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Thursday April 19th, 2012

Fashion News Roundup: The Year in Pippa Middleton’s Butt, Liya Kebede Covers Harper’s Bazaar Spain, and J.Crew’s ‘Jenna’s Picks’ is ‘On Hiatus’

Fashion News Roundup: The Year in Pippa Middleton’s Butt, Liya Kebede Covers Harper’s Bazaar Spain, and J.Crew’s ‘Jenna’s Picks’ is ‘On Hiatus’

Carolina Herrera to receive Honorary Degree From FIT: The designer will walk the stage with the graduating class of 2012, to receive an honorary doctor of fine arts degree. No student loan debt required. {WWD subscription required}

HuffPost Style Takes a Look Back at the Year in Pippa Middleton’s Butt: Get out your magnifying glasses, folks, The Huffington Post has 17 slides of Pippa Middleton’s derrière, which we think looked best on April 29, 2011 {HuffPost Style}

Get Advice from Gilt Founders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis: The BFFs and business partners answer all your questions about doing business with your friends and frenemies. {Buzzfeed/Shift}

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Wednesday April 18th, 2012

Fashion News Roundup: Victoria Beckham Joins Facebook, Bar Rafaeli Gets Groped at the Airport, and Heidi Klum Talks Blow Jobs in Allure
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Victoria Beckham Joins Facebook, Bar Rafaeli Gets Groped at the Airport, and Heidi Klum Talks Blow Jobs in Allure

Victoria Beckham Joins Facebook: To celebrate her 38th anniversaire, Poshypoo joined Facebook, ate a (presumably) low-cal fruit platter, and then proceeded to post about it on said FB account. Now David can finally tag his WAG in that lovely balls pic! {Facebook, NY Mag}

Jessica White is a Poet, OK? The model, who has been hard at work lately on her upcoming debut album, wants us to know that, first and foremost, she’s “a poet.” And when she’s modeling, she’s a “silent artist.” And when she’s writing, she’s “a bat.” And when her Ryan Leslie-produced record drops, people are “gonna get a big huge handful of how creative [she] really [is].” We can only hope that Ms. White’s album contains even more creative metaphors. {NY Mag}

Heidi Klum Strips Down for Allure: The freshly-single fräulein took it all off for Allure‘s May issue. In her cover story, Heidi reveals how she and her brood have been affected by her divorce drama with Seal and the reason she never did runway (except for Victoria’s Secret, obv.) Apparently, even fellow Project Runway judge Michael Kors once rejected her at a casting, saying “Thanks, but no thanks.” And her gay friends taught her everything she knows about giving blow jobs. Awkward turtle. {Fashion Etc, Jezebel}

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Sarah Burton Made the Time 100 List (Plus See the Other Fashion Peeps Who Made the Cut)

Sarah Burton Made the Time 100 List (Plus See the Other Fashion Peeps Who Made the Cut)

Each year Time releases its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, including a wide range of individuals–from CEOs and politicians to pop stars and scientists–and needless to say it’s kind of a big deal if you make the cut.

Last year, Tom Ford was the only fashion industry player to get a nod, but happily this year’s list has a few more fashion peeps on it. Also happily, they’re all women.

This year’s list is also different because Time enlisted the help of notables like Sarah Jessica Parker, Katie Couric and Stella McCartney to actually write the blurb on each honoree.

Click through to see which fashion industry players made the list.

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Monday April 16th, 2012

Pippa Middleton Caught in Paris ‘Gun’ Incident, Could Face Charges
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Pippa Middleton Caught in Paris ‘Gun’ Incident, Could Face Charges

While Pippa Middleton’s famous butt has been her secret weapon up to this point, she may be in big trouble with French authorities for her involvement over the weekend with a real, actual weapon. The Daily Mail is reporting that Pippa was riding shotgun (sorry) in a convertible in Paris, when the driver of the car supposedly whipped out a semi-automatic handgun and started waving it at photographers. A witness reported it to French police.

According to the Mail, the incident occurred just hours after Pippa left the 29th birthday of “Paris fashion entrepreneur” Arthur de Soultrait (he’s the guy behind Vicomte A) at 6am.

While Pippa hasn’t been charged with anything yet, a “judicial source” told US Weekly, “If the evidence points to [Pippa Middleton's] involvement, she will be prosecuted.”

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Tuesday December 27th, 2011

Tuesday December 20th, 2011

The Year in Middletons: The Best Pippa and Kate Moments From 2011
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The Year in Middletons: The Best Pippa and Kate Moments From 2011

What with the whole marrying a prince and shooting to international fame thing, I think it’s safe to say that 2011 was a pretty damn good year to be a Middleton.

But besides the obvious (fairy-tale wedding, designers vying to dress them, etc), Kate and Pippa triumphed in several other ways: They set trends, broke records (or helped to), traveled the globe, and had thousands of women doing lunges and squats in an effort to get that perfect Middleton bum.

Read on to relive the best Middleton moments from 2011.

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Published at 6:08 PM

Tuesday November 22nd, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Buy Pippa Middleton’s Bridesmaid Dress at Net-A-Porter, Naomi Campbell is an Editor, and Get Ready for the Sweet Valley High Movie!
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Buy Pippa Middleton’s Bridesmaid Dress at Net-A-Porter, Naomi Campbell is an Editor, and Get Ready for the Sweet Valley High Movie!

