If you were looking for an excuse to book a trip to Paris this holiday season, here's a great one: French department store Monoprix is offering designer dresses for under $125.

Scandalous or stunning? Check out Vogue Netherlands's Vermeer-inspired breastfeeding shoot, lensed by Erwin Olaf. {HuffPo} Planning to return your party dress after wearing it out all night? Bloomingdale's has started tagging its merchandise with conspicuous black plastic tags to prevent return fraud. {Business of Fashion} Whew, no copyright infringement here! Miuccia Prada was actually happy to let Giles Deacon use outtake images from an old Prada campaign in his spring collection. {Vogue UK}

How on earth do you disrupt New York Fashion Week? If you’re Lexus and you want to top your competitor Mercedes-Benz--which probably has the largest hold over New York Fashion Week among all the automakers, being the primary sponsor at Lincoln Center and all--you do something drastically different, like team up with MADE Fashion Week, Coco Rocha, Giles Deacon, Joe Zee and Legs, the award winning multimedia arm of Milk Studios to present a revolutionary live fashion performance called Lexus Design Disrupted that involves holographs--yes, holographs.

A group of protesters caused a scene outside Juicy Couture yesterday, claiming the retailer demoted its full-time workers to part-time in order to avoid paying benefits. {WWD, subscription required} Christian Dior is reportedly seeking to replace its $700 million credit line. {Bloomberg} See Crystal Renn balancing an inflatable elephant on her shoulders and prancing with a shark for Hunger magazine! You'll never look at pool floats the same way again. {Hunger} Will John Galliano be returning to Oscar de la Renta for Spring 2014? ODLR comments. {WWD, Subscription required.}

For centuries, the world was missing a retelling of the nativity starring fashion people. Yesterday that void was filled--thanks, of course, to Love Magazine and Katie Grand's apparent ability to talk models into doing just about anything.

The miumiu-london, billed as a "private women's club" at the historic and newly reopened Café Royal, is was the It-club in London. It was only open for three short days--and closed for good yesterday, November 29. We were lucky enough to score an invite.

The day after PPR announced Balenciaga's split with the brand's creative director of 15 years, Nicolas Ghesquière, there are of course already rumors circulating about who might replace him.

2012 is shaping up to be a year of (attempted) revival for fashion brands. The latest? Ungaro. Almost exactly a year after it was announced that Giles Deacon, Ungaro's most recent short-lived creative director, had left the company, followed by CEO Jeffrey Aronsson and other advisors, WWD reports that a new team has taken the reigns with plans to return the label to the runway next season. The new creative director?

It was only a matter of time...Prince Harry decided to play "strip billiards" (so that's a thing?) and someone had a phone with a camera (weird!) an

When the Spice Girls took to the stage last night at the Olympic Closing Ceremonies, it was a moment that many of us (well, me, at least) had been wa

Those Spice Girls really know how to keep us guessing. While it's still not officially confirmed whether they will perform at the London Olympics Clos

They may disagree on the season's must-have accessory, or which color is "in," but British designers are united on at least one thing: Their love for

Following in the steps of Prada, Fendi is reissuing its famed "baguette" it-bag in six of its most popular iterations. Expect them in stores next month. {WWD subscription required} Mischa Barton is opening a store in Dubai for her new clothing line, so you can't say she hasn't been doing anything since The OC. {Racked} Folks, there is a real life Kate Moss coloring book, available for $15 at Shopbop. {Refinery 29} For the 25th anniversary of Childline, Harvey Nichols will display a series of phone booths redesigned by some of Britain's top designers. Giles Deacon, Philip Treacy, and photographer Willie Christie (Grace Coddington's ex) are amongst the participants. Christie plans to use Grace's pout in his design. The booths are set to go on display May 24th. {Vogue UK}

Have you heard? Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are getting married! We've already seen the ring--sort of--so now it's time to start the process called "

Ponytails are the new braids. From New York all the way through Paris—the ponytail reigned supreme during the fall 2012 season. Obviously the pony is a perennial favorite, but it had a particularly strong showing this season. But the style can be more challenging to reproduce than it seems. On the catwalk, it’s a high-fashion look that reads casual and low-maintenance. But on the sidewalk, it has the potential to come across quite lackluster, horribly humdrum, and soccer mom-ish. That’s where we come in—a few of our favorite designers (in collaboration with their amazing runway hair stylists) have found easy and interesting ways to retell the age-old pony tale. Here, ten quick tips for the prettiest, fashion-forward, DIY ponies ever, straight from the fall 2012 runways.

While Oscar nominees probably start preparing their outfits the day they're nominated, we pulled some dress options straight from the Fall 2012 collections just in case any nominees have been procrastinating. Luckily for us, tons of gorgeous, Oscar-worthy dresses hit the runway for Fall 2012, from some moody options at Gucci to slinky and sexy looks from Michael Kors, Prabal Gurung, and Zac Posen. Oh, and there's Marchesa of course. Click through our gallery to see what dresses we'd love to see on Rooney Mara, Jessica Chastain, Meryl Streep, and all the other nominees. And be sure to tune in to the Academy Awards red carpet Sunday night to see what the nominees actually wear. You know we'll have lots of thoughts on those come Monday morning...

What will probably just look like an outlandish movie costume to most, will for fashion obsessives, immediately recall Giles Deacon's spring 2012 co

Things aren't looking good at the house of Emmanuel Ungaro. In fact, they haven't for a while. Just three months after Giles Deacon left his roughly year-long tenure as creative director, WWD is reporting that the company's new CEO, Jeffry Aronsson, is leaving, as well as much of the house's advisory committee. Aronsson has only been with the company since June and was brought in with the hopes of turning the failing company around, as he is considered to be a "turnaround expert," based on successful CEO positions at Donna Karan International, Marc Jacobs International and Oscar de la Renta previously.

Jourdan Dunn and Saskia de Brauw Cover i-D's Winter Issue: Joining the ranks of Hailey Clausen and Anja Rubik, Miss Dunn and de Braw's shots account for two of the six covers from the magazine's "Winter Warm Up" issue. Jourdan's makeup is giving us vitamins A-E right now! We love it! {Models} Rihanna Wears a Onesie, Goes On Vacation: Take a look at some behind-the-scenes shots of Riri on her Loud tour. The best pics include her chillin' in the studio in a onesie and a full face of makeup. There are also some lovely personal photos of her on vacation in Italy with her friends (she wears a lot of swimsuits, shops for pottery, and generally acts naughty). {Rihanna Facebook} Nicole Richie Named "Influencer of the Year": 'Tis a rare thing to see a celebrity accessories line truly produce anything worthy of note, but Nicole Richie's House of Harlow 1960 is certainly an exception. The Accessories Council has honored her with the "Influencer of the Year" award, for consistently producing unique pieces we actually want to wear. {The Fashion Spot}