THE LOOK : Ashley Greene on Fashion and Twilight

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Robert Pattinson Really, Really Likes Gucci Suits

In case you didn't already know, Robert Pattinson loves Gucci. He's been sporting their suits in real life AND on the big screen (see: Cosmopolis) for as long as we can remember, but in the most recent edition of British GQ, we found out juuuuust how far his love affair with Gucci goes (Spoiler alert: It's far). He told the mag he has Gucci's creative directorFrida Giannini's number basically on speed dial. "The amount of times I've been stuck in some random city and have called her up and had things brought in at absolutely the last minute—it's crazy," he said. "But also all this stuff is custom-made. You can do quite crazy things [with color] if you have incredibly classic, really well-made suits. I guess I've been quite boring for a while. I used to be more interesting with them. Now I always just request things two days before: 'Can you send 25 suits?' I don't even know what I want to wear!" I'm sorry, did he say TWENTY. FIVE. suits? Yep.

From solid charcoal gray to burgundy to navy and purple plaid, we have spotted MANY a Gucci suit on RPattz thanks to numerous (that's an understatement) Twilight premieres, and speaking of which— did y'all know IT'S EDWARD CULLEN'S BIRTHDAY?! *throws confetti into air* He would be 111 today (not like anyone's counting...), thanks to being turned into vampire when he was 17 years old.

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GLAMOUR's Best Dressed Men 2012

6. Taylor Lautner
1. Robert Pattinson
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GLAMOUR's Best Dressed Women 2012

50. Ashley Greene 
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38. Reese Witherspoon
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5. Florence Welch
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1. Kristen Stewart
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GLAMOUR says: "Whether she’s working bodycon Monique Lhuillier on the red carpet, or dressing down in jeans and a T-shirt, Kristen is always effortlessly on-trend. Her evolution from awkward teen to style queen has made the Twilight star a fashion icon every girl can relate to." 
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Kristen at Balenciaga Fashion Show Paris

THE OFFICE: Foggy weather muddled the view from the 27th floor of a Paris office tower, where Balenciaga staged its fall-winter fashion show. But “Twilight” actress Kristen Stewart— among the VIP guests — shrugged it off. “My horizon is very clear,” she enthused, noting she’s taking a break from shooting after wrapping several films, including Walter Salles’ “On the Road.” “I have five days off,” she said. “I know a lot of people here now. I’m probably going to hang out with my boys from ‘On the Road.’”

Charlotte Gainsbourg, who like Stewart fronts perfume ads for Balenciaga, said she would soon embark on a mini concert tour. “I’m hoping to start in May, a few dates and festivals,” she said. This fall, she’s due to start on Lars von Trier’s next motion picture.

French actor Pascal Greggory said his next movie, “Bye Bye Blondie,” is set to open in France on March 23. He stars oppositeEmmanuelle Béart as a writer with that dreaded malady: writer’s block. He’s also due to tread the boards at The Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe in Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming,” along with Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel.

Flashbulbs went off at the sight of Salma Hayek in a short rust-colored dress and cats-eye sunglasses. She was flanked by her husband, PPR honcho Francois-Henri Pinault, and his father Francois, who is rarely seen in fashion’s front rows. “Normally, I’m backstage,” he explained.
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Ashley Greene tells us about being the New Face of Donna Karan at New York Fashion Week

It would be enough for most girls, I would imagine, to be a beautiful, young Hollywood star working with the not-exactly-hideous Robert Pattinson in the world’s biggest movie franchise. It would drive most girls wild to also date the likes of Chace Crawford, Joe Jonas and Kings of Leon’s Jared Followill. But that’s not enough for Twilight star Ashley Greene, who has recently become the face of DKNY and DKNY Jeans and, earlier this week, attended both the Donna Karan New York and DKNY shows at New York Fashion Week, where we caught up with her to discuss this collaboration with one of American fashion’s biggest names.

'I first met Donna at her Spring 2010 Fashion Week show,' said Ashley. 'Soon after, she designed a stunning, one of a kind gown for me for the MET Ball.' The dress – a strapless, bisque-coloured tulle gown embroidered with stripes of platinum sequins – was a bit of a showstopper. 'It was out of this world,' Greene told me. 'I felt like a princess. So when they approached me about being the spokesperson of DKNY and DKNY Jeans, it was a very organic fit.'

