Mr. Wonderful: Josh Radnor

Mr. Wonderful: Josh Radnor: "The How I Met Your Mother star on his exuberant new indie film"

The Lover: Javier Bardem

The Lover: Javier Bardem: "In Eat, Pray, Love, he will have you screaming for amor"

Red Carpet Buzz: Whitney Port

Red Carpet Buzz: Whitney Port: "The Whitney Eve designer wears Matthew Williamson to the finale of The Hills"

Mulberry's Margaret Bag

Mulberry's Margaret Bag: "Mulberry has a royally wild time celebrating its Margaret bag in London"

Alexander Wang Expands T

Alexander Wang Expands T: "The designer expands his affordable T line and gives his ultracool cult following something to really slouch about"

Makeup Trend: Blue Eye Shadow

Makeup Trend: Blue Eye Shadow: "Top experts reveal why sapphire, teal, aqua are smoking-hot—and how to pull it off"

Destination Style

Destination Style: "Don't leave home without these hot styles for your summer destination from Berlin to Montezuma"

Fertility Treatments: Would You Get Selective Reduction?

Fertility Treatments: Would You Get Selective Reduction?: "After learning she’s pregnant with twins, one woman struggles over whether she should get the controversial procedure"

Red Carpet Buzz: Ashley Greene

Red Carpet Buzz: Ashley Greene: "The Eclipse star sizzles in Versace"

Fashion Know It All: Shearling

Fashion Know It All: Shearling: "Anne Slowey shows you how to get the right coat"

Be Like Mike: Michael Keaton

Be Like Mike: Michael Keaton: "Michael Keaton may have superhero on his résumé, but no one, he tells Andrew Goldman, can compete with Mister Rogers"

Red Carpet Buzz: Kate Bosworth

Red Carpet Buzz: Kate Bosworth: "The actress celebrates Burberry Beauty at an L.A. garden party"

Claire Danes’ Beauty Secrets

Claire Danes’ Beauty Secrets: "The actress reflects on her hair and makeup—from My So-Called Life to today"

Links We Love: Pamela "Meat" Anderson & Material Girl Momsen

Links We Love: Pamela "Meat" Anderson & Material Girl Momsen: "Taylor Momsen is Madonna's new Material Girl. The Gossip Girl rebel didn't even have to remove her raccoon eyes for the Macy's ad. (Styelist)

Courtney Love becomes a fashion...
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Style Showdown: Stacy Keibler Has the Midas Touch

Style Showdown: Stacy Keibler Has the Midas Touch: "Want to know what good accessorizing can do? Just look at Stacy Kiebler and Maria Menounos. Both women have equally svelte, tanned bodies and stunning smiles. So in this fashion face-off, it's...
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Create Ladylike Volume With a Pleated Skirt

Create Ladylike Volume With a Pleated Skirt: "TREND: Pleated Skirts

WHO'S WEARING IT: Kristen Bell (Louis Vuitton), Eva Mendes (Azzaro), Drew Barrymore (Oscar de la Renta)

HOW TO WEAR IT: To get the full ladylike feel...
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Kelly Osbourne Shaves Head After Cutting Fiancé Out of Her Life

Kelly Osbourne Shaves Head After Cutting Fiancé Out of Her Life: "Shortly after breaking up with not-so-model fiancé Luke Worrall, Kelly Osbourne proved that she has washed her ex right outta her hair by partially shaving it.

That's right. The...
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Eye Candy of the Week: Mark Wahlberg Is ESPYs Fine

Eye Candy of the Week: Mark Wahlberg Is ESPYs Fine: "Around the office, we like to call Mark Wahlberg a pocket hottie. He may not have the stature of some of the basketball players who attended the ESPY Awards, but boy, we wouldn't mind having...
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Sun-Safe Style: Alyson Hannigan and Daughter Satyana

Sun-Safe Style: Alyson Hannigan and Daughter Satyana: "Alyson Hannigan has been spending most of the summer on the beach with her adorable daughter, Satyana. So she's gotten the hang of stylish sun protection.

