the PIPELINE: Style on Tap

• July 3, 2009 9:21 AM
• Best of the Week

Best of the Week: June 29-July2

By Roxanne Fequiere

1. Add Fireworks to Your Wardrobe With Our Stars and Stripes Special—Starry heels by Marc and a striped pin-up swimsuit? God bless America!

2. Hot & Hardcore: Alice, Lizzy, and Eliza Rock Gold-Nailed Gloves, Razor Sharp Necklaces...and Nipple Studs—Nipple studs aside, we're dying to go the edgy route with these spiky, sexy pieces.

3. Take 2: Our Most Notable Fall Campaigns... With Superlatives!—Voted Most Likely to Get Us Psyched for the Upcoming Season.

4. It's a Shoe-In! Nylon and Nike Celebrate a Bright New Collaboration—Candy-colored kicks, cool kids, and most importantly, food.

5. Make Waves In Our Sun-Kissed Beach-Bound Picks—Sand, surf, and style...the three components of a fantastic day at the beach.

6. First Look! Opening Ceremony's Fall Lookbook Makes Staying Warm Look So Cool—Planning your fall wardrobe has never been so easy.

7. 20 Sale Items Under $100 For Summer and Beyond—There's something for everyone in this all-chic, all-cheap shopping round-up. Soldes!

8. Revealed: Dree Hemingway's Ultra-Cool Pad...—Are we seriously the only people in the world who dig this girl's style?

9. Street-Style Stars Take a Lesson From Old Hollywood's Elite—The classic style of the grand dames of cinema get a street style-savvy modern makeover.

10. Bad Men: 10 Looks From Men's Fashion Week You Don't Want to Try At Home—Includes tube tops, speedos, and mummies. You've been warned.

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• July 3, 2009 9:03 AM
• Link Love

It Happened This Week: Intern Kanye, Princess Tinsley, and Psycho Mulder

By Xiyin Tang, Photoshop Magic by Lisa Dionisio

1. Kanye West is interning at the Gap, sometimes even staying as late as 12 a.m! Indeed, making photocopies is hard work. (NBC)

2. Next year's Met Ball looks to be even more underwhelming than this year's. (FWD)

3. We find out what Chase Crawford's forehead looks like. Perhaps he got sick of being compared to Zac Efron. (People)

4. Rachel Zoe will come out with a GOOP-style newsletter which promises to be—what else?—bananas. (BlackBook)

5. Beyoncé to launch heinous clothing line with equally heinous name: Sasha Fierce. (WWD)

6. Model Karen Mulder is apparently making threatening calls to her plastic surgeon because said surgeon refuses to reverse some "unspecified procedure." (UK Vogue)

7. The Tinz is determined to ditch her lowly, peasant-like Park Avenue roots (and Topper, sniff) for the high and mighty world of German aristocrats and castles. (NYP)

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• July 2, 2009 5:30 PM
• Link Love

Coco Upstages Chanel, DVF Stinks Up The Neighborhood, and Free Labor Is The New Hotness

By Gabriel Bell

You're right, Susie. Our pretty little minds are blown, indeed. (StyleBubble)

Is Diane von Furstenberg trying to poison the Meatpacking District with her perfume? To be fair, this comes from The Post so you practically know it's not true. (NYP)

Tinsley Mortimer offering herself up in trade for a castle, however, well that's just got to be true. (NYP)

Upstaging Chanel Iman's trip to the Teen Vogue closet, Coco Rocha rampages through the Vogue closet. (Vogue Daily)

Wait. Those American Apparel ads are for sheets? We thought they were for the girls. (Racked)

Get your street face on! (Daily Intel)

Not surprisingly, a bevy of skinny folk showed to the launch party for Beth Ditto's Evans plus-size line. (Jezebel)

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• July 2, 2009 4:30 PM
• Under the Influence

Before You Leave For the Weekend, Take Some Styling Tips From Magdalena Fracowiak

By Xiyin Tang

We're about to kick off for the weekend, but we wanted to leave you with this beach-pretty editorial, shot by David Vasiljevic. In case you don't know what to wear for your July Fourth festivities, model Magdalena Fracowiak tries on cute-as-a-button looks that we're determined to reenact: Crocheted socks with mary janes, schoolgirl dresses, floral bloomers (which look refreshingly hip with a simple striped top), and white frocks paired with sailor hats. Just what we need for our weekend in the sun! As for that amazing floppy sunhat...we'll be grabbing the $40 American Apparel gray version and tying a big 'ol scarf around it for our four-hour drive out to the beach. See you by the pool! (Fashion Gone Rogue)

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• July 2, 2009 3:25 PM
• Trend Watch

7 Looks From Men's Fashion Week Any Guy Could Love

By Christene Barberich

Despite recent musings we really and truly are fans of men's fashion. We know it ain't easy to reinvent the suit season after season, that's why we salute all the designers that managed to turn out some fresh man threads, despite the industry's natural penchant for either going too staid or just too crazy. Falling somewhere in the middle are seven looks we totally love: The return of pocket-watches, baggy, slouchy, and—gasp!—pleated trousers, and, wait for it, big big florals (in small doses, of course).


1. The Return of the Pocket-Watch—Now that watches seem to be going by the wayside, the simple chain and pocket version has a really elegant old-man appeal.



Above, from left: Emporio Armani; Z Zegna; Emporio Armani.


2. The Vest Blazer—This only works and looks fantastic layered over something long-sleeved. Think of it as a sharper version of the sweater vest.



Above, from left: Alexis Mabille; Lanvin; Dior Homme.

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• July 2, 2009 2:30 PM
• Lookbook

20 of Fashion's Coolest Kids Don Headgear for Kaiser Karl

By Xiyin Tang

Milliner Maison Michel may have an artistic director who is head of accessories at Chanel (Laetitia Crahay), but it's their fall '09 lookbook, jam-packed with a who's who of the fashion world, that'll really make their pretty little pearls, lace, and feathers fly off the shelves this season. Karl Lagerfeld snapped over 20 notable faces, including Lou Doillon, Sasha Pivovarova, Milla Jovovich, Olivier Theyskens, Sean Lennon, Erin Wasson, Andre (of Le Baron and Beatrice notoriety), Olivier Zahm, and Lara Stone trying on a series of daring headgear, in everything from a silk turban to lace bunny-ears-cum-veil. Makes sense, considering seemingly every downtown don has a penchant for extravagant toppers. Who does the dapper look the most justice?

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