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• Tavi Gevinson has accused Seventeen magazine of plagiarizing the Ask a Grown Man videos she publishes on her website Rookie. Gevinson says the magazine's Ask an A-Lister video series "is the first time that I've felt that something I've done, or Rookie has done, has been copied." [Racked]
  

• Natasha Poly stars on the cover of Vogue Russia's August 2012 issue. Some have criticized the cover because it appears part of the model's arm is missing. A Photoshop mishap, perhaps? [The Huffington Post]
  

• Glamour apologized for accidentally publishing an old picture of model Daul Kim, who committed suicide in 2009, in its August issue. "We had no idea about the backstory, and are heartbroken to learn this news," said the magazine's editor in chief Cindi Leive. [Fashionista]
  

• Steven Klein shot the campaign for Lady Gaga's new fragrance, Fame, in which the singer reclines naked with a small army of small men crawling over her skin. [Fashion Etc]
  

• Visionaire has packed all of its 61 issues into a custom trunk by Goyard. The one-of-a-kind trunk is price upon request. [The Cut]

Victoria Beckham relaunches and rebrands her denim collection dVb—calling it, obviously, Victoria Beckham Denim.

Daul Kim appears in a series of recently filmed video vignettes with Cocoon collection bags on Chanel.com.

InStyle Weddings will cease publication with its winter issue, which will be on newsstands December 25.

Paulina Porizkova has signed on for regular appearances on TV soap As the World Turns.

Zaha Hadid's limited-edition shoes for Melissa will be part of the Serpentine Gallery's "Design Real" opening tonight.

Elijah Wood and Shirley Manson appear in a short film for Oliver Peoples directed by Autumn de Wilde.

Source: Elle UK

>> Top model Daul Kim, who was found dead by her boyfriend last Thursday, hanged in her Paris apartment, "was an excellent model, but she used to say she had hard times off the job," according to one anonymous modelling agent.

Friends told the Telegraph UK that all the constant travelling and the pressures of the fashion industry were taking its toll on Daul, and she had announced intentions to move into painting and video filmmaking.  She already had a solo artwork show in Seoul under her belt.

Police are investigating her death, but suspect suicide; in Daul's blog, i like to fork myself, which since her death has been made private, she often wrote that she suffered from depression, loneliness, and bouts of insomnia.  In 2007, when she first started the blog, she wrote: "I'm definitely not depressed, and I don't want to kill myself I don't want to die." But in one of her first posts in April 2007, she blogged: "My life as dual was so miserable and lonely. Please join my loneliness in another world. I love you all." Later, she added: "KIDDING. I'm fine. Just tired."

One friend says she "had become fed up with modelling" »

The Cut looks back at the career highlights of Daul Kim.

Fifteen gifts for your fifteen best friends—all under $50.

First look at the 2010 Pirelli calendar featuring Catherine McNeil, Miranda Kerr, Daisy Lowe and 27 others.

Heidi Klum walked in her twelfth Victoria's Secret fashion show six weeks after giving birth.

Paris-based Surface to Air will collaborate with band Kings of Leon for a menswear capsule collection.

Eva Mendes and Jamie Dornan signed on to appear in their second Calvin Klien Jeans advertisement.

Gwen Stefani designs a collection of accessories for Apple.

Based on sales increases for the spring collection, Giles Deacon will continue to show in Paris.

Source: NYMag/The Cut

>> Jourdan Dunn Not Walking, Sigrid Agren May Not Be Either; Daul Kim Switches Up Hair —Despite rumors otherwise spurred by the appearance of her show card, Jourdan Dunn's agency Women has confirmed she will not walk this season.  Now, word is another model may be sitting out as well: Sigrid Agren.  Daul Kim, who is walking, just switched her long bleach blonde hair for a shorter cut and more natural color. [The Cut, TFS, Next Models Blog]

>> THE MODELIZER —Iekeliene Stange dip-dyed her hair platinum blonde earlier this year, and it appears that Daul Kim has followed suit.  Yesterday she sat in Paris for colorist Frederic Mennestrier, blogged the process, and came out what she termed "ash blonde."  No word on whether she did it for a job or of her own volition, but we'll have to wait and see if her new look can do what Tao Okamoto's crop did for her career. [Beauty Counter, I Like To Fork Myself, Elite Clips]

• Tao Okamoto just met Phillip Lim two weeks ago and thought he was joking when he told her it would be "so great if all the girls at the show had your hairstyle" — he wasn't, and now she's his muse [Elle News Blog]
• Backstage at VPL, Daul Kim was given a "face spa air treatment scrub session"; they told her Madonna does the treatment, and her response was: "OK, but I don't want to look like Madge!" [Papermag]
• Coco Rocha has some dedicated man fans — one creepy man was searching the tents high and low for her, and a photographer at Zac Posen yelled "Now that's a woman" as Coco took her turn [Fashionista, WWD Twitter]

*image: source

>> THE MODELIZER —Coco Rocha has finally landed back in New York after her break from modeling — she showed up at Saks Fifth Avenue last night to fete the store's new contemporary space, DJed it up with Ali Stephens, Daul Kim, and Tanya Dziahileva, and perhaps even met her agency's newest, much-buzzed-about face, Diandra Forrest, who was also in attendance. [Oh So Coco, Elite Clips, Papermag]

>> IN THE LOOKING GLASS —The too-racy-for-Vogue Italia Steven Meisel spread that got picked up by V Magazine?  It has Anna Selezneva, Daul Kim, Iris Strubegger, and Naty Chabanenko participating in a little crotch-grabbing, a little voyeurism — it's definitely NSFW and is generally more tame than expected, based on the preview — see for yourself. [The Cut]