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To add to your Coco Chanel biography collection: The Coco Chanel comic, a part of Naïve's "Grands Destins de Femmes" collection, with illustrations by Bernard Ciccolini and text by Pascale Frey. {Vogue Paris} Need a new job? Anna Wintour is on the prowl for her new PR director—and she's turning to the realm of politics and business to find one. {New York Post} Rachel Zoe's cutest ex-assistant Jeremiah Brent got engaged Monday to Nate Berkus. Mazel tov, 'Miah! {US Weekly} American Apparel's ads are once again brewing trouble. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is calling the company out for two predictably provocative ads in which the models appeared "vulnerable." {HuffPo}

Dior will reprise its Spring 2013 haute couture show in Shanghai on March 30 as part of a continued effort to win over the Chinese market. {Business of Fashion} Is Victoria Secret's latest PINK campaign too sexy for the young girls it's aimed at? The lingerie company responds to backlash. {Telegraph} Chanel Iman rocks Galore Magazine's cover in a shimmering bodysuit and gold pumps. {MTV Style} Kardashians in kourt? The sisters' family attorney says they may take legal action against Ford for its "disgusting, vile, and offensive" leaked ad-mockup featuring Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe tied up in Paris Hilton's car trunk. {E! Online}

Karen Walker's new eyewear look book features Advanced Style ladies Ilona Royce Smithkin, Linda Rodin, Joyce Carpati, and Lyn Dell, and it's pretty much the best campaign ever. We sat down with Royce Smithkin and Rodin, who sat front row at Walker's show yesterday, to get the scoop on how they became models, and what they thought of Walker's latest collection.

From Mario Testino to Vogue.

We're pretty sure we could listen to Iris Apfel talk, or just stare at her, all day. She is just such a fascinating creature--a fact she proves yet again in a video interview with Advanced Style's Ari Seth Cohen for The Avant Garde Diaries.

Iris Apfel and other Advanced Style street style stars went on Today to talk to Matt Lauer about staying stylish and not wearing "widows' weeds."

So you know Advanced Style, Ari Seth Cohen's awesome blog and now book of stylish senior ladies? Well yesterday there was a surprise advanced style fashion show at Lincoln Center. And our street style photographer was there to capture it all.

Kickstarter's Strangest Successes: We're fascinated by Kickstarter's potential to launch fashion brands, and even more fascinated by some of the crazy

The fashion industry is all about trends--and that extends to the models as well as the clothes. One month it's all about gap-tooth smiles, and the ne

Today Lanvin unveiled their fall campaign featuring real people as models, ranging in age from 18 to 80. We were quite taken by the campaign image fe

We don't like to play favorites, but "Advanced Style" is hands-down one of our favorite style blogs. When it seems like street style has gotten somewhat contrived, when beautiful young 20-somethings are getting dressed just to be snapped and slapped online, thank goodness there's Advanced Style to showcase the style and wisdom of ladies of a certain age who get dressed only for themselves. "I started the blog to inspire people to look at aging in a new light," says Ari Seth Cohen, the site's founder. "I was best friends with my grandmother and have always had an affinity for older people. Before starting Advanced Style, I noticed a lack of inspiring and positive images of aging and I wanted to show that there are so many wonderful things that come with age." And now he's trying to take his blog to the big screen as a documentary (it's already been turned into a book). But he needs your help.