Get used to no longer seeing Nicole in ads like this for Chanel. She was dumped for the cuter in a french sorta way Audrey Tautou. Remember Audrey as Amelie…in Amelie? Apparently Chanel went for the younger, less pregnant and more French actress. In the wild and wacky world of fashion advertising and branding, it somehow makes sense that Tautou fits the mold of Chanel. She has a sort of retro visage, while resembling Madame Coco, if only slightly. This changing of the Chanel guard happens in 2009 and there’s some excitement in regards to her fronting the campaign specifically because she will be working on a commercial that was also directed by her Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Surely Success Magazine’s list of greatest fashion entrepreneurs is missing a name or two. The three top fashion entrepreneurs according to the magazine include Ralph Lauren (but of course), Levi Strauss (ok two for two), and Phil Knight (hold them there horses). Knight may have created the top athletic brand in Nike, but it was arguably as a result of creative, successful marketing than being so utterly fashionable. For athletic wear that’s fashionable all one has to do is look at Puma. So to really get to the bottom of things, Knight is more at home being the successful marketing entrepreneur/guy than fashion.

While Success did not solicit for additions here are a couple of names they may be missing altogether: Coco Chanel (helped build sprawling fashion empire), Louis Vuitton (see Coco Chanel), Rene Lacoste (who bridged the athletic/fashion gap)… the list goes on and there’s sure to be hand wringing over any that was missed here.

Read Success Magazine’s Greatest Fashion Entrepreneurs article here

No there is no real Sex and the City Watch going on, but there might as well be all things considered. This movie is getting more buzz than The Devil Wears Prada. It’s not hard to see why as every sort of minutiae is being thrown in from what the characters eat, to the actual wedding scenes (that wasn’t a spoiler), to the designers being used. In this vein The LA Times blog looks at Pat Fields magician-like precision when it comes to striking the tone between the Carrie Bradshaw that was and the Carrie Bradshaw that is now. She looks at the character several years later and her fashion tastes have not so much grown as she as evolved”. Fields is quoted as saying,

“I saw Carrie a little more sexy, a little more evolved, a little more calm with herself as a woman, she was still going through her eclectic things, and she was gaining in her profession.”

The movie comes out at the end of May. To read more of the fashion production notes visit the LA Times blog here.

It’s no secret that there’s a personal obsession for some when it pertains to Motown and the fashions that groups like The Supremes, Marvelettes and other wore. It was arguably a simpler time even though many of you reading this were probably not even thoughts in your parents minds. My parents were in Puerto Rico doing god knows what. So when news came of Mary Wilson (of the Supremes) is holding an exhibit at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum that looks back at that time, a lot of folks here cheered. The exhibit consists mainly of her personal costumes from the Supreme days. It includes all the flowing gowns, the glamour, the retrospective aspect. She tells the Times Online about the exhibit saying:

We used to make our clothes from patterns from the five-and-dime store. When we had our first hit, we bought gowns from stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue. When we did the really big TV shows, they had designers. They would make things for us, many of which you will see at the V&A exhibition.

One of my favourite dresses was the butterfly one. It is sequined, with a chiffon cape attached to the shoulders and arms - when you lifted your arms, it looked like wings.

Read the entire article here.

People hate when someone says “this thing is sex.” Even here on the ‘doll’s blog folks constantly say, “can you please stop saying… this thing is sex.” The problem in this scenario is that this shoot on The Zoo really is Sex..They describe it as as sexual shoot (or some variation therein). So please, no hate mail. This is a sex-like shoot, for lack of a better term.

online: The Woman in the Window (Zoozoom)