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A post by DoubleX writer Erica Kawalek:
Lindsay Lohan launched her debut collection as artistic director of
Ungaro on Sunday. As soon as the last model existed the runway, snobby
editors stormed out the door. Lohan was in tears. That the clothes
would be widely panned was no surprise, of course. WWD called the collection "an embarrassment," "cheesy and dated" with an "overworked" heart motif. Style.com
said the show quickly “devolved into a bad joke of a fashion show, one
with questionable color combinations, ‘bad eighties’ draped silk
jackets and drop-crotch pants, old-fashioned and ill-judged fur stoles,
and, yes, tasteless sequin pasties.”
The looks were inelegant, off-trend, and styled with about as much je ne sais quois
as a drunk teen let loose inside a Forever 21. But you know what? I
loved this fashion show, and I think that it was a genius
move—promotional and otherwise—by Ungaro CEO Mounir Moufarrige ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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A post from Double X writer Erika Kawalek:
The Paris haute couture shows have come to a close. The reviews are
in and there’s discussion going on about how luxury is being “toned
down” for these “hard times,” how "fancy" is being "snubbed."
In the case of the officially bankrupt house of Christian Lacroix
this makes sense. He was forced to make do with bolts and scraps of
fabric he already had lying around his studio. He drastically cut back
on ... (Read more in Double X.)