Pippa Middleton’s Bridesmaid Dress For Sale: Alexander McQueen is making versions of Pippa Middleton’s bridesmaid dress available to the masses through Net-A-Porter for $3,100. For now, it’s only available for order on their UK site, but soon, for e-shoppers around the globe can buy a dress cut to look like you have a booty when you really don’t. Yay for Sarah Burton’s expert tailoring! {People}

Stella McCartney to Show at LFW: While her regular collection is set to show in Paris on March 5, in honor of the 2012 London Olympics, Stella McCartney has designed a capsule collection to show during London Fashion Week. The designer’s schedule is chock full of events that week, including a store opening. Looks like Ms. McCartney is going to be very busy in the upcoming months! {WWD subscription required}

Jessica Simpson to Shed Baby Weight for Weight Watchers: Singer, actress, and clothing line mogul Jessica Simpson is in talks with Weight Watchers, negotiating a $4 million contract to drop a “significant amount of weight” in the year after she has her baby. We can’t knock her hustle–if we had to quickly lose all those pounds, we’d definitely want to get paid for it! {Us Weekly}

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Friday November 11th, 2011

Alice Temperley on How She Got Pippa Middleton to Come to Her Show
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Alice Temperley on How She Got Pippa Middleton to Come to Her Show

On Wednesday night, I set foot in one of the most jealousy-inducing Manhattan lofts ever for an intimate soirée to celebrate the launch of Alice Temperley’s book True British: Alice Temperley (Rizzoli New York, 2011) and the 10 year anniversary of her label, Temperley London. Alice and friends/well-wishers like Padma Lakshmi, Derek Blasberg and Hamish Bowles were in attendance.

While a video of a hand flipping the pages of Alice’s book was projected onto a screen, we got a chance to chat with the designer about new projects and Pippa Middleton, who, as you might remember, attended only one show during London Fashion Week and that was Temperley. Even though we knew Pippa was a fan of the brand, we figured getting her to attend only your show must have taken some sort of PR magic. In fact, it was the easiest thing in the world.

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Monday October 31st, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Marc Jacobs Cast In A Movie, A Pippa Middleton Book and Lauren Conrad’s Kiddie Halloween Costumes
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Marc Jacobs Cast In A Movie, A Pippa Middleton Book and Lauren Conrad’s Kiddie Halloween Costumes

Marc Jacobs Is Going To Be In A Movie: Marc Jacobs let a little secret slip at the WSJ Innovator of the Year Awards this weekend: “I got cast in a role in a movie,” he told Style.com. “They’re filming next week and I’m excited. I get to play a character that’s not myself at all.” Wonder what movie it is? {WWD}

Missed Connection From the YSL Sample Sale: Whoever was wearing purple pants and had a bunch of shoes was apparently the “prettiest girl” at the YSL sample sale last week; the mystery woman inspired a missed connection that fills me with jealousy for this man who is both sentimental and a fan of YSL. {Racked}

Pippa Middleton Might Be Writing A Book On Party Planning: Pippa apparently organized her sister’s April wedding reception and frequently works for her parents party planning business, and is reportedly meeting with publishing houses to work out a party planning book deal. Brace yourself for round 2 of Middleton mania. {Daily Mail}

Lauren Conrad’s Childhood Halloween Costumes: Check out lil’ LC as a super cute genie and witch in her early days. {Lauren Conrad}

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Tuesday October 25th, 2011

Which Celebs Have the Best Bodies? Here Are the Results of Fitness Mag’s Poll (Find Out Which Middleton Sister Made the List)
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Which Celebs Have the Best Bodies? Here Are the Results of Fitness Mag’s Poll (Find Out Which Middleton Sister Made the List)

People care what celebrities look like, how they dress, and how much weight they’ve gained/lost. It’s just a fact of modern life that we can critique Kim Kardashian’s ass any old time we want, thanks to the magic of the internet. Because we love judging celebrities and their toned (or, gasp, not toned!) bodies, Fitness mag polls its readers each year to find out the best celebrity bodies. They’ve just released this year’s poll results and while there are a few surprises, it’s a lot of the same old yoga bodies.

By that we mean–Jennifer Aniston. Jen cleaned up in a few categories: body women want most (34%), best abs (65%), and best over-40 (24%, though she had stiff competition with Halle Berry and J.Lo on that one). Halle Berry, Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, and Blake Lively rounded out the top five most-wanted bodies.

And if we could make a composite celeb with the best body ever, it would look like this:

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Monday September 26th, 2011

(Updated) Kate and Pippa Middleton Hit Another Wedding this Weekend, Major Papers Disagree About What They Were Wearing
Kate Middleton

(Updated) Kate and Pippa Middleton Hit Another Wedding this Weekend, Major Papers Disagree About What They Were Wearing

Kate Middleton and sis Pippa got rather posh this weekend for a friend’s wedding in Wiltshire, England. While we like seeing them in their high street ensembles, we really love it when they look completely English in hats and color.

Kate broke out the Erdem again, this time a scarlet lace version. (The DailyMail reports that she wore Collette Dinnigan, though we’re more inclined to believe WWD which reported that it was Erdem.) The shoes are also a point of contention between the two papers–WWD reports LK Bennett, and the Daily Mail thinks they’re Prada. She topped it all off with a jaunty red hat, which is not the same one she wore with that famous red and white Canadian outfit.

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