• Kelly Osbourne, the new face of the tween-focused Macy's line to which Madonna licensed her image, says Lourdes Leon "is the sweetest girl. She's the most unaffected, well-mannered, well-brought up, sweet, loving, caring, normal girl I've ever met in her situation." And of all people, we suppose Kelly Osbourne — who poses in the ad campaign with a boombox as big as the Ritz — should know a little about her situation. "I've always been a huge, huge, huge fan of Madonna, but it completely changed my whole opinion of her — made me like her even more once I met Lola because she's done a fantastic job with her. Madonna is one of my idols and my first single I ever released was a cover of 'Papa Don't Preach.'" It's so great when celebrities are contractually nice to one another! [ContactMusic]
• Lady Gaga appears surrounded by some bedazzled Hirst-lite skulls and a goldfish in a martini glass for this MAC Viva Glam ad. [YouTube]
• Um, so this is weird, but Colson Whitehead is in the new Vogue, the one with Lady Gaga on the cover. [Fashion Bomb Daily]
• Allegedly, Kate Moss announced at a dinner that John Galliano will be making her wedding dress. [Modelinia]
• André Leon Talley and Martha Stewart were talking formative Oscar fashion moments. "And Barbara Streisand, when she got her Oscar, she took the stairs with see-through bell-bottoms and everyone saw everything. All the Netherlands in the geographical non-mentionable places!" said André. "REALLY?!" replied Martha. Oh yes, continued André. "I saw it on TV and it was one of my favorite moments!" [Racked]
• Tattooing a celebrity's face on your arm — does that ever end well? What about when it's Kim Kardashian? [WWD]
• Harmony Korine shot an Urban Outfitters catalog. [Teen Vogue]
• Apparently, when Valentino Garavani saw Tom Ford dining with Colin Firth, the retired designer...stared at them. As would we, you know? [P6]
• Well, this is odd: "In a rare fit of self-flagellation for a public company, J. Crew has gone out of its way to highlight its financial and operational weaknesses in an effort to justify the pending $3 billion takeover by TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. Shareholders will vote on the deal on Tuesday. In a presentation to investors Wednesday, J. Crew called attention to its 'disappointing' profit guidance, underlined declining same-store sales and warned of longer-term challenges." J. Crew is really pulling out all the stops in pursuit of this damn leveraged buy-out. [WWD]
• Julia Restoin-Roitfeld: now bottling her smelly essence for public consumption. [Elle]
• "Is that Boy George?" Lynn Yaeger reports someone in the crowd asked while she was entering the Vivienne Westwood show. "Westwood is in her typical form, which means multifarious plaids, kilts attached to trousers, and other wonderful ideas that haven't lost their glitter even after all these years. And, yes, it is George, in full makeup and sporting a hot pink Trilby hat embellished with studded skull and crossbones, keeping the spirit of louche London alive, as if Lee McQueen is lurking just behind the runway and George is off to a night of dirty glamour at Heaven and the Ministry of Sound." [The Cut]
• Keds is expanding into clothing, starting next spring. [WWD]
• We were flicking through the New Yorker last night and came across one of those punishingly lame ad-masquerading-as-a-cartoon things that magazine is so given to publishing — and our mind immediately flashed to Spring 2011 Prada. A writer at Fashionista had the same thought! And went so far as to track down the specific look that the cartoon lady is shown wearing. Presented side-by-side, the evidence really is convincing. This is weird on so many levels. We'd also like to point out that the shoes are Prada, too. [Fashionista]
• The Fug Girls have a YA novel! [GFY]
• Nicola Formichetti, the new creative director of the newly revived Thierry Mugler — which is now named "Mugler," tout court — is releasing one "official inspiration image" every day between now and next week, when the first women's collection will walk during Paris fashion week. The first inspiration image is a really dark and murky black-and-white photograph of a black bust of Nefertiti, sprinkled with ice or crystals or something. How daring! The Internet will lap this up. [The Cut]
• An advisory notice for any of you who plan to sit on any public benches or bus shelter seats in Auckland, New Zealand, anytime soon: a local boutique has covered them with raised metal lettering that leaves an impression on the backs of unwitting people's thighs. To advertise a sale on shorts. Geddit? [Copyranter]
• Saks Fifth Avenue is back in the black. During the quarter just ended, Saks made a profit of around $25 million. For the year 2010, Saks made net earnings of $48 million, compared with a loss of $58 million in 2009. [WWD]
• This is exactly what fashion shows are like. "And then the room turned back into the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan I guess you can never have too many pictures of someone who was once married to a member of the Rolling Stones." [Vice]

• "Since Wonder Woman has this amazing strength," explains a spokesperson, everything's oversized. Products range from $14 for fake lashes to $49.50 for "a brush set with its own metallic utility belt," and are expected to generate sales of $20m. [WWD]

• Stylist Emmanuelle Alt, Carine Roitfeld's longtime right-hand-lady, is said to be leading the field of candidates to take over as editor-in-chief, while editor/novelist Virginie Mouzat may still be under consideration. (We previously looked at both candidates in more depth.) [WWD]

• Worst-selling, that is. Swift's April Elle issue sold the fewest copies of the year, and her covers of Glamour and Marie Claire were nearly as bad. Blake Lively bombed on Vogue and Esquire, but weirdly sold well for Allure. [WWD]

