Not Faris: Anna Friel is the West End’s new Eliza Doolittle, so Vanity Fair photographed her in loads and loads of pearls with touches of Alberta Ferretti & Julian Macdonald for a supplement to their UK edition. {VanityFair}

Venezia Bound: Tom Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man, will screen at the Venice Film Festival on September 11 which means it’ll have a teeny, tiny, if any, fashion quotient in the audience. {LATimes}

The Mulberry Bush: Mulberry’s look book gets re-invented for the cool kids. It must be an English thing - we’ve never seen the Bayswater look so impossibly hip. {Nylon}

Ooh-La-La: Bonpoint’s founders opened Merci in Paris this March. Here’s a peek inside the charity shop with its specially designed Stella & YSL. It also houses food, vintage, perfume and furniture and looks positively heavenly. {Dazed}

—PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST

The Grecian dress from Target’s in-house Go International collection looks both random, cheaply made, and poorly fitting - even on the model.

We love a good steal from our favorite megastore, but draping should be left to those with quality fabric and serious skills. Plus, the dress doesn’t really fit the fashion-for-the-masses mold.

After wondering aloud where they got the idea, we dropped the subject until we came across this gorgeous Alberta Ferretti frock.

Our first thought was, “Hello, Lauren Conrad!” And our second was, “Um, looks like Target scrolls Net-a-Porter as much as we do.”

So Target, if you’re listening, we love what you’ve done with mass fashion and please call Mr. Alexander McQueen to design the next GO International collection.

But leave the intricate draping, pleating, flowing silk look to those with access to Italian fabric mills.

Earlier this year, Courtney Love announced she was auctioning off most of Kurt Cobain’s clothes. Some in the music community were horrified, leading Courtney to remark, “Frances Bean doesn’t need to inherit a giant Hefty bag full of flannel fucking shirts.”

We wonder if Hefty paid her to say that, but we also wonder if Frances Bean wanted a bag of her dad’s clothes, which could come in handy for séances or emerging modern couture collections (Courtney sometimes says that Frances Bean wants to be a designer).

Regardless, the flannels will soon be sold, but in the meantime, Courtney Love lovers can get their fix with a charity eBay collection of her old dresses. 10% of the clothes go to Project Chrysalis, which helps the homeless in Los Angeles, and over 150 pieces from Courtney’s closet are up for sale.

According to Lucky Magazine, the offerings include clothes and accessories by Jimmy Choo and Alberta Ferretti - but so far, no flannel.

Naomi isn’t the only one dressing up for the law:

A women’s prison in Milan is reforming its inmates with fashion design classes, runway shows, and mentoring from some of Europe’s top designers.

Italian papers are reporting that the San Vittore jail held a fashion show last week, where prison guards (yes, really) modeled Alberta Ferretti’s latest collection!

Meanwhile, Blumarine designer Anna Molinari is set to collaborate with the prisoners on future designs, which will be produced under the name Gatti Galeotti - an Italian phrase that roughly translates into “jailbirds.”

You can insert your own Paris Hilton reference here, or head over to ELLE for their very funny spread on prison chic…

Our favorite new blogger, Rachel Clark, reports on the frenzy backstage at Alberta Ferretti’s recent cruise show:

Apparently, all the girls got stuck in the elevator going down to the runway.

Though Chanel Iman looks a little panicked, it didn’t seem to last too long.

Still, the incident reminds us of the Calvin Klein show at Milk Studios several seasons ago, when one of the Olsen girls got caught in the lift and almost missed the show…

And how one of the girls at Balenciaga last year got stuck inside her gold-plated leggings, and was so late to her next runway that they almost had to slice them off of her…

How perilous, this industry!

Rachel then reveals she booked the Dolce and Gabbana campaign, which is great - hopefully, nothing gets stuck there.