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Marc Jacobs sent out a fall collection last night that just dared you to call it ugly. Dr. Seuss hats? Check. Oversized grandma shawls, secured with oversized kilt pins? Check. The confounding audacity to flout fashion week's age guidelines by hiring two 14-year-old models, even while claiming backstage after the show that the decidedly grown-up blog Advanced Style had been an inspiration? Check. What to make of it all? More »
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Marc Jacobs president Robert Duffy says his life has changed drastically since he and his husband Alex Cespedes adopted their daughter Victoria. He was home on a Friday night just days before the Marc Jacobs show, for one thing. Victoria, who will have the option of knowing her birth mother in later life if she so chooses (the couple opted for an open, domestic adoption, which took a year to arrange), is now six months old. Marc is her godfather. "Our biggest fight was that she was getting really heavy," says Duffy. "I'd say, ‘She is being overfed.' He'd say, ‘No she's not, all babies are fat.' Then I took her to the park one day and had her on a swing, and this lady said to me, ‘Why don't you let your baby walk?' I said that she can't walk yet and she was like, ‘Oh, I am so sorry.' The lady thought she was two years old. I came home and was like, ‘Alex, she is eating too much.'" They consulted her pediatrician and stopped feeding Victoria milk at night. "I keep saying childhood obesity starts in infancy, and Alex says, ‘So does anorexia.'" [WWD] More »
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Former Marie Claire editor, favorite subject of street-style photographers the world over, and newly named artistic director of online high-end shopping site Moda Operandi Taylor Tomasi Hill has been caught red-handed doing something very un-high-end: copying designer fashions. For the new collection Tomasi Hill "designed" for Hong Kong-based department store Lane Crawford, it appears she knocked off a Marc by Marc Jacobs dress from 2008. And as if that weren't enough, Tomasi Hill also copied a blue striped Comme des Garçons shirt — a Comme des Garçons shirt she just happens to have been photographed wearing, by the Sartorialist, in 2009. This is far from the first time a non-designer has been caught knocking off her own clothes for a namesake line — Rachel Zoe, Kate Moss, Lindsay Lohan, and Rachel Bilson have been documented doing the same — but it is a bit unusual that Tomasi Hill copied things that are practically brand new. The smarter knock-off artist always copies vintage things; it's harder to get caught, and there's always the defense that you were just bringing back into style (albeit uncredited) something that hadn't been in stores for decades. [Elle, Fashionista] More »
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Anna Wintour is apparently pulling strings to get fashion brands to design merchandise for Barack Obama's reelection. Under Wintour's program, called Runway to Win, goods from 22 designers including t-shirts, totes, and scarves will go on sale online this Thursday. Wintour has been a prominent Democratic fundraiser, and has hosted fêtes for Obama at her house. Runway to Win is modeled on a similar 2008 program organized by Wintour, called Runway to Change. But four years later, kind of like Obama's disappointed Democratic base at large, apparently not everyone was so very keen to get on board: More »
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Marc Jacobs is profiled by Jonathan Van Meter in the new Vogue. The designer says he hasn't spoken to his mother, Judy, or his two siblings, for more than two decades. The reason? They "don't get along very well." He also doesn't speak to his father — who used to be Joan Rivers' agent, isn't that interesting? — for the more prosaic reason that his father died when Marc was 6 years old. Jacobs tells Van Meter: More »
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Dakota Fanning says she "really wasn't old enough" for the clothes she wore in her Spring-Summer 2007 Marc Jacobs campaign, pictured. "I was 12. I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common. When I did that first campaign for Marc Jacobs, I really wasn't old enough to wear the clothes. He made all the clothes from the runway in my size. I still have them." This is an interesting comment in light of the fact that fashion's use of very young models (and celebrity faces) has been in the news lately; Fanning's current Marc Jacobs perfume campaign has actually been banned in the U.K. for being too sexually suggestive (in the ad, the flower-shaped bottle is lodged between now-17-year-old Fanning's legs). And it's also interesting because even if Jacobs cut the clothes to fit her, the theme of Fanning's '07 campaign was still that she looked too small for the clothes, kind of like a kid playing dress-up. [W] More »
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Marc Jacobs told a reporter "it would be an honor" to design for Dior. "There's no question that the two great couture houses in Paris are Chanel and Dior…. I think it would be a very hard thing to turn down." This is the first time that the designer has directly addressed the rumor that he is in talks to succeed the fired John Galliano at Christian Dior. The latest rumor is that Dior parent company Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy is balking at Jacobs' and business partner Robert Duffy's demand of $10+ million-dollar salaries apiece. [CNN] More »
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Michael Kors says his husband, Lance LePere "always says that because I have a sense of humor on television, no one is afraid to approach me. This has happened twice already, but about a month ago, we were walking near our apartment and these kids, who were maybe 18 or 19, walked behind us. The girl says to me, ‘I know who you are,' and the guy goes, ‘Oh my god, oh my god.' The girl says, ‘Marc, I love you.'" Because all gay fashion designers look alike... [WWD] More »
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Robert Duffy and Marc Jacobs talked about their enduring business relationship with WSJ. magazine. Duffy said of Jacobs, with whom he's worked since 1984, "I don't know if you've ever known a heroin addict. He would eat cake, a whole wedding cake from a pastry shop. I would be like, 'You're the only fat heroin addict I know.'" More »
