• Joan Smalls — a model whose career we've been tracking for years — bagged an Estée Lauder contract. The Puerto Rican's ads will debut next spring. "We are rejoicing in the importance of global beauty," said Aerin Lauder. [WWD]

• Jean-Paul Gaultier, on Lady Gaga: "I think she's talented and very inpolitically incorrect, which I love. But I also think that she read up on Madonna's life and learnt it like the Bible." [Telegraph]

• Naomi Campbell, Iman, and Liya Kebede grace the cover of Essence's 40th anniversary September issue. [Fashion Bomb Daily]
• Two retail bigwigs got into a wee fight about how much of Martha Stewart's products they each sell. [P6]

• If you were excited about seeing Lindsay Lohan in Marc Ecko's new campaign, well, too bad: the label used a model for a body double and 'Shopped on Lindsay's face. But who is the masked girl? [Daily Mail]

• Emily Blunt told British Elle that Photoshop is over-used. "I don't like it when they stretch you out and make you all long and skinny. It makes you look like a Barbie. Who the hell looks like that?" [Elle UK]

• Lindsay Lohan is apparently no longer welcome publicity for designers. The ankle-braceleted starlet has been — horrors! — banned from borrowing clothing by most fashion houses, according to one tipster. Lohan has been clothing herself by buying things. [E!]

• Calvin Klein confirmed Lara Stone is the new face of its main brand, Calvin Klein Jeans, and ck Calvin Klein for fall. Stone will walk no other runways, and appear in no other advertising campaigns for the fall season. [WWD]

• In case you might have forgotten their existence, the Kardashian sisters would like to remind you that they have not only a Bebe clothing line, but also a jewelry collection. It is, says Kim, "inspired by our Armenian heritage." [People]

• Louis Vuitton proposed Annie Leibovitz do an ad as a solution to her financial problems. Leibovitz instead offered her fee to Mikhail Baryshnikov; Louis Vuitton wouldn't hear of it, and ended up paying them both. Rich people: so lucky. [WWD]

• Baleful, photogenic robot Scarlett Johanson paused in her daily quest to EXTERMINATE long enough for Mario Sorrenti to take her picture for this Spanish fashion label called Mango. [Nitrolicious]
• And Tilda Swinton posed for the spring Pringle campaign. [DesignScene]

• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have designed a fine jewelry collection for Asprey, which goes on sale this week. The line, themed around snakes and called "The Protector," starts at $525; all proceeds go to support Jolie's children's charity. [WWD]

• Zoe Kravitz, negotiating the transition from Famous Daughter to Celebrity, has committed the necessary act of being photographed by Bruce Weber for a perfume campaign. Vera Wang was the lucky partner in fame-chasing. Shall we expect a reality show? [People]

• Model turned cookbook author Sophie Dahl is getting her own cooking show on BBC 2. Dahl says her show will cover on the "emotional" side of food. "It's cooking with an anecdotal thread, irreverent, unpredictable and not without flaw." [Sun]

[St Augustine, FL; Image by John Brueggen via Zooborns.]

[Gettorf, Germany; April 3. Images via AP.]

[San Francisco, March 11. Images via Getty.]

[North Grafton, Massachusetts; February 26. Images via Tufts University]

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[Israel, February 3. Image via AP.]

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• It's official: Thierry Mugler will be costuming Beyonce's tour. "In addition to serving as 'creative adviser,' with input on everything from set lighting to choreography, Mugler will direct three segments of the show, called 'Dangerously in Love,' 'Ave Maria' and the finale. He’ll also costume the production — from the star herself, who will wear approximately 58 Mugler creations, to the band, back-up dancers and singers." [WWD]
• Michelle Obama is fashion's new favorite doll! "The American fashion industry hasn’t had a catch this big since, well, since another icon of Democratic chic took up residency on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1961." [WWD]
• And don't forget playing virtual dress-up with Sasha and Malia! [WWD]
• Naomi Campbell on her Miami retrospective: “It’s an honor to have your timeline in your career mapped out, and to be asked to be part of such a prestigious week is quite overwhelming." [New York Times]

• Who is Tory Burch's elusive 23-year old stepdaughter Pookie? On Mondays, Pookie interns for Bruce Weber, and the rest of the week she works as the assistant to the president of Carolina Herrera, and she was (allegedly) responsible for the magical pairing of New York's leading faux-WASP ice princess with Princess Coldstare, but alas, we have scoured the Google and cannot find a picture of her. So this will have to do. [Fashion Week Daily]

• Remember the news about the new reality show in which Tyra Banks pits a group of young women against one another to compete for a job at a fashion magazine? Well, it looks like the ladymag in question is ELLE and creative director Joe Zee and fashion news director/calorie restrictor Anne Slowey are going to be judges. Having worked with these people, allow me to just say this is going to make for good television. [WWD, 2nd item]

• Marianne Faithfull on that giant Chanel jacket sculpture thingy parked outside their couture show: "phallic." How long before someone brings Hillary Clinton's gender into this, ya think? [Fashion Week Daily]

• Roberto Cavalli went as Karl Lagerfeld for Halloween: Oh Cavalli - you wish. But maybe you could pass for Phyllis Diller? [WWD, 3rd item]

• Enfant terrible Marc Jacobs stuck his tongue out at fashion critic/mortal enemy Suzy Menkes after his Louis Vuitton show. [Washington Post]