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Alexander Wang and Marc Jacobs Lead This Year’s CFDA Award Nominations

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Alexander Wang's career continues to skyrocket with the announcement of his CFDA Award nomination for Womenswear Designer of the Year. The honor is made all the more impressive by his fellow nominees, industry veterans Marc Jacobs and Donna Karan. Wang has already won a number of the industry's most important awards: Last year, he won the CFDA's Swarovski Award for Womenswear, which recognizes emerging talent; in 2009 he won the prestigious Swiss Textile Award; and in 2008 the Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund.

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Best Bet: Scope It Out

Photo: Courtesy of Hayden-Harnett

The wardrobes of most New Yorkers are dominated by black — it’s the city’s preferred uniform. But if there’s any time to embrace color, it’s spring. This silk tank from Hayden-Harnett’s latest line offers a versatile spring basic, whether paired with a high-waisted skirt and a blazer for work or a pair of shorts for brunch. The colorful kaleidoscope print stands out from a sea of florals, and the shirred neck and racerback cut give it a universally flattering fit. Best of all, it’s 25 percent off through April 8, in honor of the brand’s fifth anniversary.

Michi Tank, $73.50, available on preorder online.

03/17/10

This Might Be the Preppiest Fashion Collaboration Ever (Updated)

Good news to all of those who enjoy nothing more than a pair of Nantucket red pants. Sperry Top-Sider is opening their first stores this year. As if whole stores filled with boat shoes wasn't enough, they will also carry Tucker Blair belts. Surely you remember Tucker Blair, to which we introduced you in December. They make needlepoint belts for the guy who sits down at his desk in "some anonymous, beige office building," sifts through Excel spreadsheets, and realizes he'd "give just about anything to be on the Cape with a beer and a pair of Croakies." So this just might be the preppiest fashion collaboration in history. What if they make belts, headbands even, with little boat shoes on them? But just who is the Sperry Top-Sider Tucker Blair man? Who is that mind-blowingly preppy?

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Emilie de Ravin Remembers Her LBD

Photo: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Emilie de Ravin wore a little black dress with lace, a waist bow, and a ruffled skirt to the premiere of Remember Me in London today. She finished the look with Brian Atwood studded pumps and swept her hair back in a loose updo.

Would you wear this dress?

[Update: The dress is from Oscar de la Renta's spring 2010 collection.]

Victoria’s Secret Gets Even Fruitier

Photo: Courtesy of Victoria's Secret Beauty

On March 23, Victoria’s Secret is launching its new body-care collection called Secret Moments. Each scent (Girls’ Night, Island Escape, At First Sight, Room 504, and Good Day Sunshine) was mainly inspired by Alessandra Ambrosio’s personal memories (laying eyes on her daughter for the first time inspired At First Sight). Of course, these endearing memories from the Brazilian bombshell come in the form of Über-sweet combinations of peach, coconut, sugarcane, and blue freesia. For those of us in our early 30s, think of these as a new generation of the Enchanted Apple and Pear Glacé body splashes and lotions we wore in high school and college — just with cuter packaging. Coeds get ready.

$10 to $12 at Victoria’s Secret stores.

Michelle Obama’s New Waist Belt Is Quite Something

She hasn't done a belted cardigan in a while, but today the First Lady spoke at a forum on childhood obesity wearing a green top under a yellow cardigan, cinched with a striking silver waist belt. It has what looks like a giant plastic square around the buckle. See the full look in the Michelle Obama Look Book.

Tokidoki Makeup Lands at Sephora; Clive Owen Up for Bulgari Fragrance Campaign

FRAGRANCE
• Puma signed sprinter Usain Bolt as the face of its new fragrances, Puma Animagical Man and Puma Animagical Woman. The scent is described as having African influences in both its notes and packaging. Let it be noted that Bolt is not African; he's Jamaican. [WWD]

• Bulgari reportedly shot its next men's fragrance campaign, which will star Clive Owen. [Page Six/NYP]

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Video: The L’Uomo Vogue Assistant Who Took Three Years to Perfect His Mustache

Fashion was once just a hobby for Ori Oren, a recent Israeli émigré, but now he’s working as an assistant for Robert Rabensteiner at L’Uomo Vogue. “When I open my clothing closet, I’m basically trying to tell a story.” What most inspires him about New York is that the story can change day to day. “You can wake up one morning and decide that you’re French and be a French person for 24 hours.” But looking this way takes time. Oren’s mustache alone took nearly three years to cultivate. “You get stuff stuck in it sometimes. Very uncomfortable.” Watch the Video Look Book to see the 'stache in action.

