin, showed some of her strange and beautiful porcelain pieces, like Dolci Lacrime, a teapot that sprouts human legs. At Ingo Maurer’s stand at Euroluce, the furniture fair’s biennial lighting show, J.B. Schmetterling, a hanging light bulb ringed with handmade butterflies, moths, and dragonflies (schmetterling is German for butterfly), exemplified the designer’s ability to fuse technology and poetry. Read more…


Styled to a T | Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin

Photograph by Ami Sioux. Fashion Assistant: Elliot Soriano. Grooming by Anita Jolles at House Of Orange Using Sisley. Fashion Editor: Andreas Kokkino.On Trimarchi: Miharayasuhiro vest, $691, and shirt, $529. At H. Lorenzo. Call (310) 652-7039. Antonio Azzuolo breeches, $395. Go to antonioazzuolo.com. On Farresin: Miharayasuhiro jacket, $1,184, pullover with tie, $436, half-pants, $436, and leggings, $254.

The Designers

Andrea Trimarchi, left, and Simone Farresin are Studio Formafantasma’s Netherlands-based partners.

The Idea

After their successful 2010 installation in Milan, featuring everyday objects made of flour and agricultural waste, this year they showed designs made of pre-Bakelite plastics.

The Look

These plastics, replicated using early materials like tree resin or sawdust mixed with animal blood, give the duo’s timeless vases, bowls and light fixtures a refreshingly tactile spin.


Naughty By Nature

Courtesy of United BambooUnited Bamboo organic cotton camisole $60, and boxers, $50. Available at Steven Alan. Call (212) 343-0692.

Thuy Pham and Miho Aoki are big believers in going au naturel. The duo behind the label United Bamboo recently set out to create an eco-friendly line that would give green technology a bit of boudoir appeal. “There are many companies putting out clothes labeled as organic, but the fabrics might have been dyed or finished with harsh chemicals,” Pham says. Bamboo By, a new collection of camisoles, dresses and smocks inspired by Victorian undergarments, definitely delivers on the sexy front. But as far as organic goes, there is still work to be done. “It’s a long process and will most likely never be 100 percent eco-friendly,” Pham adds, “but we encourage our vendors to offer more organic pieces to supplement the nonorganic collections they carry.” With current eco lines focusing on ethics as well as design, we look forward to Bamboo’s commitment to both moral and aesthetic standards.


Modern Amusement

Courtesy of Elmgreen & Dragset

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset like to build things up just to knock them down, as in the last Venice Biennale, where they dolled up a pavilion as a house — and then put it up for sale. For “The One and the Many,” a new installation at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s Submarine Wharf in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, they created a boulevard of broken dreams, with an apartment block inspired by East German socialist housing. Visitors will peek into the building’s windows from a Ferris wheel and gawk at the humanity therein, including a middle-aged man watching soccer on TV in a room decorated with trophies, or a teenage boy logged onto a gay-chat Web site. “It’s like building a Disneyland with less of that feel-good effect and slightly more complex content,” they said.


Notes From the Underground | MEN

Io Tillet WrightThe MEN frontman JD Samson.

The pop trio MEN, fronted by the former Le Tigre member JD Samson, made a triumphant return home recently with a performance at the Williamsburg Hall of Music. In cheekily full frontal fashion, they opened their set wearing a bright pink, three-helmet contraption that connected the trio with rods into a triangle formation. When not attached at the head with her bandmates, Samson leaped around the stage, enthusiastically leading the frenzied audience through song after song of electronic, danceable fun, and interlacing the carefree tracks with messages of radical politics and feminism.


High Browse

Trevor Tondro

Pick up a book about a young New York artist these days, and you’re likely to spot Brendan Dugan’s name in the fine print. As the founder of the graphics firm and indie publishing imprint An Art Service, Dugan has become a go-to designer for galleries like Gagosian and Hauser & Wirth, or for virtually anyone in Dan Colen’s crowd. Now he’s slowly making his presence known with Karma (21 Downing Street; open Thursday-Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. or by appointment), a tiny shop in the front of his office where he sells his own catalog of gritty pop-minimalist art books and posters alongside books and objects that inspire him. Dugan started the publishing arm of his business in 2009 as an additional platform for the artists whose Web sites, books and ephemera he was already designing. “Allan Kaprow, Ed Ruscha and a lot of the Fluxus artists were designing all these amazing objects to help support their projects,” he says. “I guess I think of us as trying to help continue that lineage.”


Prada They’re Not. But If the Shoe Fits …


A scan of current fashion magazines and street-style blogs makes it clear that the “It” shoe this spring is Prada’s hybrid of an espadrille, trainer and brogue. But good luck finding a pair. Though ubiquitous in the fashion press, the shoe is unavailable in all Prada boutiques; the original stock sold out in January, and the last of a second shipment sold out this past weekend at the SoHo store. But if it is height you are looking for, consider these platform-soled alternatives — none of which carry a wait list.


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