LA*SURFPUNK THE MEN'S STORE: July 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008

CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: GARRETT NEFF

This image of Garrett Neff did not make the Calvin Klein underwear ad campaign!!!

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

LAND OF THE LOST

Pterodactyls really do exist....

Fall 2008 is shaping up to be the supermodel comeback...

Lauren Hutton will don her signature toothy gap grin for Mango.

So here's how it shaping up:

Naomi for YSL, Linda for Prada, Claudia for Ferragamo and our perennial favorite: Chanel, Christy for Escada and Amber for D'Squared.

I guess they are still getting out of bed for $10,000/day!!!!

It smells like Charley....Hutton is 64!!!

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ARMANI OLE!

Giorgio Armani is having a delightfully productive summer. First, he has created a scholarship for a master’s program. Now, we’ve learned that he designed a costume for famed bullfighter Cayetano Rivera Ordoñez, for the feverish LII ‘Corrida Goyesca, taking place on September 6 in Ronda, Spain. Cayetano’s suit includes a jacket, trousers and cloak in techno satin in a signature Armani greige. The three pieces are embroidered with sequins, glitter stones and thread, all matching the color of the primary fabric. Instrestingly enough, the Ordoñez family has a very strong history of costume courtship. Years ago, none other that Pablo Picasso designed the same costume for Cayetano’s grandfather, Antonio Ordoñez.

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MUSEUM QUALITY

The Victoria and Albert Museum has given us a good excuse to jet over to London. The museum will put on a 5 month exhibit, Fashion V Sport, that illustrates the relationship between sportswear and fashion. The displays will be divided into themes, Dare, Display, Play and Desire. Fashion V Sport runs from August 5 to January 4, a date that accommodates London Fashion Week. Start saving your Euros.

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CALVIN KLEIN TO SHOW IN NY

Calvin Klein Menswear Creative Director: Italo Zucchelli, left

It's going to be a great Fashion Week in New York...

With Donna Karan returning to Bryant Park tents.....

NOW--to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the brand, Calvin Klein will show his menswear in New York to coincide with the showing of the women's.

Calvin Klein wanted to bring awareness to the press and retailers to the men's collection business in the US. A showing in Milan would prevent that.

DECLINED--NEXT

WWD reports that Mervyns is expected to file bankruptcy court protection in the next few days.

A cash infusion was supposed to resuscitate the $2.5 billion department store chain, but the needed funds never materialized. A Chapter 11 filing looks inevitable.

The store has been hurt by the housing implosion in California and the Southwest. With the core of their customers being burned by rising gas and food prices, job cuts and tight credit.

Aren't times just great........

ALL THINGS MARC JACOBS

Let The New York Times be your internet portal to all things Marc Jacobs.

One can spend hours on this page perusing old articles and photo slide shows!!

Fun!!!

Monday, July 28, 2008

CAROLYNE ROEHM'S EX

Henry Kravis and George Robert's KKR will become a public company by the end of the year in a complex deal that may ultimately value KKR at $15-20 billion....

source: bloomberg

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Saturday, July 26, 2008

FILE UNDER: WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN

Hammacher Schlemmer offers this iPod gramophone for $500.

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Friday, July 25, 2008

CHRISTIAN SIRIANO WAXES FIERCELY

LACOSTE A LA KARL LAGERFELD

As reported in WWD:

Visionaire has teamed with Lacoste for its fall issue, in what can best be described as a “wearable publication.” Instead of just publishing a magazine, Visionaire has produced photographically printed Lacoste polo shirts with artwork from Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Karl Lagerfeld, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar musicians David Byrne and Michael Stipe, and painter Richard Phillips. Each issue, which costs $250, will include three polo shirts from the collection (in small, medium and large) and all 12 images from the contributors, contained in a shiny large, white box that looks more like a suitcase.

