awards::

candids beat out posed shots 9 times out of 10.

:: Tommy Ton's shots from before the CFDA Awards last night are perfect in their imperfections. love. check out the rest here.

:: click to enlarge. images via style.com.

craving more CFDA Awards action?

:: check out the article "Are the CFDA's Wilder Than the Oscars?" by Interview Magazine here, red carpet coverage from WWD here, and Fashionista's best dressed picks here.

play ::

i had literally just finished watched Sienna Miller play Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl when this editorial started blazing across the blog-sphere.

Karl Lagerfeld channels Edie through Vanessa Paradis in this months French Magazine Madame Figaro. Vanessa's hair is way bigger, her lips much poutier and redder, and her face much fiercer than Edie's but the over-all feel is there. 60's vibe, deep kohed out cat eyes and the Warhol Superstar's signature black tights with no pants.

Is Karl playing Andy?...hair/sunglasses...hm.

:: via fashion gone rouge.

campaign ::

images from Mert Atlas and Marcus Piggot's campaign for Givenchy Fall 2010 have just been released, and the campaign has already had a whirl-wind of attention. the designer, Riccardo Tisci, chose to use his own personal assistant and fit model, brazilian transsexual Lea T. in the ads. the collection speaks in volumes through the androgynous collection and models.

via wwd :: "Tisci explained that including a transgender person exemplifies the masculine-feminine dichotomy that has become one of his design signatures and follows coed casting for his Paris runway last March."

:: well thought out, well shot and well designed.

:: images via hint mag blog.

Kate ::

Kate Moss for Vogue Hommes International, shot by Mario Sorrenti and styled (minimally) by Emmanuelle Alt (more to come on her soon). this shoot is really some of the most amazing photo's of Kate i have ever seen. love.

:: click images to view larger. via Fashion Gone Rouge.

Erin ::

Paper Magazine's interview with Erin Wasson touches on the model/designer/stylist's love for Alexander, RVCA, Lowluv and life.

"The funnest part of all this -- my empire of dirt, I call it -- is that there's no strategy to any of it," Wasson says in her matter-of-fact rasp, a by-product of her preferred mode of exercise: "I smoke cigarettes and talk shit."- Paper, read the full article here.

photoshoot styled by the one and only Taylor Jacobson.

:: images via Paper.

white on white ::

inspirational photographs by Tim Walker for Italian Vogue.

:: amazing.

:: click to view larger. images via a shaded view on fashion.

concept shoot ::

photographer Maria Elisa Duque and designer Ana Carolina Escobar, collaborated on the shoot below.

:: Maria's photography and Ana's dress drafts, ahhh i love the concept of this and would kill for the second dress.

:: images via fashionserved.

shoot ::

excited to share images from the photoshoot i styled last week for the Concepts collaborative project with Sorel :: featuring the men’s Caribou and the women’s Joan of Arctic classic boots.

:: thanks to Frank The Butcher, Adele (friend and muse), Justin Keena and Stebs for an amazing job, i had such a good experience and love how it turned out!

check out concepts for more info. 37 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA.

muse ::

photographer yu tsai shot Lindsey Lohan and a male model (and one of madonna's back-up dancers as the third party) for the latest issue of milan's Muse Magazine. an inspired version of the 90's couple Kate Moss and Johnny Depp, Lindsey bares all for the artistic shoot :: most blogs and websites are running this at first as a tabloid spread with such titles as "Lindsey Lohan's coked out three-some". super tasteful- trying to get readers by those big bold sketch titles.

i found the shoot to be one of her best. view the behind the scenes video below.

via nymag.

shoot ::

Annie Leibowitz shoots Lily Cole in a Hansel and Gretel inspired shoot "Little Girl and Boy Lost" the December issue of Vogue, featuring the the cast of the Opera opening at the Metropolitan Opera House and Lady Gaga (there she is, yet again) as the witch.

:: check out the images and article by Hammish Bowles (<3)>

via Vogue.

kate x hedi ::

more Kate, via Hedi Slimane's Fashion Diary.

view more images here.

talent ::

i have a super huge talent crush (and really, just crush in general- look at him!) on Scott Schuman.

"the man" as editorial admirer's often call him, will be releasing his own book tomorrow- featuring some of his favorite looks from his photography.

former men's director of fashion at a nyc showroom, Scott left to take care of his children in 2005. as he began to take photo's of street driven style and soon began to post it to his blog, the sartorialist, he simply blew up.

re-directing his eye from strictly the streets of new york to milan, moscow, paris and florence (to name a few), Scott's obvious influence is one that attests completely to the power of the blog.

as big as he's gotten, he sticks to his blogspot account.

his twitter account currently has 15,173 followers.

his blog receives hundreds of comments (per post).

his work is featured every month in GQ, can be found in ads for DKNY, and his talent was revered in 2007 when he was named one of the top 100 design influencers in fashion by Time Magazine.

photo's via various posts.

::all i have to say? garance dore is one very lucky woman.

grown ::

Emma Watson for Burberry's F/W 2009 ad campaign shot by Mario Testino.

the nineteen year old looks years older in these shots...skilled photographer or make-up artist? or carefully placed baby male models?

via ny mag.

:: speaking of Testino, check out his new feature in V magazine here!

cover ::

W Magazine's cover of Bruce Willis and new wife Emma by photographer Steven Klein. The Honeymoon Hotel spread was above and beyond Bruce's norm, but i loved it none the less.

i am obsessed with this image.

Nina Ricci Fall 09 lace-up platform boots by the glorious Olivier Theyskens for his final collection for the fashion house.