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Kellan Lutz: Ab Fab

By Taylor Harris on May 13, 2010 7:13 PM

On Saturday, actor Kellan Lutz will be at Macy's Herald Square to promote his provocative Calvin Klein Underwear campaign. And where the "Twilight" heartthrob goes, lots of braced-faced, elbow-swinging tweens, clamoring for a peek at the hunk's now famous abs, will follow.

WWD spoke with the rookie sex symbol about superstardom and what it's like to be photographed in your skivvies.

WWD: So the next Twilight installment, "Eclipse," comes out next month, how do you prepare for all the craziness that comes with that?
Kellan Lutz: I really look at it as going to Six Flags or an amusement park. The first time, you don't realize what that long line of people waiting there is for, so when you get out of the car and everyone is screaming your name it's like, 'Oh my god.' It's surreal. But after the second time around, you realize you can't really prepare for it. You just know it's going to be one of the biggest moments and best memories of your life.

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Keri Russell Measures Up on the Red Carpet

By Taylor Harris on January 22, 2010 3:37 PM

Keri Russell
Theo Wargo/WireImage

Keri Russell braved the January chill Thursday night at the Cinema Society screening of her latest film "Extraordinary Measures." Russell stars opposite Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser in the tearjerker based on the real life story of a couple who enlists an experimental medical researcher to find a cure for their two ailing children.

Not surprisingly, the actress had kind words for Aileen Crowley, the woman on whom her character is based. "She's amazing and funny and self-deprecating," Russell cooed.

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Amy Adams and Co. Take a Leap

By Taylor Harris on January 12, 2010 6:36 PM

Amy Adams
photo courtesy of Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage

Amy Adams, Matthew Goode and John Lithgow were among the cast on hand at the Directors Guild of America Theater Wednesday night for a screening of their latest flick, "Leap Year." In the romantic comedy, Adams stars as a woman who, fed-up with her boyfriend's procrastination, chases him through Ireland in an elaborate scheme to propose to him on Leap Day.

And it seems the leading men don't mind being chased. "Just as long as it doesn't involve knives or numchucks or anything like that," said Goode.

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Safe Port With Whitney of 'The City'

By Taylor Harris on December 15, 2009 10:34 AM

Port at the Whitney Eve Spring 2010 show.

Last Wednesday morning, WWD stopped by Point A Showroom to get a look at the latest from Whitney Eve, the new line from Whitney Port of "The City." After being beleaguered by a swarm of "City" producers hounding us to sign a release form, we got a preview of the reality star-cum-fashion designer's spring 2010 collection.

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Miller Time

By Taylor Harris on November 10, 2009 9:43 PM

Sienna Miller is busy. In addition to clocking eight performances a week in "After Miss Julie" on Broadway, the actress is also co-designing her ready-to-wear collection Twenty8Twelve with her sister Savannah who lives in London. But the girls are not letting the Atlantic Ocean get between them.

"That's the wonders of modern technology. We Skype a lot," Sienna says. "There are such great vintage stores and fabric places here that I can source and send my ideas back to Savs and vice-versa."

On Monday--Sienna's only night off--the Miller sisters spoke with WWD about what's next for the British label.

WWD: Sienna, you just moved to New York temporarily and Savannah, you're visiting here for the week. How are you finding the city so far?
Sienna Miller: I love New York. I was born here so I feel like I have an affinity with the place. But I'm here just for four months doing the play.
Savannah Miller: I love the pace here. London's great but it's a sleepy town compared to New York. This is on a completely different level. The energy is so exciting and it's impossible not to get caught up in that.

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Designing for Dancing Stars

By Taylor Harris on November 9, 2009 9:57 AM

Karole Armitage dancers perform "Itutu" in costumes by Peter Speliopoulos.
photo by Julieta Cervantes

Typically, costume designers get into the trade hoping it will take them one step closer towards their ready-to-wear design aspirations.

But Peter Speliopoulos, Donna Karan's creative director, is taking the opposite approach. Speliopoulos, who has also designed for Christian Dior, Carolyne Roehm and Cerruti, created the costumes for Itutu, choreographer Karole Armitage's latest production. Itutu premiered Friday at the dance company's Armitage Gone! annual gala held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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Rear Window with Illustrator Matteo Pericoli

By Taylor Harris on November 5, 2009 5:02 PM

City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York

New Yorkers will never look out their windows the same way again.

In his latest work, "City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York," illustrator Matteo Pericoli has recreated the city landscape as seen from the offices and homes of renowned urban dwellers including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mario Batali and Philip Glass.

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On Target: NYC Art Battles

By Taylor Harris on October 28, 2009 1:24 PM

Two months ago, while all of Manhattan was in a frenzy over Fashion's Night Out, two artists at Intermix engaged in an art battle. While shoppers watched, the painters smothered mannequins in neon yellow, sky blue and gold lacquer. While it helped stir up excitement for the night itself, the demonstration was also being taped for the Web series "RADAR: Art Battles," which starts its second season today.

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Hands On with Kia Pedersen

By Taylor Harris on October 5, 2009 6:23 PM

An untitled Pedersen piece.
photo by Joseph Pluchino

Kia Pedersen wants museumgoers to get a feel for her artwork -- literally. Hence the name of her latest solo exhibit, "Please Touch." "Everyone walks in and the first thing they say is, 'Can we really?'" Pedersen said on Thursday night at her opening at KPF Gallery in New York City.

Her guests took instruction well, getting their hands on etched copper plates, intaglio-style prints and textured canvases, which were puckered by multiple gesso applications.

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Italia Imported

By Taylor Harris on September 28, 2009 5:28 PM

Nudo Olive Oil

Fashion isn't Italy's only game right now. The country's also all about the culinary arts, but, as it has gone with fashion, the global economic downturn has hit Italy's agriculture industry hard.

One company is fighting back, one tree at a time. Nudo's "Adopt an Olive Tree" program is exactly as it sounds. For $150 a year, foodies Adopt an Olive Tree in the Le Marche region, follow its progress for a year and then reap its benefits: four 500-ml. tin of extra virgin olive oil pressed from their tree in the spring and three 250-ml. tins of flavored extra virgin olive oil (i.e. lemon, chili and mandarin) the following fall.

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