Kendall Jenner face of Beverly Center's Fashion's Night Out ads

Kendall Jenner, of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" reality TV fame, has been tapped as the face of the Beverly Center's 2012 Fashion's Night Out advertising campaign.

According to the shopping center's reps, the16-year-old offspring of Bruce and Kris Jenner, older sister of Kylie Jenner and half-sister to Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, will appear on assorted and sundry billboards, in print and across various social media platforms in the run-up to the fourth annual global shop-stravaganza, which is scheduled to take place Sept. 6.

The advertising campaign, which depicts the Wilhelmina model kicking back in an over-sized shoe box, was shot by photographer Moshe Brakha and styled by George Blodwell. In the ads, Jenner wears an orange haute couture gown by Georges Chakra paired with a pair of purple Giuseppe Zanotti stiletto heels. 

This year, the Beverly Center, which traditionally goes all-in for the evening of extended shopping hours and special retail events, has two fashion shows, a video address from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and yet-to-be-announced celebrity appearances on the drawing board.  

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Photo: Kendall Jenner, model and fixture on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," wearing a Georges Chakra gown and Giuseppe Zanotti heels in the Beverly Center's ad campaign for the upcoming Fashion's Night Out global shopping event. Credit: Moshe Brakha

Fashion News: Katy Perry's new scent is the cat's 'Meow'

Katy Perry's second fragrance, Meow,  follows up on the kitty cat theme of her first one, Purr. [WWD] (Subscription required.)

Lady Gaga changed into four outfits -- including a silvery Paco Rabanne couture number, shown here, that looked like svelte armor -- to pick up four awards at MTV's Europe Music Awards on Sunday night in Belfast. [Telegraph]

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is set to shoot in a few days, and supermodel Adriana Lima will be ready for the catwalk. She has been working out with a personal trainer since August, twice a day for the last three weeks. She drinks a gallon of water a day, and for nine days before the show she lives on protein shakes. She begins fasting 12 hours ahead of time -- and sometimes drops eight pounds of water weight. Yes, it's hard being an angel. [Telegraph] 

Celebrities including Katie Holmes, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Zoe Saldana, Demi Moore and Rachel Zoe were on hand Friday night to help Lanvin design chief Albert Elbaz celebrate the label's year-old boutiques in Malibu and on Rodeo Drive. [Los Angeles Times]

For Japan's first installment of Fashion's Night Out (which took place here in the states in September), all the editors of international editions of event-sponsor Vogue gathered in Tokyo last week, where they sat for a group portrait. [The Cut]

Iggy Pop will star in ads for Paco Rabanne's new men's and women's fragrances, due out in France in January. [WWD].

-- Susan Denley

Photo: Lady Gaga, wearing Paco Rabanne, at Sunday's MTV Europe Music Awards. Credit: David Fisher / Rex Features

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Fashion's Night Out rocks in Los Angeles [Updated]

The third year of the shop-stravaganza known as Fashion's Night Out -- organized by Vogue and the Council of Fashion Designers of America to stimulate the fashion industry around the world -- brought out the crowds in Southern California on Thursday. But the most palpable sense of enthusiasm seemed to come not at the cash registers, but at the photo booths, styling chairs and food trucks that encouraged social interaction and resulted in keepsake photos. We checked out the scene at some major retail hubs, including the Beverly Center, the Grove and Rodeo Drive.

5:10 p.m. A crowd of several hundred gathers in the center court area of the Beverly Center awaiting opening remarks and a runway show. Among them is Miss California USA Katie Blair, a picture of poise as she poses for photos, her pageant sash slung across a pale yellow dress from Los Angeles label For Love & Lemons.

5:25 p.m. Although Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa doesn't make his scheduled appearance at the opening ceremony (he was attending President Obama's speech in Washington), a taped message appears on a gigantic LED screen towering over the onlookers. That is followed in quick succession by remarks from "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson, who tells the crowd he is wearing "Randy Jackson by Randy Jackson for Randy Jackson;" Vogue West Coast editor Lisa Love and actress/designer Nicole Richie.

