Showing posts by Rachel Brown- West Coast Beauty and Accessories Editor
You may not be able to buy word of mouth, but YouTube is more and more becoming a place to capitalize on it.
Posted in: Media
1931: From left to right James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods and Joan Blondell star in the original 'Public Enemy.'
Photo by: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
No detail was too small to recreate in movie "Public Enemies," about the rise and fall of Thirties bank robber John Dillinger -- and that includes the manicures.

Makeup department head Jane Galli fashioned a vintage nail look for Marion Cotillard, who plays Dillinger's main squeeze, Billie Frechette, a humble coat-check girl who still managed to pretty herself.

"Michael Mann, our director, his attention to detail is phenomenal," Galli said. "When I got the project, I read everything and anything I could about the Thirties. During the Depression, women, even if they had no money, they did their nails in red, and they also wore their lipstick."

Posted in: Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
Forget having a lucrative life. Postmortem profits may be the true measure of an American iconšs popularity. To be the top dog in the hereafter, Michael Jackson is going to have to best
Elvis Presley, Charles Schulz, Heath Ledger and Albert Einstein, who took the first four spots in Forbes' list of highest-earning dead celebrities last year with a combined one-year take of $123 million.
Posted in: Lifestyle
It was a letdown for both sides.

After two years of legal wrangling, days of testimony and thousands of pages of court documents, Trovata and Forever 21 are back at the starting line because of a mistrial over allegations the cheap-chic retailer knowingly copied Trovata's designs.
Posted in: Business

Drew Barrymore at the Golden Globes.
That hair.

Newly blonde Drew Barrymore channeled Marilyn Monroe at the Golden Globes, and her inflated coif got more slings and arrows than just about anything on the red carpet.

The man who created the look is unrepentant.

Italian hairstylist Giannandrea contended the trend toward the simple has become bland.

"People say sometimes less is more, but to me less is less," he said. With Barrymore's hair recently blonded, Giannandrea turned to Marilyn as his muse. Mix in a bit of "La Dolce Vita"-era movies for inspiration and -- voilā! -- the hairstylist created the 'do many lambasted as a don't.


Las Vegas is a city -- and a state of mind -- where sobriety and budgets are frowned upon. It's a place where the phrase "anything goes" is part of the DNA. But the economic swoon means that Las Vegas is suddenly less isolated from the troubles of the world outside its borders. Everyone who's paying higher prices to make the trip to the desert oasis is reminded of that. And that's bad news for Sin City, which about 10 minutes ago was one of the fastest growing retail markets in the country, especially in the luxury sector. No more.

Posted in: Business, Retail

WWD.com is the authority for news and trends in the worlds of fashion, beauty and retail. Featuring daily headlines and breaking news from all Women's Wear Daily publications, WWD.com provides the most comprehensive coverage anywhere of fashion, beauty and retail news and is the leading destination for all fashion week updates and show reviews from New York, Paris, Milan and London.

Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use (REVISED 5/22/09) and Privacy Policy (REVISED 5/22/09).
© 2009 Fairchild Fashion Group and its licensors. All rights reserved.
The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Fairchild Fashion Group.