The FiFi Report 278

  • Adore this amazing Tim Walker shoot of Tim Burton in US Harper’s Bazaar in anticipation of his retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
  • The new Kate Moss Christmas Collection for TopShop is out. She says to the Guardian UK, “I do like a pyjama. I wore a pair out as evening wear in New York once, and there was a massive snowstorm. We couldn’t get a cab, so I had to walk home in them. It was freezing, but they did look good.”
  • Models strip for Climate change! So cute for 350.org. Watch the video here.
  • Read about the fabulous world of Nick Knight! ‘Digital manipulation, unconventional models, streaming shoots live on the net — Nick Knight has torn up the rule book on fashion photography. All about the genius photographer here.
  • Ashley Olsen has a brain …and opinions…! she chats to the Washington Post’s Robin Givhan, Isaac Mizrahi and Glamour’s Cindi Leive about the “Future of Fashion“.
  • Check out how tall those McQueen platforms shoes really are… No one at Vogue UK could walk in them.
  • Smythson have collaborated with designer-of-the-moment Erdem to produce a limited-edition collection of divine notebooks and diaries featuring Erdem’s signature prints and romantic colour-blocked line drawings engraved and printed on goatskin leather. Gorgeous.
  • Marni does macaroons. Yum!
  • Forbes named Yves Saint Laurent the top-earning dead celebrity this week. The late designer’s earnings total $350 million this year, surpassing the $90 million Michael Jackson has earned since his death in June. Good to spend it while you are living non?
  • Michelle Obama appears on the cover of the December issue of Glamour.
  • ‘Adrenaline junkie Maia Norman (married to artist Damien Hirst) wedges a red-hot fashion line into a jam-packed life’ and chats to W magazine.
  • When I grow up I want to be Daphne Guinness in those crazy shoes…
  • After a long and storied career at W magazine spanning back to the early 1990s, features director James Reginato has left the magazine, Further layoffs are expected at W next week. Oopsies !
  • James Franco and Freida Giannini, head designer of Gucci, take the cover of i-D Magazine.

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