A straw fedora for mom is...
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SCAPE Singapore, Something for the Youth

SCAPE Singapore, Something for the Youth: "Let me introduce you to SCAPE, Singapore’s newest entertainment venue. SCAPE might not be something that for us, as a tourist worth visiting as it is mostly cater to young crowd and more for the local. But for me it’s definitely something to write home about because the concept is so brilliant that I wish [...]"

Care your hair with care

Care your hair with care: "Healthier, sleek and shinier hair is something every women love and desire to have."

When it comes to be a Parent

When it comes to be a Parent: "Getting aware of the fact that how important children are and how much responsible parents should be to make their children proudly stand in the row of respectable and honorable people."

Street Style: Julia Is Never Too Cute

Name: Julia

Age: 32

Occupation: Architect

Where are you from originally? Germany

What is your favorite meal? I love black bread with sunflower seeds in it with liverwurst for breakfast, very German!

How would you describe your style? Comfortable, a little bit hipster and nothing too cute.

What is your favorite magazine? Architecture magazines!… I read fashion magazines like Vogue only when I’m traveling or have nothing to do.

If you were to get a tattoo right now, what would it be? A black lily, which was a symbol for witches in the middle ages, and that has always fascinated me. It’s the only tattoo I’ve ever really considered.

How do you take your coffee? Milk, no sugar. And no French Roast, I don’t like French Roast

What is your #1 beauty product? Neutrogena products for my face

What are you currently reading? The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

Where are your pants from? Stockholm

Where is your bag from? It’s also from Stockholm

How about your top? Anthropologie

And your glasses? My boyfriend

Fashion News Roundup: More Crystal Renn Controversey, Bed Bugs Invade Victoria’s Secret, and Lanvin Lands Stateside

“Renn”ovating The Industry: Crystal Renn sure has been leaving her mark on the fashion industry lately. The size-10 model recently landed a spot in Jean Paul Gaultier’s new campaign, and came under fire for looking slimmer in a Nicholas Routzen-shot campaign for non-profit Fashion for Passion. Glamour’s got the un-retouched photos as well as an interview with Renn, and she says of the photos “in the new pictures…well, that body doesn’t look like my body. It doesn’t.” If that isn’t enough, Renn is now talking of designing her own plus-sized collection. Phew, when does she sleep? {Glamour and Stylelist}

MAC Misstep?: MAC’s Mexico-inspired collaboration collection with Rodarte is set to drop on September 15, but not everyone is excited. The line is coming under some criticism for a nail polish color called “Juarez,” the name of a Mexican town notorious for ignoring the rampant rapes and murders of local women. {The Frisky}



It’s Not Over Until The Exterminator Says So: In yet another cringe-worthy infestation, the infamous chain-store bedbugs have moved on to Victoria’s Secret. Bed begs in underwear? Just terrifying. {Racked NY}

Lanvin Landing: Lanvin is all set to open its first U.S. flagship store next week, at 815 Madison Ave. Rumors of the store-dressings alone have us drooling. {New York Post}

Adventures in Copyright: From Valerie Rubinaccio to Urban Outfitters, It’s A Chain Of Fools

Brooklyn-based Jewelry designer Valerie Rubinaccio was dismayed to find that Urban Outfitters is selling a ring similar to one she designed over a year ago.

The two rings don’t look exactly alike–we much prefer Rubinaccio’s version with multiple chains in varying metals and link size–but the concept is a match.

“It is just hard to see my design being copied and to know where the line of ‘inspiration’ just becomes copying,” says Rubinaccio. “I researched heavily when I first made [the rings] a year ago and I know that these were not being designed/produced before I made them.”

“It’s just unfortunate,” says Rubinaccio. Agreed.

You can buy Rubinaccio’s bad ass chain rings at Kaight on Orchard St. in the LES.

Did UO cross the line? What’s your take?

Bebe Neuworth and Essie Create Morticia Addams-Inspired Polish

Essie has released a limited edition collection of three nail colors inspired by Morticia Addams. They whipped up 5000 sets, called Morticia’s Nails, which are being sold for $30 each. 100% of the profits will be donated to the Actors Fund, a charity started over a century ago to assist those in the entertainment industry.

