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    Fashion Week: Lady In The Lights

    [New York, February 13. Image via Getty.]

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    Fashion Week: Coming And Going

    [New York, February 13. Image via Getty.]

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    Fashion Week: Model Moonlighting

    [New York, February 13. Image via Getty]

  • De-Luxe

    Will 'The Yuck Factor' Sabotage Luxury?

    Now that everybody's getting squeamish about luxury, where will we get our vicarious thrills? More »
  • rag trade

    Michelle At Fashion Week; More Katie For Miu Miu

    • There's the usual gloom, sex, scandal and, ahem, 50 Cent's makeup line - today, but first, brace yourselves: Michelle Obama has not RSVP'd to Fashion Week. This woman's priorities are way out of whack! [WWD]
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  • Celebrity Death Match

    Who Will Win The Hello Kitty Vs. Barbie Sartorial Smackdown?

    According to today's New York Times "Thursday Styles" section, Hello Kitty and Barbie are in a feud. (Just call 'em Puss 'n Boots"!) More »
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    Will Milan Fashion Week Be Colorless -- Again?

    Last July, the "all black" issue of Italian Vogue hit newsstands, but as Milan Fashion Week kicks off this week, it's a "whiteout," says Guy Trebay of The New York Times. More »
  • rag trade

    Dear Vivienne Westwood: SATC Probably Isn't That Into You

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    Model Sues Google After Random Blogger Calls Her "Old Hag"

    • Versace model Liskula Cohen is suing Google after a blogger called her a "skank" and "old hag." Cohen hopes the defamation suit will unmask the mudslinger. [New York Daily News]
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  • plastic fantastic

    Barbie Goes to Fashion Week

    Designer Jeremy Scott has announced that he plans to send a Barbie-inspired collection down the Paris Fashion Week runways this spring.
  • In Brief

    Barbie World

    We've been hearing intriguing rumors about a "Barbie fashion show" since September, and now: Details! It seems, in honor of Barbie's big 5-0, Mattel's wrangling a heap of life-sized designers — mentioned so far: Jeremy Scott and Vera Wang — to create people clothes "that reflect the world of Barbie" for a show at New York's fashion week in February. And if that sounds ominous, wait until you hear about the Barbie makeup line. All this swag will be available at Shanghai's "House of Barbie flagship store" where, says Mattel, women can "nibble on truffles, smear on pink-tinted mud masks and shop for clothes for themselves and their dolls." We have nothing to add to that. [ElleUK]
  • Rag Trade

    Bruno Crashes Paris Fashion Week!

    • Apparently emboldened by last week's success in Milan, Bruno — aka Sacha Baron Cohen — crashed Stella McCartney today. "With his red thong clearly visible above his jeans, the comedian — who was virtually unrecognisable in a flamboyant leather gilet, with his slicked-down hair dyed blonde and brown — sucked Tampax, clapped along to the music and generally disgruntled the front row by continually pushing aside those sitting in front of him for a better look at the models." He then delivered a "lone standing ovation." [VogueUK]
    • In total radness: DVF to design a comic book in connection with her Wonder Woman-inspired collection. Really hoping she has to make the rounds of the comics conventions. [Fashionista]
    • Chloe Sevigny gets into menswear. Well, Gallo will wear it. [Nylon]
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    At Fashion Week In Milan, Prada Was A Real Problem

    New York Fashion Week is over, but Fashion Week in Milan has just gotten underway. Yesterday, the biggest of the biggies, Prada, showed on a runway painted with fish. Those little suckers must have been slippery — or perhaps the unwieldy, chunky, wooden platform shoes were a poor choice? — because several models tumbled. And, horrors: Anna Wintour was there to witness the debacle. The New York Times has video of the end of the show — one model's ankles wobble so much, so hard, she gives up, turns around and heads backstage instead of doing the final walk. Additionally, one model Miuccia Prada sent down the runway in a cropped burgundy sweater was so thin that her ribcage is all you really notice. It's as though her bones are on display. As if all this were not bad enough: The clothes sucked. More »