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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]
  

Carolina Herrera's launch of the CH White Shirt Collection proved to be more than just a party — the celebration was also a celebrity how-to in styling the designer's new line of classic button-downs. This trio of fashion insiders — Olivia Palermo, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, and Leigh Lezark — each took on a piece from the collection and gave the smart staple a style-savvy twist. If you've ever overlooked the button-down or cast it aside as a humdrum wardrobe necessity, these three renditions may just serve to sway your opinion. Certainly, there's a little fashion fodder here for every personality, from Olivia's leather pants to Julia's more elegant evening look. Just read on for the styling takeaways, courtesy of three of our favorite fashion faces.

• The sophisticate: Leigh offered a more conservative approach, the kind you just might take to the office — perhaps with a polished blazer to top it off. She kept her style simple but selected a cap-sleeved iteration to inject a little more interest and drew attention to the collar by buttoning the blouse to the very top. Wide-leg pants balanced out the slim proportion on top — great for curvier bodies or pear shapes — and she finished with a pointed-toe pump for a sophisticated edge.
• The trend-driven alternative: If you thought the white shirt couldn't translate to your trendier looks, think again. That's the beauty of a wardrobe classic like this, and as Olivia proved, it works so easily with cooler pieces, like her leather bottoms. Olivia's look is ideal for taking out to dinner or a night out with the girls. She balanced the slim proportions of her pants with an oversize button-down, then glammed it up with details like her metallic clutch and pumps.
• The elegant evening option: We love Julia's dressier approach. She gave the white button-down the evening treatment with a high-waisted maxi skirt that accentuated her waist with a sash — the kind of styling juxtaposition we've loved from the likes of Sharon Stone (remember that Gap button-down at the Oscars?). It's simple enough, but Julia added a bit of a sultrier effect with a more exposed neckline, revealing just a hint of her black bra, and sealed the look with a red lip and a leopard-print clutch in tow. Take note: this is perfect holiday-party material.

"Normally, everything starts to go down, but that goes up," says Carine Roitfeld of the effect her newfound obsession with ballet has had on her posterior. "I had to give all my skirts to the seamstress, and she had to add five centimeters. That's a lot."

In a recent Harper's Bazaar profile, Roitfeld says that she works out to "try to be in shape to be a young grandma." She also says that she doesn't have time to eat — or to read her old magazine, Vogue Paris. And with good reason: in addition to launching her magazine CR Fashion Book, she's been busy working on her upcoming partnership with MAC. Read on for her thoughts on that — and more.

On working with MAC: "I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty either. I think I have character, and that is what people like in me," she says of the campaign image, which features her in a slip dress. "I think women can recognize themselves in that picture. They see, 'Oh, she's not wearing too much makeup; she's not too much dressed; she's not too much bizarre. She's very much like another woman — simple.'"

On the staff of CR Fashion Book: "I'm using new people, so I'm going to fight to make them stars. It's very risky. I like to take risks. It's very exciting in a way. It's a bit Steve Jobs, no? Each day is a new challenge to find the model, the photographer, the money, the location, you know?"

On not reading Vogue Paris: "I have not looked at French Vogue. It's like a divorce in a way. It's still very fresh; it's still very like my baby for 10 years. I prefer to take a big distance; maybe next year, it will be finished. I don't do the magazine because I want revenge — you say, revenge?"

On her trim figure: "I don't eat a lot, to be honest — never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know? So I think it's my morphology. I've always been skinny."

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• Mickey Drexler's work at J.Crew will be the focus of a CNBC documentary called J.Crew and the Man Who Dressed America. Set to air this Thursday, May 24 at 10 p.m., the program will explore what's made the retailer such a success. Watch a preview of the program below. [CNBC]
  

• JC Penney has leased office space in a building at Lafayette and Broome streets in New York City's trendy NoLIta neighborhood. The move is reportedly part of an attempt to "attract a hip workforce." [New York Post]
  

• Julia Restoin Roitfeld took to Twitter for a little mothering advice. "Mother 911, any suggestions on hot wrap dresses for easy breastfeeding?" she asked. Wrap dresses from Diane von Furstenberg were a popular response among Restoin Roitfeld's followers. [The Cut]
  

• The custom Prada dress Carey Mulligan wore to the Met Gala sold on eBay for $2,950. Proceeds from the sale will be donated to Oxfam America. [Fashion Etc.]

Photo: J.Crew's Fall 2012 women's presentation during New York Fashion Week.

Congratulations are in order for Julia Restoin Roitfeld, the newest mother in the fashion industry.

Derek Blasberg tweeted that Julia gave birth to her child today but offered no details about the child's gender or name. "Congratulations to proud Momma @RestoinRJulia! (And thus, the chicest grannie ever: Carine Roitfeld!)" he wrote. "Can't wait to meet the beautiful baby!"

The new son or daughter will no doubt be beautiful: Julia once modeled for Lancome and recently posed for the Summer 2012 cover of i-D magazine. The baby's father is Swedish model Robert Konjic, who has been dating Julia for the past few years.

And while Julia's mother, Carine, is surely proud of the new addition to her family, she's already decided that she doesn't want to be called "grandmother." When her daughter announced that she was pregnant last November, Carine said, "I will be called 'Madame.'"

Update: Julia's publicist Katy Moseley revealed the gender and name of the new baby, Romy Nicole Konjic, to Vogue UK on Thursday. "We are delighted to confirm that Julia and Robert have had a healthy baby girl," Moseley said. "Both mother and daughter are doing very well and resting at home."

Photo: Julia Restoin Roitfeld photographed by Mario Sorrenti for the Summer 2012 issue of i-D magazine.