Fashion News Roundup: Karlie Kloss Talks Design, Jen Brill Designs for Cole Haan and Liberty Ross' First Blog Post-Scandal

Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet is understandably stressed in the weeks preceding fashion week, calling August "the worst month of [her] life."
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Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet is understandably stressed in the weeks preceding fashion week, calling August "the worst month of [her] life." {NYPost}

We are going to need Cindy Crawford to spill her anti aging secrets - has she found the Fountain of Youth? Some kind of Dorian Gray-esque deal? - because she is looking better than ever. {HuffPo}

Model Karlie Kloss did a Q&A session for Vogue UK's Twitter followers. Check out what she had to say about her model mentors and whether she'd ever design her own line. {Vogue UK}

Liberty Ross has posted her first Vogue UK blog since news broke of her director husband's affair with a certain vampire-playing actress (you probably haven't heard about it). She just posted a picture of a bird under the headline 'Liberty'. But WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!? The Cut investigates. {The Cut}

Incidentally, should you have an opinion on the Rob Pattinson/Kristen Stewart break-up that you'd like to sartorially express, you can buy this "trampire" shirt. {Stylelist}

Cole Haan has tapped cool girls Jen Brill and Opening Ceremony's Olivia Kim for a mini-collection of shoes, to debut at the SoHo branch of Opening Ceremony. {Refinery29}

J.Crew has teamed up with Lulu Frost for a fourth collection of jewelry, and it's just as covetable as the last three. {FabSugar}

Black might be "slimming," but apparently men find women in red the sexiest. Shocking, we know. {SheFinds}

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