• Marisa Miller has earned the most coveted position of all the Victoria's Secret runway girls: Wearer Of The Diamond-Studded Bra. Her equipment costs $3 million. "It's surprisingly comfortable," says Miller. Sure looks it. [People]

• Sir Paul Smith would love it "if fashion shows died out completely." The 63-year-old British designer explains, shows are "pure, self-indulgent theatre. How many girls were there this year in horns or neck braces with bare breasts? It wouldn't matter if they didn't take it all so seriously, but the fashion world is a dangerous, superficial and fickle place." [Telegraph]
• Although the press sometimes jumps all over Anna Wintour for repeating her outfits, it's something she does all the time, and will continue to do, because who wears clothes once, for God's sake? "I usually wear the same dress twenty times. I think it's always fun to have something new, but it doesn't mean that everything you already have in your closet has to be thrown out, you know? Recycle." [The Cut]
• The USAToday and W did the hard work of "parsing" Amelia Earhart's style. You know her, she's that woman famous for...wearing pants. [USAToday]
• Donatella Versace tells a Vogue reader who says she would buy clothes in larger sizes, if Versace made them, that "I certainly wouldn't want to do a plus-size line, as I have no problem with women of any size wearing my clothes. I guess some styles lend themselves to being scaled up, while some others just don't work." Versace's own daughter, Allegra, has struggled with anorexia. [Style.com]
• Donatella hosted a party for the Whitney, and a lot of celebrities came. (Since when are Lindsay Lohan and Taylor Momsen "just-wanna-have-fun blondes"?) Also in attendance at what was, you know, an art benefit were Chuck Close and Ellsworth Kelly. [Style.com]
• Meanwhile, that equally tanned and fashionable Italian female, Gucci creative director Frida Giannini, is headed to Yonkers today to cut the ribbon with Mary J. Blige on something called the Mary J. Blige Center for Women. [P6]
• Somebody should tell Mark Ronson that what he has designed for Gucci is not in fact a sneaker, but a boat shoe. The eyelets give it away. [Hypebeast]
• Karl Lagerfeld is heading to Argentina. Lest you think it's to enjoy some steak and a nice Malbec, know this: "I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist." He'll be shooting Freja Beha Erichsen, Baptiste GIabiconi, and Claudia Schiffer in the next Chanel campaign — what, no Lara Stone? — and researching a book about Argentine architecture. [WWD]
• London Fog's holiday ad campaign features Tony Parker and Eva Longoria. There's got to be a Mad Men joke here somewhere. [People]
• Meanwhile, John Galliano himself has revealed that the spring Dior campaign will star Karlie Kloss. [WWD]
• Grace Kelly and Cartier are each getting stars on the Walk of Style on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles. [HoustonChronicle]
• Angelina Jolie is apparently in talks with Ridley Scott to star in a film about the 1995 murder of Maurizio Gucci. [Variety]
• Tom Ford, the man Maurizio had hired to revitalize the brand, says he will do women's wear again. Just as soon as he can get financing. [WWD]
• The Times' Critical Shopper, Cintra Wilson, went to Ann Taylor. She didn't expect to like it, but then: "Clothing companies, when they panic, tend to go rococo. They get flashier, busier and more disposable by slapping on bigger logos and more useless bows and frippery. Ann Taylor must be commended for choosing less clutter and better details that aren't always: the finished seams inside a little faille opera jacket; the velvet ribbon inside the waist of a peplum coat; the Italian three-season wool." [NYTimes]
• Iconix Brand Group, the company behind everything from Candie's to Badgley Mischka, has been fined $250,000 by the Federal Trade Commission for violating certain provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act when it collected information during some of its promotions last year. [Crain's]
• Burberry is suing the U.K.-based pet supply store Pets At Home for using a checked fabric the company says is too similar to its own. Pets At Home, which has 250 stores, has pulled the offending products, but the dispute is ongoing. Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey told the New Yorker earlier this year about suing a pet store that advertised a dog cushion "in the famous Burberry check." [Guardian]
• Maybe the answer is that Burberry should make like Mulberry, and do its own line of pet clothes. [FWD]
• More details about the city's planned fashion incubator in the garment district have emerged: New York will subsidize 12 slots in a 10,000 sq. ft. space, reducing the rent from $2,900 to $1,500 a month. The designers, who are being selected right now, will also have access to mentoring and support from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. It's not for students fresh out of school: every designer must have already been in business for at least a year, and employ a staff (even if that staff is volunteer). What a wonderful use for a vacant showroom floor. [NYTimes]
  
• Australian denim brand Ksubi is going to do a lower-priced line with the department store David Jones. And possibly another one with Topshop. [Sassybella]
• Anhropologie is extending its reach across the Atlantic. Its first European store opens on Friday in London. [WWD]

[New York, October 23. Image via Splash.]

[London, September 18. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

The Ugly:
Melania Trump's dress is as bad and as tacky as her husband's comb-over.
Mary-Kate: Time to take a page from sister Ashley.
Kimora Lee Simmons induces yet another bout with vergito.

This is not Dita's finest hour. Lady looks better with her clothes off than this hideous piece of garbage.
Janet Jackson's tasteful white sheath is all but ruined by the twin accessories of Donatella and Allegra Versace.
Is Naomi Watts headed to a costume party? Dressed as Marilyn Monroe?
Wow. Anna Wintour. Wow.

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We only write when we are getting paid bundles and bundles of cold cash to do it, which is why we have always had a sort of anthropolgical fascination with message boards, where thousands of millions of internet users express their opinions, sometimes as incoherently as we do, every single day. The boards of Style.com, the Conde Nast-owned fash website and repository for awful party pictures, are inhabited by a very elite bunch....of complete nutjobs!

Re Allegra Versace:

I think she's beautiful. It really shocks me how much people care about other people's weight these days.

MUCH more mess board insanity — and inanity! — after the jump.

Re What to wear on your feet when you're just a regular dude who feels like the whole limited edition Nike blazer shit has gotten kinda played out:

I'm an old (53) fella who would love to be able to walk out in heels. The lasses have been able to borrow our clothes and yes shoes for years if it suits them without being called names. Why can men not now use the same premise and if they fit go out and have fun in their heels?

Re Allegra

I think she's beautiful because of her personality.

Re Allegra

She is mature, and knows what she wants, and acts like a lady while doing so. That IS beautiful.

Re ..

Cool thread. I also wear heels in public. Maybe some women do't think it looks good, but then again women wear clothes that I don't think looks that good.

• Although Donatella Versace and Paul Beck admit that their daughter Allegra suffers from anorexia, the two are ready to sue over reports that the 20-year-old has been hospitalized for treatment of the eating disorder, saying that "remarks...in certain publications in relation to Allegra's state of health do not in any way correspond to the truth." Oh really? The girl is as sickly a young woman as we've seen in a while. We think a hospitalization might be the most prudent course of action. [WWD]
• Speaking of eating disorders, so-skinny-she-could-fit-into-a-suitcase Christina Ricci has been chosen to represent Samsonite's "Fashionaire" collection of luggage. [WWD]
• The fashion industry gets its own version of the East Coast vs. West Coast rap wars! NYC apparel emporium Intermix is heading to L.A and the owner of Kitson is none too happy. [WWD]
• The NY Times' wonderful Eric Wilson sanely questions this new trend in turbans. [NYTimes]

  
  

• More on Diane Von Furstenberg's lawsuit against Forever 21... complete with photos! [NYPost]
• Is Strawberry the new Forever 21? [Fashionista]
• Cute shoes at TopShop! [TopShop]