Charlotte Russe x People’s Liberation & Kitson

Charlotte Russe has debuted their fall collection of People’s Liberation and Kitson. Being known for their trendy yet affordable clothes, you should expect to find some really cute looks to offer with fall trends that are perfect for back to school shopping. The price range for People’s Liberation goes as followed: dresses ($37), shirts ($39), and jeans ($99) and Kitson runs from $20 - $40. Both lines are now available in-store and online. People’s Liberation is now sold exclusively at Charlotte Russe.


Kitson for Charlotte Ruse

Below is Charlotte Russe's Fall Fashion video styled by Eric Daman(T.V. Series, Gossip Girl stylist).



-Christopher Nic.

Robin Thicke - "Dirty It Up"

Robin Thicke is back with a bang! His new track, “Dirty It Up”, produced by Scott Storch was what I've been waiting for. I'm pretty sure all you Thicke stans will enjoy it. Listen here!


-Christopher Nic.

I'm Just Wondering...

...Why isn't this girl some designers' muse yet?!

Like, seriously...Rihanna is the epitome of "Dope Like Shit!" Everyone might not be a fan of her music (I don't see why not), but you cannot deny the fact that she is on her way to be iconic in the fashion world. I know she has dabbled in a little business with a few designers but I'm just waiting on something HUGE from her.

I promise you guys will be the first people I tell about it, k?!


-Christopher Nic.

McMenamy Covers Vogue Italia

I was extremely excited when I saw Kristen McMenamy on the cover of Vogue Italia July 2009. Photographed by Steven Meisel and supposedly being a recognition of her supermodel status, the pictures look dope like shit!

Everything about the spread gives me what I need - the clothes, the atmosphere, the theme...everything! It all looks so cold and unalive, which gives inspiration for this upcoming Fall season. !



Sidebar: Is that Kristen's real hair?



-Christopher Nic.

Michael Moore movie to compete at Venice

Moore's other films include Sicko and Bowling for Columbine
Capitalism, the latest documentary from Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore, features in the official competition at this year's Venice Film Festival.

The film, in which Moore looks at the global economic meltdown, is one of 23 titles up for the Golden Lion award.

Others include Werner Herzog's remake of The Bad Lieutenant, starring Nicolas Cage, and Survival of the Dead, George A Romero's latest zombie thriller.

The 66th Venice International Film Festival runs from 2 to 12 September.

This year's event will see John Lasseter and his fellow Pixar directors receive a special award for their animated features.

Toy Story 3D will screen out of competition at the festival, as will a new 3D version of Toy Story 2.

Iconoclastic

US fashion designer Tom Ford also features in the competition line-up with his directorial debut, A Single Man.

Colin Firth and Julianne Moore appear in the film, alongside Nicholas Hoult from TV show Skins.

Also up for the Golden Lion is The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic bestseller starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron.

George Clooney is a regular visitor to the world's oldest film festival
No British films are in contention this year, though Liverpool-born director Alex Cox does feature in the Orrizonti sidebar section.

The iconoclastic filmmaker will be premiering Repo Chick, a sequel to his 1984 cult classic Repo Man.

George Clooney, star of last year's opening film Burn After Reading, is back this year in The Men Who Stare at Goats.

Directed by regular collaborator Grant Heslov, the satirical drama will screen out of competition.

Venice is the world's oldest film festival, having been founded in 1932 in the Mussolini era.

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee will chair this year's jury, which will also feature US filmmaker Joe Dante and French actress Sandrine Bonnaire.

source: bbc

The Black Barbie Issue

This same time last year, Italian Vogue made fashion world history with its "All Black" issue, which sold out on many newsstands. This year, they've decided to go for the same thing, with just a little twist. The issue comes with a delightful spread devoted solely to black Barbies. It is Barbie's 50th birthday, after all, and while this supplement is not full-sized like a regular magazine (it's about 6 inches wide; 7.5 inches long) somehow the doll scale makes sense.

I would've rather seen REAL black models posed, but I guess this will suffice. I still love it!









-Christopher Nic.

Cassie x Dimepiece

Liv Lux has a sneak peak of Dimepiece clothing's new season campaign with singer/Bad Boy 1st Lady Cassie -lovecassie.com- who will be this seasons lookbook model.

“Electro Love” is the name of the campaign AND the name of Cassie's new album Electro Love dropping Fall 09′. The goodies will be available September 2009!


-Christopher Nic.

Cameron, Who?

