If fashion magazines had a favorite time of year, it would undoubtedly be the holiday season.

It’s summer! And that means on Fridays, everyone should be sneaking out of work a little bit early to go on a weekend jaunt or grab a drink on a sunny rooftop. The fashion industry, which works very hard, also knows a thing or two about how to cut loose. In our weekly Summer Friday column, we catch up with industry insiders to find out what they do, where they go, and what they bring with them when they escape the daily grind. Last week we went on vacation with supermodel/actress Tao Okamoto. This week we go on vacation with Esquire’s comely senior fashion editor, Wendell Brown.

New blog Part Nouveau, or ‘partly new’, delves into fashion history to showcase the inspiration–be it art, photography or design–behind some of today’s biggest fashion moments. It’s fascinating and impossible not to get lost in, so we asked the site’s founder, Lilah Ramzi, to give us a little history lesson each week. In this week's lesson, Jessica Simpson revives a famous Esquire cover (and no that's not Marilyn Monroe in the original).

March 2013 may have been a good month for glossies, but the rest of the first half of the year wasn't nearly as sunny.

Elizabeth Olsen dishes on her style and raiding her super famous older twin sisters' closets. Sounds like a tough life. {Grazia} Tyra Banks may be the only person in the world who's eager to show off her back fat. We're too distracted by her glorious smize to notice anything. {HuffPo} Michelle Obama is the First Lady... to wear Jason Wu's new Miss Wu line, which isn't even out 'til January! {The Daily Beast} Georgina Chapman talks Blake Lively's "hand-draped silk tulle bodice adorned with custom crystal and rose gold embroidery" Marchesa wedding gown. Can we please just see a pic already? {Vogue UK}

Mark Zuckerberg is having quite a month. The Father of Facebook just turned 28, bought out Instagram for $1 billion and is now facing the most lucrative point in his career: Going IPO on Friday. We’d offer him a congratulatory “poke” but sadly, that option’s no longer available. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the IPO acronym, it stands for Initial Public Offering-- meaning that the company will finally be open to stock holders where the likes of Wall Street—-and even you!—- can purchase a part of the social media company. But with the estimated $100 billion that’s supposedly coming his way, we’re wondering whether the Harvard dropout will invest in a new wardrobe. Will he finally change out of his usual uniform consisting of dowdy college hoodies, sweat-drenched Adidas shower flip flops, and tattered baggy jeans, into something more uh, dapper? Better yet, the question posed is this: Can all the money in the world transform someone from HTML geek to sartorial chic? Fashionistas can only hope! To give him an extra boost, we’ve enlisted the help of several fashion experts from designers like Carlos Campos, Alan Eckstein from Timo Weiland and Simon Kneen of Banana Republic, to editors from GQ and Esquire, to buyers and the likes to see what kind of advice they’d shed onto Silicon Valley’s hottest star. And regardless of whether he takes our suggestions or not (note to Marky Mark: you really, really should!), happy IPO Day! We’d definitely like to send you a congratulatory poke soon—- this time, live and in-person.

Versace x H&M Continues to Tease Us: Two new pictures of Versace for H&M's ad campaign have surfaced and this time we've got an actual price tag on one of the garments: $199 for a mini dress. {Lucky} Speaking of covetable goods from H&M: Check out new photos of their fall conscious collection. {FabSugar} Rihanna is Naked, Again: This time for Esquire. They dub her the sexiest woman alive. Hard to disagree. She's also not mad at Chris Brown anymore. {Esquire} Mischa Gets Beefy: Literally. Mischa Barton posed with raw steaks for photographer Tyler Shields. We don't know why. It's weird. {Tyler Shields} How's this for a mind fuck: Nicola Formichetti has designed virtual clothes for a three-dimensional avatar, based on Mugler model Rico Genest, for a video game called Eve. Says the designer: "I mean if you could make your own avatar, and if you could dress yourself up, I think people will be buying virtual goods." So now we'll be expected to drop wads of cash on garments that don't actually exist? {Dazed Digital}

This week in Editorial Musical Chairs, we have some pretty major changes. Perhaps most notably, Sally Singer made her first couple of major hires at T. She brought on her friend Michelle Kessler-Sanders as fashion director, squashing those Meredith Melling-Burke rumors. She also snapped up former V/V Man editor Jacob Brown as T's new features director. He will replace Armand Limnander, who, as we've already reported, followed Stefano Tonchi to W. Also big news - both WSJ and Vogue Russia have new Editors in Chief. Deborah Needleman, former EIC of Domino (R.I.P.), will take on the head role at WSJ. Aliona Doletskaya resigned as EIC of Vogue Russia just last week and they've already found a replacement in former Tatler Russia EIC Victoria Davydova.

Even though Ken is Barbie's boyfriend (and has been since 1961) he never really managed to step out from his girlfriend's shadow. Barbie is the star. Ken has always been the Gabriel Aubry to Barbie's Halle Berry, nay, the Ken Paves to her Jessica Simpson. But now it's Ken's time to shine. He's got a role in summer blockbuster Toy Story 3 and now he's wearing Prada and Gucci in a six-page editorial for Esquire UK.

PARIS–English fashion still thrives on a history of fine bespoke tailoring originating from London’s Savile Row. Also known as The Row, off Regent Street in the center of town, the legendary street is known for its high concentration of old-school, blue-blooded suits. Yet, despite the dozens of shows during London fashion week, many of The Row’s best are left behind–including key old-school masters. To coincide with Paris Men’s fashion week, Esquire UK selected seven designers who don’t show. Ever. But who should–according to editor-in-chief Jeremy Langmead and co. The mag went on to organize a fashion show for each. On Friday at Paris’s Bristol Hotel, Esquire threw its “7 Brilliant Brits” event. In every corner of the room, a screen showed a film of each designer’s catwalk, along with explanation booklets about each collection.

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