Versace In Trouble; Kate Moss Fires Hairstylist

- Dana Thomas — author of Deluxe — wrote an excellent feature on the quagmire of the house of Versace. Thomas takes aim at Donatella and Santo Versace's resistance to change and ham-handed business decisions. It's a thrilling read. [Newsweek]
Kate Moss Busts Out; Cindy Says She'd Never Make It As A Model Today
- Pictures of the new Kate Moss Topshop collection are out — and they prominently display the supermodel's breasts, which she just recently up and grew, like she's some kind of experimental woman built by science, or something. [Telegraph]
Lily Sings For Chanel; Claudia Quits Catwalk
- Handbag model Lily Allen performed live at the farming-themed, hay-strewn Chanel show this morning. [Fashionista]
- Claudia Schiffer has formally announced she will no longer do any runway modeling. She plans to fill her downtime with a trip to Iraq. [Sun]
Sonia To Design For H&M; Carolina Becomes American Citizen
- Sonia Rykiel will be H&M's next guest designer. Her first collection of lingerie will be in stores in December and her knitwear and accessories collection will be available in February. [WWD]
Don't Hate Tamara Mellon Because She's Beautiful
Tamara Mellon, the jet-setting, large-living, litigious, Christian Slater-dating, embattled billionaire founder of Jimmy Choo, is supposed to be a polarizing figure to women. Is she?
Diane Von Furstenberg, Woman of Letters, "The Jet Set."
- Diane Von Furstenberg: writer. The wrap doyenne's gonna "pen" a column for Departures, the high-falutin American Express travel magazine. "The designer and Council of Fashion Designers of America president will start writing about her jet-set life starting with the magazine's November/December issue." Let's hope she…
At Costume Institute Gala, Bad Tries To Triumph Over Good; Fails
In case you need a refresher: Last night. Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute. Superhero theme. Every celebrity and fashion designer in the world. Some people looked Good, some people looked Ugly. But in between there were the Bad, which included Sarah Silverman, left, Beyonce, Blake Lively, Eva Amurri, Eva…
Loose Lips
Sam Lufti, Britney's ex-Svengali/lover/whatever, has been served with a restraining order by Britney's parents. The order might not be valid, though, because it was supposed to be served by 1:30 p.m. yesterday. They might have to reserve him with undated paperwork, but the sentiment remains: back off, Sam! • The …
Heidi Klum Makes It Work; Designs For Jordache Jeans
- The facts speak for themselves: Heidi Klum is designing a capsule collection for Jordache, for which she has been modeling over the past year. Think she'll offer hair extensions to cover nipples as well? [WWD, sub req'd]
- Kathy Hilton just released her own perfume. It's called "My Secret." We don't really want to think…
Karl Lagerfeld's Giant Chanel Jacket: Pretty Fucking Scary, Yeah?
- 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]
- J.Crew's new, hipper, and less-expensive line, Madewell, has just tapped someone from the land of magazines for…
Valentino's Big Goodbye Won't Be A Weepy One
- Valentino on his final collection, showing tomorrow in Paris: "It's a happy collection. It's not a collection with tears in between." Right, because then it would be a bipolar collection, and at 12 minutes or so that's a lot for any audience to take. [WWD, sub req'd]
- And in other last-Valentino-show-ever news, the…
Will Roberto Cavalli Manage To Make Wine Tacky Too?
- Roberto Cavalli is now in the wine business. We hope it comes with a leopard print label! [WWD, 1st item]
- Diane Lane is the latest Neutrogena "brand ambassador." Jesus Christ do we hate that term. [WWD, 2nd item]
- Marcus Wilmont and Maki Aminaka Lofvander won England's Fashion Fringe award for their label Aminaka…
Spice Girls, Victoria's Secret In Classiest Music-Fashion Collaboration Of All Time
- Holy shit! It's a match made in both gay and straight man Heaven: The Spice Girls will play the Victoria's Secret show in Los Angeles. [Fashion Week Daily]
- 15-year old Mick & Jerryspawn Georgia Jagger becomes (shock!) a model. And by shock we mean what exactly took her so long? [Sassybella]
- Israeli model/DiCaprio…
