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We’ll take this as a very good sign: the day that Kristen Stewart lands in Toronto for TIFF a new Balenciaga Florabotanica ad makes its debut. The ad, which is comprised almost entirely of her face, has a very different mood from the first campaign image.

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Lady Gaga continues to entice us with the premiere of two teaser videos for her soon-to-be-released eau de parfum, Fame. In true Lady Gaga form, the results are a sensory feast, shot by fashion photographer Steven Klein. The videos play on the dark nature of Lady Gaga’s black-to-clear fragrance and feature sinister imagery that naturally includes lots of leather and latex.

While celebrities have always used Twitter as a way of reaching their fans directly, tweeting major announcements and exclusive sneak peeks are becoming more and more commonplace. (Case in point: Lady Gaga.) This morning Nicki Minaj tweeted the first picture of her forthcoming fragrance Pink Friday, and, as predicted, the fans went wild. The bottle may have something to do with it, though: modeled after Minaj it’s very Jem and the Holograms with a candy pink bob and gold vanity chain.

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Maybe it’s all the Olympic fever in the air, or maybe it’s just all the perfume spritzing that’s made us dizzy, but we’re having a hard time distinguishing between the latest perfume ads for Blonde A (Blake Lively for Gucci Première) and Blonde B (Gwyneth Paltrow for Hugo Buss Nuit).

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Just when you thought you had all the Lady Gaga news you could handle for the week, the shock-tastic chanteuse is keeping the hype surrounding her forthcoming fragrance Fame going with a just-released mini-film for the scent. The black and white “Formulation” is right on the heels of yesterday’s big unveil for her Steven Meisel-shot ad campaign, which shows a nude Gaga being trodden on by a group of tiny men.

Of all the delicate pastels having a moment this season, cool mint is the one keeping us captivated long after Easter has passed.

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Last week we were in Paris to interview Kristen Stewart about being the face of Balenciaga’s new Florabotanica perfume, which launches this fall. Between attending a garden party—hosted by Stewart and the fashion house’s creative director Nicolas Ghesquière—and chatting one-on-one with the actress the next day about everything from fashion to fragrance, here are three things we learned about KStew.

Up until she was hand-plucked by Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière to be the face of the label’s latest fragrance, Florabotanica, Kristen Stewart was a perfume virgin. Growing up, her interests were more of the rough-and-tumble variety than sneaking samples of her mom’s cosmetics. Considering that the Snow White and the Huntsman star admits she’s “a terrible liar,” there was some anxiety leading up to her first encounter with Balenciaga’s new scent—but by the sounds of it, Stewart is now hooked:

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In two big announcements today, Blake Lively and Lana Del Rey have inked major deals that will undoubtedly send their respective It girl status into overdrive. Blake Lively, whose friendship with Karl Lagerfeld and romance with Ryan Reynolds is enough to induce jealousy, has added another entry to her list of fashion accolades—she’ll be the […]

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