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FRAGRANCE
• Beyoncé is releasing a follow-up to her debut fragrance, Heat. Beyoncé Heat Ultimate Elixir launches this September, and its packaging is just as lubelike as the original. [StyleList]

• Over the last few years, about twenty fresh-smelling fragrances inspired by the color blue have appeared. Leatrice Eiseman, the director of the Pantone Color Institute, explains why: “We do color association studies all the time, and the idea of blue being steadfast and dependable — that never changes. But it also brings up all these ideas of sky and water, and by virtue of there being a certain depth to it, a kind of sexy mysticism. So there’s this dichotomy between associations of both safety and freedom, but they’re both good.” [NYT]

NAILS
• Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant is teaming with nail-polish brand Nailtini on a collection of vintage fabric-inspired lacquers. The line includes brown, gold, platinum, and iridescent shades, and will be available at CVS’ Beauty 360 and Duane Reade’s Look Boutiques this fall. [WWD]

• Butter London is releasing two new nail polishes inspired by Alexander McQueen. “Long Live McQueen” is a glitter-filled gold, and “4Bumster” (named for the designer’s 1996 collection of bum-exposing pants) is a springy yellow shade. [BellaSugar]

HOW-TO
• Bright eyeliner is a fun way to shake up your summer beauty routine, and makeup artist Stephanie Flor offers tips on how to master the look. [Stylecaster]

• Don’t throw out that mascara just yet. Adding a few drops of eye makeup remover to an almost-done tube can sometimes revive it. [BellaSugar]

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Selfrideges Alexander McQueen display involving a over-sized lamp and a black McQueen dress hanging from it in their Manchester store has caused talk about it’s inappropriateness because of the designers suicide a few months ago. He hanged himself in his London apartment a while ago and the store has now apologized for it’s in-sensitive window display:

“Presenting a fashion item from the new Alexander McQueen collection hanging was never intended to be linked to the designer’s untimely death or how he died,” it said. “Nearly all the new season items from our new window scheme, The Desirables, showcased in both our London and Manchester stores, are hung artistically on their own to present them as even more extraordinary. However, we do acknowledge that, in retrospect, presenting the dress in our Manchester Exchange Square store in this way was a mistake, and would like to apologise if this particular window has upset anyone. The dress has been removed and replaced by another designer’s garment.”

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Visionaire‘s tribute to Alexander McQueen, cleverly titled A Tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen, will cost $295 a copy. But the pictures are so pretty! And since they decided to put it in a box, they can’t really sell it for anything less than that. [FabSugar]

Update: The title of the book is actually Visionaire 58 Spirit, A Tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen. And in case you’re really wondering why it’s so pricey, consider this: The pages are made from seeded paper, embedded with wild flowers that, if planted and properly tended to, will bloom real flowers. The boxed set, which is limited to 1,500 numbered copies, is also wrapped in a McQueen metalized brocade from the spring/summer 2010 show.

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This is the first collection from Alexander McQueen’s successor: Sarah Burton. And it’s looking quite good too! I must admit it’s all looking very royal and couture.

I’m simply adoring the maxi evening dresses and the fierce cuts of the shown pieces. I’m hoping Sarah won’t dilute Alexander McQueen’s daringness and edginess, all in the name of femininity and couture. What say you? (via)

Cruise 2011, Alexander McQueen Style Collection

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The spring 2011 menswear showings in Milan and Paris were handsome as all get-out — and that’s to say nothing of the clothes (which in some cases, were barely there). On the trends front, there were a host of split necks and slit sleeves (Alexander McQueen, Comme des Garçons), more than a few chunky-cozy knits (Gucci, Ferragamo), and oodles of Angus Young suit-and-short getups (Thom Browne, Costume National). But sans a few wild cards — Frankie Morello, we’re looking at you — it was a relatively commercial season. You could actually see your boyfriend or next-door neighbor or at least someone at Oak pulling the looks off. Click ahead to see the Cut’s top 21 picks for spring 2011, then start making a must-buy list for you and yours.

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Tom Nicon, Daul Kim, and Viveka Babajee

Bollywood actress and Indian model Viveka Babajee, 37, was found dead today, Thaindian News reports. She allegedly hanged herself from a ceiling fan in her suburban Mumbai apartment. According to The Calcutta Telegraph, the former Miss Mauritius titleholder and one-time face of Coca-Cola and Kama Sutra ads in India, suffered from severe depression.

