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• "As soon as I met Alexandra, I fell in love with her look and once I heard her sing, I was blown away by her incredible talent," says Erin Fetherston of singer Alexandra McDermott, who will perform at her Spring 2013 presentation and stars in Fetherston's Spring lookbook. [Fashionologie Inbox]
  

• Gucci is sponsoring a tribute to David Bowie's style at London's Victoria and Albert Museum that will open next March. The exhibit, called David Bowie is, will feature over 300 objects, including costumes, handwritten notes, set designs, and album artwork, among other items. [The Daily Telegraph]
  

• Just in time for New York Fashion Week, WWD has released an iPhone app designed to "deliver the news in whatever form our audience needs," says the paper's editor in chief Edward Nardoza. [WWD]
  

• The theme of Tommy Hilfiger's Spring 2013 collection is American optimism. Fitting, as he'll be showing on the same day and at the same time as another big name, Chado Ralph Rucci. [WWD]
  

• H&M will provide a free shuttle service in New York City on Fashion's Night Out. Double-decker buses will pick up and drop off passengers at four locations: 51st Street at Fifth Avenue; 59th Street at Lexington Avenue; Broadway at Prince Street; and 34th Street at Seventh Avenue. [Fashionologie Inbox]
  

• Hermés announced Tuesday that it sued LVMH in July, accusing the luxury conglomerate of insider training and manipulating stock prices in its acquisition of Hermés stock. [Styleite]

The world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum is no doubt my favorite museum in London. It houses an extensive collection of ceramics, costumes, textiles, drawings, and photography — and I must admit I also cannot resist its gift shop. So I'm excited to hear that the museum is bringing even more art to its gift shop, with its third "Cherry on the Cake" collection of designer artwork. The V&A has asked 12 artists to create brand new designs using paper as their medium. The collection includes traditional printmaking, paper engineering, typography, and paper-cut techniques. My favorites are Tom Martin's unique, signed, and numbered Exhibition in a Box ($34, left), featuring 20 mini prints. I also adore paper cut master and illustrator Rob Ryan's delicate laser cut I Can't Forget ($104, right) piece. And lucky for me, these limited-edition prints do ship internationally! Prices range from $20 to $700, so there's really something at every price point. Which one is your fave?

If you're the kind of person who loves going to museum exhibitions but feels that the average gift shop isn't beauty-centric enough, the famed Victoria & Albert Museum has anticipated your needs. The London spot has begun commissioning fragrances to go with its exhibitions.

To accompany its Autumn 2010 exhibition, Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, the V&A had perfumer Roja Dove create a scent named after the great theater's founder. So what does Diaghilev smell like? Apparently a rich, old-fashioned chypre with notes of bergamot, rose de mai, oakmoss, and vetiver. What do you think? Would you buy museum fragrance, or is the concept just too strange?