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Fashion News Roundup: Kate Moss Photo Sells for $25,700, Margherita Missoni Gets Engaged, and Why Joe Zee Won’t Put Kim Kardashian on Elle

Margherita Missoni is Getting Married: That’s amore! The 28-year-old designer will marry race car driver Eugenio Amosnext year in Italy. Wonder if any of the party favors will end up on eBay? {WWD}

Naked Kate Moss Photo Sold For Mucho Dinero:An anonymous buyer won a huge, rare photo of a young Kate Moss at auction yesterday for approximately $25,700. It was between this photo or a new car, but I decided to go the rational route. {Grazia}

James Franco Gets into Advertising: Is James Franco getting career advice from K. Lagerfeld – or better yet, Don Draper? The actor/director/producer/screenwriter/perfume model/failed Oscar host can now add ad-man to his resume – he’s set to direct and shoot Seven For All Mankind’s multimedia campaign for spring 2012. {WWD}

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From the Frozen Food Aisles of Canada to Fifth Ave: Joe Fresh (Finally) Opens in NYC

Joe Fresh is a company that I’ve already come to know and love in Canada (where I’m from), and so it was with double the excitement that, yesterday morning, I went to celebrate Canadian transplant Joe Fresh’s first foray into American retail.

The company’s new U.S. store stands at 16th and 5th avenue, done up sleekly in all white with perfectly distressed vintage-looking floorboards and birch tree installations adorning the nooks and crannies of the space. Though you wouldn’t know it from glancing at the company’s chic and affordable offerings, the new store is a far cry from where Joe Fresh started out, which was, namely, the fresh produce aisle at one of Canada’s largest grocery store chains, Loblaws. “When I said I was going to do a clothing line in a grocery store, everybody told me I was nuts,” Joe Fresh’s founder and creative director, Joe Mimran told a group of editors yesterday morning. Looks like Mimran has the last laugh though. “I joke about it, because we’ve gone from the frozen food aisle to Fifth Avenue!”

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Get Your DVR Ready: Here’s Our Guide to All the New Fashion TV Shows

Remember waaay back in 2004, when the first-ever designer was auf’d on Project Runway, and there was still a glimmer of hope that ANTM might actually find America’s next top model? We secretly practiced smizing in the mirror and cringed at the prospect of boring Nina. Well, things have gotten a lot more complex since those simple times–for better or worse (but mostly better!). While we still love our old faves, it’s always nice to mix it up a bit and keep the DVR busy–especially when it comes to fashion television.

This fall and beyond offers a slew of exciting (and at times, a little repetitive) new fashionably oriented reality shows: From competitions searching for even more amazing new talents, to docu-series following our already much-loved fash peeps (hello, Brad!), to a behind-the-counter look at one of our go-to shopping spots. These shows are like shoes–you can really never have too many. (Though you might stop wearing shoes all together. You don’t really need them for sitting on the couch, do you?)

So which ones are you watching? Ready, set, “Record Series!”

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Conde Nast To Get Into Showbiz

Conde Nast is ready for their close-up. With circulation numbers down (except for at Vogue) and ad sales still struggling, the storied publishing house is looking to cash in elsewhere: The TV and movie biz.

WWD reports that Conde Nast has launched a fully-fledged entertainment division and has already named Dawn Ostroff as president. As former president of the CW and UPN, Ostroff is responsible for bringing us such gems as America’s Next Top Model and The Vampire Diaries.

While it’s clear the new entertainment division will be responsible for developing, creating, producing and distributing original television, film and digital initiatives, little else is known about what specific projects may be in the works. “It could mean films, it could mean documentaries, it could mean television shows, it could mean digital series or digital content, it could be digital channels,” Ostroff told WWD. “And it could be across all platforms: Cable channels, cable broadcast networks. It ranges across the board.”

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Elle‘s Joe Zee On: Kanye West’s Show, Prada, Being a Reality TV Fashion Designer, and Marc Jacobs for Dior

Joe Zee is a busy, busy man these days. Along with performing his day job as creative director at Elle, he’s hosting the second season of his reality show All on the Line, jetsetting to Fashion Week shows around the globe, helping aspiring fashion students, and popping into the Soho Elie Tahari boutique — along with Mr. Elie Tahari himself — to help a bunch of fashion bloggers style outfits from the label’s fall 2011 collection. This wasn’t just a random visit. Zee has been consulting with Elie Tahari for multiple seasons and just recently styled the brand’s spring 2012 runway show.

While we waited for Zee to make his way through snarling rush hour traffic, we had a chance to peruse the Elie Tahari fall offerings. Amongst the tweedy details, lush leathers, macro-lace, and ruching embellishments, the favorites of the editors seemed to be the black lace-trimmed leather shorts (totally practical, we swear), a grey-hued leopard print ruffle neck Clarissa trench, and a soft cranberry ruffle-layered Victoria coat. Once Zee arrived, we ambushed him with some questions as he was in the midst of pulling a white nipped-waist and flared pantsuit for a guest.

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  • Fawnia Soo Hoo
  • Thursday, Sep 29, 2011 / 12:30 PM
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Zach Galifianakis, Handbag Designer?

We love Zach Galifianakis, but really? Designing a handbag? We thought he just carried one in the movies.