The mall's opening event wraps with a runway show featuring looks from tenant retailers, including Macy's and Traffic. Afterward, a center representative points out that retailer participation in the event this time around is close to 100% -- up from 70% last year.

Fashion's Night Out. Liz Taylor's gems. Molly Sims' accessories.

It's Fashion's Night Out! (Or will be in a few hours.) Check out the website for ideas on how, and where, to shop till you drop. [Los Angeles Times]

 
The late Elizabeth Taylor was known for many things -- among them many, many fabulous jewels and many, many husbands, some of whom showered her with said jewels. Now, as our Ministry of Gossip predicted in March, her entire 300-piece collection is scheduled to be auctioned by Christie's in December. Most of the pieces were gifts from either Michael Todd, who gave her the "Mike Todd tiara" above, or Richard Burton, the two great loves of her life. [Telegraph]

Carine Roitfeld's tribute to Taylor in the latest V magazine is spinning heads because of the spread she styled with hunky male model Ian Mellencamp in thigh-high skirts, leopard prints and high heels. [Ology]

Actress and model Molly Sims reportedly is set to host the latest "Project Runway" spin-off, "Project Accessory," which is slated to premiere on Lifetime later this year. Sims launched her own jewelry line last year, so should know a thing or two about the accessory field. Lifestyle expert Eva Lorenzotti will serve as mentor, and designer Kenneth Cole and InStyle editor Ariel Foxman have been tapped as judges. [Reuters]

Jil Sander's final +J collection for Uniqlo goes on sale at select Uniqlo stores and online Thursday. Fashionistas everywhere will weep. Or stand in line. [Telegraph]

New York Fashion Week is starting up, as our Booth Moore writes, and even though the Council of Fashion Designers of America has urged designers not to use models under age 16, it looks as if some shows might anyway. Some concern has been expressed that Kardashian sibling Kylie Jenner, who is 14, will be walking in Avril Lavigne's Abbey Dawn show. But that's part of Style360, not the official Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week -- if that makes any difference. [The Cut] Oh, and Avril is the girlfriend of Kylie's half-brother Brody Jenner -- if that makes any difference. [People]

Much is being made of Lady Gaga's posing "barefaced" on the cover of Harper's Bazaar. But it sure looks like she's wearing makeup to me ... and to some other observers, too! [People] 

Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, who founded Juicy Couture but are no longer affiliated with the label, are launching a line that will be shown in February and go on sale for fall 2012. [WWD]   

The Duchess of Cambridge makes nude pantyhose look avant garde, fashion doyenne Anna Della Russo says. Della Russo likes Kate's modern flair. "She’s smart to mix cheap clothes with, like, Alexander McQueen, and small labels — even I don’t know the names sometimes of the brands she’s wearing," the Vogue editor at large tells The Cut. "That’s so smart. That’s a great message to the younger generation because it's a democratic approach." [The Cut] 

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-- Susan Denley

Top photo: Elizabeth Taylor's "Mike Todd tiara."  Credit: Richard Drew/Associated Press

Bottom photo: Molly Sims, who is to host "Project Accessories." Credit: Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images

 

New York Fashion Week: Come one, come all

Step right up, fashion's biannual show has begun and everyone is invited.

New York Fashion Week, which runs through Sept. 15, will feature hundreds of designers showing their spring-summer 2012 collections at Lincoln Center and other venues throughout the city, and cameos from a wide range of characters, from Kylie Jenner to Rico the Zombie to Zoe Saldana.

Brands are looking for new and different ways to get the attention of fashion's elite, while also talking directly to consumers who have been drawn into the once insular fashion week in recent years through live-streaming runway show videos, up-to-the-minute Tweets and the Vogue-sponsored Fashion's Night Out, a global smorgasbord of celebrity and designer-hosted shopping events on Thursday that are open to the public. (My NYC faves? Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett at Armani, Daniel Radcliffe at Jeffrey New York, Tilda Swinton at Saks and Miss Piggy at Opening Ceremony!)  

