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Thursday June 6th, 2013

Listen to Kate Moss Get Prank Called
Kate Moss

Listen to Kate Moss Get Prank Called

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In the days before caller ID (remember *69?), prank calls were pretty much the bane of our adolescent existence. Answering the phone was a terrifying experience and the easiest way for sick-minded predators to take advantage of your naiveté–who knew who was on the other end of that can-string-can contraption?! Alas, technology may have thwarted the prank call’s prevalence–but apparently, even fashion’s longest celebrated commodity can’t avoid them entirely. That’s right, kids: Kate Moss got prank called.

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Published at 4:00 PM
Condé Nast Hires Pippa Middleton, One Direction Has a Fragrance, and Kim Kardashian’s Pregnant Sculpture Will Haunt Your Dreams
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Condé Nast Hires Pippa Middleton, One Direction Has a Fragrance, and Kim Kardashian’s Pregnant Sculpture Will Haunt Your Dreams

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Condé Nast welcomes a royal into its family. Kate Middleton’s 29-year-old sister, Pippa, is Vanity Fair‘s newest contributing editor. {NY Post}

Alexander Wang’s faceless model campaign for Balenciaga continues. {Grazia}

One Direction has unveiled a fragrance called “Our Moment,” which comes in vaguely fan art-looking packaging and a pink bottle. The scent is that of pink grapefruit, wild berries, and red currants–not like it matters very much what it smells like, anyway. {WWD}

No Chanel exclusive for ‘jersey’: The UK Intellectual Property Office has denied the iconic French house the trademark for the word ‘jersey,’ which has been the name of one of the brand’s fragrance lines from 2011. {HuffPo}

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Published at 3:15 PM
Game of Thrones Hair Designer Answers All Our Pressing Questions
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Game of Thrones Hair Designer Answers All Our Pressing Questions

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On Sunday night, HBO will air the season three finale of Game of Thrones, after which we will enter a long, bleak Daenerys-less summer. Sure we’ll have no more character deaths to mourn, but we also won’t be able to marvel at the hair and costumes.

So we hopped on the phone with the show’s genius hair designer, Kevin Alexander, for a marathon-length chat about the style and symbolism of the characters’ various ‘dos this season.

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Published at 2:30 PM
Raf Simons Sets Dior’s Fall 2013 Campaign Video at Versailles
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Raf Simons Sets Dior’s Fall 2013 Campaign Video at Versailles

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Between Dior’s spring 2013 campaign and fall 2013 collection, there’s no doubt which artistic movement gets Raf Simons’s motor running. Pretty much everything he’s done at the storied house has had a surrealist vibe to it. But for Dior’s fall 2013 campaign, Simons, ever the art historian, mixed things up a bit, keeping the dream-like quality of surrealism–and adding a dash of impressionism and rococo.

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Published at 12:30 PM
Proenza Schouler to Re-Release First-Ever Collection
Retail

Proenza Schouler to Re-Release First-Ever Collection

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Proenza Schouler turns 10 this year. To celebrate, Barneys is re-releasing the label’s first-ever collection (with some tweaks of course).

When Barneys famously snapped up Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough’s Parsons senior thesis collection back in 2003 it gave the label instant, well-deserved buzz–buzz that hasn’t worn off over the last decade: Proenza Schouler nabbed their third CFDA womenswear designer of the year award this past Monday. (Talk about good timing.)

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Published at 9:15 AM

Wednesday June 5th, 2013