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Rihanna Goes Granny Gray, Crocs Get a Little Cooler, and the Latest ANTM Contestant Mugshot Is a Doozy

Gray is the new black... so says Rihanna, who has just given her hair an allover granny makeover. {Daily Mail} My-Wardrobe founder Sarah Curran opens up about stepping down from the company and shares what "fashion projects" she's working on next. {Vogue UK} French Connection brings new meaning to the concept of a nude sketch for the brand's latest inventive fall campaign, shot by the iconic Rankin. {Grazia} If you think you're getting anxiety from waiting for the royal baby, then you haven't read these tweets from desperate journalists who stand waiting for news on the tarmac of Kate Middleton's hospital parking lot. {The Cut}

Shopping

Our Custom Shopping Guide for the New Season of Arrested Development

We're counting down the seconds until we can watch season four of Arrested Development, which hits Netflix at midnight PST on Monday! To celebrate, we put together a little shopping guide based on some of our favorite Arrested Development gags--because while it's fun to dress up in costume, we also don't mind buying things that we can wear again.

Shopping

Fashionista's Guide to Finding the Perfect Spring Jacket

Spring jackets are tricky business. How do you find one that's not too thick, but will still protect you during those breezy evenings? Are you more of a trench coat or light leather jacket type of gal? We picked the brains of some of our favorite outerwear designers (Veda, Confezioni Crosby, Gryphon and more) to bring you some tips on how to find and wear the perfect spring jacket for you--and came up with a handy little guide to find the best ones. We've scoured the market to find the best in five iconic spring jacket styles: the trench, the leather jacket, the denim jacket, the utility jacket, and the rain jacket (we already covered bombers, fyi).

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Meet Avenue 32, the British E-Commerce Site Giving Net-a-Porter a Run for Its Money

Despite the fact that there are literally hundreds of e-commerce sites, very few online-only sites have managed to crack the mainstream market. Even fewer have cracked the online luxury market. Net-a-Porter, founded in 2000, has pretty much ruled the online-only luxury market with an iron first for the past 10 years--but that could soon be changing. As more brands and retailers go online, consumers and CEOs are beginning to look at online-only luxury differently, heralding a new batch of innovative e-commerce sites. One of those sites is the UK-based Avenue 32.

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The Top 10 Fall Trends from London Fashion Week

Playing the name game in London is far from easy: So many cool young designers, so many unusual names, and only a week to make sense of them all. It’s largely due to the aversion many Brit design talents have to being crafted into the sort of the fashion celebs we adore stateside. No worries; the clothes spoke volumes for themselves, as London dialed down the quirked, and turned out one of the most sophisticated seasons in recent years. See for yourself!

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J.W. Anderson Fall 2013: Subversive

J.W. Anderson’s show was entitled “Semiology of the Self.” Now we don’t want to talk semantics, but this had us a little intrigued. The show notes were just as complex, describing the show as “an examination of cacophonic chemistry, reconciling opposites through textural bipolarness in order to achieve hypernormality, the new normal.”

Fashion Week

Attend London Fashion Week From Your Couch: Here's the Full List of Livestreaming Shows

Couldn't make it to London fashion week? NBD. It's already in full swing and we've got you covered so you can watch (most of) it from the comfort of your couch. So what are you waiting for? Grab some ice cream, put on your best pair of Louboutins with your Target pajamas, and open up your lap top to sit front row to take in London's finest on live stream. Bonus point for those who wake up early enough to catch all of them!