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All the bits fit to print here, in our daily news roundup.

• Harley Viera-Newton is the face of Whetherly's Spring 2013 collection. [Nylon]
  

• Valentino plans to expand its menswear line with dedicated boutiques in Paris, London, and Milan. [Vogue UK]
  

• Meanwhile, the Republic of Azerbaijan has acquired the building in Place Vendôme that houses Valentino's headquarters for $178.4 million. [WWD]
  

• H&M has tapped Czech tennis player Tomas Berdych to codesign and represent the brand's first tennis collection. [Telegraph]
  

• Shoegasm has launched ecommerce. [Fashionologie Inbox]
  

• If you were thinking about buying something from Maje's Fall line, now's the time to do it — its seasonal collection just went 50 percent to 60 percent off both in stores and online. [Fashionologie Inbox]
  

• In case you've been missing the hot men of Game of Thrones, this one's for you. The show's Richard Madden stars in Mr. Porter's just-released Issue 97. [Fashionologie Inbox]
  

• Photographer Ryan McGinley's digital short for Mercedes-Benz stars Karlie Kloss, a white horse, and one very mischievous car. [Nowness]
  

  Mind of Its Own on Nowness.com.

• Nick Knight captured Gareth Pugh and his longtime boyfriend, artist Carson McColl (left), as part of a video portrait project [SHOWstudio, SHOWstudio]
• Word is that the new TV project September Issue documentarian RJ Cutler is working on is connected to Teen Vogue; apparently they've reached out to at least one well-known blogger to participate [The Cut]
• Hamish Bowles shaved off the mustache he's had for the past year while in South Anjuna for New Year's Eve [WWD]
• Lauren Hutton is a fan of Tom Ford's films: "He said, 'I'm going back to fashion.' I said, 'Oh no, why? I like your work, but I love your movies!' But, anything for Tom, and he knows that" [Harper's Bazaar]
• Calvin Klein bought Manhattan restaurant Indochine out tomorrow night for his boyfriend Nick Gruber's 21st birthday party [NY Post]
• J.Crew extended their buyout deadline to Feb. 15 to appease shareholders [The Cut]
• Philip Crangi just signed a manufacturing and distribution deal with Lucas Design, the company that produced Tom Binns's Disney Couture line, and is considering a move into leather goods and eyewear [WWD]
• Anna Wintour, who attended the White House for Chinese President Hu Jintao last night, told reporters she intended to ask Hu: "Will he invest some money in Chinese fashion?" [Styleite]
• 22 year-old Lily Kwong, cousin of Joseph Altuzarra and an Elite model, collaborated with her photographer friend on a David Lynch-inspired editorial [T]
• Kate Moss loves her country home in the Cotswalds: "I need to get away from the city every weekend to talk, cook, ride my bicycle to Londis to pick up veg and do the country thing. I had another place in the country for three years. Then there was a year that I didn't have it and I didn't know what to do with myself. I was absolutely lost without it" [Vogue UK]
• Ryan McGinley captured Lauren Hutton, Lou Doillon, Tali Lennox, and many others for Club Monaco's Spring 2011 ad campaign [Fashionetc, WWD]
• Miguel Enamorado, who spent the past three years as Interview's fashion market director, has been promoted to the magazine's fashion director under creative director Karl Templer [DFR]

>> Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, who are celebrating 25 years of collaborating professionally with a retrospective in Amsterdam, say their plans for the future aren't limited to photography. The duo told Nowness in the next 25 years, "We will hopefully have launched five fragrances based on our images and directed a few exciting movies. Or we could be doing yoga, full time, on a mountain in India."

And they aren't the only fashion photographers mulling a foray into film; Ryan McGinley told The Cut that he's been considering doing a feature film for a while: "I'm gearing up towards [a feature film], I'm not there yet. I'm not a writer, but I would write something with somebody. I've been looking at a lot of scripts, but nothing has popped out to me."

>> Roe Ethridge: The Latest Art Photog Crossing Over into Fashion —Ryan McGinley has led the pack of art photographers breaking into fashion with his shoots for the likes of W, Vogue Paris, Stella McCartney, and Missoni, but Collier Schorr, who's worked with Interview and Vera Wang, and now Roe Ethridge are quick on his heels.  Ethridge, who worked with Marie-Amelie Sauve on a Balenciaga editorial for the new Spring 2010 issue of i-D, is the latest addition to the bunch, and The Imagist reports he's "inches away from another huge blue chip mag commission." [TI]

Opening Ceremony loves an American heritage brand collaboration and has most recently co-designed pieces for classics like Keds, Pendleton, and Timberland. During New York Fashion Week next month the retailer will debut its newest lineup designed in partnership with Levi's. The collection of corduroy basics— button-up shirts, jackets, and trousers—will be available in eight spring colors inclucing fuchsia, teal, lavender, beige, curry, olive, navy, and white, proving workwear staples never go out of style.

Source: Ryan McGinley/Opening Ceremony

>> Ryan McGinley, Rodarte Collaborate for Olympics Shoot —Ryan McGinley, who has a history of shooting Olympic athletes — he contributed a portfolio of the US Olympic Swim Team back in 2004 to the New York Times Magazine — revealed at Art Basel over the weekend that he's at it again: “I've been in Utah. I've been shooting for the Winter Olympics, and I got Rodarte to make me the outfits. It looks crazy!” [Hint]

Tiny tots jump around in Rodarte, Givenchi, and Miu Miu in the current issue of Purple magazine, shot by Ryan McGinley.

Ridley Scott is finally ready to make that Gucci family film. Although it is too early to determine the cast, Scott does have a script "kind of getting there."

Zero + Maria Cornejo is launching a capsule collection of menswear for spring.

Adriana Lima and husband Marko Jaric welcome baby girl Valentina Lima Jaric.

Notable quotes from the International Herald Tribune Techno Luxury conference happening now in Berlin.

Aloha Rag's owner Tatsugo Yoda has designed a collection of deconstructed jackets and tops to be sold exclusively at his boutiques.

Alber Elbaz will be decorated with the Grande Médaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris, given by the mayor to people who have made cultural impacts on the city of Paris.

Source: Ryan McGinley/Purple

>> Ryan McGinley Scores Fall 2009 Missoni Campaign —Ryan McGinley is becoming a master at toeing the high-low fashion line: His Wrangler campaign won a Lion D'Or at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival last month; he photographed Levi's new campaign to grab the attention of youth; Stella McCartney re-hired him to do her Bambi-laden Fall 2009 campaign; and now he's replaced Steven Meisel for Missoni Fall 2009. Together with stylist Vanessa Reid, he captured Hanne-Gaby Odiele riding on the back of a truck at Floyd Bennett Airfield in Brooklyn in this first image. [Supreme Being]