FASHION Magazine

By Randi Bergman and Jordan Porter

With the glitz, glamour and decadence of the seventies virtually dominating our psyches as of late, we cant help but keep coming back to the one of the decade’s brightest stars: Bianca Jagger. Famous for her marriage to Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger, exotically high cheekbones, love for all things Halston and penchant for making an entrance⎯Jagger entered her 32^nd birthday party at famed club Studio 54 perched on a white horse⎯there weren’t many women more fabulous than she. In honour of this week’s muse, we giddily e-shopped our little Jagger-loving hearts out.

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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and golden fish and pretty maids all in a row. Oh, and lotus flowers and Ming vases and tea-room wallpaper and… all this print which is more than I have words for. It left me faint.

Fall ’11 is only Mary Katrantzou’s sixth show, and I remember her first, when she was back-to-back with Mark Fast and nobody knew either of them. She’d just began doing perfume-bottle prints and their hyperrealness startled me. Then she picked up whole rooms and swirled them into wearable objet d’arts. Now she’s in the garden: more specifically, she says, Diana Vreeland‘s apartment, or “garden of hell.” If this is hell, I’m quite happy to be headed there.

Flanked suited-up security guards, the entrance to the new Halston Heritage area at the Bay Queen Street was buzzing yesterday evening. Anxiously awaiting Sarah Jessica Parker, the new president and chief creative officer of Halston, were media types, socialites, designers (a dapper looking Wayne Clark was there), devoted Room shoppers and even political types, specifically the prime minister’s wife, Laureen Harper.

A few designers flipped the French government the bird during Paris Fashion Week: In the midst of a heated ongoing debate in the country regarding banning burkas, designers Marithé and François Girbaud and Jean Charles de Castelbajac incorporated interpretations of burkas into their shows. [Independent UK via The Cut]

Amy Winehouse is set to design for Fred Perry. Apparently she’s always been a huge fan, but…seriously Amy Winehouse is designing a collection for Fred Perry? Anyway, it hits stores in October. [Vogue UK]

Chanel had a 265-tonne man-made glacier shipped from Sweden, but you can’t import water into France, so they had to ship it back after the show. [The Cut]

A limited edition scarf by Alexander McQueen has been selling quickly at Holt Renfrew. The $450 scarf featured McQueen’s signature skulls adorned in red maple leaves—a tribute to the 2010 Olympics. In a ghoulish bit of profiteering, someone is selling one of the scarves–purchased just yesterday–for $2,000 on Kijiji. [The Globe and Mail]

Sarah Jessica Parker is heading to Toronto in her official capacity as Halston president and chief creative officer, here for a party at The Room, the high-end section of the Bay’s Queen Street location. [Toronto Life]

Alexander Wang will be live streaming his Fall 2010 show to a billboard in Times Square. If you’re not in New York or don’t want to stand in the cold, you can also watch the stream on SHOWstudio.com tomorrow at 5 p.m. [WWD]

It’s official: Sarah Jessica Parker has been named president and chief creative officer at Halston. It’s too early to judge, but Parker seems to have her head on straight with the position. She’s not interested in undermining creative director Marios Schwab, and is frank about her newbie status: “There is a huge amount I don’t know and I am very candid about that, and I am excited to learn.” [WWD]

Prada has created their own YouTube channel for screening fashion shows, campaign photos and short films. [YouTube,  via Fashionista]

News of Yohji Yamamoto quickly and quietly closing his two New York stores last night left people wondering what lay ahead for the designer. It is now being reported that the closure of the NYC stores is just a part of a bigger ripple effect, with stores closing all over the globe. [Racked]

The big true or false question that invaded the fashion world yesterday–will Sarah Jessica Parker be taking on a role at Halston–is true. Halston has not yet disclosed what exactly SJP will be doing, but it will be interesting to watch how the fashion icon will work her style in to the brand. [Vogue UK]

Halston’s big office is vacant no more—Marios Schwab has been named the house’s new creative director. [British Vogue] Tom Binns has brushed aside jewels for cardboard… semi-precious paper anyone? [Refinery 29] Karl Lagerfeld’s ex-assistant has written a tell-all—we’re hoping his Diet Coke butler gets a book deal next. [The Cut] Nicholas Kirkwood, maker of drool-worthy […]

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With all the Olivier-to-Halston scuttlebut (which some people are totally unhappy about), now’s the perfect time to familiarize yourself with the original. [A Shaded View on Fashion, Auntie Fashion]

Vancouver’s Toni & Guy salon is holding an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, with chocolate and gift cards hiding inside plastic eggs with the best hair we’ve ever seen. Points to the person who find the Kiss egg! [Toni & Guy]

Boutique perfumery Le Labo has teamed up with boutique laundry products line, The Laundress, to create a biodegradable rose-scented detergent. [Cool Hunting]

Curves are making another high-profile mag appearance—this time in Australian Harper’s Bazaar. [Refinery 29]