Babajee’s death adds to an ever-growing list of recent model suicides, loaning credence to what Jezebel contributor and ex-model Jenna Sauers posited last month: “Suicidal models are fashion’s worst trend.”

Indeed, in the past two years, a hauntingly high number of models have taken their own lives. There was 20-year-old Korean superstar Daul Kim, of course, who stalked down runways for Alexander McQueen and Chanel before hanging herself in her Paris apartment last November. French model Noémie Lenoir tried to kill herself in May; and last Friday, one day before the men’s fashion shows kicked off, 22-year-old French model Tom Nicon plunged from his apartment in Milan, in what authorities suspect was a suicide. And that’s to say nothing of the deaths of Russian Vogue cover model Ruslana Korshunova, Colombian model-turned-TV presenter Lina Marulanda, Canadaian bombshell Hayley Kohle, not to mention Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow.

But are any of these suicides really connected, or just a tragic coincidence? Do they speak to the tremendous pressures of a looks-obsessed industry, or inadvertently glamorize the act as noble in some sick way?

Dr. Lanny Berman, executive director of the American Association of Suicidology in Washington D.C., says that in the month following Marilyn Monroe’s fatal overdose, the numbers of young women dying in the same manner spiked. They were most likely victims of a “non-specific loss of hope,” he says, plagued by the idea that if someone so successful couldn’t make it, how could they?

But Dr. Berman is hesitant to judge the rash of fashion suicides in a similar light, saying that “if you then suggest that there is a cluster going on of imitative suicide, you then influence the problem.” To prove that these are indeed copycat suicides, he adds, models would have to have shown undue interest in, or looked up to those peers who took their own lives — “otherwise the evidence is coincidental.”

Sauers thinks it’s important to recognize the “extremely high-pressure environment” that models exist in. “When you’re successful, you’re sort of surrounded by people who have a financial interest in your career, who want you to be working hard all the time,” she says, further noting that agents “may not necessarily look very kindly on the notion of taking time off, even to deal with an obvious mental health problem.”

Preston Chaunsumlit, a freelance casting agent and close friend of the late Daul Kim says the model once told him she took 17 flights in three weeks. Four days before she died, she wrote on her blog, “Oh but how lonely it is. then and now.” Chaunsumlit, who met Daul in New York in 2007 at an Ohne Titel casting, and says he spoke with her almost daily, also wonders if his industry was somehow complicit. “I’m kind of responsible for these young people and one of them I am really close with is not here any more,” he says, “I asked other casting people, ‘Are we doing something weird? People are dying all around us.’”

Charlotte Ronson sees campaigns like the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s 2007 “Beauty is Health”, which asked designers to avoid using rail-thin models, as a step toward alleviating job-related stress. “There are pressures of any industry, but when it’s that transparent and it’s all about your exterior,” says Ronson, it “is effecting how you feel about yourself.”

Certain industries do have higher rates of suicide, says Dr. Berman, though he was not aware of any studies of its prevalence in fashion. “But even in industries where suicide rates are higher than others, it’s always going to be the most vulnerable,” he says. “You never want to leave the impression that this is something that healthy people do.”

But Gaspard, Tom Nicon’s agent at Next, says the model seemed healthy enough. “Sometimes, you know, you have some kind of fragile kid,” he says, “but [Nicon] was the last person you would expect [to commit suicide].” Though Chaunsumlit says Kim griped to him about her day-to-day annoyances, it all sounded pretty normal — “growing-pains.” Neither Gaspard nor Chaunsumlit knew how either model truly suffered, until it was too late.

Now that Kim’s gone, says Chaunsumlit, “it [just] feels like she is on a really busy, busy schedule. The difference is that I’m not going to see her in the magazines anymore.”

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Alexander McQueen ashes has been scattered in Kilmur on the Isle of Sky in Scotland the 29^th of May.”Lee cherished the times that he was able to spend on the Isle of Skye -he enjoyed the beauty, peace and tranquility. It was Lee’s final request that his ashes should be buried at Kilmuir.” His family told WWD. R.I.P McQueen

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Coming June 2010. visionaireworld.com

This article originally appeared on Selectism.com.

Visionaire 58 – Spirit (Dedicated to Alexander McQueen)

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