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Ungaro is Back

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?

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Giles Deacon Out at Ungaro

It's been about a year and a half since Giles Deacon replaced, um, Lindsay Lohan as creative director at Ungaro. His first collection showed at Paris Fashion Week spring 2011 and today, with the spring 2012 show imminent, Ungaro and Deacon have announced that their collaboration has come to an end. WWD reports that both parties are calling it a mutual decision rather than a firing, and we're not entirely surprised. The fashion house has seen a revolving door of creative directors over the past few years. Giambattista Valli, Peter Dundas, Vincent Darre, Esteban Cortazar and then Lindsay and Estrella Archs all passed through before Deacon, and none of them lasted more than a couple of seasons. The troubled brand also hired a new CEO this year, Jeffry Aronsson, who previously held chief executive positions at Donna Karan International, Marc Jacobs International and Oscar de la Renta and is expected to turn the brand around.

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Fashion News Roundup: Lindsay Lohan's Ungaro Collection Is On eBay, How to Walk Like a Model, and More Designer Collaborations

Check Out the Complete Matthew Williamson Collection for Macy's: The London designer's latest capsule collection includes brightly colored blouses, 70s inspired dresses, and rompers in signature Williamson prints. Prices for the line start at just $24 and hit stores April 13th. {InStyle} Alexander Wang's Budding Empire: Wang discusses his rise to fashion fame and hopes his brand will have a life longer than his. {Telegraph} Lindsay Lohan for Ungaro Now On eBay: For $450 or your "best offer," you can own a dress from Lohan's disastrous collection for Ungaro. {Imaginary Socialite} Why Kenneth Cole Hearts Twitter: The designer uses Twitter as a form of year-round advertising. Though he admits that now, in light of his Egypt comment that outraged many last month, his tweets go through a filter. {Glamour}

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Ungaro Fall 2011: Sexy, Sexual, Sex, Sex, Sex

PARIS--“Haven’t we met before?” was the first thing Giles Deacon said to me as we chatted backstage after the show. I told him that yes, we had indeed met, but in far less glamorous circumstances, when I bartended in East London as a student, and pulled him a pint or two. “You must have made me lots of drinks then!” he said with a laugh. That sums up Giles Deacon in a sentence: unafraid to have a good time, whether in a crumby pub or at the Italian Embassy, where his second Ungaro show was held. The collection was definitely better suited to a cocktail at the embassy than a beer in a dive bar: Giles presented a fearlessly sexual woman--a playboy bunny at times, a dominatrix at others. Referring to Ungaro’s famous comment that he "dresses mistresses rather than wives," Deacon borrowed and condensed all codes of sexuality and taboo onto one catwalk.

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Fashion News Roundup: Ungaro's Demise, Boobs are Back, Coco's Video, and More

What Happened to Ungaro?: Cathy Horyn profiles the businessman behind the fall of the legendary house. {T} Guess What? Big Boobs are Back! And It Should Make You Feel Really Bad About Yourself: The real question is: Why do these kinds of trend stories exist? {Daily Mail} Coco's Wedding Vid: First the still shot, now some action. Model Coco Rocha reveals a snippet of her wedding video. {Grazia UK}

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Fashion News Roundup: NYT's Hearts Rodarte But Not Neighborhoodies, More From American Apparel, And The Dark Side Of Organic

New York Times Versus Neighborhoodies Versus Rodarte: When Rodarte released its New York Herald Tribune tee as a tribute to the cult-classic film Breathless, apparently they forgot the cliché that there are no new ideas. T-shirt underdogs Neighborhoodies had already been producing a near-exact doppleganger of the shirt for years-- minus the ghosted-out "Rodarte" text, of course. Neighborhoodies is now in a legal kerfuffle with The New York Times, but the Times may not have much of a case. We expect the newspaper giant to emerge from the conflict with no winnings and some bad press--as they say, no news is good news. {Racked} The Un-Cuddly Facts About Organic Cotton: Hipster mommies and daddies everywhere wouldn't dream about putting their little Emmett/Regina/Asbury in anything other than 100% pure organic cotton, but they may not realize that the kid's going to have a hell of a complex when he grows up. According to Time magazine, the insecticide restrictions necessitated by the "organic" label are putting babies in Africa at an even higher risk for Malaria, a disease that's already wreaking havoc on Uganda. Let's hope the newly-pregnant Stella McCartney avoids this trap....{Ecouterre}

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Giles is Officially in at Ungaro, Katie Grand's Coming With

Giles Deacon has officially confirmed his new post as creative director at Emanuel Ungaro. "Various things have happened at the house recently which for legal reasons the company can't comment on - but I like to think of the bigger picture," Deacon told Vogue UK early this morning. "The house and its legacy have a lot more to them than that - and there will be announcements over the coming weeks about the business. I can't talk about them yet but various changes are being put in place."

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Mid-Day Snack

Blog-alicious: Meet Caroline. She's guest blogging for Lucky (how we found her), but she's actually a textile designer with her own blog full of ill