FASHION Magazine
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New York Fashion Week Spring 2013: Dispatches and celeb sightings from a fashion week newbie
Lynn Yaeger and Bill Cunningham shot by Skip Bolen/Getty Images Things I learned today at my first day at the shows: Saturday mornings get off to a slow start. That doesn’t mean that the front row isn’t glossy-haired and well-heeled, but it’s certainly a smaller, sleepier crowd at the tents for 9am.
Weather is a major player. Alternating between scorching, humid sun and torrential downpours, unpredictable September weather wreaked havoc on show schedules with delays holding up start times across the city.
It’s fun to ogle Hollywood celebrities in the front row (Kate Bosworth, Mamie Gummer, Jessica Chastain and Kris Humphries—does he count?—were all spotted in FROW today), but the really exciting people watching comes courtesy of the fashion editors, buyers, bloggers and photographers who are dressed to impress. The Prabal Gurung show only started once Bill Cunningham found his seat.
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They said/We said: The skinny on how much Mr. and Mrs. Kim Kardashian are making off their weekend wedding
By Louise Coleman
Forget the Vera Wang wedding dress: Kim should’ve been wearing dollar bills down the aisle! While everybody has been ooohing and ahhhing at the images surfacing from the Kardashian wedding on Saturday, it appears that Kim and her basketball star husband, Kris, may have actually been paid to say “I do.” And a hefty $17.9 million at that! How silly we were to think that even a Kardashian wedding was supposed to cost money, not make money….
From back in July, the reality star is said to have been paid $50,000 by Las Vegas nightclub Tao to host his-and-hers bachelor and bachelorette parties. Even her stepdad, Bruce Jenner, was roped in to raise money for the Kardashian clan, by negotiating a $2.5-million deal with People magazine for exclusive rights to her wedding pictures. But the lovebirds’ biggest paycheck will come from turning their special day into a four-hour E! special to air in October, which will earn them a whopping $15 million!
That doesn’t even cover the free stuff they received—from the wedding cake to Kim’s dress—worth an estimated $650,000. Looks like her mom/manager, Kris, has been very busy.
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They said/We said: Vera Wang rumoured to design Kim Kardashian’s wedding dress
Vera Wang, Kourtney, and Kim Kardashian shot by Keystone Press. Introducing the first installment of our new daily feature in which we break down the buzziest news story of the day and peg the commentary of fashion’s who’s who against that of our own team. First up: the momentous news about Kim Kardashian’s wedding dress! From a spur-of-the-moment engagement to her five-years-younger NBA paramour, Kris Humphries, to her 20.5-carat diamond ring, the reality queen has been heating it up online with talk of her upcoming nuptials. Now, the Twittersphere and blogs alike are blowing up with word that family friend Vera Wang will design Kardashian’s wedding dress. Who cares? As it seems, everyone!
