In the inestimable words of Cathy Horyn, "It's been a weird year for fashion, hasn't it?" Indeed, Ms. Horyn, it has. Luckily dozens of blogs have stepped to the fore, compiling best-of lists, counting down the worst and wildest of the year, and putting everything into, what we in the news biz call "perspective". Enjoy.
Karlie Kloss beats out Iris Strubegger as Confessions of a Casting Director's face of the year. (COACD)
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The Daily Beast starts us off with a serviceable rundown of what happened in the last 12 months. (The Daily Beast)
One of the best out there, Business of Fashion, runs down their top stories--a must read for those in the know. (BofF)
PETA is actually still vetting mink-clad celebs like Kate Moss and Liz Hurley for their anti-fur Worst Dressed Award. (Guardian UK)
Linda Evangelista begging for work on the front of
W
is Models.com's pick for best cover of the year. (Models)
Jezebel offers up the greatest successes and failures of the last 12 months--Lohan included. (five best and five worst pop-up shops of the year as well as the finest billboards of '09. (Racked)
Julia "BunnyBisous" Frakes made a best of the red carpet list that we actually enjoyed. (BunnyBisous)
While she's lost her television show, Alexa Chung was named British Vogue's Best-Dressed celebrity, so she's got that going for her. (Telegraph UK)
And, lest we forget, Guy Trebay reminds us that, "If 2009 produced little in the way of enduring style phenomena, it did give us Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, a musician whose hooky dance tunes would barely rate a second playing on karaoke night, yet who made it all but impossible to avert one's gaze from her ongoing spectacle." (NYT)