Agyness Deyn’s Dream Role: Model Agyness Deyn shadowed an exotic dancer to learn the ins and outs of the business for her role in the upcoming film Pusher. Roles she’d like to play next? Jane Eyre or Joan of Arc. {Vogue UK}

“Goodsmellas” Are Dudes Who Love Scents: The male counterparts of “perfumistas,” “Goodsmellas” are a community of scent-loving men. They range from government workers to members of the NYPD, including one 9/11 responder who lost his sense of smell for two years before becoming a scent fanatic. Some Goodsmellas have as many as 420 separate niche scents. And they’re on YouTube. Smell on, ‘Smellas. {Racked NY}

Sidney Toledano Talks Raf Simons: Dior took its spring/summer 2012 couture show to Shanghai, where designer Bill Gaytten took his last bow for the house. Sidney Toledano, president and chief executive of Dior, seemed very pleased with new hire Raf Simons: “I always said that the right person would come along when all the stars aligned and that’s exactly what happened last week,” he said, before adding that Simons has already “begun to lay out his vision” for Dior. {Telegraph UK}

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