15. The Jours Après Lunes lingerie line for children:
When we broke the news about a French lingerie brand dedicated to children—complete with a highly sexualized and inappropriate lookbook starring said children—the media was thrown into a frenzy. The images of four-year-olds posing in bras and panties took the question of the year—how young is too young?—to a whole new level.
With its colorful zig-zags, Missoni is easily one of the most recognizable brand names in the world, as well as one of the most expensive. So, when the label announced that it would design a 400-piece collection for Target, the world rejoiced. The demand for the products was so great that shoppers crashed the Target site almost immediately after the collaboration was put up for sale in September, and the retailer ultimately oversold its stock. Needless to say, customers were furious despite Target’s many attempts at doing damage control. This, paired with the appearance of $31,000 rainboots from the collection on eBay, all adds up to the biggest retail fail of 2011.
2011 was the year of the Kanye West fashion rumors. First, he was going to enroll in the prestigious masters program at Central Saint Martins in London. Next, there were whispers of the rapper showing a Spring 2012 collection at New York Fashion Week with the help of Louise Wilson. And then came the talk of Raf Simons leaving Jil Sander to join forces with West on his new endeavor. After all of the speculation, what actually came about was an exclusive runway show in Paris, and one of the most critically slammed collectionssince Lindsay Lohan’s stint at Ungaro. Although every editor and buyer of importance was in attendance, the ill-fitting clothing and the collection’s lack of focus far overshadowed West’s star power.
The 14-year-old True Grit star has not only earned some serious critical acclaim on account of her acting chops, but on her sense of style as well. It all started back in January when she wore a striped Prada dress from the label’s Spring 2011 collection to the SAG Awards, and it wasn’t long before she was sitting front row at Fashion Week, coveringLOVE magazine, and signing on as the Fall 2011 face of Miu Miu. We’ll admit, her ads weren’t particularly exciting, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t catch some flack. First, people were upset that a young girl was dressed in a manner suited for a much older woman, and in November, the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency banned one of the “irresponsible” ads that features Hailee sitting on an abandoned railroad track. Did Hailee let that drama get her down? No way—she just took a little trip to Disneyland with her BFF Tavi.
19. Komplete Kardashian overload:
A day could not go by in 2011 without some sort ofKardashian coverage, and come to think of it, it seemed like every new product released this year had these ladies hacking it. Due to their less-than-stellar taste level, they stayed relatively far removed from the fashion heavy hitters—until recently. In the last 12 months, they’ve knocked off designer bags for their Kardashian Kollection at Sears, made false claims about the Skechers line of “Shape-ups” shoes, created a media frenzy around Kim’s Vera Wang wedding dress, and tried to preen their half sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner for the cutthroat world of runway modeling. Our parting message to the Kardashians as 2011 comes to a close? Kut the krap.
What better way to end a year than to have an all-out war between all of the major Fashion Week cities? Long story short, New York Fashion Week planned to push back a week so that design teams wouldn’t have to work on Labor Day, and Milan subsequently scheduled their fashion week so thatit would clash with London and New York. Obviously, this is a huge problem, and it didn’t take long before things started getting really catty. Stubborn Milan wanted to announce its own dates—”let the best Fashion Week win,” they said—which led Condé Nast International chairman Jonathan Newhouse to announce that every international Vogue editor would boycott the Milan shows if they moved earlier. Eventually, Milan caved—with a few conditions, mind you—but we’re guessing this situation will probably continue to rear its ugly head sometime in 2012. Here’s to the new year!
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