- ‘Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton are paying homage to Stephen Sprouse. To show their admiration for the late designer next month, Jacobs is using his hit 2001 collaboration with Sprouse for a new, limited edition collection of accessories and ready-to-wear. Jacobs even doffed his duds again, posing in the nude painted in Sprouse’s graffiti for Harper’s Bazaar’s January issue. It coincides with a retrospective — called “Rock on Mars” — at Deitch Projects’ 18 Wooster Street gallery from Jan. 8 to Feb. 28, and “The Stephen Sprouse Book,” due out from Rizzoli New York on Feb. 1′…Reports WWD
- Cate Blanchett is on the cover of UK Vogue, shot by Patrick Demarchelier… Watch the video at VogueUK.
- Love the new Burberry Prorsum Pre-Fall 2009. Above.
- ‘American Vogue’s London-born, New York-based Anna Wintour, travelled to Buckingham Palace to be appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
- ‘Karl Lagerfeld made his directorial debut in Paris - A grainy 10-minute silent film about Gabrielle Chanel’s early years that he screened prior to showing the house’s Russian-themed satellite collection. Watch the video here.
- ‘Karl Lagerfeld has created a calendar photographer commissioned by the Italian edition of Marie Claire and to be sold along with the January issue — features Czech model Eva Herzigova decked out in couture and portraying a dozen different characters. The calendar is a first for the Italian edition and will hit Italian newsstands on Dec 16 packaged in a black box. ..Reports WWD.
- ‘Pringle of Scotland has tapped a troika of trans-Atlantic “It” girls to be the faces of the label’s spring campaign. Pixie Geldof, Daisy Lowe and Lydia Hearst all are featured in the campaign — shot by Steven Meisel in spare, black-and-white tones. Reports WWD
- Jessica Alba turned up the heat in the 2009 Campari Calendar, shot by Mario Testino…Reports WWD.
- See Karl Largerfeld’s ‘Secret Ball’ story in UK Vogue, where he paints a story where he imagines events of a Russian woman hosting a ball for her billionaire husband. See it here…
- ‘Think of it as a Readers Digest for the fashion and design crowd — only with nicer pictures. Distill, a slick, bi-monthly glossy showcasing editorial spreads from fashion and visual arts titles worldwide, unveils its second issue this week, after its debut in September. Editor in chief Colin McDowell sees it as a celebration of fashion and design — and said he hopes it’ll make life easier and cheaper for time-pressed creatives and students’…Reports WWD
- Yves Saint Laurent unveiled it’s SS ‘09 camplaing with Claudia Schiffer shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
- ‘After all the rumors that Anna Wintour was going to be replaced as editor-in-chief of Vogue by Carine Roitfeld starting in January 2009, Si Newhouse decided to put the talk to rest and denied through a spokeswoman that anything was amuck: “It’s the silliest rumor I ever heard. There is no truth to it.” When asked about the possibility of her mother Carine replacing Anna a couple of weeks ago, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld also dismissed the possibility: “I don’t know how that rumor started. She loves Paris too much — she’d never leave.”‘…Reports fashionologie /fashionista.
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