Greene – who began her career as a model before turning to acting – was impressed when she saw the results of the campaign, shot by photographers Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. 'Ironically, two of my favourite shots were the ones that ended up on the Times Square Billboard,' she said of the two black and white DKNY Jeans photographs which she previously unveiled in New York. 'Those were the first images revealed from the campaign, and my first time on a billboard in Times Square, so it was an exciting day!'

Outside of her collaboration with the DKNY brand, Greene is busy racking up more acting credits on film and television - she stars alongside Olivia Wilde in the upcoming movie, Butter and was most recently seen locking lips with Christina Ricci in her role as Amanda Mason on TV’s sixties-set Pan Am. The job allowed Ashley to indulge the retro side of her style. 'I’ve always loved the fashion from that era,' she said. 'It made it easy to get into the character of Amanda. Once you’re in the wardrobe, hair and makeup, you’re immediately transported back to the Sixties.'

Fear not, she’ll transport herself back to 2012 in time for the Met Ball. The dress? Who else but her new boss, Donna Karan? Can’t. Wait.

by Nick Barron

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Kristen's Clothes: SWATH Set Visit with Colleen Atwood

Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (she’s designed for Sleepy Hollow, Mission Impossible III, Sweeney Todd, and won Oscars for Alice in Wonderland, Memoirs of a Geisha and Chicago) designed and her shop created the leathers, armor and fairy tale dresses for Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and very evilly-regal queen Charlize Theron for SWATH.

While the film was still shooting, we were lucky enough to tour Colleen’s costume workshops at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. and see some of the most amazing movie clothes ever; some finished, some in progress and some still in design stages. Wow!  Colleen herself guided us through her very special world.

TeenHollywood: How many looks does each character have in the movie?

Colleen: Charlize has about 15 different variations and Kristen has about five or six but variations within that.  Chris [Hemsworth] has basically three looks but it’s all good [we agree and laugh]. He has leather pants which he wears rather well.

Sam Claflin has two or three. The guys have less but more stages.  By the end we will have made about 2,000 costumes for the movie by the time we’re done with all the extras.

Let’s set the scene for you: There are sketches of all the principal actors’ costumes on the walls with rich fabric swatches attached.. bolts and bolts of glorious, rich fabrics are strewn over work tables. Ah ha! DMF is on a door here and there; the code for the film “Dark Mirror Films”.. Well,Star Wars was once called Blue Harvest to insure security so why not?

We’re guided to Kristen’s costume trailer; We’re surrounded by blues, greens and browns. Some costumes have the puffy, classic Snow White sleeves but with a chain mail skirt.

Colleen tells us that some of the textiles and textures of the fabric would translate into our era and “look cool with jeans”.  We look at pretty leather colors, some with fake fur. We see Kristen’s jacket, sword belt and leather pants and part of her armor.  This is her flexible stunt armor. She has a couple of other girlie dresses too and a coronation dress.

“This is Snow White’s under armor jacket but it’s a cute little piece”, Colleen shares. “Kristen said ‘Oh, I’d wear that!’ This is another dress that Kristen wears at the end. It’s really a simple little dress, very peasant and appropriate for the scene. Nothing like these. That’s for sure. This is a work in progress”. Colleen shows us a crazy beetle wing sleeve.

“The final dress is a chainmail and leather dress that Kristen wears. This is a robe that has been hand embroidered for Charlize. She has a great presence as an actor. You put a costume like that on somebody who really knows how to wear it and it becomes really strong and kind of special”.

TeenHollywood: Does Kristen also make a transformation when she puts these costumes on?

Colleen: Yes, for sure. But it’s a softer version than when Charlize puts hers on, Especially the armor. We’re working on Sam Claflin’s shoes that he’s going to wear with his armor and spiffing those up a little.

TeenHollywood: The look of Snow White is so iconic (i.e. the Disney puffy sleeves). Was that a reference or are you avoiding that?