• Carine Roitfeld finally addressed her infamous blackface editorial: "We take risks. Painting Lara Stone in black, for example. We were accused of being racist, which was totally untrue, since I once did an entire issue on a black model." [WWD]

• Victoria's Secret model and dater-of-Cristiano-Ronaldo Irina Shayk is suing Spanish GQ magazine after it digitally removed in post-production the underwear that she wore for the shoot, and then printed the resulting "nude" photos. [Daily Mail]

• Retailers are crossing their fingers that you will buy some shit on Friday. Pretty please? Sam's Club is opening at 5a.m. — with complimentary breakfast. Target and J.C. Penney open at 4 a.m., with the latter offering 300+ "doorbusters." [WWD]

• Lanvin and H&M have released another campaign image from their forthcoming collaboration, which hits stores November 23. Lanvin's signature hot-pink leopard print is well represented. Could this be the mass-market designer collection that looks most like the real thing? [VogueUK]

• Paulina Porizkova on America's Next Top Model: "The one guarantee that you will never make it as a model is to go on that show." Which is both honest and interesting, since she used to judge "that show." [NYPost]

• Orlando Bloom and Charlize Theron are the new faces of Uniqlo. Bloom is practically as adept in front of the camera as his wife, while Theron drives an old Citroen and looks attractively wistful in her video. [Nicola Formichetti]

• Miranda Kerr nabbed the September Vogue Italia cover, which is her first. Shot by Steven Meisel, the cover and its accompanying editorial is in 3D. Kerr's Yorkie puppy, Frankie, shares the honors. Who can argue with a puppy? [Models.com]

• Bono and Ali Hewson star in the newest of Louis Vuitton's "core values" ads. The couple, who were shot in South Africa, wear clothing by Edun, Hewson's sustainable fashion line. LVMH owns 49% of the brand. [WWD]

• Etsy isn't the full extent of Christina Hendricks' modeling — she is the new face of London Fog. Previously, the company's campaigns have featured Tony Parker and Eva Longoria, and Gisele Bündchen, whose pregnancy the company Photoshopped out. [NYDN]

• Vogue Paris picked Marion Cotillard for its September cover, and bleached her eyebrows. Strangely enough, the French actress has never been on the cover of Vogue Paris before, though she made American Vogue's cover last November and this July. [@VogueParisLive]

• Halle is the first black woman to make the cover of Vogue's September issue since 1989. "What that means for a woman of color and what that means in the fashion world, what that means to pop culture," she says:

[New York, August 3. 'Material Girls' pose for a photo, embrace literalism prior to the Material Girl clothing line launch at Macy's Herald Square. Image via Getty]

• When he gets done taping The View today, Barack Obama's gonna head over to his close, personal friend Anna Wintour's house for an intimate, $30,000-a-plate, fundraiser with fashion friends like Calvin Klein and Donna Karan. [WWD]

• Adriana Lima, husband Marko Jaric, and baby daughter Valentina posed for Hola! brazil. The Victoria's Secret model discussed her pregnancy, which was plagued with complications including preeclampsia. Valentina was born prematurely. [HuffPo]

• Anna Wintour is going all NIMBY on restaurateur Serge Becker. Becker has a new Jamaican restaurant opening near Wintour's West Village townhouse, and she's warned him not to plan any parties there that might generate noise — or smells. [PX]

• David Walliams and Lara Stone married this weekend at Claridge's hotel in London. To conclude the ceremony, two guests read poems by Yeats and Larkin. Stone wore Givenchy. [Daily Mail]

• Yesterday's Chanel resort show in St. Tropez saw Karolina Kurkova, Natasha Poly, a purple-clad Karl Lagerfeld, and, as rumored, Crystal Renn walked three times. Georgia May Jagger rode a motorcycle with Lagerfeld's bodyguard for the finale. [Daily Mail, Fashionologie]

• The Met Ball may be more fun than we ever imagined — most parties are after everyone is wasties! Here's Anna Wintour, almost smiling. And dancing with P. Diddy. Wait, is Katy Perry crowd-surfing or just on a table? [VillageVoice]

• Whippersnappers from that show about the tragic lives of children with money, and that other show about the never-ending busywork of high school performing arts, are in the new campaign for the Wal-Mart brand OP. [People]

• Police arrested a 47-year-old man at Nick Knight's SHOWstudio for trying to sell an unusual prop: this giant stuffed Bengal tiger, which was once a prop for an Alexander McQueen shoot. The tiger, an endangered species, lacked papers. [Daily Mail]

• To pursue her goal of creating the world's ugliest clothing in every design category known to man, Lindsay Lohan is reportedly in talks to launch a line of handbags with Ed Hardy. [E]

• Alexa Chung hates: "Bad manners," "When people talk about The Wire beyond season one," and "That I have a far-from-pretty voice. This, coupled with the fact that karaoke is basically my favorite activity, makes for some very sad evenings." [Blackbookmag]

• Model Rie Rasmussen, upset Terry Richardson included her picture in his book Terryworld alongside images of young girls performing sex acts, confronted the photographer at a party in Paris for using his position of power to exploit women. She said:

• Claire Danes and her spooky, enhanced spiderleg eyelashes will soon be staring down at you from ads for Latisse, the eyelash-growing goop that has this totally minor side effect where sometimes it permanently changes a user's eye color. [AOL]