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Rocawear Downsizes: Is It Jay-Z's Promo Problem Or Is It The Clothes?

Posted 1/18/12 1:18 pm EST by Andi Teran in Designers, Dudes, Let's Discuss

Looks from Rocawear's spring 2012 collection.
Photo: Rocawear on Facebook

Jay-Z has been in the news a lot lately. He's the brand-new proud father of Blue Ivy Carter, and for some reason, this happy news seems to have catalyzed somewhat critical chatter where the wee babe is concerned. Despite melting hearts with the new song, "Glory," which featured Blue's baby coos, there was the erroneous report that he was going to stop using the word bitch because he now has a daughter. His reps denied this, which made the media investigate deeper into the amount of times he used the word in his songs, and now there's speculation that Blue was the reason half of Rocawear's staff was laid off the day before her birth. That's a lot of pressure for a BABY, folks! As we're talking style here, perhaps the problems with Rocawear have more to do with the fact that its design elements seem to be stuck in the early aughts. Let's discuss, shall we?

Tags Blue Ivy Carter, Jay-Z, Rocawear

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Karl Lagerfeld Gets An Adorable New Kitty, Names Her 'Choupette'

Posted 1/17/12 1:20 pm EST by Andi Teran in Designers

Karl Lagerfeld at the MoMa; Karl's new kitten Choupette sitting on a bathroom ledge.
Photo: Getty Images; "V" magazine's Twitter

You guys, Uncle Karl got a kitten! That's right, Karl Lagerfeld (aka my Uncle Karl, duh) surprised us all by allowing his friend Stephen Gan from V magazine to shoot a bathroom portrait of wee mini kitteh, CHOUPETTE sitting under a spray of roses looking insanely adorable while a bath is being drawn. (* Dying *) The photo was tweeted out to Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti with the message, "Hello Kitties! Karl Lagerfeld's Sunday night photo: meet Choupette, his new kitten." So, wait, was this SHOT by Karl as his bath was being drawn? Also, what kind of kitty is Choupette? (Could she be a Birman or a Ragdoll?) Is this why the pre-fall Chanel show involved Cat Power? Oh, and is this actually King Karl's bathroom, like fo' realsies with his bottle of Chanel Allure just waiting to be dappled atop the tepid surface of this ultra-modern tub? So. Many. Questions.

Tags Cats, Karl Lagerfeld

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Azealia Banks Is Working With Nicola Formichetti Right Now And That Means Platform Jordan 3s

Posted 1/12/12 4:41 pm EST by Mary H.K. Choi in 'It' Girls, Designers

Azealia Banks is working with Nicola Formichetti.
Photo: Matt Barnes/Getty Images

As you're all aware, MTV Style is well and in love with one Ms. Azealia Banks. We dutifully stalked her online and maybe even invoked the juice of Viacom and the MTV brand to cajole her into visiting us and shooting some videos that you will see very soon. Lucky you, ENTIRE WORLD. Anyway, it was during these interviews that we learned that Azealia's dimples are as adorable as her mouth is FILTHY. Seriously, she can curse a hilarious blue streak. It's not often that you find someone as talented and winsome as this Harlem native responsible for the most salacious T-shirt designs and some of the most knocking-some, compulsively sing-along-able songs, among them "212" (which has finally been hauled out of whatever production purgatory it was trapped in for MONTHS) and "Liquorice" but THEN to hear that she's collaborating with a styling/creative directing genius?

Shooting the video for liquorice in Paris. Going to be epic!!@>formichetti

— ? AH-ZEE-LEE-YAH ? (@AZEALIABANKS) January 11, 2012

good morning! see you guys in a bit @AZEALIABANKS @inezandvinoodh @vmagazine

— nicola formichetti (@formichetti) January 12, 2012

You'll understand if we soiled ourselves a little.
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Tags Azealia Banks, Nicola Formichetti, Shoes

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Adidas Originals x Jeremy Scott Spring 2012 Revamps Sportswear With Stars, Stripes, Cowhide, And Tails!

Posted 1/12/12 10:00 am EST by Alex Catarinella in Designers

Photo: Adidas

Fact: Jeremy Scott stays killing it. We're trembling in our platforms at the prospect of a grueling schedule consisting of getting Katy Perry red carpet-ready, collabing on some ridiculously fly kicks with K-Pop cuties 2NE1 and, if the rumors are true, designing Britney Spears' wedding dress. The Scott reign rules supreme, and come February y'all can high kick into the leap year with another salivating-onto-the-keyboard-inducing collection with Adidas Originals x Jeremy Scott. Such bananasosity.

Can we talk specifically about the shoes for a spell? Just when you thought Scott outdid himself with the whole rainbow wing shoes thing, he goes ahead and gets his reinvention on in DENIM. The texture is irresistible. Can you even imagine how they'd distress? And the contrast tan stitching? Glorious. *Dances ecstatically in Times Square traffic* Perhaps still feeling Katy's Wild Wild West b-day bash, Scott is once again serving us major cowboy couture with adorbs cow-print kicks. Imagine these with a cuffed pant (and a velvet cowboy hat, duh.)
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Tags 2NE1, Adidas, Jeremy Scott, Katy Perry

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The Jason Wu for Target Collection Is A Spring Dream, Makes Us Want Cute Black Cats On Everything

