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• Jason Wu and Karlie Kloss will cocaptain a team for the annual New York AIDS Walk. The designer and the model, who attended the Met Gala together, will be joined by family and friends in an effort to raise money to fight the disease. "I'm so excited to be participating, and to be teaming up with Jason and all of our friends for such an incredible cause," Kloss said. [Modelinia]
  

• Some of Karl Lagerfeld's most memorable quotes have been turned into a t-shirt for the designer's eponymous line. English design agency I Love Dust formed quotes like "Sunglasses are like eyeshadow: They make everything look pretty and younger" into the shape of Lagerfeld's iconic face. [Refinery29]
  

• The veiled maroon beanie Stephen Jones designed for Raf Simons's second-to-last Jil Sander collection is now for sale on the Jil Sander website. The inventive topper goes for $440. [Racked]
  

• A new study conducted by model agent Ben Barry found that using very thin models in advertising can make women not want to shop. "Women will buy fashion when models convey a realistic, attainable image and make them feel confident," Barry wrote. [Fashion Etc.]
  

• Kelly Cutrone tweeted this week that one of her former assistants will be arrested for stealing from her public relations firm People's Revolution. Cutrone aimed this message at a private Twitter account. "@HussyChildPlz you better run cause you are going down CLOWN." [Styleite]

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• Heidi Klum has been spotted in public with Thomas Hayo, an advertising executive who's also a judge on Germany's Next Top Model, which Klum hosts. Their public displays of affection have led some to believe Hayo is Klum's first romantic entanglement since splitting up with Seal. Klum and Seal had been married for almost seven years when they separated in January. Klum filed for divorce earlier this month. [The Fashion Spot]
  

• Speaking of Top Model, Tyra Banks let three of ANTM's long-running cast members go this week. Nigel Barker, Jay Manuel, and Miss J. Alexander will not return to the show's 19th season. They've been replaced by Kelly Cutrone, Georgina Chapman, and Cat Deeley. Rumor has it that Bryanboy might make appearances on the next season, too. [Modelinia]
  

• Friday was day one of Vogue UK's inaugural Vogue Festival. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana led one of today's sessions, but tomorrow will include talks with Diane von Furstenberg and Tom Ford, among others. Alexandra Shulman said she created the festival because she wanted to "analyze where fashion intersects with the world we live in." [The Chicago Tribune]
  

• Costello Tagliapietra debuted its new lower-priced line of clothing, called C&T, at Barneys earlier this week. The dresses are all priced around $300, a mere fraction of what the main collection costs. [Racked]
  

• Miranda Kerr turned 29 years old today. Celebrate by taking a look back at her laid-back, ultracool street style. [CelebStyle]

Photo: Heidi Klum with Thomas Hayo during the finale of Germany's Next Top Model in 2011.

>> After spending four cycles as an America's Next Top Model judge beginning in early 2010, Andre Leon Talley is exiting the show. Kelly Cutrone will replace him for cycle 18, starting early next year. “It’s all good in the neighborhood,” Talley said of his departure. “I had a fabulous time. It was a mutual agreement. There is no unhappiness, at all." Cutrone, for her part, says of her upcoming role: "I am a huge fan of America's Next Top Model and have watched the show for years. Having worked in various aspects of the fashion industry over the course of my career, I am excited for this new opportunity and hope to bring a different perspective to the show." [People, NY Post]

Last month fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone released her latest book, Normal Gets You Nowhere, and she's currently working on an MTV pilot by the same name. The book is all about how embracing what makes you unique will help you succeed in relationships and your career.

The "Kella-Sutra" portion of the book details 10 sex-life rules to live by for young women, like share your fantasies or never fake an orgasm. When I asked Kelly about Kella-Sutra during a phone interview, she started thinking about the lessons her own mother taught her. Next thing I knew, she conferenced in her mom, Beverly.

Chatting with Kelly's mom, I learned that her love rules include: "Marry someone with a J-O-B." "Sex in cars is a bad idea. If you got a guy who can't afford a room you better ditch him!" And, "Don't have sex the first time. Then the whole relationship is based on lust, and that doesn't last." Decent advice. Once we got off the phone with her mother, Kelly had more to say on love and life.

TrèsSugar: You write a lot about how we fail to educate girls about sex in a positive way. What would you change?
Kelly Cutrone: Why are we sending our daughters to the Internet? I'm watching my daughter sexually awaken through Justin Bieber. That's all she talks about. I know he was born at 12:56 a.m. on a Tuesday. So I tell her, "I want you to be as devoted to yourself as you are to Justin Bieber." . . . I think girls are hyper-sexualized and it starts with Disney.

TS: So what do you make of the craze surrounding Prince William and Kate Middleton? Find out when you read more.

A new Kelly Cutrone MTV project has been in the works since last year, and today the tell-it-like-it-is fashion publicist, reality star, and author revealed the name of the pilot to us first! It will be called Normal Gets You Nowhere. If it gets picked up, the show will share its name with Kelly's latest book, which reminds young women that successful people often don't fit in and calls on them to embrace their inner freak.

