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The Shaggy Aggy and Its Imitators

We do not want a "Shaggy Aggy," much in the same way we did not want that bizarre Rachel haircut: in this case, because we are not a six-foot-tall British model named Agyness. We found something about the ... SWFing of her hair, by, among others, Pixie Geldof:

bizarre. We don't get style-biting in general, but why would anyone want to walk around with a haircut that is indisputably someone else's? Why can't Pixie Geldof go and figure out her own exciting haircut. Entitled ingenues! To the creativity, please! The whole thing makes us grumpy.

This Is Why We Are Going To Buy Discount Cosmetics Immediately

Bright red lips! This is the poster for The Edge of Love, with Sienna M. and Keira K. Excited to see in general but feeling very motivated in particular to be all about the make-up. Here's a Keira close-up:

We're sure that's been airbrushed to fuck-all but still. Pretty! We'd like to say, we're not investing in this, but we wouldn't mind scouring the drugstore for something suitable. Like: Boots Botanics in Carmella, $8.99   

Sienna Miller in Elle UK

We used to love magazine's subscriber-only covers, but now we think they're a big cop-out—they're always better, in our opinion, and the newsstand covers are always, like lowest-common denominator. Dare to dream, Elle! That your readers have taste as good as yours is.

Here's the alternate:

And by the way, we're biased but in our opinion neither of these are as good as the Nylon cover:

Tyra Banks on the NY Times Magazine Cover

Meh. Eh. However progressive and female-friendly Tyra surely is, she lost us with ANTM. It's not that we hate the show—which would be like hating .... we can't even think of something similarly inconsequential. But do at least sort of look at Martha and Oprah as women who built empires from nothing, or at least not much. (We're canceling out MS's early modeling career with the jail stint.) Tyra just seems so ... 1994 to us, and we have greater aspirations from America's next top female mogul—though now that we think of it, we might prefer Tyra to anyone else we can think of. Mary-Kate? Ashlee? Pass. We'll take more Ellen DeGeneres, please, even if she seems to exhibit little interest in her own line of self-branded sheets at Macy's. 

Sex and the City Premiere Photos!

Ah, we're haters, but we like the clothes. Clothes in general, rather than those specifically above. We actually really like SJP's Nina Ricci dress here. But whoa, metallics, right? We really don't like Kristen's, or Kim's, and Cynthia's...meh. Yes? No?

Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel

We had such little interest in seeing this movie before we saw this poster. But now. Things are different! Manohla Dargis wrote a brilliant piece on Sunday about how little women have to do in the movies: 

Nobody likes to admit the worst, even when it’s right up there on the screen, particularly women in the industry who clutch at every pitiful short straw, insisting that there are, for instance, more female executives in Hollywood than ever before. As if it’s done the rest of us any good. All you have to do is look at the movies themselves — at the decorative blondes and brunettes smiling and simpering at the edge of the frame — to see just how irrelevant we have become.

This could be awesome. At least Audrey's not stuck being all Da Vinci Code assistant-y \ nominal love interest forever.

 

Alternative: This Week's Discount!

Have we mentioned our love for Ellen DeGeneres lately? This is why: We were watching Oprah, and she was being all terrifying and judge-y, and we just couldn't take one more minute of worrying about things, so we switched on Ellen, and she was dancing and Lupe Fiasco was singing. It was like opening one door to February and the other to May. We choose May! We choose May!

Conveniently, she has been spotted wearing this tee from Alternative—where, incredibly conveniently, we've lined up this week's discount! Twenty percent off: meaning that this tonal stripe tee was $28 but with discount code "bunnyshop" is only $22.40. Hurrah!

Chloe for Uniqlo

We loooove this Chloe Sevigny for Uniqlo ad—we don't write about Uniqlo much, just because there's only one store in the US, in NYC, and they don't do much online. But if you're anywhere near it, we totally recommend it: Their new, limited-edition t-shirts (one of which is worn by CS here) are awesome. (There are some available on eBay.)

When is Big Love back on? (That was rhetorically, but we just checked the HBO website and all it's offering is the sadly vague "new episodes in production" etc.)

Agyness Deyn in iD

We usually hate guest-edited issues—they always seem to be covered in the tearstains of the assistant editors who had to ghostwrite the entire thing—but we loooove the Aggy issue of iD . Because:

1: She writes a letter requesting an interview with the queen, and it is filled with the sort of sentiment we adore

2: She is 26, which we have decided is a reasonable age for a model, because she is so much more like a person and so much less like a clothes rack. We're not complaining about 14-year-olds—we're just saying it gets marginally easier to be yourself in a room full of mean people the older you get (we personally believe) and Aggy, in our opinion, is about nothing so much as being herself.

