Royal Wedding

Doutzen Kroes strikes an, erm, rather awkward pose on the September issue cover of Vogue (Voue?) Netherlands. {The Front Row View} Last laugh time: A sales assistant at Swiss luxury boutique Trois Pommes refused to show Oprah a $38K handbag because she thought it was "too expensive" for her. {Bossip} From magazines to... shoes? InStyle is collaborating with Nine West on a capsule collection of shoes for the fall. {WWD} Pippa Middleton apparently owes her perfect ass to underwear brand Beautiful Bottoms. Why it's taken more than two years to find out, we may never know. {Grazia}

Sarah Burton has been awarded an OBE, or The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire honor, for services to the fashion industry--and for designing the wedding dress of a certain bride-to-be, Kate Middleton. Perhaps you've heard of her? During the Buckingham Palace ceremony, where Burton received the prestigious award, the designer (who is pregnant with twins) dished on how that royal wedding dress commission came about and if she'll be designing maternity wear for Kate Middleton. Read on.

Mary Katrantzou is collaborating with Current/Elliot on a an amazing-looking line hitting stores next February. Yes, February. It just seems a bit cruel, no? {SheFinds} FLOTUS hopeful Ann Romney dressed like a blinding tropical flower patch on Live with Kelly and Michael--which WWD called "more Lisa Frank than First Lady." Since when is that a bad thing? {HuffPost} Didn't quite get your shoe porn fix during fashion week? Lucky's got you covered with it's comprehensive 'Shoes of NYFW' vid! Should do the trick. {LuckyMag} The Feds? The mob? Private investigators? FASHION?! Looks like Calvin Klein’s split from ex Nick Gruber isn’t going so smoothly. As opposed to his face. Which is very, very smooth. {Page Six}

It seems like Kate and William’s big Royal Wedding was just yesterday — when we were analyzing the now-Duchess of Cambridge’s Sarah Burton for Alexa

Kate Middleton and Prince William's one year wedding anniversary is almost nigh, and of course the best way to celebrate the union of two individuals in holy matrimony is with an array of silly, useless products. Yay capitalism! Whether it's with auctioning off a slice of year-old wedding cake, or shilling commemorative mugs (that commemorate the wrong Prince unfortunately), there's no shortage of ways that companies are cashing in on the royal duo's wedding anniversary. And just think, we have dozens more anniversaries to come just like this... So, without further ado, click through for a round up of the best and wackiest Royal Wedding Anniversary products out there.

Throughout Kate Middleton’s first year of married life, the Duchess has donned a slew of tasteful and decidedly quiet outfits that inevitably landed tenfold in the press—-each one leaking online with increased excitement. There’s no doubt that the brands the Duchess supports have experienced unforeseen growth, selling out of Middleton’s favorite pieces in a matter of days, sometimes even hours. Though despite the profit-drawing qualities of what retailers now call ‘The Kate Middleton Effect,’ The Sunday Times recently published an article drawing attention to the phenomenon’s reverse implications. The (paywalled) piece, which was picked up by international outlets, including The Daily Beast, noted that after Middleton wore Links of London’s Hope drop-style earrings in her official engagement photos, the brand quickly sold out of the style at such an accelerated rate that they were unable to produce additional stock at the necessary speed, leading to an onslaught of counterfeits that cost the brand $12.6 million in potential profits. Titled, “Kate’s Favourite Jeweller Loses £8m to Net Pirates,” the article quoted the head of the brand’s online sales team as saying, “The counterfeiters were a lot cleverer than we were at the time of the wedding. We didn't have that much stock so we started to sell out quite quickly ... The counterfeiters took advantage of that by saying they had stock and people were duped into buying them."