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

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

  • Stella McCartney beat out Versace and even The Kaiser to earn the top fashion spot in this year's Google Zeitgeist list. [Vogue UK]

  • Doo-Ri Chung, who left her namesake label in June, was spotted at the CFDA headquarters in New York. Might she design again soon? [Racked]

  • We can expect more homoerotic moments in Bruce Weber's advertising campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch. [Styleite]

  • Karlie Kloss's holiday wish list is filled with housewarming gifts for her new home. [Modelinia]

  • Feel like somebody is watching you while you shop? It could be the mannequins. [The Cut]

  • InStyle Style Director Samira Nasr's quest for the perfect t-shirt has even taken her into the garbage. [YouTube]

  • Ralph Lauren hosted a dinner at New York's Museum of Modern Art with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter in honor of the cast of Downton Abbey. [Elle UK]

  • The popular romance novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, has inspired a newfound appreciation for sexy legwear. [WWD]

  • Cameron Russell's TED talk reveals the one thing a model would never say on camera. [Fashion Foie Gras]

  • Bruce Weber

    Watch: Bruce Weber Films Kate Upton For Vogue Germany

    The editors at Vogue Germany must have a thing for Americana.



    The editors at Vogue Germany must have a thing for Americana. Their latest fashion film, It Had to Be You, was directed by Bruce Weber — who's been writing new editions of the photo book All-American every year for the last 12 years — and stars blond, blue-eyed Kate Upton.

    In the film, which takes its name from a Frank Sinatra song, Upton puts on (and takes off) garments from Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, and other designers, while male models Aaron O'Connell, Matthew Vande Vegte, Tim Easton, and Casey Levens compete for her attention. Every element of the video — from the country-club-like setting to the jodhpurs and riding boots Upton dons for the horseback-riding scene — is drenched in classic preppy style. A look at Weber's film below.

    Sienna Miller

    Marchesa's New Fragrance, Kirna Zabête's Target Collab, and Lou Doillon's Love Life

    Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.



    Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

    • Marchesa will introduce its first fragrance, the seductively named Parfume d'Extase, at Sephora in September. The rock crystal-shaped bottle comes in two sizes that will retail between $60 and $85, and a roll-on version of the scent will sell for $25. [Elle]

    • Calvin Klein's ex-boyfriend Nick Gruber says the designer has been "supportive of my sobriety" and happily reports that he is "clean on drugs and alcohol." Klein sent Gruber to a rehab facility after he was arrested for cocaine possession in April. [The Cut]

    • Kirna Zabête's highly anticipated clothing line for The Shops at Target will be in stores on Sept. 9, but photos of the offering have appeared online. [FabSugar]

    • Gia Coppola is intent on making a name for herself as a fashion-film director. "It's cool because it’s a new way to show clothes and see how they move, plus you have a little story, so it adds personality," she says. "And it's helpful when companies are open to letting you do what you want." [WWD]

    • Lou Doillon's busy acting, modeling, and singing careers have meant that she hasn't "had a real love life," she says. "I've never had someone living with me in my house. I guess that would consume a lot of time." [WWD]

    • The recent economic downturn has pushed sales of clothing down and sales of accessories up — which has also meant an increase in the number of fashion students majoring in accessory design. [The New York Times]

    • For the first issue of Opening Ceremony's magazine OC Annual, Bruce Weber shot Gaia Repossi doing yoga in front of a bus. [Fashionista]

    • Jonathan Saunders has had a successful Olympic season: his clothing was featured in the games' opening ceremony, worn on the cover of British Vogue, and spotted on the back of Samantha Cameron, the wife of UK Prime Minister David Cameron. [Vogue UK]

    • Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, and Keira Knightley all donated shoes to be auctioned off for the Small Steps Project, which raises money to provide clothing and food for children who work in landfills. [Vogue UK]
    Giorgio Armani

    See the New Bruce Weber Giorgio Armani Film

    Bruce Weber cast model Simon Nessman in a short film called Wet and Wild, created for Giorgio Armani's new fragrance, Acqua di Giò Essenza.