Phillips captured Coco Rocha on one of the polo shirts and Rocha’s body was also molded for a set of 12 mannequins that were created to display the shirts. The mannequins will go on display in galleries and special project spaces worldwide. “It was a little more awkward than anything,” said Rocha, describing the three-day molding process. “It’s definitely a little odd to have a mannequin made after you, but it’s also flattering.” In a few days, Rocha said she will leave work behind for five weeks of vacation in Vancouver, her hometown. Editor Cecilia Dean said Lacoste is sponsoring the fall issue and came up with the idea of taking the pages of Visionaire and printing them on its polos. “There is a total of 4,000 issues,” she said. “It will be available at select Lacoste stores around the world, bookstores and museums shops. This has been a work in progress since 2006 and it turned out even better than I imagined it would.”

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CONDE NAST NEWS: MEN'S VOGUE WILL INCREASE ITS RATE BASE BY 50,000

As reported in WWD:

One day down, the next day up. While Men’s Vogue earlier this week reported a 4 percent decline in ad pages through September compared with the first nine months of 2007, the Condé Nast title seems more confident in its circulation growth for next year. The three-year-old magazine will increase its rate base by 50,000 copies as of its February 2009 issue, to 400,000. Subscriptions have grown to about 287,000, while newsstand sales for the title have averaged 53,000 copies for the five issues published in the first half of 2008, according to figures from Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Rapid Report. Even with the rate base increase, Men’s Vogue will be less than half the size of corporate sibling GQ (with a rate base of 875,000) and smaller than Details, which has a rate base of 425,000. Details carries about 340,000 subscriptions and sold on average 72,000 copies a month during 2008’s first half.

Men’s Vogue also has made several changes to its masthead. First, deputy editor Ned Martel has been named editor at large. In his new role, Martel will write longer pieces and a television column for the magazine, and is currently on the road with the Barack Obama campaign for a story. Replacing Martel will be Mark Rozzo, who was promoted from articles editor, and Taylor Antrim will succeed Rozzo as articles editor. Antrim will join the magazine Aug. 1 from Forbes Life, where he was senior editor since 2005 and oversaw design, architecture and real estate stories.

On the ad side, Men’s Vogue has hired longtime American Express executive Diego Scotti as associate publisher of marketing. Most recently, Scotti was vice president, head of global advertising and agency relations for the financial services company, and spent 15 years there in a variety of positions in marketing, communications, sales and business development. His appointment is effective Aug. 27.

Before I branched the blogs out to different segments, I posted on this on Conde Nast, July 8th:

You don't need us to tell you that times are tough.

It's even tough for the magazine industry--such a shallow industry too!!!!

As I posted yesterday, Gawker.com made the insinuation that MEN'S VOGUE is becoming slimmer and slimmer with each issue.

I have a subscription to MEN'S VOGUE (since the first issue) and I have noticed the magazine is slimmer than its first couple of issues!!!!

Now the site reports that Conde Nast is folding one of its mags, Golf for Women.

All due to ad pages not being up.

And WWD reports that Conde Nast will not produce a VOGUE LIVING supplement to be shipped out with the VOGUE November issue. The reason citing the "ad climate."

Conde Nast does plan to still produce a Spring edition of VOGUE LIVING.

Little ol me has so many ideas that would help Conde Nast...they should call me!!!

I have so many VOGUE cover ideas among other and these IDEAS DO NOT EVEN INCLUDE THE NOTION OF A PUTRID FOULTROLL on a cover--ever!!!!!!

SHADES OF LIGHT

Galliano's signature newsprint produced into a bag.

LA*SURFPUNK's favorite designer, John Galliano has signed a five year licensing agreement with Italy's Marcolin to produce and distribute John Galliano eyewear.

What will they look like ...I have a million ideas---

White origami shaped lens holders?

Or what about the John Galliano newsprint all over on a white background??

Thursday, July 24, 2008

UNKLE AUTHOR--OLD POST FROM 5/19/08

Karl Lagerfeld is tubthumping his new book Metamorphoses of an American at a New York gallery Friday night.

It features five years of photos of model Brad Kroenig!!!!!!

HOT DA--YUM!!!!!!!!

We needs to gets this jack-off material, errr um, book!!!!!!

