[Updated] Frugal Fashion: Alicia Keys gets an A-plus at BET Awards, before celebrating 10-year anniversary of 'A Minor'

Sunday's BET awards brought the usual suspects of funky music fashion to the show's green carpet at the Shrine in L.A. At the extreme end of the night's style spectrum was Cee Lo Green with his bedazzled jacket and spiky hair, Nicki Minaj in a fuchsia pink poufy dress with tights and hip-hop artist Don "Magic" Juan in a mustard yellow pimp suit with enough bling to power a small city.

PHOTOS: BET Awards best and worst dressed

But striking the perfect balance of flair and elegance was singer Alicia Keys, who on Tuesday celebrated the 10th anniversary release of her debut album "Songs in A Minor."

Before her power performance of her song "Typewriter" and a killer duet of "A Woman's Worth" with Bruno Mars, she strutted the green carpet in sporty-luxe black Dolce & Gabbana pants with suspenders, a white boyfriend blazer and über-high black and white zebra print platform pumps.

The structured look was unexpected for summer, but what I appreciate most about the outfit is that it's appropriately funky for the show but realistic enough to rock to a real party. For a similar look try a jumpsuit, not circa 1987 but something chic with some shape like the Calvin Klein cargo pocket jumpsuit for $99, the Cha Cha vente jumpsuit from Macys.com for $68.99, Bar III layered jumpsuit, also from Macys.com, for $59 or the Jegia-J jumpsuit by Diesel for $99.

Keys' black and white color combination is bold and playful. To create a base for your own primary color palette, snag a white boyfriend blazer like the White hot boyfriend blazer from Fredflare.com for $68 or the Linen Bermuda jacket from J.Crew for $69.99.

Keys' zebra print shoes pop and give her outfit a playful funky edge. For some shoes that will add a twist to any look, snag the Zebra print platform pump from TheFashionHolic.com for $45.

Happy shopping!

Have an outfit you're dying to buy but need a frugal alternative? Email us a picture. We're up for the challenge.

-- Jenn Harris
Twitter.com/Jenn_Harris_

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Photo: Alicia Keys, shown at the BET awards in Los Angeles, just announced she'll be producing the Broadway play 'Stick Fly' slated to premiere Dec. 8. Credit: Jason Merritt / Getty Images.

Jumpsuit photos, from left: Calvin Klein cargo pocket jumpsuit, credit: Calvinklein.com; Cha Cha jumpsuit, credit: Macys.com; Bar III layered jumpsuit, credit: Maycs.com; Jegia-J jumpsuit by Diesel, credit: Diesel.com.

Blazer photos: White hot boyfriend blazer, credit: Fredflare.com; Linen Bermuda jacket, credit: Jcrew.com.

Shoe photo: Zebra night platform pump, credit: Fashionholic.com.

[Updated: June 30, 2011 10:30 AM. A pair of shoes was removed from this post.]

Weekend Shopping: Anastasia and What Goes Around Comes Around sales; Diesel hosts a benefit

A few notable happenings for a more stylish weekend:

SALES

Anastasia boutique warehouse sale Friday: Designer boutique Anastasia hosts a one-day warehouse sale featuring about 3,000 pieces of merchandise from labels including Undercover, Maison Martin Margiela, Comme des Garcons, Peachoo & Krejberg, Plein Sud, Barbara Bui, Limi Feu, Yohji Yamamoto, Dirk Bikkembergs and Jean-Paul Gaultier. The room will be separated into two areas: $100 items and $50 dollar items. That's 75% to 90% off original prices, savvy shoppers.

Anastasia Boutique Warehouse, 9670 Research Drive, Irvine. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Multi-brand sample sale Friday through Sunday: Alo (eco-friendly yoga clothes) and Bella & Canvas (modern basics) throw a sample sale, with merch marked 60% to 70% below retail. The first 50 shoppers will receive a free tote bag.