The project was developed as the brain child of Bebe Neuwirth, who is currently starring as Morticia in The Addams Family on Broadway. Bebe was at the launch, and as a lipstick-challenged person, I can say that she really knows how to wear a red lip. Also, her crisp white shirtdress looked fabulous with a pointy black bra underneath.

The timing for this launch of dark colors may seem strange–middle of summer, nowhere near Halloween–but it makes perfect sense to me. While my toes are still painted turquoise, I’m secretly longing for the dark and dramatic colors of autumn.



The colors are Bone Chilling (white), Midnight Tango (dark navy with a slight shimmer), and Blood Curdling (use your imagination). Midnight Tango is currently gracing my fingers, and while it is clashing horribly with the Essie Greenpoint on my toes, I already received two compliments on it. Apparently everyone else is sick of summery colors, too.

So while I can’t in good conscience recommend Morticia’s severe center part, her nails are, um, fierce.

You can get the set online at The Actors Fund and The Addams Family Musical site. They are available now until they sell out.

Hamish Bowles, Lauren Santo Domingo To Star On Gossip Girl

Photo by Christopher Peterson

Fashion’s Night Out is going to be huge this September.

Vogue has already announced that they will drum up excitement for the September 10th shopping spectacular with the largest fashion show ever staged in New York, featuring over 200 models and seats for 1500 onlookers on September 7th.

And now, FNO is getting a plot line on Gossip Girl starring Vogue staffers.

A tipster sent in this photo of Hamish Bowles and Kelly Rutherford filming in NYC yesterday. The scene was reportedly shot outside of Diane Von Furstenburg’s studio in the Meatpacking district.

If Hamish Bowles’ boob tube cameo isn’t enough, the NY Post is reporting that Lauren Santo Domingo will make an appearance on the show as well.



We also got word from Carlos Miele that the FNO-themed Gossip Girl episode filmed scenes in their store yesterday. What’s more exciting, the scene shot in Carlos Miele’s store features a new character named Eva played by the super stylish Clémence Poésy.

The Fashion’s Night Out episode is set to air September 20th, 10 days after the real FNO, and five day’s after the event’s one-hour CBS special. Set your DVRs.

CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Names Its Finalists

Ten American designers just got a lot happier. The CFDA and Vogue announced their ten finalists for the seventh annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund initiative, and we’re pretty pleased with the results (as we’re sure they are as well).

Though the process is far from being over–the winner and two runners-up will be announced on November 15–having the list in our hands is enough to make us sit on the edge of our seats. The finalists are as follows:

ALTUZARRA – Joseph Altuzarra

BILLY REID – Billy Reid

CHRISTIAN COTA – Christian Cota

EDDIE BORGO – Eddie Borgo

GREGORY PARKINSON – Gregory Parkinson

LODEN DAGER – Oliver Helden and Paul Marlow

MOSS LIPOW – Moss Lipow

PAMELA LOVE JEWELRY – Pamela Love

PRABAL GURUNG – Prabal Gurung

ROBERT GELLER – Robert Geller

The next step is a series of studio visits and interviews that we’d love to be a fly on the wall for. One-of-a-kind looks by each designer will then be unveiled in October (we know that Pamela Love would be happy to draw inspiration from the month alone), and then the decision will be made as to who receives the $200,000 and two $50,000 prizes to further their business. Now we know how you felt, World Cup fans. This is our favorite spectator sport.

My So-Called Lashes: Claire Danes Talks Latisse

Yesterday I attended an intimate luncheon hosted by Latisse–you know, that product that Brooke Shields used to hawk that promises to make your eyelashes grow–to meet with their latest spokeswoman, Claire Danes.

Latisse, made by Allergan, the same folks who brought you Botox, was approved by the FDA at the end of 2008 and launched in March of 2009. To date, over 1.5 million bottles have been sold. The product, as the ubiquitous commercials make plain, is the “first and only prescription treatment approved by the FDA to grow lashes longer, fuller and darker for those with inadequate or not enough lashes (eyelash hypotrichosis).”