3: Because the feeling we get from her is not so much that she is beautiful but that she is super-duper alive, and that, we feel, is a quality worth sharing

4: And this photo, which should be taped to the wall of all the non-model, aforementioned 14-year-olds out there. Have we already mentioned our Gossip Girl epiphany from last week? That pretty much everything basically works out? We believe it. Even with braces.

The American Style Icon Contest

Just wondering if you've had a chance to check out our mammoth portfolio of American style icon contenders, sponsored by Ralph Lauren and their lovely new Ralph Wild fragrance?

They're all here.

The American Style Icon Contest

We just want to be sure you've seen our portfolio of finalists for the Bunnyshop American style icon contest, sponsored by Ralph Lauren and their lovely new Ralph Wild fragrance. Can you believe we have sponsors? Us, neither.

Anyhoo: Here it is.

Madonna on Madame Figaro

Can we just say: We haven't been that excited about Madonna since we were 12, and realized we could draw when we like basically traced her face from our True Blue piano songbook onto a piece of notebook paper. And we haven't bought an album by her since—we have no idea. We are pretty sure it was during the George Bush I administration. Anyway, because we are a sentient being, with sight and the power to hear and all that, we noticed that she has a new album out. And we have to say: She's like 50 and—we will just take her before Lindsay or Paris or Kim or any of them, even if she should probably be blamed for their existence.

This is Madge on the cover of Madame Figaro. Now, it's not like there wasn't some airbrushing going on here—they're airbrushing 14-year-0ld Estonian models. But we think she's hot. And we will also say we truly do aspire to her fitness in general and her ashtanga yoga regime in particular. You know, it's so annoying—we used to read about how ashtanga was like this cult thing or whatever, and Madonna was so crazy—this was before we started doing it. It's actually like yoga for dummies,even if it is quite tough, because you do the same exact poses in the same order every time, just adding on as you get stronger. It's not like we're some anti-media screamer, as we pay our rent (generally quite late) thanks to the media, but that is just such a load of bullshit, that ashtanga is a cult.

Er, bizarre yoga lecture over. You know what it is, in general? We're pretty sure she does whatever makes her happy. We're sure she has never gone to the mall in sweatpants and a t-shirt with breadcrumbs on it. (We note that we have breadcrumbs on our sweater right now. This is, like, directed inward.) We will take her over Paris-Lindsay-Kim-Kimberley-etc a million times over, even if she probably is responsible for them.

We're not sure how we feel about the new song, but we hope we look half as good when we're her age. We hope we look half as good now.

Ralph Wild Contest and Reader Mail!

Ooh, we are so mad that stupid Typepad just erased our post. Anyway, in today's Reader Mail:

Dear BS:

I need a new spring style icon. Who's yours?

XO
O.

Well. We held on to this question until it was and actually, until we had a suitable springtime-y contest—which we do! We have one extremely fabulous bottle of Ralph Wild to give away, and we're going to give it to the person who comments the best American style icon—Ralph Lauren, American style icon, you see the connection. We actually sort of love their website because the video footage has images of Route 27 signs, which was our way to the Hamptons before we decided to drop out of society and go to art school. (Oh! Hamptons goodness!) It has "wild strawberries and watermelon," which we're thinking should make it super appropriate for summer, the best of all possible seasons.

To play: Just comment your favorite American style icon by Sunday. Anyone who says Mischa Barton or similar will be disqualified. And of course, there are only so many, so we'll be choosing our winner based on whatever you can say about why you think X should be the official American Bunnyshop Style Icon.

And! Speaking of contests, Facebook people can go here to enter Ralph Wild's contest for a new Vespa.

For now: our vote goes to Grace Kelly. This is totally our look of the summer.

Madonna for Sunsilk

We're totally not sure this makes us want to buy Sunsilk, but this does make us want to buy Madonna albums, and that is a first.

Lindsay Lohan's Sunglasses: Yea or Nay?

In today's Reader Mail:

Dear BS:

I know you said this was all a LiLo-free space, but I'm a little obsessed with these sunglasses. Love them, hate them—I just cannot decide. What do you say?

Love,
S.

Oh! We actually used to really love Lindsay Lohan. Now we think of her sort of in the same way we think of George Bush: like an 'Are you still here?' kind of thing. Anyhoo, we actually really really like that sweater, and we want aviators, but we don't want those.

What does everybody else think?

"Jee Vice Evil Sunglasses", $220

Yew

We didn't want any LV luggage anyway. This, however, seals it.

The American Style Icon Contest Portfolio: Doris Day

And the final entry in our American style icon contest, from la!

I am voting for Doris Day, darn it! I mean—she is adorable, but comes packed with moxie. She's classic, but never took herself too seriously - and she always looked confident and cool riding a bicycle. Did you know she turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate? Maybe in hindsight - not the best career move, but—Go Doris!