Colleen: The only thing is the puffed sleeve is sort of reflected in Kristin’s costume but that’s about it. She’s a totally different kind of character. Less “princessy” and more a bad a** kind of girl and hers is leather and has clamps and different kind of stitching on it.

TeenHollywood: If an actor has an idea for their costume, do you listen?

Colleen: Yeah. It’s a collaboration. They have to feel the character and wear the clothes. Most actors don’t dictate what they want to wear at all. They’re quite excited when they see the stuff. They interpret it through their things and have ideas for that so it’s a real collaboration.

TeenHollywood: Was it that way with Kristen?

Colleen: Yeah but she really didn’t say anything. I showed her the stuff and she was really into it. She loved the armor and the other bits that she has. She’s not really that obsessed with clothes at this point in her career. She’s young and free from that sort of obsession. In her work previous, she hasn’t worn those kinds of presentational costumes so it’s kind of new for her. She’s still having fun with it I think.

TeenHollywood: What is the armor made out of so it isn’t really heavy?

Colleen: The armor is made out of urethane materials then plated with metal so they look like metal, as in Snow White’s armor.

We move on to another workshop

TeenHollywood: Charlize looks so regal in the film, yet very fantasy-like.

Colleen: Charlize transfers between human and animal thing. It’s going to get shredded away. Two costumes will be nice and two destroyed. This is her wedding dress. This is made with leather and fabric I found in France and it has a beautiful big skirt that goes with it. It has a skeletal collar that goes on it and it’s detachable.

TeenHollywood: Do you make a lot of copies of the same costume?

Colleen: In this case I have six of everything because they go through a lot of climate changes in the story so I have different stages of breakdown and then we have real dwarves and larger people so we have a costume scaled down and also regular size.

TeenHollywood: What were the challenges in costuming Alice in Wonderland and this one?

Colleen: There are similar challenges. The visual effects challenges are really different because, in this one, we had to make people that were two different sizes the same scale whereas in “Alice”, we played with body parts scaling up such as the queen’s head. So similar challenges but different with the visual effects side of it. They are both creating fantasy worlds based in different tales although Grimm and Louis Caroll are pretty different.

TeenHollywood: Did you design the coat of arms?

Colleen: No. The Art Director. These are early sketches for Charlize’s costumes, taking ideas and shapes and silhouettes and we start spinning them out and making clothes out of them. It takes about a hundred man hours to make a costume.

TeenHollywood: Do you work with the production designer to follow a certain color palate?

Colleen: We work together. I see the color of the walls in the castle, what tones they are but it’s not like we’re together in a huddle. You get an overview then go off and get your materials. I always do a palate for the whole film with my designs and pull it together that way.

We pass by some really gorgeous long dresses.

Colleen: I have a coronation scene there will be 200 people dressed to the nines and that’s the idea of what they’ll be wearing. The dress behind it is for the actress in a flashback scene. It’s more peasanty. I have a lot of that shape in the movie too.

TeenHollywood: What do you do with these when you’re done filming?

Colleen: Universal owns them and they keep them for displays and sometimes, after a few years, they go into rental stock. They wouldn’t like it if I took it home.

TeenHollywood: The actors can’t take it home either?

Colleen: If they have it in their deal they can but, hey, after they’ve worn it through a whole movie they don’t really want it anymore unless it's a memento.

TeenHollywood: I’d want everything! This stuff rocks!

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Fashion Week: The Ten Best and Worst Moments!

Kick off those Louboutins and slip out of your Spanx, because New York's Fall 2012 Fashion Week is almost over.

And we covered it, from the tiniest tumble to the biggest baby bump.

There was so much going on, too. From Lindsay Lohan's dramatic new look and Victoria Beckham's adorable accessory and a shocking death in the front row, Fashion Week Fall 2012 was packed with big moments.

So let's take a look back at the best, worst and weirdest of the week at Lincoln Center...

1. Vampire Chic: Twilight's Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz were ubiquitous throughout the week, sitting front row at countless shows—including Donna Karan, Lacoste and Joseph Abboud, to name a few—and hitting up the afterparties. Also omnipresent? Degrassi alums Nina Dobrev and Shenae Grimes.

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Ashley at Fashion Week

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