    Bruce Weber cast model Simon Nessman in a short film called Wet and Wild, created for Giorgio Armani's new fragrance, Acqua di Giò Essenza. Inspiration for both the scent and the short come from the Italian island of Pantelleria, where Armani has a home. "The idea was to capture, in my own way, that Mediterranean feel," said Weber. "The connection to water, the sea, and bodily freedom on a beach." Accordingly, Weber's camera followed Nessman as he swam in the ocean and roamed around a Miami beach wearing a pair of black Armani swimming trunks. A look at the film — which debuted today on Nowness — below.

    Victoria Beckham

    The Birth of Gaga, Sally Singer's Nail Art, Abercrombie & Fitch's Forehead Kiss

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



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

  • Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, the singer and style star we all know and love as Lady Gaga, turned 26 years old today. A fan tweeted to Gaga to ask her how she planned to celebrate, and she replied "Quinceañera." [MTV Style]

  • T Magazine editor Sally Singer confessed to being just as obsessed with nail art as the rest of the fashion world when she collaborated with photographer Raymond Meier and manicurist Maki Sakamoto on a series of photos of her ideal nail art looks. "I had an idea for left wing nails—a left hand with the symbols for different socialist parties on each fingernail, and the right hand could just be painted black," she said. [Nowness]

  • Iconic photographer Bruce Weber created a short film for ubiquitous mall brand Abercrombie & Fitch that features a group of half-naked young men writhing around in a shower together before one of them plants a tender kiss on the forehead of another. Weber has created slightly homoerotic campaigns and imagery for the brand in the past, but this is the first one to actually touch the issue — pun intended — first hand. [Styleite]

  • Model and humanitarian Liya Kebede is the star of a new French children's film called Sur la piste du Marsupilami, about a reporter on the hunt for an animal that may or may not exist. Kebede plays Queen Paya, leader of a mystical realm called (we know, stay with us) Palombia, in which she dances and does "magical things with balls of light." [The Cut]

  • Designer Victoria Beckham is on the cover of the April issue of Harper's Bazaar UK. The magazine dubbed her Queen Victoria in reference to her continued climb up the ranks of British fashion designers, and in a nod to Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, which is being celebrated this year. [Stylelist]
  • Miu Miu

    Watch Behind the Scenes on Hailee Steinfeld's Miu Miu Campaign Set, Captured by Bruce Weber

    >> As part of Miu Miu's Fall 2011 ad campaign — which shows Hailee Steinfeld lounging in grass, munching on pizza, and sitting on a railroad — Bruce Weber also captured the actress in motion for his new five-minute short film for the brand, "Portrait of Hailee."

    >> As part of Miu Miu's Fall 2011 ad campaign — which shows Hailee Steinfeld lounging in grass, munching on pizza, and sitting on a railroad — Bruce Weber also captured the actress in motion for his new five-minute short film for the brand, "Portrait of Hailee." See the ad images in motion in the video, and starting in October, MiuMiu.com will host an "animated web book" of images taken on the Miami set while the campaign was captured in May.

    Miu Miu

    Peep Miu Miu's Fall 2011 Noir Sunglasses Collection

    >> 1940's film noir inspired the new batch of Miu Miu sunglasses for Fall 2011.

    >> 1940's film noir inspired the new batch of Miu Miu sunglasses for Fall 2011. Shot on Hailee Steinfeld by Bruce Weber for the Miu Miu Fall 2011 ad campaign (as seen in the gallery), the new frames feature oversized, angular cat-eyes and lots of retro-glam colorways — think ochre tortoise shell and metallic glitter-acetate. Click through to get an up-close look at the full collection available in stores this September.

