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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Gisele Has the Victoria’s Secret Angels on Her Team, Carine Roitfeld Styles Models with Peds on Their Heads, and Christian Louboutin Gifted Blake Lively His Entire Spring Collection

Gisele Has Angels on her Side: Nearly a week after the big game, this whole Gisele-is-a-poor-sport debacle still has some steam. Days after Giants’ running back Brandon Jacobs told Tom Brady’s supermodel wife to “stay cute and shut up,” Gisele’s former Victoria’s Secret Angel compadres have come to her defense. Quoth Adriana Lima, “Leave her alone!” {Vogue UK}

Fashion 2.0 Awards Winners Announced: The 3rd annual Fashion 2.0 Awards, which honors the fashion brands that have been most innovative in the media and technology, were held in NYC last night by the Style Coalition. Winners of the night included DKNY for Best Twitter, Marc Jacobs for Best Website, and one of our personal favs, Instagram for the Next Big Thing in Tech. The big winners of the night, for the Fashion 2.0 Visionary Award, were Gilt Group co-founders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson. {Fashionista Inbox}

A Burch v. Burch Lawsuit in the Works? Though no law suit has been formally filed, rumors are swirling that Tory Burch is on the verge of suing ex-husband and business partner Christopher for trade infringement over his new venture C. Wonder. Chris is still the co-chairman at Tory Burch, but is looking to sell his stake and continue growing his own businesses. What will happen when the monogrammed ballet flats come off? Watch this space. {WWD subscription required}

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: New York Takes Aim at Miranda Kerr, Cyber Monday Was One For The Record Books, and Beyoncé Addresses Fake Pregnancy Rumors

New York Takes Aim at Miranda Kerr’s Vapidity: Sample quote from Miranda: “I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” Sample quote from New York: “Even if her workout routine, diet, and husband, Orlando Bloom, weren’t the only things reporters ever asked about, Kerr shows a strong reluctance to utter any sentences not purely banal.” Zing! {New York}

Daphne Guinness/FIT Exhibit Sponsor Pressured to Pull Out: Human rights group Adalah-NY is demanding the immediate withdrawal of Leviev Diamonds as a sponsor to the Daphne Guinness exhibit over at FIT. Apparently, Adalah-NY has beef with Lev Leviev (the company’s owner), over his ties to the West Bank. If Guinness holds on to this sponsorship, Adalah-NY has pledged to protest the exhibit. {WWD subscription required}

Cyber Monday Breaks Records: Analysts are estimating that retailers made close to $1.2 billion yesterday off Cyber Monday deals, up 33% from last year. As of 10pm last night, the tally was at $1.03 billion. {WSJ}

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Fashion Is Fun

Back-to-School Fashion Reading List: The Karl Lagerfeld Illustrated Chanel Bio, a Definitive Diana Vreeland Photo Book and More

Some of you are just back to school and some of us are sadly done with school for good but we remember how fun it was to gather all your required back-to-school reading and dive in (okay, we were nerds). So in the spirit of the back-to-school reading list, we’ve put together a list of some awesome, essential, fashion reading. There are some really beautiful and important fashion books out recently and they are worth investing in. And that means actually going and buying the hardcover versions because these books are filled with Karl Lagerfeld illustrations, Diana Vreeland-styled editorials, and more really good stuff. Stuff not to be wasted on an e-reader.

Click through to see your required reading. Don’t skim! There will be a quiz!

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Kanye Sits Front Row at Katie Eary, Naomi Campbell on CNBC and Some $31,000 Missoni For Target Wellies

Kanye Sits Front Row at Katie Eary’s Show: Yeezy sat front row at Katie Eary, who was recently announced as a designer on his own line–set to debut at Paris Fashion Week. Following the presentation, Eary gushed that her multi-talented design partner ‘Ye is “more dedicated [to designing] than I am. I feel jealous at his commitment.” {Elle UK}

How Bill Cunningham New York Made $1.5 Million: The co-presidents of Zeitgeist Films discuss the surprising success of their record-breaking documentary about the legendary New York Times street style photog. {IndieWire}

Naomi Campbell Doc Focuses on Life in Charity: The supermodel will get her own documentary on CNBC, chronicling her non-glam roots and extensive charity work. The show, airing next Wednesday the 28th, features commentary from Quincy Jones and Duran Duran. No word on whether the jucier stuff will be addressed: cell phones, diamond rings, wardrobe malfunctions… {Vogue UK}

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Fashion Careers

Which Fashion Career Is Right For You?

Even if you’ve never done a sketch or sewn a button, you can have a career in fashion. Being a designer is obviously one of the most visible roles you can have in the industry, but talent and skill are required (don’t tell that to all the reality starlets trying launching clothing lines).

It’s a huge industry and there are a multitude of jobs available; you can find one to suit your temperament and talents. Here are a few suggestions and ideas for getting started (and keep in mind this is more of an overview than a comprehensive list):

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People We Like

Learning the Art of Rodarte

Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte are fashion’s most famous sisters. From their nearly telepathic communication with each other, to their unusually intimate inspiration, the Mulleavys have built a Rodarte cult including fashion’s most elite and influential. Last night at FIT, Kate and Laura spoke at length about their brand. Hearing them talk about their [...]

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Delman Shoes Get Their Due

Delman might play second fiddle to its Parisian counterpart Repetto in the ballet flat department, but we’ve always had a soft spot for the label’s classic construction and oh-so-sweet styling. Apparently, Valerie Steele and co. over at F.I.T. agree. They’ve curated an entire exhibit dedicated to the 90-year-old shoemaker. “Scandal Sandals and Lady Slippers: A [...]

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People We Like

Ruben Toledo Talks It Out

We’re not big on envy, but we can’t help but feel a touch toward Ruben Toledo. He’s not just married to his high-school sweetheart who happens to be fashion icon Isabel Toledo, he also has talent by the bucketfuls. Ever since his eerie, disproportionate ads for Nordstrom, we’ve been jealous of his creepy, kitschy illustration [...]

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Fashion Shows

Shop Talk at MAC & Milk

Yesterday afternoon MAC’s John Demsey and Milk’s Mazdack Rassi hosted a panel discussion for Parsons and FIT students in the studio that was the site of so many shows this past week. First, let us just say kudos to the two. MAC & Milk was a huge success in my opinion. It was such a [...]

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Kanye West is Sort of a Model Now

Before I got to the Band of Outsiders presentation, Kanye West got a little silly and started posing with some of the models. Even though I wasn’t there, we still have this photo as proof (well, sort of, this was taken right after Kanye got up from that bench), thanks to an FIT student named [...]

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Trendspotting

Mondrian, Everywhere

For reasons unknown, the Mondrian-inspired clothes just keeps rolling in – First, a reader sent in the DVF dress at left in response to yesterday’s Mondrian-inspired finds. Then, Kyle sent us a text saying that he spotted a Mondrian-inspired Louboutin in the window of the FIT museum. And in our Inbox this morning? A Mondrian-inspired [...]

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People We Like

I Met Giorgio Armani and All I Got Was This Stupid T-shirt

Armani’s talk at FIT is already over, and here are the only Giorgio highlights, other than the free shirts (at left) handed out at the end – “You live in a city where you can practically eat fashion.” “Not everything that is new is beautiful.” “Make sure the clothes you design are wearable, no third [...]

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