Honey, There's a Reason Kate Moss is Still Ne Plus Ultra!

Kate Moss, Daria Werbowy and Lara Stone all have separate covers of the September 2012 cover of Paris Vogue

All were shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, all wearing the same Dolce & Gabbana dress, red lip and slicked back hair



But Kate proves why, at 38, she still commands the room (and the big bucks!)

Ne Plus Carla Bruni

France has voted and Nicolas Sarkozy is out and Socialist Francois Hollande is in. The bigger news is model turned First Lady Carla Burni's penchant for Dior is out too

The next French First Lady's got some big shoes (probably typical model size 11 to be exact) to fill!

Mondo Wins

And nobody is surprised

Well except Mondo, maybe.

The rest of us knew the whole premise of this show was pretty much to vindicate him for his robbed earlier win from season 8.

But Austin was equally robbed for season 1, but I guess time heals all wounds

Personally I liked Mondo's designs although I thought they were very similar to his previous output

Austin's I thought branched out more although I agreed with the judges that he needed to hone his focus better (Hasidic vampire hipsters???)


But if this is the results...

I'll bite! 

Other moments of note:

Angela Lindvall looked SEX! in her Stella McCartney

Georgina Chapman was channeling her inner Muppet lady of the manor

Tommy Hilfiger gave good insight on market and retail (despite my "Meh" on him, he knows how to sell ish!) 

Not enough Isaac! 

And Joanna Coles is possibly the nicest (at least on TV) editor of a fashion magazine I've ever experienced! 

And the consolation prize of a weekend in Paris may have been custom made by the producers since they knew they weren't giving it to Austin

(Oh and I checked, Mondo's designs aren't up on Neiman Marcus online as of this post on Friday at 11am.)

It Can't All Be Dior's Birthday Present #5

This retarded t-shirt from House of Holland available at Beacon's Closet right now

Oh, Tyra, girl, you need to live!

(House of Holland blue cotton 'Tyra' t-shirt, $12.95 at Beacon's Closet, http://www.beaconscloset.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/oh-tyra)

Thanks for the Ad: Black Cats Come Alive for Jason Wu for Target

There's something so whimsically French storybook about the Jason Wu for Target commercial starring a black cat with a penchant for well designed mischief and Francoise Hardy

Is it April in Paris yet? 

             

                    

Toujours Vingt-et-Un?

The land of couture is about to be invaded by cheap rags with hidden Christian agendas

Forever 21 is opening their French flagship at the end of January.

Globalization continues its slow Blob-like consumption of the world's individual identities. Mon Dieu!

Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes... Even More Beautiful in Paris?

Honey, no need to look up: heaven's on your arm

Most ladies would be smitten if they man swept them away to Paris. Oh but Eva Mendes has to be all greedy like and run off with her super cutie beau Ryan Gosling. I'd hate on her, but I kinda dig her. -hmph-

We'll Always have "Midnight in Paris"

Last nite Mr Taurus and I had a sweet date nite at BAM to see Woody Allen's latest, "Midnight in Paris". 

Yet another Allen flick set in a European capital rather than his home turf, Paris, like London and Barcelona before it, provides a renaissance of inspiration. Allen hasn't been this creative and smart and light in awhile with the plot centering on an American writer in Paris nostalgic for the great times of the expat Lost generation. Soon, through an easy, breezy unexplained fantasy turn, he is hobnobbing with those great literary and artistic giants he's idolized for so long

Cast is great with Alison Pill doing a mighty fine Zelda Fitzgerald

And sexy thang Adrien Brody turning up for a quick, delightful Salvador Dali

I wasn't mad for Rachel McAdams' nag of an ungrateful shrew, but I guess that was her role, so split hairs

(You know you're a frigid B when you can't find the romance in Paris)

Owen Wilson is pretty great as the protagonist and he manages to pull off sweet and naive without being a twit. His chemistry with Marion Cotillard as a 1920's French mistress of Pablo Picasso is not as heavy handed or obsessive as it can be in an Allen flick

As for the writing, there are a lot of great quips playing up public personas and the myths of these famous folks, but also on bougie white people, infidelity, where inspiration comes from and the plague of the proverbial "grass is greener". 

Allen himself could be a victim of this "what he used to be" type of neglect for the now, the present works. In a funny twist, the flapper played by Marion Cotillard tires of the 20's instead longing for the Belle Epoque of Paris. She's exactly where Wilson thought was the perfect idealistic time, yet she's at unease and bored. A nice reminder that we must forget skewed daydreams about rose colored years gone by and live in the now.