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Fashion Week – the Video Game?

gameGot a crazy press release last night that I might not believed had it not come from IMG, which puts on NY Fashion Week: Get ready for Fashion Week Live, the video game, due out in 2010. IMG has teamed up with 505 Games, makeup artist Pat McGrath and “fashion insider” Noel Gordon (who is Noel Gordon?) to create a video game based on the increasingly-unreal Fashion Week. It will feature “world-class industry gurus, top models and the star-studded runways of Fashion Week events worldwide.”

This raises several questions. Who exactly is the audience, if actual fashion insiders would sooner die of shame than admit to playing Guitar Hero? Also, this group hasn’t exactly been noted for its, er, technical prowess. (Remember those long silences before a show starts as someone figures out how to work the stereo.) So is it for the audience of teenage girls that tries to sneak into the Project Runway show during Fashion Week?

There are no details yet, but here are some suggestions for the structure of the game:

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'80s Fashion: Top 10 Most Influential Movies and TV

Cyndi-Lauper-80sWord of a new “Gossip Girl” spinoff set in the ’80s had us doing some research. There were a gazillion movies – especially teen movies – in the ’80s, but which of them made a true impact on the way people dressed? After the jump, a rundown of the most influential ’80s movies, TV, and music videos from the time – because power suits and rubber bracelets had to come from somewhere.

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"Gossip Girl" Spinoff Focuses on '80s Fashion

Brittany Snow and Krysten Ritter

Excellent news today: “Gossip Girl” executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are creating a spinoff show based in the ’80s, premiering this fall. The TV series will focus on the misadventures of a teenage Lily van der Woodsen (played by Brittany Snow) in ’80s NYC and LA, where she’s a preppy Blair Warner type with a naughty older sister (Krysten Ritter) whose style is more Desperately Seeking Susan.

With Los Angeles-based Meredith Markworth-Pollack working magic as the costume designer, the as-yet-untitled spinoff (more…)

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