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Sofia Coppola has already directed a fragrance commercail for Miss Dior Cherie a few years ago as well as designed both handbag and shoes for Louis Vuitton, so she’s def. not a newbie to the fashion industry. Apart from that, she’s actually even starred in a LV ad. Rumors now is that she’s getting back to work for Dior, and after seen in Paris directing (photos underneath), we think she’s there to direct the new fragrance for Dior starring Natalie Portman, who signed on to be the new front-face for Dior Perfums last month.

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• Despite Karl Lagerfeld’s unfavorable reviews of the new Chanel biopic Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, the designer had some advice for the film’s star, Anna Mouglalis. She said, “When I discussed this with Karl he was very keen for me to show Coco’s humour but that was something the director didn’t want to do. For him nothing can be precise enough. This film is just one interpretation and shows a certain point of view. I didn’t even have to ask for his help though — he relayed anecdotes about Coco, showed me the archives and lent me some beautiful dresses.” [Vogue UK]

• Natalia Vodianova poses behind cartoon lettering in Stella McCartney’s new campaign. [Catwalk Queen]

• Tamara Mellon on Jimmy Choo’s collaboration with Ugg: “It was really fun to work with them and put the DNA of Jimmy Choo into an Ugg boot. No matter who you are, what your income, everyone has a pair of Uggs. We’re also doing a great advertising campaign with them, showing how to wear Uggs in a Jimmy Choo world.” [WWD]

• Brands are turning to crowd-sourcing to increase customer loyalty. Bloomingdale’s recently partnered with Keds on a collaboration that allowed customers to design their own shoes, and online retailer Modcloth gives shoppers the opportunity to vote on which samples will go into production. [WWD]

• Now that Lindsay Lohan is behind bars, “Free Lindsay” T-shirts have been turning up on websites like Amazon, Cafe Press, and Customized Girl. [StyleList]

• Geil magazine has been accused of scamming people in the fashion industry. [Fashin]

• Model Jessica White and Sean Penn were seen canoodling at Rose Bar, but Penn’s rep says they’re not together. [Page Six/NYP]

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It’s one of my firmest convictions (at least regarding the celebs-related anything) – if you made a name for yourself, there’s nothing stopping you from branding it! Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are the living (double) example of how to make a living off of your name.

Even if they have a stylist employed for official events, the twins have a fashion industry on their hands as they’re coming out with yet more products to solidify their trendsetters status in the eyes of the world. And I meant every word I said: Mary – Kate and Ashley Olsen now have a range of sunglasses ready to hit stores this November. Ranging between $150 and $265, this is the teaser of a more important collection set for the Spring of 2011. The two models presented now (the Fairfax and the Hudson) can also be found in a limited luxury edition – with 24karat gold coated lenses at $425. Wouldn’t you want some quality golden eye vision? I think I’ll stick with Dior’s contact lenses if I absolutely have to have some gold in my eyes! (via)

Ashley And Mary Kate Olsen Sunglasses Collection With Absolute Black Design

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The CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) Fashion Awards 2010 is upon us. Next Monday there’ll be fashion and there’ll be awards. And hopefully we’ll taste a part of the fun and the exclusiveness even from the outside.

The annual journal that was put together for the occasion features the nominated designers was photographed by Solve Sundsbo (styled by Lori Goldstein. Now that we know the shadows sometimes are more important and far more real than the actual projected images, I’ll try to give as much credit as possible to the stylists). The designers featured within? Donna Karan, Alexander Wang, Prabal Gurung, Joseph Altuzzara and Jason Wu to name just a few. Marc Jacobs was also nominated but unable to attend the shoot so instead of his (hopefully) clothed persona, we were graced with a handful of models wearing masks in Marc Jacobs image. (click through to discover more details and more images!)

If we’re to believe the rumors, Tom Ford, also part of the CFDA journal was photographed in a room full of mirrors. With his reflection, biensur. There’s hardly an ego bigger than Tom’s in the fashion business, so well done CFDA! Now you should know that the Council counts around 115 members, all of them with more-than-relevant contributions to the fashion industry.

If Heidi Klum has a book, it’s only natural that the CFDA members also get featured in much more than just the CFDA annual’s journal. Assouline and the council worked on a special book available starting September: “American Fashion Designers at Home”. After seeing what Zac Posen can do to an apartment, I now feel in doubt about this book. However, not many designers dare take their fashion abilities and apply them in their homes. Maybe they don’t have the time, maybe they don’t have the connection (with the space) or the peace of mind to do the interior decoration themselves. So they do that with the help of professionals (quelle surprise!).

However, we may not get the chance to find specifications of who’s doing whose house. Let’s see what we know already: Lela Rose’s TriBeCa apartment was reworked by a team of architects and professionals (amongst them the honorable Rem Koolhaas). Also some renovations and adaptations took a bit longer than we’d expect from the people of fashion, people with resources: Vanessa Noel needed seven years to complete her house project and Kate and Andy Spade took three years; next is Jenna Lyons (from J. Crew) with two years.

I’m sure many secrets hide between the pages of Assouline’s American Fashion Designers at Home, a daring project by Rima Suqi. I’m such a sucker for interior decoration and architecture books, I’d love to have this one! Wouldn’t you? (via 1, 2, 3)

CFDA. The Journal. The Houses

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British magazine Healthy came under fire this week for retouching cover model Kamilla Wladyka to look larger. Wladyka looks strikingly thinner in photos on the Fashion Spot. Ex British Cosmo editor Leah Hardy addresses the practice of retouching models to look bigger — what she calls “reverse retouching” — in an essay for the Daily Mail today. This is not uncommon in the fashion industry. Any art director or retoucher will tell you that often they have to Photoshop the girls to look bigger. The editors of Self and British Vogue admit this. Also:

Robin Derrick, creative director of Vogue, has admitted: ‘I spent the first ten years of my career making girls look thinner -and the last ten making them look larger.’

