Need-To-Know Fashion Updates: Boots, Britney and Anna Wintour

While browsing NY Mag's fabulous fashion blog, "The Cut," and my very own SaleMail account I came across quite a few fashion updates that fall into the "need-to-know" category. The updates are provided below, enjoy my darlings!

-60 Minutes and CNN will soon take a daring step into the fashion industry when the two channels profile the world's most prominent fashion figures - Anna Wintour and Carine Roitfeld.

-Thigh-high boots and full-leg boots double as pants in Prada's 2009 fall collection. For all of us that enjoy wearing pants, but want to embrace the trend, i suggest buying a middle-of-the-line pair of thigh-high boots and pairing with skin-tight skinny jeans.

-As you may know, our good friend Britney Spears is hitting the road for an international circus tour very soon. Canadian brothers Dsquared2 will be designing her Ringling Bros. - esque frocks. Rock on Brit.

-BCBG Max Azaria taffeta skirt on sale at nordstrom.com for over $100 off the original price. This is a great choice for spring! :)

Couture Condoms

Alexander Wang collaborates with Planned Parenthood to design limited edition condoms. No this is not a joke - click the link below for the full story (courtesy of NY Magazine's, "The Cut").

Wang's Couture Condoms

--StyleJunkie

Michigan Fashion Designer Cameron Scott Hits The Big Time!

Michigan born fashion designer Cameron Scott returned to his hometown of Detroit this month and debuted his 2009 Resort collection at Royal Oak boutique, The Annex. From what I've read and heard, the collection received stellar reviews.


In the essence of time, I'm going to post Cameron's 2009 Resort collection press release (I normally don't post releases as is, so don't get used to it!).

Designer Cameron Scott To Unveil New Collection During Three City Trunk Show

Read the press release, visit the Web site and let me know what you think!

--Style Junkie

Fall Fashion Overview - Coming Soon

Hello Fashion Divas -

I hope you were following my Twitter posts during this week's fashion extravaganza in NYC.

Now that fashion week has come to a close it's time to talk about fall fashion.

I've been feverishly sorting through the designer looks that strutted down the runway last February and will provide you with a full-proof fashion checklist of what you need to be wearing this fall to turn the most important heads.

I'll deliver the good by Sunday! Until next time my darlings.

--Stylejunkie

My Dream Job

Seriously, I think I've found my calling.

Porter Novelli (huge global PR Firm) and their new fashion/lifestyle pop up agency - Jack+Bill have decided to turn the PR world upside down in a new PR experiment that involves a team of young executives, social media and a few LUCKY NYC dwellers.

Launched in early July, Jack+Bill is dedicated to identifying, branding and publicizing emerging fashion talent. The twenty-something team celebrated their grand opening by confidently announcing that they didn't actually have any clients on board and that they weren't going to be charging any clients brought on board for the first three months of service. What the $%&*?! this is insane right? No! It's brilliant. Here is the scoop:

Instead of using traditional business development techniques, Jack+Bill decided to provide free branding, buzz building, media relations and viral marketing services to one young model, stylist, women's apparel designer and jewelry designer from mid-July to early September. To really spice things up a bit the team decided to find these lucky peeps by holding a two-day casting call in NYC.

Check out jackandbillpr.com to link to the agency's Facebook page, YouTube casting call videos (packed with celebs who have been supporting this experiment) and take a peek at the Jack+Bill blog.

So my next question is how do i possibly get in on the action? Social media, fashion and a group of motivated millenials - sound like my kind of a place.

Jack+Bill, I'm here to serve.

Big Girls Like Fashion Too!

As you all know, I'm a big fan of celebrating the curvy woman. I make it a point to not issue style advice for the girls that bask in the size 0 category because it's just not realistic. No one is a size 0 that really matters in this world. I'm sure some stick thin model with half a brain could make a strong contrasting argument (or not) about the statement above but i'm not scurred. My curvy blogging girlfriends have my back.

Ladies, I give you (trumpets in the background)"Manolo for the Big Girl!" a blog dedicated to fashion, lifestyle and humor for the plus-size woman. It really is a brilliant idea. I mean, just because one has meat on their bones doesn't mean they don't like Saks, Neimans, Oscar or Gucci. Sure, they probably can't fit in to anything more than a knit top with 100% stretch fabric but gosh darn it every woman craves style and glamour! And if you don't your obviously mixed up.(Disclaimer: I probably can't fit in to anything but Gucci spandex either!)

Four lovely ladies hold down the online fort over at Manolo. First allow me to introduce Manolo the Shoe Blogger, she is the publisher. Co-editors Francesca and Plumcake along with weekend columnist Twistie keep readers on their toes with blog categories like "Fat and Famous," "The Fats in the Fire," "Stuart Wietzman Makes Em' Wider" and "This week in Fat Blogging." It really is riveting.

My personal favorite entry is "There's no shame in wearing patriarchal underwear," by Francesca. Don't let the funny name fool you, these ladies cover real issues in today's society that center around the over-weight population. This particular entry covers the do's and dont's for fat women attending a job interview. The question is - do you buy Spanx or let it all hang out? Or do you wear a fat person outfit and hope for the best? What if your future boss is a skinny bitch or a sexist, size 0 loving male pig? How do you take a stand and make yourself credible in the professional world?! See, i told you it was riveting!

For your own hearty helping visit manolobig.com!

GR Press Fashion Fanatics - Part Deux

More commentary from the Grand Rapids Press Style Squad.

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GR Press Style Squad


P.S. I'll be posting my fall fashion overview late tonight or tomorrow afternoon.

:)