Maureen Orth yesterday posted a piece on the Lagerfeld/Kroenig relationship for Vanity Fair yesterday:

"'Have you met Brad?' Lagerfeld asked. Brad Kroenig, a top male mode who, at 6 foot 1, looks vaguely like Matthew McConaughey, was sparkling in the same silver sequined jacket he’d worn to the Met Costume gala the night before. He and Lagerfeld attended New York’s 'party of the year' together, and they had just arrived in Paris the afternoon I saw them, none the worse for wear. Kroenig, an easy-going 29-year-old with the uncanny ability to transform himself to look like everyone from James Dean to Errol Flynn, is the American whose 'metamorphoses' Lagerfeld has been documenting for the past five years. 'I thought it would be interesting to follow the physical evolution of someone,' the designer told me in his rapid-fire German accent. 'Without him knowing it, he has an unbelievable range. It’s a kind of gift. He knows nothing about these things. It’s fun for somebody to skate on these images and interpretations without being an actor—the characters, the situations, the attitudes, while at the same time to stay a completely modern all-American.'"

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DRAGULOUS

Actor Gerald Butler was at the Versace show for Milan Fashion Week 2009.

Donatella Versace was in full-on drag regalia with her peroxide blond wig, over-baked tan, and pudgy duck lips.

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GREAT WALL OF CHANEL

I know this is old news but I still love this.

As you know, I absolutely love KARL LAGERFELD. I know, I hear the collective sighs from all you fagulous fags and I see you rolling your eyes. The creative genius never stops giving you, "THERE, BITCHES, TAKE THAT!" For his Parisian couture show he gave an ERECT 75-foot-high Chanel jacket.

I'll take that in size XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL!!!

Talk about a COAT OF ARMS!!!!!!!

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YOU KNOW I LOVES ME MY UNKLE KARL

Here is an article/interview of Karl Lagerfeld taken from Women's Wear Daily.

WWD COLLECTIONS: Man in Motion
By Miles Socha
Karl Lagerfeld enters his futuristic new apartment on the Quai Voltaire—which resembles the command deck of some ultraluxurious spacecraft—and flicks a switch. Suddenly, the milky glass walls lining his vast living room/study splinter into panels that swivel open to reveal bookshelves, the motorized system emitting a high-pitched whir redolent of a Formula One race.

The sound effect is apt for the on-the-go life of Lagerfeld: a dizzying whirl of collections, fashion shows, editorial and advertising photography, exhibitions and book publishing. And yet the man still finds time to send countless handwritten notes and faxes, stay up to date on news and gossip, shop for the latest Japanese men’s wear (N.Hoolywood being his latest find) and run his own bookshop—seemingly knowing every word and image in each title it stocks.

“I hate leisure,” the designer hisses gleefully from behind his mirrored Michalsky wraparound sunglasses, “except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. I’m pretty lucky to be doing what I’m doing in beyond-perfect conditions.” Lagerfeld also counts himself lucky for having robust health and a disposition—merciless though it may seem—that drives him to forever ask, “What’s next?”

The answer, as always, is plenty. While scores of designers make a beeline for the beach or a spa to collapse and recharge after the grueling pace of fashion weeks, Lagerfeld keeps zooming, locked in high gear. After presenting widely praised fall collections for Fendi (24-karat gold fur skirts), Chanel (pared-down French chic) and Karl Lagerfeld (terrific tailoring), plus hosting a Fendi store opening and Amy Winehouse concert, he was heading to Hong Kong to celebrate the otherworldly Zaha Hadid pavilion he commissioned for Chanel’s ambitious “Mobile Art” project. After that, he was off to New York to lens campaigns for Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld and Fendi ready-to-wear and perfume; to Miami to present Chanel’s cruise collection poolside at the Raleigh hotel, and to Lille, London and Versailles for a trio of photo exhibitions. Not to mention the catalogue-cum–fashion magazine he concocted to showcase Chanel’s pre-fall collection, for which he shot the fashion pages and even the fake ads.

Lagerfeld’s chockablock schedule is a mystery, even to him, though his chronic lateness attests to its utter intensity. “I’m very much a last-minute person,” he says. In fact, he does not like much advance notice on what tasks await him. “I hate to cut my time into pieces,” he says. “I’m not selling my free time, and in any case, I have nothing to sell.”