We never saw it coming but it’s true. The comedian has been tapped by Keith Richards’ wife Patti Hansen to design a one-of-a-kind handbag for her line Hung On U, which will be auctioned off for charity at the bag line’s Barneys launch party. Proceeds will benefit the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation

Galifianakis isn’t the only unlikely guest celebrity designer:

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Christian Siriano Spring 2012: Coral Fixation

There’s no doubt that “fierce” former Project Runway winner Christian Siriano has done an admirable job of working his flair for the dramatic and utter quotability (not to mention that reality TV recognition) to his advantage. In addition to earning celeb fans like Victoria Beckham and Christina Hendricks and rolling out shoe collections for Payless, the pint-sized mogul was one of the first designers to master the Twitter game. But despite his likability, many of the intricate evening dresses for which he’s known are, in the words of his Runway mentor Tim Gunn, “a lot of look.”

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  • Elana Fishman
  • Sunday, Sep 11, 2011 / 2:48 PM
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Fashion News Roundup: Azzaro’s New Creative Director, What to Talk About During NYFW and Taylor Lautner Consults Joe Zee

Azzaro has a new creative director: Azzaro chose a young unknown to replace Vanessa Seward as its new creative director. Sao Paulo-born Mathilde Castello Branco, 39, will present her first collection for the Paris-based house in January for pre-fall 2012. She was at Lanvin before. {WWD}

Arizona Muse covers Australian Vogue: Kai Z. Feng. shot Arizon Muse for the cover of Australian Vogue‘s October issue–three of them in fact. We like. {Fashion Copious}

Fashion Week talking points: Here is a roundup of what will surely be New York fashion week’s hot topics, and there are some pretty interesting points, with fashion people like Scott Sternberg, Anna Sui and Vanessa Friedman weighing in on issues like the NYFW schedule, underground fashion, Lincoln Center’s effectiveness, young models and more. {Style.com}

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Top 10 Irene-Related Tweets from Fashion Peeps

Who’s the latest It Girl everyone in fashion is talking about? Irene! No, she’s not a gorgeous, 5’11 supermodel from the Ukraine, she’s the hurricane that’s been slowly making her way up the east coast. While Irene wrecked serious havoc in North Carolina, NYC was lucky enough to miss the brunt of her force. And, fashion people being fashion people, they had a lot to say about it. Check out our top ten Irene-related fashion tweets from this weekend.

COACD (@coacd)
Heard Irene is signing w Wilhelmina @LaDivafina

Coco Rocha (@Cocorocha)
I told @mickinyc it was Irene or me. RT @LaDivafina We sent her home, options released RT @COACD: Heard Irene is signing w Wilhelmina

Prabal Gurung (@prabalgurung)
I think Irene might need a lil help with her PR after this wknd @KCDworldwide u might have a new client.

DKNY PR Girl (@dkny)
Part of me feels like #Irene was a giant ploy by all the supermarkets on the East Coast.

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Earthquake In NYC! Here are the Top Ten Reactions from Fashion Peeps on Twitter

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake just hit somewhere near Richmond, VA and tremors were felt from Washington D.C. to Manhattan (we may have thought there was a particularly hefty person stomping on the roof, at first…). Of course, we turned to Twitter as our first source to find out that, yes, that swaying we felt was, in fact, an actual earthquake in Manhattan of all places. And because fashion people Tweet their every waking moment, we rounded up some of the best reactions to the midday rumble:

Joe Zee (@mrjoezee)
Everyone’s ok at my @ELLEmagazine office here – clearly, since they’re all tweeting like crazy going down 41 flights of stairs. #Earthquake

DKNY PR GIRL (@dkny)
This is when everyone on the Wesrt Coast starts calling us drama queens….

Prabal Gurung (@prabalgurung)
It wasn’t an earthquake. Its momma nature’s tummy rumbling. hee hee.

Eva Chen Bannister (@evachen212)
okay, I’m kind of annoyed that what I assumed was me tripping in my slightly too big Chanel flatforms was actually an earthquake. what.

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Office Supplies That Double As Makeup Tools, And More Tricks From CoverGirl’s Jake Bailey

Maybe Taylor Swift’s adorably humble yet impressively savvy image is more than just a media concoction. Despite the team of professionals she’s surrounded by, the gal frequently does her own makeup. According to celebrity makeup artist Jake Bailey, that perfect, dramatic cat eye–a staple hammered into her looks as heavily as her army of pale, full-skirted frocks–is often Taylor’s own handiwork.

“I’m amazed at the speed and precision with which she does her own cat eye,” Bailey gushed over dinner at NYC’s 5 Ninth last night, rendering even the most adept beauty editors at the table a little jealous. Noting that many women have slightly different shaped eyes, Bailey cited “practice, practice, practice” as his main advice for mastering the look, since there’s no uniform trick to account for individual, asymmetrical nuances.

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  • Natalie Matthews
  • Friday, Aug 19, 2011 / 3:45 PM
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Gwyneth Paltrow Covers Elle‘s September Issue: Here’s the Full Editorial and Highlights From Her F-Bomb Laden Interview

By Cheryl Wischhover Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011 / 10:17 AM

Gwyneth is looking fantastic lately, and she continues to look fantastic on the cover of Elle‘s September issue, which the Fashion Spot dug up. We are loving the stripped-down makeup, messy hair, and monochrome black outfit. The styling, courtesy of Joe Zee, has a casual vibe. Boring? Maybe, but we like Gwynnie best when she’s being down-to-earth.

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