FASHION Magazine

FHM apologizes for making fun of androgynous model, Andrej Pejic. [The Cut]

Post intern Twitter-rant, Marc Jacobs‘ business partner Robert Duffy is now being faced with a whole slew of very naughty allegations from the company’s ex-COO. [NY Daily News]

When Todd Lynn moved to London in 1998, we doubt the Smith Falls native guessed that he’d one day be atop the British fashion scene. Already beloved by the likes of Rihanna, Mick Jagger, Courtney Love and fellow Canuck Coco Rocha, the tailor with a hard rock edge was recognized by the British Fashion Council […]

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Prince William and Kate Middleton have set a date! The couple will marry at Westminister Abbey on Friday April 29, 2011. [BBC]

Transgendered model and Givenchy muse Lea T. will be appearing on an episode of Oprah. No details yet on what the two will be talking about but you can bet the Queen of Daytime Talk has something interesting up her sleeve. [Elle]

The iconic Richard Avedon photograph “Dovima with Elephants” has been purchased by Maison Christian Dior for the record amount of 841,000 Euros. “It is the most expensive photograph of this kind to have been sold in France,” said Christie Paris’ of head of photography Matthieu Humery. [WWD]

Blake Lively walked away with 40 pairs of red-soled heels from the invite-only Christian Louboutin sample sale. [Fashionologie]

A five-months-pregnant Miranda Kerr walked in the Balenciaga Spring 2011 show in Paris this morning. Designer Nicholas Ghesquière also cast Stella Tennant, Amber Valetta and some unknown streeters.  [Styleite]

Giles Deacon has opted to skip the runway in favour of a daisy-shaped podium to present his first collection for Emanuel Ungaro. Also ix-nayed for the presentation: “brash” colours. [WWD]

We’d like to direct your attention to the self-professed “gothic counterpoint to Tavi,” French wunderkind Charles Guislain. Though he doesn’t have a blog, his sense of style has turned enough heads to land him in Italian Vogue and turn him into a YouTube sensation. At 17, he says he is already tired of Europe: “I need to escape European life. I am a little bored with this now.” Le sigh! [The Cut]

Based on Kate Moss‘s street style and runway shows by the likes of Givenchy, Céline and Jean Paul Gaultier, this fashion forecaster believes we’ll all be wearing sheer black pantyhose come fall. [Telegraph]

While it’s easy to slam David Beckham – and anything Becks related- as excessive, Stephano Gabbana (of Dolce & Gabbana) will argue that that excess actually revolutionized men’s fashion. “Here was a soccer player who is straight, with a wife and children, and men were saying: ‘If he wore it, I can wear it too.’ Before that it felt like men’s fashion was just for gay men or strange people – men were afraid to wear something special.” [Vogue UK]

Lanvin will open its first New York boutique by the end of this week. “It’s about time,” says creative director Alber Elbaz. Great, now take that same mentality and shift it to the other side of the border… [WWD]

The Jean Paul Gaultier fall campaign has recently surfaced on the web. Shot by Inez and Vinoodh, the colourful photo features Crystal Renn, Chinese model Ping Hue and French model Kelly Moirera. [Fashionista]

Expect the British Olympic athletes of 2012 to be especially well-dressed. Stella McCartney has been appointed the creative director of Adidas’ 2012 Olympic Team GB uniforms. “As a British fashion designer it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative director of Team GB as the hosting nation of the London 2012 Olympic Games,” she says. [Vogue UK]

Photographs of Claudia Schiffer by Karl Lagerfeld for a Stern Fotographie 60th anniversary retrospective are being slammed as racially insensitive. In one image Schiffer is captured wearing black face, and in another the supermodel is made to look Asian.  “There are not enough women of colour featured in mainstream magazines,” said Shevelle Rhule, of Pride magazine in response to the pictures. “This just suggests you can counteract the problem by using white models.”  [Telegraph]

But it’s not all bad news for the Kaiser. Last night he received the Legion of Honor at the Elysée presidential palace in Paris. [Styleite]

Okay, while there’s a big kerfuffle going on at Roberto Cavalli (I ‘m hearing it’s over Lindsay Lohan, and Courtney Love) let me take a minute and think way back to see if I can possibly absorb all I’ve seen today and yesterday. Since I last blogged, I’ve been to showrooms, presentations and shows too numerous to list. Here  are some highlights:

The Snuggie runway show had it all: prints, colours and canine sizes to suit every Snuggie occasion. But according to Joan Rivers, the Snuggie is a rip off of the Slanket. “I think the Slanket is an item of fashion, because he was on my show How’d You Get So Rich?” Rivers said. “And he was the original — the Snuggie took it from the Slanket.” Sounds like a classic case of which came first, the Snuggie or the Slanket? [The Cut]

The buzz was high surrounding the appearance of Lady Gaga at Out Magazine’s party last night. The pop singer showed up an hour after the scheduled end of the party, refused press, and gave no performance, disappointing her eagerly-awaiting fans. Did we mention the wannabe diva left after a mere 15 minutes? [WSJ]

These Bela Borsodi Fashion Faces are probably going to give me nightmares later. [What’s Wrong With the Zoo] 

Okay, is this bad or good? Courtney Love may have a clothing line, at least according to Peaches Geldof’s Twitter. [Grazia]

 Reebok is the Afrikaans spelling of a type of African antelope, and other sneaker-name facts. [WSJ]

Lady GaGa’s stylist explains just what the hell she’s wearing in her Paparazzi video. [Anthem]