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Crocs CEO John McCarvel announced today that his company is giving 100,000 pairs of its funny-looking but very practical shoes to victims of the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent disasters going on in Japan. They'll be distributed through Feed the Children, the Japanese Red Cross Society, and other helpful organizations. [Racked National]
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Today's "Critical Shopper" piece in the Times reviewed the United Nude store on Bond Street, and it started off more or less the way most of Cintra Wilson's pieces do. She began with some highbrow references — in this case, it was the distinction between Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his son, Rem D. Koolhaas, who's the creative director of United Nude (in past cases, she's ruminated on the number of 500-euro notes in circulation, or patriarchal social engineering). She then addressed the store itself, which is decorated with "a shiny black jewel-faceted art thing that looks sort of like a fetal Lamborghini," and expounded upon the shoes themselves, some of which "look like what happens when a chubby little pair of Crocs is picked up at a nightclub and ends up passed out in a hotel sauna." Oh, Cintra.
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Katie Holmes attended the premiere of new miniseries The Kennedys in Beverly Hills yesterday wearing an eggshell-blue knitted sundress from Ralph Lauren's spring 2011 collection. She paired the dress with beige strappy heels and a gold necklace bearing a pendant with the letter S carved into it.
How do you like the casual direction of this outfit for a premiere event? Should she have dressed it up — and how?
Photo: Jive
These are promotional shots of Britney for the release of her new album, Femme Fatale. From the Telegraph:
"We love Britney and we love to dance to her new songs! We can't wait to hear the whole album!" confess Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. "She has always been among our favourite artists" they continue, "because she has been able to remain true to herself and to her style throughout the years. With her music she influenced and inspired generations of people for more than 10 years, always staying at the top, and we can't but congratulate her for this new, important achievement."
Well said! Her album is a new and important achievement! Gobritneypopstardivasforeveryay!!!! xoxoxox polka dot
Britney Spears is sweet for Dolce & Gabbana [Telegraph UK]
Sartorialist Scott Schuman posted two photos of fellow fashion blogger Angelica Ardasheva on his site yesterday. Schuman usually says a few words about why he posts what he posts, and in the case of Ardasheva, he writes that he "loved that she's a bigger, curvier girl than most of the other bloggers who you see in the press and tend to represent the genre."
Last we checked it's not just the industry's BLOGGERS who are thin. 
The picture gallery in the palace where some wedding stuff will happen.Photo: Nick Ansell/AFP/Getty Images
Do you have a royal wedding countdown widget yet? No? You're so behind, you royal wedding slacker, you! Here, today's major breaking royal wedding news to put a halt to this carelessness.
• Kate supposedly had her bachelorette party. A source says: "She has already had her hen night, but it was certainly very low-key. There isn’t such a tradition attached to hen nights as there is to stag parties. It was done privately. Not all of Kate’s friends were there, and she will be catching up with other friends over the coming weeks." She can't be falling drunk out of limos at 4 a.m. if the queen has approved her marrying into the royal family. Only people born royal can get away with that. [Telegraph UK]
• The three parties taking place after the ceremony will be held in more than nineteen rooms of Buckingham Palace's 775. So, no one spill on the queen's pillows, even though she spills on herself. [E! Online]
Photo: Courtesy of Burberry
MAKEUP
• Cara Delevingne features in the new ad campaigns for Burberry's beauty products, including blushes, lipsticks, lip glosses, and eye shadows. [Fashiongonerogue]
• British makeup artist Alex Box will create looks using MAC Cosmetics as part of a live performance called "The Evolution of Surface" tonight at the New Museum. [WWD]
• Makeup artist Emily Kate Warren breaks down the best of this season's products for creating nude lips. [Allure/Daily Beauty Reporter]
Cacharel won't renew Cédric Charlier's contract when it ends on October 7, the label announced yesterday. The Belgian designer, who previously spent six years as Alber Elbaz's assistant at Lanvin, joined the company in April 2009. During his tenure, he relaunched their women's ready-to-wear line and helped convince the brand to return to Paris Fashion Week.
Here he is, holding a photo of himself as a baby. His hand's raised, but the thumb didn't quite make it — maybe that's the best he could do with his motor skills at the time. [Terry's Diary]
Taylor, wearing her favorite gem: the 69-carat Taylor-Burton diamond, which was purchased for more than $1 million.
Sources tell People that Elizabeth Taylor's collection of jewelry, with an estimated value of $150 million, will be auctioned at Christie's. Luxury Jewels of Beverly Hills president and CEO Peter Sedghi worked with Liz on her House of Taylor jewelry line and says she knew more about jewels than he did. And she was wise to make her love of jewelry so well known, according to friend and jeweler Lorraine Schwartz:
“The studios, in order to make her happy, they’d always give her jewelry. So she grew up collecting it,” she explains. “People always gave her gifts … it was something that she learned to love.” And she took great care of them, too. “She [had] collections and collections, and rooms. She [knew] where every single piece was. [It was] amazing.”
Photo: PatrickMcMullan.com, Nashville Fashion Week
Lots of cities have fashion weeks — Aspen, Austin (where models pay to partake), Los Angeles — but they seldom build reputations that convince anyone in fashion to take them seriously. Yet Racked National is pretty excited about Nashville Fashion Week. Like New York Fashion Week, it even has a big car sponsor (Lexus) and includes shows by Christian Siriano, which the schedule labels a "headliner," and Betsey Johnson, who is not labeled a headliner. Tickets are still for sale on the NFW website, where an all-access pass is only $250. For an additional $20 you can also buy a ticket to see New York person and People's Revolution owner Kelly Cutrone shill her book. But what you can't put a price on are the runway's mind-blowing, directional-redefining fox vikings!!!
