Dolce & Gabbana Go on Trial, Jean Paul Gaultier To Launch Streetwear Line, and the Olsens Make a $55K Backpack

We can't say we didn't see this coming: After a whole lot of backlash, Carla Bruni retracts her "My generation doesn't need feminism" comment. {HuffPo} The Olsen twins have made another super-expensive bag. This time it's a collaboration with Damien Hirst, costs $55,000, and is covered in prescription pills. {Refinery29} Kristen Stewart continues her stellar red carpet streak in this Talbot Runhoff number. {US Magazine} Today sees the start of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's trial. The fashion design duo stands accused of evading €400 million ($520 million) in taxes. {The Telegraph}
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We can't say we didn't see this coming: After a whole lot of backlash, Carla Bruni retracts her "My generation doesn't need feminism" comment. {HuffPo}

The Olsen twins have made another super-expensive bag. This time it's a collaboration with Damien Hirst, costs $55,000, and is covered in prescription pills. {Refinery29}

Kristen Stewart continues her stellar red carpet streak in this Talbot Runhoff number. {US Magazine}

Today sees the start of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's trial. The fashion design duo stands accused of evading €400 million ($520 million) in taxes. {The Telegraph}

Jean Paul Gaultier is launching a streetwear line in 2014. { WWD via Grazia}

Christian Siriano is the latest fashion designer launching a fragrance. We hope it's called "Fierce." {WWD}

Lucy Hale covers Nylon Magazine and talks about her upcoming album and how she used to have no friends. {Nylon}

Anna Sui's limited edition holiday nail polish collection comes in adorable, collectible dress-shaped bottles. {SheFINDS}

Can you guess who TopShop's latest celebrity campaign star is? Your efforts will not go unrewarded. {People Stylewatch}

Collaborations between mass retailers and smaller designers are commonplace now--and both sides are looking for more than just buzz. {AdAge}

For happy feet throughout the holidays, switch out your party heels for these fancy flats. {FabSugar}

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Going to the Chapel with Dolce & Gabbana

MILAN--Dolce & Gabbana's muse is getting married in the spring. She's from a Sicilian family and her trousseau is filled with the finest lace bed linens, tea towels, doilies, and table cloths. Picture Italian actress Simonetta Stefanelli as Apollonia Vitelli, Michael Corleone's young bride in The Godfather. From that trousseau of hand-crafted delicate lace, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana created their sensuous Spring 2011 collection. There were sheer full length dresses, impossibly short baby doll dresses and every length in between. The designers' attention to tailoring shone through in fitted knee length dresses with delicate necklines and three-quarter-length sleeves and day dresses with full skirts. There was plenty of lingerie for the bride's wedding night too: Muslin bloomers with crocheted edges, bralet tops and corsets. While the collection was primarily white, there were some signature leopard moments, and a a few funereal black dresses that looked straight out of Dolce & Gabbana's current ad campaign with Madonna, which flashed against the wall before the show started. Finale dresses for evening had lace trim and floral appliques but were blinged out with heavy beading and crystals that were blinding under the runway lights. The designers ended the show with a dramatic flourish:

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Fashion News Roundup: The Beckhams Don't Have a £10,000 Baby Monitor, Bravo Is Launching a Male Model Reality Show, and Jean Paul Gaultier Joins Cannes Jury

The Beckhams Don't Have a Damien Hirst Baby Monitor: Victoria Beckham has fired back at the UK tabs, denying reports that little Harper Seven received a £10,000 baby monitor as a gift from artist Damien Hirst. How useful could a baby monitor submerged in formaldehyde really be, anyway? {Daily Mail} Hilary Rhoda's Legs are Looong: Is this real? Model Hilary Rhoda's legs look absolutely ridic in this shoot for French glossy Le Figaro. Or as Christian in Clueless would say... "Nice stems." {Le Figaro via Fashin} Jean Paul Gaultier on Cannes Jury? With rumors floating around that JPG will join the jury at this year's Cannes Film Fest, it sounds like fashion may feature heavily behind the scenes as well as on the red carpet. If only, for close friend (and dissed W.E. creator) Madonna's sake, this had happened last year... {WWD}