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Rihanna Cuts Her Hair, Lululemon Is in Trouble Again, and Miu Miu Goes Boating for Fall

Rihanna has new hair AGAIN. And we kind of think it's her real hair for once. {Instagram} Why was Michelle Obama snubbed from Vanity Fair's 2013 International Best Dressed list? Here are a few (no more justifiable!) reasons. {The Daily Beast} Chloe Grace Moretz looks every part the Hollywood screen siren in a spread shot by Patrick Demarchelier for Glamour's September issue. {The Front Row View} Lululemon is in hot water once again, with plus-size customers feeling less-than-catered-to by the upscale yoga wear chain. {HuffPo}

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Punk-Era Photographer Dishes on Shooting Sid and Nancy

Photographer Steve Emberton on shooting this famous photo of Sid and Nacy: "We knocked on the door but nobody answered. I knocked a bit louder and still nobody answered and I was beginning to wonder if it was going to happen at all, and I knocked really loud and eventually the door opened and it was Sid and he didn’t have a shirt on or anything. He was just dressed in his leather trousers and he was standing at the door and he let us in and I thought, 'Oh this isn’t going to be much fun.'" Only it was.

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What to Expect from the Met's Punk: Chaos to Couture Exhibit

"PUNK: Chaos to Couture," the latest exhibit organized by Andrew Bolton for The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, opens to the public tomorrow. The press got a first look today. And I have a feeling reactions will be mixed. (The International Herald Tribune's Suzy Menkes already panned the exhibit for being too "sanitized and bloodless.") Here's why:

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The Prada Effect: Why We're Seeing the 50s Everywhere

The upcoming Met exhibit entitled Impossible Conversations involves a sort of rally back and forth between the creations of former visionary Elsa Schiaparelli and current trendsetter Miuccia Prada. The pairing originally raised a few eyebrows. There are some glaring differences between these two Italian women - time being the most obvious one. Schiaparelli closed up shop in 1954, and though innovative and highly influential, she does not have much as much of a direct conversation with the industry or women today as she once did. Meanwhile, Prada is very much alive and thriving. The brand has tremendous cultural recognition--and is in conversation, so to speak, with the industry all the time. Prada's influence is impossible to ignore. So when Miuccia wanted 50s glam and tapped fellow tastemaker and frequent collaborator Steven Meisel to plunk models in a gas station for the spring campaign, we should have realized the ripple effect this would have on fashion imagery.

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The Met to Extend Hours for Final Days of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

The final days of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" are creeping up, so the met is giving us a little more time with it, and allowing people who have jobs a chance to view the retrospective without the aggravating tourist-heavy weekend crowd. After already extending the exhibit an extra week to August 7, the museum just announced they're adding extended hours for the celebrated exhibit's last four days.

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A Review and Reflections on 'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' at the Met's Costume Institute (Plus a Full Gallery of the Exhibit)

Fashionista contributor Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt. One of the 100 dresses featured in "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty," the Met's Costume Institute retrospective of designer Alexander McQueen, is an ice blue and khaki lace dress, sliced to reveal nude underwear below the waist. It's a dress I've always remembered from my first exposure to Mr. McQueen's work. In March 1995, during my first year as a magazine editor, I went to London to attend London Fashion week. Late in the afternoon, on the third day of fashion week, I ducked into a tent to see the collection of a recent Central Saint Martins graduate who had been making waves.