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Jourdan Dunn and Saskia de Brauw Cover i-D‘s Winter Issue: Joining the ranks of Hailey Clausen and Anja Rubik, Miss Dunn and de Braw’s shots account for two of the six covers from the magazine’s “Winter Warm Up” issue. Jourdan’s makeup is giving us vitamins A-E right now! We love it! {Models}

Rihanna Wears a Onesie, Goes On Vacation: Take a look at some behind-the-scenes shots of Riri on her Loud tour. The best pics include her chillin’ in the studio in a onesie and a full face of makeup. There are also some lovely personal photos of her on vacation in Italy with her friends (she wears a lot of swimsuits, shops for pottery, and generally acts naughty). {Rihanna Facebook}

Nicole Richie Named “Influencer of the Year”: ‘Tis a rare thing to see a celebrity accessories line truly produce anything worthy of note, but Nicole Richie’s House of Harlow 1960 is certainly an exception. The Accessories Council has honored her with the “Influencer of the Year” award, for consistently producing unique pieces we actually want to wear. {The Fashion Spot}

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St. John’s Siren: Karen Elson’s the new face of St. John. Greg Kadel photographed the campaign (the first since Angelina Jolie’s). Karen gets better and better. Looking at this picture makes me want to buy St. John, (and I don’t think their target customer is twenty-five years old). {FashionGoneRogue} A Fast Fashion Fortune British design [...]

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Remember when we told you Sohpie Dahl was working on a new TV series to go with her cookbook, Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights? And everyone kind of went, “huh?” Well yeah, it’s really happening. Roald Dahl’s granddaughter and everyone’s favorite sometimes plus-size model is getting six episodes on the BBC Two under Jamie Oliver’s Fresh [...]

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Last year, LVMH succesfully sued eBay for failing to police counterfeit sellers. Now they, and more specifically Louis Vuitton, have sued Google for allegedly courting advertisers with the search word “Vuitton”. Stores, whether they sell counterfeit product or not, pay Google to be the first link on the page post-search which is why things like [...]

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AbFab Goes West!

If you’re not familiar with Absolutely Fabulous, get thee to Amazon.com. The British sitcom ran on and off from 1992 to 2005. It stars Patsy (Joanna Lumley) and Edina (Jennifer Saunders), a washed up model and a wannabe PR dame who spend almost the entire series drunk, stoned and decked out in the loudest Moschino [...]

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Quote of the Day

“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes and handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.” – Karl Lagerfeld, to the BBC.

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We have no idea how this would work, but we want to believe it works anyway: Three students from a high school in Scotland came up with a device that could seriously change the way we all shop. They’ve invented something that enables cell phones to read the bar code on any price tag, which [...]

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Agyness to Act

It’s official. The Brits are completely obsessed with Agyness Deyn. The model of the moment turned singer turned actor will be appearing in a Doctor Who Christmas Special on the BBC. We’re not exactly sure what this special entails, but according to The Mirror, Doctor Who remains “the Beeb’s [that's BBC] jewel in the crown,” [...]

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Apparently, Agyness was on television recently. And apparently, she was forced into one of those sumo wrestler suits we’ve only ever seen on The Office, and battled Nick Grimshaw, who has in own show on BBC. No idea who he is or why this happens, but please do check out the clip to watch Agyness [...]

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We’ve always wished Teen Vogue had an uber eco-conscious fraternal twin sister who would be the founding member of her school’s Ethical Fashion Club, and tote around Naomi Klein’s No Logo as her boldest accessory. Ok, so not really, but we do think BBC’s new online magazine Thread. is pretty cool, and fills a void [...]

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Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen recently debuted the Spring 2008 collection for their cheaper-than-the-Row-but-still-not-that-cheap label Elizabeth & James. It’s already available all over the US, and oddly enough at Urban Outfitters in the UK (or not that odd, Britt says Urban is boutiquier across the pond). Now get this- Tuesday, psychologist Richard Wiseman unveiled the results [...]

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These days, it seems like a lot of people get a TV show for reasons unknown, and then try to make a name in some kind of industry, often fashion. But at least Simon Doonan knows that it should probably be the other way around. WWD reports that Simon’s memoir, Nasty: My Family and Other [...]

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