FASHION Magazine

An employee was found dead at the American Apparel headquarters in Los Angeles. Data analyst Danarichie Lyndon Sindo had been feeling ill and was found in a restroom yesterday. Currently, police are not investigating Sindo’s death. [Gawker]

Spring 2011 LG Fashion Week will take place October 18 to 23 and will, once again, be at Exhibition Place. [LG Fashion Week]

L’ Amour Fou, a documentary about Yves Saint Laurent’s rise to fame, his partnership with Pierre Bergé and their decision to auction of their art collection, will be showing at the Toronto International Film Festival. [TIFF]

The fashion credits of Lady Gaga‘s latest video have just been released, and let’s just say the ample Christian Louboutin, custom Alexander McQueen, custom Philip Treacy and Dolce & Gabanna are enough to make Patricia Field seethe with envy. [Racked]

Gucci will be unveiling a children’s collection later this month. The age range is 0 to 8, and the line features clothing, accessories and gifts–for when the silver spoon is actually a pair of Gucci logo-engraved sunglasses. Kids these days. [WWD]

Apparently American Apparel doesn’t do curves. Plus-size model/adult star April Flores recently visited the AA showroom to ask why there are no larger sizes. She was outraged to hear, “that’s not our demographic.” [Jezebel]

An Australian company has taken wearing your phone on your hip (a trend popular among suburban dads) to a new level. iClothing has introduced a little black dress with a pocket large enough to fit an iPad. How very 2010 of them.  [Mashable]

’80s super Beverly Peele is in “very serious condition” after a car crash last night in L.A. Peele’s daughter was also involved in the accident and both sustained multiple injuries. [TMZ]

Tyra Banks has just announced she will be writing trilogy of fantasy novels called Modelland. On her website, she promises the novels will take you to a “fantastical place you’ve never seen, or heard about, or read about before… Where dreams come true and life can change in the blink of a smoky eye.  ;)” Well that just about sums it up, Tye. [Fashionology]

Tight security at the tents today – “Please have your tickets out at the door” – so it makes getting past the club-style bouncers to do our job that much more difficult.  And while we think it is great that the FDCC opened up the shows to the public (runway access = revenue), it has become a little too night clubby with its overcapacity numbers and sweaty, cocktail-fueled revellers.