6687 Flotilla St., Los Angeles. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

What Goes Around Comes Around sample sale Through April 9: L.A. vintage and new apparel brand What Goes Around Comes Around hosts a sample sale of its current WGACA Fall collection and select vintage pieces — discounted up to 90% off. Stock will be replenished daily.

At Space 15Twenty, 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd. (323) 836-0252. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.

EVENTS

Diesel benefit Sunday: The Diesel store on Melrose Place hosts a party to benefit the Gay & Lesbian Center. 
The fashion fiesta includes mimosas, music and brunch bites, while 10% of all purchases and 100% of raffle proceeds during the event will be donated to the G&L Center. 

Raffle tickets will be $3 (or four tickets for $10), and there will be seven prizes, including a full Diesel Black Gold look (jeans, top, watch or sunglasses and a pair of shoes.)
 

The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited, so RSVP to 
Melrose_store@diesel.com.

8401 Melrose Place, Los Angeles. (866) 479-8355. Noon to 5 p.m.

--Emili Vesilind

Photo: Spring 2011 looks from Diesel. Credit: Diesel

Your morning fashion and beauty report: Megan Fox, Rafael Nadal star in new Armani ads

Megan Fox and Rafael Nadal are smokin' hot in new Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans ads. They'll start showing up on billboards and such next month. [WWD]

Diesel's new "Diesel Island" advertising campaign will also launch in February. It will feature a mythical island populated by Diesel models and fans, brought to life via online games, viral videos and a Facebook application where consumers can interact with the island and its imaginary population. There will also be a fake Wikipedia entry that will be updated weekly as the island grows. “Think ‘Lost’ but with nicer clothes," says Riccardo Bellini, Diesel’s global vice president of branding and marketing. [WWD]

We've written about all the green (as in emerald green) gowns on the Golden Globes red carpet Sunday, but Colin Firth's wife Livia Giuggioli, shown here at an after-party, wore a different kind of green -- the eco-chic kind. Her silvery gray dress was made from hand-dyed indigo "peace" silk, also known as "vegan" silk, designed by Jeff Garner. [Telegraph]

Star stylist Rachel Zoe starts a new column on StyleList with some of her greatest shoe picks for the start of this year. [StyleList]

"Project Runway's" very busy Tim Gunn is writing another book and has added Weight Watchers Fashion Consultant to his resume. He talks about why he loves the red carpet, hates jeggings and called Anna Wintour out in his last tome.  [StyleList] 

Alexander Wang has his first-ever print ad appearing in March's Interview magazine. But the designer prefers to call it an "image piece." [WWD]

--Susan Denley 

Photo: Livia Giuggioli and Colin Firth after Sunday's Golden Globes. Credit: David McNew / AFP/Getty Images

Your morning fashion and beauty report: Cynthia Rowley diapers. Madge on Lola's fashion. Heidi Klum's new TV show

Baby, you've got style: Cynthia Rowley designs diapers for Pampers. [Luxist]

Madonna on Lourdes' -- er, Lola's -- fashion sense. [People StyleWatch]

Heidi Klum gets another TV show -- this time the focus is more on kids than clothing. Drat. [Variety]

West Hollywood store Church says Lindsay Lohan has an $16,880.83 tab -- which includes purchases of Ron Donovan exotic skin shoes and several Mortimer vintage T-shirts. [WWD]

Prada's e-commerce site launches Thursday. [Fashionista]

The first Alexander McQueen dresses up for auction since his February death failed to sell. [WWD]

J. Crew collaborates with denim brand Imogene + Willi. [WWD, subscription required]

Gap's back with even more Perfect T's. [InStyle]

Those seemingly nonsensical "Be Stupid" Diesel ads? They're banned in Britain. [StyleList]

Coco Rocha is now a Victoria's Secret model. [Huffington Post]

Miss Delaware discusses her alopecia. [Allure]

Why hipster fashion will never die. [Flavorwire, via BlackBook]

-- Whitney Friedlander

Photo: A sketch from the Material Girl juniors line at Macy's. Credit: Macy's

Your Stylist: How to wear spring's tomboy staple without looking like a Marky Mark back-up dancer

Resident Image stylist and market editor Melissa Magsaysay soothes your sartorial woes in the weekly Your Stylist blog column.

