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Jason Wu On Michelle Obama’s Inauguration Gown

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

Like I was predicted in a post one month ago, Michelle Obama choose again Jason Wu for the presidential inauguration ball at the White House!!! Picture credit: Rex Features JASON WU had no idea that Michelle Obama was planning on wearing one of his designs for the presidential inauguration ball at the White House. The US First Lady has long been a fan of the New York-based designer, having stepped out in his dresses on numerous occasions – most notably at Barack Obama’s first inauguration in […]

Categories: News, People • Tags: Barack Obama, Fashion, First Lady, First Lady of the United States, Jason Wu, Michelle Obama, Obama, Thom Browne, White House

Anna Wintour’s Boyfriend

January 19, 2013 by The CoF

We got a brief look into the life of Vogue magazine’s Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour in the film The September Issue, but other than a previous marriage and divorce, we didn’t get too many details about her love life. According to Fashionista, this fashion tastemaker has been canoodling with the same boo, telecommunications pioneer and Texas millionaire, Shelby Bryan since 1999.While we don’t see much about their relationship in Page Six or any other gossip sites that give insight into our other favorite celebrity couples, the pair has been spotted out and about […]

Categories: Contact, News • Tags: Anna Wintour, Barack Obama, Editor-in-chief, Fashion, Jann Wenner, September Issue, Shelby Bryan, Vogue, White House

Iris Apfel By Dazed & Confused

December 22, 2012 by The CoF

Socialite, fashion icon, interior designer, business woman …. Need I say more? Hope I’m not forgetting anything! Her spectacles, signature look, lend Iris Apfel a startled look. If she seems surprised, she has good reason. Mrs. Apfel, the subject of a string of museum exhibitions, a coffee table book and even a fashion advertising campaign, has long been a magnetto those devotees of fashion who worship her style. Born August 29, 1921 Iris Barrel in Astoria, Queens, New York, Apfel is […]

Categories: Beauty, Fashion, People • Tags: Apfel, coffee table book, Fashion, Henri Bendel, Home Shopping Network, Iris Apfel, New York, New York University, personal wardrobe, style, White House

Anna Wintour Ambassador?

December 5, 2012 by The CoF

By Erik Maza,with contributions from Samantha Conti, Evan Clark, Lisa Lookwood Wondering what Anna Wintour wants has become a cottage industry of its own. Does she want to be a diplomat? A theatrical impresario? A grand dame? Have a broader corporate editorial role? Well, that last one may have some truth to it. Every couple of months, someone, typically on deadline, throws out a new scenario. How about Anna to go on for Regis? And then in a matter of minutes […]

Categories: People • Tags: Anna Wintour, Barack Obama, Lifestyle, LONDON, Louis Susman, Matthew Barzun, People, Vogue, White House