Here’s what Hardy went through:

I have taken anguished calls from a fashion editor who has put together this finely orchestrated production, only to find that the model they picked six weeks ago for her luscious curves and gleaming skin, is now an anorexic waif with jutting bones and acne.

Or she might pitch up covered in mysterious bruises (many models have a baffling penchant for horrible boyfriends), or smelling of drink and hung over, as many models live on coffee and vodka just to stay slim.

And it’s not just models that cause problems. I remember one shoot we did with a singer, a member of a famous girl band, who was clearly in the grip of an eating disorder.

Not only was she so frail that even the weeny dresses, designed for catwalk models, had to be pinned to fit her, but her body was covered with the dark downy hair that is the sure-fire giveaway of anorexia.

Naturally, thanks to the wonders of digital retouching, not a trace of any of these problems appeared on the pages of the magazine. At the time, when we pored over the raw images, creating the appearance of smooth flesh over protruding ribs, softening the look of collarbones that stuck out like coat hangers, adding curves to flat bottoms and cleavage to pigeon chests, we felt we were doing the right thing.

The right thing may have been to also have a call with the model’s agency about her health. Editors and art directors don’t want to have to Photoshop girls bigger. Often they hire girls who look healthy and fit in their Polaroids but then show up looking like completely different, much thinner people. But for every editor that wants a model who is thin but also fit, with has breasts and a butt, there exist just as many if not more potential clients out there who would rather that girl have no flesh on her bones at all. A good body, one art director for fashion ads told us, can be seen as distracting from the clothes. It’s sad what those girls feel they have to do with themselves to keep up. At the same time, this art director says, it’s easier to retouch a girl who has a distracting bulge of flesh than distracting protruding bones.

So how much flack does the Healthy editor deserve? Shoots are carefully orchestrated affairs with clothes that have to be returned on a timeline and photographers and makeup artists and hairdressers that are booked for a certain day. Retouching to extremes is such common practice nowadays that editors use it as a crutch to save time, money, and energy they’d spend on rebooking models. While they can’t do anything about all the other people rewarding these models for becoming so frail, maybe they should just start rebooking girls to make a statement about it. Plenty of magazine editors are calling for fuller figures now.

A big fat (and very dangerous) lie: A former Cosmo editor lifts the lid on airbrushing skinny models to look healthy [Daily Mail UK]

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Filed Under: body issues, healthy, kamilla wladyka, models, retouching

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I thought it would be a nice way to pump up the dynamics of this day: happening around in fashion and the world (in very, very short and mostly very, very odd).

Kate Moss was supposed to have an exposition coming in Paris. Because we weren’t quite au courant with anything and everything Kate from her twenty something years in fashion, photos and ad campaigns with her face on should have been gracing the Musée des Arts Déco de Paris. The project was, however, canceled. Why would that be?

If you’re trying to make your way in the fashion industry, then you’ll know that an internship is the way to start building your success. Especially chez Vogue. Here’s the good news: you can internship your way in Anna Wintour’s offices by placing a bid. (it’s a charity auction and the bidding starts at $1,000).

Talking about auctions: Marylin Monroe’s chest X-ray from 1952 will be available for auction. Weird much?

The face-covering burqa doesn’t seem to be sanctioned by the Quran. Make way for the controversy!

Agyness Deyn is going for a (much) shorter do. Heidi Klum’s undo now looks like an academic blow.

Behind closed doors: how to revamp your wardrobe, the budget friendly ways.

…while re-trending your shoes, avoid moustache-y clogs, even if they’re Louis Vuitton!

oddness aside, did you know April was National Poetry Month?

How about a book? Alice in Wonderland on iPad? Really, trust me, you have to see it, it’s truly wonderland-ish!

Errr. What? You’re getting ready for the beach season? Well, don’t forget the swimsuits you have to forget about!

And since it’s hair-week around here, here’s the latest: hairdos that’ll make you look younger.

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Maybe Kelly Cutrone wasn’t born for fashion PR. Maybe she’s not meant to spend her life holed up in that Soho office with twentysomething assistants and interns she can only sometimes stand. Maybe those things and annoyances and eccentric incenses are simply her gateway to a full-time television career. It would certainly make up for her “coolster” clients that don’t pay on time. And she could be that rare star who goes in front of TV cameras with no makeup, no hairstyling, and no problem with that, but plenty of problems with lots of other things. But Bravo is for some reason undecided on a second season of Kell on Earth. We’re sure they’ll come around, because aside from not airing Work Out anymore, that network rarely lets us down, but if they don’t, Kelly has other TV things in the works.

She said she signed a “major deal in L.A. last week” for a “scripted network TV show,” PRNewser reports:

“I’m going to be executive producing and writing” she said. The show will be about the fashion industry. Cutrone will also be executive producing two other reality shows and will continue to appear on MTV’s “The City,” which returns on April 27th.

A scripted show and two reality shows. So in other words, three scripted shows. But we can’t wait for all of them. Television can never have enough of two things, and those are catfights and people who believe incense actually does something life-altering aside from smelling bad.

With ‘Kell On Earth’ Complete, Kelly Cutrone Dishes on Future TV Plans [PRNewser/Mediabistro]

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Filed Under: when kell freezes over, bravo, kell on earth, kelly cutrone, peoples revolution, tv

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