Ann Taylor

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A couple of teeny earrings are causing a big controversy. Gisele Bündchen bears the brunt of Middle America's rage over her baby daughter's pierced ears--how young is too young to visit the Piercing Pagoda? {HuffPo Canada} Happy Anniversary, Francisco Costa! This year marks the creative director's 10th anniversary with Calvin Klein, and he's got some major celebration plans for Fashion Week... {Elle UK} Rihanna reportedly has a phone on which only BFF Cara Delevingne and her mom can reach her, and she uses it to confide her fears that her career is reaching an expiration date. (Does this remind anyone else of Spencer Pratt's "Bro Phone" and "Girlfriend Phone"?) {Entertainment Wise via The Sun} As for Cara's maybe ex-BFF, DKNY tapped Rita Ora for its resort campaign (ousting the brand's fall face, Ms. Delevingne herself). {Vogue UK}

If you're a cheating woman and you need to know what to wear this summer to fit in with your floozy peers, you're in luck. Ashley Madison, the extramarital dating site, recently conducted a study exploring the relationship between fashion and female philanderers. 52,390 cheating women (presumably Ashley Madison members) responded to the survey, and the results are pretty fascinating--and also somewhat unexpected.

We've all been there: Your friend gets engaged and asks you to be a bridesmaid. So thrilling! Until you remember that you'll be marching down the aisle in a bridesmaids dress, and suddenly images of Fritz Bernaise are dancing in your head. Breathe easy--it doesn't have to be that way.

Kim Kardashian's baby shower invite is a music box with a ballerina spinning to a lullaby version of Kanye West's "Hey Mama." It's actually kind of adorable. {TMZ} Beyonce knows no bounds. The superstar has curated a Rent the Runway "boutique" full of things she likes. {Rent the Runway} Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli paints his own likeness into Diego Velázquez's "Portrait of Pope Innocent X" for the cover of L'Uomo Vogue's May-June 2013 issue. {Vogue Italia} Hold the phones: Victoria Beckham wears sneakers! The designer and former Spice Girl tweeted a photo of her custom Nike ID "Posh" running shoes in neon green. Somewhere, Mel C is sulking bitterly. {HuffPo}

Ann Taylor may not have many fans on the set of Girls, but Kate Hudson's got no complaints. Not only has the actress re-signed as the face of the brand, she's also designing a capsule collection for the label, her first-ever foray into fashion design.

Heidi Klum let her daughters play with her makeup, which means Suri isn't the only stylish kid in town anymore. {HuffPo} Is your handbag amongst the 10 most popularly searched online? Who is the most bag-obsessed country? Digital Luxury Group did some research, and the results are fascinating. {Lucky} Kate Hudson is back for round 3 of her ad campaign with retailer Ann Taylor. {WWD} Some internet genius started a Twitter account, @KimKierkegaard, combining the banal tweets of Kim Kardashian with the existentialist musings of Søren Kierkegaard. It weirdly works (and is hilarious). {New Yorker} Check out what this scandalous Ukrainian honors student wore to her high school graduation - someone get this girl a graduation gown, stat! {Refinery29}

The designers involved in the massive Target and Neiman Marcus holiday collab dish on their goods. Is it too soon to start a wish list? {Style} Who did Heidi Klum call "cowards" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon? You're not excused 'til you've been Auf'd. {HuffPo} Vans is teaming up with cool Parisian brand Kenzo on a second line of sneakers, exclusively for dudes. {Refinery29} Nina Garcia is partnering with JC Penney to be its "Style Voice and fashion collection curator." {Nina Garcia's Tumblr}