    Images courtesy of Miu Miu

    Miu Miu

    Miu Miu Changes Direction with Hailee Steinfeld's Fall 2011 Campaign

    >> After nine seasons of color-saturated Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott-shot ad campaigns, Miu Miu is going in a new direction, courtesy of Bruce Weber, who shot the latest Miu Miu muse — 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld — for the label's Fall 2011 campaign.

    >> After nine seasons of color-saturated Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott-shot ad campaigns, Miu Miu is going in a new direction, courtesy of Bruce Weber, who shot the latest Miu Miu muse — 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld — for the label's Fall 2011 campaign. Steinfeld first began a relationship with Miuccia Prada at the beginning of the year, when she wore Prada to the SAG Awards, according to her stylist, Karla Welch: “Miu Miu is such a perfect fit for her. Throughout awards season, they were the dresses she wanted to wear.” She went on to attend the Miu Miu show in March as a special guest of Miuccia Prada. [TFS]

    Kate Moss

    Emmanuelle Alt Explains Her Vision for Vogue Paris, Her Stance on Celebrity Covers

    >> During couture, Emmanuelle Alt hinted that Vogue Paris under her direction would be "the same, but different"; Vogue's Mark Holgate got her to expand a little more on her vision for the magazine: “I want to keep the quality, the photographers we work with — David [Sims], Mert and Marcus, Mario [Testino], and Bruce Weber.

    >> During couture, Emmanuelle Alt hinted that Vogue Paris under her direction would be "the same, but different"; Vogue's Mark Holgate got her to expand a little more on her vision for the magazine:

    “I want to keep the quality, the photographers we work with — David [Sims], Mert and Marcus, Mario [Testino], and Bruce Weber. I don’t think there should be radical changes. The magazine should still be chic and sophisticated. It’s a bit like buying an apartment: Before you move in, you have all these plans of what you are going to do, but then you get there, and you realize it is better to spend time living in it, and transforming it over time. I’d like there to be more beauty trends; there was so much of that in Vogue back in the eighties. More French girls, more French lifestyle. And I am going to keep shooting for the magazine — hopefully a story every issue." She adds: "I always want a relationship with reality: nothing too sexy, or provocative, or fashion victim. We are French — we can show smoking, nudity. We have no boundaries, and it can be good to have them."

    As for her position on celebrity covers: “We don’t have a systematic point of view on it. But here in France we are back in a much more glamorous time. French actresses were respected, but not so evidently in the fashion world. Now we have Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg. I’d be very happy to put an actress on the cover if she is the right girl.” And her model favorites are no surprise: “Daria [Werbowy] is the girl I work with the most. She has a natural, strong beauty. You can put her in a white tee and she will make it look fantastic. I like Kate [Moss] too, because she cares about clothes. Most models don’t care what you put them in, they just play the game.”

    Ralph Lauren

    10 Magazine Celebrates Tenth Anniversary with Ten Designer Covers

    >> It's not often that a designer graces the cover of a magazine, but in celebration of a decade since its launch, 10 magazine wrangled ten "fashion gods" for ten separate covers — each photographed by the lensman of their choice.

    >> It's not often that a designer graces the cover of a magazine, but in celebration of a decade since its launch, 10 magazine wrangled ten "fashion gods" for ten separate covers — each photographed by the lensman of their choice. Helmut Lang sent in a passport photo, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana commissioned Terry Richardson, Vivienne Westwood had Juergen Teller capture her, Ralph Lauren was snapped by Bruce Weber, and Karl Lagerfeld submitted a self-portrait. Alber Elbaz, Azzedine Alaia, Donatella Versace, John Galliano, and Tom Ford round out the rest of the designers featured.

    “These are some of the faces that have made our industry and it is an honour to be celebrating them. 10 magazine has a history of celebrating the best creative talent in the world and we are honoured that these icons of fashion agreed to be our cover stars,” said Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou, the magazine's founder and editor-in-chief (who is also creative director and fashion director at Harper's Bazaar UK).