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Eiko Ishioka's headdresses for the movie The Fall.

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The inspiring Eiko Ishioka, art director and costume designer, died on 26 January at 73. Ms Ishioka, a designer who brought an eerie, sensual surrealism to film and theater, album covers, the 2008 Olympics (above) and Cirque du Soleil, in the process earning an Oscar, a Grammy and various other honours, died of pancreatic cancer in Tokyo.Her aesthetics married East and West — she lived Manhattan

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Isn't this a nice cover? It's designed by Megan Wilson and pictures a detail of a dress from the V&A. On the subject of reading, I'm still struggling with P D James's (91) Death Comes to Pemberly - it's been three weeks since I bought the book in a swoop of joy (a cross of Pride and Prejudice with a crime thriller), but oh dear, it's so ploddingly dull. I'm puzzled by this book's glowing reviews.

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Even though lots of people are reporting that this collection references Marie Antoinette's bucolic fantasy milkmaid frocks. I think it's fairly obvious that the starting point references that pseudo-French queen Jackie O. I mean Jackie Onassis, and not Jackie Kennedy, for the two are quite different in style. To be more specific, it references the Valentino dress that she wore to marry

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“I am glad,” said Lady Middleton to Lucy, “you are not going to finish poor little Annamaria’s basket this evening; for I am sure it must hurt your eyes to work filigree by candlelight. And we will make the dear little love some amends for her disappointment to-morrow, and then I hope she will not much mind it.”This hint was enough, Lucy recollected herself instantly and replied, “Indeed you are

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1. Balmain has ‘fast fashion’ written all over its banality. The entire thing is humourlessly dull, and completely vulgar, which is the opposite of luxury.2. Comme des Garçons's Manga Prince has all the whimsical creativity of Howl’s Moving Castle. It's hardly Joan Jet (as one important critic noted - has she never been to Japan?), and only cartoon gothic.3. Lovely paisley puffa and the very

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This is Ariane Koizumi, in a 1989 photo by Peter Lindbergh.Ms Koizumi, a native New Yorker of Dutch and Japanese parentage, was discovered by Steven Meisel (Meisel's picture of her below) and was a supermodel, before the term was coined, and joined the long list of models who never quite made a successful transition to films. She starred in one movie, Year of the Dragon, which came out in 1985,

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Taiwan actor Eddie Peng.For WaWa Blake.

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Our very own Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee is holding a 'solo exhibition' (couldn't resist that) and starting the dragon year with a bang (oh dear). The Super Nude Series Photo Exhibition is on until the 28th of January, at the Hiromi Yoshii Gallery in Ropongi. The exhibition sees Kee's progress into his metier: a series of limited edition (1,000) publications called Super. This particular

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"Money is the root of all evil and women must have roots" - Pillow(Click on the picture - the pillow really does say that)

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And let me tell you this: Jon Jon is Linda and Christy in drag. There was always something completely asexual about Jon Jon's beauty for me - but you see, it was the same sort of androgyny as Linda's and Christy's beauty. Jon Jon is the final flower of Peter Lindbergh's vision of beauty from the 1990s. We love you Mr Lindbergh! How I miss your early, early days at Vogue Italia.Linda!Christy!

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The rather vastly overrated Emmanuelle Alt takes the Vogue Paris to Las Vegas for February (can you be any less imaginative) which features Daria Werbowy (again!) on the cover in a Prada bathing suit. Photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, it's an attractive, effective, sexy cover. Inside promises an exclusive short story by Douglas Kennedy, an interview with Marc Jacobs on the

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Don't get me wrong; I like both these collections and I adore their creators Raf Simons and Stefano Pilati but to a large extent, aren't Jil Sander (top 2) and Yves Saint Laurent (bottom 2) the same collection this season?

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"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is a creation of the mind." - Buddha

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Dame Maggie Smith is the very definition of the Dragon Lady: eyes popping, nosetrils flaring, fire breathing, with the stiffest of upper lips and that cut-glass accent spitting forth a never-ending stream of short stings. Love her!

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Last week was a week of bumping into people at the taxi stand. I bumped into an ex intern who had gone completely blonde, and was on her way to a church fete. That was right after my appointment with Dr Yim at the Forum. Then there was PPX after lunch on the day I had to race back to the office to look at the February proofs. PPX reminded me how long it's been since I posted on the blog and I

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Jackie in Capri

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Because I'm reading the Isabella Blow bio Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion, I've decided to dip into Jane Austen's spoof of the gothic novel Northanger Abbey. The latter sparkles with wit and light compared to the bio, which has the fascination of a car crash. A fashion icon right up to the end, Mrs Blow's life seem destined for tragedy right from the beginning. The bio by Lauren Goldstein Crowe

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Gruesome... quite Buddhist in a way, no?