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Women's Wear Daily is reporting that Bernard Arnault has at last found a replacement for John Galliano at Christian Dior, the €21 billion luxury brand that is one of the biggest and sparkliest jewels in LVMH's crown. According to "sources," Marc Jacobs is in "talks" to leave Louis Vuitton to take over Dior. Phoebe Philo, who currently designs for Céline, might replace Jacobs at Vuitton in addition to her current work. Galliano was fired this spring after making a series of drunken, racist rants to strangers in a Paris bistro; one of the outbursts was caught on camera, and the disgraced designer faced charges under France's strict hate speech laws. LVMH, Dior's parent company, has taken its time in replacing him — it even let a couture season occur while the house was rudderless. If he were appointed, Marc Jacobs would be the first American (and in fact the first non-European of any nationality) to design for Dior. The Dior job search has been the subject of intense speculation; earlier this year, Fashionista wrote that Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci was all but set to take the job. [WWD] More »
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For more than five years, Marc Jacobs International says it was the victim of a $20 million fraud. More details are emerging in the lawsuit and countersuit between Marc Jacobs, his business partner of more than 25 years Robert Duffy, and their former chief operating officer Patrice Lataillade. Lataillade alleged in his suit that Duffy created a hostile work environment by talking about and watching porn on company time (Lataillade specified, for some reason, that it was gay porn), using company funds for personal expenses, and forcing one employee to do a pole-dance for him. Well: Marc Jacobs International has responded with a countersuit alleging that Lataillade was embezzling the company to the tune of $20 million. MJI says Lataillade inflated the company sales figures and hid the true costs of expenses so that he could collect huge bonuses from MJI's parent company, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. The suit says Lataillade perpetrated this fraud by "overstating royalty receivables, understating selling, marketing and administrative expenses, overstating raw materials inventories and failing to write off bad debts." The company also points out that Lataillade was given a salary of $1 million, free private school tuition for his children, an annual family vacation in Paris, and a $10,000 annual car allowance. MJI also allegedly lent Lataillade $60,000 in 2008, which he has yet to repay. The alleged fraud was uncovered after a new director of finance came onboard, and Lataillade was fired. Lataillade's lawyers deny the charges, and point out that the company was audited several times during the period in which he is alleged to have been cooking the books. Even if Marc Jacobs International's allegations against Lataillade are true, one still wonders what kind of financial condition a company must be in for an executive to get away with fraud on that scale for over five years. [WWD, NYPost] More »
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Because, why not? This drawing, along with scads of other He-Man and She-Ra-themed artwork, will be auctioned off tomorrow to benefit a homeless center for LGBT youth. (Our pal over at that site we like to call the Manly Jezebel, Brian Moylan, is one of the organizers.) More »
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Robert Duffy, Marc Jacobs' business partner of more than 25 years, has been sued by a former executive at the company who says that Duffy created a hostile and discriminatory work environment by directing subordinates to join him in watching porn on company time and "produc[ing] and disseminat[ing] a book that included photos of Marc Jacobs International staff in sexual positions or nude." The former executive, Patrice Lataillade, joined the company in 1996, rose to the position of Chief Operating Officer, and was fired in September of 2010. The lawsuit also alleges that Duffy "uses company funds for personal expenses and does not censor what he does or says." Lataillade also says that Duffy forced a Marc Jacobs employee to perform a pole dance. Marc Jacobs International and its parent company Louis Vuitton Moêt Hennessy are also named in the suit; they say the allegations are false, and that Lataillade was fired for unrelated misconduct. In February, Duffy — then a prolific Tweeter — posted pics of a nude man at the company's employees-only fashion week after-party. The suit says other employees occasionally complained about Duffy's conduct but the company's response was lacking: a woman was told she needed a "thicker skin" and a man was told by Duffy to "go home early and have a drink." (Are we remiss in wishing our boss would — skipping the [alleged] creepy-sexy part, of course — occasionally tell us to go home and have a drink? Jessica? Hmm? Whaddaya say?) [WWD, NYPost, HuffPo] More »
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Anna Wintour, shot by Vogue favorite Mario Testino, appears on the cover of the new issue of WSJ. Editor Deborah Needleman reminds us of the longtime Vogue editor-in-chief's importance: "She's a really powerful figure in America ... someone whose power extends beyond what she does." See, she's powerful because she has power! Marc Jacobs — whose career has been greatly aided at various turns by Wintour's patronage — explains that he cannot tell her no. "If I get a request for something, there aren't two possible answers. First I get an email, then a phone call from someone at Vogue, and now I don't even bother to say no — I know the next call is from her." [AP] More »
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Last night, Marc Jacobs showed a neat little collection of neat little 1950s-inspired dresses and coats for his fall collection. Injecting a little levity in the proceedings were touches like fake fur and polka dots. As well as these jaunty, shiny hats the models wore. More »
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For the first time since its famous all-black issue of July, 2008, Italian Vogue has printed a magnificent 17-page editorial, featuring twelve black models. The story is definitely reaching for a languid, finger-curled, Harlem Renaissance feeling. Let's explore. More »
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• A picture of Lady Gaga's forthcoming Vogue cover has hit the Internet. She's wearing Haider Ackermann, and her hair is most decidedly pink. One more interior shot after the jump. [TFS and @ItsShavon]

