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Gwen Stefani Fashion Designs Inspired By Husband’s Style

Gwen Stefani takes inspiration from her husband’s clothes when designing for her fashion label.

The singer’s collections for L.A.M.B. have been a critical and commercial success, and she loves coming up with ideas for new lines. Gwen is married to musician Gavin Rossdale, who she has two kids with. She loves his rock’n’roll sense of style, and says his look often makes it into her collections.

“We just do our own thing, and it always seems to work. He has such great style,” she told The July issue of British magazine InStyle. “I get ideas from a lot of his clothes for the women’s clothing line because I like that kind of mixture. I use a lot of stuff in his closet. I’ll be like, ‘Ooh, we should do a girl version of this!’”

Gavin also impacts another area of Gwen’s life. She is renowned for her polished appearance and dedication to make-up, and has revealed she always wears red lipstick because that is what Gavin likes.

“I wear it all the time. I wear pink, I wear gloss, I wear everything, but my husband prefers when I wear red. I want him to like me still!” she explained. “I remember the first time I wore dark red lipstick. I was maybe 18, and I can remember the moment I put it on — in my Honda Prelude that I bought for like, $3,000 — and looking in the mirror going, ‘Good, I like that.’ Never again did I stop wearing it.”

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Beauty Insider: Gwen Stefani

Beauty Insider: Gwen Stefani
The star reflects on her trademark style and reveals what makeup she can’t live without

Fresh off a No Doubt reunion tour and the spring show of her fashion line, L.A.M.B., Gwen Stefani touched down in New York recently to introduce the latest iteration of her Harajuku Girls fragrance franchise (this time, the fab five are reimagined as tanned, bikiniclad Sunshine Cuties). An inspiring blend of superstar and supermom, Stefani was in full regalia—sharp brows, pink-painted lips, gobs of gold jewelry—while Zuma, her faux-hawked one-year-old (“my bunny,” Gwen cooed), attempted a sweet escape from her lap.

Fans love that your look wasn’t dreamed up by some music exec. It’s authentic.
No Doubt was together for nine years before we even got on the radio, and I’ve looked pretty much the same since the beginning. In one of the first interviews I ever did, I’m sitting on the floor, gluing together this jailbird costume—basically the same one I wore two years ago in the “Sweet Escape” video. I still use the same references: old Hollywood– Marilyn, chola girls, Anaheim girls, English schoolgirls, and Japanese Harajuku.

You seem to have an abiding love affair with Japan.
Whatever trend is happening there, it’s everywhere—like, oh my God, lots of zippers! I look at millions of Japanese magazines, and my design associate goes there on inspiration trips. I’ll be in bed at 11 p.m. and she’s sending me pictures: “Want this $350 fleece motorcycle jacket for [son] Kingston?” I’m like, “Yes, he definitely needs a $350 motorcycle jacket—not.”

Was the makeup at your spring runway show inspired by your own look?
I’ve basically done the same makeup since ninth grade: eyeliner, a strong brow, not much eye shadow, and red lips. For the show, we did the big, thick liner I’ve always done, but in pop colors: red, blue, and
yellow. I thought it was going to look tough, but under the lights, it was soft, pretty.

What’s the secret to doing your own makeup on tour?
Sweatproofing. I don’t know how many calories I must burn every night. I’m dying up there! You can get waterproof stuff at the beauty supply, but it’s mainly about layering. And double lashes: I stick two rows of false lashes together. Luckily on this tour, I had a little break to go backstage and re-spackle.

Do you ever leave the house without makeup?
I’m not in full-on makeup every day, but my husband and I just had our seventh anniversary—he makes an effort for me, I make an effort for him. It doesn’t take me very long. I’m fast!

Well, you have professional experience, right?
When I was 20, I worked in a department store—basically a mature women’s shop with, like, polyester slacks. The clothes were horrible, but I really enjoyed helping women pick outfits. Later, I graduated
to be one of the stuck-up girls at the makeup counter, which was a big deal. I never thought I’d get there [laughs]. I got to smell all the fragrances and be with all the pretty girls and intimidate everybody. Well, I didn’t, but they did.