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Model Kim Noorda Chronicled a Year of Her Weight Struggles for Vogue

Noorda backstage at Julien MacDonald in February of last year.

Dutch model Kim Noorda kept a diary for Vogue's "shape" issue about her struggles with food and body image from January 2009 to January 2010. When she began, she was, at five-feet-ten-inches tall, 110 pounds. Under the charge of Vogue's Sally Singer, Noorda goes to a clinic to receive treatment for disordered eating. She wrote last January:

The intake meeting with the nutritionist [at Renfrew] took place today. She weighed me, calculated my BMI, and made a weight-gaining plan for the four weeks: one pound per week. This is standard procedure for the center for everyone who weighs less than 90 percent of ideal body weight. I did not like that at all. I told her I would try to agree to that because my agents have also told me that they would like me to gain an extra five pounds. She told me that five pounds is not that much, and probably no one would even see it. I told her that people in the fashion industry see every gram of fat. ...

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Lady Gaga Mostly De-Yellowed Her Hair

She landed in Australia with some pink lowlights and Diet Coke cans in her hair. Who wants to have a cow about product placement, that thing that is so rare in modern culture? Or just let us know if you miss the yellow. [Gaga Daily]

Button Up With 120 New Spring Jackets!

Clockwise from left: Jean Paul Gaultier for Target Trench, Cheap Monday Cropped Jacket, J.Crew Twill Bomber, Topshop Kimono Jacket, and Topman Trench.Photo: Jean Paul Gaultier and Cheap Monday, photos by A.J. Wilhelm; Black Trench and Printed Kimono, courtesy of Topshop; Twill Bomber, courtesy of J.Crew.

With sunnier days finally in sight, it's time to pack up the outfit-obscuring outerwear and make way for lightweight layers. That's why we scoured the city for the best spring jackets, and found 120 styles for men and women — from trenches to ponchos to bombers — that are ideal for a wardrobe transition. Blazers aren't so basic this season, with patterned, striped, and studded options, while motorcycle styles com in purple leather and various denim washes. And with 46 picks under $200, you may not have to settle for just one. Check out our full selection in our latest Shop-A-Matic, as well as our top five picks below.

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Karolina Zmarlak Is Reinventing the Concept of Convertible Wear

For anyone wondering about the future of luxury, Karolina Zmarlak seems a promising indication. After graduating from F.I.T.’s fashion-design program with a specialization in tailoring in 2007, the former intern of both Theory and Carolina Herrera (not to mention winner of Gen Art’s Styles award for eveningwear in 2005) spent a couple of years mostly designing made-to-measure pieces for private clients before debuting her eponymous ready-to-wear label for fall '09. With business partner Jesse Keyes, Karolina conceived of a line that applied the ideals behind made-to-measure to ready-to-wear clothes meant to be “malleable, shifting, flexible, and to be worn in ways that require the individual wearer’s interaction.”

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‘Everyone in Fashion Knows Terry Richardson Messes Around With the Girls He Photographs’

Few in the fashion industry can have been surprised by the recent allegations that Terry Richardson preys on young, impressionable models, and takes not only their picture but also takes advantage of them. Jacob Bernstein writes in the Daily Beast today that "everyone in fashion knows Terry Richardson, 44, messes around with the girls he photographs" and that "they know it directly from Terry." It hasn't stopped Richardson from landing major work with magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, or Interview, or shooting ads for designers like Carolina Herrera, Miuccia Prada, and Tom Ford. Ford once called Richardson his "favorite photographer to work with," adding, “You can’t scare him. You can’t scandalize him."