The Limited and White House|Black Market to Roll Out Some Serious Spring Campaigns: The two retailers aren't playing games this season in the ad department. The Limited has tapped Karolina Kurkova to front their spring ad campaign, and it's costing them a pretty penny; "in the $10 million range," dished an insider. Meanwhile, White House|Black Market is also making moves, hiring Coco Rocha to star in a TV spot, which will air on Monday. You know what they say, gotta spend money to make money! {WWD subscription required} June Ambrose is Working on A Clothing Line: Far be it from the famed stylist to leave the masses without clothes to go with their June Ambrose brand turbans and sunglasses. The stylist to the stars told the YBF that she is releasing a contemporary women's clothing line, which she hopes will be out this fall. {The YBF} Hanneli Mustaparta is Tweeting for Calvin Klein Today: The model-turned-blogger will be giving Calvin Klein's Twitter followers an inside look at what's popping backstage, and the show's star-studded front row. (What, no coverage on the pending OWS protest?) Mustaparta is also going to be the woman behind the brand's soon-to-launch Tumblr. {WWD subscription required}

Ann Taylor has been working hard to re-vamp its image. Its reputation as a store for moms and conservative "career women" has been a tough one to ov

It seems the honeymoon between the fashion industry and Tumblr is officially over. The first rumblings of a fall out came, as Mashable reported last night, from Jessica Coghan, director of digital marketing at Starworks Group, who voiced complaints about the platform--namely that Tumblr does not have an analytics board, making it hard for brands to measure their presence, and that the platform's NYFW sponsorship proposals were unreasonably pricey. Since then the floodgates have opened, with all sorts of people coming out of the woodwork to slam Tumblr--from Julie Fredrickson, who manages digital and social media at Ann Taylor and Raman Kia, director of digital and social media marketing at Starworks, to Tony King, creative director of digital agency King & Partners. Like Coghan, these industry players complained about Tumblr's lack of analytics, absurd sponsorship price points and many of them also went on to personally call out Tumblr's Fashion Director, Rich Tong.

Demi Moore has been announced as the face of Ann Taylor's fall 2011 ad campaign. She follows in the footsteps of former Ann Taylor beauties Katie Hol

Japan Skips Fashion Week: The tragedy-stricken country cancels its Fall 2011 fashion week. {WWD, subscription required} Vena Cava Digital: Now you can buy all of Vena Cava's clothes on their website. While you're there, don't forget to checkout their awesome blog and the for-sale collection of excellent vintage tchotchkes. {Vena Cava} 17 Things You Didn't Know About Jean Touitou: The APC designer muses on Samuel Beckett, Metronomy, and crappy French restaurants. {WSJ}

Ann Taylor's going Ivy League. The wear-to-work retailer is looking to lure in clients before they even enter the workforce. But they're not targeting just any college kid preparing to go on job interviews--they're looking to cast five students from Columbia University to model for their online lookbook, which, according to a release, will be "a trusted resource that will provide female college/graduate students with fashion advice and career inspiration across a variety of different industries." This latest announcement fits with Ann Taylor's recent efforts to revive and freshen up the brand: they just signed Katie Holmes as the face of the brand and have been putting out strong J.Crew-esque collections with particularly great accessories for the past few seasons. So it follows that they're targeting a younger clientele.

When Ann Taylor unveiled its collection designed by last year's CFDA Fashion Fund nominees, we oohed and awed. And pouted. Because despite the fact that we would have bought the entire capsule--and we mean that--it was not produced. Today, we received good news that the samples--created by Joseph Altuzarra, Prabal Gurung, Billy Reid, and Loden Dager, to name a few--are now up for auction on eBay, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the CFDA. Unfortunately, unless you're a size zero--and a Karlie Kloss zero at that--the only options are to bid on jewelry and accessories by Eddie Borgo and Pamela Love. Oh, and Robert Geller's outfit, which is a much more reasonable size 4. While we admit that those are pretty good options, we still wish Ann Taylor would have produced a proper collection with these guys. Mostly because I want the Loden Dager outfit real bad.

Ann Taylor continues their revamp efforts (ok, sometimes we've called it their J.Crew-ification) with today's announcement that Katie Holmes will be