Hey Melissa,

I have recently been seeing overalls in a few of the major fashion mags. I'm hesitant to go out and grab a pair because I’m not quite sure how to rock this new trend (well, old trend that is making a comeback). I love the comfort and ease of overalls, but how can I wear them without looking like a high school kid, farmer, or just silly? And are there any brands that you recommend for the best fits? --Maria, Huntington Beach

I know, I know…all anyone seems to think of when they hear "overalls" is Marky Mark and Vanilla Ice bopping around wearing them through the '90s or TLC sporting them five sizes too big for their tiny frames and then leaving one strap to hang down and swing while they danced in unison.

Diesel launches a dance-tastic interactive fashion video

Diesel is taking interactive shopping to fully integrated levels. The denim and sport brand just debuted an "online social fashion-tagged music video" -- a video you can stop, click and shop from -- on its website.

Inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's "Bande a Part" movie, which features would-be criminals running around dancing, pretending to have shoot-outs and reciting newspaper stories to one another, the video features 100 people doing a simple line-dance routine while styled in (you guessed it) Diesel's spring collection.

The playful video, helmed by French-born director Arno Salters, features a stop-motion technique that sees the dancers rapidly changing their clothes while following the choreography. You can pause it, roll over items to see product information and, ultimately, click to buy the items online. The stylish clip features the song "A Hundred Lovers" by Josep. 

-- Emili Vesilind

Video: Diesel's new interactive fashion video. Credit: Diesel.

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Diesel wants you to smell like 'Iron Man 2' [Updated]

Holy heroic tie-ins! It was just a few months ago we were mentioning that the men's fragrance market was moving in a more manlier direction. Now, word comes to us from a secret underground lair (well, OK, from a PR firm) that Diesel is trying to tractor-beam the comic-book crowd to the cologne counter by giving its clench-fisted Only the Brave bottle a major makeover.

In advance of "Iron Man 2" hitting theaters on May 7 (which stars Robert Downey Jr., reprising his role as Tony Stark, and Mickey Rourke as Whiplash),  the clear, flacon-gripping hand has been rendered in the same red and glossy gold shades of  billionaire industrialist playboy Tony Stark's trademark exo-skeleton for a limited-edition production run that will be packaged in boxes bearing reprints from the Marvel hero's early comic book appearances (from the look of it, we're going to guess it's not the very first one -- Tales of Suspense #39 from March 1963 -- which had our hero canned in a dull armor-gray number).

Regardless, Diesel's hoping you'll splash a little of this beneath your breastplate before donning your armor (or climbing into your office cubicle, whatever the case may be) in celebration of  "the season's most daring, fearless, courageous hero." 

Your morning fashion and beauty report: Taylor Swift to light up Elle cover; Ohne Titel's Stephen Courter; Rodarte's cool new video; 'Alice' tats; Oscar fashion bloopers; and more

 Taylor Swift shows her sexier side on April cover of Elle. [StyleList] 

Ohne Titel's Stephen Courter turns to film with launch of movie blog. [Vmag] [AnAisleSeat]

Rodarte melds fashion with space thriller in cool new video. [Nowness]

Your body in Wonderland? Here are some Alice-inspired tattoos. [BellaSugar]

Urban Outfitters to make wedding gowns. [The Cut]  

Backstage beauty: How to get that runway look. [Telegraph]

L.A.'s Vince creates denim capsule collection. [FabSugar]

Five outfits to rock spring break. [CollegeFashion]

Stylists tell all about Oscar night fashion bloopers. [StyleList]

Elizabeth Arden's 100th anniversary lipstick supports a beautiful cause. [BellaSugar]

Some labels (like Diesel) are ditching their designers. [WSJ]

-- Susan Denley

Photo: Taylor Swift. Credit: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times

NYFW: Libertine's 'Shining' moment

We’re not sure if it was the bitter cold of Manhattan or the idea of a writer going off the deep end with cabin fever, but for some reason it barely surprised us at all that the 1980 horror movie “The Shining" was referenced more than once during New York Fashion Week.