Photography: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Styling: Panos Yiapanis
Makeup: Lucia Pieroni (Streeters)
Hair: Luigi Murenu for John Frieda (Streeters)

Cameron Diaz covers and shoots a spread for the July/ August issue of V. She gets real sexy this go 'round. I almost couldn't tell it was her, from first glance.

A few facts about the shoot - The corset she's wearing is made of gaffer tape. Her tattoos are NOT real and were painted on just for the occasion by Darryl Gates of Diamond Jacks Tattoo Parlour.

And contrary to popular belief Diaz was not channeling Gwen Stefani, but getting inspiration from Madonna’s True Blue era.






-Christopher Nic.

Gisele Gives It

London Fog is getting ready for fall with an ad campaign featuring Gisele Bündchen. Yes, Ms. Prego, Gisele Bündchen — minus the baby bump. In the ads, Bündchen is posed down in just a trenchcoat. The campaign images revealed Bündchen’s pregnancy, but thanks to the grace of "retouching" her visible baby bump is not shown to “respect her privacy,” said chief marketing officer Dari Marder. What I don't understand is why she decided to hide the pregnancy this time when she didn't mind when she appeared in ad's for Rampage. The ads, which were shot by photographer Nino Muñoz in West Hollywood, will break in October magazines such as Glamour, Elle, Cosmopolitan and Vogue. I think the bump would've look a lot more cleaner and less...slutty, don't you think?


-Christopher Nic.

Melody Ehsani Gives Us A Sneak Peek!

She can't be stopped!!! (Three snaps in a circle honey!). Check out more here

-Doni W.

That Darn Anna...

Recently the members of the CFDA met to discuss options for the fashion industry to overcome the recession. A lot people suggested plenty of ideas from smaller production quantities to quicker fashion week/retail turn-around. But listen to what Ms. Anna had to say according to Jezebel.com...

"But Anna Wintour's proposed solution really takes the cake. The Vogue editor stood up to offer, "Could someone lead a committee that would make ground rules for retailers of when the discounting starts, and then all the retailers can agree to it?" Von Furstenberg interjected that that was illegal — in fact, if the big department stores had any such agreement, it would amount to price-fixing and collusion, an anti-trust lawsuit in the making. "Is that something we can change?" asked Wintour. "We have friends in the White House now!"

Spoiled.

-Doni W.

How Delicious!

DKNY's Be Delicious fragrance is showing it's artisitc appreciation. For a limited time starting in August their beloved fragrance will be sold in special edition bottles as apart of their Art Series. According to nitrolicious.com, the Delicious Art Limited Edition collection consists of a 3.4oz EDP (SRP: $70.00), 1.7oz EDP (SRP: $55.00) and a 5.0oz Body Lotion (SRP: $38.00) and is currently available online at zappos.com, macys.com and sephora.com.

-Doni W.

Wang Style...

Alexander Wang has been making an amazing name for himself, and it's not hard to see why. Click here to purchase these pricey pieces.

-Doni W.

Nina Sky Still Got It

Two days ago at the release party of Fabolous' album, Loso's Way Nina Sky was spotted looking particularly dope. They give me vintage tease down. What do you think?


-Christopher Nic.

Randomness

...If you guys were wondering what momma and daddy were up to lately. :-)


-Christopher Nic.

Choo On This!

Last week, Dani Stahl of Nylon Magazine raids her desk for the hottest stuff of the season. I know you all we're fixed on those Jimmy Choo shoes that she rocked, just as I was. Well if you planned on picking up these beauties, make sure you don't forget the matching clutch.For about $1200, you can add this to the collection. Even though it might be worth more than anything you can actually hold in it (especially if your credit cards have a $500 limit). But it's hot pink, so who cares?! :-)


-Christopher Nic.

Live Life Lavish....

L. Nurse of Triple L Society has some good things going on for Fall 09. Moving away from just a t-shirt brand and into cut and sew and accessories, Triple L is new brand to watch for. I most definitely will be adding their tote bag to my collection, and the embroidered button down is a must have as well. Check out the goods then head here to witness the day in the life of the society.

-Doni W.

Show Some Spirit

This is soo mine, seeing as though I am a 4th of July Baby. :-)

-Chrisopher Nic.

The Trio

This is my new anthem for this rest of the summer.


-Christopher Nic.

How About Last Train To Your Nearest Saks 5th

So, I'm following Dawn Richard on Twitter and I notice she always talks about this chick @KleanTheDream, so I go to check her out. I find out she's 1/3 of the group "Dirty Money", so I'm expecting to be impressed. Buuut, when i go to her twitter page I am highly mistaken.