Talk about a problem you never knew you had. Whenever I see the commercials I feel bad for my eyelashes and their inadequacies.

So I was curious to find out why Claire Danes, who once uttered, “I bet people can actually die of embarrassment. I bet it’s been medically proven,” as Angela Chase back in 1994 (thanks EW for pointing this out), was shilling for Latisse.

It’s a product that has come under fire for side effects that include discoloration of the iris and eyelid. Danes even admitted to experiencing some redness within the first few weeks of using Latisse. To be fair, these side effects are rare and only effect one to three percent of users. And that NYT article with the scary picture of a woman whose whole eyelids had been discolored by the lash-lengthening drug had used it without a prescription.

When asked about why she’d decided to become the Latisse girl, Danes, who looked stunning in an Alberta Ferretti shift, could only offer that she was curious about the product, and “the more I learned about Latisse, the more impressed I was.” We’re betting she was more impressed with the buckets of money she’s likely making from this gig.

Money aside, Danes’ lashes really did look amazing. They were long and full and dark and I could see all that from across the table. “I’ve never used a product that actually affected real physical change,” she says. If you want proof just look at the before and afters.

While Danes says she never had any “eye lash insecurity…looking back, it seems like I did have inadequate lashes.” The perks? Besides having to use little or no mascara, Danes says butterfly kisses with hubby Hugh Dancy have gotten a whole lot better.

But how about a non-movie star, non-Latisse-spokeswoman’s take on the magic lash potion?

Alyssa Vingan, a frequent Fashionista contributor, used Latisse and she says “it made a huge difference for me–I would definitely recommend it.”

Vingan is a cancer survivor. After undergoing chemotherapy she lost her hair, eyebrows and eyelashes.

“Having no eyelashes was the thing that made me look the worst,” says Vingan. “When you have no eyelashes or eyebrows that’s when you look sick. My eyelashes were the first thing I wanted to come back–that was my priority. So I got a prescription for Latisse from my plastic surgeon and it really did help. I felt better almost immediately after the results started coming in after about a month of using it.”

Vingan stopped using Latisse after a few months, when her hair follicles had “woken up” again. She was also worried about some of the side effects, and found the cost, $120 for a 3mL bottle, prohibitive.

The bottom line is, this stuff seems to work. And for Vingan, it helped make her look and feel “not sick” after battling cancer. That’s pretty awesome.

Editorial Musical Chairs: Kaplan, Christensen, and More

Since last week’s edition of Editorial Musical Chairs, the most noteworthy and surprising development has been Anne Christensen’s move to Glamour. She just left her fashion director position at T a few weeks ago, reportedly to focus on a freelance career, but instead will be Glamour’s new executive fashion director, effective August 24th. The position was previously held by Xanthipi Joannides, who left the magazine last month.

Another big move was Peter Kaplan’s to Fairchild Fashion Group, where he will serve as the company’s editorial director. Kaplan served as editor of The New York Observer for 15 years and creative director at Conde Nast Traveler since last year. Starting August 2nd, he will oversee WWD, WWD.com, Footwear News, Menswear, Fairchild Summits, Fairchild Books and trade shows.

In other WWD news, online fashion editor Veronique Hyland has left the company to write a novel about child prodigies.

At Lucky, a replacement has been found for Redbook-bound editor Meredith Rollins in freelance writer Danielle Pergament.

Traditional Home magazine has lost its senior design and markets editor Sabine Rothman, who has been named style director at House Beautiful.

Several hires have been made at Town & Country under the title’s relatively new and slightly creepy-looking editor in chief Stephen Drucker. Nandita Khanna departed Departures for a senior editor position; Eimear Lynch from Businessweek will be senior associate editor; and Danielle Stein left her senior editor position at W to become features editor at T&C.

Catherine Hong has also left W to become executive editor at InStyle.