Ooh, there is nothing better than moxie. We think of it as a particularly American quality, like British quiet-fortitude (we're sure there is a single word for that, but our brain is too addled to come up with it) and French sophistication. Er, apparently we're fans of the stereotyping here.

Anyway! That's it. Click here for the beginning of the whole thing, and of course, let us know what you're thinking.

The American Style Icon Contest Portfolio: Lauren Bacall

And the next entry (next-to-last, it is) in our American style icon contest:

I can't think of anyone more appropriate than Lauren Bacall. She was (and is) the absolute picture of style and class. She has somehow managed to effortlessly remain as elegant now as she was in the 1940s.

And the final entry is here.

The American Style Icon Contest Portfolio: Sofia Coppola

The next entry in our American style icon contest, from Emily:

Sofia Coppola—yay for women who look like real people, but fabulous.

This, if we remember correctly, is Sofia at a Marc Jacobs party.

We have our issues with Lost in Translation (the ending means nothing! nothing!) but you can't argue with the fashion-cred successes. (We're just jealous.)

Click here for the next entry.

The American Style Icon Contest Portfolio: Shirley MacLaine

And this entry in our American style icon contest, from sylvia:

For me it's a tie between Lauren Bacall and Shirley MacLaine. Namely, Lauren Bacall in "How to Marry a Millionaire" and Shirley Maclaine in "The Apartment/The Trouble with Harry." They're like two sides of the same coin. Bacall has that smoky voice, stunning beauty and posture, and is always coolly aloof, while MacLaine has the adorable round face, short pixie hair and alternates between spunky and moody. But they both exemplify my ideal style: feminine and strong, classic ’60s silhouettes, nothing too garish or revealing. Understated, and never tacky. Total class. Plus they dressed in colors that set off their features, skin and hair; for Bacall it was brilliant whites and reds, for MacLaine it was royal blue and green.

We're going with Shirley MacLaine just because she is sooooo amazing in The Apartment, without a doubt one of our all-time faves.

Click here for the the next entry....

The American Style Icon Contest Portfolio: Amelia Earhart

And the next entry, from Clara:

I vote for Amelia Earhart.I love her lace up boots, simple shirts, bomber jackets...she looks (er, looked) so unique and feminine in all her outfits, and yet she managed to dress practically as well. I am naming my first daughter after her.

Ooh, we love Amelia Earhart. So much better and less husband-steal-y than Beryl Markham!

Click here for the next entry.

The American Style Icon Contest Portfolio: Katharine Hepburn

And the next entry in our American style icon contest, from Lola:

My style icon goes to the OTHER Hepburn...Katherine. Here is what I picture myself in: flowy trousers and a silk tie blouse. Perhaps a wrap dress. And it would be my excuse to finally get some spectator oxfords, which I love. You know Kate would be all over those! I am sure the clothes would bring me into that confidant, sassy attitude. Take no shit this spring - that is where I am going...

And from Mer:

My style icon is and has always been Katherine hepburn and it has come into play in particular this spring.

This spring I am loving wide-legged pants, button down shirts, and 40s hair. I also love her attitude for spring which is very laid back, wear what YOU want, without caring what anyone else thinks of it, and yet look effortless and classy and strong. I feel a special connection to her given that I learned how to act on the same stage that she did in high school!

Click here for the next entry....

 

Oscar Fashion

Ridiculously brief owing to our Grinch-ness, but: We loved this dress from the back—you can see it when she goes to get her award—but really! A bit too much with the fish concept!

And we stand by our position that fishtail dresses are just unflattering. Grumble grumble grumble.

Rachel Bilson in Lucky (and GQ)

So there are like five bazillion things we want to buy in the new Lucky, and we don't really mind Rachel Bilson, but can we just say, that belt looks totally appendage-y? That's weird. We're not sure why they went with this image. But note: purple, spring color of 2008!

If we were Rachel Bilson, we'd be all, "Can everyone just please admire my GQ cover?"

Carla V. Carine

We can't decide: Who will be our French style icon! Carla?

Or Carine?

Really, this is our way of asking ourselves: middle part, or bangs?

The Times of London has a position, in any case. (Hint: "A Supermodel in Need of a Wardrobe.") But we find this so un-juste!

Even in her supermodel heyday, no one found her very interesting. ... Perhaps it’s because, despite the impressive configuration of bones, hair and legs, she looks, as one blogger has noted, like a starving squirrel, a cute but vicious predator.

Pauvre Carla!

Ashton Kutcher for Pepe Jeans

We are torn between saying:

The only thing more annoying than Ashton Kutcher is Ashton Kutcher channeling Pete Doherty.

Or

The only thing more annoying than Pete Doherty is Ashton Kutcher channeling Pete Doherty.

We're perplexed.