This is the picture I see.

What the heck is Diddy doing with a chick with these clothes in her wardrobe. She should be shot and stepped on for this. Like, ruffled skirt? Really? Blue jean jacket with NO shirt on under it? And it's not like she got the body of Ciara. She is all wrong, flipped collar and all.

Looking like she hopped out of a 3LW video...smh.


-Christopher Nic.

Cynthia Rowley Resort '10 Collection

The Cynthia Rowley Resort 2010 collection is pretty dope. I was checking the collection out today and I was mighty impressed with the tailored dresses and punchy tops.

But really I really liked about the collection were the two-tone round sunglasses. They’re a bit like a basic black pair that a lot of people have, only with twice as much color. The shades come in three different combos: gray/terracotta, navy/turquoise, and black/baby blue. The cool thing about the shades is that they manage to be both bright and subtle.

The only thing now is to try to catch a good day in Michigan to wear them.

Check out the site here.


-Christopher Nic.

Michael Jackson's contribution to music

Music journalist Paul Gambaccini looks at the impact Michael Jackson, who has died aged 50, had on the music world.

Michael Jackson had two musical peaks: the first with The Jackson 5. Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, ordered his producers and writers to come up with three number ones to launch the group and they actually had four number ones with their first four singles.

They were the template for the boy bands that followed - The Osmonds, who already existed as The Osmond Brothers, copied them.
Michael reached his second peak with Quincy Jones with the trilogy of albums of Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad.

Thriller, interestingly enough - since it is the best selling album in the world - is likely to remain so because people now get their music from the internet, so its unlikely that any album will even sell 50m again.

These were great achievements artistically as well as commercially, and Michael was the first of the great American male video stars in the US.

I Want You Back was the record that bowled over the US - for an unknown kid group to go to number one was pretty amazing and people were asking who was this 11-year-old guy who could dance so well and sing so vibrantly.

"When it came to putting on a live show he paid attention to every detail and executed his ideas brilliantly. He is still to me the best showman ever"

We subsequently learned that their father had been drilling them for years and so they weren't as new as we'd thought, but nonetheless everyone was impressed by Michael and he instantly became a world star.

Billie Jean was very important as it was the song that was the first great American video. There had been great British videos, particularly The Boomtown Rats' I Don't Like Mondays and Bohemian Rhapsody, but Billie Jean made it de rigueur for American artists to make videos as well and that changed everything.

Thriller also spawned that famous video which so many people have bought as well as seen.

When he did the Moonwalk with Billie Jean on the Motown 25 special on TV he won an Emmy award. It was something that looked impossible - he practiced it so much. He learned from Fred Astaire and James Brown and it was something that caught the fancy of people around the world.

I had a conversation with the late John Peel and he agreed that even though Michael Jackson's style of music wasn't his favourite, he was the greatest showman in pop history.

He was not necessarily the greatest record maker and not the best writer because he didn't write many of his hits, but when it came to putting on a live show he paid attention to every detail and executed his ideas brilliantly. He is still to me the best showman ever.

As the years and decades go by, people forget or disregard personal problems. To use the example of an earlier music legend who went his way - Judy Garland - we nowadays just think of the great songs and films and we don't think of her drug problems.

And within a few generations, Michael Jackson will be a great recording artist and that's it. There won't be more than a footnote about the scandals.

Fashion Show Auditions!

That's right! We're having a MAJOR Fashion show this September and we want you to be apart of it! We're holding auditions this Saturday, so if you're in the neighborhood drop by.... If you're not in the neighborhood, MAKE THE TRIP! Here's all the info:

Saturday July 25th, 2009

432 N. Saginaw St. Suite 207

Flint, MI 48502

(Inside the North Bank Center)

1-6pm

$5 Audition Fee

Guys and Girls Welcome

Ladies bring heels of course

See you there

-Doni W.

... oh! and check out this article about the show on mlive.com

Here Comes The Bride

Here are a different styles from a few different designers. Since ladies love to go all out for THEIR big day. Guys, just make sure you don't get anything on that rented tux, lol.


Looking to do it real BIG? Christian Dior is all you.


Want to do a little quickie down at City Hall? Go for this Carolina Herrera.


Planning on getting married on Mars? This is all you. Compliments of Jean Paul Gaultier.


Going for an over-the-top look, but at the same time staying casual Chanel is where your eyes should be set.


If the throw-and-go look is for you, then Yves Saint Laurent has got what you need.


Make sure you send us an invitation. :-)


-Christopher Nic.