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• The cover of this magazine has been out for a while, but only the full spread reveals just how well Marc works a handbag. [Fashionologie]
• Trendy label Eleven Paris booked Zoe Kravitz and model Ash Stymest for its lookbook. [TLF]

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• "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]

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• Nicki Minaj is on the cover of V, looking like a sort of Keith Haring painting come to life. She's so wild, that Nicki Minaj! And lest you think there's some crafty behind-the-scenes Svengali calling the stylistic shots, Minaj says:

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• Rachel Zoe is seven months pregnant, and in possession of a brand-new fashion line. She has a new assistant, and gets followed around by a team of 20 for her Bravo show. Also, she's having a boy. But the clothes:

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• Model Coco Rocha unearthed and published the Steven Meisel photograph that Anna Wintour famously killed from Grace Coddington's 1920s-themed spread in The September Issue — previously only glimpsed ever-so-fleetingly in the movie. So this is it. It's purty. [OhSoCoco]

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• 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]

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The fashion industry in 2010 was rocked by everything from untimely deaths to unlikely unionization efforts. Money, sexual harassment, suicide, and shocking resignations: here's what changed fashion this year. [NSFW] More »
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• Actress/grammatically creative indie songstress Zooey Deschanel is suing footwear knocker-offer/convicted felon Steve Madden for reneging on a $2 million contract. For that sum, Deschanel would have spent 13 days "designing" and promoting a line called "Zooey's Shoes And Accessories." [NYPost]

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• Lady Gaga's meat dress was named the top fashion moment of 2010 by the sartorial sages at Time, closely followed by M.I.A.'s burqa, and Venus Williams' lingerie-inspired French Open get-up. Let's discuss. [Time]

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• January Jones' reward for holding up the spring Versace show by over an hour is apparently...the brand's spring campaign. Says Donatella Versace, "In January I feel I have found a perfect Versace woman for the 21st century." [WWD]

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• Mila Kunis, who's also in that movie about the ballet dancers or whatever, is Nylon's covergirl. "It's always trippy to walk into a room and be confronted with a life-size cardboard image of yourself," she joked at the party. [WWD]

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• 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]

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When you hear "2010 Trophee Des Arts Gala at The Plaza Hotel" and you learn that Anna Wintour, Alexa Chung and half the NYC social set were there, you expect winter elegance. And this hypothetical you is not disappointed. More »
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• Katy Perry, shot by Alexi Lubomirski for the subscriber cover of the new Harper's Bazaar, looks gorgeous, if a bit crusty-lipped. She also looks a lot like Jean Patchett on the iconic Erwin Blumenfeld Vogue cover from January, 1950. [JustJared]

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• 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]

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• Detmar Blow and Tom Sykes are trading jibes with Lauren Goldstein Crowe over their dueling Isabella Blow biographies, both of which hit U.S. bookstore stores this week. Everyone is sniping at everyone over the email, sometimes in ALLCAPS!!!

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• Stylist and sometime America's Next Top Model judge Nolé Marin has been accused of sexual misconduct by a male model, who says that Marin fondled him at two photo shoots, and offered to kick-start his career in exchange for sex.

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• Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Randy Jackson — and their late brother's estate — have an apparel line under the Jackson 5 name hitting stores in February. It naturally includes a version of the "Thriller" red leather jacket. [WWD]

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• Yes, she'll be launching a branded perfume. "I have always loved how fragrance can shape a memory…the way certain scents remind you of events and people," says Swift, who's working with Elizabeth Arden. [People]

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Today in Tweet Beat, check out what Ice-T, Snooki, Marc Jacobs and more wore on Halloween. More »
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• David Walliams says Stone asks, "'What time are you home because I want to know what time to put the shepherd's pie on?' I never thought I'd have that. An international supermodel who can make a great shepherd's pie." [Sun]

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• Brett Favre's unsolicited-penis-picture-sending ways might cost him his endorsement deal with Wrangler. The company wouldn't comment on the athlete's future with the brand, but said it was following the story, "like everyone else." [WWD]

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• After Tom Brady's game on Monday night, maybe-cheating Gisele Bündchen called shotgun for the ride home while he was relegated to the back seat. (They have a driver.) Clearly we can infer that she is a castrating Brazilian super-harpy. [People]

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