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Byline: Irini Arakas
Kirsten Dunst is standing contrapposto, in the ballroom of the Prince George Hotel in Manhattan, wearing a navy-and-black eyelet dress with a sweetheart neckline and Manolo Blahnik black suede flip-flops, typical fashion checkpoints for the actress who has mastered the art of looking stylishly unstyled. It's 9:30 a.m., and Dunst is eager to rise this early during New York fashion week only for her old friend, new designer Stephanie Schur. "Every single dress, every single top. I'm getting it all," says Dunst, scrutinizing the gathering of youthful models with smoky Josephine Baker eyes that stands before her. "Stephanie's a friend, her clothes are amazing, and she's very generous with them," says Dunst.
The label is called Michon Schur-Michon is Schur's middle name-and the label is three seasons young. Schur's designs-cropped bed jackets lined in pink taffeta; twenties-inspired dresses in meringue-hued satin; dove-gray tunics in silk georgette with black chiffon ruffles-are, as Dunst has revealed, simply irresistible.
Based in Santa Monica, the 28-year-old mom (two-year-old Jake was effortlessly slung on her hip while she tucked and adjusted the looks pre-presentation) has no problem sizing up what the sunny and confident starlets of Hollywood want to wear; she and husband Jordan Schur, president of Geffen Records, are very much a part of L.A.'s youthful aristocracy.
"My first collection was tiny, ten pieces. All my fabrics ...