Last Minute Gift Ideas, International Best Dressed Women, and Modeling Trends on Tailor Made

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5 Gift Ideas for Under $100 Dollars

Yayoi Kusama Puzzle. $75.00 via RxArt

Bill Murray and David Bowie REPLACEFACE prints. $24.95 each via Society6

Lulu Frost x J.Crew earrings. $98.00 via J.Crew

Dotted crewneck sweater. $88.00 via Madewell

Beaker Pom Pom Beanie. $66.00 via In God We Trust

Pippa Middleton's Engaged

Two Middletons down, one to go. Us Weekly reports that Duchess Kate's headline-grabbing little sis, Pippa, is finally off the market. The party-planning middle sibling (whose perfect rear has practically become the stuff of legends) will wed her banker boyfriend Nico Jackson. The two have been dating for more than a year.

Pippa at Wedding

Pippa Blue Blazer

Foxcroftcollection $49 Navy BLue Blazer

International Best Dressed List Women

Kerry Washington
at WEARING AN OSCAR DE LA RENTA GOWN WITH LOUBOUTIN HEELS AND KOTUR CLUTCH TO THE N.A.A.C.P. IMAGE AWARDS.
OCCUPATION: Actor.
RESIDENCE: Los Angeles.
LABELS: Michael Kors, Gucci, Marchesa, Miu Miu.
NOTABLE ENSEMBLE OF 2013: Miu Miu gown worn at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.

HRH
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE
HUSBAND: H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge.
RESIDENCES: Anglesey, Wales; Kensington Palace, London.
LABELS: Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, Issa, Alice Temperley.
NOTABLE ENSEMBLE OF 2013: Pink Alexander McQueen coat and Jane Corbett hat, worn at the Trooping the Colour ceremony in honor of Her Majesty the Queen's birthday.
STYLE ICON: Diana, Princess of Wales.
Featured in an Alexander McQueen gown

Jenna Lyons
OCCUPATION: President and creative director, J. Crew.
FAVORITE ITEM OF CLOTHING: "All versions of a white shirt."
FAVORITE PLACES TO SHOP: "J. Crew and Céline."
FAVORITE ACCESSORY: "My bespoke Philip Crangi signet ring."
STYLE ICON: "Charlotte Rampling."
in Custom J. Crew and Manolo Blahniks

Peng Liyuan
AT MEXICO CITY'S AIRPORT, JUNE 4, 2013.
HUSBAND: President Xi Jinping of China.
OCCUPATION: U.N. World Health Organization goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and H.I.V./AIDS.
RESIDENCE: Beijing, China.
LABELS: Exception de Mixmind.
NOTABLE ENSEMBLE OF 2013: A black double-breasted, belted coat and handbag by Chinese fashion label Exception, worn during her trip to Russia.

Carmen Dell 'Orefice
OCCUPATION: Model.
FAVORITE ITEMS OF CLOTHING: "Outside of my flannel pj's, a black wool-crêpe Ralph Rucci jacket with cutouts and my Peter Cohen black silk-crêpe separates."
FAVORITE PLACES TO SHOP: "All of N.Y.C.: uptown, downtown, all around the town! Bergdorf Goodman; Bolton's."
STYLE ICON: "Babe Paley."
Wearing: DELL'OREFICE IN CHADO RALPH RUCCI WITH A CARTIER BRACELET

Trends in Modeling

There is a huge trend right now to cast real people

Gap

Rick Owens Runway in Paris

No, instead Owens went wildly left of center, creating a show where his designs were presented by a cast of American, mostly Black, female step dancers who were not size zero or two, not dainty, not demure, and not hyper sexualized as Black women on stage all too often are. These women, a significant number of whom are members of Zeta Phi Beta sorority at Howard University, descended from the top of a staircase, performed a step dance, then broke off to have a brief solo moment to showcase the pieces (loosely fitting tunics and shorts), before finally ending in an interlocked chain of stomping bodies.

While Owens will be the one called an innovative risk taker, it was the women and mother-daughter director/choreographer who deserved the accolades. Backstage, Owens, who had to custom fit the pieces to the non-sample size women, said it was a "f–k you to conventional beauty" that he loved. Others were less than pleased, saying the exaggerated mad faces made by some of the women played on stereotypes of the angry Black woman; as if even on a Paris runway all they can do is mean mug for the (mostly white) audience.

Langley Fox Hemingway

brian there is another trend thats been happening this last season which is not using the typical "model" for campaigns. its using interesting people- DJ's, artists, stylists, designers, philanthropists, photographers, bloggers etc. i represent langley fox hemingway who in addition to being a hemingway is gorgeous and an amazing artist www.langleyfox.com but people book her because shes a gorgeous illustrator. i feel like the brands are lookikng for something more…interesting people that consumers identify with. that people say- that could be me. its a more aspirational approach as opposed to using the typical model. its actually really inspiring.
you can see this in the gap holiday campaign, levis, uniqlo, sephora, redken etc.

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