I've written about the popularity of 3D Emmy mailers this season. NBC Uni's Universal Media Studios took the 3D Emmy promo trend one, well, a few steps further with the first ever department store-based campaign featuring mannequin displays. Some customers shopping this week at the three Bloomingdales stories in the…

EXCLUSIVE: CW has greenlighed Pain Jane, a new makeover/dating reality series from Big Brother executive producers Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan, which is set to air this summer. British fashion expert Louise Roe will host the series, whose order is expected to be in the 6-8 episode range. Sony Pictures Television…

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that the upstart private equity firm Star Avenue Capital is buying a majority stake in J Brand, a denim apparel brand whose signature lines of skintight jeans are a favorite of celebrities with impossibly small waists and thin thighs. But what’s interesting here is that Star Avenue Capital is a…

This is either a brilliant idea for a new revenue stream… or a really screwy scheme. But I call dibbs on the serial-killer sweatshirts. Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media just announced it’s developing a “lifestyle brand” out of its newly acquired Rogue Pictures specializing in low-budget genre films. “In the effort to…

It was announced today that everyone’s favorite fashionista Tim Gunn from Project Runway will host interviews and commentary about Red Carpet fashions during guest arrivals for the 5 PM Oscar pre-show. So I thank the Academy for finally giving us someone who knows what he’s talking about and not just another addled…

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I give TV and movie fans a lot of credit: when they get mad, they scare the crap out of the moguls. That’s happening at Lionsgate where the studio’s phones and email accounts are jammed with angry fans for the past week. They’re making a stink because new Lionsgate topper Joe Drake appears to be dumping all of ex-prez…

  Vanity Fair magazine has created a Blogopticon which charts the tone and content of what it considers “the most influential or amusing blogs” vying for the attention of the world's billion-plus Web surfers. The sites are categorized along four attributes: “news” vs “opinion”, “earnest” vs “scurrilous”, and…

The French fashion giant had a long love affair with film, including his biggest fan Catherine Deneuve whom he called his “muse”. YSL dressed her for the films Belle De Jour (1967), La Chamade (1968), La Sirène du Mississipi (1969), Un Flic (1972), Liza (1972), and The Hunger (1983). He also was the costume designer…

Accusations are flying from NBC Universal that The Weinstein Co lied to Jeff Zucker and engaged in “deception” and “sham negotiations” over Project Runway. This is turning into a major showbiz feud — especially after Harvey Weinstein personally assured Jeff Zucker, “I will not embarrass you”. See UPDATE below: Given…

From what I’ve seen, one of the only industries worse than the movie industry has to be the fashion industry. So now Women’s Wear Daily looks at how Hollywood entertainment moguls are buying fashion companies. “Recent transactions include Harvey Weinstein’s acquisition of Hal­ston, backed by Hilco Consumer Capital…

Since his girlfriend Georgina Chapman fancies herself a designer, Harvey Weinstein out of the blue just announced plans to buy up the ex-iconic dress label Halston. Surely, you remember all those Studio 54 jersey knit disco dresses from the ’60s and ’70s that resisted stains from spilled scotch or cocaine…