Nicola Formichetti, the stylist-editor whose canvas is Lady Gaga, and a designer in his own right at the helm of the newly revived Thierry Mugler brand, is opening Nicola's, a pop-up shop in SoHo built to look like a mirrored prism, where he will sell limited-edition pieces from his collaborations with Mugler, Uniqlo and Haus of Gaga. He's also partnered with video game producer CCP Games on a "virtual catwalk show" featuring tout-tattooed model Rico the Zombie in clothes that users will be able to purchase for their characters to wear in the popular Eve Online video game. (It's gotta be cheaper than a real-world Mugler.)

Fashion bloggers Bryan Boy, Susie Bubbles and Pelayo Diaz will be curating a fashion show for the every-model, to be shown on Coca Cola's six-story Times Square billboard on Sept. 15. The Diet Coke-sponsored project will showcase street-style looks chosen by the bloggers from submissions posted on Facebook (facebook.com/dietcoke), as well as photos they shoot on Fashion's Night Out.

Catherine Malandrino is having a ready-to-buy fashion show, meaning that all the looks shown on the runway will be available to purchase on the spot, and Vivienne Tam is launching a new line of yoga wear with a "live sculpture garden" at Lincoln Center made up of 20 female yogis. (No doubt, the commuter crowd will be encouraged to join in.)

Meanwhile, celebrities aren't merely sitting on the sidelines anymore. Rather than lending their cachet to designers by sitting in the front row of a fashion show, they are commanding fees to appear at Fashion's Night Out events where they can interact with fans. Other celebrities are using Fashion Week as a platform to promote their personal brands. Kylie Jenner (next in the line of ka-ching Kardashians) will be modeling in Avril Lavigne's Abbey Dawn runway show. Victoria Beckham, Rachel Zoe, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Gwen Stefani and Daisy Fuentes will also show their fashion collections, but sans Kardashians. 

And Zoe Saldana is positioning herself as a different kind of fashion mogul. She and co-founder Keith Britton will be toasting their online venture My Fashion Database (myfdb.com), which seems to want to be the imdb.com of the fashion industry, with the added feature of shopping. (Users can browse ad campaigns of their favorite brands, for example, and shop the looks.)

Off the official schedule, fashion is seeping into pop culture. Vanity Fair is hosting the "Fashion in Film" series at the Museum of Arts and Design; the Bard Graduate Center is opening an exhibition of hats curated by milliner Stephen Jones; and the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising will be previewing a show exploring heiress Daphne Guinness' eclectic style.

Throughout the week, there are fashion shows to celebrate military veteran and Korean, Argentine, African and eco-friendly designers. And somewhere in between, presumably we'll all stop and remember the 10th anniversary of sept. 11, which falls smack in the middle of NYFW, just as it did then, when I was sent off reporting a very different story.

And for those who just can't fathom seeing, much less buying, fashion in these bleak economic times, Ventura, Calif.-based Patagonia and EBay have chosen the occasion of New York Fashion Week to announce the Common Threads Initiative, which challenges people not to consume. 

“The Common Threads Initiative addresses a significant part of today’s environmental problem -- the footprint of our stuff,” Yvon Chouinard, founder of the famously eco-conscious Patagonia outdoor clothing brand, said in a statement. “This program first asks customers to not buy something if they don’t need it. If they do need it, we ask that they buy what will last a long time -- and to repair what breaks, reuse or resell whatever they don’t wear any more. And, finally, recycle whatever’s truly worn out."

List a used Patagonia product on EBay and you will be asked to take a pledge and become a Common Threads Initiative partner. Then your listing will be eligible for inclusion in the Common Threads Initiative storefront on EBay and on Patagonia.com. Patagonia will not receive any of the profits associated with the storefront. 

Think of it as fashion for the Goodwill generation.

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Photo: Models pose at the Wes Gordon Spring 2012 presentation during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at The Hosfelt Gallery on September 8, 2011 in New York City. Credit: Cindy Ord /Getty Images.

