Archive: January 24th, 2008

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Whether it’s Project Runway or Make Me a Supermodel, we love following a good fashion contest — especially when they reward truly exceptional talent. Click over to our friends at Fab Sugar for an interview with this year’s Ecco Domani Fashion Fund winner, Justin Giunta, whose cutting-edge designs from his Subversive Jewelry line have been featured in the pages of Vogue, W, NYLON, and more.

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The Heroes star has emerged as a paparazzi favorite for her sweet and simple style — and we’ve been tracking Panettiere’s wardrobe with a close eye. Now, we can get our hands on her actual clothes — and all for a good cause! Hayden Panettiere is holding an online sale to benefit the “Save the Whales” campaign, a non-profit educational organization focused on educating children and adults about marine mammals, their environment and their preservation. You can get your hands on some of Hayden’s designer jeans including a pair of True Religions and J & Companys as well as dresses, Christian Audigier hoodies and more! Check out all Hayden’s clothes up for sale and her explanatory video by clicking over to Panettierecloset.com.

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With a star-filled audience including Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Blake Lively and a bevy of fashionistas and socialites, the legendary Valentino Garavani took his final stroll down the catwalk last night in Paris. His Spring 2008 Haute Couture collection was filled with his signatures — elegant silhouettes, bows, feathers, lady-like suits and seductive evening gowns. But nothing is more iconic than the designer’s famous red gowns. So after 74 looks came down the runway, the lights at Paris’s Musee Rodin dimmed, and a projection of an endless line of the same model in a red gown appeared on the walls. Then a pause and all 25 models appeared, one after another, on the catwalk in the same long red silk charmeuse gown with an asymmetrical neck. “I totally started to cry — it was so incredible. It was just so special to be here. I felt like I was here for something historic,” Blake Lively confided to PEOPLE following the show. Uma Thurman summed it up when she confided to PEOPLE, “I was so sad to see it end. He’s one of the most elegant designers of our time”.

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We thought that the most vicious fights involving Jimmy Choo were at their sample sales, but yesterday Tamara Mellon, co-founder of the luxury shoe brand filed a civil complaint seeking $10 million in the California Superior Court against her socialite mother, Ann Yeardye. The complaint stems from the sale of the internationally successful business in 2004. According to the suit, Mellon received the majority of her share from the sale in the form of company stocks, while her mother, who she says never had an active role in the day-to-day running of the business, received hers in cash. The complaint alleges that half the stocks that were meant to go to Mellon, however, were mistakenly transferred to her mother instead. The Jimmy Choo founder says that she tried to resolve the dispute without litigation, asking her mother to place the misdirected stock in a trust for Mellon’s five year old daughter — a request, according to Mellon, that Yeardye refused. “The property in question was to help secure my daughter’s future, and I am baffled by my mother’s refusal to return assets which rightfully do not belong to her,” said Mellon in a statement released yesterday. “The action I have initiated today seems the only course available to me.”

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Finally, some drama! After weeks of buttoned up workroom practices and cooperation in team challenges, it seems the stress is catching up with the designers. On Wednesday’s Project Runway, last week’s ace teams — Victorya and Jillian and Christian and Chris — got snippy with each other. As the designers struggled to create “iconic looks” out of Levi’s denim, tensions eventually boiled over and former partners sparred. To read the rest of our wrap-up and comment on who was the winner (and who was auf’ed!), click here!

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Paris Hilton has never lacked star-struck admirers, but it looks like the Simple Life star may just be her own biggest fan — at least if recent wardrobe choices are anything to go on. The heiress showed up at this week’s Sundance Film Festival wearing a baby pink t-shirt emblazoned with a stylized drawing of herself. And it’s not the first time she made us see double. Just months earlier we spotted the reality-TV star sporting another tee with Warhol-esque silk screen of her own image. We have to admit, it takes some guts to pull off this look, but we want to know what you think. Tell us: Do you admire Paris’s self-confidence, or is more than one of her little of her at a time a little more than you can handle? Would you ever wear a t-shirt with your own image on it?