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Dolce & Gabbana Go on Trial, Jean Paul Gaultier To Launch Streetwear Line, and the Olsens Make a $55K Backpack

We can't say we didn't see this coming: After a whole lot of backlash, Carla Bruni retracts her "My generation doesn't need feminism" comment. {HuffPo} The Olsen twins have made another super-expensive bag. This time it's a collaboration with Damien Hirst, costs $55,000, and is covered in prescription pills. {Refinery29} Kristen Stewart continues her stellar red carpet streak in this Talbot Runhoff number. {US Magazine} Today sees the start of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's trial. The fashion design duo stands accused of evading €400 million ($520 million) in taxes. {The Telegraph}

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D&G Fall 2011: Strike a Pose

MILAN--Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce always put on a rollicking show for their D&G range, and Fall 2011 was no different. This season, they took inspiration from the early Nineties. Madonna's "Vogue" (mixed with Duck Sauce's "Barbra Streisand") blared over the loudspeakers--even the usually stoic Vanessa Friedman (fashion editor at the Financial Times) tapped her foot and bobbed her head to the music.

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Going to the Chapel with Dolce & Gabbana

MILAN--Dolce & Gabbana's muse is getting married in the spring. She's from a Sicilian family and her trousseau is filled with the finest lace bed linens, tea towels, doilies, and table cloths. Picture Italian actress Simonetta Stefanelli as Apollonia Vitelli, Michael Corleone's young bride in The Godfather. From that trousseau of hand-crafted delicate lace, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana created their sensuous Spring 2011 collection. There were sheer full length dresses, impossibly short baby doll dresses and every length in between. The designers' attention to tailoring shone through in fitted knee length dresses with delicate necklines and three-quarter-length sleeves and day dresses with full skirts. There was plenty of lingerie for the bride's wedding night too: Muslin bloomers with crocheted edges, bralet tops and corsets. While the collection was primarily white, there were some signature leopard moments, and a a few funereal black dresses that looked straight out of Dolce & Gabbana's current ad campaign with Madonna, which flashed against the wall before the show started. Finale dresses for evening had lace trim and floral appliques but were blinged out with heavy beading and crystals that were blinding under the runway lights. The designers ended the show with a dramatic flourish:

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Fashion’s Most Influential Twitterers

As fashion month fast approaches, it's a good time to get your Twitter organized accordingly. Over fashion month, Twitter has increasingly become the best place to get fashion news and updates about shows in real time. And more generally, it's one of our preferred methods for checking in on our favorite fashion folk and getting news fast. So we decided to put together a top ten list of the fashion folk who have Twitter down pat. We like making lists. This list is, of course, subjective, but we looked at the number of followers, the frequency with which they tweet, and how much their feeds reflect their personality.

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Hey Italian Fashion Elite: Stop Tormenting Me With Your Awesome Vacations

Part of this job entails covering the fashion twitterverse. This is a thing I generally enjoy. Designers, models, PRs, and fashion personalities are more candid on Twitter and you get a better sense of their personality. They also break news over Twitter--like Coco Rocha posting her own wedding pix yesterday. But lately this task has started to bother me. Here's why: It's August. In Europe, and especially in Italy, everyone goes on vacation. Everyone. For the whole month. When New Yorkers go on vacation they stay glued to their blackberries to respond to work emails. Not Italy. These people know how to go on vacation and not work. I would like to learn how to do this.