Bergdorf Goodman

You know you've made it when Karl Lagerfeld gives you free reign to use the tub in his hotel bathroom. That's the story Libertine designer Johnson Hartig tells in this exclusive clip from the upcoming documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf Goodman, which explores the retailer's rich history.

In the clip, Hartig calls the store "the quintessential New York experience. It's just always seemed otherworldly, and it seemed like they got everything so perfectly right. So it was kind of the most exciting experience to be called by them."

As for Lagerfeld's bathroom? Either wait for the film to premiere on May 2, or watch the clip here.

• Kate Moss was shot by Terry Richardson for Matchless's debut fashion ad campaign. [Vogue UK]
  

• Riccardo Tisci will design the costumes for this Spring's production of Boléro at the Opéra de Paris. [WWD]
  

• Jeremy Piven has been tapped to play the title character in Mr Selfridge, a 10-part miniseries chronicling the famed London department store's impact on Britain. The first episode debuts later this month on PBS. [WWD]
  

• Diane von Furstenberg has some advice for dealing with negative energy: "Be honest with yourself, accept who you are. YOU are the solution! Look for the light and build around it." [The Cut]
  

• PETA has teamed with Topshop to campaign against the use of animal skins in clothing. [Racked]
  

• Starting this Spring, Bergdorf Goodman will undergo a series of renovations — 40 in total — to improve its in-store shopping experience. [The Shophound]
  

• Rita Ora is the face of Superga's Spring 2013 campaign. [Elle]
  

• Freja Beha Erichsen is the ethereal beauty in the behind-the-scenes video for Valentino's Spring scent, Valentina Acqua Floreale. [Styleite]
  

All the bits fit to print here, in our daily news roundup.

• Lane Crawford fused fashion with technology to produce its first ever 3D campaign for Spring 2013 shot by Nick Knight. [Fashionologie Inbox]
• Gisele Bündchen has been named the new face of Chanel Beauty. [BellaSugar]
• Karl Lagerfeld celebrated his new photo exhibit for Cassina in Paris last night. "All those things I photographed are things I love," the Kaiser said. "[Cassina has] the most beautiful iconic pieces in the world of furniture editions." [WWD]
• Lena Dunham is rumored to be working on an upcoming comedy based on the memoir of a former personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman. [Vogue UK]
• Kate Moss's secret to healthy nails is "eating well and juicing — the more vitamins you have the better the condition of your nails." [Telegraph]
• Kate Spade will become the second fashion house to self-launch a fragrance when the brand releases its new scent, Live Colorfully, in April. [WWD]
• Makeup heiress Claire Courtin is set to debut her DJ-ing skills this Fashion Week at a party she is cohosting with TL-180. [Fashionologie Inbox]
• 2013 is already shaping up to be a big year for Jason Wu, who just signed a partnership with Lancome. [Reuters]
• Intern Labor Rights, a subsection of Occupy Wall Street, will protest unpaid internships during New York Fashion Week. [BuzzFeed]
• Pamela Love's favorite tailor? A pair of scissors. "I really don't go to a tailor much," she added. [Garance Doré]
• Fashion just got funnier, thanks to Barneys New York. The department store has tapped comedians Mindy Kaling, Leslie Mann, Aubrey Plaza, and Will Forte to select (and hilariously narrate) their favorite seasonal pieces. [The Window]
• Speaking of Barneys, its Spring windows will feature a series of surreal films (a still from which is pictured below) by Italian artist Yuri Ancarani. [WWD]

Top photo: Courtesy of Lane Crawford; Bottom photo: Courtesy of Barneys New York

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

• Bergdorf Goodman will celebrate its 111th birthday this year with window installations, an in-store pop-up shop, and special merchandise created by over 100 designers "for every single division and floor in the women's and men's stores." [Racked]
  

• Venus Williams doesn't know yet where she'll stage the presentation for her sportswear line EleVen during New York Fashion Week. "I'm not sure of the exact location because I just got back from the Olympics," she said. "I'm still getting updated. Who am I? Where am I? Why?" [The Cut]
  

• Michelle Dockery says she's nothing like her Downton Abbey character, the infinitely imperious Lady Mary Crawley. But she does acknowledge that "it's amazing, really, how [the show] has affected fashion." [Harper's Bazaar]
  

• Industry darling Azealia Banks has landed her very own September cover. [Spin]
  

• Tyra Banks (no relation to the aforementioned Banks) has started documenting her life with GIFs she created for the photo-sharing site Cinemagram. [BuzzFeed]
  

• The image of a swimsuit-clad Michael Phelps sitting in a bathtub that was originally believed to be part of a campaign for Louis Vuitton "is not an official Louis Vuitton image," according to a spokesman for the company. [The Daily Mail]

Photo: Michelle Dockery photographed by Benjamin A. Huseby for the September 2012 issue of Harper's Bazaar.

>> Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

• Today is Kirsten Dunst's 30th birthday, and what better way to celebrate her acting and modeling career — which she started at age 3 in a commercial for Kix cereal — than by taking a look back at her style transformation? [InStyle]
  

• Nick Wooster, who was fired from his position as men's fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman last year, has landed a new job as the creative director of menswear at JC Penney. Wooster was let go two days after GQ published an interview in which he said, "I am just an old midget queen who, you know, had the good fortune to get this job and it's like, 'How did that happen?'" [NYP]
  

• Former Vogue special events director Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is leaving her current position as fashion director at Lincoln Center to start her own agency. With SWW Creative, Wolkoff's goal is to "forge new partnerships in fashion, beauty and entertainment." [WWD]
  

• Victoria Beckham's 9-month-old daughter, Harper, is still in diapers, but she's already received her first modeling offer. In an open letter to the youngest Beckham, baby clothing company My First Year wrote, "Both your parents are fashion icons, and we can see no reason why you shouldn't start your own career in the fashion industry even at your young age . . . You were therefore the immediate first choice for our campaign." Whether Victoria and David sit Harper in front of the camera remains to be seen. [Stylelist]
  

• Is it harder for female designers to succeed in New York fashion than it is for men? In a new column, Nicole Phelps analyzes why many of the woman-oriented industry's most celebrated talents are men. "Part of the story seems to be that male designers strive for art while female designers strive for humanity, and this difference influences, even defines, the success they achieve," she writes. [Style.com]

  Photo: Kirsten Dunst at the London premiere of Melancholia

>> Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

• Supermodel Petra Nemcova and her fiancé, Jamie Belman, announced Wednesday that they will not get married. The couple were engaged last January and had planned to marry in June, and said in a statement that they will "remain close friends." [The Cut]
  

• Former Jimmy Choo CEO Joshua Schulman has been named president of Bergdorf Goodman. Schulman and its founder Tamara Mellon both left the British accessories brand last year when it was acquired by Labelux, which also owns Derek Lam and Solange Azagury-Partridge. Schulman's first day is May 7. [Fashion Etc.]
  

• Rumors that Stefano Pilati will be taking over Armani have resurfaced in the wake of his departure from Yves Saint Laurent. While Pilati has said that he hasn't "planned any move" yet, various sources have said recently that he's set to start working for Giorgio Armani in the near future and will take over creative direction of the house when Armani retires. [The Fashion Spot]
  

• Model Charlotte Free is the new face of Forever21. In the past, 18-year-old Free has walked and posed for Roksanda Ilincic and Marchesa, among others. [Stylelist]
  

>> After being overtaken for a few years by Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahnik is back in the spotlight. Recent deliveries of a particular Manolo pump sold out so fast, Bergdorf Goodman had to institute a waiting list. “Manolo’s shoes are very much in the spirit of this moment’s clothes, pared down, with simple lines, and I hate to say ladylike, but classic,” said Linda Fargo, SVP for women’s fashion at the store.

“We do a very, very strong business in his shoes,” added Jonathan Joselove, SVP and merchandise manager for Neiman Marcus, noting that the stores have difficulty keeping certain Manolos in stock.

As the New York Times points out, Kate Moss wore a classic pair of Manolos for her wedding this past Summer, and Sarah Jessica Parker was shot exclusively in the Blahnik BB pump in the August issue of Vogue. “I walked in [for the shoot] and looked around and saw all these shoes, and then I spotted the Manolos and it was like water in a desert,” Parker explained. “I was just so excited to see a simple black pump.”

Of Louboutin's more embellished shoes and signature red soles, George Malkemus, president of Manolo Blahnik USA, says: “It was a chic idea for a minute. You wore a red sole, and everyone knew you spent $1,200 or $1,400 for your shoes. And I would say there was a period when certain customers abandoned us and moved into that world.” But, as Blahnik himself added last week: “The gimmicky thing I’m not very keen on. I’ve never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.”

>> Rachel Zoe has "no idea" what annual sales might be for her new eponymous collection, which hits a long list of stores in July: Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, Intermix, Selfridges, Kirna Zabete, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, and Shopbop.com. But she says she went numb when she heard who had bought the line: “It was this dream that I never thought would be reality because I was petrified — I was. I feel so complete now becoming a designer and having my son. I’m that happiest that I’ve ever been in my life.”

Neiman Marcus, for one, is launching Zoe's sportswear, handbags, and shoes at all 41 of its doors, plus online and at Bergdorf Goodman; "The rollout across the entire Neiman Marcus Group is a rare endorsement of a fledgling brand," WWD notes. Why the decision? "She is a real talent,” Ken Downing, SVP and fashion director of Neiman Marcus, notes of Zoe. “She understands the customer and she’s brought an effortless chic to the collection. The clothes are going to appeal to women of many ages. And, she’s got an amazing name.”

Next up for Zoe? The fourth season of The Rachel Zoe Project, which will begin airing on Bravo in July; and jewelry for Fall 2012. “I wish it were for spring,” Zoe says. “I am dying to do jewelry. I’m gagging.”

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• Tribal prints hit your feet — Nylon Blog
• New website NewlyMaid.com recycles old bridesmaid dresses — The Cut
• How to wear this season's brights — College Fashion
• Louis Vuitton opens a pop-up shop at the Cannes Film Festival — Vogue UK
• Janis Savitt’s Mad Money necklaces now available at Bergdorf Goodman — Vogue Daily
• Where to find Kate Middleton's grocery-shopping outfit — InStyle
• You really should take a look at VBH Fall 2011 — Purse Blog