Given his whirlwind of projects, Lagerfeld’s arresting carousel set for Chanel’s show at the Grand Palais was a witty commentary on both his nonstop life and the fashion world’s relentless pace. It served another purpose, too. The 10-ton structure, which took five weeks to sculpt, was a way for Lagerfeld to pare down his Chanel catwalk, putting the quilted bags, camellias, pearls, bows and hats on his merry-go-round instead of on the models. That put the focus on his long and lean suits, cozy knits, frothed-up miniskirts and low-key evening looks. “I was tired of too much stuff on the girls,” he says in his mile-a-minute parlance. “I wanted to clean up my act a little bit.”

That Lagerfeld dreams up the spectacular sets for all his fashion shows—a towering circular staircase one season, a giant Chanel jacket the next—is testimony to not only his fecund imagination, but to the outsize, anything-is-possible scale of his thinking. And he credits the Wertheimers, who own Chanel, for daring to dream big and invest big.

“When you make a movie, you have to build a set,” he says with a shrug. “This show is shown all over the world. I think [the set] frames a collection in a way. Sometimes you might want to see fashion in a better way in a room with 100 people. But today, you invite 100 people and you make 3,000 enemies.”

For all his obvious talents, Lagerfeld is not a numbers person. He says he has no idea how much the shows and events he envisions cost. Just to install the carousel and the platform on which it stood in the Grand Palais took nine days. The setup necessitated an underground passage to ferry a prostrate Lagerfeld on a wheeled trolley from backstage to underneath the center of the merry-go-round, from which he emerged triumphantly in a wide-shouldered suit by Martin Margiela. “It was like working in a mine in the 19th century,” Lagerfeld says. “I loved it.”

Yet Lagerfeld has no doubts that his incredible bespoke sets bring an avalanche of publicity in return. He notes, for example, that the carousel immediately won Chanel double-page spreads in two major German news magazines, Bunte and Focus, to name a few.

It’s a fair guess that plenty of front-row guests jettison, or ignore, the pack of press photographs Lagerfeld places on the seats at each of his shows for Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld. Not so the editors from far afield, who might not have the budgets to hire top models and photographers or stand a chance of borrowing a Chanel garment. Lagerfeld goes that extra mile, winning recognition for the French brand. “I must tell you, it’s very important to do it yourself,” he says. Likewise for all the photography work he does for fashion magazines: “It is interesting to stay in touch with the fashion world.”

Asked if he ever feels like he’s drowning in work, Lagerfeld replies without missing a beat: “I know how to swim and to dive. I don’t even have the feeling like I’m overstretched. For me, it’s like breathing, as long as it’s fresh.”

It was restlessness that drove Lagerfeld to introduce the Métiers d’Art collection for Chanel: a range of luxurious pre-fall rtw made with the savoir faire of the couture ateliers Chanel owns, among them the embroiderer Lesage, the shoemaker Massaro, the feather artisan Lemarié and the silversmith Goossens.

Lagerfeld, who always has a thick sketch pad at the ready, picks up a pen and maps out all the collections he does for Chanel, including couture and pre-collections, and jabs his pen accusingly at the gap between October and January. What started as a low-key—albeit star-studded—show at Chanel’s Rue Cambon ateliers has morphed into one of Lagerfeld’s roving fashion spectacles.

Last year’s blowout in London, which included a fleet of double-C logoed taxis to ferry guests between a number of glitzy events, will be followed up in December by a show in Moscow. In Lagerfeld’s mind, it’s essential to feed a global brand with fresh fashions every month or so. “Temptation has to be permanent,” he says, flashing a big smile.

Lagerfeld is not prone to self-reflection, but muses on his uncanny ability to juggle such a workload. “I have very little social life. I can do without a social life. At the same time, I cannot cross a street alone,” he says. “Fashion and the way it is now, it’s like the life of an athlete. It’s OK with me, I’m used to it. Appetite comes from eating.”

One time-saver for Lagerfeld is that he doesn’t have a proper office and he never, ever does meetings. He confesses he’s not even sure where to find the offices of key executives at Chanel, like Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion. If he or Alain Wertheimer need to discuss something with Lagerfeld, they come see him in the studio.

