It was a chic week in stunning star style. See who brought the heat this week, and who takes the number one spot.

Brothers are making a statement in cool blazers with standout details.

Ladies are no longer succumbing to washed-out greys and boring beiges of winters past, but uplifting their looks with eye-catching bright colors.

A flashback of Etta James’s top style moments.

They say that the eyes are windows to the soul. And I agree with that. For me, the eyes are the most beautiful features of a person’s face. Its colors also add more beauty to it. Looking straight at the eyes can give us a clue of the person’s emotions, sensibilities and affections. The most [...]

“At least it’s not snowing this year” was a phrase heard repeatedly at Fashion Group International’s 15th Annual Rising Star Awards luncheon, held today at Cipriani 42nd Street. There were several FGI veterans in attendance, including Catherine Malandrino and past winners Thom Browne, Christopher Coleman, and Monica Rich Kosann (all three were also presenters today), who could remember prior years when the event was held on an especially chilly day. For the Rising Star nominees, however, it was a day full of firsts.

“I have been nominated for a few awards and not ever been in this situation,” Simon Spurr said, sounding quite surprised, as he collected his menswear award from Browne. “Obviously, this one is very special because, well, it’s my first one.” Before Nonoo designer Misha Nonoo picked up her womenswear award (she and Wes Gordon both won in the category in a tie), Nonoo joked, “If I end up having to give a speech, I am not nervous—I just had three bellinis,” she said. “Plus, they e-mailed us last night saying we absolutely had to keep our speeches under one minute.”

The Museum of Modern Art is quietly making a case for being the best music venue in town. Of late, the museum has hosted performances by the likes of Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Kanye West, and Jay-Z, and was preparing to host Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, in a companion piece to his 2008 MoMA show. Then things got ambitious.

“At some point, we actually thought we would build a pool in the MoMA Atrium that you could walk over, and then it became a rotating laser lights, a 60-piece orchestra, hanging light sculptures,” MoMA’s chief curator at large, Klaus Biesenbach, said by phone from the Sundance Film Festival. “Then last year we realized we couldn’t fit it into the Atrium.” The new show, Swanlights, will be performed instead at Radio City Musical Hall. Swanlights, a one-night-only engagement, is a continuation of Hegarty’s 2008 performance at MoMA. “We did that one at the clock tower, it was much more intimate,” says Biesenbach. “That one was about carrying sound through the space, video productions and him singing.” From there, the show developed into the Antony and the Johnsons album The Crying Light, which was included in the exhibition 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009) at MoMA’s PS1. Hegarty and Biesenbach then spent two more years developing Swanlights, which includes songs from all four of Antony and the Johnsons’ albums set to symphonic arrangements by Nico Muhly, Rob Moose, and Maxim Moston, set to rotating light displays by artist Chris Levine.

Being a top model requires the ability to withstand some unpleasant encounters. “The snakes. I don’t mind snakes, but sometimes they’ve been quite…you know, snakes going up legs and snakes everywhere,” says Kate Moss, referring to one of her weirdest modeling gigs. [Huff Po]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have brought on Prada’s U.S. president and chief operating officer, Francois Kress, to take helm of The Row. Of Kress, who will serve as the president and chief operating officer of The Row, Ashley Olsen says, “His experience and sensibility will add great value to The Row in its next phase of development.” [WWD]

Nineteen-year-old Zahia Dehar unveiled her debut collection of lingerie on the Couture catwalk in Paris yesterday. Haute couture is typically a masters-only field, but Dehar, who is a mere 19 years old, doesn’t even have a design background. Rather, she made a name for herself at 16 when she found herself at the center of a sex scandal involving three French soccer players. But that, evidently, was experience enough to pique the interest of the fashion world. It even drew Karl Lagerfeld, who photographed the Vargas pinup-style images for her first lookbook. “When my collection was about to be ready, I met him and showed him my work,” Dehar tells Style.com. “A few weeks later we were taking pictures in his studio until three o’clock in the morning with dogs, snakes, and turtledoves everywhere.” For her new collection, which includes pieces in silk, satin, and lace as well as more unusual materials like glass, leather, and sculpted metal, she engaged Couture specialists like Bruno Legeron, Jean-Pierre Ollier, and François Tamarin. “I love the woman’s body, and the idea of putting that body on display,” Dehar said. So much so, she bared her own at the end of the runway show yesterday.

Forget the Red and the Black. Right now, it’s all about the Red and the Blue. The 2012 elections will mean a full year of face-off between the red Republicans and the blue Dems. All of a sudden, the red and blue Masai prints at Thakoon and Kim Jones’ men’s collection for Louis Vuitton are looking prescient. Showgoers at the men’s and Couture shows have been experimenting with primary-colored combinations, too, and now more designers are picking up on the theme. Giambattista Valli and Peter Copping at Nina Ricci have been pushing cardinal and cobalt with their pre-fall collections.

Soon, the Super Bowl will have Giants fans and Patriots supporters (like the queen of them all, Gisele Bündchen) squaring off in New York blue and New England red. But no need to pick just one. As the looks in our slideshow attest, it’s all in the mix.