Designer & Fashion Insiders Behavior (PLEASE READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING)

[Phuel]

I'm all for self awareness and acknowledging your talents but to call yourself the King of Vintage (or anything in general)... b*tch, sit your Instagram *** down. Period. Bleugh!

Sadly, his self-serving attitude is pretty prevalent with certain types of the gay/drag population: Entitled, arrogant, pompous, self-inflated and all led by ego. And unfortunately someone like him is absolutely encouraged, enabled to a god-like complex by SM which empowers this type of attitude rather than a humble one. I don’t blame a narcissist like him (or that Billy Porter person) for exploiting every opportunity handed to him by his enablers because why wouldn’t he: Other than self-promotion, he’s not very talented. This society— and the fashion industry, reaps what it sows.

‘luxury’ can be such a tacky word that feels as luxurious as eating from a dumpster so.. it’s not like I wasn’t warned but, this guy is pure trash. He makes you resent the end of fashion exclusivity but in reality it’s just the normalization AND celebration of crassness.. which will end, that doesn’t last forever..

It’s become a tacky AF term because of individuals such as him that’s stripped off any sheen to the imagery of “luxury”— in much the same way as those “real housewives” have absolutely trashed the term “lifestyle”. Nowadays, anyone that uses these words to describe their standards, are the same as those that insist on being and looking “classy” LOL

 

[lucy92]

i recently finished alexandra shulman's book "clothes and other things that matter".
some bits of the book seemed disingenuous - the first chapter said she was fretting about her pension. is she really worried about her pension with her property holdings? or is that meant as an attack on CN?

she said that during her tenure vogue UK made 200 millions pounds worth of profit for CN.

when edward was the editor-in-chief in waiting there was a three month period in the run-up to her retirement where he was allowed to hire and fire while she was technically in charge.

after edward started firing people models cancelled their shoots in a show of support for those let go ruining planned editorials and damaging alexandra's reputation.

 

[Benn98]

I haven't read this book but will now. Is she saying she didn't know the models would protest? Very odd if that's the case.
It's common practice for the incoming EIC to purge key staff and start afresh. Get rid of the rotten apples which quite frankly in Alexandra's case was way overdue.

Still surprised that Kate Phelan managed to stay on. I'm sure Alexandra feels some sort of way about that.

 

[Drusilla_]

Wanting credit for... posting a pic of a Versace dress on the red carpet from the 90s.

The internet is such a foul place. This new wave of "fashion" people on social media are so weird and entitled. I've seen people with large followings literally come on TFS, steal someones scanned pictures to post on their twitter/insta, and get angry and demand credit when then others "steal" and repost the already stolen images on their social medias. Demanding credit for... the image you took from TFS, that someone else scanned, from a magazine, who published a photographer's work, that has been out in the universe for 30 years. Seek medical attention and go touch grass

The irony is that this girl wanted "credit" for the "styling idea" and thinks she should get it on the basis of Bella Hadid being in her comments.... meanwhile, I saw zero credit to the original photographer of the images she posted (Ron Galella, if anyone's asking).

Because the way I see it, she's neither a) the photographer of the original image (b) the stylist of the original outfit/hair/makeup (c) the designer of the outfit. Literally all three of those are other people's work. But her idiot fans still thought posting a picture makes it her "idea" and "intellectual property", with literally no idea what that means.

It's a direct result of tumblr culture which bled into instagram culture imo - I can't count the number of times I posted pics or scans to tumblr with all credits listed, and inevitably the rebloggers would strip out all credits and act like they own the pic for posting it. And even if she posted the picture... so what? Styling is not moodboard "curation" or just "hey I think this dress [from a very famous label that follows the current trend exactly] would look great on [insert celebrity name here", and this girl has no apparent experience or contacts.

Whatever you think of Law Roach, he is the one who did the actual styling including getting hold of the actual dresses out of Versace's archive (brands aren't going to lend archive pieces to just any rando), styling the full look including hair and accessories, and was responsible for the final look. Sure, Bella could get any dress because she has connections to Donatella Versace directly, but like I said - it takes more. Also, it's a fact he's been using archive pieces on his favoured clients for red carpets for a couple of years now, and was an early mover in that regard. I'd be pretty irritated too, if some idiot with an "archive" account and an inflated head on account of a few celebrity follows, started pulling this nonsense. If we follow Kim's logic, every single person who's ever posted old magazine scans or pictures to TFS (and many of us do this by actually buying the issues) is also a "stylist", but at least we follow rules here that require us to credit our sources.

 

[Drusilla_]

I haven't read this book but will now. Is she saying she didn't know the models would protest? Very odd if that's the case.
It's common practice for the incoming EIC to purge key staff and start afresh. Get rid of the rotten apples which quite frankly in Alexandra's case was way overdue.

Still surprised that Kate Phelan managed to stay on. I'm sure Alexandra feels some sort of way about that.