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Jon Jon with a mirror...(by Terry Richardson). Happy weekend everybody!

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Fashion's own Russian Cinderella Natalia Vodianova, 29, confirmed her split from billionaire Justin Portman, 41, after nine years of marriage in June. The new boyfriend is none other than the son of billionaire and LVMH head Bernard Arnault, the richest man in France, 34-year-old Antoine Arnault. Arnault Jr (below) — serves as head of marketing and communications at Louis Vuitton is also the

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Jane Austen's original manuscript of the unfinished novel The Watsons has sold for over £990,000 although it was valued for no more than £300,000. The Bodleian Library in Oxford has purchased this rare item, the only surviving original manuscript of any of Jane Austen's novels. The manuscript descended from Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to her niece Caroline Mary Craven Austen (1805-1880), the

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"Models make fashion possible. They make the extremes of design seem attractive because of their perfect beauty – the poreless, flawless tans; The zero-fat tautness, the nubile waists and necks and tiny, little pin heads; The dense heads of hair brunette or blond; The magnificent legs and the glossiness of extreme youth. Anything would work on them, even the most outré of designer fashion. And

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...Well I simply need to watch this movie just because I loved the book!

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Wallis Simpson by Cecil Beaton

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I can't quite imagine why anyone would name a magazine Coitus, but there you go! That's the lovely Brazilian 'model' Pablo Morais on the cover - Mr Morais is another one of those young men fated to rarely wear 'fashion' in his career, not that we are complaining of course.

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Two new books to have!

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Princess Charlotte Casiraghi of Monaco in Vogue Paris. The 25-year-old grand daughter of Grace Kelly shows off her fabulous genes on the cover of Vogue Paris's September issue, captured by the inevitable Mario Testino. This is not without precedent: Her mother, Princess Caroline, has been on the cover of Vogue Paris quite a few times. (Above) Oct 1977, Norman ParkinsonDec/Jan 1983, Andy

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“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” - Erasmus

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King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (born 11 November 1955) was crowned the fourth king of Bhutan at age 28, making him the youngest King in the world.

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When I blogged about the old BBC series Edward and Mrs Simpson a good two weeks ago, I had no idea that Madonna was making a directorial debut of this very subject. Subsequently, I saw these lush preview pictures (below) in Vanity Fair. It does look promising, even if one rather doubts Madonna doing anything without a very heavy hand!Madonna's at the prow with her directorial debut feature, W.E.

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"Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged." - Maguerite Duras, The Lover

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"She dared me to be John Galliano again. I couldn’t pick up a pencil. It’s been my creative rehab." - John Galliano The September Issue went to Kate! On the Vogue cover, she wears an Alexander McQueen​ gown, promising an exclusive story and pictures on her wedding (by Mario Testino too, like royalty); Hamish Bowles sits us down with the all-time iconic model:I was wondering why Freja was on the

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This last week was spent in retreat, walking, swimming and sunning by the pool and studying the books from the resort library. Don't you love a resort which has a library? It's civilized, I have to say. I had the pool all to myself most mornings, as the tourists all go on tiresome expeditions after an early breakfast. The library, which looks out on the newly-mown bright emerald lawn, too, is

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I sort of remember Edward and Mrs Simpson from when I was little - too little to truly understand the story, nor to appreciate how wickedly attractive Edward Fox was. And don't you love that scene where Mr Fox is talking to his valet while standing on his head? Is there a contemporary actor who can pull this off? The real deal below - was Wallis Simpson actually a man?

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Even as you read this, I'm probably on a plane off for the long National Day weekend. I've packed all the stories I printed last Thursday in the office and put them in a blue Prada folder. I packed those in first with my pouch of sun care stuff (Clarins and Sisley), along with the two books I'm reading. Then I chucked in my Capri sandals and zebra print pony belt and a bottle of Coramandel and

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Riccardo Tisci designed all artwork to be featured in Jay-Z’s and Kanye West’s landmark album to be released worldwide in August. Tisci chose this new gold metallic cover to celebrate one of the biggest collaborations in music history. In tune with his personal codes, the artwork channels most of his aesthetics: religion, symmetry, lightness, strength, darkness, sharpness and 3D.The first single

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Truly a book to have!

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Tod's sent me this book just last week and I must say it's one one of the things that really delighted and inspired me! It's a catelogue from the Tod's sponsered exhibition in Capri called “JACKIE’S CAPRI”. The exhibition is a selection from the photographs taken by the papparazo (one of scores that dogged her every move)Settimio Garritano during Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s frequent visits to

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“If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned'." - Epictetus

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Well, it's good to be back.I did like the days in Amsterdam a bit, but I prefer being home, to be honest. The roses and those Tudor style houses along the canals actually reminded me of England.I liked looking out the windows from the Okura room at the people whizzing by on bikes and the badly dressed oldies (this isn't, I must say, a fashion sort of city) walking their fluffy dogs.The pollen was

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And here are more gratuitous pictures of Marlon!