Christian Siriano & Betsey Johnson to Show at Nashville Fashion Week [Racked]
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“We molded the head of Jean Paul in plaster and we will have [film] projections right onto the face,” explained Thierry-Maxime Loriot, the curator of "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk," to Women's Wear Daily. Talking plaster replicas of Gaultier's various celebrity clients and muses, including former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and model Eve Salvail, will be placed around the exhibit to narrate the 120 outfits on display. Also showing: Gaultier's early fashion sketches, Polaroids by Andy Warhol, and a teddy bear that the designer affixed with paper breasts when he was but a wee child.
EVENTS
TOMORROW
• Find the best caterers, florists, photographers, bridal fashion designers, and more for your big day at the New York Weddings Event. Guests can enjoy complimentary food and drinks while browsing samples and demonstrations from more than 100 vendors. Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St., nr. Sixth Ave. (212-463-0071); 5–8. Purchase tickets ($40) at ticketweb.com.
• Meet Erdem designer Erdem Moralioglu at a special event at Saks. 611 Fifth Ave., nr 50th St., third fl., (212-753-4000); 12:30–1:30. E-mail Lindsay_Kaye@s5a.com to RSVP.
• Get a private makeup lesson with the Laura Mercier artists at Bloomingdale's. Customers will receive a gift with a purchase of $85 or more. 1000 Third Ave., nr. 59th St. (212-705-2000); 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Call 212-705-2502 to make an appointment.
Before Bill Cunningham became the founder of street style photography, he was a less-than-successful milliner working under the name William J because his family was "embarrassed" by his flamboyant pursuits. He designed his first hat for his mom to wear to the 1939 World's Fair (aw!), but she refused to do so. “I don’t think we sold many,” Cunningham recalled to the Times. “Everything I did was a little too exotic — you know, for normal people.” [Lens/NYT]
Kari Sigerson and Miranda Morrison quit their design jobs at their eponymous shoe brand on March 15, twenty years after they co-founded it in 1991. Neither the designers nor the label's parent company, Marc Fisher Footwear, will discuss details of their departure, but it's probably related to yesterday's announcement that the line is getting an overhaul, complete with different price points for both the signature collection and the diffusion line, Belle.
Apparently "internal grumblings" ensued at Chanel USA when Lively became their purse ambassador. A source adds that the bitching revolves around her "off-brand look." The source is anonymous because Chanel would "literally fire anyone who admits" to thinking Lively's deal is annoying. Maybe they're just not ready — it was all a lot to take in. [NYDN]
Three sketches from Lily Allen's forthcoming pre-fall collection.Photo: Courtesy of Lucy in Disguise
• Lily Allen and her sister Sarah Owen have designed an eighteen-piece pre-fall collection, their first foray into ready-to-wear fashion. (Aside from Lily’s collaboration with British high-street store New Look a few years back, of course.) The collection will retail at their store, Lucy in Disguise, as well as Harvey Nichols and Shopbop.com. [WWD]
• Kanye West is collaborating with graphic design firm M/M (Paris) to make a collection of 250 scarves out of his latest album art. [Nowness]
• British singer Eliza Doolittle models pieces from the new Moschino Cheap & Chic line. Moschino said in a statement that she reflects the spirit of the collection because she’s “free and fizzy.” [Telegraph UK]
• Model Lily Aldridge has reportedly set the date for her wedding to Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill to take place in early May. [Fashionologie]
• Erin O’Connor’s personal assistant has been charged with stealing over $20,000 from the model’s bank accounts over a period of four years. [Daily Mail UK]
Also, May's Glamour issue has three covers, and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is "bored."
She blogs, just a few days before her blog turns three:
Fashion Week is weird. It is very high schooly. Someone will take that and decide that it means Fashion Week highschooliness is getting me down hard without realizing how highschooly what they're doing is. I love fashion but it's disappointing when you have to sift through a lot of junk before you get to, like, the clothes, and the whole point of it all. It's more disappointing when the clothes aren't very interesting. Lately I've been looking to other places for a creative outlet and for inspiration. I miss following magazines and obsessively checking style.com the way I used to but something is different about it now. A year ago I got to go to Paris to interview John Galliano at Dior, and a couple weeks ago today he said he loved Hitler and got fired.
This month, former Men's Vogue editor Jay Fielden took over Town & Country after Stephen Drucker left. Fielden will continue with the makeover of the title started by Drucker, who put Lauren Santo Domingo and her bare legs on the cover of the spring fashion issue, and said, "There are many ways to be rich these days. We just wanted to make it feel modern and a little sexier." Also: "I love any page with the words ‘price on request’ six times." The creative director of that issue, David Lipman, will be replaced by Alexandra Kotur, who has been serving as style director for another magazine that showcases many ways to be rich: Vogue.
In a city packed with fast fashion chains, the same printed tank dresses can seem to be duplicated in every store. This Zipper dress by Obesity and Speed pairs a modern print with a subtly vintage-inspired silhouette. The asymmetric flap at the waist adds a bit of volume without being as over-the-top (read: difficult to pull off) as a full-on peplum skirt. While the frill might seem precious in a feminine floral print, it looks fresh in stark black and white.
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