The FiFi Report 243

  • Michelle Obama is on the cover of March US Vogue…Read about it here.
  • Sarah Jessica Parker is on the cover of US Harper’s Bazaar; inside is a shoot inspired by Diana Vreeland. Watch the video here.
  • Watch the editors talking about the March issue of March issue of Vogue UK.
  • Louis Vuitton recently fêted the launch of its Stephen Sprouse collection. Marc Jacobs said his inspiration came from a number of places. During a visit to Charlotte Gainsbourg’s apartment, he noticed a Louis Vuitton monogram trunk painted black, and the idea gelled. Watch the video for a glimpse of the Sprouse exhibit and Jacobs’s favorite new leggings. Love it!
  • This is very amusing: Ethical Valentine’s Day ideas (like to how to recycle sex toys)…Guardian.co.uk
  • Prada has enlisted four leading fashion editors to take over and make over key Prada boutiques. ‘ The Iconoclasts’ will showcase individual interpretations of Prada’s spring ‘09 collection.It will kick off with W’s Alex White the New York  boutique, followed by Love’s Katie Grand in London and Oliver Rizzo in Milan, culminating with Carine Roitfeld’s conversion of the Avenue Montaigne store in Paris. Fabulous. Reports Hintmag.com.
  • In February, a Nielsen survey revealed that Gucci was still the most coveted luxury label in the world. Read an interview with Gucci’s Frida Giannini here.
  • Check out the very glamourous video of photographer Terry Richardson shooting Angela Lindval for the Jimmy Choo spring 09 campaign. Love Tamara Mellon!
  • ‘Adding to a star-studded cast that includes Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson and Sophia Loren, the film “Nine,” directed by Rob Marshall, will feature a cameo with Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce playing the roles of priests’ Reports WWD.
  • Model Natalia Vodianova has collaborated with Etam, a French lingerie company, to create Natalia pour Etam which encompasses swimwear and lingerie. Etam.com
  • Read about “fashion’s gentle revolutionary”, US and Italian Vogue fashion editor Edward Enninful in the International Herald Tribune.
  • Phoebe Philo’s elegant clothes for cool twenty-somethings made her name at Chloé then, suddenly, she left. Three years later, she’s making her return. Can she do it all again? Hadley Freeman from The Guardian meets her.
  • Stefano Pilati’s fourth Yves Saint Laurent Manifesto is happening! it’s a new approach to advertising. The S/S 2009 Manifesto, photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and featuring Claudia Schiffer, will be uploaded and distributed on charming heart shaped USB keys on the streets of Paris, New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Hong Kong on the 14th of February. Over half a million copies of the twenty page Manifesto, accompanied by behind the scenes footage, will be disseminated this way, along with a cotton tote bag designed by Pilati to the first 2,000 passers by in each city. FREE! See the video here. Please come to Sydney!
  • ‘Tom Ford not only art directed his spring men’s wear and eyewear advertising campaigns, he also shot the photographs for the first time. “I have always felt that an advertising image is in a sense the last layer of the design, and so decided this season to just shoot the campaign myself.” The ad images were shot in LA featuring the label’s signature male model, Jon Kortajarena, and model Karen Elson’. Reports WWD
  • It’s Beth Ditto fat and nude on the cover of Love magazine!
  • ‘Model Lily Cole took a break from school in Cambridge over the weekend to promote the premiere of one of two movies she has coming out this year — Rage — at the Berlin Film Festival. The low-budget film — a offbeat murder mystery set in the contemporary New York fashion world — stars Jude Law as a cross-dressing model named Minx and Judi Dench as an acerbic fashion writer; Lily appropriately plays a young model named Lettuce Leaf, although her natural red hair which made her name has been replaced with a bleached blonde bob for the role’. Check out the video and interview (in German then English)…Reports Fashionologie.