I'm going to seriously eyeroll if she pretends to be so naive - she was a veteran journalist before Vogue, there is no way she didn't know what new EICs at any magazine tended to operate like, even if she hadn't experienced it herself. And I say this as someone who liked British Vogue in the 00s, she wasn't the most adventurous or fashion-forward like Franca or Carine but it had its own vibe, the frequent poshname rando profiling notwithstanding. It wasn't till the '10s that things got really stale beyond tolerable levels, by the time Edward was brought in it had been that way for years.

(I know the firing of the 'coven of Rosies' was abrupt but they needed to go. And even they knew their magazine was getting stale and crappy! Lucinda Chambers's Vestoj interview pointed at things being a problem as far back as 2013, the only thing that surprised me was that she was so frank in print about how things went down. Probably thought it being a small publication wouldn't get much traction or spread, but the internet took care of that)

 

[MagFan]

That rando Law Roach did nothing as a stylist with Hadid's Cannes looks. He is not even able to top runway styling These dresses would have looked million times better on mannequin without any "styling" It all was like "Bella, this dress is vintage and some people know where it comes from and they will think that you are such fashionista and fashion icon". It is like name-dropping, nothing more.

 

[Drusilla_]

That rando Law Roach did nothing as a stylist with Hadid's Cannes looks. He is not even able to top runway styling These dresses would have looked million times better on mannequin without any "styling" It all was like "Bella, this dress is vintage and some people know where it comes from and they will think that you are such fashionista and fashion icon". It is like name-dropping, nothing more.

I'm not speaking of any opinion of his styling of those looks, just that Law Roach did the actual styling. Which is a fact. He got the dress from Versace, put it on Bella, got whatever accessories were needed, etc etc. You know, the things a stylist is supposed to do.

Meanwhile, the so-called "researcher" posts a pic with no credits to the photographer and thinks that entitles her to style the dress for the red carpet because Bella replied? Or claim "credit" for posting that (uncredited to the photpgrapher by her) pic?

Your opinion of his work is one thing, but he actuallly did the work. She did f***-all besides posting a pic.

 

[lucy92]

All of Stella McCartney's fragrances have been discontinued and taken off the market (although older items still appear on the gray market).

The fragrance license was last held by Coty. Why hasn't the license been transferred/sold to another entity?

 

[Deleted member 116957]

All of Stella McCartney's fragrances have been discontinued and taken off the market (although older items still appear on the gray market).

The fragrance license was last held by Coty. Why hasn't the license been transferred/sold to another entity?

This makes me feel oddly sad. Stella was one of the first perfumes I remember purchasing as an "adult" and it reminds me so much of my early university days, I think I still have a practically full bottle hanging around somewhere. It got me away from my inexplicable love of Hot Couture by Givenchy as a teenager.

 

[lucy92]

Dana Brown has a new memoir out about life at Vanity Fair/Conde Nast entitled Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster. He started as Graydon Carter's assistant and became his deputy.

I finished this book that was an insider view on Vanity Fair during Graydon Carter's tenure Think 1992 or so until 2017. Brown also interviewed with Anna Wintour for the EIC role at VF that eventually went to Radikha Jones. He knew he wouldn't he fully considered for the role and the interview was merely a courtesy. As he was Graydon's deputy he was gotten rid of by Jones when she took over.

Brown comes off as completely relatable. He also laments how glamour is gone is gone from the industry nowadays.

 

[DK92]

Did something happen to D&G? They turned off comments on all Instagram posts!

 

[FelipeV]

Nancy González has been arrested in Colombia for smuggling exotic-skin bags to the US.

Fashion designer featured in Sex and the City is charged with smuggling $10,000 crocodile handbags | Daily Mail Online


elcolombiano.com


eltiempo.com

 

[axiomatic]

You can get federal prison time in the US for violating the Lacey Act and the Endangered Species Act. I wish governments would do more to stop the wildlife trade

 

[FelipeV]

You can get federal prison time in the US for violating the Lacey Act and the Endangered Species Act. I wish governments would do more to stop the wildlife trade

She'll be extradicted to the US and faces as much as 20 years. I never liked her.

 

[Frederic01]

DIET PRADA

 

[susseinmcswanny]

And they retracted it. That is like kind of embarrassing lol

 

[MulletProof]

I don’t know but DP’s way of telling you an incident haha soo Fox News, really the lowest of the low in terms of fAsHiOn jOuRnAlisM~.. manipulative and making sure there’s no room for questioning, just come together and judge them for being a vile company! now I’m wondering if they were invited to the show lol, there must be more to this..

As for the designer lady no one really knows and that got arrested: thanks for producing more content for these ‘Border Security’ shows, I live for that stuff ..

 

[Frederic01]

And they retracted it. That is like kind of embarrassing lol

So embarrassing!


WWD

 

[Salvatore]

That was such a weird, greedy, petty move on Dior’s part.

 

[Drusilla_]

It's such a 'let me get my popcorn' kind of development, I haven't seen this kind of feud between brands/designers in ages, of course it was defused it in a day because Dior got that 100k worth of publicity.