FLEDGING LINE COBRA SOCIETY INTRODUCES HANDBAGS

When former Stella McCartney intern Alex Davis launched her Cobra Society collection of boots last Fall, it was quickly snapped up by the likes of Net-a-Porter, Shopbop, Saks, and Satine in Los Angeles. Beyoncé and Jessica Alba, too, are fans.

Each boot incorporates handwoven Moroccan kilim rugs, which means that no two pairs are exactly the same. For Spring, Davis continues to be inspired by North African culture — she’s incorporated vintage Moroccan wedding blankets and tapestries into the mix — and has added three new shoe silhouettes: loafers, high-heeled booties, and wedges. She’s also trying her hand at handbags, introducing the Tangier carry-all in two sizes, as well as a clutch, all in Italian leather. The handbags will be available exclusively on Cobra Society’s new e-commerce site this season, launching next Monday, March 5.

One more image of the collection, after the jump.

SPOTTED: VUITTON’S ATTENTION TO DETAIL

It’s not unusual to see crews of artists inside the windows of luxury boutiques on a seasonal basis, but to see skilled artisans work their magic on scaffolding? Only in Paris — and only Louis Vuitton.  We stumbled across the not-yet open Vuitton Joaillerie store on the corner of the Place Vendôme on the Rue de la Paix after Balmain’s fall show.  At least six people were hard at work, affixing individual gold, pin-sized dots to the already sketched design.  If they put that much work into the cardboard barriers, we can’t wait to see what they do with the boutique.

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Fashion Interview Dressing: Do's and Don'ts

Every college now adequately prepares its graduates for interviews when they're unleashed into the "Real World." Bring your resume. Shake hands and make eye contact. Have three researched questions to ask your interviewer. Follow up with a thank you card.

Well that's all well and good, but what happens when you are interviewing with a fashion company where your credentials and appearance are equally important? Before you rush out to buy a Stella McCartney suit (which you probably couldn't afford until you got this job anyway), follow these simple DO's and DON'Ts for interview dressing!

DO bring at least three copies of your resume in a portfolio. 
Perhaps the biggest faux-pas in any interview is showing up without a resume, even more so in a fashion industry interview. Be sure to carry your resume, references and cover letter in structured portfolio on solid card stock. It's a simple investment but will demonstrate your absolute professionalism.

DO keep your makeup clean.
Now is not the time to practice your smoky eye or red lip. Keep your makeup clean, fresh faced and minimal. When you're caked up with makeup you immediately set the tone that you're more self-absorbed than your work. Moreover, with more makeup, you run a more serious risk of lipstick on the teeth or eye liner running down.

DON'T wear head to toe designer labels. 
When you are sporting the Chanel handbag, Hermes bangles and Gucci sunglasses all at once, your interviewer will second guess how your resume got to the top, "Did someone call in a favor? Will this girl really roll up her sleeves and work or is she just pampered?" Instead of loading up on blatant designer goods, wear more obscure or less flashy designer pieces that reflect your personal style.

DO wear crisp clothes in a neutral palette. 
Just because you're interviewing for a fashion related job, don't forget you're still on an interview. Think that less is more and opt for a clean, crisp black dress with select jewelry pieces. It's more impressive to see an interviewee pull together a balanced outfit with classic staples than to see them wearing the latest fashion trend. Also, have your clothes dry cleaned before your interview.

DO wear sensible heels. 
Absolutely wear heels as it will naturally help your posture. Make sure you can comfortably walk in them across all possible flooring materials: marble, hardwood, tile and carpet. It sounds weird but imagine the instant panic you'll feel when realizing your heels are gliding more than walking over the lacquered floors. Also, make sure they're polished heels and the nail of the heel isn't exposed from that time you drunkenly got it stuck in a subway grate.

DON'T opt for a more casual look.
Even if you're friend tips you off that everyone working at the company sports jeans and a t-shirt, don't dress down. Remember: they have the job already and don't need to impress you. A more lax look may be acceptable in this industry but not for an interview. Don't wear jeans and don't wear open toe shoes.

DO go in with confidence and a smile.
As Annie once proudly sang, regardless of what you're wearing, "it's what you wear from ear to ear... that matters." Of course, she may have been a redhead that barely pulled off a red dress but the advice is sound. Shoulders back, chin up and smile! When your face is brimming with positive energy, your outfit becomes secondary and your personality, charm and wits take center stage.

Nicki Minaj & Ricky Martin: MAC Viva Glam Party!

Nicki Minaj and Ricky Martin attend the MAC Cosmetics Viva Glam Partyheld at Stage 37 on Wednesday (February 15) in NYC.