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Tomorrow’s Events and Sales: The DecadesTwo Pop-up Returns to Soho

EVENTS
• Shop high-end consignment finds for 30 to 60 percent off retail at the DecadesTwo pop-up. Black Louboutin booties are $360, Jimmy Choo suede-and-lizard pumps are $285, and a Jason Wu embroidered black-and-white cocktail dress is $1,100 (originally $2,830). Through 3/21. Kiki de Montparnasse, 79 Greene St., nr. Spring St. (212-965-8150); Th–S (11–8), Su (noon–5).

• Receive 15 percent off new spring collections by Aimee G, Mel en Stel, Samoy Lenko, and more at Dumbo boutique Trunk. Wine and treats will be served. 68 Jay St., nr. Water St., Dumbo, Brooklyn (718-522-6488); 11–8.

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Will the Limelight Marketplace Be a Success?

Photo: Masour Design

On April 29, what used to be the Limelight nightclub will open as the Limelight Marketplace. It's basically a mall, but possibly a mall consisting mostly of kiosks. Vendors will occupy 100-square-foot berths, and customers will pay at central cash registers if stores opt not to install their own cash wrap system. About 90 percent of the 60 spaces have been leased. Vendors include Brocade Home, which leased nine berths on the second floor and one on the first floor. Other vendors include Le Sportsac and the bootmaker Hunter.

The Limelight's signature mazelike infrastructure remains to remind people that this church used to be a nightclub. But they got rid of other nightclub remnants, like the paint on the walls in some spots, and more sadly, the D.J. booth. No one has said anything thus far about installing new disco balls.

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Macy’s Sold 72,000 Bottles of Beyoncé’s Heat in One Hour

What do some of the world's biggest fashion executives discuss when they convene at Harvard Business School for a conference on global expansion in the luxury-goods industry? Beyoncé, obviously. Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren revealed that his chain sold $3 million worth of Beyoncé's first fragrance, Heat, between early February and early March. When she was at the store signing autographs for an hour to launch the scent, they sold 72,000 bottles. Even though the stuff looks like lube. [WWD]

Suri Cruise Said to Carry an $850 Ferragamo Handbag

Us Weekly has a fashion exposé on Suri Cruise, who sources say "hates jeans and favors dresses." She also reportedly carries an $850 Ferragamo bag. When we were tots we only wanted to wear dresses, too, and paparazzi weren't stalking us when we played four square. Also, if we were spawn of TomKat we'd expect nothing less than an $850 purse for our diamond-encrusted sandbox shovels. [Us]

Michelle Obama’s Newsweek Cover; Karl Lagerfeld Collaborates With Hogan

• Michelle Obama graces the cover of Newsweek this week wearing the same Narciso Rodriguez blue dress she wore last week to meet the First Lady of Greece. [Mrs. O]

Karl Lagerfeld and Hogan will release a onetime collaboration collection for spring 2011. [WWD]

• Today would have been Alexander McQueen's 41st birthday. [Stylelist]

• Ramona Singer of The Real Housewives of New York City will expand her HSN jewelry and skin-care collections to also include handbags. [Racked NY]

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Liam Gallagher to Launch Womenswear

Last summer Oasis front man Liam Gallagher launched a men's line, because he couldn't find any clothes he wanted to wear. The line, Pretty Green, was a huge success in the U.K., even though it was boring and Gallagher probably could have found comparable or better tees and parkas. But he just revealed plans to launch womenswear!

"A lot of girls are asking if we will be doing a range for them and the answer to that is yes, once we have got rid of all the lads' stuff," Gallagher announced.

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Best Bet: Market Watch

Photo: Courtesy of Etsy

There's at least one upside to last weekend's torrential rain: It means we'll have a reprieve soon from the Greenmarkets' comparably scant winter selection. Get in the locavore spirit with these letterpress cards by Yee Haw Industries. The recycled-paper cards are printed with vivid pictures of warm-weather farmers' market arrivals, including tomatoes, strawberries, corn, beets, and lilies. They're blank on the inside, so you can send them as thank-you notes, dinner-party invitations, or just for fun.

Eight for $16 at etsy.com.

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