Go Riccardo Tisci! See how his latest campaign is breaking barriers in the fashion industry and more of Wednesday's hottest fashion stories.

The latest in a string of "designers fighting back" memos has emerged. This time around, Jean Paul Gaultier has shamed Style.com critic Tim Blanks for giving the French designer's widely panned couture show a negative review, telling the CFDA Eugenia Sheppard Media Award winner that he needs to "brush up on his fashion history." As nasty and hurtful as Gaultier's words may be, he's certainly not embarking on new territory. Over the past year, designers have steadily criticized their critics.

Net-a-Porter's media blitz continued Tuesday afternoon at the company's lower Fifth Avenue offices, where fashion director Holli Rogers gave a group of digital editors a tour of the site's fall 2013 buy. Here's a hint: there are sparkly tights involved.

It's that time again. The spring 2013 ad campaigns are in and we decided to spruce them up a bit with our favorite animals: kitties! Little else really needs to be said. Click through, and enjoy.

Saint Laurent Paris has released its first menswar campaign under new creative director Hedi Slimane. It stars Chanel favorite Saskia de Brauw (who is also, der, a woman).

The fashion press has pissed off YSL yet again. Keeping up this year's trend of open letters between fashion's power players, YSL CEO Paul Deneve wrote a not-so-favorable one to WWD, which the trade published today. Oh and he threw in a little dig to Cathy Horyn as well.

Well, that was fast. Just four days after Hedi Slimane sent his debut ready to wear collection down that fateful Paris runway, images of Anja Rubik modeling the very same collection have been posted to YSL's newly relaunched website.

As we approach Hedi Slimane's debut show for Saint Laurent, we spoke to some branding experts to try to better understand why everyone reacted so strongly to his branding changes. Were folks right to be upset, or was the reaction disproportionate to an action that really wasn’t such a bad idea?

While we're fairly certain neither designer is actually that concerned about what the other is doing, there are some undeniable similarities and easy-to-draw comparisons between the two, aside from them being the exact same age and sort of looking alike. So, we decided to analyze this "face-off" with a Venn Diagram and more!

It seems 90s supermodel Kristen McMenamy's daughter Lily McMenamy is set to follow in her mother's footsteps: Rumor has it the 18-year-old will make her runway debut during Paris Fashion Week--and we hear she's even nabbed herself a big exclusive. Clearly, good looks (and serious cat walk skills) run in the family!