Shala Monroque

2011 MoCA Gala Red Carpet Fashion [Pictures]
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Dasha Zhukova, Rodarte, and More Descend on Los Angeles For the 2011 MOCA Gala

>> The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles hosted its annual gala on Saturday night, drawing Laura and Kate Mulleavy, Tilda Swinton, Rachel Zoe, Shala Monroque, and event chair Dasha Zhukova.
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2011 MOCA Gala

>> The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles hosted its annual gala on Saturday night, drawing Laura and Kate Mulleavy, Tilda Swinton, Rachel Zoe, Shala Monroque, and event chair Dasha Zhukova.

The evening, curated by the performance artist Marina Abramovic, started with guests being asked to put on a white lab coat before sitting down to dinner; each table, meanwhile, had a live, rotating human head for a centerpiece, with the attached performance artists sitting beneath. Diners were given a list of rules about interacting with the centerpiece, such as, "The centerpiece will observe you. You may observe the centerpiece." and "No touching, feeding, offering drink, or disrespecting the centerpiece."

Debbie Harry was shortly thereafter carried onstage to serenade the crowd with “One Way or Another” and “Heart of Glass.” Postperformance, two life-size nude cakes of Harry and Abramovic were brought out. With a machete, Harry removed her cake's red velvet heart, and then teams of shirtless men descended on the two cakes with meat cleavers, sending toes, breasts, and other various anatomical parts to the different tables on dessert plates.

Pictures from the event in the slideshow.

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2011 Vanity Fair International Best-Dressed List
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Kate Middleton Tops Vanity Fair's 2011 Best-Dressed List

>> Vanity Fair has released a preview of its 2011 International Best-Dressed List today, with Kate Middleton — recognized for her "whirlwind of fashion successes" — on top (Her inaugural appearance on the list came back in 2008.).
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>> Vanity Fair has released a preview of its 2011 International Best-Dressed List today, with Kate Middleton — recognized for her "whirlwind of fashion successes" — on top (Her inaugural appearance on the list came back in 2008.). Another recently-married royal — Charlene Wittstock — makes her list debut, and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is back for the fourth time. Michelle Obama, meanwhile, who is on the list for the fourth year running, makes her first appearance together with Barack Obama in the Best-Dressed Couples category.

As actresses go, Carey Mulligan shows up for a second time; same goes for Tilda Swinton, who's returning after a three-year hiatus. Shala Monroque appears for the first time, while Claire and Virginie Courtin-Clarins and Cara, Chloe, and Poppy Delevingne all make the Siblings category. And Lady Gaga is given her second recognition in the Fashion Originals category, where she's joined by Vanessa Paradis.

2011 Venice Biennale Fashion Photos
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Fashion Descends on Venice for the 2011 Biennale

>> Every two years, the fashion flock meets the art world in Venice for a series of parties and power buys.
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>> Every two years, the fashion flock meets the art world in Venice for a series of parties and power buys. This year, Hogan, Prada, and Missoni have been among the Venice Biennale event hosts, bringing out guests like Anna Wintour (who was spotted yesterday riding around the city's Grand Canal), Dasha Zhukova, and Naomi Campbell. While some have already come and gone — Anna Wintour, Francois-Henri Pinault, and Salma Hayek Pinault were already spotted attending the French Open in Paris today — we've the fleeting moments of the last couple of days' festivities captured in our slideshow at left.

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Freaky or Fabulous: Prada's Striped Fur Stole
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Prada's Spring Striped Fur Stole: Key Accessory or Passing Fad?

After the Prada Spring show, we asked what you thought of Prada's bold accessories.
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After the Prada Spring show, we asked what you thought of Prada's bold accessories. Now those accessories are hitting stores, as well as the wardrobes of some very fashionable people. Marc Jacobs wrapped one around his neck in New York, Pop editor-at-large Shala Monroque carried one front row at Valentino couture, and fashion risk-taker Anna dello Russo was spotted carrying one in Milan. We ask you: is this brightly striped stole a fab Spring accessory or just a passing fad?

Shala Monroque, Crusader for Kitten Heels
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Shala Monroque, Crusader for Kitten Heels

>> Shala Monroque, with her propensity for kitten-heeled shoes — "I don't have a high threshold for pain.
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>> Shala Monroque, with her propensity for kitten-heeled shoes — "I don't have a high threshold for pain. I have to have comfortable shoes" — and madcap mixmastering has earned her quite a few fashion fans. "Ironically," she tells Harper's Bazaar, "some of the outfits that receive the most attention from the fashion crowd are the ones that are a little off."

31-year-old St. Lucian Monroque, who is Pop's editor at large (and Pop editor Dasha Zhukova's best friend), has lived in Manhattan for the past ten years, although she apparently spends less than six months a year in her Upper East Side residence — due to her jetsetting lifestyle.

Zhukova, Miuccia Prada on Monroque »