Fashion's Night Out 2011: Finding fun far afield

We've already given you the heads-up about some of the local Fashion's Night Out activities taking place on Thursday evening -- and directed you to the event's official (and exhaustively detailed) website, but in the interest of showing some love to the wider So Cal efforts, we'll highlight a few of the events going on outside the Beverly Center-Rodeo Drive-West Hollywood triangle.

If you find yourself in Newport Beach, Youtube sensations Elle and Blair Fowler will be offering fall styling tips at Nordstrom's Fashion Island store from 6 to 8 p.m.

The plaza at Santa Monica Place will be the site of not one but two runway shows, the first scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and the second for 8 p.m., and featuring looks from tenant retailers including Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom, Michael Kors, Kenneth Cole and Betsey Johnson, and hosted by Lisa and Brittny Gastineau, who will also be showcasing their own jewelry line. 

The evening at Westfield Topanga in Canoga Park includes a celebrity appearance by Tori Spelling (at 7 p.m.), followed by a fashion show (at 7:05 p.m.) and live musical performance by Paris Loves LA (7:30 p.m.) and $250 in receipts will earn you a $25 American Express gift card. 

Guests visiting South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa will get the red-carpet treatment -- literally. The evening's activities include a red carpet step-and-repeat photo opportunity (resulting photos can be uploaded to Twitter or Facebook) and MAC Cosmetics makeovers with before-and-after photo evidence to take home.

A group of eight Abbot Kinney retailers who refer to themselves as the AK8 Collective (we're guessing "The Merchants of Venice" was already taken) have banded together to offer valet service, special events and a 10% discount on purchases Thursday evening. Participating boutiques include A+R (which has installed a trippy "melting shopping cart" window display for the occasion), Strange Invisible Perfumes (which will be deduting two new astrological scents -- Virgo and Pisces), and footwear and accessories boutique Mona Moore.

-- Adam Tschorn

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Photos, from left: Youtube sensations Blair, left, and Elle Fowler will be at Fashion Island's Nordstrom store for FNO (Credit: Shea Walsh / AP Images for Cellairis); actress Tori Spelling will be making an appearance at Westfield Topanga in Canoga Park. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images).

Nicole Richie to host a fashion show for L.A.'s FNO

Los Angeles' plans for this year's Fashion's Night Out shopping-as-economic-stimulus event, scheduled for Sept. 8, have been announced and the FNO website, the clearinghouse for officially sanctioned events around the globe, is now up and running.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will again kick things off in the Center Court area of the Beverly Center, and Nicole Richie will host one of two fashion shows on the schedule. (A full run-down of the shopping center's events and a timetable can be found at the shopping center's website.)

Beverly Hills seems to be going from circus-like atmosphere to full-blown circus -- with plans to not only bring back last year's Ferris wheel, but add a Cirque du Soleil partnership to the mix (look for stilt-walkers and flamethrowers, details updated here.

Elsewhere, celebrity stylist Melis Kuris (not to be confused with stylish celebrity Mila Kunis) is on tap to kick things off at Newport Beach's Fashion Island, and West Hollywood is throwing an after-party at the once-impenetrable fortress of nightlife mere mortals know as the Skybar.

While we here at All The Rage will continue to do our level best to pass along any truly newsworthy FNO-related tidbits as the merchandise Mardi Gras gets closer, the explosive growth in the number of Southern California retailers hopping on board the FNO train make it a Sisyphean task to keep track.

Fortunately, the official website has some new features that can help: This year, shoppers can narrow their focus to city level, search alphabetically and build out their own "My Night Out" list from which to strategize. As of this writing, there are already 144 events tagged for Los Angeles, 60 tagged for Beverly Hills and 19 tagged for West Hollywood.

 

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Photo: Actress and fashion designer Nicole Richie, on the red carpet at the 82nd annual Academy Awards in 2010. Credit: Kirk McKoy . Los Angeles Times.

