Taylor Momsen looks disgraceful, Courtney Love tweeted too harshly, Olivia Wilde transforms into a Disney Queen, Megan Fox slinks her sultry figure for Armani, Lady Gaga poses in heel-less shoes once again, Toledano speaks out for the first time and more. TGIFashion Files!
1. Want to extend your fashion statement to the streets? Rev up with Fiat 500 Gucci. To celebrate its 90th, Gucci collaborated with Fiat and created a hatchback with signature Gucci red and green stripes, on almost everything. Available for preorder online starting April 1 to June 30. [via Racked]
2. Chanel Iman, the classic endomorph, complains about weight gain. She reveals to Us Weekly:
"It's very difficult for me because I'm naturally skinny ... I have to put on a lot of weight and work out to gain muscle. I love curves and being sexy."
Right... [via TheCut]
3. Alberta Ferretti & Emma Watson team-up. Emma Watson's found her inner-fashionista quicker than most celebs, and now Ferretti debuts the "green capsule" collection, Pure Threads. Available exclusively on albertaferetti.com starting March 21st. Part of the proceeds will go to People Tree, a non-profit organization dedicated to producing low-impact clothing. [via Vogue]
4. Taylor Momsen's coffee-run attire...drag-inspired platform boots and a choker. Cute. [via Tumblr]
5. New Sherbet-Colored Swatch Lady Collection. C'est magnifique! [via Refinery29]
[$50, available at Swatch Lady]
6. Issey Miyake, origami samurai. Miyake conjures a contemporary and experimental runway collection at Paris Fashion Week, with extended and stark lapels, cascading skirts, and zig-zag decor. [via Style.com]
7. Courtney Love Pays $430k For Dissing Designer. Dawn Simorangkir, accuses Courtney Love for ruining her business, after Love ranted on Twitter about the "Boudoir Queen." Love will be making payments up until 2014. [via Fashionista]
8. Backstage at Manish Arora during Paris Fashion Week. [via EnMode]
9. Dior recovers, and Toledano speaks. After a stressful week for both the employees of the house and chief executive, Sidney Toledano, the runway was quintessential Dior, promoting a low-key, professional atmosphere. At the start of the show, Toledano executed his first public statement on the matter: [via NYTimes]
“Since its founding by Monsieur Dior, the House of Christian Dior has lived an extraordinary and wonderful story and has had the honor of embodying France’s image, and its values, all around the world. What has happened over the last week has been a terrible and wrenching ordeal to us all. It has been deeply painful to see the Dior name associated with the disgraceful statements attributed to its designer, however brilliant he may be. Such statements are intolerable because of our collective duty to never forget the Holocaust and its victims, and because of the respect for human dignity that is owed to each person and to all peoples. These statements have deeply shocked and saddened all at Dior who give body and soul to their work, and it is particularly painful that they came from someone so admired for his remarkable creative talent.”
[To conclude the show, Dior employees and assistants bowed in white lab coats, a simple and most sincere gesture.]
10. A glimpse at Dior's Fall 2011 RTW collection [via Style.com]:
11. Check out Sehtareh Mohtarez's cosmic BRIGHTNESS DAWN collection. On-line boutique coming soon! [via NotCot]
12. Take Karl for a dip with Fred Flare's Prèt-à-porTEA bags that combines Assam tea leaves with Naomi Campbell, Donatella Versace, Jean Paul Gaultier, and even the Kaiser. [via NYLON]
13. I've fallen for a shoe trunk. This vintage 1920's Louis Vuitton beaut will be auctioned off at London's Pullman Gallery. Bids start at $68,500. [via Luxist]
14. AnOther's Lovers presents Maison Martin Margiela Bottle Lamps. The lamps are from Margiela's 1999 "13 Objects Collection," a part of the global project of interior design and architecture, encompassing their inclusion of home wear into the Margiela line. [via Anothermag]
15. Derek Blasberg tweets about Lanvin:
Alber is in his element! Billowing sleeves, ruffles and pleats in soft shapes. And who would have thought Lanvin would be so good at flats?
16. Alec Baldwin on the wall, who is the fairest one of them all? Photographer Annie Leibovitz is at it again, transforming celebs into Disney characters. [via Hellomagazine]
[Olivia Wildes as Snow White, & Alec Baldwin as her confidant.]
17. Megan Fox flaunts her finesse for Emporio Armani. [via Styleist]
18. Lady Gaga poses for T. Richardson after a long haul flight. Guess any runway's good for Gaga. [via Telegraph UK]
19. The bed becomes illuminated at SHOWstudio's latest exhibition, "To Bed." Featuring voyeuristic and erotic photography, this selection arouses the somewhat wild instincts of viewers. From sleeping beauties to bathtubs, this collection should be worth checking out. [FFF]
20. Delfina Delettrez's jewelry ellipsis, "Roll-In-Stones" is the new name of her moveable parts collection. Delettrez showed off her collection yesterday in a contraption-presentation at the atelier of couturier Rabih Kayrouz. [via Interview]
21. Manish Arora, F'11 RTW Paris Fashion Week. [via EnMode]
22. Guy Laroche, F'11 RTW Paris Fashion Week. [via EnMode]
23. Harry Halim, F'11 RTW, Paris Fashion Week. [via EnMode]