Attention KMart shoppers! Fedoras have Hollywood covered and you can have yours for just $6.99!

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Stylist Rob Zangardi who with partner Mariel Haan puts Rihanna in everything from fedoras by Lanvin to flipflops, offers tips on how to wear the hot headgear.

Great style as well as something to shield you from those rays!

Across the board, the Panama or Fedora hat is the style hit of the summer. Straw and stylish with a black or blue grosgrain bow around the crown, KMart’s version of the affordable style worn by everyone from Rihanna to Charlize Theron is the hat you want.

“Make sure to find a hat that fits your head, a hat too big or too small can look silly,” Zangardi says. “Tilt the hat forward a bit just above your eyebrow and cock it a little to the side for more attitude. Wear the hat to the back of your head for more of an fashionable ’80s look. There are so many ways to personalize your fedora, from traditional feathers and hat pins to studs, spikes and broaches on the bandeau.”

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It wasn’t until she became pregnant with her son Jo that São Paulo native Amalia Spinardi felt compelled to take the signature Brazilian bikini one step further. “I was pregnant when I decided to do the line and I wanted a bit more of a comfortable fit. I couldn’t wear the Brazilian cuts anymore,” she said of her ambition to design a modern version of the barely-there silhouette. “When you are so exposed in a bikini, your body is almost naked. You really need something that’s comfortable.” And so, Jo de Mer was born, and found a loyal following among Brazilians—even those who thought they’d never trade in their barely-theres.

In Los Angeles to introduce the line to the ladies-who-lunch crowd, Spinardi took turns explaining her near 30-piece-deep collection to the likes of Minnie Mortimer Gaghan, Ali Larter, Jennifer Meyer Maguire, and host Alexandra von Furstenberg (left, with Spinardi). Von Furstenberg, who was first introduced to the line when she was in need of a quick suit for a tropical jaunt, is just one of the many beach-bound who have taken to the line’s subtle play on the signature Brazilian heat. In addition to the best-selling, aptly named Capri string bikini, Spinardi is expanding the selection to caftans, sundresses, and beachwear for Resort. But the bikini remains the line’s resounding focus. “I want the collection to be about simple shapes with lots of texture. Using rich fabrics with simple fits. If you’re going to the beach, it has to be wearable.”
—Alexis Brunswick

Also, as someone who knows the magnitude of accessories, Daman has created coordinating handbags and shoes to go with the beautiful party dresses. The line will buffet Charlotte Russe stores, as well for their website, on October 24, and Damon promises shoppers won’t be disappointed: “There’s a assorted shape and size dress for each girl!”

Gossip Girl’s longtime stylist Eric Daman, who creates the show’s chic, unforgettable looks, is coupling up with Charlotte Russe apt debut a line of party dresses which will entire retail because under $50.

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The dresses will be perfectly on-trend for fall, with details like velvet, sequins, and peek-a-boo mesh - and this is a man who knows his trends! Every fashionista had to have a headband later Leighton Meester’s Blair sported them in the first season - “I muse the headband was to Gossip Girl what the bloom was to Sex in the City,” he told Us - and he’s been advising prevailing females even now. (Blake Lively has even said “I dress just like Serena” in real life!)

Be Blair Waldorf ashore a budget!

Colette faithfully adheres apt the mosh-pit school of accident promotion: Position a bunch of people with amusing new ventures aboard the store’s upstairs form and art layer by bustling evening hours, have them invite all their friends, corner up the music, and watch the shoulders fly to get in.

Monaco-based jeweler Gaia Repossi and her new best friend, the lovely model-cum-jewelry designer Anouck Lepère, can at least say their melée was in the service of a good cause. The two connected forces to behalf the babies of Rwanda, whose plight Lepère looked firsthand while she visited the nation two years antecedent. She and Repossi commissioned Rwandan villagers to braid cord for bracelets, cuffs, and armbands, which Repossi then embellishes with silver and gold necklaces and sells to behalf the nonprofit Kageno (”a place of hope” in Kenyan dialect). The pieces will be obtainable at Colette this summer and extra venues in the hereafter. And to hear the ladies talk about it, it seems like the collaboration may not be the final. “This namely my premier time working for a philanthropy and what I enjoyed was producing chips with the people,” said Lepère, who traveled with photographer Dana Lixenberg to document the project (above).

Meanwhile, in distinct segment of the cache, Claudia Schiffer (upon, with Carine Roitfeld) was on her own mission for quality. Schiffer’s cashmere knits launch this fall. “I’ve wanted to do something in fashion for a long time,” says the supermodel, who was escorted by Mario Testino. “But I didn’t ambition it to be the usual celebrity clothing copyright. I wanted this to be something to be pride of.” The line came about behind Schiffer was invited at Suzy Menkes to talk at the International Herald Tribune’s daily elegance session, held that annual in her natural Germany. After Schiffer spoke about what she looks for in a fine mark, she was approximated at the son of the author of Iris von Arnim, the Hamburg-based cashmere house founded in the 1960’s. The supe was smitten, and the collection was born—eventually. “It has taken approximately two years to perfect the see,” says Schiffer of the dark, pearly, and gray classics—think stripey cardigans and effortless pullovers—”and now we’re on Net-a-Porter.” The tag boasts not comprised backstory, fair a agreeable mate among a female, a brand, and a longtime favorite. “I’ve loved [cashmere] since I was a mini girl,” Schiffer mentioned, “when I used to work into my mother’s locker and embezzle her sweaters.”

Photos: Courtesy of Claudia Schiffer / Courtesy of Gaia Repossi

—Rebecca Voight

Photos: Cass Bird

—Maya Singer

No one knows who contrived the game Truth or Dare. But Sophomore designer Chrissie Miller has a pretty nice methodology as apt why it’s proven so renowned. “Based aboard my own experience, it’s equitable the obvious entity because boys and girls to do when they obtain together for the first time,” she says. “You’re kids, you’re seeing approximately the room at each other, and you accomplish, we have absolutely nought to talk about.” Miller has had Truth alternatively Dare aboard the head lately; together with prevalent collaborator Cass Bird, she’s established a short documentary featuring the likes of Chloë Sevigny, Lesley Arfin, Jen Brill, Scott Campbell, and PJ Ransone playing the game.

Of lesson, in increase to entire of the pre-teen boys and girls worldwide, Truth or Dare has one quite outstanding practitioner: Madonna, who labeled her 1991 doc after the game. It’s namely flick, in fact, that inspired Miller to lens her own. “I watched it not that long antecedent, and I just loved it, and I thought, we’ve got to do that,” Miller explains. “It’s not a typical ‘fashion’ film—it’s for Sophomore, yeah, yet the clothing isn’t my cardinal concern. I rather to converge on making someone amusing, that people ambition want to watch. So I rounded up some friends, we got a room at the Bowery Hotel, and came up with a catalogue of answers.” Those answers led to hours of footage, entire of which was boiled down to the six-minute film. All that amending method there was plenty left on the tearing room floor—including a few tantalizing bits. “There was one point where Chloë challenged Lesley Arfin to kiss her,” Miller recollected. “It was really adorable—I average, they’ve been friends forever, and they were both compliant to work there with the game.” The film debuts morrow on www.kanonvodka.com, and tonight, Miller namely hosting a screening in Los Angeles at Paul and Andre, the unmarked bar recently opened along Paul Sevigny and André Saraiva.