And when he sets down his pen, his camera and his books, he sleeps seven hours a night without waking. “It’s the payback of a healthy life,” he says. “Collections, books and photos—that’s what I’m interested in most.”

The one thing he fights to find time for is illustrations. “I love to do illustrations. I have several book projects, but I have no time to do them.”

Not that he’s complaining. “I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over,” he says. “The most important thing in fashion is lucidity, if you want to last.”

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CRUISE CONTROL

Karl Lagerfeld showed the Chanel Resort 2008 collection in Miami.

Here are some of images of BLOND UBERHOTNESS Brad Kroenig!!!

I want that MAN .......

AND THE SWEATER!!!!!!!!

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A SHOE IN

Again, we heart the plaid messenger bag....perfect for scripts at a table reading with the director and cast.

FIERCE SHOES!!!!! We love Galliano's take on the Balenciaga shoes of F/W 07!!!

WE WANT THOSE SHOES!!!

Kind of always reminded me of Lego's when I first saw the Balenciaga version.

What do you think??

Would you wear them???

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A VESTED INTEREST

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SHINING MOMENT

The whole silhouette gives a nice lean, leggy look.

The jacket is MUST HAVE!!!!!! Perfect day and evening.

Where is the trunk show???????

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TEE OFF

Must haves each season are his polos and ts!!

We love the cob-webbed face...we'll try that Saturday night for Factory!!!!!

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TODAY'S NEWS

SUIT UP

We love this suit with the zippered front and the embellished sleeves.

WE DEF. would wear this to an editors meeting with Ms. Wintour at the Conde Nast offices!!!!

Andre Leon take note---IT'S NOT A CAFTAN OR CAPE!!!!!!!

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THE JACKET OF THE SEASON/YEAR/DECADE/CENT....

We love this fitted jacket with the piping. This will go great at a studio meeting or signing our contracts at CAA then off to Orso's for a celebration dinner.

We will wear this jacket 24/7!!!!!

We love the Galliano beanie as well...perfect for the beach, grabbing a coffee, or memorizing sides!!!!!

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I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE....

We love the second still with the iconic graphic t-shirt and the boxing ring shorts!!

The newspaper print tanks and banana skivvies of the last image!!!

These are your key core pieces to last for years!!!

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PURE GALLIANO--MAGICAL, WHIMSICAL, COLORFUL

Notice the iconic Galliano t-shirt in the last still--always a MUST HAVE each season.

The pirate influences; the eighties influences of neon pinks, yellows and blues.

We love the acid green shoes!!!!!

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PERFECT FOR MICKEY'S OR FIESTA CANTINA--LOL

Can't you see influences of the young Tokyo school girls.

The whole look is Power Puff esp. the shoes.

We actually love the plaid messenger bag.

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I HEART JOHN GALLIANO

Every season there is one and ONLY ONE MENS' show that LA*SURFPUNK awaits anxiously to revel, gasp, ponder, and imbibe in and that is John Galliano's MENSWEAR.

We love John Galliano!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lucky enough for us, the Saks on Wilshire carries some of his line.

For S/S 09, Galliano delivered in his pure, truest form.

When you look at Galliano's entire line you see the PUNK and ANARCHY themes that run from beginning to end. But, this season he gave us new iconic images to be inspired by with lots of neon,pop colors and whimsical embellishments on sleeves and pant legs. It was a collection that always bombards you with so much that you have take a moment and make a numbered list of what his muses were.

We saw influences that included manga boys from Osaka, Pearly Kings from London's East End, and fearsome Gurkha warriors, Jack-the -Ripper and Quentin Crisp.

His Quentin Crisps icons reminded me of Lucille Ball too.

What we got for S/S 09 were really some wearable pieces.

We love his newsprint shirts and pants and underlings--they are iconic and timeless--if you can, always invest in these pieces ...they will last for years!!!!

Brown leather jackets with Nehru collars were fresh.

Punk rock plaids and madrases were enthusiastically made into messenger bags, skirts, jackets and pants.

We LOVED the tailor/fitted jackets in blue satin with white piping. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this jacket...it will be our key piece to buy for Spring 09.

