Fashion news: Lily Allen recalls how she (drunkenly) scored her Chanel campaign, haute couture is back, and more

According to Chanel fashion president Bruno Pavlovsky, haute couture is making its triumphant return after the recession. “We have new clients from Europe and the Middle East,” he says. “Today, we feel a new interest in haute couture.”[WWD]

Meanwhile, a very blown-away Jeanne Beker live-tweeted the Dior Couture show in Paris. [@Jeanne_Beker]

And speaking of Jeanne Beker, she says she’s only “scratched the surface” of things she still wants to accomplish. Expect two more books and a clothing line at The Bay in coming months. [Eye Weekly]

See who made it onto the Toronto Star‘s 2010 Best Dressed list. MTV Canada’s Jessi Cruickshank, members of the Toronto FC and The Society founders and FASHION contributors Amanda Blakley and Ashleigh Dempster were all honoured for their sartorial vigour. [Toronto Star]

Nine sculptures of locusts made from counterfeit designer goods by artist Mitsuhiro Okamoto were pulled from the Kobe Fashion Museum in Japan when Louis Vuitton luxury house complained about appropriating the brand’s logo.  [Boing Boing]

Love it or hate it, Diesel‘s Be Stupid ad campaign (a toast to bad decisions) received an award at this year’s Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Nonetheless, those same ads were banned in Britain a few weeks prior. [Blackbook]

Lily Allen explains how a drunken encounter with Karl Lagerfeld got her the Chanel campaign one week later. Next time we have too much champers at Coco Chanel’s apartments, we’ll have to try this. [Fashionista]

Daphne Guinness will be the face of Nars‘s fall campaign. The porcelain-white face with royal purple eyeshadow, that is. [WWD]

And speaking of François Nars, the beauty emperor is planning on opening his first freestanding shop in NYC, perhaps next to that of Marc Jacobs. “I will do special items which will only be available in the store–palettes, maybe a nail polish called Bleecker Street–and I want to sell DVDs of my favorite movies. Marc may do accessories. It’s going to be great.” [WWD]

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