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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Friday, July 15, 2011

HALSTON


Any of these designs could be worn today looking just as chic and fresh as they did back in 1977.........so whats the problem??????

Sarah Jessica Parker and Harvey Weinstein are taking a painful final markdown at Halston.

Parker, famous for playing Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the City," is getting a payout of more than $3 million in exchange for her ownership stake in the flailing fashion label -- as well as an exit from the remainder of her contract as a Halston designer, The Post has learned.

Meanwhile, Hollywood mogul Weinstein is selling his stake in Halston, which had approached 10 percent, for between $1 million and $1.5 million, as the company finalizes a restructuring of its mounting debt load that could be announced as soon as today, sources said.
Harvey Weinstein (right), who co-owns Halston with Hilco Consumer Capital, is exiting the once-iconic fashion label, along with Sarah Jessica Parker, the brand’s chief creative officer, after clashing with Hilco.
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Harvey Weinstein (right), who co-owns Halston with Hilco Consumer Capital, is exiting the once-iconic fashion label, along with Sarah Jessica Parker, the brand’s chief creative officer, after clashing with Hilco.

Those sums, while tidy by the standards of a struggling fashion brand, are paltry compared with what Parker and Weinstein had hoped to reap by returning Halston to the prominence it enjoyed in the '70s and '80s.

Parker, who had been designing a lower-price line called Halston Heritage, is ditching a contract that had entitled her to nearly $10 million over the next 3-½ years, according to one source close to the actress.

"Sarah felt that she has the opportunity to do a lot more with herself, and make a lot more money in the process, if she goes elsewhere," according to the source, adding, "she was tired of all the conflict."

Indeed, fashion sources said that Halston has been rocked this year by arguments between Weinstein and executives at Hilco, a Chicago-based liquidation firm that took control of Halston in 2007 in a $25 million buyout.

"There have been a lot of screaming matches," a Halston insider told The Post. "They really couldn't agree on too much -- the management team, expenses, the company's structure."

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

DEATH BECOMES YOU....


Being dead is no excuse to look less than fabulous.

A British cosmetics company is making sure the dearly departed are buried looking glamorous through a new service providing makeovers for corpses.

For upwards of $700, Illamasqua cosmetics will send a professional make-up artist to do a makeover for deceased people "for whom making-up is an intimate part of their identity," according to their website.

The cosmetics company has teamed up with one of London's oldest funeral homes, Leverton & Sons, to provide the service, which they market as "the Final Act of Self-Expression."

"At Levertons we have always applied make-up when requested by family and friends or when specified in someone's pre-arranged funeral," Andrew Leverton, director of Leverton & Sons, told the Daily Telegraph.

"We are now entering a new era in (which) pre-arranged funerals have become as standard as making a will. It's great for us to be able to offer this additional service," Leverton said.

Illasmasqua, which is run by Joe Corre, the son of designer Vivienne Westwood and the late Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, said the service is a ceremonial rite of passage no different from funeral preparations of ancient times.

"It is a celebration of life, and one that should be indulged for your last glamorous look," the website reads.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Mila makeup artist


grooming artist Javier Gomez for The Nimby Project/RBRW.

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