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Women's Wear Daily, U.S. fashion's venerable trade, has apparently decided that a new section dedicated to $525 sunglasses, Swiss spas and photos of Kate Winslet in sneakers is the best use of its time and talents. Why? More »
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in response to Kitty Kelley's new biography at last night's Matrix Awards. [WWD More »
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• Yes, this outfit is available! [OC via Racked]
• Kanye's so-last-week jackassery has spawned a tee shirt. We say: stop trying to make "I'ma let you finish" happen! [InventorSpot]
• Miuccia Prada has a "passion for knickers," believes deeply in no-pants. [Telegraph]

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It's been twenty years since Sandra Bernhard's one-woman show, Without You I'm Nothing, debuted. In an interview with WWD, the 53-year-old talks about the revival of the show… And lays a smackdown on idiots and fools. More »
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In 2007, up-and-comer Lady GaGa toldWWD: "When someone sees a girl in a two-piece out on the town, people think she's a ho. We think that's awesome. It's rock 'n' roll." Pix after jump! [WWD] More »
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• Yes, it's fashion week, yes, there are better things to talk about, and yes, we'll get to them after the jump, but first: Toby Keith's clothing line debuted. It's worse than we thought. [TMZ]

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• In a video, skeevy CEO Dov Charney claims that "there's a conspiracy against celebrities in the Hollywood area" and that "the judges are generally patriarchal, they don't want to give celebrities a chance." Down with the patriarchy! [The Street]
• Word is, Katie Holmes shot her Miu Miu campaign yesterday. [Fashionologie]
• More inaugural gown sketches! We're not feeling 'em. [Politico]
• Colombian bulletproof jackets were inspired by our trigger-happy Veep. “This is a new market for us. Dick Cheney has helped raise awareness of accidents." [Think Progress]
• Thakoon, maker of Michelle Obama's "reverse kimono" DNC dress, has discontinued the design. [WSJ]

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The September issues of women's magazines are historically the thickest and most anticipated of the year, filled with a particularly frenzied orgy of materialism. WWD has the scoop on the covergirls for those issues, which will hit newsstands in late August. Keira Knightley will grace the cover of Vogue for the second time in under two years — the fourth time in total — even though her last cover from June '07 (pictured) didn't sell well. Glamour has Penélope Cruz, W is featuring Kate Hudson, In Style will highlight Uma Thurman, Allure has Carrie Underwood, Teen Vogue has Vanessa Hudgens, Elle has Jessica Simpson, and finally, Cosmo will show Blake Lively. (The teen queen's presence in Cosmo confirms our suspicion that the magazine is not actually geared towards grown women). [WWD, sub. req.] More »
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When I was in junior high, Betsey Johnson was THE designer to wear. Her stores weren’t yet in malls, so it was a big treat to go into New York City for the day and (hopefully) have your mom treat you to a Betsey Johnson dress. Our dresses got passed down from babysitter to big sister to little sister and then went right back in my closet, where they reside to this day. Johnson’s staple is always the same: incredibly girly but never innocent. And though her resort collection, or at least the six pieces I’ve seen, aren’t exactly groundbreaking, they are each like tightly wrapped pieces of hard candy that I never get tired of savoring. Selected images after the jump. More »
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• More rumored changes for The Greatest Show On Earth, Project Runway: Season 6 of the show, the first to be broadcast on Lifetime, may feature "More Than A Pretty Face" magazine Marie Claire in lieu of Elle as the affiliated fashion magazine sponsor. [WWD, 1st item]

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Today's Women's Wear Daily bemoans the five types of dysfunctional "extreme shoppers." These women live where conspicuous consumption and pathology meet. You know them, surely — or, at least, you've seen them: They demand attention. They cry in the dressing room. They cry outside of the dressing room. They cry outside of the dressing room while still undressed. They attempt to get poor unsuspecting sales clerks naked in a dressing room with them. Thing is, has anyone ever met one of these types? Will anyone admit to being one? After the jump, the categories of terror. More »
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Barneys creative director Simon Doonan is profiled in WWD today. He's got a new book, Eccentric Glamour (one chapter is called "Say No to Ho"), and his interview is chock full of amusing witticisms and quippy bon mots, especially if you recall that he says it all in a crisp British accent. Of convincing Donatella Versace to stand in the window of Barneys New York for ten minutes, Simon says: "I told her it would be like an aquarium." He claims he came out of the womb totally and obviously gay: "I was flitting around the house like a Russian ballerina. I think my parents were just glad I wasn't a schizophrenic." On Hillary Clinton and her wardrobe: "She looks entirely appropriate. I don't want a politician who is going to wear a backless Dior gown. I don't want a politician who's thinking about fashion for even one millisecond. It's the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in a Comme des Garçons humpback dress giving me a colonoscopy is just not groovy." More »
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Today's Women's Wear Daily asks the legitimately thought-provoking question: Just who do women dress for? Now, since I work from home, I dress for no one, meaning I am regularly clad in orange sweats, an old tank top, thick wool socks, and my glasses. If I thought anyone could see me, however, I'd probably put on a pair of darkwash jeans, my favorite rose-colored low cut silk blouse and maybe the Marc Jacobs brown patent leather granny shoes I blew my last paycheck on. (Also, I would brush my hair.) Which, I guess, makes me like Anne Hathaway, who tells WWD (and not entirely originally) that "Most women dress for their most fashionable friend." But the other famous folk WWD spoke to were actually fairly split on whether women dress for other women... or for men. More »
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• "With so many magazine images that are so completely retouched, we've gone in the opposite direction, showing the soul of a woman." That's artist Francois-Marie Banier, on this Diane von Furstenberg ad starring Natalia Vodianova. Which makes us wonder, if that is the "opposite direction" of the retouching trend, we sort of wonder what that trend would look like "taken to its hyperbolic extreme." [Vogue UK]