Posted 1/11/12 12:48 pm EST by Andi Teran in Designers

Looks from the Jason Wu for Target collection.
Photo: Courtesy of Target

We're a GO anytime megastore Target teams up with a designer to deliver a covetable collection of high-end-looking fashion at totally low-end prices. (It's kind of a no-brainer.) So when we heard that Jason Wu was designing a collection, we marked every calendar we could find with the launch date (Feb. 5) and started exercising our fingers to prepare for the onslaught of vulture shoppers we will undoubtedly encounter online when we attempt to purchase as many pieces as possible. Does anyone remember the black hole that was the Target for Missoni launch last September? Not only did it crash Target's website, it caused fashion frenzies in the actual stores, the likes of which are typically reserved for Black Friday. We're hoping people will chill a bit and embody the same ladylike spirit with which Mr. Wu has infused his collection. We're hoping they take their sweet time when choosing any of his delightful dresses or MUST-HAVE kitty bags and scarves because we plan on swooping up this entire Parisian-inspired loot for ourselves.

Tags Jason Wu, Target

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Louis Vuitton Partners With Polka-Dot Artist Yayoi Kusama On A New Collection

Posted 1/10/12 10:00 am EST by Andi Teran in Designers

Artist Yayoi Kusama's "Kusamatrix" exhibition in Tokyo.
Photo: Getty Images

Marc Jacobs has a knack for merging the worlds of art and fashion, and in July, he will unveil a new collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama, the famed 82-year-old Japanese female artist who has had a lifelong obsession with polka dots. I don't know if I can stress this enough, but OMG THIS IS HUGE. According to WWD, the collaborative line will include accessories, ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, jewelry, and watches, and we're going to go ahead and predict it will all be ASTOUNDING. Jacobs has long been a fan of Kusama's work and even visited her in Tokyo, as seen in the 2007 documentary Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton. In the film, Kusama presents him with a Louis Vuitton purse hand-painted with white dots, and later in a voiceover, the documentary proclaims, "We sensed that Yayoi Kusama's endless dots would echo awhile in Marc Jacobs's mind." Sounds like they echoed all the way until 2012! Did this past moment spark their current collaborative union, and could this hand-painted purse be a prototype for what we might see in July?

Tags Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Yayoi Kusama

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Take A Peek Inside Coco Chanel's Paris Apartment

Posted 1/9/12 10:00 am EST by Gaby Wilson in Designers

Coco Chanel sits in her Hotel Ritz Paris apartment in 1960.
Photo: Getty Images

If you haven't fallen into the brain-itching wormhole of voyeuristic awesomeness that is The Coveteur yet, get your flashlights ready because you're about to get sucked in. The beautifully executed blog takes you behind the scenes and into the homes of some of fashion, design, and art's buzziest and most influential names (ex: the sisters behind DANNIJO, Katy Perry's stylist Johnny Wujek, Peter Som himself, and many MANY more). Taking a break the stylized dwellings of today's latest and greatest, though, The Coveteur recently made a trip to Paris and photographed the abode of fash legend Coco Chanel. While the walls aren't lined with tweed, nor are the light fixtures dripping with pearls, the iconic woman's abode is drenched in opulent details.

Tags Chanel, Coco Chanel, Designers, Homes, The Coveteur

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3.1 Phillip Lim's Spring/Summer 2012 Men's Collection Video Is Very, Very Serious

Posted 1/6/12 4:00 pm EST by Alex Catarinella in Designers

3.1 Phillip Lim's Spring/Summer 2012 collection video.
Photo: Courtesy of 3.1 Phillip Lim's Vimeo

When it comes to Phillip Lim and his designs, we are perpetually gagging over his painfully hip sparkling sartorial (and often thoughtfully shredded) gems. No one dresses a whiskey-on-the-rocks-clutching downtown "It" Girl or Boy quite like Mr. Lim. So we carefully moved our Venti latte away from the keyboard while shrieking/enthusiastically pressing play on "Improv-isualists," a dreamy video showcasing the 3.1 Phillip Lim SS12 collection. The eye candy is all kinds of tasty, but for the rest of the vid? Well, fashion queens, please forgive us because we're about to go in.

Tags 3.1 Phillip Lim, Phillip Lim, Video

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The Joyrich SS2012 Lookbook Is Here In All Of Its Leopard, Floral, And Ca$hed Out Glory!

Posted 1/6/12 10:00 am EST by Rory Rockmore in Designers

Back in November we told y'all everything you needed to know about Japanese-by-way-of-L.A.-based clothing brand Joyrich that's infiltrated the wardrobe closests of celebs like Lil Wayne, Keri Hilson, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj. Here, in an MTV Style EXCLUSIVE, is a preview of the SS2012 lookbook and VIDEO LOOKBOOK. Click here to see it in all its bright, mixed print, fully accessorized glory.

Tags Designers, GIFs, Joyrich, L.A., Lookbook

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Rodarte Is Designing Costumes For A Super Dark Mozart Opera!

Posted 1/6/12 9:00 am EST by Andi Teran in Designers

Karlie Kloss walks the runway of the Spring 2012 Rodarte show at New York Fashion Week.
Photo: Getty Images

Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the sisterly design force behind Rodarte, will make their costume design debut for Mozart's opera Don Giovanni at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Working in conjunction with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and mega architect Frank Gehry, who will design the sets, the duo will outfit eight principle characters in a way we assume will be arresting, unique, and totally them, which is to say intricate ensembles that might possibly involve woven or layered fabric techniques, eerie silk prints, and insanely high shoes that are difficult to walk in. In short, we're going to go ahead and assume that these costumes will be mind-numbingly awesome.

Tags Mozart, Rodarte

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