Comme des Garcons

>> Juergen Teller wore an oversized white T-shirt and super-short blue satin shorts edged with white piping for a recent interview with the Independent — a practice he apparently picked up on the set of the Spring 2004 Marc Jacobs campaign shoot he did with Charlotte Rampling: "I got to Paris, and to my complete horror I couldn't fit into any of the clothes. I was too fat."  Juergen had chosen to shot himself for Jacobs's menswear that season, but the only piece he could fit into was a pair of silver satin shorts.  The decision was made, and supposedly, he's worn the style religiously since.

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>> The way that director RJ Cutler cut his new trailer for The September Issue, which covers the making of Vogue's September 2007 issue — its biggest ever — makes it like a real-life Devil Wears Prada. In this two and a half minute montage alone, Anna Wintour is revered and feared enough to carry us until movie's country-wide Sept. 11 release date. No sooner than Thakoon Panichgul proclaims "Anna is like Madonna," the editor herself is telling a disappointed-looking Oscar de la Renta at a runthrough, "I personally would not put this one in the show, the others things you've shown us are more exciting."  She scolds Mario Testino about his September 2007 cover mockups with Sienna Miller: "This type seems so large and pretentious, it looks like it's for blind people."  And even Karl Lagerfeld looks nervous as Anna inspects a new Chanel piece, eventually proclaiming, "It's gorgeous."

Among her own staff, Anna is just as blunt — of one mockup: "She looks pregnant." Grace Coddington excitedly holds up a neon pink and black Fall 2007 Comme des Garcons jacket from a rack for Anna: "Look!"  Not missing half a beat, Anna smiles: "No."  And in a meeting with stylist Edward Enninful, she looks at his work for the magazine and declares: "Where's the glamour? It's Vogue, okay? Please, let's lift it." No wonder the movie is inspiring bootleg viewing parties among editors — and Anna to supposedly have her underlings monitor the movie's Facebook page for her.

The trailer! »

New Comme des Garçons contemporary label, Black, is already selling out in Tokyo. ..

In honor of their sixth year together, Murakami and Louis Vuitton have released an anime short. 

Marc Jacobs has been looking at real estate in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  

Current/Elliot is launching a range of deadstock-inspired styles using Japanese denim. 

To keep up with handbag demands, Hermès is now breeding crocodiles in Australia. ..

Esteban Cortazar is suing Emanuel Ungaro and the house is expected to settle. 

A documentary is touring the festival circuit on the harsh reality of the modeling industry.

Comme des Garçons is celebrating forty years and planning a few new pop-up stores to celebrate. 

In 2004 Lord & Taylor dropped Liz Claiborne but, thanks to Isaac, they're relaunching the line "in a big way". ..

Oscar de la Renta reiterated his frustration with Michelle Obama's fashion choices, after complaining to the press last week. 

Australian Harper's Bazaar is making waves with an underwater fashion spread featuring a voluptuous model.

Comme des Garcons is collaborating with Vogue Nippon to open a pop-up store in Tokyo arranged in magazine format. 

>> Alexander McQueen, famously outspoken, spoke out in an interview for the Spring 2009 issue of Numero Homme (#17), and started by giving his interviewer, Numero editor at large Philip Utz, and fashion journalism as a whole, a dressing-down: "[it's a] thinly-veiled exercise in marketing."  Then, he moved on to the British Fashion Council — "[it] doesn't know what the f*ck it's doing" — and another one of his favorite subjects to disparage — Hubert de Givenchy.

McQueen was the designer for Givenchy from 1997 to 2001, and upon his installation, he declared Hubert de Givenchy's work "irrevelant"; it seems the years have not softened his opinion: "Well what do you make of Hubert de Givenchy? He was only ever any good at ripping off [Cristobal] Balenciaga."

He saves admiration for a select couple »