Nick Knight

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

>> Carine Roitfeld is adding yet another gig to her ever-growing list : guest editor of the Spring issue of VMan. Hitting newsstands Feb. 14, the issue will feature "real people" wearing designer clothing and photographed by Karl Lagerfeld, Michael Avedon, and Jean-Baptiste Mondino. "I like men trendy, but not fashion victims. It's more effortless," Roitfeld explained of her choice to cast nonmodels. Nick Knight photographed French actor Tahar Rahim for the cover, and a bonus pinup calendar (left) — featuring supermodels and Victoria's Secret Angels photographed by Willy Vanderperre — will supplement the issue.

• Nick Knight captured Gareth Pugh and his longtime boyfriend, artist Carson McColl (left), as part of a video portrait project [SHOWstudio, SHOWstudio]
• Word is that the new TV project September Issue documentarian RJ Cutler is working on is connected to Teen Vogue; apparently they've reached out to at least one well-known blogger to participate [The Cut]
• Hamish Bowles shaved off the mustache he's had for the past year while in South Anjuna for New Year's Eve [WWD]
• Lauren Hutton is a fan of Tom Ford's films: "He said, 'I'm going back to fashion.' I said, 'Oh no, why? I like your work, but I love your movies!' But, anything for Tom, and he knows that" [Harper's Bazaar]
• Calvin Klein bought Manhattan restaurant Indochine out tomorrow night for his boyfriend Nick Gruber's 21st birthday party [NY Post]
• J.Crew extended their buyout deadline to Feb. 15 to appease shareholders [The Cut]
• Philip Crangi just signed a manufacturing and distribution deal with Lucas Design, the company that produced Tom Binns's Disney Couture line, and is considering a move into leather goods and eyewear [WWD]
• Anna Wintour, who attended the White House for Chinese President Hu Jintao last night, told reporters she intended to ask Hu: "Will he invest some money in Chinese fashion?" [Styleite]
• 22 year-old Lily Kwong, cousin of Joseph Altuzarra and an Elite model, collaborated with her photographer friend on a David Lynch-inspired editorial [T]
• Kate Moss loves her country home in the Cotswalds: "I need to get away from the city every weekend to talk, cook, ride my bicycle to Londis to pick up veg and do the country thing. I had another place in the country for three years. Then there was a year that I didn't have it and I didn't know what to do with myself. I was absolutely lost without it" [Vogue UK]
• Ryan McGinley captured Lauren Hutton, Lou Doillon, Tali Lennox, and many others for Club Monaco's Spring 2011 ad campaign [Fashionetc, WWD]
• Miguel Enamorado, who spent the past three years as Interview's fashion market director, has been promoted to the magazine's fashion director under creative director Karl Templer [DFR]

• Vogue's Virginia Smith turned down the Barneys fashion director position last week, and now the other front-runner, Lane Crawford fashion director Sarah Rutson, has too. “I have no intention or plans to leave Lane Crawford,” Rutson said over the weekend [WWD]
• Tomorrow's British Fashion Awards will honor Alexander McQueen posthumously for Outstanding Achievement; McQueen's frequent collaborator Nick Knight made a short film of the designer's archives for the occasion, scored by Bjork: “It is being styled by Edward Enninful and will feature black models only” [Style File]
• The first image of Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2011 campaign, which features Izabel Goulart, Alessandra Ambrosio, Maryna Linchuk, and Isabeli Fontana captured by Steven Klein, has leaked (pictured) [TFS]

• Giorgio Armani and Lady Gaga, who have a multimillion dollar partnership, finally met for the first time last night; Anna Dello Russo also met Gaga and brought her a doll [Styleite]
• See the Ann Taylor-inspired looks the 2010 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists created as part of this year's competition [Fashionista]
• Hairstylist Didier Malige on Terry Richardson's childhood: "Now I see Terry as an adult, and at the time I knew him as three or four years old. His upbringing was totally liberal compared to a French kid of his age. They had a Fiat 500, which is a tiny little car, and he always had to share it with a huge poodle, like a royal poodle. And he always had to sit in the back with the poodle." [Into The Gloss]
• Juicy Couture co-founders Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, who favor vintage pieces, furry vests, black leather pants, and vertiginous heels, plan to launch a new label next year, and they're dropping hints: “It will reflect the way we dress now. We have outgrown our track suits and grown up” [WWD]
• Sasha Pivovarova, who likes to make dolls, opens up her Brooklyn loft for T's cameras [T]
• Watch the music video for a young Jean Paul Gaultier's 1988 single, "How To Do That," featuring Naomi Campbell [Jezebel]
• 23-year-old Central St Martins graduate Thomas Tait only does private orders so far, but he's already got fans in Giles Deacon, Daphne Guinness, Stephen Jones, and Manolo Blahnik [T]
• Intermission Magazine's website just launched, featuring interviews with the likes of Gaia Repossi and Hanne-Gaby Odiele [Intermission]

Swarovski-encrusted capsule collection created by the 2010 CFDA Award nominees will go on sale on Gilt Groupe.

Vogue photographer Nick Knight has enlisted the help of Lady Gaga and Lily Cole to launch SHOWstudio.com's latest film project, The Fashion Body.

Givenchy's transgender fall campaign model poses nude for French Vogue.

This Miu Miu dress landed three Summer covers.

After 55 years, Arnold Scaasi closes up shop.

Photos: Courtesy of Swarovski

>> Although Stefano's Tonchi first full front-to-back issue of W doesn't come out until September, the magazine's August 2010 cover brings a first look at what's to come. Tonchi has brought his taste for featuring lesser-known actors and actresses to W — his first cover features Mad Men's Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall (who costars with Hamm in Ben Affleck's upcoming crime drama The Town), shot by lesser-known photographer Nathaniel Goldberg (the W of yesteryear largely featured cover photos by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Steven Klein, and their ilk).

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