Lily Allen is no stranger to fashion creation and we imagine has the number of a few of those top designers in her little black book (or mobile phone).
So we’re hardly surprised that the singer has been snapped for next month’s Elle Magazine next to Karl Lagerfeld. Afterall she did help design the Coco Cocoon, an understated new collection of featherweight quilted handbags and travel accessories for Chanel.
We love the black and white contrast of this picture and as always Lily looks fantastic in tight trousers and ankle length boots.
Elle magazine has picked itself up and dusted itself off after Stylista was cancelled on the CW network. Instead, it will feature in MTV’s The City, after the show’s resident ice queen, Olivia Palermo, scored a job in the publicity department of the magazine. Sources say that shooting of season two is already under way, with cameras entering the Elle offices this week. I wonder, will this television venture will be more successful?
Looks like Anne Slowey doesn’t have quite Heidi’s appeal. The Elle fashion news director’s fashion reality show Stylista isn’t exactly raking in the ratings.
It’s coming out below Gossip Girl, which we expected because nothing’s as good as Gossip Girl for your fashion fix. But it’s even below the new 90210.
The competition to become the next Elle editorial assistant attracts 1.97 million viewers a week, compared to similarly-themed Project Runway’s 3 mill a week – on cable, no less.
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Victoria’s Secret’s 2008 fantasy bra. [Outblush] Blake Lively’s completely innapropriate Yale reception dress as Serena, for you to wear more appropriately please.[The Stiletto Jungle]
Did you watch the premiere episode of Stylista? We did, and so did Fashionista. [Fashionsita]
As word trickles in that Nina Garcia is starting to settle in to her new post as fashion director at Marie Claire, the rumor that the magazine will replace Elle as partner for Project Runway is gaining momentum.
Sources have said that Garcia’s requests for high-fashion items for Marie Claire fashion spreads are increasingly at odds with the magazine’s more mass-market sensibility. This would also seem true of the partnership with Project Runway.
Between the move to L.A., the switch to Lifetime, and the addition of Marie Claire, will Project Runway continue be the fashion juggernaut we’ve all come to love? At least all the stars – Garcia, Michael Kors, Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum - have signed on to jump networks with the program.
Could the CW have choreographed “Stylista” to be a any more like “The Devil Wears Prada?” Why Anne Slowey, Elle’s fashion news director, would agree to be portrayed as the evil editrix we go from loving to hate to just plan pitying and reviling is questionable, but I guess it’s just TV and hopefully not real.
Fresh from the Tyra Banks factory of reality shows (read about the ANTM finale here), comes “Stylista,” a show which pits budding fashion mag lackeys against each other to win a coveted position as Fashion News Director Anne Slowey’s assistant.
Clips have become available for us to have our first sneaky peek and it looks so ridic it might actually be good…
To view more clips (and find out our thoughts on them), see below the jump…
Project Runway’s 5th season is its last on the Bravo Network before it moves to Lifetime, and perhaps its last with Elle Magazine as a partner.
Sources say that Marie Claire has expressed interest in working with the show, which would work out especially well given that the magazine is owned by Hearst Magazines, the parent company of which also owns Lifetime.
“We think ‘Project Runway’ is a fantastic show, but to speculate at this point beyond season five would be, as [season four winner] Christian Siriano says, ‘A hot mess!’” a Marie Claire spokesperson commented to WWD.
After yesterday’s announcement that Nina Garcia had left her position as fashion director at Elle, certain editors and industry people felt comfortable expressing their pleasure at the move. There was talk that Garcia hadn’t really been fashion director for years, it was just a title, and she was rarely in the office.
Better swallow those words, people. It looks like all the trouble with Project Runway moving from Bravo to Lifetime has caused problems for the magazine, which is signed on for one more year of participation with Bravo, and Garcia, a popular judge on the program.
Rumors are swirling that Nina Garcia has resigned from her position as Fashion Editor at Elle magazine.
Garcia’s contract was up for renewal and while it is yet to be confirmed, the magazine is said to have parted ways with the Project Runway star.
Last March, she left Elle on maternity leave. Upon her return she was given a monthly fashion column to write. The reasons behind her departure are at this time unclear, but her exit does coincide with the news that Project Runway is jumping channels from Bravo to Lifetime.
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“They were so sweet together,” Ang Lee, who directed Williams and the late Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain, told the magazine. “I ran into Heath at the Venice Film Festival, and he told me about the split. I just felt so sad. I didn’t know what to say to him. They made a great effort.”
We know, we know, we’re just knocking back our February Elle while everyone else is reading the Amy Adams issue already.
But what made us feel better about being behind the times? We notices a lot of affordable footwear in the Elle shops section, and some of it is now on sale to boot!
These shoes look like they cost considerably more than they do, especially when included with editorial selections pricing in the thousands.
We don’t know if we can take any more Tyra Banks. Particularly after realizing how hard it is to find a normal, attractive picture of her for this post – one where she doesn’t have a hairstyle that looks like origami or is trying to look super fierce. But … we digress.
What we can take – and gladly – is a show that focuses on fashion journalism. Banks and Ken Mok, producers of “America’s Next Top Model”, are reportedly working on a new show for the CW where contestants compete for a job at Elle. (Next concern: can we take any more Elle?)
Elle directors Joe Zee and Anne Slowey would judge the would-be journalistas. Since this is the CW, we don’t expect much serious reporting. But we’ve enjoyed other faux-reality glimpses behind the glossies like The Hills and Miss Seventeen, so we would be happy to integrate this into our non-scripted television schedule
Lily Allen is no stranger to fashion creation and we imagine has the number of a few of those top designers in her little black book (or mobile phone).
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