Earlier in the day, the 29-year-old rapper and Ricky, 40, appeared on Good Morning America to promote their Viva Glam campaign

Is There Life After Modeling?

I found this article interesting for those who are in the Modeling Field.. Check it out 

Karolina Kurkova, Angela Lindvall, and Coco Rocha plot the future of their relevance.

Courtesy of New York News Mag/ By Jada Yuan 

High above New York on the 21st-floor balcony of the Cooper Square Hotel, German television is filming Karolina Kurkova teaching ten aspiring models how to walk a runway. “It literally looks like we’re walking on skyscrapers!” the Czech native, 27, says in enthusiastic English that later will be partially dubbed over in German. The girls, plucked from a Deutschland-wide search, at least pretend to understand.

Battling stiff winds and language barriers, Kurkova demonstrates three runway walks: high fashion, couture, and “show,” which basically means pretending to wear giant Victoria’s Secret wings—a technique in which Kurkova is quite expert. Then, to the delight of the Teutonic producers, she gets her heel stuck between floor slats. Her fumbling to free herself is a moment that, along with the many times she bursts into tears eliminating girls, will be played on repeat in stridently dramatic European promos.

The show, called Das Perfekte Model (The Perfect Model), is Kurkova’s first step toward building the kind of career that keeps a model in the spotlight after shoots have dried up. The greatest post-modeling successes in the past decade have been Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks. And not surprisingly, Kurkova and her producers are billing Das Perfekte Model as a toned-down, “documentary-style” counterpart to Klum’s second-best-known TV-hosting gig: the megahit Germany’s Next Topmodel (itself derived from Banks’s Top Modeljuggernaut).

Looming in the background of every model’s career, even one as thriving as Kurkova’s, is the inevitable fear: aging out. The thirst for fresh faces in modeling is so intense that the Council of Fashion Designers of America has issued a plea for designers and modeling agencies not to let girls under 16 walk at New York Fashion Week. Not everybody complies.




So what’s a woman shunned from a girl’s world to do? Try acting (Milla Jovovich, Amber Valetta, Charlize Theron, Cameron Diaz, Tyra Banks), play music (Karen Elson,Irina Lazareanu, Banks again), become a photographer (Helena Christensen, Banks again), start a beauty line (Miranda Kerr), start a yoga line (Christy Turlington), start a clothing line (Kate Moss, Erin Wasson), start a jewelry line (too many to count), start a furniture line (Cindy Crawford), get a bachelor’s in comparative religion and Eastern philosophies (Turlington again), run a charity (where to begin), run for Estonian Parliament (Carmen Kass), marry rich (Stephanie Seymour, Christie Brinkley), or become the First Lady of France (Carla Bruni).




In dance, another industry ruthless in spitting out its genetically gifted workers, there’s actually a foundation for “career transition” funded by the Newhouse family. Modeling has no such safety net. “You’d be stupid not to think you have a shelf life,” says Iman, 56, who now runs a $25 million cosmetics company. “I knew I had to become a brand. And that brand was me.”


But the trick for Kurkova and two other models who are thinking hard about their futures—Coco Rocha and Angela Lindvall—is how to build a populist brand without screwing up their still-active careers as high-fashion models.




Put another way: Can a QVC line ever coexist with the cover of Vogue?




The youngest of the three is Rocha, age 23, who’s big enough she got a shout-out in a Kanye West song; Tyra Banks has called her “the queen of posing.” Rocha thought “modeling was just going to be a summer thing and then I’d go home,” she says. “Then I went to Asia. Then I worked with Steven [Meisel].” Now she even has friends like Karlie Kloss, 19, arguably the most famous face of her generation, joking that girls in Rocha’s class (“the old-lady crew,” as Rocha calls them) have stuck around too long. Yet Rocha is convinced she’s found modeling’s holy grail for longevity: social media. “Once I started making noise, I thought, I’m not going anywhere.”




Making noise certainly worked for Heidi Klum, 38, who started her career in 1992—too late to be a supermodel and too curvy to be a waif. Clothes “would get stuck on my boobs,” Klum says. She wound up doing catalogues until she “nagged and nagged and nagged” Victoria’s Secret. She got a publicist, who helped her get Sports Illustrated, which led to Leno, which proved she could do TV, which led to Project Runway and her becoming far more influential in fashion than she ever was as a model.




It also worked for Cindy Crawford, 46. Against her agents’ advice, she took an unpaid job as the first host of MTV’s House of Style, which gave her a new, large, male fan base that led to a huge campaign with Pepsi. “I definitely made a choice to go more all-America,” she says. “I felt that was my brand.”