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• Whoah. Prada Fall 2008 Menswear: Now featuring skirts! Oh yes, this is something guys would totally buy. [Chic Report]

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• Pregnant singer Lily Allen has announced that she has turned down multiple offers to design a maternity line, given that so many of her fans are tween girls and feels that attaching her name to getting knocked up just "wouldn't be suitable." Jaime-Lynn, are you listening? [BBC]

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It's been a long-time coming but, just like death, no matter the circumstances surrounding it, the blow is never dulled: WWD is reporting that Valentino will be resigning from his eponymous fashion house after designing one more ready-to-wear and one more couture collection. (Which we think makes him, like, the Barbra Streisand of designers — who else would announce a retirement and then continue to perform?) [WWD] More »
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Things we have come to expect from Women's Wear Daily: The fetishism of Ralph Lauren, the continued saga of Valentino's not-retirement, magazine editors saying cringe-worthy things. What we don't expect? Service journalism . But lo and behold, in this morning's edition of the trade paper, was a full-on diet feature pegged to a book called The Little Black Dress Diet, which guarantees the loss of 7 lbs in 7 days: Can your Ex-Lax/black coffee/enema regime do that? Probably. But for those who want the same results via purely herbal means, this is the fennel/dill/parsley diet you've been looking for. The full regime — with helpful translations by us! — after the jump. More »
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Music festivals and fashion statements go together like Peter, Bjorn and John and Pete and Kate! But fashion-wise, not all music festivals are created equal. As Donna Karan spokeswoman told the LA Times last year re the Lohan-Diaz-Kim Stewart music-famewhore clusterfuck that is Coachella: "We've done Coachella for three years now, but we wouldn't necessarily do Bonnaroo. It's all about the energy here. Let's face it, it's not everybody who gets in — it's tastemakers. We're associating ourselves with people who set the trends. They tell the stories we want to tell." So what stories to Bonnarroo attendees tell, pray tell? The intrepid style studiers at Women's Wear Daily went to find out, and returned with an entire gallery showcasing the Nashville music festival's hottest "hipsters." So who's right? The PR bitches? Or the fourth estate? Judge for yourself by checking out the aforementioned gallery, after the jump. More »
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We'd been waiting for an excuse to run this picture and here it is: One of our favorite actresses, Kate Winslet, may be the next face of L'Oreal. Click through to see Kate in all her white-gloved glory. More »
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• Indie pop band Tilly and the Wall announces Nebraskan style-revolution from the stage of the Coachella Music Festival, saying of their home state: "...you don't really have anywhere to buy clothes except for thrift stores so you just create it yourself, which has led to a ton of crazy style in Omaha." [WWD]

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• Having convinced men that they smell Unforgivable, Sean "P.Diddy" Combs takes on the women's fragrance market. His new scent, which smells like a pina colada, will be supported by an ad campaign depicting Diddy forcibly taking a woman from behind. Ah, we love the smell of debatably consensual sex in the morning! [WWD]

Brooks Brothers makes a move towards the obvious, opening smaller, edited editions of their normal retail stores in resort locations and calling the wares there "The Country Club Collection." And everywhere, WASPS breathe a sigh of relief. [WWD]

Fashion's favorite enfant terrible John Galliano will not photographer William Klein's plagiarism allegations lying down. He was "inspired", not "stealing," ok??? [Vogue UK] More »
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Sometime last month someone announced the news that Sarah Jessica Parker is "designing", by which we mean, "profiting from the sale of," a line of clothes for poor people. And not you-and-me poor, but the type of poor that is targeted by the "Layaway" section at my corner Dollar Store - basically you and me if we had a few kids and no laptops poor. The line is being sold at Steve & Barry's, a chain of discount sporting goods stores - we love how WWD keeps calling it a "sportswear" store! as if you can buy Ackris in there!! - that according to this Business Week story is known for undercutting Wal-Mart prices by as much as 40%. (And if that doesn't scream "Kathie Lee Gifford" to you, you definitely did not take econ alongside upstanding young capitalists like Steve & Barry.) (Who incidentally, started the chain that would conract the "designing skills" of SJP, after graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, from which Jezzy #2 dropped out after realizing we would pretty much never not be too poor to pay for it.) More »
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We missed this earlier but WWD is reporting that intimate-apparel designer Le Mystere is launching a new line called Le Mystere No. 9 (sounds suspiciously like R. J. Reynolds' new female-directed tobacco offering!) designed specifically for women with breast implants. More »
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We love a nice handbag as much as the next person, but Jesus Christ, people! According to today's WWD, our obsession with luxury handbags has grown to such a fever-pitch that luxury retailers (and the well-preserved women who love them) are entering a proverbial arms race with regards to price and design. Says the paper: More »
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