Our Favorite Underwear Ads of All TimeThe last decade or so has been filled with near-naked celebs posing for the camera. What better way to celebrate Posh’s new Armani deal than by ogling a few of them.
Fashion Week’s Greatest MomentsA lot can happen in a week — but the past few years have been particularly spectacular. Here are our favorite moments.
BySharon Clott
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Diddy Could Be a Sex OlympianWe asked the hip-hop mogul if he could invent an Olympic sport where he would be a guaranteed winner. His answer was exactly what you’d expect.
P. Diddy’s Perfume for Women Earns Award NominationMAKEUP
• Cosmetic Executive Women beauty-award nominees were announced this weekend, and Sean John’s Unforgivable Woman earned a nod in the Women’s Scent-Prestige category. Meanwhile, Bobbi Brown moisturizing-cream compact foundation is in the running in the Face Product-Prestige category. [Fashionista]
new york fugging city
The Fug Girls Present Their Biannual Fashion Week Awards for the Fourth TimeJust when we thought Fashion Week held no more surprises, we discovered that, as usual, we were wrong. After all, if sharing air space with K-Fed, J.Lo, and Liza Minnelli (L.Mi?) wasn’t enough to shake us out of our jaded, hard-hearted cynicism for a moment, nothing is. And though the last eight days were often exhausting and occasionally eye-crossing, they were also, as ever, tremendously fun. Here are a few highlights:
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Fashion Week Starts in London; Marc Jacobs Dances Dirty With Two People at His After-Party• New York said farewell to Fashion Week, but don’t be sad! It’s not really over — it just moved to London, where shows began yesterday on a sober note, signified by the appointment of the prime minister’s wife as spokesperson. Look for slideshows on nymag.com soon. [Guardian]
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K-Fed Celebrates the Return of Sean JohnIt all happened so quickly: an orgy of flashbulbs, a whirl of a revolving door, and suddenly standing six feet from us in the Cipriani foyer was none other than the man, the myth, the Federline.
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Special Moments Backstage at Sean JohnWe had a lot of downtime backstage at the Sean John show, which gave us a good chance to hang out with the male models and drink Bellinis (we know, life is hard). Nearby was a makeshift “stage”: bright lights and a backdrop, evidently where Diddy had been doing his interviews earlier.
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Breaking: The K-Fed Has Landed at Fashion Week!Hot on the heels of yesterday’s rumors that Kevin Federline would be sitting in Marc Jacobs’s front row, we have now spotted K-Fed at the Sean John show at Cipriani 42nd Street. If we were the betting kind — and our twelve-step sponsor says we are — we’d say Sean John is just K-Fed’s warm-up act (with all due respect to Mr. Combs). If he’s here, it all but confirms that El Fed will be sweating out the six-hour wait at Marc Jacobs. As any self-respecting tabloid fixture would!
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Video: Backstage at the Sean John Open Call
Sean John last showed in February 2003. So how can the designer bring his name to the forefront this Fashion Week? Casting all African-American models is a good start. Novelist and New York correspondent Brian Keith Jackson took our cameras to the Sean John open call in midtown yesterday afternoon. Watch the video to check out the hot competition.
Video: Sean John Open Call [NYM Video]
