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“Gianfranco Ferre”
04/01/08 ·

LinkOut

Alien Slave Women, Woody's Legal Briefs and Lad Nouveau

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Space Case: Once, we were grown men who watched football and Westerns. Then, Sci-Fi fox Tricia Helfer snared us her Tholian web of leggyness.[OhNoTheyDidn’t]

Shields Up: In related news, Spock goes down hard. [The Observer]

Picking Numbers: Cathy Horyn starts off her morning congratulating her friends at 6267 on their new post as chief designers at Gianfranco Ferre, has a glass of red wine before lunch to celebrate, gets all moist about Scorsese. [NYTimes]

Crimes and Misdemeanors: Forget Beckham, marketing guru and American Apparel founder Dov Charney knows that no one can sell more underwear than Woody Allen. Too bad he didn’t ask permission first. [Radar]

New Kid on The Block: Given the criteria, we most likely qualify as “Lad Nouveau.” Call us that on the street and… well, let’s just say you’d better have good insurance. [Times UK]

“Well-Dressed Rebels”: ACL breaks down the stars of April GQ. [A Continuous Lean]

Better Than a Card: Earnest Sewn will be offering discount tattoos for Mothers Day. How come you never see moms sporting “Son” tats? [Paper]

06/26/08 ·

The Biz

Ferre Tales

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Following the passing of its gentlemanly founder last year, the House of Gianfranco Ferre seems to be intent on sexing up its image after abruptly parting ways with new designer Lars Nilsson a few months ago.

Just take a gander at this image from Ferre’s brand new Fall/Winter ‘08-‘09 ad campaign shot by Steven Meisel, which features this well-suited gent frolicking with frequently topless babes. Probably not the sort of thing the buttoned-up, unfailingly elegant Mr. Ferre would have greenlighted himself before he went to the great couture house in the sky, but we like it fine.

Meanwhile, the Ferre men’s presentation (staged in lieu of a real runway show) in Milan the other day was something of a mixed bag, but the shades were pretty slick at least.

08/01/08 ·

Scene

Kempt Man of the Hour: Cameron Silver

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Photographed by our fearless lensman, Patrick McMullan.

Here claim his third MOTH—only the second fellow to score a hat trick so far, the first being Hamish Bowles—is dandified Los Angeles vintage clothing kingpin Cameron Silver. We might have expected the irrepressible Mr. Silver to rescue us from the sartorial lapses of summer with something like the study in brown and cream he wore to the opening of the new Prada store in San Franciso.

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