Do you love Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s style? Before her television career, Elisabeth began as a fashion designer. Now, she’s ready to give you an inside look into her designs with the Dialogue collection. In time for the fall season, women will find warm jackets, comfortable sweaters, and multi-wear dresses like this Georgette Empire Waist Tunic with Satin Trim for $28.92.

To see more items from Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s collection shop online at QVC

Donna Karan RTW Spring 2010

Women’s Wear Daily names their picks for the top 10 collections of Spring 2010 where the best runways served up fantasy, futurism and plenty of panache.  Those making the list this year include: Jason Wu, Donna Karan,
Missoni and Stella McCartney.

See the entire story here

Source: wwd.com

For FW09 Mulberry is introducing an adorable range of tailored coats for dogs.  The warm snuggly winter coats come in a red and black lumberjack check and a classic Mulberry tweed check. With the weather turning colder…what chic pooch wouldn’t want one of these jackets?

The coats retail for $140 and are available in NYC at both the Madison Ave. and Bleecker St. stores as well as mulberry.com.

Lindsay Lohan

It was revealed over the weekend that Lohan’s high profile internship with Emanuel Ungaro was unpaid. The New York Post reported on its infamous Page Six that Lohan paid for her own hotel and flight to Paris to appear at Paris Fashion Week. But she was only unpaid if you are talking about cash. She reportedly accepted $100,000 of Ungaro clothing as payment.

Fox 411 reported that “Ungaro is not paying her at all to be a consultant for them. Her team is working to get Lindsay some form of payment from the fashion house, but right now they will only give her free clothes.”

Some in the fashion world were shocked by the pairing up of the tabloid magnet Lohan with the Italian designer. Naeem Khan said when told about the hook-up, “Esteban is a great friend of mine, and I think it’s a very dangerous move that they’re making.”

In other Lohan news, rumor has it that the aspiring singer has been dropped by Casablanca, her record label, “put[ting] their working relationship with her on hold.” Lohan’s third studio album, Spirit in the Dark, has been under production for over a year. There’s been no comment from Lohan or her “people” about the rumored record label dumping.

Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie is launching Winter Kate, her new contemporary women’s clothing line, reports Women’s Wear Daily.  The line, which takes her daughter Harlow’s two middle names, will hit stores beginning in February.  “It feels as though I’ve always been working on this collection, but officially I started putting it together in early 2009.  I’ve wanted to design a clothing collection for a very long time,” she said.  The line includes mostly tops, vests and bed jackets in colorful vintage-inspired silk, crepe and chiffon (mainstays in Richie’s own wardrobe) and will range from $35 wholesale for a camisole to as much as $598 for the leather pieces.  “Fashion should be accessible.  That was my philosophy when designing House of Harlow 1960 and remains my philosophy for Winter Kate,” Richie said.

Source: wwd.com

TransFOURmer Coat – $189

Just in time for fall, the new TransFOURmer coat from the Rachel Rachel Roy collection is not only super chic, but smart and thrifty too! As seen in Real Simple magazine, the Transfourmer coat is one coat that can be unzipped and worn in 4 different ways.

Remove the bottom for a chic motorcycle jacket look or take off the sleeves and bottom for a twist on a vest.  The inside is lined with Rachel’s signature graffiti print, for an unexpected pop of color.

View the video that demos all of the different looks the coat transforms into:

Source: rachelroy.com

Sound Bites

Katie Holmes
-On family life: “In my own life, my whole world really revolves around family. I do what I need to do, but it’s like, ‘How is everybody else doing?’ And it’s wonderful for me as an actress to put some of that into a character.”

-On life: as a working mom on the Broadway set of All My Sons: “Suri would sit in my lap in the makeup chair. She’d hand the wig lady the bobby pins.“

-On fashion: “I love Alaia, for sure. Stella McCartney. I like Ralph Lauren because I feel like it’s very American, and I’m pretty all-American, from Ohio. Isabel Marant and a new designer, Sari Gueron.

-On the genre of film she loves most: “It can be any genre. I even like vampire movies – they just have to be well done. I want to believe in the characters. The minute it starts to feel not real, I’m not interested.”

Emily Blunt
-On adjusting to Hollywood life since moving from the UK: “I feel the fear of the business creep under my skin in L.A. in a way that it doesn’t in England. It’s funny – I feel like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, unless you’re in Hollywood! It’s shameful how you have to look a certain way. Women are simply not allowed to grow old gracefully. That’s why I love playing character parts, because I’m not pigeonholed into trying to remain young forever to play the ingénue or romantic lead.”

Julianne Moore
-On types of characters she is drawn to: “I think my connection to acting has been through reading. I’m interested in scripts. People ask me, “What role are you dying to play?” It’s really, What story do I want to be in?”

Renee Zellweger
-On actresses from earlier eras that have influenced her: “For Leatherheads, I was thinking of Katharine Hepburn, the way she leaned forward with her shoulders back, speaking in her lower register the whole time. I like her confidence, her intelligence, her sense of entitlement. When I was making Chicago, I couldn’t stop watching the Marilyn [Monroe] videos. Not so much because of the sex kitten thing; it was more her vulnerability. That was a huge part of the Roxie character. But it’s not about emulating; it’s about a feeling.”

-On whether a successful movie career requires sacrificing your personal life: “A friend of mine couldn’t decide between moving to New York or staying in L.A., and another friend said, “Do Everything!” I thought, That’s it, do everything.”
Zoe Saldana
-On being known as a beautiful Hollywood actress: “I’m sorry, but it’s sexy to know that guys find you attractive. It’s empowering.”

To see the rest of the ‘Women In Hollywood’ covers visit: elle.com

Lindsay Lohan

It’s Paris fashion week, and so far one of the biggest news items has little to do with fashion and much to do with celebrity. Lindsay Lohan, who was hired as an “artistic adviser” for Italian design house Emanuel Ungaro, presented her first collection at the Louvre, to the chagrin of style conoisseurs and struggling designers everywhere.

Largely seen as a publicity stunt for Ungaro – a brand that is rapidly fading into the background – Lohan’s collection was panned for being, well, tacky, with plenty of orange and pink, ruched orange slacks, and black, heart-shaped pasties. Guilty by association is Estrella Archs, who has designed for Prada, Christian Lacroix, Emilio Pucci, and Nina Ricci.

By way of explanation, president of Ungaro, Mounir Moufarrige, has said, “Twenty-first century muses are extroverts whose personal style and experience gives them strong creative and artistic focus.”

Even among the notoriously tough fashion crowd, fangs were out for this collection. It was only one month ago that Emanuel Ungar “hired” Lohan as as artistic adviser. Many in the fashion industry consider it a huge insult to anyone who had ever really worked in design or graduated from design school.

Then again, the fashion industry has in recent years emphasized flashy, disposable fashion over forward thinking and style. Lohan’s collection for Ungaro was no exception, with plenty of tight micro-mini dresses and emphasis on hearts as a design element. It appeared as a sequin pattern on one jacket and as cutouts on another. But it was the heart shaped pasties that were most universally panned, perhaps as a symbol of a fashion house in a desperate bid for attention from a house that has been fading from view since its founder retired back in 2004.

Elle.com’s online fall fashion guide: Fall A to Zee.  The guide is a list of Creative Director Joe Zee’s fall favorites.  Each letter is paired with one of his 26 trend picks for the season – plus related clothing, accessories, beauty products and more.

To view this amazing guide visit elle.com