Kelly told us she's traveling somewhere in middle America to shoot the MTV pilot this Friday, and plans to channel Dear Abby. She says, "We'll meet kids in the middle of America whose parents think their imagination is a dangerous thing, and they should be lucky that they work in a factory, and that art is a hobby, and stuff like that. So we go there and talk to the parents and be like, 'You have no idea. Your kid's super talented, and they're coming to New York.' And then we help them get on the right track for what they want to do."

Does the idea sound promising to you? Stay tuned for more from Kelly about her new book, as well as sex and dating advice straight from her mom Beverly.

"A young girl . . . asked me, how do you give a really good hand job? A, I'm like, no, and B, I said, well, where are you getting your information now? Like, more motherly. Well, on the Internet, she said. And I thought, why do we send our daughters to Brearley, then send them to Israel and Paris to learn about culture, and we send them to Vivid [Entertainment] to learn about sex?"

— At Elle magazine's 25th anniversary bash at New York's MoMA, Kelly Cutrone talked about reaching out to young women for some high-end sex ed. No lady should learn about hand jobs on the Internet, after all!

The time has come to say goodbye to MTV's The City, but this isn't the last we'll be seeing of Kelly Cutrone. In fact, she has not one, but two shows in the hopper. She's done with reality TV, but according to her, "I'm doing a television show that I'm on that's not scripted, but it's not based on me running around and sharing my personal life in my office and in my home . . . I think it'll be me more working with young people who want to be in these different industries, so it might be something like, you know, you look like a fashionista but you're not, you look like a skate dude but you're not, you look like a hotshot entrepreneur but you're not, maybe you should walk the walk. So it's, like, part Great Santini, part fairy godmother." The pilot for that should be completed by January.

What's more, Kelly is also said to be working on a syndicated daytime show, inspired by her book If You Have to Cry, Go Outside. Are you excited to see double the Kelly Cutrone on your tube?

>> Page Six reported this morning that Kelly Cutrone fired her former assistant Andrew Mukamal because after appearing on Bravo's People's Revolution-centric show Kell on Earth, Mukamal, in her words, "cared more about being a TV personality than being my assistant." She added that he was distributing photos of himself in front of the People's Revolution logo, with captions about what he was wearing: "Just because you worked as an assistant in the fashion industry doesn't make you an expert." Mukamal, who has reportedly pitched his own reality show to E!, responded, "No comment." But Cutrone took to her Twitter this afternoon to clarify: "Time to go on record about Tara Palmeri's Page Six item about [Andrew Mukamal] and I - Andrew has not worked at [People's Revolution] since July — I am not upset about his desire to be on TV — I wish him the best — If I wanted to cut ties sharply or in an aggressive manner with Andrew — I would have done so in July not now — Must have been a slow day over at Page Six." [NY Post, @peoplesrev]

>> Raf Simons seems to hold the honor of electrifying the fashion audience the most thus far this Spring 2011 season. Suzy Menkes wrote of his Jil Sander collection: "This was a show that projected fashion into this new decade." Vogue UK lauded: "And in the space of 15 minutes, Raf Simons stole the show. The Jil Sander collection this afternoon did just what he does so well: make everybody forget everything they’ve seen before by giving them brilliantly conceived, complete distraction."

Joe Zee Tweeted: "I think Raf Simons has officially made me a color convert with his Jil Sander collection. So incredibly major! With a capital M," later replying "COSIGN" to Kelly Cutrone's Tweet: "Fashion Prediction: Raf for Jill Sander - show stopper - Takes the season." The Los Angeles Times's Booth Moore agreed: "At Jil Sander, designer Raf Simons' extreme color story packed more of a punch than almost anything else we'd seen so far this season."

WWD called the collection "extraordinary" and "fantastic," and Cathy Horyn wrote: "Mr. Simons has shown some exceptional collections at Jil in the past five years, but in this one he dealt more assuredly with the fundamentals of fashion — shape, volume, proportion, new materials — and pushed past the old frontiers to create a new example of minimalist dressing . . . Reaction to the show seemed very enthusiastic, with an immediate burst of applause at the end."

>> Kelly Cutrone Working on Scripted, Fashion-Based Show with MTV? — Kelly Cutrone's Bravo reality show Kell on Earth hasn't been picked up for a second season yet — a Bravo spokesperson confirmed the jury was still out, although the show's ratings were small, with the series premiere bringing in under 300,000 viewers. It seems that Cutrone's not holding her breath: word has it that Cutrone might be heading back to her old digs at MTV for a new project. "Who has a new deal at MTV? Hmmmm, could it be Kelly C ?!!!! I think so," Tweeted Cutrone on Sunday. While an MTV rep declined comment, insiders confirm that Cutrone and MTV are in discussions, and from Cutrone's tweets yesterday, it sounds like she's veering out of reality TV: she's set to be in Los Angeles at the end of the month to pitch a pilot for a scripted, fashion-based show she's teamed up with Fake Empire, the executive producers of Gossip Girl, for. "Fiction is the new Reality," she Tweeted. [Vulture, @peoplesrev, @peoplesrev, @peoplesrev]