Your morning fashion and beauty report: Cynthia Nixon’s fashion secret. Anna Sui gets booked. Claudia Schiffer bares all. And Miss USA contestants flaunt it.
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The career of Anna Sui, who made the baby doll dress an American staple, will be chronicled in a book by Andrew Bolton, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. A hefty 400 pages, it’s due out in November. [People]
Miranda may have a flare for fashion on ‘Sex and the City,’ but in real life Cynthia Nixon gets her significant other to pick out her clothes. [StyleList]
Indoor salt rooms have been popping up with claims that the salt can soothe respiratory and skin problems. [Wall Street Journal]
Times have been tough for teen retailers, but not for the chief executive of Abercrombie & Fitch, whose annual compensation jumped to $36.3 million last year (up from $23.2 million a year earlier), more than double that of his peers at Aeropostale and American Eagle Outfitters. But he didn’t get a bonus. [Wall Street Journal]
Spring’s style books expect you to put in some effort. [Wall Street Journal]
Finally! Toms Shoes is offering its first really feminine women’s shoe, an open-toe espadrille wedge. [Cool Hunting]
Calvin Klein’s mixed message: Its new fragrance, Beauty, is supposed to aim at women over 40, but the face of the campaign is 31-year-old Diane Kruger and the editors of some magazines deemed key for the over-40 demographic weren’t even invited to the launch party. Tsk, tsk. [wwd]
News we’re catching up on: The German fragrance industry has honored Marc Jacobs’ Lola and Tom Ford’s Grey Vetiver with Duftstars Awards. [wwd, subscription required]
Trend alert: black and gold accessories that look just right. [FabSugar]
Beautiful and brave, Claudia Schiffer took the plunge: she’s appearing nude and very, very, very, very pregnant on Vogue Germany’s June cover. Very. [fashionologie]
Liberty of London is launching a men’s line. [wwd, subscription required]
StyleList gets a peek at Payless ShoeSource’s soon-to-come makeup line. [StyleList]
The Miss USA pageant has never felt quite as, well, wholesome as Miss America, and now it’s making tongues wag and eyes pop with a lingerie shoot in Las Vegas. [StyleList]
This will send you running for the chemical peels and moisturizers: a new website that will ‘age’ your photo to show what you’ll look like in 20 years. [BellaSugar]
-- Susan Denley