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Why can't Hong Kong be like this today?Photo: Scavullo

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New pictures of dreamboat Nils Butler!!! So cute right...???Yes, his head is not tiny, I must say, but GIVE???

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"Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language." - Henry James (1843 - 1916)

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Paris Vogue references the 1989 Vogue Italia story of Linda shot by Steven Meisel. Don't you miss the good old days???

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Nyasha Matonhodze for Louis Vuitton Fall. Photo by Steven Meisel.So who's that doggie in the window?

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It's back to work for another week of mayhem in the office: Make your Sunday ssstretttchhh!

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Not the magazine... but Jon Jon is on top of my Must Haves list!!!

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Deutsch Vogue ... Liebe must be in the air: Carla Bruni, 43, is pregnant with her first child by husband French President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to various reports. Ms Bruni has one previous child, Aurelien, born in 2001 by a previous boyfriend.

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"The Asian Issue"? Is Our Lady of the Crazies suddenly Asian? In what way? Is the black wig? The little bangs?

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Elsie de Wolfe, aka Lady Mendel, posing in front of Tony Duquette's famous “Elsie de Wolfe Cabinet” which he designed for her in 1941. Isn't it lovely to be so proud of your cabinet that you would pose before it?

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I was tasked by father to borrow Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone from the library and so I walked there, on possibly one of the hottest days on earth. It was so hot I could hardly think, and I certainly couldn't remember when I last visited the library. It was that long ago (can you imagine - my fines had slowly adding up to a nice tidy sum!).On the way to history stacks, I came across a

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This series of photographs from the Edwardian era illustrate that right and wrong way for a young girl to read, write, and sew. Right and wrong way to read.Right and wrong way to sew.Right and wrong way to write... I've been reading, sewing and writing the wrong way all my life!!! Horrors...

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The Swing, Jean Honore Fragonard, 1766Have a swinging weekend yawll...!

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Don't you love the promise of that irresistible headline - above the title - "The Untold Story of Elizabeth Taylor's Final Days"? Can't wait to read it - I bet it's craaazy! And I have to say that casting against type for the Vogue Italia cover (you don't necessarily think swimwear when you think Kristin McMenamy) is exceptionally brilliant when dealing with this annual theme.

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Yunnan, China, 1999, Thomas Struth

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MAN ABOUT TOWN's HEDI SLIMANE'S LOS ANGELES ISSUE I think this trailer is all Mr Slimane's work actually warrants. He never fails to bore me utterly.

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So summer, and classic Madame Mario, is this story shot in Rio by Mario Testino for the new issue of V Man, featuring the token female Izabel Goulart surrounded by some seriously sweaty Brazilian boys. Ms Michael Roberts is somewhere else on the beach eating his heart out. This is Madame Mario at his best. The styling is just tacky enough.But they are all very jealous of François Rousseau's new

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Aunty Karla shot Carine Roitfeld (below) for the 60th Visionaire titled Religion. The guest editor is Riccardo Tisci, who commissioned all new works, except one Robert Mapplethorpe photograph that was unpublished previously. It's a 'collaboration' with Givaudan on a new scent called Religion. The limited edition will have only 3,000 numbered editions

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"Nothing has changed in the royal household since the time of Queen Victoria, and it remains a very old-fashioned house," Burrell warns, in a new interview. Be careful, Kate. Try to draw on the experiences of your late mother-in-law and understand that not everyone in the royal household has your best interests at heart." - Paul BurrellThis long weekend, I'm mostly pottering about and fussing

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Dessert in bed, anybody?As promotion for Karla’s new short films about Magnum Ice Cream, she is pictutred in a chocolate fantasy suite, complete with a candy bar headboard, dark chocolate armchair and cocoa dusted sculpture of his Beloved Baptiste Giabiconi. Isn't it all kinds of weird to make a chocolate replica of Beloved Baptiste (albeit one that got the eyes un-crossed)? Isn't it all kinds of

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Photographer Jannis Tsipoulanis's wishful pictures of Delaware-native Garrett Neff as an ideal houseboy. Isn't he the most perfect? Isn't he full of grace? Can he come and errr... water my lawn?

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A sneak peek at the cover of the May issue of Vogue Brazil, edited and photographed entirely by Mario Testino, with a very naked (and completely photoshopped) Kate Moss on the cover. It's a distant echoe of that very famous 1973 portrait of Charlotte Rampling by Helmut Newton, of course.

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I like this cover... for November, maybe? Isn't it awfully winter-y for August? And they say that this is Michelle Williams (does Ms Williams warrant a cover? Even if it's only an Interview cover?), but it could very well be anybody else. She even looks vaguely Asian, dosen't she?