Finally, at New York Magazine, Amy Larocca has been promoted from contributing editor to fashion director, replacing Harriet Mays Powell, who has reportedly left to “develop a multimedia project.”

That’s it for this week! Stay tuned for more comings and goings.

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Best Dressed: Betty Draper is White-Hot, the Most Fashionable Hills Girls

This week, January Jones went the anti-Betty Draper route, as she tends to do on the red carpet, in this Versace frock. Krysten Ritter and Kate Bosworth looked elegant and demure in Louis Vuitton and Burberry Prorsum, respectively.

And, in honor of The Hills, we of course had to include or favorite former cast members, looking glamorous as ever at the finale party. The City star Whitney Port wore Matthew Williamson while LC (yes, we still want to call her that) rocked a body-con mini that had an amazing sheer drapey back, by Mandalay. Also, that hand-on-hip pose was very popular this week.

Get Inspired: The Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island

Every summer New York’s Governors Island hosts a couple Jazz Age lawn parties, where orchestras play and people dance, dressed to the nines in 1920s-inspired garb.

(Sometimes, it’s actual vintage from that era. See this image from 2008’s celebration, courtesy of the Sart, for proof.)

Several Fashionista contributors are planning on heading out to the other island this weekend, so we decided to round up our favorite Jazz Age-inspired pieces. These are fun to wear regardless of the occasion.

Today's Giveaway: Two Tickets to "Eldridge East" at Bamboo!

This Saturday "The Eldridge East" at Bamboo is hosting an event that you definitely shouldn't miss. So, Guest of a Guest is here to help! SIGN UP NOW to win two passes to the invitation only event, and see below for more details.-

"The Eldridge East", a small restaurant turned club on Saturdays, plays host to some serious celebs and Hamptons LES transplants. Spearheaded by Michael Gluckman and Matt Levine, Eldridge East is known to throw down some serious shindigs. This Saturday's event will feature music by Mia Moretti, a performances by Caitlin Moe and Mike Posner, all hosted by Eddie the Gun.

If you aren't today's winner, be sure and check out each day's Gift Bag giveaways in our newsletter. Besides the top stories and best events going on in NYC, we are giving you the chance to be a true Guest of a Guest with tickets or treats. Nothing could make us happier. Go HERE to sign up!

"Best 2K I Ever Spent!" Auto(mobile)eroticism At The Classic Car Club

We never drive. Uh, because we live in New York. But EA's Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Launch Party reminded us of all that car-speak we haven't used, and we're way eager to give the lingo a spin . . .

Check out the paint job on this beauty. Bet she gets great mileage.

She's as sweet as antifreeze and as precious as premium unleaded gasoline.

They go together like rubber and asphalt.

I like my ladies like I like my cars: fast, shiny, and and easy to operate. [Insert stick shift joke here.]

The only thing more fun than partying with chums is taking a vintage roadster out for a spin. (Sidenote: what is a roadster? We have no idea. It sounds sassy.)

Partygoers, you are like the rainbow that appears in an oil puddle.

Mustaches are perfect for blowing in the breeze as you cruise.

Role playing can turn a Volvo into a Porsche.

Hunger strikes like an SUV barreling down a hill!

One dollar says you can't wax on, wax off before the clock strikes twelve.

[All photos courtesy of NickyDigital]

AFTAM's Young Patrons Rooftop Soiree

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Last night, The Young Patrons of AFTAM (American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art) held a rooftop soiree at A Contemporary Art Gallery in Midtown. The sold out event offered a unique experience of prestigious art viewing and relaxed roof-top mingling.

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Guests enjoyed the views of the city on the gallery's terrace as they nibbled on gourmet kosher fare and sipped on drinks sponsored by (the appropriately named) Skyview Wines & Spirits. The night was full of eye-candy for all art enthusiasts.. After mingling around the spectacular skyline guests were able to move inside to the gorgeous 20,000 square-foot gallery and view work from one of New York's most prestigious art galleries.

AFTAM Young Patrons raise funds and awareness for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art which houses the largest collection of Israeli art in the world. For more info on the organization go here! Mazel in advance!