They said whaaat?! #Zoolander #Vogue #JohnFairchild
Moments before they hit the Valentino runway, Zoolander 2’s Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson got approval from Vogue’s Anna Wintour on their runway walk…see the hilarious video here
“Let’s see the walk” Anna to Derek.
“I’m going to keep it simple today, Usually I go ‘right, left, right, left, right, left’ but today I’m going to start left, in honour of how the sun rotates.” Derek Zoolander
“My people wanted me to start right, but I said, ‘It’s 2012, it’s time for something different.’ They said, ‘It’s 2015. ‘ I said, ‘Agree to disagree.’ …It’s one of those things you can never really tell” Derek Zoolander
“What about your walk Hansel?” Anna Wintour.
“Environment,” it’s so hot right now’. It’s the number one problem. But how do we reduce our footprint? Less walking.” Hansel.
“So today I’m going to hover, literally. And if that doesn’t work I’m going to do an organic form to table walk,” Hansel
Meanwhile in other news….
John Fairchild, who transformed Women’s Wear Daily into an international force to be reckoned with, died last week at his Manhattan home after a long illness. He was 87. He headed Fairchild Publications Inc., with publications that included Jane and Details magazines, for more than 30 years. In addition to being the longstanding editor-in-chief of WWD, Fairchild was also the founding editor of W magazine…
Outspoken — and often outrageous he was more quotable than most of the people his publications wrote about….
“She [Coco Chanel] had the best wine and Champagne. We would both be bombed out of our minds.”
“Noone has the right to determine who is best dressed. The Best Dressed List is a gimmick and a bunch of rot.”
“If I see another movie star in a fashion magazine — it’s ridiculous! It’s a nightmare. That’s what they call cutting edge. I hate that word. And buzz. It’s a crock. They love buzz! When I hear the word buzz, it reminds me of a chain saw.”
“Don’t get me on royalty. I find it so boring. Prince Rainier! How dare he sit at dinner next to Pat Buckley, who’s a fun, exciting woman, and he doesn’t say one word — all he does is stuff his face with food!”
“Good fashion is simple. When a woman comes into a room no one should stare and be shocked — and they shouldn’t think she is an old dishrag. Bad fashion is when a woman exaggerates. Take the period of the big-front, tight sweaters, Marilyn Monroe stuff. It looked great on Marilyn Monroe, but it was grotesque to wear to a lunch in a thick-carpeted midtown restaurant.
“When people say that fashion is an art I get hysterical. Women look more beautiful without any clothes.…Fashion is a thing like a delicious meal to make a woman look and feel better. But it’s only an accessory. People get carried away with it.”
“Ladies Who Lunch didn’t exist in Paris. Women who are smart in Paris don’t spend their time at charity parties and eating lunch at restaurants. If they are interesting, they will have a quiet lunch party at home.”
“You’ve got to be controversial in fashion because, basically, it’s a bunch of blah blah. Controversy makes it lively. Luckily, the egocentricity of the business makes for very interesting pickings!”
“Clothes aren’t what it’s all about any longer. A woman can have the most beautiful clothes in the world and the most beautiful face, but if she isn’t fun and amusing, if she doesn’t move correctly, if she’s not with what is going on today, she isn’t interesting as a personality.”
” The biggest triumph was breaking the release date of the couture when I was in Paris. At that time, the Chambre Syndicale insisted magazines and newspapers couldn’t print sketches or photographs of the current collections until at least a month after the shows. I used to really resent how all the grande dames of the magazines could paw and examine the clothes, take them off to be photographed and show them to the Seventh Avenue manufacturers while we couldn’t do anything.
So Women’s Wear broke the release date. The first time we did it was with Saint Laurent’s first collection for Dior. All through the show, I kept thinking how we could illustrate it with pictures, not just words, until it struck me that the silhouette looked just like a toothpaste tube sitting on a brioche. So I rushed back to the office right after the show and had our artist Alex Rakoff sketch it. We wired it to New York and the next day it was on the front page. Jacques Rouet called immediately and said I’d insulted the House of Dior and Saint Laurent by breaking the release date and showing a Vaseline tube! I kept trying to tell him it was a toothpaste tube, but he wouldn’t listen. The French always do find other connotations in everything.”
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