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We asked the industry’s top hair and makeup artists—from Oribe to François Nars–to name their favourite models from the past and present. Click the images below to see who made an indelible beauty mark.

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An image of Coco Rocha‘s recent wedding to James Conran has surfaced. The bride looks stunning in a custom Zac Posen dress, which BFF Behati Prinsloo described as “It was tight over her body all the way to her knees, then it had this extreme mermaid tail at the bottom. The straps were off the shoulder, and the material looked vintage – it’s sort of hard to explain, you have to see it.” [Huffington Post]

Writer and designer Douglas Coupland is adding fashion designer to his already impressive resume. Roots has decided to expand their Canadiana by featuring a limited edition collection of pieces designed by Mr. Coupland. Dubbed Canada Goes Electric, the line includes T-shirts with TV test pattern bars and pixelated maple leaves that are sure to bring out your inner Microserf when they go on sale July 8. [Globe & Mail, Quill & Quire]

It’s a good day for Canadian fashion, The Bay has just announced its place as a partner in the National Association for the Development of the Fashion Arts (ANDAM) Fashion award. “Partnering with ANDAM is a huge stride for Canada as a fashion authority and resource,” said The Bay’s fashion director, Suzanne Timmins. The ANDAM Fashion award is the world’s largest international fashion prize. Two of this year’s finalists include Canadians Mark Fast and Calla Haynes. The competition is open to fashion designers of any nationality under the age of 40 who plan to show and develop their collections in France.

According to Forbes’ Highest Paid Model list, Brazilian beauty Gisele Bündchen rakes in more cash than any other model. Interestingly, the order of this year’s list is identical to last year’s. Coincidence or copy and paste? [The Cut]

Now that fashion week, the Globes and the Oscars are all done, we’ve been starved for serious red carpet action for the past couple of months. Last night’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala in New York at least promised to give us fodder for red carpet punditry. The theme was American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity–the exhibit currently on at the Met’s Costume Institute and the most awaited guest of the evening was the American fashion force Lady Gaga. She didn’t show up on the red carpet and the result was a mostly-expected line-up of dresses. (Though even Gaga wore an Armani bodysuit that was near-identical to the one she wore at the Oscars, so yawn.) Diane Kruger’s blazingly white Calvin Klein was the clear winner of the evening, but Gap’s “collaborations” with Rodarte, Sophie Theallet, Thakoon and Alexander Wang were an almost universal disappointment.

After the jump, features director Leah Rumack, fashion market editor Sarah Casselman and I dish on the best, the worst and the most, um, interesting ensembles of the night.

Lady Gaga is a powerful force in both fashion and music–one that Black Book says could take on Anna Wintour in numbers alone—while the “Bad Romance” video has 30 million hits on YouTube, an issue of Vogue has a circulation of about 1.2 million copies. Racked’s recent reader’s choice poll of the best Photoshopped image of Gaga suggests the public’s obsession with her bizarre everything is here to stay. By the way, the Mona Lisa Gaga won with 44% of the vote. [Racked, Blackbook]

With the auction of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé’s items done and over with, their Paris duplex is next up for sale. With a garden and 5,400 square feet of space, the apartment is expected to sell for around $30 million. [WWD]

Lady Gaga has been named the new face of M.A.C’s AIDS Fund campaign. But she didn’t even show her face last night at the Accessories Council’s ACE awards, where she hid behind a netted lace headpiece.  We can tell it’s you from a mile away, Gaga. [The Cut]

Gisele Bündchen is on her way to becoming a fully licensed pilot as well as a new mommy. Next week she’ll take her in-air test—doesn’t the baby bump get in the way? [People]

Let’s all squeeze into Stella McCartney’s Gap kids collection. [Grazia]

So it’s safe to say that Christopher Kane’s crocodile tees for Topshop sold pretty well. [Streetpeeper]

Rodarte will show an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum early next year. “Quicktake: Rodarte” is the second in a global series of textile exhibits featuring fresh-faced designers and will run from January 29 until March 14. [WWD]

The CFDA had a Town Hall meeting last night to discuss the relevancy of out-of-season fashion weeks in the Internet age. But what you really want to know is: What did André Leon Talley wear? “The Vogue editor at large got out in a light gray suit with a small Louis Vuitton man-purse and parked himself at a table by the entrance. He applied lotion to his hands and sent someone out for a cappuccino, skim, with Splenda, at the Starbucks across the street. Once it was delivered, Mr. Talley went into the auditorium and took his seat.” Thank you for just existing, ALT. [New York Observer]

Toronto’s Tommy Ton of Jak&Jil took the photo above for Canadian designer Rad Hourani’s new line, Rad by Rad Hourani–a more affordable collection that doesn’t veer too far from his drapey, unisex vision. [StyleFile]

If you’ve been awake today, you’ll have heard the news that tanning beds, not surprisingly, cause cancer. [Yahoo!]

First the sunscreen and now this: Japan has been blessed with Nike’s new “Will Ferrell” sneaker. The shoes are burgundy, as in Ron. [High Snobriety, via The Cut]

If the Transformers had a fashion robot, this is probably what it would look like. [Design Boom]

Would you pay $12,000 for Louis Vuitton purse scraps? [The Cut]

According to reports, Marc Jacobs will bring two dates to next month’s Met Ball. Try to guess who they’ll be. [The Cut]