Dazed & Confused

>> Katie Grand may be in the midst of styling Spring 2009 shows, but she's got another exciting project in the works.  As rumored, she is leaving POP — which she founded in 2000 — to start up a new biannual high-end fashion magazine for Conde Nast UK.

Though the magazine is untitled and much is still to be decided, Grand promises the move is a good one: "I can't wait to get started.  I feel the time is ready for a new magazine, a new arena for new ideas. This time we'll have a larger format, bigger budgets and broader horizons than ever before."  The bigger budget may have been the main reason for the move — Katie has said in the past that for POP shoots, "Often the photographers are using their own money."

Nonetheless, she has plenty of experience founding a magazine — she helped launch Dazed & Confused and Another Magazine before POP.  The new title hits newsstands in March, and as for the future of POP . . .  no one has spoken to that.
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>> BLOWING THE COVER —Vogue's online reality show Model.Live is debuting in just under a week, but one of the stars is already making waves: Cato Van Ee, who has recently shown up in editorials for Dazed & Confused and Vogue China, popped up today on the September 2008 cover of Dazed & Confused alongside Anna Gushina, Kori Richardson, and Pernille Moeller. [Of the Minute]

>> INSIDER WIRE —Just like Naomi Campbell, Anna Wintour's got a new billionaire sugar daddy on her hands: Evgeny Lebedev, who donated the largest sum ever — $500,000 — to the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund last week.  Who knows where his generosity to fashion will take him next; He's already partnered with Jefferson Hack to produce a Russian edition of Dazed & Confused. [Telegraph UK]

»Ali Stephens demonstrates her runway walk, superior cross-country talents [The Cut]

»Lane Crawford enlisted 12 designers, including Alexander McQueen and Rick Owens, to create Olympic-inspired looks [FWD]

»Lily Cole was spotted in New York [Fashionista]

» . . . while Irina Lazareanu has been in San Francisco [Style File]

»Helena Christensen reads Dazed & Confused poolside in Miami [Egotastic!]

»Is Tory Burch trying to up her cred by partnering with Surface 2 Air? [Nylon]

»Previews of the Jenni Kayne, Yoehlee, and Richard Chai Resort 2009 collections [Style.com, WWD, WWD]

»Thierry Mugler is being resurrected for couture week [FabSugar]

»Newly-minted Vogue intern Sean Avery is rumored to be starting a fashion company . . . already [FWD]

»Peter Som reveals all about what the CFDA does (ok, not really, but he is facetious about it) [The Cut]

»Vintage Oscar de la Renta pictures, right this way [Oscar de la Renta]

»The chicken at Jean Paul Gaultier's perfume launch last night was dressed in his trademark sailor stripes [Cafe Mode]

»Vivienne Westwood guest edited the July 2008 issue of Dazed & Confused [Nicola Formichetti]

»Yohji Yamamoto's daughter Limi was "uncontrollable" growing up [Prestige HK]

»Donna Karan is obsessed with Madonna [Prestige HK]

»Peeks at the Erin Fetherston, Celine, Anna Sui, Thakoon, and Costume National Resort 2009 collections [WWD, Style.com, Style.com, WWD, Style.com]