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• Patrick Demarchelier celebrates his 69th birthday today. [Vogue Paris]
  

• L'Wren Scott will show her Spring 2013 collection in Paris instead of New York to allow herself extra time to complete it. A time and date on the Paris calender have not yet been determined. [WWD]
  

• Natalie Portman posed unclothed in Christian Dior's ad campaign for its new makeup line, The New Nude. [Stylelist]
  

• A bar in Seoul, South Korea, called the Chanel Business Club has been ordered to pay an $8,800 fine for using the French fashion house's name without permission. [The Daily Telegraph]
  

• Miranda Kerr moonlights as a spokeswoman for Lipton Iced Tea in Japan. [Styleite]
  

• Cindy Crawford has partnered with German label C&A for her first clothing line. "It is important to me to be affiliated with a company that offers feel-good fashion with an unparalleled customer offering," she said in a statement. [Vogue UK]
  

• Former Vogue associate editor Veronica Gledhill is now the senior market editor of The Cut. [Media Bistro]

Photo: Models exit L'Wren Scott's Fall 2012 runway show.

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• After a year-and-a-half as editor in chief of Vogue Paris, Emmanuelle Alt has introduced a redesign that features a renewed focus on the magazine's status as the only Vogue title that represents a city, not a nation. "It's the concept of the 'Parisienne.'" she said. "The 'Parisienne' is a girl who makes people dream worldwide, rightly or wrongly — a girl who represents a particular style, a taste, an allure." [WWD]
  

• "Ultimately, shoes are just a really fun mode of escapism for a woman," said Man Repeller Leandra Medine on a tour of her shoe closet. "The higher the heel, the more fantasy is put into the shoe." [Footwear News]
  

• Louis Vuitton cast Michael Phelps — now the world's most decorated Olympian — in its newest ad campaign, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. [Just Jared]
  

• Meanwhile, Chanel Iman is the face of Amazon's Fall 2012 campaign, seen below. [Modelinia]
  

• New York Magazine's fashion blog today debuted a new look that takes "a cue from the beauty of print fashion magazines with a totally new design." [The Cut]
  

• Choupette Lagerfeld is quickly gaining a name for herself in the modeling industry. "I think she has a very bright future," says V magazine editor Sarah Cristobal, who cast the cat in her September issue alongside Laetitia Casta. "She's going to have an everlasting career." [BuzzFeed Shift]

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• Karlie Kloss may have found herself a new beau in Sam Bradford, the 24-year-old quarterback of the St. Louis Rams. Kloss and Bradford were photographed together this weekend at Coachella, but so far neither one has said whether they're just friends or more than friends. [Stylelist]
  

• The women of The Cut road tested one of Spring's hottest trends when they put on peplum dresses and walked around Times Square. Charlotte Cowles — clad in a Julie Haus frock — asked perfect strangers whether they liked peplums, but some didn't know what they were. [The Cut]
  

• Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen are on the May cover of W magazine — Kidman in a Prada pastel jumpsuit and Owen in a clean white shirt. The two are promoting their new HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn, about the relationship between writer Ernest Hemingway and WWI correspondent Martha Gellhorn. [Fashion Etc.]
  

• Vogue Paris finally made its English debut today when it added a button that translates its website from French. The welcome message, punctuated by a photo of Kate Moss wrapped in a British flag, says, "If you're not in Paris, let Vogue.fr bring Paris to you." [Vogue Paris]

Patti Smith loves ball gowns for "their cut, their architecture."

Natalia Vodianova plays Medussa in Clash of the Titans, out in theaters on April 2.

Jenna Lyons would like J.Crew to collaborate with Manolo Blahnik or Christian Louboutin and hints about a soon-to-be-released beauty offering.

Terry Richardson responds to stories of alleged sexual misconduct, saying he is "really hurt by the recent false allegations."

Sources say Conde Nast could announce Stefano Tonchi as the new editor of W magazine as early as today.

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