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Style Icon: Jane Birkin

In 1981, Hermès chief executive Jean-Louis Dumas was seated next to Jane Birkin on a flight from Paris to London. She had just placed her straw bag in the overhead compartment of her seat, but the contents fell to the deck, leaving her to scramble to replace the contents. Birkin explained to Dumas that it had been difficult to find a leather weekend bag she liked. In 1984, he created a black supple leather bag for her, based on an 1892 design. She used the bag for herself then later changed her mind, due to the fact that she was carrying too many things in it: “What’s the use of having a second one?” she laughs. “You only need one and that busts your arm; they’re bloody heavy. I’m going to have to have an operation for tendonitis in the shoulder.” Nevertheless, the bag has since become an icon.

What Jane had to say about lover Gainsbourg:

Our friendship went on until his dying day. He rang me in London to say he bought me a big diamond because I had lost one that he’d given me. I said, “Oh, stop drinking, Serge.” And a day later, on March 2, 1991, he was dead.

He comes back to me as a ghost in his corduroy coat, and I clasp him around his waist saying, “Stay on for a bit longer.” And he says, “No, I’ve got to go.” I miss him. So does all of France. He had been faithful and kind to the end.

Via The Daily Beast

Item of the Day: REISS Multi Strap Ballerian Flat

Reiss multi-strap ballerina shoes. Evette is a pointed toe flat pump with triple ankle strap detail. In black and white zebra print calf hair, this statement style buckles at the ankle and also zips at the heel in black suede with stylish gold metal hardware.

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First Look: Kirna Zabete and Odin for Target

The second installment of Target’s new “The Shops at Target” retail format, wherein the retailer taps “off-the-beaten-path” boutiques to create limited collections to sell in a shop-in-shop format, will hit stores pretty soon. We already told you what to expect, like collabs with a couple of our fave NYC boutiques Kirna Zabete and Odin, and now we finally have pictures!

You can see the full look books for both collections below and neither of them look like something you’d expect to find at a Target. Highlights from Kirna Zabete’s very colorful collection include gorgeous long-sleeved printed dresses, some perfect little going out purses and for dudes we’re into Odin’s simple cozy sweaters and desert boots. As for prices, a KZ dress will set you back around $40, a fraction of what you’d likely have to pay for a dress at the actual Kirna Zabete. Coats are around $60 and jewelry below $20. From Odin, coats are around $70 and shirts and sweaters $35.

You can buy it all September 9, when it hits Target stores nationwide and online, but for now click through to see all the looks.

Via Fashionsta

Spotlight x Gia Coppola x Fashion Film Director

Since graduating from Bard College with a degree in photography in 2009, she has carved a niche in her hometown of Los Angeles directing short fashion films for Rodarte, Zac Posen and Diane von Furstenberg, and labels Opening Ceremony and Wren.

Her work won her a spot as one of the featured speakers at the inaugural Curators Conference, a day-long event taking place on Sept. 5 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in New York on the eve of New York Fashion Week.

Presented by online channel Portable at http://curatorsconference.com, the conference will feature creators and curators of culture across fashion, film, design, music and technology. Coppola’s fellow presenters include Susie Bubble of Style Bubble, Refinery29 cofounder Philippe von Borries, Capsule director Chris Corrado, music-video director Warren Fu, Foodspotting founder Soraya Darabi, Cool Hunting founder Evan Orensten, Carrie Scott of SHOWstudio and Rodrigo Calvo of Mr & Mrs Smith.

“I am in good company,” says Coppola, who plans to talk about fashion videos and “how they have developed as a new little art form."

By nature soft-spoken and shy (“I will probably turn red and start stuttering,” she says of her presentation), Coppola says she fell into directing while collaborating with friends like actress Nathalie Love and director Tracy Antonopoulos. She says she gravitated toward film over photography because of the writing and storytelling aspect.

“I like photography more as my own hobby for me,” she says, noting that she always has her Contax TW camera or her iPhone handy.
As for the fast-growing fashion-film genre, Coppola notes, “It’s cool because it’s a new way to show clothes and see how they move, plus you have a little story, so it adds personality. And it’s helpful when companies are open to letting you do what you want.”
Her short for von Furstenberg featured Antonopoulos as a young screenwriter with writer’s block — and a fabulous wardrobe. “That was tricky because Tracy is so tall we couldn’t shoot her in all the bottoms, so we did a montage of all the printed jeans during the credits,” Coppola says.
Other recent projects include a short filmed in Las Vegas for Elle China, starring Chinese actress Zhang Jingchu and her cousin, musician Robert Schwartzman. She often calls on Schwartzman, who used to be in the band Rooney, to compose scores for her films. “ ’Cause he’s family, I get a little favor,” she admits.
Coppola is at work on a feature-length script and says she’s inspired by her aunt’s commercials and her uncle’s shorts, as well as those of Martin Scorsese and Harmony Korine.
“I always have little pictures in mind that I think are cool that I’d like to create,” she says of her creative process. “But you start with half of something, and with everyone’s collaborations, it turns into a fully formed piece.”