Blake Lively, Grace Coddington to judge an FNO online contest

Project Runway, Top Chef, The Voice...the world loves a competition and Fashion’s Night Out is no exception. In fact, Fashion’s Night Out, Vogue.com and Polyvore.com have collided to create FNO Style Setter, where starting Aug. 15, users can go onto Polyvore.com and create a “set” (or a virtual mood board, if you will) based on the theme given to them by Vogue and Polyvore. Direction like, “fall wardrobe essentials” or “dress a style icon for fashion week” are meant to inspire participants to start building their visual sets online.

Each day, Vogue.com editors will highlight one standout set. At the end of each week, a judge -- either Blake Lively (three-time Vogue cover girl), Alexander Wang or Grace Coddington (creative director at Vogue) -- will pick two winning sets from the highlights that best sum up the challenge and grab them visually. At the end of the competition, which runs through Sept. 8, the six finalists will be posted at vogue.com, where users can vote for their faves.

Two winners will be announced Sept. 9, just in time for FNO, and will fly to New York to observe a Vogue photo shoot and tour the legendary Vogue fashion closet with a fashion editor. 

This online competition and the continued synergy between fashion stars, celebs and traditional and social media is a sure sign that Fashion’s Night Out is growing even bigger and trying to gain more traction with a broader market.

And the grand prize of a shoot and closet tour certainly speaks to the fact that a wider swath of tweens and teens are fashion-obsessed beyond just playing dress up –- they’re clamoring for a behind-the-scenes experience with fashion insiders.

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Fashion News: Vera Wang designs Kim Kardashian's wedding gown

-- Vera Wang is designing Kim Kardashian's wedding gown. “Vera has been a close family friend for a long time and we had talked about this moment for years,” Kardashian wrote on her blog Monday. Her wedding to basketball player Kris Humphries is planned for Aug. 20. Wang also designed the gown for Kim's sister Khloe when she wed the Lakers' Lamar Odom. [People]

-- Cast members of "Glee" will reportedly make appearances in L.A. and New York Sept. 8 as part of Fashion's Night Out, the shopping and fashion spectacular launched by Vogue a few years back to stimulate industry sales. [New York Post]

-- Nicola Formichetti, the designer behind many of Lady Gaga's memorable looks and creative director for Mugler, plans to launch his own line, with a sneak preview in a pop-up shop during New York Fashion Week in September. [Telegraph]

-- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen launched a redesigned website therow.com on Monday. It includes behind-the-scenes features and improved shopping. [WWD]

-- Rihanna got in the spirit Monday, wearing a red and gold bikini costume and feathered headdress in a festive Kadooment Day parade in her native Barbados. [People]

-- Ralph Toledano, former chairman and chief executive officer of Chloé International, has been named chairman of the board at St. John, the Irvine, Calif.-based maker of classic knitwear for women. The brand has struggled to appeal to younger buyers, in recent years trying a parade of celebrities in its advertising, including Gisele Bundchen, Angelina Jolie and Karen Elson. [WWD] (subscription required)  

-- Kelly Rowland is the face of Empress, a new women's scent from P.Diddy. [The Cut]

--Susan Denley

Photo: Kim Kardashian, right, with fiance Kris Humphries says Vera Wang is designing her wedding gown. Credit: Mark Thompson / Getty Images

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Amare Stoudemire, Rachel Roy discuss upcoming collaboration

When Amare Stoudemire and Rachel Roy hit a Hollywood Hills basketball court for a little one-on-one last week, the New York Knick was dripping with sweat, talking trash and baring his teeth in intimidation.

The fashion designer, on the other hand, was the model of calm, cool collectedness, clad in sweat pants, a T-shirt and flip flops, breaking her poise only at the last minute to throw a well-placed elbow that sent Stoudemire player reeling off balance.

It was all for the benefit of a video crew that had decamped to Stoudemire’s rented house in the hills to film footage promoting the duo’s collaboration on a women's clothing collection. Some of that video is slated to appear on in-taxi video ads in New York City starting Sept. 8, when the fall and winter 2011 collection hits retail (which just happens to be the date of this year’s shop-stravaganza Fashion’s Night Out).

The professional basketball player is the most recent in a string of creative collaborators tapped by the