Tara Subkoff raises the bar/declare war

[Tinuviel]

^ Thanks a lot, now I'm hungry again.

 

[bellavita]

Rule Number 1: You're only allowed to be a b*tch if you've done something amazing in the industry.

Seriously.. why is she still here?! She needs to be put in desginer-exile right now.

 

[tiffany]

Seriously.. why is she still here?! She needs to be put in desginer-exile right now.

Agree completely!! We should ship her to Siberia or something

I'm convinced that she's completely bitter because she's an awful designer, and doesn't seem to understand that being horrid won't make her any better

 

[Ninja Pirate]

Did she mention that she kills puppies and eats babies? Because she does.

 

[Ninja Pirate]

I still wonder why one of the most talented and stylish men, Wes Anderson, dated her. Thank god they broke up, or else she would have infected him with nast.

She have Jimmy Fallon, just stay away from Wes.

Ugh, I have no good words to describe her. She is a talentless, bitter, pretentious twit who attempts to ride the coattails of her famous (and talented) friends.

Oh yeah, she's a b*tch too.

 

[tiffany]

Did she mention that she kills puppies and eats babies? Because she does.

Omg!! Tara Subkoff = the baby eating Bishop of Bath and Wells!!!
(I'm sorry!! I had to say that )

 

[Ninja Pirate]

Tara Subkoff = the baby eating Bishop of Bath and Wells!!!

 

[Ninja Pirate]

It's Captain Twit!

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Thinking about it. Anna Wintour and YSL could do a tag team on Tara. I reckon Anna could pull a fearsome right hook.

 

[CharlottefromCA]

I didn't even know she was an actress.. oh brother... she's on IMDB.com and there's a lot of Tara bashing on her page... someone called her fashion line "Immitation of Crap"

 

[Spacemiu]

She's a b*tch but I agree with her mostly

 

[Ninja Pirate]

http://thefashionspot.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=102066

Hahhah! Oh my god! A++!

Wintour all the way!!!!

 

[Diorling]

In response to everything. b*tch.

She is no one to have a big mouth, Karl could say it because he is KARL LAGERFELD...She is nobody. How dare she use the word queen, b*tch.

 

[daisies]

oh tara.

I guess all that tara bashing at least proved true.
I just met a vintage store owner In L.A. who told me some great stories of Tara switching labels/ so often in her store that she had to ban her. She would take a thousand dollar suit and put an $80 dollar tag on it. Other Melrose shops have said she is banned for trying to steal stuff or switching tags in the dressing room. So I guess her ragpicking days may be over if every store eventually bans her. Then where will she find her ideas?

 

[tiffany]

Thinking about it. Anna Wintour and YSL could do a tag team on Tara. I reckon Anna could pull a fearsome right hook.

My money's on Anna

 

[andrew]

It's too bad that one of the most beautiful, lyrical of fashion brand names I have ever heard (Imitation of Christ) is in the hands of someone apparently incapable of utilizing even the most basic potential of that name. There are a lot of concepts and aesthetics that can be explored within those references... What a waste.

So you all know what I'm talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_of_Christ

 

[yourbestfriend]

Did she mention that she kills puppies and eats babies? Because she does.

 

[shambles]

It's too bad that one of the most beautiful, lyrical of fashion brand names I have ever heard (Imitation of Christ) is in the hands of someone apparently incapable of utilizing even the most basic potential of that name. There are a lot of concepts and aesthetics that can be explored within those references... What a waste.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_of_Christ

Very eloquently stated. And I agree.

 

[zamb]

different article, same story

Subkoff Says
Pearls from The New Yorker's Generation X lecture

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

The New Yorker's Judith Thurman, Behnaz Sarafpour, Alice Roi and Tara Subkoff
© www.startracksphoto.com

(NEW YORK) What happens when you get three female designers that are as diverse as they are talented into one small auditorium and host a discussion with no pre-determined subject? An anything goes chat fest that at times tested certain guests’ verbal pain threshold.

At The New Yorker’s lecture entitled “Generation X” this past Saturday, fashion writer Judith Thurman monitored a panel that included Alice Roi, Behnaz Sarafpour and IOC's Tara Subkoff. Right off the bat, Subkoff, dressed demurely in a floral printed dress, jacket and sweet heels, immediately corrected Thurman on the proper pronunciation of her last name. “SUB-koff, not sUB-koff,” she noted dryly. Among the other points Subkoff made throughout the conversations:

“Vogue is the dominating factor in the US. It’s all political and nowadays it’s all about advertising dollars.”

Subkoff on how she chose what she wore to the lecture: “I just tried to find what’s clean.”

To Thurman: “There should be a couple of prominent gay men. I find it odd that there are no men here. I mean, where are the queens?” (For the record, two were scheduled to participate but dropped out last minute.)

Subkoff: “Women are extremely unsupportive of each other,” she said. “And Anna Wintour has always supported young, gay men—not women at all.”
Thurman to Sarafpour: “But Anna supported you right?”
Subkoff: “Maybe Benhaz’s approach is more masculine.”

Tara Subkoff's IOC dress
© www.startracksphoto.com

After Thurman noted that Subkoff was the creative director at Lalique, the designer corrected her by saying, “I was supposed to be the creative director but because it was printed in the press before it was supposed to, the chance was lost.”

When asked why she chose a red suede dress with hood as the outfit she wanted to discuss and present to the audience, she replied, “I didn’t choose this one, my press office did. If I had chosen it, I wouldn’t have picked this one. This is one of the reasons why I fired my publicist.” Referencing the dress, she said, “I think it’s really good for a modern day Muslim.”

“I was a rag-picker back when I worked at Isaac Mizrahi and Donna Karan,” she said. What is a rag-picker? “We would scour for vintage fabrics and then they would be sent down the runway after the pattern makers were done with them unaltered.”
Sarafpour: “I don’t employ any rag-pickers.”
Subkoff: “Behnaz, out of all the dresses, yours is the most Fifties Audrey Hepburn retro.”

When asked by an audience member what she thought of her clothes being a political protest, she said, “I think I must not be very intelligent,” which garnered a round of sarcastic applause. “Thanks for the love and warmth,” she replied.

Another audience member asked if the panelists would advise their children to go into fashion. “I’m not having children ever, so I don’t know how to answer that,” she said.
JIM SHI

 

[Ninja Pirate]

I guess all that tara bashing at least proved true.
I just met a vintage store owner In L.A. who told me some great stories of Tara switching labels/ so often in her store that she had to ban her. She would take a thousand dollar suit and put an $80 dollar tag on it. Other Melrose shops have said she is banned for trying to steal stuff or switching tags in the dressing room. So I guess her ragpicking days may be over if every store eventually bans her. Then where will she find her ideas?

Oh my god. Wow. I don't doubt it.

And someone here mentioned they know someone who worked for her? What'd they say? She seems like she'd be a jerk to work with