Where are you headed next?
Back into the studio for a new No Doubt album…I hope. I’ve had writer’s block for a while, maybe because I was too homebound. How was I supposed to be modern when I was sitting there with this postpregnancy body, in the house, banging my head against the wall? On tour, I freed that all up and got inspired.

From Elle.com

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Gwen Featured on new Fishbone Documentary

According to Spinner, Gwen is going to be one of the celebrities interviewed on an upcoming documentary about legendary Southern California band, Fishbone.

The film is called “Everyday Sunshine” and is due out this spring.

What do Chuck D, George Clinton and Tim Robbins have in common? The same thing that would keep Flea, Gwen Stefani and Ice-T engaged in conversation, were the three ever to find themselves trapped in an elevator: Fishbone, the long-running California band that’s the subject of a new documentary due out this spring.

The film, ‘Everyday Sunshine,’ will feature interviews with all of the aforementioned stars, as well as a handful of other famous fans. Laurence Fishburne — selected, one hopes, not just because his last name sounds a bit like Fishbone — provides narration.

“When I was a kid, I liked their stuff, and I always figured if I was going to do a music documentary, it would be Fishbone,” director Lev Anderson tells Spinner. He says the film will likely debut at SXSW in March and then see wider release later this year.

The film traces the band’s entire 30-year history, telling the story of six kids from South Central Los Angeles that dared to mix ska, punk, funk, metal, hip-hop and virtually any other genre they could think of, creating a sound no one had heard before. The final scenes focus on singer Angelo Moore and bassist John Norwood Fisher, the only two original members still part of the band. In addition to celebrity interviews, ‘Everyday Sunshine’ will include rare live footage from throughout the band’s run.

“We’ve got one show that must be before they signed to Columbia, 1984, maybe,” Anderson says. “There’s a lot of footage we’ve gotten from fans of Fishbone that have shot stuff, [plus] great Fishbone shows in ’87 that were on public TV, one in Minneapolis, one in St. Louis.”

Anderson says the diverse list of luminaries he was able to interview for the project proves what a unique group Fishbone was and continues to be.

“All of these people you can bring in, and I don’t think you can do that for too many other bands,” he says.

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Gwen on Nylon TV Interview

Hanging with the Hollaback Girl backstage at her L.A.M.B. fashion show!

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Because the Night Belongs to Rock Goddesses

Gwen Stefani came to her LAMB after-party without her flashiest accessory—18-month-old son Zuma, who’d been with her at her show earlier that day at Milk Studios in a matching leather jacket. She had her hands full without him, though—the cocktail hour at Milk’s eighth-floor Surf Lodge Outpost was as much a receiving line as anything, with publicists and security guards telling photographers to cool their jets and let people like Estée Lauder’s John Demsey in for a chat.

“It was a challenging couple days with the blizzard, Chinese New Year, Federal Express, child with an earache,” Stefani told us. “But I feel like all that stuff brought on a lot of creativity. We came up with a lot of looks that we wouldn’t have thought of without the pressure.” The show must go on, right? “It crossed my mind that we didn’t have all our looks, but I didn’t think about canceling,” she said, adding that she’d managed to get to bed around 1:30 the night before her presentation. She seemed intent on setting an earlier curfew this night and was long gone by the time Josh Hartnett came by and got a kitchen tour from Surf Lodge chef Sam Talbot.

Also party-hosting within the multi-space Milk location were LnA’s Lauren Alexander and April Leight. The L.A.-based designers celebrated their first-ever New York show with a crowd that included Heidi Mount, Ally Hilfiger, and Genevieve Jones. Late night, the suddenly ubiquitous Patti Smith took the stage for a set that included crowd favorite “Because the Night” and a song she dedicated to Alexander McQueen. She left the crowd with this: “If we have lost loved ones, the best way to cope is to celebrate life.”

From Style.com

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