Above: this is Ashton Kutcher for spring Pepe Jeans.

MIA for MJ, Plus Our Fave Marc X Dress

We saw this earlier this week in No Good For Me, one of our very very favorite style-music-everything sites, so please, see it there, and we will just say here how awesome and insane she is. Do you know that song "Paper Planes" on Kala? No? ITunes. Investigate. It is totally worth it.

If we were going to buy one thing from MXMJ, it would be this:

Especially with those sweet peep-toes. MXMJ silk dress, $298

We Love Kate Beckinsale But

This is why we don't like the whole tights-and-shorts ensemble. It just all seems very bunchy to us or something.

Can We Just Mention: Emmy Rossum and Her Lovely Dress

We once interviewed Emmy Rossum, and she was so mean to us, we almost hung up the phone. We didn't, because if we had, our boss would have killed us, and it wasn't worth the hassle. Argh. We remember rolling our eyes quite a bit, but it was over the phone, and so possibly the most passive aggressive, and least effective, form of resistance we have ever mustered.

All of this is to say that it pains us to make note of this dress, and how she has managed to pull of that most difficult of skirt lengths: mid-calf. It is the same length as our old Girl Scout uniform, possibly the most attraction-repellant article of clothing ever sewn together.

We looked around for forever (approx: 10 minutes) for a similarly-lengthed dress to mention, and this is the closest we found—different in almost every way to ER's. To be honest, we were prepared to complain about it, but we've seen it on, and on the right (tall) body, it's awesome. Even if it is a little ’80s. We will add here that we had to call PayPal today, to add a credit card to our "funding sources" or whatever, and we were like, "Is it okay if we make a payment now?" And the guy was like, "You have an unlimited payment amount. $10,000." Now, obviously, we are not buying anything worth $10,000 on eBay (or anywhere else), but we laughed and were like, "So 'unlimited' is actually not unlimited, but $10,000?" He didn't laugh. Ugh.

Anyway: Lotta Stevenson jersey dress, was $120, now $72

The whole thing, to be honest, makes us itchy for mini-dresses. Call us crazy, but we're sure with a little DuWop tanner and a good attitude, a mini-dress looks great on more shapes than we might usually think—as long as it fits and isn't psychological-warfared down a size. Above: Seaton's Kiki dress, $310

Sale of the Day: The Angelina-Inspired T-Bars

Angelina in The Changeling. We have no opinion on the celebrity. We do not know the person. We are cautiously pro the look.

These, from Topshop, remind us of those above, more or less, and in our opinion, are key in the sort-of ’40s thing without committing too seriously. Er, we know, they're sort of ugly. But sort of, again, in our opinion, not.

Topshop t-bars, were $240, now $120

Er, Olsen Twin, and More Importantly, Her Sunglasses

Honestly, we're not even sure which one this is, and we are sure we care even less. Hmm. We generally find them, as a unit, to a bit ("bit") purposeless, but today, one of the Olsen twins has deeply affected our lives, because after we saw this picture, we decided that we needed red-framed sunglasses. Previously we have been of the opinion that they were a little too Sally Jessy, if you will, and if we remember correctly, but now we are all up in that. As it were.

Anyhoo! Ksubi sunglasses, $225

A Field Guide to Denim: William Rast

It's our new, weekly look at all the world's denim brands. Because we can't entirely keep them straight. Because there are really just too many of them. It will be short, because life is short, too.

Brand: William Rast
The vibe: Basically identical to every other premium denim line
Sounds vaguely familiar because: Oh, no reason
Celebrities who have worn it: Loads of interchangeable starlets, Justin Timberlake girlfriend Jessica Biel, and Justin Timberlake!
Hmm, wonder why that is? Oh, no reason
"Designer": Justin Timberlake ... and someone else
Sincerely semi-interesting fact: The line is named for Timberlake's and his co-designer's maternal grandfathers. Okay, that is really not that interesting.

Our favorite: William Rast Belle flap-pocket flare jeans, $229

The Diana Concert

We do not understand why princes need to wear backstage passes or whatever around their necks. Honestly we spent a few minutes putting our hand over that brown jacket to try to figure out exactly what it is about Harry that is hot. We would much like to know if anyone has any ideas, or disagrees vehemently.

The Spice Girls Reunion Tour

You know Victoria Beckham is all ... we were going to say something semi-snarky but really we think she is just thinking about what bag she is going to buy next, and little else. Anyway! The Spice Girls reunite. We are so excited for 12 worldwide dates of fashion mania.

We would like to point out that in the 2007 picture at top three of the five are wearing peep-toe heels, Geri is wearing scary [no, er, pun intended] sandals, and Posh is wearing t-bars.

This, by the way, is so our Fourth of July picture!

The 'Go Away, Paris Hilton' Video