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I bet this ad was workshopped at a big conference table: It's completely meaningless and actually quite crazy. Firstly, the styling is bizarre - why the pink tights with the sparkly ballet pumps with the trench? To what does it allude? It's certainly not "strong".Secondly, the backdrop clearly says "concrete jungle" - therefore Karlie Kloss swinging on a rope is supposed to allude to Tarzan?

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All kinds of crazy at this site:http://kleinstudio.us

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Kate in Emmanuelle Alt Vogue Paris May's Haute Couture story by Mert & Marcus.

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Beloved Baptiste and Rachel Bilson in a Magnum ad by Karl Lagerfeld. BB actually screams "fockers fockers" in this ice cream ad?

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Nils Butler modelling Lucien Pellat Finet (question: Does this label even still exist?). Is it just me or does he look entirely divorced from the garments? He looks like he's not even there - and his face looks merely photoshopped in - especially in that last one?

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Naomi looking like she's the comedy number a Tiffany drag show. I'm sure Anna Dello Russo has something to do with this.

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Is Carine designing an eponymous line? I certainly hope not! How dreary/ unimaginative would that be? Don't, Carine!

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Contributing to the idea that magazines are losing ground, and fashion is just plain dull... Why don't they put someone young and beautiful and glossy on the cover like the under-appreciated Garrett Neff?

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Unexpectedly, I liked the very masculine Let the Bullets Fly (2010). I don't usually like political satires but China’s biggest domestic box-office hit to date is a fast, freewheeling romp full of wit, violence, and humor. Set in the 1920s, after the Qing dynasty ended in the era of the warlords who fought over the empire’s pieces, Let the Bullets Fly tells the tale of a notorious bandit facing

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I've just added Hermes's new fourth fragrance from the collection of garden-inspired fragrances Un Jardin, named Un Jardin Sur Le Toit (a very charming, very Hermes name "A Garden on the Roof") to my perfume closet.The inspiration: The garden on the roof of the Hermès flagship at 24 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. The new unisex fragrance is the fourth in the garden series that already

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This is an oddly festive cover... is it Christmas in Paris already?

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"They gradually ascended for half-a-mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of a valley, into which the road with some abruptness wound. It was a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills; and in

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"I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and ofttimes disagreeable. I suppose I'm larger than life." - Bette Davis Just another crazy day at the office when I have to repeat myself over and over again. Sigh.

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John Galliano has been officially let go at his eponymous label. The firm's board decided to eject the disgraced designer and let the design team at John Galliano produce forthcoming collections. Christian Dior, which owns 91 percent of John Galliano, has received expressions of interest in the label from its Italian licensing partner Ittierre, as well as a Chinese group and a firm from the

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Mario Maurer, who awhile ago seemed to have gotten quite fat (German genes X Thai food - you do the math!) seems to have hit the gym big time and come back... older and slim again!In the latest Volume, he models Jean Paul Gaultier in a sailor-inspired story. Volume seems to be a legit fashion title, if a little heavy handed with the photoshop!I like that his new broad shoulders make his head look

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"[Liz loved] a good dirty joke. She was fun, she was rowdy. She liked to have a good time, she liked to have a laugh. She loved men, she loved Montgomery Clift and her best friends were always fellas," Debbie continued. "I wouldn't say [she had] a type, but she liked good-looking [men], like Michael Wilding was a tall, good-looking man and Richard Burton was a drop dead and wonderful, wonderful

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What is it about hotels that makes me eat like I'm in a Hollywood movie? This morning, I woke up in Taipei and went down quite eagerly to breakfast, and ate alot unthinkingly, including two large, fluffy, flakey croissants with lashings of butter and strawberry jam. And then I put on a sweater, and walked next door to Eslite. Eslite is the largest bookstore chain in Taiwan, and has a flagship

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Visual Artist/ Photographer, Huang Xu’s Fragments series portrays China’s consumer boom and its drastic impact on the environment. Using plastic bags found in rubbish heaps, and also referencing silk textiles from Imperial China, he composes captivating images that are beautiful with a purpose.

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Photoshop put to good use.

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Vivian Dawson! Aaron Yan!

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These boys have been cast for this fall's Dolce ads (well, there were a couple more which I refused to include due to ugliness - not that I completely approve of Noah Mills but there you go).On a different note, the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana hosted an after-show party for Justin Bieber at Gold Restaurant following his concert in Milan on April 9.I'm quite sick of this obsession

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As far as I'm concerned this title has hit a new low - Our Lady of the Infinite Crazies with strawberry hair is just UGLY. And those silly shout-nothing coverlines swallowing her up? Hideous and meaningless.

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