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Emporio Armani has finally released two full length video clips of their underwear and jeans ads featuring Cristiano Ronaldo and Megan Fox. One word: steamy. [Style List]

Christopher Bailey has taken over the Burberry Twitter account. The Burberry creative director will be tweeting from the account until the Burberry Prorsum show on September 21. [Twitter]

After designing two children’s collections for the Gap, Stella McCartney has decided to launch her own affordable line for tots, which will go on sale in November [In Style]

Anna Wintour and co. threw a huge fashion show last night at Lincoln Centre as a lead-up to Friday’s Fashion’s Night Out. Gisele opened, Naomi closed and Coco Rocha, Karlie Kloss and Adriana Lima helped round out the cast of 150 models showing 170 looks. [Huffington Post]

Will Prabal Gurung be the next designer to collaborate with Target? [Fashionista]

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]

Why pay professionals to fix an ailing marriage when Heidi Klum and Seal can do it for you? A Project Runway spin-off will consist of just that. Thank you Lifetime TV. [The Cut]

Quoted: Fashion designer Roberto Cavalli recently told Harpers Bazaar that he designs all of his pieces with a beautiful woman in mind.  Albeit, he explains: “I don’t masturbate thinking about fashion.” [Harpers Bazaar]

Since street style photog Tommy Ton tweeted “I received some news tonight that is going to SHAKE the fashion world in the next two days. CRAZY!!!!” during Paris Fashion week, we have been going crazy awaiting the news. Word on the street is that Karl Lagerfeld‘s turn at Chanel is coming to an end, and that he will be passing the baton to Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz. We’ve heard this before, so take this rumour with a big grain of salt. [Grazia AU]

In other Lagerfeld news, he will have an Alaskan king crab salad named after him at Paris’ La Giola restaurant. [WWD]

Madonna‘s new fashion brand status opens up the world of collaboration (and world domination at this point). After signing a deal last week that will enable the material girl’s brand, MG Icon, to have hands in multiple existing brands as well as to start new ones, news comes today of the first partnership between Madonna and Dolce & Gabbana–sunglasses.   [The Cut]

Favorite  collections: Prada, Dolce & Gabbana and Emilio Pucci

Favorite soundtrack: Moulin Rouge at Dolce & Gabbana

Favorite  pre-show snack: Crumbled parmigiano-reggiano and white wine at Dolce & Gabbana

Dolce & Gabbana scored with the most powerfully emotional show of the week. The entire audience was completely verklempt and near tears–from the swell of the soundtrack (Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman’s romantic duet in Moulin Rouge) to the beautifully-shot black and white slo-mo  film that paid homage to the craftsmanship of the atelier. The […]

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Brit designer Luella Bartley’s eponymous line has ceased operations after investors Club 21 backed out. The brand’s main manufacturer also closed last month, so the Spring 2010 line will not be produced. [WWD]

The Chambre Syndicale, which organizes the Paris shows, named the houses of Vanessa Bruno, Rochas and RM by Roland Mouret as a few of its new members. [WWD]

After two seasons as the face of Louis Vuitton, Madonna has jumped ship to star in Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring 2010 adverts. [Swide]

Yé-yé girls take note: There’s a whole blog devoted to drawings of Serge Gainsbourg. [HintMag]

Confirmed: Maybelline is the new cosmetics sponsor of New York Fashion Week. More interesting is what will happen with M.A.C’s reported shadow shows at Milk Studios. [WWD]

Crocs is on the brink. The company has until September to pay the millions they owe their creditors. What will my 3-year-old niece wear on her feet? Won’t someone think of the children?! [WaPo, via The Cut]

Issey Miyake speaks out for the first time on his experiences as a child in Hiroshima. “I have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy. I gravitated toward the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.” [NYTimes]

Giambattista Valli has signed a licensing deal with Italy’s Mariella Burani Fashion Group. He isn’t saying yet what’s in store, just “I want to be known for all the parts of the wardrobe, not just the cocktail and evening dresses.” [StyleFile]

We eagerly await Tilda Swinton’s appearance in Pringle of Scotland’s Spring 2010 ads. [The Cut]

In this episode, we bone up on fashion law, see the girls play stylist and go on a trip to the AGO.

Awwww: The girls return to the penthouse to find Tiffany’s note, adorned with a single tear.

Anvil: They really made a point of showing what time the girls went to bed (3:00 a.m.) and when they planned to get up (10:30 a.m.), so of course Nolé arrives at, that’s right, 6:10 a.m. Ridiculous bonus: He’s dressed as a duty officer, and has come to “arrest” the girls.

Best bit of pantomime: The models arrive at a courthouse and Jay whips around, in high court drag, and informs them they’ve all “violated section J [of course!] 212 of the fashion code.” As we all know, section J212 states that “it is a Top Model’s supreme duty to look fffabulous at all times.” Oh my god.

Chanel’s runway bags look harder to open than plastic software packaging. Guess that’s the point. [My Fashion Life]

Thanks to Roberto Cavalli, your dog can have the spangled look that launched 11 million Facebook fans. [NYMag]

Beauty giants P&G (Olay, Cover Girl, etc) is developing their first luxury cosmetics line with Dolce & Gabbana. But can we still buy it at Shoppers? [WSJ]