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Who needs a drink?

The Blue Bar at The Berkeley Hotel, London, courtesy of Planet Fabulon

John Galliano calls The Blue Bar his "favorite home from home," so what could be more appropriate for a bunch of fashion-minded folks to get their drunk on?

A big congrats to T Lo commenter CrockPot for winning last week's prize, a fabulous Leanne Marshall top. Winner buys the first round!

Now for this week's contest, we have something shiny and delicious for you:

Malan Breton has graciously (because he is nothing if not gracious) offered this gorgeous white topaz, raw amethyst and raw citrine necklace set in 100 percent sterling from his spring 2010 jewelry line. Stop by Malan's Facebook page and tell him how fabulous he is. Or, take a gander at his twitter so you can read whatever fabulous thoughts pop into his head. Thank you, Malan! It's gorgeous! And one size fits all!

Now kittens, we want you to STOP AND PAY ATTENTION. The rules for this week's contest are slightly different. If you read our Duchess Returns post, then you are privy to some information that alters the contest somewhat. Namely, you know two people who are more than likely in the bottom this week. Because of that, and because we know this week's team challenge, we want you to name FOUR people in the top and FOUR people in the bottom. Except for the two people shown in the clip, we have no idea what the teams are and neither do you, so it's mainly a crapshoot,. But how is that different from any other week? As always, you get 3 guesses and we won't accept any entries once the show starts at 10 PM eastern.

Please, kittens. We're begging you. Re-read the last paragraph. If you don't give us the top FOUR and bottom FOUR, then we're disregarding your entry. And don't forget your email address.


1) Pick the top 4 and bottom 4 designers of Episode 7.
2) You can have up to 3 entries in the contest.
3) If more than one person picks correctly, we'll pull the winning name out of a bag.
4) You must post your email address so we can contact you if you won.
5) No entries will be accepted once the show starts.


Episode 7 Preview:



[Video: myLifetime.com - Photos: Getty Images/PlanetFabulon.com/malanbreton.com]


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Malan Breton Spring 2010 Collection

Get your dandy on, poodles!

Malan Breton from Taiwan showed his Spring '10 collection yesterday, including his first menswear collection. He took his inspiration from the image "Flight of Freedom," a black-and-white photo of his friend Leigh Alderson from the Royal Ballet, shot by Dublin's Karin Pritzel.

In typical Malan fashion, the affair was elegant, romantic, and just slightly over the top. He had the Chelsea Symphony, a 45-piece orchestra playing throughout the show and ballet dancers on the runway. Eagle-eyed Bravo-philes will also recognize Ronnie and Holly from the first season of Make Me A Supermodel walking on the runway. Among the attendees were Diana Eng, Terri Stevens, Alex McCord, Maria Menounos, Nikki Blonsky, Jermaine Jackson, and Christopher Straub (click here to see pictures).



As for the collection, well it was just like the show: elegant, romantic and slightly over the top. It's interesting that the women's looks were all mostly clean and simple but the menswear is where he really went... not so much "wild," but as wild as Malan gets. We don't know if either of us could pull off a floral suit or top coat but the pieces are so beautiful and luxurious we wouldn't mind trying.

[Photos: WireImage/GettyImages]


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Fire Island, Part 3: Backstage, Bitches!

Let's watch models getting dressed!

Actually, it's not as titillating as it sounds. The pre-show fittings went like clockwork but if someone wanted to shoot a documentary about it it would be 2 hours of "Try this on." "Ok, now give me a walk." "What shoes go with this?" etc., ad nauseam.

The real fun, as we said yesterday, was getting all the models out on stage in a timely manner. There were no pictures of that little struggle because everyone was manning their battle stations. All the pictures you see in this post were either from Saturday's fitting or from Sunday morning, hours before the show started.

It went like this: Tom was positioned at the top of the stairs leading to the runway. His job was to pace the models to make sure that they were going slow enough to give each one a chance to run back down the steps and into their next outfit. Lorenzo, all the designers, and their designated assistants were down in the dressing room, ripping clothes off the models and hurriedly throwing the next outfit on them (which wasn't easy with Stella's lace-up getups). Only once during the show was there a moment when there were no models on the runway, which caused Tom to run down the steps, burst into the dressing room and shriek "Empty stage! Empty stage!"

A special shoutout must be given to the hair and makeup people as well as the photographer, all of whom were giving their time and expertise to the event gratis:

Photographer: Koitz
www.koitzphoto.com

Makeup: Christopher Drummond
www.christopherdrummond.com

Hair: Louis Tedeschi, Tom DeGrandis, Anthony Linzalone, Robby Nelson

They were all incredibly professional and quick. At the very last minute, it was decided that, since there were fears that the weather wouldn't hold out, we would simply show one collection after the other with virtually no breaks in between. This meant that the original hair and makeup changes for each collection had to be scrapped. Still, somehow the hair and makeup folks managed to make minor changes to each look while the models were getting dressed and even managed to slap on some smokey eyes for the rougher look that Stella's collection required.

All in all, we had a blast and we have to say, there is SUCH an adrenaline rush when you're doing something like this. We can't imagine what it would be like to mount a major show but we definitely have an appreciation of the work all the behind-the-scenes people do to pull one off just so bitchy bloggers like us can sit at our desks and critique it.














A special shoutout to Virginia, who is one of our readers and won one of the VIP passes to the event. She came up afterwards to introduce herself and she was a total doll. Plus, she provided us with a couple pictures from her camera to round out our post yesterday. Luvya, girl!


More pics:

[Photos: Koitz/Virginia Z./ Projectrungay.blogspot.com]

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