The FiFi Report 207

  • Love model Agyness Deyn? Check out the lates tissue of ID magazine totally devoted to her.
  • It’s Agent Provocateur Video of Kate Moss
  • The Bodyfrom Brazil Giselle Bundchen recently shot the Ebel jewellery latest adcampaign with Craig McDean at New York’s Pier 59 studio. Click here for Vogues exclusive behind the scenes.
  • Karlie Kloss is Hot! see above. "Elite Model Management is suing fellow model agency Next for stealing away its young star Karlie Kloss by offering her "improper compensation" to sign. Nowadays it would seem that agencies have pale, lanky 15-year-old girls growing out of the floorboards, so what difference does it make if an agency loses one to a rival? The difference, in this case, is Kloss herself: A look back at her career’s mind-boggling blowup over such a short period of time explains why agents would fight tooth and nail over the girl’…reports nymag.
  • "The religious fervor that surrounds Balenciaga each season is partially due to Sigrid de l’Epine’spious devotion (left). Although she has had a wide range of duties for theiconic label — even modeling, early on — these days de l’Epine servesas mother superior. "I am responsible for the patrimony of the house,”she explains. An invitation to her boss’s show is one of the mostcoveted in Paris. (Kanye West couldn’t get into the last one). But del’Epine can be downright secular when it comes to her own fashionchoices. "Style is more about who the person is inside,” she says. Herget-ups are "chic with a twist, somewhere between strong and relaxed.”Having worked at Balenciaga from the start of Nicolas Ghesquière’sreign, de l’Epine is a lifer. She even named her son Cristobal. Nowthat’s keeping the faith".reports fashionista.
  • Nicolas Ghesquière is launching the first Balenciaga e-commerce site.Due to go live on May 15, the site is said to feature bags, scarves,shoes, sunglasses and jewellery. Plans are for the US only. WWD
  • The Sex and The city Movie trailer on MySpace.
  • Kate Moss on Spanish Vogue…left
  • Fondazione Prada announced its most ambitious project to date, a new 18000 square-meter space set in an industrial complex on the outskirts of Milan that will take at least three years to complete. The area is set to be transformed into a site for multimedia events, installations for exhibitions, and to provide a series of secure vaults to house Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli’s overflowing art collections and archives. Style.com
  • IT’S going to be one glittering affair at this year’s Cannes Film Festival when Chopard and Alberta Ferretti unveil their latest collaboration: a red carpet jewel encrusted gown in aid of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. To be worn at the amfAR gala on May 22 - though we don’t yet know by which very lucky lady - the dress will be revealed in all its glory at the Chopard gala dinner. Vogue.co.uk
  • Star New York Ranger (ice hockey) and man-about-town Sean Avery isinterning at Vogue. Avery is a self-confessed clotheshorse who has hasexpressed a dream to become a fashion editor. He wrote a letter to AnnaWintour expressing his desire to work there. Avery will work with avariety of editors, including European editor at large Hamish Bowles.There’s also talk of him working at Men’s Vogue. WWD
  • Juileanne Moore on the cover of French Vogue, Left. fabulous.
  • Hello Kitty will appear in the June issue of Japanese Vogue wearing John Galliano for Dior. "Of course this is the first time the historic fashion house of Dior has had a cartoon character model their entire collection," said an official at Conde Nast Japan. WWD
  • Having received an honorary degree from Heriot-Watt University in the Scottish Borders yesterday afternoon, Dame Vivienne Westwood has spoken out in praise of the institution. "I am very, very impressed by the facilities that they have here and I am sure there is no other college or university in the whole of the British Isles that can come anywhere near to this," she told the BBC. She has been made an honorary Doctor of Letters in recognition of her "outstanding achievements".Vogue.co.uk
  • Checkout the site for the new York model agency ‘Women’ read about all the models. “Women Management was founded in New York in 1988. Over the past two decades Women has launched the careers of models such as Carmen Kass, Isabeli Fontana, Julia Stegner, Iselin Steiro, Natasha Poly, Kate Moss and Kylie Bax.
  • When Anna Wintour says jump, JUMP! from Fashioista.. Caroline Trentini.
  • Steven Meisel has just shot an entire issue of Vogue Italia with all black models, hoping that other issues of Vogue start to diversify their own portfolios. Apparently, all of the photo shoots have already happened, as model bookers at various agencies have been contacted and sourced for new, beautiful, not-white girls — and now they’re twittering about how cool the issue will be. No word on when the issue will hit stands or who’s on the cover (Jourdan Dunn? Chanel Iman?) from fashionista.
  • Elle.com says Australians have style… www.elle.com