To commemorate InStyle’s 20th anniversary, we ve spent the month of September giving away a bevy of prizes (more than $20,000 worth, to be exact) for our 20 Days of Style Sweepstakes, and there s still time to get in on the action! We ve already given away a $1,000 Amex gift card, 20 Bare Escentuals brushes, a Clarisonic gift basket worth $1,000, and a $1,000 Joie gift card. But we re not done yet.The contest ends on Sept. 20. Head over to 20th.instyle.com for your last chance to enter to win daily prizes, including gift baskets from Bath & Body Works and gift cards to Vigoss and Aquatalia!
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Looking to add extra oomph to your beach gear? We ve got you covered! This month, in celebration of InStyle’s 20th anniversary (have you peeked at our 20 -themed style galleries yet?), we are rolling out the latest summer sweepstakes that will award 20 lucky winners a Profile by Gottex cover-up and sun hat. Enter for a chance to win the prize pack and make the ultimate splash this summer.
In this weekly feature, InStyle’s Fashion News Director Eric Wilson shares his favorite fashion moment of the week, and explains how it could shape styles to come. Look for it on What’s Right Now every Friday.
Barneys hosted a series of events this week to celebrate the designer and the success of the Paris exhibition, which has helped expand an appreciation of Van Noten beyond his well-known interests in India, flowers, and color. His ideas, it turns out, are equally influenced by punk rock, movies and music, art history from the Renaissance through the present and more. When the museum first approached him, Van Noten says, the last thing he wanted was a retrospective.
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Remember those girls in high school who were good at everything? School, sports, ceramics class you name it, they excelled at it. And remember how you secretly wanted to be just like them? They set an example for others to follow, whether they intended to or not. That s kind of how we feel about the nominees in the Social Media Awards All-Around Superstar category. Pictured, clockwise from top left, are Aimee Song of Song of Style, Erica Schuman of Cupcakes and Cashmere, and a snap from the Instagram of Erica Chan Coffman and Lauren Kolodny, the women behind Honestly WTF. They along with Joy Cho of Oh Joy! and Kimberly Pesch of Eat.Sleep.Wear. had such great tweets, pins, Instas and more, that we couldn t just nominate them in one category of our first-ever Social Media Awards! Which is why we need you to vote for your all-around favorite. Check out the nominees now (including links to all of their fabulous feeds) and cast your vote by this Sunday, September 15 at 11:59 p.m. ET, when polls close. Be sure to share your pick on social media using hashtag #InStyleSMAs, and don t be shy all the cool kids are doing it!
Celebrity-loved Parisian designer Vanessa Bruno (Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth are fans) is having a bit of a love affair with America. She just opened her pop-up shop in New York s chic Soho neighborhood, and to mark the special occasion, she also designed a limited-edition sequin bag with an American flag on it. The whole thing has the American flag on it, and we did 50 of them exclusively for the store, Bruno told InStyle.com at the store s grand opening last night. We could have this kind of thing: 50 states in America, 50 bags. Voila! The bags are $249 each, and available exclusively at the pop-up, located at 131 Greene Street (or call 212-228-1085).
Rejoice, Pretty Little Liars fans—it s Tuesday, which means there s a fresh episode of our favorite (and most stylish) teen mystery on tonight! Last week, one of the Liars found out that someone very close to her was a member of the A Team (gasp!). This week, the girls are banding together to help her cope—Shay Mitchell s Emily included. I think in the beginning, Emily was looked at as the weakest link, and now she s showing that she s not, and she s not the one to mess with either, Mitchell told InStyle.com at the Nanette Lepore for jcp L Amour launch party in New York. Why else is she loving season 3? The second half of the season is really about one of the girls breaking down a little more than the others. It s going to be interesting to see her character in a downward spiral after knowing her for the past seasons. Oh, no! Any guesses, ladies? Tune in to ABC Family at 8/7c to find out!
On last night’s Dancing with the Stars, Karina Smirnoff and Corbin Bleu performed an Argentinian Tango to “Welcome to Burlesque,” a sexy violin-driven ballad. The partners were definitely under added pressure—Cher served as guest judge this week, and also performed mega-hit “Believe” and “I Hope You Find It” on the show.
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Like the Calvin Klein aesthetic, even the brand’s cocktail parties are streamlined and elegant—the brand along with the Human Rights Campaign, co-hosted a chic soiree to celebrate the advocacy group’s two-year-old Americans for Marriage Equality program at its Madison Avenue flagship store last night, and many loyal celebrity CK fans stopped by to show their support. “Tonight they lured me upon the issue of marriage equality,” said Uma Thurman, who showed up with daughter Maya Thurman-Hawke. “To me, it’s an absolute no brainer. Hopefully, it will be alleviated soon and everyone will be allowed to marry and divorce equally!” Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka, Andy Cohen, Dan Stevens, and more swung through, grabbed a Champagne flute and a rainbow-hued macaron, and toasted to the cause with Calvin Klein’s creative directors, Francisco Costa (womenswear) and Italo Zucchelli (menswear). “The company has taken upon this cause, and it’s really important to us,” said Costa, shown above with Thurman. “It makes us feel proud.” Go pride! To learn more about the campaign, head over to hrc.org.
Beasts of the Southern Wild’s pint-size Quvenzhané Wallis is getting the superstar treatment in the fashion world—just yesterday she wore a Stella McCartney dress to the Film Independent Spirit Awards, where she was nominated for Best Female Lead. And while the designer duds keep flowing in, there’s one red carpet mainstay that remains—her puppy purse. “I brought one to Utah [for the Sundance Film Festival], and that was the first one I ever brought everywhere,” the nine-year-old told InStyle.com. “Now I’ve started to collect them.” And Benh Zeitlin, the director of the film, loves the animal-friendly statement. “It makes a lot of sense because the first thing she ever told us at the auditions was a story about her dog,” he said. “I like that she’s staying true to herself.” So, does this mean we’ll see one on the Oscars red carpet? “Maybe!” she hinted. It would be an accessory to remember!