Book gift idea: “100 Unforgettable Dresses”
Looking for something different for that fashionista on your shopping list? Check out a new book by Hal Rubenstein, InStyle magazine’s fashion director.
With more than 200 images, “100 Unforgettable Dresses” reveals behind-the-scenes anecdotes of memorable dresses in fashion, film, royalty and politics. The book also includes observations about several style makers, including Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Stories abound, too, including how Ginger Roger’s dress, heavy with ostrich feathers, began to molt immediately upon arriving on set for the filming of “Top Hat.” Production had to be halted.
The book retails for $35.
Sale alert: 40 percent off at Balliets
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Gwen Stefani’s children’s line coming to Target Nov. 13
Harajuku Mini for Target long-sleeved ruffle red tuxedo T-shirt, $16.99 and Harajuku Mini plaid skirt, $16.99.
It may not cause a shopping frenzy like the Missoni collection did, but there’s plenty of excitement about Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Mini for Target landing in stores Nov. 13.
The rock star fashion designer’s first children’s line includes accessories and apparel for girl and boy babies, toddlers and tweens, priced from $4 to $30. “The kids clothes are a reflection of things I wear,” Stefani told InStyle.
Look for plaid, animal print, ruffle and bubble dresses and a faux-leather jacket and dress combo that looks like a smaller version of Stefani’s recent L.A.M.B. runway look.
Harajuku Mini for Target boy's biker jacket, $20, long-sleeved T-shirt, $14, corduroy pants, $20 and canvas slides, $17.
Protect your face with Pomega5 Healing Cream
Winter’s coming, and that means cold winds and bitter temperatures once again assaulting our skin. Especially our face. It needs protection.
Here’s a product that may help. It’s Pomega5 Healing Cream, which reduces redness and soothes skin irritation while healing scars and sounds. The moisturizer, chockful of antioxidants, is also used at medical centers to faciliate the healing process after surgery. It is designed to nourish all types of skin.
Ingredients include pomegranate seed oil, which promotes cell regeneration and stimulates collagen production; calendula oil, which heals wounds, prevents scarring and treats acne and irration; carrot seed oil to nourish skin and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles; grape seed oil to boost collagen; and shea butter, which moisturizes, softens and reduces the appearance of blemishes and scarring.
The Pomega5 collection includes cleansing bars, repair serum, eye cream and revitalizing concentrate.
The cream retails for $70. Check out all products at www.pomega5.com/.
“Project Accessory” premieres Thursday
Molly Sims, host of the new "Project Accessory."
It works for clothes, so now we’re going to see if it’s just as successful with accessories.
Actress and model Molly Sims will host “Project Accessory,” a new competiton series launching at 9:30 p.m. Thursday on Lifetime. The Project Runway” spinoff will feature a mentor and 12 aspiring designers who hope to dazzle Sims and judges designer Kenneth Cole and InStyle Editor Ariel Foxman.
Lifestyle expert Eva Lorenzotti will mentor the competitors. Guest judges this season will include actress Debra Messing and fashion critic and television personality Kelly Osborne.
Diane von Furstenberg’s new fragrance
It’s the season of new scents. One of the newest at the fragrance counter is Diane by Diane von Furstenberg.
In a video for Sephora, the designer said she feels people have forgotten the value of a true perfume, what a real perfume means and how much it is a weapon of seduction for women.
The fragrance is built around two of her favorite flowers – frangipani and violet with hints of myrrh, musk and patchouli. Like one of her iconic wrap dresses, the scent is touted as being both powerful and feminine.
The bottle is pretty special, too, with interlocking gold rings.
A 1.7-ounce eau de parfum spray is $85; 3.3-ounce eau de parfum spray, $110 and perfumed body lotion, $45.
Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg
Karl Lagerfeld introduces new fragrance in Europe
It’s not unusual for designers and celebrities to put their name on fragrances. German designer Karl Lagerfeld’s new scent, named Karleidoscope, is a play on his name and the design of the bottle.
“I love to play with words, as I love to play with scents,” Lagerfeld told Women’s Wear Daily. “A fragrance is not made to be explained by words. A mix of scents creates something we can smell but not describe. … I prefer a sentimental approach.”
The bottle top is a faceted lens through which you can see several silhouettes of Lagerfeld. “It is a very simple idea but worked out in a refined, detailed way,” he said of the bottle design.
The scent features notes of violet, angelica, freesia, heliotrope, patchouli, tonka bean and benzoin.
The only drawback? The eau de parfum is available exclusively in European Sephora stores.
What’s new? Exude lipstick, a Rachel Zoe fave
For Rachel Zoe’s spring 2012 runway show in New York earlier this month, all the models wore Exude lipstick. Zoe probably had it on, too, because she has said it’s her new fave.
Never heard of Exude? It’s new, and guess who’s giving it lots of lip service. That would be Zoe, but you probably guessed that.
What’s interesting is the design, a crystal applicator which releases the perfect amount of lipstick, according to press information.
Infused with angi-aging ingredients and a minty scent, Exude offers lipstick in nine colors — coral, cranberry, rosy brown, nude, brown, bronze, plum, red and pink. Gloss comes in five colors — crimson, brown, clear, dusty pink and scarlet red.
Lipstick and glass each retail for $29 and are available online at www.exudelipstick.com.
Rachel Zoe in her favorite Exude lipstick in cranberry.
Carrie Underwood wears Lorena Sarbu on “Blue Bloods”
Tony Bennett and Carrie Underwood perform a duet on "Blue Bloods."
Inquiring minds will want to know about the dress Checotah native Carrie Underwood wears when she performs with Tony Bennett on the season premiere of ”Blue Bloods” at 9 tonight on CBS.
Here’s the skinny: For her duet with the crooner, Underwood wears a one-shoulder sequin cocktail dress by Lorena Sarbu from the resort 2012 collection.
Underwood and Bennett will sing “It Had to Be You.” The singers, who play themselves on the show, perform at a fundraiser that Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) and Erin Reagan-Boyle (Bridget Moynahan) are attending for the newly appointed mayor.
Fashion Week spring 2012: BCBGMAXAZRIA
BCBGMAXAZRIA for spring 2012, shown during Fashion Week Sept. 8, 2011, in New York City. AP PHOTO
By Samantha Critchell/AP Fashion Writer
NEW YORK – With all the news buzzing at the Lincoln Center tents – John Galliano’s guilty verdict and President Obama’s speech on the economy – Max and Lubov Azria took a soothing approach to lift the mood, at least for a moment.
Dresses continue as their strong suit: A-line sundresses with fanlike pleats, barely there slip dresses and flowing scarf styles. While delicacy and modesty prevailed, there were hints of bolder sexiness with a bra-top style here and a low, open back there.
Most of the looks were rooted in chalk gray, light stone or blush pink but pops of yellow, blue, coral and emerald green were used effectively.
The goal, the Azrias explained in their notes, was a mashup of neutrals with tribal-inspired prints and embroideries “reflecting an urban, global spirit.”
BCBGMAXAZRIA for spring 2012, shown on the runway Sept. 8, 2011, in New York City during Fashion Week. AP PHOTO.
BCBGMAXAZRIA for spring 2012, shown in New York on Sept. 8, 2011, during Fashion Week. AP PHOTO
