FASHION Magazine

The Gap will be teaming up with Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli to design a collection celebrating the opening of the first Gap flagship in Milan. Sadly the collection will only be available in Italy, Paris and London. [WWD]

Anna Wintour and jeweller and Alexander McQueen collaborator Shaun Leane will speak at the designer’s memorial. The service will be held on September 20, during London Fashion Week. [Fashionologie]

For those of you who won’t be sitting front row New York Fashion Week–or even fourth row–there is still hope: Many of the hot tickets in town including Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs and Alexander Wang will be streaming live online. [The Cut]

During (and after) October’s Spring 2010 LG Fashion Week, readers of fashion illustrator Danielle Meder’s blog, Final Fashion, were treated to paper doll renderings of Pink Tartan, Philip Sparks, Vawk and 12 other Canadian collections. In each set selection of looks sat tabbed and ready to be cut out and put onto paper dolls styled in the show’s hair and makeup–and all the appropriate underpinnings. Now Meder, a Ryerson fashion grad whose illustrations have appeared in NOW Magazine, the Globe & Mail and the National Post, has compiled her series into a book (US$43, blurb.com). (If you want to cut out the clothes and play dress up, Meder will send you a PDF for $18.) We had a quick email chat with Meder to find out what inspired the paper dolls, her favourite illustrators and why she focuses on the local. (Read the interview and see a sampling of the fashion dolls, after the jump)