First, at Diesel Black Gold, snippets of movie dialogue were included (along with plaintive cat noises and bits from "Casablanca") that looped as the audience took their seats.
"What will you be drinking, sir?" asks the bartender in one such clip. "Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd," replies Jack Nicholson's character.

Then, in a lower Manhattan loft, past the palace guards in red jackets and towering bearskin hats at the elevators, perched on bales of hay were Libertine dresses screen printed with lions and crowd scenes inspired by scenes in the film of the same name.

"I'd never seen the movie before, and I ended up seeing it on a plane," Johnson Hartig told us. "And there was just something about it that inspired me." (Hartig is half of the duo behind the collection of mostly one-off pieces, Cindy Greene is the other.)

The macabre "Shining" references and T-shirt bearing the visage of Rasputin that Hartig was wearing notwithstanding, the collection was a brightly colored Anglo-inspired affair, with men's suits and women's blazers in rep stripe tie fabrics, chunky wool flowers and sweaters with intarsia duck hunting scenes.

The face of Queen Elizabeth II, dour lips pursed, adorned several pieces. Others had a "handsome man" print of a nondescript fellow with side-parted hair.

Overall, the artwork that adorned the Libertine collection were a bit softer, rounder and friendlier than the encyclopedic/maritime/cartographic imagery that's been a signature look for the line in past seasons, and been copied all the way down the retail food chain to Forever 21.

It was smart of the designers to switch things up by tapping Eric Ernest Johnson, an L.A. artist and long-time friend of Hartig’s (whose Hancock Park home is full of his artwork).

And there was something just optimistic enough about the overcoats and tweed dresses sprouting colorful hand-painted wool flowers, and the bright rep stripe suits to make us stop typing "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" on the manual typewriter of our mind, and realize a warm and sunny Los Angeles is only a few days away.

-- Adam Tschorn

Photos of Libertine's Fall/Winter 2009 collection collection. Photos by Robert Christensen

NYFW: Live music as the perfect catwalk accessory

It’s interesting that, even with the economy as bad as it is and even though building a runway soundtrack requires nothing more than opposable thumbs and an iPod, some designers will choose to spend their dollars on live music to accompany their shows.

The thought first crossed our minds Tuesday when the Diesel Black Gold show at the Bryant Park tents kicked off with a silhouetted trumpet solo behind a curtain, which soon dropped to reveal a full-on jazz quartet that goes by the name of the Last Minute Orchestra. (We shouldn’t have been too surprised. The invitations were printed on paper that looked like sheet music).

That same night, over at the Hammerstein Ballroom, G-Star Raw’s always-entertaining show was accompanied by a flotilla of musicians, also behind a curtain (though from where we sat, all we could see were two women facing off over back-to-back baby grand pianos.)

The next afternoon, a New York-based quartet called Lissy Trullie rocked its way through the 3.1 Phillip Lim runway show from the top of the catwalk, as fog swirled around the musicians' feet.
The live accompaniment certainly didn’t change the way the clothes looked on the runway, and may not affect the size of the orders the buyers from Nordstrom or Barneys New York may write, but it did accomplish one very important thing –- it underscored the special shared-experience feeling of these shows. That's something that tends to get lost in the “remind-me-again-why-we’re-here?” bi-annual trudgeathon through Manhattan, especially when  photos, videos and front-row Twitter feeds circle the globe before the people in the seats have made it to the lobby.

Now if I could just download 3.1 Phillip Lim Fall 2009 to my iPod, I’d be all set.

-- Adam Tschorn

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Photo: The Last Minute Orchestra, performing at the Diesel Black Gold show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Feb. 17, 2009. Credit: Peter Stigter / Jonas Gustavsson