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Karl Lagerfeld’s New Genderless ‘Kapsule’ Fragrance

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July 19th,
2008
You didn’t take him for a punner, did you?Photo: Getty Images

FRAGRANCE

• Karl Lagerfeld will release a trio of fragrances this November called Kapsule (har). Karl said the scents are genderless because “there is no gender in perfumes anymore.” Genius. [WWD]

MAKEUP
• Jennifer Aniston spends $20,000 a month on her beauty routine, by this blogger’s calculations. [Styledash]

• Kate Moss is venturing into makeup! She told Vogue she’s working on a second perfume and makeup for Coty, Inc. Because smelling like her isn’t enough. [Fashionista]

• Sephora will launch on10 this holiday season, a line with Disney characters like Mickey, Minnie, Snow White, Cinderella, and Alice on lip balms. Flavors include Tootsie Roll, 7Up, and Wrigley’s. [WWD]

• Speaking of Sephora, Happy Birthday! Our makeup wonderland/best friend turns 10 today. [Racked]

SKIN
via • A list of the ten most disturbing spa treatments includes snake massages, fanny facials, and six other ones we’re not lining up for. But the chocolate-fondue wrap (No. 6) doesn’t sound half-bad. [Divine Caroline Consumerist]

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Karl Lagerfeld to Design Homes on Dubai’s Fashion Island

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July 8th,
2008
What can’t he do?Photo: Getty Images

Wouldn’t it be amazing if there was a paradise island where fashionistas could gather and exude fabulousness together? Where famous designers could throw amazing parties and put on fashion shows exclusively for the island’s residents, who live in couture villas with private beaches just steps from the best boutiques in the world? It sounds too good to be true, but it’s not: Isla Moda is that fashion paradise. It’s under construction in Dubai, natch, and Karl Lagerfeld is the first fashion designer to sign on to design a few “limited edition” homes there. He says in a press release:

“Dubai is a fashion bud on the verge of blossoming into the next fashion hub of the world … Isla Moda has tremendous potential to be the style icon of the future and I intend on driving the island to high style stardom,” he added.

That “tremendous potential” includes a “style concierge” available to residents of Isla Moda for clothes, fragrances, and makeovers (there’s also a design one to help you with your home-furnishing and decorating needs). If you can’t afford one of Lagerfeld’s houses, Isla Moda will also include a hotel with 250 rooms and serviced apartments. And here we thought retiring in California sounded like a nice idea.

Dubai Infinity Holdings is developing the project in line with its “mandate to fulfill unmet market needs.” We don’t know about you, but we sure can’t think of an unmet market need that needed more fulfilling.

Dubai Infinity Holdings bring “Haute Homes” to Dubai through signing legendary fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld to Isla Moda [Zawya via Fashionista]

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Why Is Kate Moss Getting Downgraded?

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June 15th,
2008
Photo: Getty Images

Something interesting has started happening to Kate Moss, and it has nothing to do with sharing bathrooms with her closest friends. She’s getting kind of, well, downgraded, and we can’t decide if it’s good that she’s still working or just flat-out embarrassing. First Agent Provocateur demoted her from starring in the campaign for its main line to doing its bridal line. And today we learned she’s been demoted to the Just Cavalli campaign after mugging for the Roberto Cavalli campaign for the past few seasons. Though it doesn’t have a lower-priced line for her to move to, she’s also out at Yves Saint Laurent, which replaced her with Naomi Campbell.

Designers must shake up the look of things every season, and casting changes are a necessary part of that. So perhaps Agent Provocateur and Cavalli love Moss so much they don’t want to let her go so they throw her in the slots they’ve got left. That would be rather flattering. But what if, on the other hand, they’re seeing her in a different light — less ultra high fashion and more mass market (ahem, Topshop)? Donna Karan has hired Moss again for her fall campaign since she loved her so much in the spring ads. But how long will she last before she scoots down to DKNY?

Related: BREAKING NEWS: KATE SAYS “I DO” [British Vogue]
Moss Knocked From Cavalli Campaign; Wintour Toasts Obama

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She does look good these days.Photo: Getty Images

FRAGRANCE
• Mariah Carey is launching a follow-up fragrance to her successful M called Luscious Pink. Perfumers call it “a floral melody that is as enveloping as Mariah’s voice.” Will it touch your body? [WWD]

• Jasmin Noir, the newest scent from Bulgari, pairs jasmine with a woody floral. It will be available this October at Bloomingdale’s for just $140 a bottle. [WWD]

HAIR
• Alicia Keys looks like Rapunzel with her extra-long ponytail extension. [BellaSugar]

MAKEUP
• Mascara wands are the new vibrators. Well, sort of. Both Estée Lauder and Lancôme are launching vibrating mascaras this season. Lauder’s TurboLash delivers 125 micropulses per second, while Lancôme’s Oscillation delivers 7,000 micro-oscillations a minute. They’re the iPhones of makeup, we tell you. [WWD]

• Peter Thomas Roth is launching Un-Wrinkle pressed powder, which includes an ingredient called Syn-ake that acts as muscle relaxant to reduce signs of wrinkles. Sounds like a drug; we’ll take it! [BellaSugar]

• For a beachy look, the Clarins Summer Fever collection includes a fun orange lip balm and turquoise eye pencils and mascaras. Looking like a moldy orange is hot right now. [Beauty Addict]

SKIN
• Skin specialist Patricia Wexler suggests anti-aging plans for women of all ages. For your twenties, use at least one anti-aging product and be proactive, not reactive. For your thirties, protect your eyes with sunglasses, and for your forties, get peels. [15 Minute Beauty Fanatic]

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