We loved his polo and t-shirts with the iconic transfers---soooooooo GALLIANO!!!

We'll order one of each.......

A pinstriped duster and croc-stamped biker jacket were some beautiful additions.

We especially loved Galliano's underwear license--pajama pants, briefs with bananas, gold bikinis, boxing ring shorts with the iconic "G," natch!!!!!

We loved the gothy gestures on the faces--spider-webbed chins and cheeks..kudos to Pat McGrath and Julien d'Ys.

Milliner Stephen Jones created some great headwear, i.e. our favorite: the pirate sword.

Ohh--John--you do this to us every season...we are going to have to skip some rent payments and dinners out to place trunk show orders!!!!!!

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CHRISTIAN SIRIANO DEBUTS ON BLUEFLY

The International Herald Tribune reports:

By Eric Wilson

Thursday, July 24, 2008

TWO episodes into the fifth season of "Project Runway," unofficially subtitled the Farewell to Bravo season, the competition that seems to be shaping up is less about who is the best designer and more about who can come up with the best catchword.

Um, girlicious? Not likely to go mainstream, Blayne.

For this, we can thank Christian Siriano, the winner of season four and progenitor of the word "fierce" as a description for just about anything meeting the stylistic threshold of a drag queen.

Siriano, 22, is by most accounts a design prodigy, one of the few alumni of the series who has a rightful claim to a future career in fashion. Since he won in March, Siriano has been lining up sponsors to show a full signature collection during Fashion Week in September, but he has also designed prom dresses, small collections for Puma and — as part of the "Project Runway" prize package — a nine-piece distillation of his look for Bluefly, the online retailer, which went on sale Wednesday.

"Obviously, everything that is said on that show is said over and over again and sticks in people's heads," Siriano said. "So when you finish, it's like people ask me every day: 'Where is it?' 'Did you get your car?' 'Where's your Bluefly line?' It's like, 'It's coming lady, calm down.' "

It's here. The clothes are a little more fitted and a lot less ruffly than what Siriano showed during the show's finale, but the flavor is still there. For example, the most extravagant look is a black cotton blouse with puffy organza sleeves, for $590, called the "Posh," after Siriano's most vocal supporter, Victoria Beckham. A jersey T-shirt, for $96, is trimmed with a row of neat pleats at the shoulders and is called the "Transylvania." (His other catch phrase from the show was "hot tranny mess.")

"We named all the pieces hilariously because it's superfun," said Siriano, before offering a taste of the trademark attitude that made him famous — well, reality-show famous — when asked about the new season.

"I met some of the new designers, and I think they're a little forced," he said. "And I don't think the clothes are that great either."

To his credit, he did not once utter the word fierce.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: GARRETT NEFF

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

LAND OF THE LOST

ARMANI OLE!

MUSEUM QUALITY

CALVIN KLEIN TO SHOW IN NY

DECLINED--NEXT

ALL THINGS MARC JACOBS

Monday, July 28, 2008

CAROLYNE ROEHM'S EX

Saturday, July 26, 2008

FILE UNDER: WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN

Friday, July 25, 2008

CHRISTIAN SIRIANO WAXES FIERCELY

LACOSTE A LA KARL LAGERFELD

CONDE NAST NEWS: MEN'S VOGUE WILL INCREASE ITS RATE BASE BY 50,000

SHADES OF LIGHT

Thursday, July 24, 2008

UNKLE AUTHOR--OLD POST FROM 5/19/08

DRAGULOUS

GREAT WALL OF CHANEL

YOU KNOW I LOVES ME MY UNKLE KARL

CRUISE CONTROL

A SHOE IN

A VESTED INTEREST

SHINING MOMENT

TEE OFF

TODAY'S NEWS

SUIT UP

THE JACKET OF THE SEASON/YEAR/DECADE/CENT....

I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE....

PURE GALLIANO--MAGICAL, WHIMSICAL, COLORFUL

PERFECT FOR MICKEY'S OR FIESTA CANTINA--LOL

I HEART JOHN GALLIANO

CHRISTIAN SIRIANO DEBUTS ON BLUEFLY

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