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Fashion News Roundup: Ellen Von Unwerth Shows in Paris & Male Mannequins Go On the Baby Food Diet

A Century Strong: RIP Lena Horne. The singer and actress passed away last night. She was 92. {Jezebel} Say Cheese: Le Bon Marche’s launching an Ellen Von Unwerth exhibition, “Ellen’Cinéma,” in Paris this week. It includes shots of Marion Cotillard, Diane Kruger, and Monica Bellucci. So if you’re on your way to Cannes, make a [...]

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Explain

Alternative Biker Jackets

In this video, The Guardian‘s Jess Carter Morley suggests that the problem with biker jackets is the leather. She advocates the “non-biker biker,” and says, “If you take the leather out of the equation, the biker jacket becomes a lot more wearable.” Denim options from Goldsign and Gap hang on the rack, as well as [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Pepe-d: Alexa Chung’s the new face of Pepe jeans. We always imagine her taking a more Burberry-like route, but she did land a Burberry co-star, Tom Guinness, and manages to look plenty Alexa-ish in rumpled shorts and a leather jacket. {Grazia} Bien Sur: French Vogue names their Forty Women of the Decade. Marion Cotillard, Garance [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Cat’s Meow: We’ve missed you this season, Catherine McNeil, though you look perfectly content posing for Greg Kadel in Vogue Italia. {Models} No Models? Mon Dieu!: German magazine Brigitte‘s banned professional models from its pages. They say they’ve been using Photoshop to fatten up girls for years and they give up. So from now on, [...]

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Fashion Week

Kane’s Versus

The fashion world’s been waiting for ages to get a glimpse of Christopher Kane’s Versus collection for Versace. Last season, the duo teased us with a peek at killer shoes and bags, as black and studded and sexy as expected. But this Sunday, he and the boss lady finally revealed the whole thing during a [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

What Did You Think?: Hadley Freeman wonders whether or not it’s really true that models subsist on coffee, cigarettes, vodka and champagne. Just for the record, we’ve seen them eat sandwiches, with champagne of course.{TheGuardian} Risky Business: Karla Martinez just left her job as Market Editor at T, The New York Times‘ style magazine, for [...]

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Coco Avant Next Weekend

In other fashion movie news, Coco Avant Chanel continues its international release rounds. The movie comes out in the UK next weekend, July 31, where it’s being welcomed with various festivities. The Guardian‘s Jess Carter Morley breaks down the impeccable fashions while the newspaper’s offering £100 to Selfridges – not quite enough for Chanel ready-to-wear, [...]

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Quote of the Day

“In fact, the best wardrobe disguise a banker can adopt on Tuesday is probably the Mark Ronson look, aka the ironic Hoxton suit. Ideally it should consist of a brilliantly boring cardigan, neatly buttoned and worn with a skinny-ish tie and narrow-fit trousers. All the better if you can accessorise with a pair of nerdy [...]

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Models

Erin Wasson is Editing Herself

Even if you’re not in LA, you probably heard about Erin Wasson’s garage sale, where she practically emptied out her closet and sold her Wang and Balenciaga (among others) for $100 per piece. It sounded fun, it benefited charity, but many wondered aloud why you would clear your closet so ruthlessly (the last time we [...]

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Magazines

Daphne is Not Doing POP

If Daphne Guinness sounded like she was distancing herself from the POP project after the world pretty much laughed at Dasha Zhukova‘s appointment as editor-in-chief, it’s because she, apparently, really was. Yesterday, in regards to her involvement with POP, she told Derek Blasberg that she would like to “emphasize that I’m completely neutral here—I’m a [...]

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Magazines

Fact: Dasha in at POP

Rumors over the last week have just been confirmed by the Guardian: Dasha Zhukova, the designer behind Kova & T (also well-known as the girlfriend of Roman Abramovich, the billionaire who owns the Chelsea Football Club) is the new editor-in-chief of POP. The first issue of the new POP hits newsstands September 1st, an ambitious [...]

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Quote of the Day

“Drag isn’t for me, although I do look quite good in a little Prada cocktail dress.” –Alan Cumming tells The Guardian.

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