Tim Walker

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• Katie Grand, Editor-in-Chief of Love, says that this month's Kate Moss shoot with Tim Walker taps into her love of British models: "I don’t think they take the whole modeling thing so seriously and generally know how to have a good time," she commented. [Nowness]
  

• Keep an eye out for Karlie Kloss and Pastry Chef Christina Tosi, who will be handing out Karlie's Kookies from a "Kookie Truck" at Lincoln Center on Wednesday. [PS Fashion News Inbox]
  

• 3.1 Phillip Lim tapped Alexis Bittar to design a custom pair of earrings for today's runway show. [WWD]
  

• Are flash-sale sites losing their luster? A few industry experts think so. [WWD]
  

• Countess Louise J. Esterhazy, who wrote for WWD in the '70s, has returned to the publication with a monthly column. Her first piece recounts an evening she once spent with Coco Chanel. [PS Fashion News Inbox]
  

• Julia Restoin Roitfeld, who had daughter Romy last May, will soon launch an online publication dedicated to motherhood. [Telegraph]
  

• Asos is offering a 25 percent discount just for college students until midnight tomorrow. [Asos]
  

• Have We Met Before, the short film for Donna Karan's new line of hosiery will star Angelica Houston. [New York Post]
  

• In other Donna Karan news, the designer has teamed up with Rent the Runway to design an exclusive collection of rentable eveningwear. [Rent the Runway]
  

>> Stefano Tonchi's take on W has received its share of mixed reactions, but the magazine's March 2011 issue had newsstand sales of 28,000 copies, up 5.4 percent from last March (the same month Tonchi was named W editor), and it received more nominations than any other fashion magazine this morning for the 2011 National Magazine Awards, announced by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Tonchi's first three issues —  September, October, and November 2010 — are up for the Photography prize (notably the three issues Jody Quon worked on as creative director before she left the magazine); Tim Walker's fashion portfolio “The East Enders,” which ran in the September 2010 W relaunch, is up in the Feature Photography category; and W is also nominated alongside Vogue (that magazine's sole nod) in the Fashion, Service and Lifestyle “women’s interest” category. [WWD]

>> As Marion Cotillard's Lady Dior saga is coming to a close — her final installment of ads, "Lady Grey," just debuted with a short film directed by John Cameron Mitchell — Natalie Portman's own Dior saga is just beginning. Portman's upcoming Miss Dior Cherie campaign was just announced and will break on TV and in print in March. Tim Walker and Sofia Coppola, the team who worked on the launch of former Miss Dior Cherie face Maryna Linchuk back in 2008, are back to do the print and TV ads, respectively, with Portman. Of her co-star in the TV ads, Portman said: "I felt like a big old cougar. He's, like, 20."
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>> Whimsical photographer Tim Walker did his first film, a 20-minute short dubbed The Lost Explorer, together with Mulberry, have screened it in both London and New York, but now he's got his sights set on a longer foray. “We’re working on a feature length now,” Walker said at Monday's New York screening. “We haven’t found our script yet, but we’re looking and it’s going to be the same team. The cinematographer, Robbie Ryan, he’s amazing. He gets the vision. He gets my world.” Back in August he had his sights set on Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory, but it sounds like that might have fallen through. [Style File]

>> Lindsay Wixson is undoubtedly a designer favorite — Donatella Versace chose Wixson to mirror a younger version of herself, blonde hair, heavy eyeliner, and all in the ad for an upcoming Versace fragrance — and she just shot for Mulberry in Northern England with Tim Walker and Edward Enninful. But she's still only 16, which means she's excited about things like her sixteenth birthday present — Chrysler Sebring convertible — and next year's prom: “Jason Wu’s making my dress!” [Vogue]