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Belstaff and BlackBook Films paired up on Monday eve to toast their Women in New York editorial series, complete with a…

Cosmopolitan is ramping up its fitness presence, though you’ll have to pay to partake: Today, CosmoBody debuted, featuring streaming on-demand workout…

Dr. Oz The Good Life gained a new chief edit commander last month when Jill Herzig, Redbook‘s EIC, took on…

Cherry Bombe’s gorgeous biannual mag celebrating women in food launched just one year ago, with ample fashion cred: its first cover star was Karlie Kloss, and its co-founders are Coach PR alum and restaurateur Kerry Diamond, the mag’s editor-in-chief, and creative director Claudia Wu, who’s got her own creative agency (the duo also first crossed paths at Harper’s Bazaar once upon a time). The beautifully designed title wasted no time in getting off the page and IRL, thanks to their inaugural Cherry Bombe Jubilee, an all-day conference held in the High LIne Hotel. The former seminary’s dazzling Refectory played host to an overwhelmingly female crowd (testosterone was in short supply; your Daily spotted less than 10 blokes on the premises), which braved the windy mess of rain outside to soak up eight or so hours of knockout panels, inspiring speeches, and fascinating one-on-one discourses with a hit list of female chefs, academics, entrepreneurs, and editors.

Giorgio Armani: Giorgio Armani knows what his women want. He knows that a society dame will need a great gala dress and a career woman will need a good sophisticated pantsuit. The latter this season came in shades of mostly grey flannel. If that sounds a bit drab, they were anything but dull. The first look came as a single lapel jacket over cropped slouchy trousers in a darker shade of grey. It was cool, while maintaining a sense of safe sophistication. Outerwear also came in grey hues like a simple and chic gradient coat and in a long overcoat with a single lime button. Lime gave a burst of color to the second half of the collection like surprisingly youthful pair of cropped slouchy pants worn with a short black woven jacket and patent combat boots. For evening, as you would suspect, there were plenty of looks that will be red carpet ready by next weekend. Since Cate Blanchett will probably go for one of Armani’s archival pieces, we have to imagine a PYT like Lupita Nyong’o would look stunning in a lime green beaded gown with a deep-v. A black and green strapless dress with lines that fell like confetti was a wearable, but statement making and one-shouldered black floor-length number with a sash on beaded pale lime green was stunning. Armani consistently turns out collections of clothing that women want to wear. Sure, it may not look as trend-inspiring as other collections on the runways, but there’s a reason this man is a billionaire.

Fashion site Keaton Row thinks an army of stylists can reinvent e-commerce, one killer outfit at a time. From the sound of it, they’re on their way.
BY DENA SILVER

The most-talked about launch of the season isn’t coming out of Hearst or Condé, it’s Porter, mega e-tailer Net-a-Porter’s expensive plunge into offline edit. The mag also marks ex-Harper’s Bazaar UK editrix Lucy Yeomans’ return to print.
BY ALEXANDRA ILYASHOV

It’s been quite a busy year for shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood, most recently thanks to LVMH snapping up a majority stake of the designer’s label last month. So when The Dailycaught up with him in a gallery space on Paris’ Rue de Vauvilliers we weren’t surprised to hear that the Brit’s new collection was based on a far-off locale like Morocco. Dreaming of vacation much? What ensued was an inspiring mix of neon raffia flats, wedges, and heels. Plus, a little bit of Seventies inspiration, zig zag lightning bolt designs, and lacy stilettos.
BY PAIGE REDDINGER

Attention, documentary aficionados: last night, The Cinema Society premiered HBO’s Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer. Directors Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin worked alongside a slew of celebrity guests to take in the film’s extraordinary and inspiring account. Need a brief recap? The Sundance-praised film tells the unbelievable story of young women seeking change to benefit their country through acts of performance art in Russia. In fact, according to Pozdorovkin, expect big things historically: “It is going to go down in history as the most famous controversial piece of performance art”.

To borrow Gloria Steinem’s all-time favorite word, Glamour’s “These Girls” event made for a “fan-f*cking-tastic” night! An awe-inspiring team of today’s most talented and funny women gathered last night at Joe’s Pub to deliver a series of monologues that were balls-out honest, gut wrenchingly funny, and, at times, even tearfully emotional. This time (the last “These Girls” went down back in October) Dianna Agron, Alexa Chung, Zosia Mamet, Lucy Punch, Emma Roberts, and Amy Schumer got in monologue mode, and Steinem and Amy Pohler were the evening’s special guests.