Fendi - fall 2010 rtw collection (my favorite looks)

The Row's perfectly aged selvedge jeans

Before the advent of skinnies, "boyfriends" and stretch boot-cut denim, jeans were a simple affair.

Now, it seems, the pendulum is swinging back toward the classic: Straight-legged styles, with a casual, not constricting fit, look right again. Leave it to designers-slash-fashion icons Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of The Row to turn out a must-have pair. Made in L.A., their selvedge jeans are expertly faded, with just the slightest slouch—like your favorite old 501s, but cut for women. Would you expect anything else from the sisters behind all those perfect T-shirts?

The Row Ashland jeans, $400, available at Barneys New York, (212) 826-8900, www.barneys.com.

Tommy Ton's Paris snaps

Louis Vuitton's L. A. roof party

Rodeo Drive has long captured the world's imagination as a palm tree-lined Valhalla where the Beautiful People go to buy beautiful things. So it's no surprise that the cocktail party that Vanity Fair hosted last night at the Louis Vuitton boutique there to benefit the Oceana foundation attracted a swarm of star-struck onlookers, craning their necks to steal a glimpse of the Hollywood celebrity in its supposed natural habitat. Several stories up, said celebrities (including Christina Ricci, Rashida Jones, and party co-host January Jones) enjoyed the cool breezes of the rooftop terrace while being attended to by a distractingly good-looking fleet of cater waiters. "I actually never come to Rodeo Drive," said Kristen Bell, as a hunk bearing crab cakes squeezed by. "There are too many paparazzi around. I get really intimidated when I have an audience while I'm shopping. I imagine them being like, 'Oh, why did she buy that? It is so not cute.' "

With many of the actresses in attendance clad in Louis Vuitton, Brittany Snow joked that she felt a bit left out. "Apparently, I didn't get the memo," she said, pointing to her Phi top. January Jones, who did receive the memo and looked fetching in a pair of natty Louis Vuitton trousers and a matching navy top, held court in a corner of the terrace, relaxing and chitchatting with friends. It was a surprising sight for those more accustomed to seeing the actress as the tightly wound 1960's housewife Betty Draper on Mad Men. In fact, the only time Jones clammed up was when asked (read: begged) for spoilers about the show's hotly anticipated fourth season, which premieres on July 25. "All I can say is it's going to be good," she demurred. "I mean, I don't want to lose my job!"

— Evelyn Crowley

I ♥ Carly

Beauty icon : father / daughter

 
 

Lionel and Nicole Richie
Genetics don't count for everything in father-daughter relationships. Lionel Richie assumed guardianship of Nicole Camille Escovedo shortly after she was born, and legally adopted her when she was 9 years old.

















Paul and Stella McCartney
Stella McCartney channeled her family's creative impulses into fashion. Her father, Beatle Paul McCartney, encouraged those aspirations, hooking Stella up with an internship at his Savile Row tailor when she was at university, and penning the song "Stella May Day" for her graduate fashion show at London's Central Saint Martins. She got by with a little help from her friends, too: Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell modeled in the show, for free. Of course, all that early faith paid off as Stella went on to prove she has two things that seem to elude most celebrity spawn: talent and staying power.



 

Donald and Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump made a rather more graceful entrée into the family biz. After graduating from the Wharton School of Business, Ivanka joined the Trump Organization as its executive vice president of development and acquisitions. She also seconds her dad on The Apprentice, where she's proven a poised and levelheaded counterpoint to her legendarily loudmouthed pop.










  
 

Sting and Coco Sumner
Many musician daughters have taken their own crack at the microphone. Erstwhile model Coco Sumner, daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler, heads up the band I Blame Coco, whose debut album comes out this year. Not that the 19-year-old wants to be known only as Sting's kid: One of her early songs, called "My Name Is a Stain," includes the lyrics, "Forget my dad, you need to hear my band."

Lenny and Zoë Kravitz
Daughters do bring out the sentimental in their paterfamilias. Take Lenny Kravitz, for example. When his ex-wife, Lisa Bonet, gave birth to the couple's only child, Kravitz wrote "Flowers for Zoë" for his baby daughter. The song goes: "Flowers for Zoë, love for Zoë, angels and rainbows, all kinds of things you can call your own…" Awww.

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