FASHION Magazine

Doll “player” Veik would surely win any contest for “Dress your Barbie as Lady Gaga.” The intricate costumes include Jean Charles de Castelbajac’s Kermit coat and Gaga’s “Paparazzi” and “Bad Romance” outfits–there’s even a DIY for the mini McQueen anteater shoes! [Refinery 29, Veik Flickr]

Coco Rocha will be doing fashion commentary for the home crowd at this year’s Grammy Awards. Rocha will be working the red carpet for ET Canada. No telling yet whether she’s a Joan Rivers or a Ryan Seacrest. [Oh So Coco]

Coco Rocha and Jessica Stam are apparently thrilled at the in-roads Tim Hortons is making in NYC. Stam tweeted last week that she discovered an outpost four blocks from her apartment and friend and fellow Canuck Coco Rocha replied, “I found it! Timmy Ho’s in NYC!!! Life is complete.” That’s right: Timmy Ho’s.

Claudia Schiffer may be having a tough time finding someone to help her launch a clothing line, but Coco Rocha is apparently ready to go. The 21-year-old model announced via her blog, Oh So Coco, that she’ll be designing a line. No details yet, not even a name. For that, Rocha is enlisting the public’s help. So, if you want to use your creativity to help a model in need, you can make your suggestions in the comments on her post.

Check out the video after the jump to see Coco cuddling with her pooch and flipping through some preliminary sketches. (The quick shot showed skinny pants, and a pencil skirt paired with a bracelet sleeve jacket.) [Oh So Coco]

Lucian Matis has been named the winner of the first FDCC Designer Development Fund award. The fund will be awarded annually in support of Canadian fashion designers who demonstrate potential for growth. A business mentorship with FDCC prez Robin Kay is part of the prize. “We want to extend the potential to build their brand and assist the designers with the necessary tools to help them emerge nationally and internationally in this new economy,” says Kay. [LGFW]

Georgia May Jagger will join Coco Rocha as the two new faces of Rimmel London’s campaign starting in 2010. [The Cut]

This week’s New York Magazine has named Anna Wintour one of the 12 most powerful New Yorkers. This news didn’t come as too shocking, but more confusing is the fact that the Vogue powerhouse is the sole woman to make the list. [The Cut]

Coco Rocha, Alexa Chung and The Stills hit up Queen West Saturday night for the Holt Renfrew party in honour of Geoff Barrenger’s pair of short fashion vignettes. Chung, U.K. MTV VJ and ex-model, DJ’ed the party and her set was much more fun than the professional DJ who spun before and after her. The Stills played a set, entreating the high-heeled fashion and film flock to stop being so genteel and come closer to the stage. Films of Coco cavorting with Behati were projected on the Burroughes Building’s sixth floor’s whitewashed walls. Check out our party gallery after the jump and then go watch the shorts on Holts’ site.

We always suspected that being a model essentially entailed montages of swinging around guitars and shopping bags and running down hallways barefoot in an evening gown, and Coco Rocha has confirmed our suspicions. Rocha has conceived a bit of fun self-promotion for Modelina.com, set to JET’s “She’s a Genius.” It’s basically a fantasy day in the life of a Rocha, created to promote Fashion’s Night Out.

Check out the photo’s below from FNO: Rocha, Alexander Wang, Sessilee Lopez, Raquel Zimmermann et al. rock out on inflatable air guitars.

We mentioned yesterday that Holt Renfrew is hosting a TIFF premiere/party for two short films, one starring the Stills and the other, Coco and Behati. The director, Brazilian-born, Canadian-raised, New York-based photographer Geoff Barrenger (gmb.ca), recently shot an editorial for Russian Harper’s Bazaar that’s all goddess gowns and gleaming hair. Golden girls of another sort. Gallery after the jump.

Holt Renfrew is throwing a private screening party at the Burroughtes Building on September 12 for a couple of short films called Vignettes. Supermodels Coco Rocha and BFF Behati Prinsloo are captured in the women’s film, while Montreal band The Stills star in the men’s film.

Two more clips from The September Issue are making the rounds. The premiere is tonight at the MoMA in New York, but it won’t make it to a theatre near (some of) you until October. The first clip shows some light Sienna Miller hair drama–the blonde bobbed wig they were using to cover her lank hair didn’t really work out, leading to the top knot that eventually made the shot. The second clip features Grace Coddington and her wild hair tending to Raquel Zimmermann, Coco Rocha and some gigantic knits. (Remember those big orange scarves from Giles?)

Enticingly brief clips after the jump.

Coco Rocha stars in Liz Claiborne’s fall campaign [The Cut] and Linda Evangelista is fronting for John Galliano. [Sassybella]

Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment (of American Idol fame) has taken a controlling stake in Storm Model Management (of Kate Moss fame). [Guardian]

If you missed the first Yves Saint Laurent auction in February, there’s a second, smaller sale happening in November. The money will go to charity so there’s really no reason not to snap up Yves’ Mercedes-Benz or Hermès luggage. [Yahoo!]

Before we begin, Coco Rocha is the latest model to head to Twitter. We’ll wait while you go and follow her. [Coco Rocha Twitter]

More model news: Jourdan Dunn, our favourite model on the London catwalk, is five-and-a-half months pregnant. Congrats! [Vogue UK]

Isaac Mizrahi is getting his own show on QVC where he’ll talk about his life and sell a range of goods he’s designed for the network–including, but not limited to, cheesecake. Is it just us, or is this the apotheosis of Isaac? [WSJ]

The Wall Street Journal‘s Ray Smith looks…amused as he talks to la crème de Williamsburg boys about their skinny jeans. [WSJ]

Could this be Christian Lacroix’s last couture show? Better look now, before it’s gone. [The Cut]

Anna Wintour appears to be giving couture week a miss–she was absent from yesterday’s Dior showing. [Fashion Week Daily]

Repetto’s Jackson jazz shoe is dancing off shelves of their Paris store. A touch less obvious than a single-white-glove style tribute. [Style File]