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."

This weekend marks the one year anniversary of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Remember that one? Sarah Burton gown, lots of weird fascinators, maid of honor's spectacular ass? Well, according to reports, the happy (not-yet-pregnant) couple reportedly will celebrate quietly, because unlike their respective siblings, these two don't really party much. Maybe they'll just rent a movie and lie around in matching bathrobes. Which is something they would totally do, and we have the photographic evidence to prove it.

Looks like there is a limit to Kate Middleton's sartorial power after all. Considering the fact that the Duchess' Sarah Burton-designed wedding dre

After all the hub-bub over the royal wedding--and particularly, the wedding dress--we were sure we'd see a slew of Middleton-inspired looks this bridal season. But according to the Wall Street Journal, "bridal experts played down any Kate Middleton effect." Although Middleton's gown attracted over 600,000 visitors when on display at the Buckingham palace, it hasn't been as big a hit for civilian brides. "Other designers copied [Middleton's gown] and had it on the runway right away, but what we noticed though, is that nobody bought it," designer Gregory Nato of Fancy New York bridal, told the Journal. Indeed, bridal heavy-hitters like Oscar de la Renta, Vera Wang, Monique Lhuillier and Carolina Herrera showed almost exclusively bare-armed looks and many of the silhouettes bore only a vague (if any) resemblance to the famous Sarah Burton for McQueen dress. However there was a familiar silhouette, perhaps thanks to another royal wedding of sorts: that mermaid/trumpet style Kim Kardashian chose for her big day was everywhere--on the runways of Vera Wang, Oscar de la Renta and Monique Lhuillier. Could Kim K really have more selling power than Kate Middleton when it comes to wedding dresses? Hmm....

Wearing white to a wedding when you're not that bride? It's the cardinal wedding sin. Or it was. Kate Middleton famously had her bridesmaids wear white--and we don't have to tell you how well that went over, particularly for a certain, um, callipygian Maid of Honor. Two months later the other Kate--Kate Moss, of course--also dressed her bridesmaids and flower girls (all 15 of them) in white. Guests Carine Roitfeld, Bella Freud, Naomi Campbell and Stella McCartney were also spotted wearing the shade at the wedding. And now Kim Kardashian has jumped on the bandwagon, choosing white gowns that look remarkably like wedding dresses for her bridesmaids at recent nuptials. And while limited photos of Kim K's big wedding have been released, we already know that at least Lindsay Lohan wore white, and apparently the invite called for guests to wear black or white. So what's going on here?

It's a sad day when women as slim as Kate Middleton get the photoshop treatment. Alas, this is the world we live in. When Grazia's special edition wedding issue came out shortly after the big event, readers were convinced that the magazine had digitally whittled Kate's already-whittled waist. Indeed, The Duchess of Cambridge's waist (in the image at left) does look peternaturally tiny. After initially denying the rumors Grazia finally published an apology and explanation in their most recent issue, reports the Daily Mail.

Are you going to be in the UK this summer? Well, it might be worth making a special trip there. Buckingham Palace is throwing open its doors (for a mere £17.50 per person) until October 3 so that commoners can file by and gawk at Kate Middleton’s wedding finery, from the tiara to the shoes to The Dress. The exhibit is called “The Royal Wedding Dress: A Story of Great British Design.” Tickets are selling out quickly, obviously. While we showed you every single possible angle of the dress on royal wedding day, the British papers had a sneak peek at the exhibition before it opened yesterday and shared some pictures of the dress and accessories.