Because there aren’t enough fashion design reality shows out there, Lifetime has decided to add yet another to their roster. 24 Hour Catwalk will premiere Tuesday January 10th and will be hosted by Madewell darling Alexa Chung.

Similar to Project Runway, the designers will duke it out with their collections and eventual runway presentations. However unlike Project Runway, the designers have only 24 hours to produce their clothes. Exactly what type of quality product can be produced in 24 hours is going to be a treat for the eyes to say the least. As with every fashion-based series, you can bet you’ll see cattiness galore, deceit, diva behavior and glorious dramatic fits.

And what’s a design show without judges? 24 Hour Catwalk has somehow roped in Cynthia Rowley, fashion editor Derek Blasberg and publicist James LaForce to do the judging. And to keep things nice and spicy, they’ve also added some snakes. That’s right, snakes. What snakes are doing on a reality show besides Fear Factor is anyone’s guess, so this means you’ll have to watch and see. All we know is that the participants are asked to open a trunk and voila! Snakes, and quite lovely ones (see below).

The last designer standing who was able to woo the judges and get past the reptiles will win a $10,000 prize from CoverGirl and Herbal Essence. Let’s hope the lack of sleep and the face-to-face meeting with the slithering buggers will have been worth it.

(photos via Lifetime)

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So Rihanna‘s music video for “You Da One” dropped today, and it’s a tall, sweet drink of nothing but 100% Rihanna. Unlike her cinematic video for “We Found Love,” this video does not tell a story, instead focusing on Rihanna’s ability to wear lots of cool clothes and writhe around while trippy projections play across her seemingly naked body. (Various sources say she was wearing a flesh colored body suit.)

As Rihanna songs go, it’s less repetitive and annoying than “We Found Love,” but this video also has less to distract from the music, which has always been the thinnest part of the Rihanna package. It was directed by Melina Matsoukas, who also directed the Barbadian pop princess’ sumptuous videos for “We Found Love” and “S&M,” making for a trilogy of sorts. Like all Rihanna videos, it showcases her ability to rock various kinds of off-the-runway fashions and make them look distinctly her own. Does this type of (relatively) stripped down approach work for her? What do you think?

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

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Said Minaj-branded twist happens to be some sort of bloody-tear-locket? thing. Here’s what Francesco said about working with Nicki:

“I wanted to play with the public image of a female hip-hop star. During my entire career, I have always been fascinated by powerful women in history. I have spent a lot of time researching the ways they were represented in art and how their images were used to mold the public imagination—and to convey aesthetic and philosophical ideas about beauty and sexual desire. My main interest has been to link the historical artistic approach to female representation to contemporary icons of the media era.”

Here’s another photo from the shoot:

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If you don’t know Juno Temple‘s name now, you will soon. Or, actually, you’ll know it right now because I just told it to you — sometimes I have trouble understanding the space-time continuum. Juno’s been in movies like the Sundance darling Little Birds and Gregg Araki‘s Kaboom, and she’ll be seen in next year’s The Dark Knight Rises. She’s got a head full of curly blonde hair and a quirky sense of style. Juno Temple: commit the name to memory.

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1. Philipp is German. He was born in Munich in 1978, which makes him 33-years-old. His middle name is Patrick — so throw one more “P” in there.

2. Philipp’s design career is doing pretty well. In 2007, GQ gave him the National Brand of the Year award, and he’s appeared on Germany’s Next Top Model.

3. He has his own Barbie doll. Like, not just one that he owns, but one he designed, for Barbie’s 50th anniversary. The doll wears a luxurious rhinestone-encrusted gown.

4. Philipp works under his own eponymous label, and Lindsay is that brand’s new face. Linds recently shot a campaign for the clothing line, showing off bright orange hot pants and poofy white dresses:

5. His reps and Lindsay’s reps both deny that the two are an item, although all that photographic evidence suggests otherwise. Hey, if it keeps Lindsay from making out with her mom, then it’s all good with us.

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Gwen Stefani has been running her apparel line Harajuku Lovers since 2005. The brand, which features clothing, accessories and perfume, is named after and inspired by the fashions of the Harajuku area of Tokyo. Which means: lots of big bows, ruffles, cartoons and other childlike indicators. Now Gwen’s collaborating with Target on a collection called Harajuku Mini, creating clothing for actual children. Which makes me wonder, how do you infantalize an infant?

Around the time she launched Harajuku Lovers, Gwen began performing and appearing everywhere with four Japanese backup dancers dubbed her Harajuku Girls. She was widely criticized for the move — Margaret Cho in particular launched at attack on Gwen, arguing that the singer was perpetuating negative stereotypes about Asian women. Gwen’s Harajuku Girls were silent, infantalized (one of them was even given the stage name “Baby”), and sexy all at once. And the clothing brand reinforced these qualities, offering stacked pink wedges side by side with ice-cream-cone-print travel bags.

This first look at Harajuku Mini yields nothing inappropriate. It appears to be t-shirts and tutus: stuff that little girls wear all the time. Yet, something still rubs me the wrong way — the offerings are very similar to the adult apparel, and I feel like endorsing the spin-off brand is a tacit endorsement of the main label. If you’re saying that this stuff is appropriate for little girls to wear, then you’re pretty much implying that Harajuku Lovers is trying to turn women into little girls. Gwen’s outfit is nearly interchangeable with her pint-sized model’s here. The only difference is that Gwen’s little girl clothes are sexed-up.

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This is the ensemble Sarah Jessica Parker wore to promote I Don’t Know How She Does It on Letterman last night! Presumably she was on the show to blow up balloon animals and crawl out of a tiny Volkswagen in front of the studio audience. Because good gracious, what a duo of colors to pair together.

Hey, I think I know how she does it! In the dark, with sunglasses on, while blindfolded with a rubber chicken. Color wheels everywhere are weeping, SJP. Weeping.

(via Celebuzz)

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Oh man, if only this YouTube tutorial on how to dress punk had been around when I was in middle school! I mean, I still would have embarrassed myself, but it would have been in a completely different way. Instead of Operation Ivy tees, Converse and bright red Dickies, I would have worn studded leather gloves and torn denim. Man, if this video existed, I would have had some cool nickname like “Studded Leather Gloves” and all the punk rock preteen boys would have been totally in love with me.

How totally anti-establishment is it to take fashion clues from a middle-aged blonde woman with a webcam? That’s what Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye were singing about, right? Anyway, this video’s terrific and I plan to dye my hair pink and come into work tomorrow dressed in heavy silver jewelry and dark colors.

If I come into work at all, that is. I mean, showing up to an office isn’t punk in the least.

(via Videogum)

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